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

true in every one of the Creatures in this World.
67. Now what is it that makes the Hearing, that you can hear
that which stirs and makes a Noise? Wilt thou say that it is
caused by the Noise of that outward Thing which gives the
Sound? No! there must also be somewhat that must receive the
Sound, and qualify or mix with the Sound, and distinguish the
Sound of what is played or sung; the outward cannot do that
alone, the inward must receive and distinguish the Noise. Behold,
here you find the Beginning of the Life, and the Tincture
wherein the Life consists; for the Tincture of the Crack in the
Springing up of the Life, in the Breaking­open of the dark Gate,
stands in the Sounding, and has its Gate open (next the Fire­flash
near the Eyes) and receives the Noise of whatsoever sounds.
68. For the outward Sounding qualifies with the inward, and is
severed [or distinguished] by the Essences; and the Tincture receives
all, be it evil or good, and thereby testifies that itself, with
its Essences that generate it, are not generated out of the Deity,
else the Tincture would not let in the Evil, and [that which is]
false into the Essences of the Soul.
69. Therefore we must consider, that the Noise in the Tincture
of Man is [of a] higher [Nature] than [that] in the Beasts; for
Man searches and distinguishes all Things which give a Sound,
and knows from whence it comes, and how it exists, which the
Beasts cannot do, but stare at it, and knows not what it is;
whereby it may be understood, that the Original of Man, is out
of the Eternal, because he can distinguish all Things that in the
Out­Birth came out of the Eternal. And hence it is, that the
Body (seeing all Things out of the eternal Nothing are caused
to be Something which is comprehensible [or palpable,] and yet
there, that Nothing is not a mere Nothing, but is a x Source) after
the Corrupting shall stand in the eternal Figure, and not in the
Spirit, because it is not out of the eternal Spirit; for otherwise,
if it were out of the [eternal] Spirit, then it should also search
out the Beginning of every Thing, as [well as] Man, who in his
Sound receives and distinguishes all Things.
70. Thus now the Habitation of Man’s Sound, wherein the
Understanding is, must be from Eternity, although indeed in the
Fall of Adam, Man has set himself in the Corruptibility, and in
great Want of Understanding, as shall follow here. In like
Manner also we find concerning the Smelling; for if the Spirit
did not stand in the Sound, then no Smell of any Thing would
press [or pierce] into the Essences; for the Spirit would be whole
and swelled. But it standing thus in the Gate of the y broken
Darkness in the Crack and in the Sound, therefore all Virtues of
all Things press in into that Gate, and try themselves by one
another, and what the Essences of the Spirit love, that it desires,