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

32. For the Fire in the Essence comes to be a a soft meek
Light, and is nothing else but a zealous [or eager] Kindling of
the Tincture, and the harsh Essence causes that the divine Virtue
can draw it to itself, and taste it, for in the [sour or] harsh Essence
the Taste does consist, in Nature: In like Manner the bitter
Essence serves to [make] the moving rising Joy, Fragrancy
and Growing; and out of these Forms the Tincture goes forth,
and it is the House of the Soul; as the Holy Ghost [goes forth]
from the Father and the Son, so also the Tincture goes forth
from the Light of the fiery Soul, and then also from its virtuous
[or powerful] Essences, and so it b resembles the Holy Ghost,
but yet the Holy Ghost of God is a Degree higher; for he goes
forth from the Center of the Light wholly in the fifth Form,
from the Heart of God, at the End of Nature.
33. Therefore there is a Difference between the Tincture in
Man, and the Holy Ghost; and the bestowed Virgin of the divine
Virtue [or Power] dwells in the Tincture of the Soul, [that is]
if it be true and faithful; but if [the Soul be] not [faithful]
then c she departs into her Center, which is not wholly shut up;
for there is but half a Birth between, except the Soul passes into
the d Stock of Harshness and Malice [Evil or Wickedness,] and
then there is a whole Birth between. For the Harshness stands
u Or indissoluble Band.
x The Soul.
y Active Property.
z Into true Resignation.
a Pleasant or delightful.
b Is like.
c The Virgin.
d Stock of a Tree which is grafted.
in the fourth Form of the Darkness, and the Bitterness in the
Fire, between the fourth and fifth Form, as is mentioned before.
34. Now [Reason’s] Question is; How has Eve received the
Soul from Adam? Behold, when God’s e harsh Fiat took the
Rib f out of Adam, then it attracted out of all Essences also to
it, and the Fiat imaged [formed, imagined, or impressed] itself
together therein, [that it might] continually and eternally stay
therein. But now the Tincture in Adam was not yet extinguished,
but the Soul of Adam sat yet wholly with Might and
Virtue [or Power] in the Tincture; only the Virgin was departed:
And therefore now the Fiat g took the Tincture, and the
[sour] harsh Essences mingled [or qualified] with the [sour]
harsh Fiat; for it, (viz. the Fiat) and the [Sourness or] Harshness
in the Essences, are one Kind of Essence.
35. Thus the Fiat inclined itself now to the Heart of God, and
the Essences received the divine Virtue [or Power,] and there
sprung up the Blossom in the Fire; and out of the Blossom