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

the u Element: The Element is neither hot nor cold, but it is the
Inclination [to be] in God, for the Heart of God is Barm [that is,
Warmth] and its x Ascension is attractive and always finding;
and then the hertz [that is, the Heart] is the Holding the Thing
before itself, and not in itself; and then the ig [the last Syllable
of the German Word Barm­hertz­ig, (that is, warm­hearted, or
merciful) explained according to the Language of Nature] is the
continual Discovering of the Thing, and this is altogether ewig
[eternal;] and that is the Ground of the inward Element, which
makes the Anger substantial, so. that it was visible and palpable,
which [Anger] Lucifer with his Legions did awaken; and thereupon
he now remains to be the Prince in the Anger [or Wrath]
(in the kindled Element) as Christ (according to this Form)
calls him a Prince of this World.
42. And the Element remains hidden to the Anger and y Fierceness
[or Wrath,] and stands in Paradise; and the y fierce Wrath
goes still out from the Element; and therefore God has captivated
t They that are not blind shall see it.
u That one pure, holy, eternal Element.
x Rising up.
y Grimness.
the Devils with the Element in the fierce Wrath, and he keeps
them [in] with the Element; and the fierce Wrath cannot [touch
or] comprehend z it, like the Fire and the Light; for the Light is
neither hot nor cold, but the fierce Wrath is hot; and the one holds
the other, and the one generates the other.
43. Here observe; Adam was created out of the Element, out
of the Attracting of the Heart of God, which is the Will of the
Father, and therein is the Virgin of the divine Virtue [or Power,]
and the outward Regimen (which in the Kindling parted itself
into four Parts) would fain have had the same [Virgin] in itself;
that is, the Fierceness of the Devil would fain have dwelt in the
Heart of God, and have domineered over it, and have opened a
Center there, which the Fierceness without the Light cannot do;
for every Center was generated and opened with the Kindling
of the Light. Thus the Fierceness would fain be over the Meekness,
and therefore has God caused the Sun to come forth, so that it
has thus opened four Centers, viz. the going forth out of the Element.
44. And when the Light of the Sun appeared in the fierce
[Sourness or] Harshness, then the Harshness became thin and
a sweet, even Water, and the Fierceness in the Fire­flash was
extinguished by the Water, so that the Anger stood still, yet the
Will could not rest, but went forth in the Mother, out of the Water,
and moved itself, which is the Air: And that which the fierce
Sourness had b attracted to it, that was thrust out of the Element,
in the Water, as you see that the Earth swims in the Water.