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

59. And in this Tincture of the first Principle, the Devil
tempted Man; for it is his Source, [Well­spring, or Property,]
wherein he also lives. Herein he reaches into the Heart of Man,
into his Soul’s Essences, and leads him away from God, into the
Desire to live in the sharp (viz. in the fiery) Essences, that it
might be elevated above the Humility and the Meekness of the
Heart of God, and above the Love and Meekness of the Creatures,
[on Purpose to seem] to be the only fair and glistering Worm in
the Fire­flash, and to domineer over the second Principle. And
[thus] he makes the Soul of Man so extremely proud, as not to
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vouchsafe himself to be in the least like any Meekness, but to be
like all whatsoever lives in a Quality [or Property] contrary to it.
60. And in the bitter Essences s he makes the Worm of the
Soul prickly, spiteful, envious, and malicious, grudging every
Thing to any; as the Bitterness indeed is in Friendship with nothing,
but it stings and grinds, raves and rages like the Abyss of
Hell, and it is the true House of Death as to the pleasant Life.
61. And in the sour [or harsh] Essence of the Tincture of the
Worm of the Soul, he infects the sour t harsh Essence, whereby it
becomes sharply attractive, and gets a Will to draw all to itself,
and yet is not able to do it; for the conceived Will is not easily
filled, but is a dry hellish thirsty Hunger to have all; and if it
did get all, yet the Hunger would not be the less, but it is the
eternal Hunger and Thirst of the Abyss, the Will of Hell­fire,
and of all Devils, who continually hunger and thirst, and yet eat
nothing; but it is their satiating, that they [suck or], draw into
themselves, the strong Source of the Essences of the harsh,
bitter Might of the Fire, wherein consists their Life and Satiating;
and the Abyss of the Wrath and of Hell is also such [a Thing.]
62. And this is the Source of the first Principle, which (without
the Light of God) cannot be otherwise, neither can it change
or alter itself; for it has been so from Eternity. And out of this
Source, the Essences of the Worm of the Soul, in the Time of its
creating, were extracted by the Fiat of God, and created in Paradise,
[and set] u before the Light of God, which enlightened the
Fire­flash, and put it into very high Meekness and Humility.
63. For because Man was to be eternal, therefore he must also
come to be out of the Eternal; for nothing is created out of the
Fountain of the Heart of God. For that is the End of Nature,
and has no such Essences; no comprehensible [or palpable]
Thing enters therein; otherwise it would be a Filling and Darkness,
and that cannot be: Also from Eternity, there has been
nothing else but only the Source [or working Property] where