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

only] a Beast in the Will, Manners, and Senses; and besides that,
it has no Might nor Understanding, to be able to figure [or
form] a Similitude of God: Though indeed it elevates itself in
the highest [it can,] in the Will after the Similitude of God, yet
it generates only a pleasant, subtle, and lusty Beast in Man (as
also in other Creatures) and no more. Only the eternal Essences,
which are propagated from Adam in all Men, they continue
with the hidden Element (wherein the Image consists)
standing in Man, but yet altogether hidden, unless the new Birth
in the Water, and the Holy Ghost [or Spirit] of God [be attained.]
21. And thereupon it comes, that Man many Times in the
Dwelling of the Brains, and of the Heart, as also in all the five
Senses, in the Region [or Dominion] of the Stars, is in his
k Looks upon itself.
l Or according to the Complexions.
m Or the Child’s becoming Man.
n Or the Dwelling of the Senses and Thoughts.
o Different Thoughts.
Mind p often like a Wolf, a churlish Dog, crafty, fierce, and
greedy; and p often like a Lion, stern, cruel, sturdy and active in
devouring of his Prey; p often like a Dog, snappish, envious,
malicious; often like an Adder and Serpent, subtle, venomous,
stinging, poisonous, slanderous in his Words, and mischievous in
his Deeds, ill­conditioned and lying, like the Quality of the Devil
in the Shape of a Serpent at the Tree of Temptation; p often
like a Hare, timorous, or fearful, starting and running away;
p often like a Toad, whose Mind is so very venomous, that it
poisons a tender [or weak] Mind to the temporal Death by its
Imagination, which many Times makes Witches and Sorcerers,
for the first Ground serves enough to it; p often like a tame
Beast; and p often like a merry Beast, &c. all according as the
Constellation stood, in q its Incarnation in the wrestling Wheel,
with its Virtue of the Quinta Essentia, so is the Starry Mind on
r it s region figured; although the Hour of Man’s s Birth alters
much, and does t hold in the first, whereof I will write hereafter
in its Place, concerning Man’s Birth [or Nativity.]
22. And now if the Glance out of this Mind, out of this or
any other Form not here mentioned, glances [or darts] through
the Eyes, then it catches up its own Form out of every Thing,
as its starry Kingdom is most potent at all Times of the Heaven,
in the Good or in the Bad, in Falshood or in Truth. And this
is brought before the King, and there must the five Counsellors
try it, which yet are unrighteous Knaves themselves, being u infected
from the Stars and Elements, and so set in their Region
[or Dominion.] And now those [Counsellors] desire nothing
more than the Kingdom of this World; and to which Sort the
starry House of the Brains and of the Heart is most of all inclined,
for that the five Counsellors also give their Advice, and