61. When we nominate Heaven and Earth, Stars and Elements, and all that is therein, and all what- soever is above the Heaven, then thereby is nomina- ted the Tot all Gody which hath made himfelf 0*4- turely in thefe above mentioned Beings, in his power which goeth forth from him.
62. But GOD in his TRINITY is unchangeable, and whatever there is in Heaven and upon Earth,and above theEarth,hath its Spring Source and Original, from theJPover which proceedeth from God.
■ i £3. Yet you muft not therefore conceive, that in God, there is Good and Evil, for God Himfelt is the Good^ and hath the Name from good, which is the triumphing Eternal Joy: only all thepoaw proceed fromtiim, which you can fearch out in Nature, and which are in all things.
Queflion.
£4. Now perhaps you may fay: Is there not good H 2 and Further of the Two Qualities. Chap.II. And Evil in Nature: and fo feeing every thing cometh from God,needs mufi then the Evil alfo come from God } tAnfwer.
65. Behold there is a Gall in mans Body, which isPoifon, and he cannot live without this Gall 5 for the Gall maketh the Aflral fpirits moveable, joyous, triumphing or laughing: tor it is the fource of joy.
66. But if it be inflamed or kindled in one of the ElementSjthen izfpoileth the whole Man,for the wrath in the Ailral fpirits cometh from the Gall, 6 j. That is, when the Gall overfloweth, and run- neth to the Heart, then it kindleth the Element of pre, and the fire kindleth the Aftral fpirits, which raign in the Blood in the veins and in the Element of watery and then the whole Body trembleth by reafon of the wrath and the poyfon of the Gall.
68. And fuch a fource hath Joy,and from the fame fubftanceas alfo the wrath. That is, when the Gall in -the Loving cr Sweet quality is inflamed, in that, which mantis in lovewithall, then the whole body trembleth for joy, in which many times the Afrali fpirits are affected alfo, when the Gall is overflown, and is kindled in the Sweet quality.
69. But it hath no fuch Subßance in God, for he hath notflejb and bloody but he is a Spirit, in whom all powers are j as we pray in the Lords Prayer^ 'thine is the power. (John 4.24. Matth.tf.j ; 70. And as it is written of him in Jfaiah 9. He is wonderful, Counfel, Power, Champion, Sternal Father^ Prince of Peace.
7 1. The Bitter quality is in God alfo, but not in that manner as the Gall is in Man, but it is an ever* Ußing Ch3p.II. Farther of the Two Qualities. 5 3 lofting power, in an elevating triumphing fpring or fource of Joy.
72. And though it be written in Mofes, I am an angry zealous God, Exod.20. D^.4.24. yet the mea- ning of it is not, that God is angry in himfelf, and that there arifeth a fire of anger in the Holy Tri- nity.
73. No; that cannot be, for it is written, againft thofe that hate me, in that fame Creature, the pre of anger rife th up.
74.But if God fhouldbe angry in Himfelf,then the whole Nature would be on fire, which will come once to pafle On the Laß Day in Nature, and Not in God, but in God, the triumphing Joy will burn; it was never otherwife from eternity, nor will it Ever be other- wife.
75. But now the elevating fpringing triumphing joy in God maketh Heaven triumphing and moveable, and Heaven maketh the Stars and elements move- able, and the Stars and the Elements make the Crea- tures moveable, j6. Out of the Powers of God, are the Heavens proceeded.- out of the Heaven are the Stars jout of the Stars are the Elements; Out of the elements are the Barth and the Creatures come tobe.
77. Thus all had its beginning even to the Ang|ls and Devils; which, before the Creation of Heaven, Stars, and the Earth, were proceeded out of the fame power out of which the Heaven, the Stars, and the Earth were proceeded.
78. This is a fhort Entrance or Introdu&ion,fhew- in<* how the Divine and Natural Being is to be con- hoered. Henceforth I will defcribe the true Ground and 5 4 Of the Trinity of the Onewh) God. Chapjfl.
and Depth concerning What God is, and how all things are framed in Gods Being. - 79. Which indeed hath been partly concealed from the beginning of the World 10 this time, and Man witlThis %rafon could not comprehend it.
