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

Thorns to be pressed upon his Head, so that the Blood gushed
out from thence; and in his Body he endured to be whipped, so
that his Blood run down all over. So very lowly has the Son
of the Virgin debased himself, to a help the sick and broken
Adam, and his weak and imperfect Eve, to repair them and
bring them again into the first Glory,
20. Therefore you must know for certain, that Eve was created
out of all Adam’s Essences. But there were no more Ribs nor
Members broken from Adam; which appears by the Feebleness
and Weakness of the Woman, and also by the Command of
God, who said; Thy Will shall be in Subjection under thy Man
[or Husband,] and he shall be thy Lord [or Ruler.] Because the
Man is whole and perfect, except a Rib, therefore the Woman
is a Help for him, and must help him to do his Work in Humility
and Subjection; and the Man must know that she is very
weak, being cut of his Essences; he must help her in her Weakness,
and love her as his own Essences: In like Manner the
Woman must put her Essences and Will into [the Essences and
Will] of the Man, and be friendly towards her Man [or Husband;]
that the Man may take Delight in his own Essences in
the Woman; and that they two might be but one only Will. For
they are one Flesh, one Bone, one Heart, and generate Children
in one [only] Will, which are neither the Man’s nor the Woman’s
alone, but of both together, as if they were from one only Body.
And therefore the severe Commandment of God is set before the
Children, that they should with Earnestness and Subjection
honour their Father and Mother, upon Pain of temporary and
eternal Punishment: b Of which I will write concerning the
Tables of Moses.
Concerning the Propagating of the Soul.
The Noble Gate.
21. The Mind has from the Beginning of the World had so
a To heal.
b Note, the Author lived not so long to perform his Purpose upon the Book of Exodus.
very much to do about this Gate, and has continually so searched
therein, that I cannot reckon the wearisome Heap of Writers
[about it.] But in the Time of the Lily this Gate shall flourish
as a Bay­Tree [or Laurel­Tree;] for its Branches will get Sap
from the Virgin, and therefore will be greener than c Grass, and
whiter than the [whitest] Roses, and the Virgin will bear the
pleasant Smell thereof upon her pearly Garland, and it will reach
into the Paradise of God.
22. Seeing then the Mystery presents itself to us, therefore
we will open the Blossom of the Sprout: Yet we would not have