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

itself, in that is the Spirit of the Soul figured by the eternal Fiat.
44. Now if the Spirit of the Soul remains unregenerated in its
first Principle, which it has inherited out of the Eternity, with
the Beginning of its Life, then also (at the Breaking [or Deceasing]
of its Body) there proceeds out of its eternal Mind such
a Creature, as its continual Will has been here in this Life.
45. Now if thou hast had an envious [spiteful] dogged Mind,
and hast grudged every Thing to others, as a Dog does with a
Bone which himself cannot eat, then there appears such a doggish
Mind, and according to that Source [or Property Y is its Worm
of the Soul figured, and such a Will it keeps in the Eternity, in
the first Principle. And there is no revoking, all thy envious
wicked proud Works appear in thy b Source, in thy own c Tincture
of the Worm of the Soul, and thou must live eternally
therein; nay, thou canst not conceive or apprehend any Desire
[or Will] to Abstinence [or Forbearance of it,] but thou art
God’s and the holy Soul’s eternal Enemy.
46. For the Door of the Deep to the Light of God appears to
thee no more; for thou art now a perfect Creature in the first
Principle. And now though thou dost elevate thyself, and
wouldst break open the Door of the Deep, yet that cannot be
[done;] for thou art a whole Spirit, and not merely in the Will
only, wherein the Door of the Deep can be broke open; but thou
fliest out aloft over the Kingdom of God, and canst not enter in;
and the higher thou fliest, the deeper thou art in the Abyss, and
thou seest not God yet, who is so near thee.
47. Therefore it can only be done here in this Life (while thy
Soul sticks in the Will of the Mind) so that thou breakest open
the Gate of the Deep, and pressest in to God through a New
Birth; for here thou hast the highly worthy noble Virgin of the
divine Love for thy Assistance, who leads thee in through the
Gate of the noble Bridegroom, who stands in the Center in the
parting d Mark, between the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Kingdom
of Hell, and generates thee in the Water and Life of his
Blood and Death, and therein drowns and washes away thy false
[or evil] Works, so that they follow thee not [in such a Source
and Property,] that thy Soul be not e infected therein, but according
to the first Image in Man before the Fall, as a new,
chaste, and pure noble Virgin’s Image, without any Knowledge
of thy untowardness [or Vices,] which thou hadst here.
48. Thou will ask, What is the New f Regeneration? Or how
b Or active Property.
c Or Kindling.
d Or Limit of Separation.
e Or figured therein.