Three Principles of the Divine Essence Chap. 8-16 - meuser
Three Principles of the Divine Essence Chap. 8-16 - meuser
Three Principles of the Divine Essence Chap. 8-16 - meuser
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The Thirteenth <strong>Chap</strong>ter.<br />
Of <strong>the</strong> Creating <strong>of</strong> Woman out <strong>of</strong> Adam.<br />
The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate.<br />
I CAN scarce write for Grief, but seeing it cannot be<br />
o<strong>the</strong>rwise, <strong>the</strong>refore we will for a While wear <strong>the</strong><br />
Garment <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Woman, but yet live in <strong>the</strong> Virgin;<br />
and although we receive [or suffer] much Affliction<br />
in <strong>the</strong> [Garment <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>] Woman, yet <strong>the</strong> Virgin will<br />
recompence it well enough. And thus we must be f bound<br />
with <strong>the</strong> g Woman till we send her to <strong>the</strong> Grave, and <strong>the</strong>n she<br />
shall be a Shadow and a Figure; and <strong>the</strong> Virgin shall be our<br />
Bride and precious Crown. She will give us her h Pearl and<br />
Crown, and cloath us with her Ornaments, for which we will<br />
give <strong>the</strong> Venture for <strong>the</strong> Lily’s sake. And though we shall raise<br />
a great Storm, and though Antichrist tear away <strong>the</strong> Woman from<br />
us, yet <strong>the</strong> Virgin must continue with us, because we are married<br />
to her; let every one take its own, and <strong>the</strong>n I shall have that which<br />
is mine.<br />
2. Now when Adam was thus in <strong>the</strong> Garden <strong>of</strong> Eden, and <strong>the</strong><br />
three <strong>Principles</strong> having produced such a Strife in him, his Tincture<br />
was quite wearied, and <strong>the</strong> Virgin departed. For <strong>the</strong> Lust<br />
Spirit in Adam had overcome, and <strong>the</strong>refore he sunk down into<br />
a Sleep. The same Hour his heavenly Body became Flesh and<br />
Blood, and his strong Virtue [or Power] became Bones; and <strong>the</strong>n<br />
<strong>the</strong> Virgin went into her E<strong>the</strong>r and Shadow, yet into <strong>the</strong> heavenly<br />
E<strong>the</strong>r, into <strong>the</strong> Principle <strong>of</strong> Virtue [or Power,] and <strong>the</strong>re waits<br />
upon all <strong>the</strong> Children <strong>of</strong> Adam, [expecting] whe<strong>the</strong>r any will receive<br />
her for <strong>the</strong>ir Bride again, by <strong>the</strong> i new Birth.<br />
3. But what now was God to do? He had created Adam out <strong>of</strong><br />
his eternal Will; and because it could not now be, that Adam<br />
should generate out <strong>of</strong> himself <strong>the</strong> Virgin in a paradisical Manner,<br />
<strong>the</strong>refore God put <strong>the</strong> Fiat <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> great World into <strong>the</strong> Midst.<br />
For Adam was now fallen k home again to <strong>the</strong> Fiat as a half<br />
broken Person. Now <strong>the</strong>refore seeing he was half killed by his<br />
own Lust and Imagination, that he might live, God must help him<br />
f Schleppen, begirt, surrounded.<br />
g With F r a g i l i t y, or with <strong>the</strong> earthly Tabernacle.<br />
h The divine Brightness.<br />
i Regeneration.<br />
k Or into <strong>the</strong> Bosom <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Fiat.<br />
again; and if he be now to generate a Kingdom, <strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong>re must