Three Principles of the Divine Essence Chap. 8-16 - meuser

Fruit, of that we must now eat, and live in the h Woman.
36. Thus I give you accurately to understand what Man is,
and what Man sows, and what grows in the Seed, viz. three
Kingdoms, as is above­mentioned; and seeing the three Kingdoms
are thus sown, so are they in like Manner before the Tree of
Temptation; and there begins the Struggling and great Strife;
there stands the three Kingdoms in one another. The Element
in Paradise will keep the pure Mind and Will, which stands in
the Love in the Tincture of the Seed; and the outward Elements,
viz. that which went forth from the Element, will have the Element,
and mix itself therewith; and then comes the outward
Fierceness of the Stars, and draws it together i with the outward
Fiat, and sets itself [in the Rule or Dominion,] whereby the
inward Will in the Love together with the Element and the
Paradise becomes darkened; and the Love in the Paradise goes
into its Ether, and is extinguished in the Tincture of the Seed;
and the heavenly Center goes under, for it passes into its Principle.
37. And then comes the Woman with her stopped [or congealed]
Blood, with the Stars and Elements, and sets herself in
[the Dominion.] And here is the paradisical Death, where Adam
in the living Body died; that is, he died [as] to Paradise and the
Element, and lived to the Sun, Stars, and the outward Elements;
concerning which, God said to him, That Day thou eatest of
Good and Evil, thou shalt die the Death; and this is the Gate of
the first Death in the Paradise, in which now Man lives in the
elementary Woman of this World in the Corruptibility.
38. And it highly concerns us to know and apprehend, that
when the Seed is sown in the Matrix, and that it is drawn together
h In the divided Nature, and in the earthly Tabernacle, and feed and multiply therein.
i Or by.
by the Fiat (when the Stars and the outward Elements
set themselves in [the Dominion,] and that the Love and Meekness
is extinguished; for there comes to be a fierce Substance in
the Stopping [or Congealing] of the Tincture) that before the
Kindling of the Light of Life, in the Child, there is no heavenly
Creature. And although k it be figured [or shaped] with all the
Forms [or Parts] of the Body, yet notwithstanding the heavenly
Image is not therein, but the bestial. And if that Body perishes
[corrupts, or breaks] before the Kindling of the Spirit of the
Soul in the springing up of the Life, then nothing of this Figure
appears before God on the Day of the Restitution, but its Shadow
and Shape; for it has yet had no Spirit.
39. This Figure does not (as many judge) go into the l Abyss,
but as the Parents were, so is also their Figure; for this Figure
is the Parent’s, till the Kindling of its Life, and then it is no more