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

Tincture of the Soul, to the k Element, and reaches after the Element;
but it attains no more than to the Light of the Sun, which
is proceeded out of the Quinta Essentia, out of the Element.
And thus the Stars and Elements rule in their Light and Virtue,
which is the Sun’s, and qualify with the Soul, and bring many
Distempers, and also Diseases into the Essences, from whence
come Stitches, Agues, Swellings and [other] Sicknesses, [as]
the Plague, &c. into those [Essences,] and at last their Corruption
and Death.
53. And now when the Light of all the three Principles shines;
then the Tincture goes forth from all the three Principles, and
e Or catches.
f Re­conceived.
g Or Joy.
h Or allays it with Trembling for Joy.
i The Shriek or Crack.
k The inward one Element.
it is highly [worthy] to be observed, that the middlemost Principle
receives no Light from Nature; but as soon as the Darkness
is broken up, [or dispelled,] it shines in most joyful Inhabitation,
and [has] the noble Virgin dwelling in the Joy, viz. in
that Tincture; and the Deity appears so very highly and powerfully
in Man, that we cannot find it so in any other Thing, let us
take what we will else into our Consideration.
54. In the first Principle is the Fire­flash; and in the Tincture
thereof is the l terrible Light of the Sun, which has its Original
very sharply out of the eternal Originality, out of the first
Principle, with its Root out of the fifth Essence, through the
Element, which may be explained in another Place, it would be
too long to do it here. And besides it should be hidden; he that knows
it, will conceal it, as he would also [conceal] the Springing­up
of the Stars and Planets. For the cornered Cap will needs
have it under the Jurisdiction of his School­learning, though
indeed he apprehends little or nothing at all in the Light of Nature.
Let it remain [hidden] till the Time of the Lily, there it stands
all m open: And the Tincture is [then] the Light of the World.
55. And it is here very exactly seen how the third Principle
n unites itself with the first, and how they have one [only] Will,
for they proceed from one another; and if the second Principle
was not in the Midst [between them] then they were but one
[and the same] Thing. But speaking here of the Tincture in
the Life, we will therefore show in the Light of Nature the true
Ground of all the three Births.
56. The noble Tincture is the Dwelling­house of the Spirit,
and has three Forms; one is eternal, and incorruptible; the other,
is mutable [or transitory,] and yet with the Holy [or Saints]