80. Bur" feeingfeodis pleated to reveal Himfeif In Simplicity in this laft Time; I {hall give way to his Impulfe and Will -, I am but a very little Spark of Light. AMEN.
The Third Chapter.
Of the moll hleffed Triumphinz, Holy Holy Holy Trinity 0 QQ$) the Father, Sonne, and HolyQho^ ONE onely Cjod.
1.
GOurteous Reader, here I would have you faithfully admomfljed, to let go your Opinion and Conceit, and not to Gaze after the MeMhemjh wifdome, nor be offended at tie iimpliciry of the Authour: for this work comes not from his Reafonjoxxi from the impulfe of the Spirit.
2. Onely be thou careful to get into thy fpirit the Holy Ghofiy which iflueth forth from God, and He will lead thee into all truth, and reveal Himfeif unto thee. < 3. And C ha p. Ill. Of the Trinity the Oueonly Go*K 5 J 3. And then thou wilt fee well enough in his Light and Power; even into the holy Trinity, and undcrftand thofe things which are written Hereafter following.
Of GOD the FATHER.
4.
When Our Saviour. JESUS CHRIST taught his Difciples to pray, he faid; when ye pray, fay thtu: Our Father, which art in Heaven, Matth. 6.
5. The meaning is not, as if Heaven could com- prehend encompafle or contain God the Father: for it / elf is made by the Divine power: for Chrift faith, My Father if greater then all, Joh* 10.2?.
6. And God faith in the Prophet, Heaven is my Throne, and the earth is * myfootftool, Efa. 66. what * The Dart houfe would you build for me > I compare the. Heaven under my with a Span, and the Sarth with three Fingers, Efa. 4p.?***• 12. Alfo, I will dweü.in' Jacob, and Jfrael IhaH be my Tabernacle, Pfal. 135.4. Syrac. 25.13.
7. But in that Chrift calls his Father a Heavenly Father, his meaning is, that his Fathers lufire and power appeareth and fhineth very bright and pure in Heaven; and that, above the circle or inclofure,which we behold with our Eyes, and which we call Hea- ven, doth appear the totally Triumphing Holy Trini- ty, The Father Sonne and Holy Ghoft.
8. Chrift alfo thereby diftinguifheth his Heaven- ly Father from the Father of Nature, which is indeed the Stars and the Elements, thefe are our Natu- ral Father, out of which we are made, and by whofe impulfe 5 $ Of the Trinity the One only God, Chap.üL impulfe we live here in this world, and from whence wc have our food and nourifhment.
9. But God is therefore Our Heavenly Father, in that our Soul continually longeth after him, and is dcfirous of him, yea it thirfteth and hungreth conti- nually after him.
io. The Body hungreth and thirfteth after the Fa- ther of Nature, which is piz, the Stars and the Ele- ments* and that Father alfo feedeth and nouriflicth the Body.
n. But the Soul thirfteth after the heavenly Holy Father, and he alfo giveth meat and drink to it,feed- ing it with his holy Spirit, and the fpring fource or fountain of joy.
12. Yet we have#o* two Fathers, but only One: for Heaven is made by his Power, and the Stars out of his Wifdome, which is in him> and proceed eth forth from him.
Of the Sub fiance and ^Property of the Father.
13.
When we confider the whole Nature and its pro- perty, then we fee the Father.
14, When we behold Heaven and the Stars,thcn we behold his eternal Power and Wifdom: fo many Stars as ftand in the whole Heaven, which are innu- merable and incomprehensible to Reafon, and fome of them are not vifible; fo manifold and various is the Power and Wifdome of God the Father.
1 5.But Every Star in Heaven Differeth in its power and Chäp.Ifl. Of the Trinity the One only god. 57 and Quality > which alfo maketh fo many Diftin&ions in and among the Creatures upon the Earthy and in the whole Creation.
