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

Food, that no paradisical Fruit did grow any more out of the
Earth.
8. Besides, if Adam had eaten earthly Fruit, he must then have
eaten it into his Body, and have had Guts [or Entrails:] And
how could such a Stink [and Dung] (as we now carry in the
Body) have been in Paradise in the Holiness of God? Moreover,
he should by eating earthly Food, have eaten of the Fruit of the
Stars and Elements, which would presently have infected [or
qualified] in him, as was done in the Fall; also so his Fear over
all the Beasts would have ceased. For the Essences of the Beasts
would presently have been like the human Essences in Virtue
[and Power,] and g one would have domineered more strongly
over the other.
9. Therefore it was quite otherwise with Adam; he was a
heavenly paradisical Man, he should have eaten of the heavenly
paradisical Fruit, and in the Virtue [or Power] of that [Fruit]
he should have ruled over all Beasts [or living Creatures,] also
over the Stars and Elements: No Cold nor Heat should have
touched him, or else God would not have created him so naked,
but like all Beasts with a rough [or hairy] Skin [or Hide.]
f Corruption.
g Or the Stronger would have domineered over the Weaker.
10. But the Question is; Wherefore grew the earthly Tree of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil? For if that had not been,
Adam had not eaten of it: Or why must Adam be tempted?
Hearken, ask your Mind about it, wherefore it so suddenly generates
and conceives in itself a Thought of Anger, and then of
Love? Dost thou say [it comes] from the hearing and seeing of
a Thing? Yes, that is true, this God also knew very well; and
therefore he must be tempted. For the Center of the Mind is
free, and it generates the Will from Hearing and Seeing, out of
which the Imagination and Lust arises.
11. Seeing Adam was created an Image and whole Similitude
of God, and had all three Principles in him like God himself,
therefore also his Mind and Imagination should merely have
looked into the Heart of God, and should have set his Lust and
[Desire, or] Will thereon; and as he was a Lord over all, and
that his Mind was a threefold Spirit, in three Principles in one
only Essence, so his Spirit also, and the Will in the Spirit, should
have stood open [or free] in one only Essence, viz. in the paradisical
heavenly [Essence.] And his Mind and Soul should have
eaten of the Heart of God, and his Body [should have eaten] of
the heavenly Limbus.
12. But seeing the heavenly h Limbus was manifested through
the earthly, and was in the Fruit in one only Essence, and Adam