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

and is the Habitation thereof. Therefore, O Man! whatsoever
you sow here, that you shall reap, for your Soul in the Tincture
remains eternally: And all your Fruits stand in the Tincture,
manifested in the clear Light, and follow after you; this the
Virgin says in Sincerity [for a Warning,] with great Longing
after the Lily.
46. And now if we consider of the Tincture, [and search]
how various it is, and [that it is] many Times so wholly false;
then we may [be able] fundamentally to demonstrate the Falsehood
of the many various Spirits, [and] how they are generated.
Therefore we will make a short Entrance, concerning the Propagation
of the Soul, which we will enlarge [when we speak]
about the Fall of Adam, and the Birth of Cain. For the Seed
(as is above­mentioned) is sown in the Lust of the Tinctures,
where the sour [or] harsh Fiat receives it, and supposes that it
has received the Virgin; there both the Tinctures (the masculine
and the feminine) then strive together about it, and there the
Spirit of the great World, viz. the Spirit of the Stars and Elements,
figures [images or imprints] itself also in it, and he fills
u Images or represents himself.
x That the Soul listens and yields to the Devil.
the Tinctures with his Elements, which the Tinctures in the Fiat
receive with great Joy, and suppose they have the Virgin.
47. But seeing the Fiat is the mightiest among them all, (for
it is as it were a Spirit, and although it be no Spirit, yet it is the
sharp Essence,) therefore it attracts the Seed to it, and desires
the Limbus of God in Paradise, out of which Adam’s Body was
created by the Fiat, and y would create an Adam out of a heavenly
Limbus; and then the Spirit of the great World insinuates himself
and supposes, [and says,] the Child is mine, I will rule in
the Virgin; and he always fills it with the Elements, from whence
the Tincture becomes full and very thick, [gross, swelled, or impregnated;]
and there then the Tincture gets a Loathing against
the Fulness; for the Tincture itself is clear, and the Fiat with
the Elements is thick, [gross and] swelled; from whence Women
(when they z grow big [with Child]) know well enough, that
many of them loathe some Meats and Drinks; and long, still after
some strange Thing [to eat], for the Tincture comes to have a
Loathing of all that the Spirit of this World with his Elements
fills in, and wills to have somewhat else; for this Virgin does not
relish them, but becomes [discontented and] sorry, and forsakes
them, and goes into her a Ether, and comes not again.
48. And then the Spirit of the Sun, Stars, and Elements of
this World, supposes with itself [saying,] Now thou art in the
right, the Child is thine, the Foundation is laid, thou wilt bring
it up, the Virgin must be thine, thou wilt live therein, and have