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

x Or active Property.
y Disrupted.
and draws the same into the Tincture; and then Hands and
Mouth fall to it, and stuff it into the Stomach, into the z outward
Court of the four Elements, from whence the earthly Essences of
the Stars and Elements feed.
71. And the Taste also is a Trying, and Attracting of the
Tincture in the Essences of the Spirit. And so the Feeling also,
if the Spirit of Man with its Essences did not stand in the Sound,
there would be no Feeling; for when the sour Essences draw to
them, then they awaken the bitter Prickle [or Sting] in the Fire­flash,
which stirs itself, either by Griping, Thrusting, or Striking,
and thereupon in all driving the bitter Prickle in the Fire­flash is
awakened; and therein stands the Moving; [and] all in the
Tincture.
The Sixteenth Chapter.
Of the noble Mind of the Understanding, Senses and
Thoughts. Of the threefold Spirit and Will, and of the
Tincture of the Inclination, and what is inbred in a Child
in the Mother’s Body [or Womb.] Of the Image of God,
and of the bestial Image, and of the Image of the Abyss of
Hell, and Similitude of the Devil, to be searched for, and
found out in a [any] one Man.
The noble Gate of the noble Virgin. And also the Gate of the
Woman of this World, highly to be considered.
IF we consider ourselves in the noble Knowledge,
which is opened to us in the Love of God, in the
noble Virgin of the Wisdom of God, (not for our
Merit, Honesty, [Virtue,] or Worthiness, but merely
of his own Will, and original eternal Purpose) even
in those Things which appear to us in his Love, then we must
needs acknowledge ourselves to be unworthy of such a Revelation;
and seeing we are Sinners, we are deficient in the Glory
that we should have before him.
z Or Atrium.
a Or in every one.
2. But seeing it is his eternal Will and Purpose to do us good,
and to open his Secrets to us according to his Counsel, therefore
we ought not to withstand, nor to bury the bestowed Talent