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

comprehended.
31. And God is immense, [immeasurable,] and the Similitude
is also immeasurable; he is in the Similitude, and the Similitude
comprehends him not; the Similitude is his Work, and he is
the Master­Workman thereof; the Constellation is his Instrument,
and the s Matrix, with the Elements, are the Materia,
[Matter or Materials,] out of which the t Master cuts and
fashions his Work.
32. Now the Master always works on and without Consideration,
what he lights upon that he makes; for the Consideration
is in the Work. And therefore it is that the whole Nature
stands in Anguish and Longing, to be free from the Vanity;
as also the Scripture witnesses. Because it tastes the Paradise
in itself, and in the Paradise the Perfection, therefore it groans
and lifts up towards the Light of God and Paradise, and so
brings forth in its Anguish always something that is fairer,
higher, and new; as may sufficiently be found and understood in
the Mind of Man; and it is very visible to a small Understanding,
that in Works always some special Thing is brought to Light,
s The created Heaven.
t The Fiat.
and if you be not blind, you may see this in Men, Beasts, yea
even in Herbs and Grass.
33. Thus on the fourth Day, by the Fiat, out of the Virtue,
he prepared the Similitude of his Substance [and fitted it] to
be a Matrix, which should generate all whatsoever was a Similitude
of his Substance, and of the Wisdom which was in him
from Eternity; that so all Forms might be brought forth and
become visible, which were from Eternity in the Matrix. And
the Similitude of the unsearchable manifold Varieties and Virtues
are the Stars, which altogether give [or send] their Virtue into
the Matrix of the Heaven, and the Heaven gives that same
Spirit to the Creatures. This is the course of all Creatures after
the same Essence, [or Substance,] and they are formed after
the same Spirit, which is their Virtue, Spirit, and Life.
34. When God had finished this on the fourth Day, he saw
it, and considered it, and it was good, as Moses writes. Then
God desired in his external Will, that this Kingdom or Principle
[of this World] should also be creaturely, like the perfect paradisical
Kingdom, that there should be living Creatures therein.
And the Will set the Virtue (that is, the Word) in the Fiat;
and then the Matrix generated all manner of [living] Creatures
on the fifth Day, every one after its Kind. You must understand
by the word Kind, as many various [Forms] as the
Matrix is [of;] as you may observe it in the Constellation.