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

greater, which yet the [sour] Harshness holds l Prisoner; and
this together is the great Anxiety, which was there in the dark
Mind of God the Father, when the Darkness was anxious [or
longed] after the Light; from whence in the Anxiety (from the
Glance of the Light) it attained the Twinkling Flash: Out of
which the Angels were created, which afterward were enlightened
from the Light of God (m by their Imagination into the
Heart of God;) and the other (like Lucifer) for their Haughtiness
[or Pride’s] Sake, remained in the Flash of Fire and Anxiety.
10. This Birth [or active Property] with the indissoluble Band,
is generated in every Soul; and there is no Soul before the
Kindling of the Light in the Child in the Mother’s Body. For
with the Kindling, the eternal Band is knit [or tied,] so that it
stands eternally, and this Worm of the three Essences does not
die, nor separate itself; for it is not possible, [because] they
are all three generated out of one [only] Fountain, and have
three Qualities, and yet are but one Being [or Substance;] as
the Holy Trinity is but in one only Essence [or Substance;] and
yet they have three Originalities in one Mother, and they are one
[only] Being [or Substance] in one another. Thus also (and
not a whit less) is the Soul of Man, but only one Degree in the
first Going forth; for it is generated out of the Father’s eternal
Will (and not out of the Heart of God) yet the Heart of God
is the nearest to it of all.
11. And now it may very exactly be understood by the Essences
and Property of the Soul, that in this House of Flesh
(where it is as it were generated) it is not at Home; and its
horrible Fall may be also understood [thereby.] For it has no
Light in itself of its own, it must borrow its Light from the Sun;
which indeed springs up along with it in its Birth, but that is
corruptible, and the Worm of the Soul is not so; and it is seen
that when a Man dies n it goes out. And if then the divine Light
be not again generated in the Center, then the Soul remains in
the eternal Darkness, in the eternal anguishing [Source or]
Quality of the Birth, where nothing is to be found in the kindled
l Captive.
m By their longing after, or imprinting the Heart of God in their thoughts.
n The Light of the Sun, or a Man’s Faculties beholding of that Light ceases.
Fire, but a horrible Flash of Fire, in which [Source, Property,
or] Quality, also the Devils dwell; for it is the first Principle.
12. And the Soul here in this World uses the Light of the third
Principle, after which the Soul of Adam lusted, and thereupon
was captivated by the Spirit of the great World. But if the Soul
be regenerated in the Holy Ghost, so that its Center to the Regeneration
springs forth o., then it sees with two Lights, and lives
in two Principles. And the most inward [Principle] (viz. the