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

e a Woman, as all other Beasts [have a Female] for Propagation:
The angelical Kingdom in Adam was gone; therefore now
there must be l a Kingdom of this World.
4. Then what was it that God now did with Adam? Moses
says, When Adam slept, he took one of his Ribs, and [made or]
built a Woman of it, (viz. of the Rib which he took from Man,)
and closed up the Place with Flesh. Now Moses has wrote very
right: But who is it that can understand him here? If I did not
know the first Adam in his virgin­like Form in Paradise, then I
had been at a Stand, and should have known no other than that
Adam had been made Flesh and Blood of a Lump of Earth, and
his Wife Eve of his Rib and hard Bones; which before the Time
[of my Knowledge] has oft seemed very strange and wonderful
to my Thoughts, when I have read the m Glosses upon Moses, that
so [high or] deep learned Men should write so of it: n Some of
them will dare to tell of a Pit in the [Orient or] East Country,
out of which Adam should be taken and made as a Potter makes
a Vessel or Pot.
5. If I had not considered the Scripture, which plainly says,
Whatsoever is born of Flesh is Flesh; also, Flesh and Blood shall
not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven; also, None goeth into
Heaven, but the Son of Man, (viz. the pure Virgin) which came
from Heaven, and which is in Heaven; which was very helpful to
me [to think] that the Child of the Virgin was the Angel, which
has restored again all that which was lost in Adam, for God
brought again in the Woman (in her virgin­like Body) the virgin
Child, which Adam should generate; and now if I had not considered
the Text in Moses, (where God says, It is not good that
Man should be alone, we will make a Help for him,) I should
yet have stuck in the o Will of the Woman.
6. But that Text says; God looked upon all that he had made,
and behold, it was all very good: Now if it were good in the
Creation, then it must needs have become evil when God said
[afterwards,] It is not good for Man to be alone. If God would
have had them like all Beasts to have bestial Propagation, he
would at one and the same. Instant [at first] have made a Man
and a Woman. But that God did abominate [the bestial Propagation,]
it appeared plainly in the first Child of the Woman, Cain
the Murderer of his Brother, also the Fruit [or the Curse] of the
l Or a propagated Generation.
m Commentaries.
n Damascenus.
o Or in the earthly Thoughts.
Earth shows it plainly enough. But what shall I spend the Time
for, with these Testimonies? The Proof of it will clearly follow.
And it is to be proved, not only in the Scripture, which yet makes
a Cover [over it,] but in all Things, if we would take Time to do