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

[or yielding Pliableness,] the Taste of Joy, the Well­doing of
Meekness [or Affability,] and [further] what my Pen cannot
express. The Mind would much rather be freed from Vanity,
and live therein without Molestation or Disturbance.
9. Now these two Gates are in one another; the nethermost
goes into the Abyss, and the uppermost goes into Paradise; and
a third Gate comes to these two, out of the Element with its four
Productions, and presses in together with the Fire, Air, Water,
and Earth; and their Kingdom is the Sun and Stars, which
m qualify with the first Will; and their Desire is to be filled, to
swell, and to be great. These draw into them, and fill the Chamber
of the Deep, [viz.] the free and naked Will in the Mind;
they bring the Glimpse [or Glance] of the Stars into the Gate of
the Mind, and qualify with the Sharpness of the Glimpse [or
Flash;] they fill the broken Gates of the Darkness with Flesh,
and wrestle continually with the first Will (from whence they are
gone forth) for the Kingdom [or Dominion,] and yield themselves
up to the first Will, as to their Father, which willingly
receives their Region [or Dominion.] For he is obscure and
dark, and they are rough and sour, also bitter and cold; and
their Life is a seething Source of Fire, wherewith they govern
in the Mind, in the Gall, Heart, Lungs, and Liver, and in all
Members [or Parts] of the whole Body, and Man is n their own;
the Spirit which stands in the Flash brings the Constellation
into the Tincture of its Property, and infects the Thoughts, according
to the Dominion of the Stars; they take the Body and
tame it, and bring their bitter Roughness into it.
m Or mingle.
n The four Elements own.
10. Now the Gate of the Light stands between both these
Regions, as in one [only] Center inclosed with Flesh, and it
shines in the Darkness in itself, and it moves towards the Might
of the Darkness and Fierceness, and sheds forth its Rays, even
to the Noise of the Breaking through, from whence the Gates of
Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feeling, go forth; and
when these Gates apprehend the sweet, loving, and pleasant Rays
of the Light, then they become most highly joyful, and run
into their highest Region into the Heart (as into their right
Dwelling­house) into the Essences of the Spirit of the Soul,
which receives it with Joy, and refreshes itself therein; and
there its Sun springs up (viz. the pleasant Tincture in the o Element
of Water) and by the sweet Joy becomes Blood. For all
Regions rejoice therein, and suppose that they have got the noble
Virgin again, whereas it is but her Rays, as the Sun shines upon
the Earth, from whence all Essences of the Earth rejoice, spring,
grow, and blossom. Which is the Cause that the Tincture rises
up in all Herbs and Trees.