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

l Might.
the Nature of the Earth in it, as at this Day all earthly Trees
are [so,] (and no otherwise, neither better nor worse,) wherein
Corruptibility stands, as the Earth is corruptible, and shall pass
away in the End, when all shall go into its m Ether, and nothing
else shall remain of it besides the Figure. Now this was the
Tree which stood in the Midst of the Garden in Eden, whereby
Adam must be tempted in all Essences; for this Spirit should
rule powerfully over all Essences, as the holy Angels, and God
himself does.
40. Besides, he was created by the Word, or Heart of God,
that he should be his Image and Similitude, very powerfully in
all the three Principles, [and be] as great as a Prince or Throne­
Angel. But this Tree standing thus in the Garden, and of all
the Trees that only did bear Fruit, therefore Adam looked so
often upon it, because he knew that it was the Tree of Knowledge
of Good and Evil, and the Virtue of the Tree pressed him to it
so very hard (which Virtue was also in him) that the one Lust
infected [poisoned or mingled with] the other: And the Spirit
of the great World pressed Adam so very hard, that he became
infected, and his Virtue [or Power] was overcome. Here the
paradisical Man was undone, and then said the Heart of God,
It is not good that Man [should] be alone, we will make him a
Help [or Consort] to be with him.
41. Here God saw his Fall, and that he could not stand, because
Adam’s Imagination and Lust was so eager after the Kingdom
of this World, and after the earthly Fruit, and that Adam
would not generate a perfect paradisical Man out of himself,
but an infected, [poisoned Man,] according to the Lust, and
would fall into Corruptibility. And the Text in Moses sounds
further very right, thus; And God let a deep Sleep fall upon
Man, and he slept, [or fell asleep.]
m Or Receptacle.
The Twelfth Chapter.
Of the Opening of the Holy Scripture, that the Circumstances
may be highly considered.
The golden Gate, which God affords to the last World, wherein
the Lily shall flourish [and blossom.]
LOVING Reader, I had need have an angelical Tongue
for this Description, and thou an angelical Mind, and