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

are Men) can certainly f conceive [of that which is] in the Principle
of God, and also [of that which is] in the anguishing Kingdom
of Hell, where the Worm of our Soul in the Beginning
in Adam originally is, and this no other Creature can do.
7. But they think [consider or imagine] only how to fill themselves
and multiply, that their Life may subsist; and we also receive
g no more from the Spirit of the Stars and Elements. And
h therefore also our Children are naked and bare, with great Inability,
and without Understanding; and now if the Spirit of this
World had full [perfect and absolute] Power over the Essences
of the Child, then he would easily put his rough Garment upon
it also (viz. a rough Hide) but he must let that alone: And he
must leave the Essences in the first and second Principle, to
Man’s own Choosing, to bind and yield himself to which [Principle]
he will; which Man has (undeniably) in his full Power,
which I will explain in its own Place according to its Worth, and
deeply demonstrate it, in Spite of all the Gates of the Devil, and
this World, which strive much against it.
8. Our Life in the Mother’s Body has its Beginning wholly, as
is above mentioned, and stands there now in the Quality of the
Sun and Stars, where then, with the Kindling of the Light, a
Center springs up again, where instantly the noble Tincture thus
generates itself (out of the Light, out of the joyful Essences of
the [sour] harsh, bitter, and fiery Kind [or Quality,]) and sets
the Spirit of the Soul in a great pleasant Habitation: And the
three i Essences (viz. Harshness, Bitterness, and Fire) are in the
Kindling of the Life so very fast bound one to another, that they
cannot (in Eternity) be separated one from another, and the
Tincture is their eternal House, wherein they dwell, which
[House] they themselves generate from the Beginning unto
Eternity, which again gives them Life, Joy, and Lust [or
Delight.]
The strong Gate of the indissoluble Band of the Soul.
9. Behold, the three Essences, (viz. [Sourness or] Harshness,
Bitterness and Fire) are the Worm or Spirit [that dies not.]
k Harshness is one Essence, and it is in the Fiat of God, out of
God’s eternal Will; and in the Attracting of the [sour] Harshness
f Meditate, consider, or think of.
g Than the Beasts do.
h Because our Essences have a higher Beginning than the Beasts.
i Beings or Substances.
k Or Sourness.
is the Sting [or Prickle] of the Bitterness, which the [sour]
Harshness cannot endure, but attracts continually the more
forcibly to it, from whence the Prickle continually grows