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

the Parent’s, but its own. The Mother affords but a Lodging,
and the Nutriment; and therefore if she destroys it willingly in
her Body, she is a Murderer, and the divine Law judges her to
the temporal Death.
40. Thus now the Stars and the Elements (after the withdrawing
of the Love in the Tincture) take the House into Possession,
and fill it in the first m Month. And in the second, they
sever the Members [or Parts] by the sour Fiat, as is mentioned
before. And in the third, the Strife begins about the Regions of
the Stars and Elements, where then they separate, and every Element
makes its own House and Region for itself; viz. the Heart,
Liver, Lungs, Bladder, and Stomach; as also the Head to be the
n House of the Stars, where they have their Region [or Dominion,]
and their princely Throne, as it follows further.
41. And now after that the Stars and Elements (as is mentioned
before) have got their Region and the House to dwell in,
then begins the mighty Strife in great Anxiety about the King
of the Life. For the Chamber of the Building (or Fabrick]
stands in very great Anguish, and [here] we must consider the
Original of the Essence of all Essences, the eternal Birth and the
Root of all Things; as that there is in the House of the Anguish,
first one only Essence [or Being,] and that o Essence is the Mixing
of all p Essences, and it has first a Will to q generate the
Light, and that Will is attractive, [astringent or sour.]
k The Creature.
l Or Hell.
m Or Moon.
n A Dwelling for the Senses and Thoughts.
o Being.
p Or Beings.
q Or bring forth.
42. For the Desiring is the attracting of whatsoever the Will
desires; and that Will is first pure, neither Darkness nor Light,
for it dwells in itself, and it is even the Gate of the divine Virtue
that fills all Things. And thus the Attracting fills the Will with
the Things which the Will desires; and although it be pure, and
desires nothing but the Light, yet there is no Light in the dark
Anxiety that it can attract, but it draws the Spirit of the Essences
of the Stars and Elements into itself, and therewith the
Will of the divine Virtue is filled, and the same is all rough and
dark. And thus the Will is set in the Darkness, and this is done
also in the Heart.
43. The Will now standing thus in the dark Anxiety, it r gets
another Will to fly out of the Anxiety again, and to generate the
Light; and this other Will is the Mind, out of which proceed the
Senses [or Thoughts] not to continue in the Anxiety: And the
Will [appears,] discovers itself in the Essences of the Sourness,
as in the fierce Hardness of Death; and the Glimpse [or Glance]