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

in the Earth, for we must give Account of it in the Appearing
of his Coming. Therefore we will thus labour in our Vineyard,
and commend the Fruit to him, and will set down in Writing a
Memorial for ourselves, and leave it to him. For we can search
or conceive no further, than only what we apprehend in the Light
of Nature; where our Gate stands b open; not according to the
Measure of our Purpose, when and how we will, but according
to his Gift, when and how he wills. We are not able to comprehend
the least Sparkle of him, unless the Gates of the Deep be
opened to us in our Mind; where then the zealous [earnest] and
highly desirous kindled Spirit c is as a Fire, to which the earthly
Body ought to be subject, and will grudge no Pains to serve the
desirous fiery Mind. And although it has nothing to expect for
its Labour but Scorn and Contempt from the World, yet it must
be obedient to its Lord, for its Lord is mighty, and itself is
feeble, and its Lord leads, [drives,] and preserves it, and yet in
its [Ignorance, or Want of] Understanding, it knows nothing
of what it does, but it lives like all the Beasts. And yet its Will
is [not] to live thus, but it must follow the worthy Mind, which
searches after the Wisdom of God; and the Mind must follow
the Light of Nature; for God manifests [or reveals] himself in
that Light, or else we should know nothing of him.
3. And now when we consider our Mind, in the Light of Nature,
and what that is, which makes us zealous [or earnest,]
which burns there [in] as a Light, and is desirous [thirsty or
covetous] like Fire, which desires to receive from that Place
where it has not sown, and would reap in that Country where
the Body is not at Home [or dwells not,] then the precious
Virgin of the Wisdom of God meets us, in the middlemost Seat
in the Center of the Light of Life, and says; The Light is mine,
and the [Power or] Virtue and Glory is mine, also the Gate of
Knowledge is mine, I live in the Light of Nature, and without
me you can neither see, know, nor understand any Thing of my
Virtue, [or Power.] I am thy Bridegroom in the Light; and
thy Desire [or Longing] after my Virtue [or Power] is my Attracting
in myself; I sit in my Throne, but thou knowest me not;
I am in thee, and thy Body is not in me. I distinguish [or separate,]
and thou seest it not. I am the Light of the Senses, and
b Or our Comprehensibility.
c Or goes.
the Root of the Senses is not in me, but near me. I am the
Bridegroom of the Root, but she has put on a rough Coat. I
[will] not lay myself in her Arms till she puts that off, and then
I will rest eternally in her Arms, and adorn the Root with my
Virtue [and Power,] and give her my beautiful Form, and will
espouse myself to her with my Pearl.