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

Eye in Nature; it would require a great Volume to describe it
p Opens itself outwards.
q Source or Property.
r Infect.
s Delight.
t The Soul.
u Or Entrails.
x Done or performed.
in. And as the World accounts us too y weak to [be able to]
describe it, so we account ourselves much weaker [and more unable.]
And it is with us as Isaiah says; I am found of them that
sought me not, and known of them that were ignorant of me,
and of such as inquired not after me.
61. I say, z this has not been sought, but we sought the Heart
of God, that we might hide us therein from the a Tempest of the
Devil. But when we came there, then the loving Virgin out of
Paradise met us, and offered us her Love, she would be kind [and
friendly] to us, and be betrothed to us for a Companion, and
show us the Way to Paradise, where we shall be safe from the
stormy Tempest, and she carried a Branch in her Hand, and
said, We will plant this, and a Lily shall grow, and I will come
to thee again; from whence we got this Longing to write of the
amiable Virgin, which showed us the Way into Paradise, where
we must go through the Kingdom of this World, and also
through the Kingdom of Hell, and no Hurt done us; and according
to that [Direction of her’s] we write.
The Fourteenth Chapter.
Of the Birth and Propagation of Man.
The very Secret Gate.
IF we consider now the Springing up of the Life, and
in what Place of the Body it is where the Life is generated,
then we shall rightly find the whole Ground
of Man, and there is nothing so secret in Man b but
that it may be found. For we must needs say, that
the Heart is the Place, wherein the noble Life is generated, and
the Life again penetrates the Heart.
2. As it is mentioned above, so the Life in the Anguish, with
the Kindling of the Light, takes its Beginning from the Glance
of the Sunshine, from the Spirit of the Stars and Elements in the
y Simple, and void of Understanding, and unable.
z High Knowledge.
a Storm.
b That may not be found.