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

if it be a Thought to [be expressed in] a Word, then the Lips
are the Door­keepers, which must keep it shut, and not let the
Tongue forth, but must bring it into the Region of the Air, into
the z Nostrils, and not into the Heart, and stifle it, and then it
is dead.
15. And when the Taste has tried it, and if it be good for
the Essences of the Soul, then it gives it to the Feeling, which
must try what Quality it is of, whether hot or cold, hard or soft,
thick or thin, and then the Feeling a sends it into the Heart,
[presenting it] before the Flash of the Life, and before the King
of the Light of Life; and the Will of the Mind b pierces further
into that Thing, a great Depth, and sees what is therein, [considering]
how much it will receive and take in of that Thing,
and when it is enough, then the Will gives it to the Spirit of the
Soul, viz. to the eternal c Emperor, who brings it (with his
strong and austere Might) out of the Heart, in the Sound upon
r Or Language.
s Or Sound of the Kindling.
t Or sends.
u Or false.
x Or spew.
y Or false.
z Text, Blasen or Breath.
a Or gives.
b Flashes or discovers,
c Chief Ruler.
the Tongue under the Roof of the Mouth, and there the Spirit
d distinguishes according to the Senses, as the Will has discovered
[or manifested] it, and the Tongue d distinguishes it in the Noise.
16. For the Region of the Air must here drive the Work
through the Throat, where then all the Veins in the whole Body
tend and concur, and bring the Virtue of the noble Tincture
towards that, and mingle themselves with the Word; and there
also all the three Regions of the Mind come, and mingle themselves
with the Distinguishing, [Framing, Articulating, or Separating]
of Words; and there is a very wonderful Form, [or
Manner of Work.] For every Region [or Dominion] will distinguish
[or separate] the Word according to its Essences, for
the Sound goes out of the Heart, out of all three Principles.
17. The first will fashion it according to its fierce Might and
Pomp, and mingles therein prickly [stinging] Sourness, Wrath
and Malice. And the second Principle with the Virgin stands
in the Midst, and sheds its Rays of loving Meekness therein,
and resists the first [Principle.] And if the Spirit be kindled
in e that, then the Word is wholly gentle, friendly, and humble,
and inclines itself to the Love of our Neighbour; it desires not
to seize upon any with the haughty Sting [or Prickle] of the
first Principle, but it f covers the Prickles of the Thorns, and
qualifies the Word with Clearness [and Plainness,] and arms the