16. But all the Powers, which are in Nature, proceed from God the Father; All Light,Hcat Cold, Ayr, Water, and all the powers of the Earth 5 Bitter, Sowre, Sweet, Aftringent, Hard, and Soft, and more then can be Reckoned 5 all have their be- ginning from the Father.
17. Therefore if a Man would liken the Father to any thing, he fhould liken him to the Round Globe of Heaven.
18. Thou muft not conceive here, that the very power, which is in the Father, ftandeth in a Peculiar Fevered or divided part and/^tt? in the Father, as the Stan do, in Heaven.
19. No! but the Spirit fheweth that all the pow- ers in the Father are one in another, as one power.
20. ARefemblance Image or Figure whereof, we have in the Prophet Ezekiet the i^^.Who feeth the Lord in the Spirit and refemblance,like a wheele, ha- ving Four other wheels one in another, the Four being like one another, and when they moved, they went Strait forward, which way foever the Wind did (it, or How, and that way they went all forward, having no caufe of returning.
2 1. And thus it is with God the Father; for all the powers are in the Father, one in another, as one pwer; and all powers Confift in the Father, in an unfearcheable Light and Clarity, or Brightncs and Glory.
22. Yet thou muft not think, that God whoisin Heaven and above the Heaven, doth there ftand and I hover, - g Of the Trinity the One only God, C hap.III.
hover, like a power and quality which hath in it neither Reafon, nor knowledge in it.- 23. As the Sun7 which turneth round in its circle, and fhooteth forth from it felf Heat and Light, whe- ther it be for benefit or hurt to the Earth and Crea- tures, which indeed would be for hurt, if the other Planets and Stars did not hinder.
24. No! the Father is not fo, but he is an All- might/, All-wife., All-knowing, All-feeing, All-hear- ing, All-fmelling, All-feeling, All-tafting God, who in himfelf is meek, friendly, gracious, merciful, and full of Joy, yea Joy it fclf.
25. And he is thus from Eternity to eternity un- changeably.* He never changed himfelf in his Being, neither will he change himfelf in all Etermty.
2 6, He is proceeded or born of nothing, but Him- felf is all in Eternity; and all whatfoever is,is come from his power, which from Eternity goeth forth from hhv.
27. His ImmcnfencfTe Heighth and Depth, no freature, no rot any Angel in Heaven, can fearch in- to it, but the Angels live in the power of the Father very meekly, and full of Joy, and they alwaies Sing in the power of the Father.
Of GOD the SONNE.
28.
If a Man will fee 6" od the Sonne,, he muft once more look upon natural things, otherwifc I cannot write of him: the Spirit indeed beholdeth him, but that can neither be fpoken ncr written ^ for the Di- vine Chap.HI. Of the Trinity the One only God. 5 9 vine Being confifteth in power, which can neither be written nor fpoken.
29. Therefore we muftufe Similitudes, if we in- tend to fpeak of God: for we live in this world, as men who know but in part, and are made of that which is but in part. Therefore I cite the Reader into the life to come, where and when I (hall fpeak more properly and more clearly of this high Ar- ticle.
30. In the mean while, the loving Reader is to attend to the fenfe and meaning of tie Spirit, and then he will not fail to get a little refrefhing, if he hath but any hunger in him.
Now Obferve.
The Turks and Heathens fay, God hath no Sonne; Set Open your Eyes wide, here; and do not make your telvcsflark blind, and you will fee the Sonne.
3 2. The Father is all, and all power Subfifteth in the Father: He is the Beginning and the End of all things j and befidcs and beyond him is nothing, and whatever is, is from the Father.
33. For before the beginning of the Creation of the Creatures, there was nothing but only GOD; and where there is nothing, out of that r.othing will be. All things muft have a Caufe or Root,or elfe Nothing will be.
3 4. Yet you are not to think that the Sonne is an- other God, then the Father. Neither fhould you think, that the Sonne is without or befides the Father, and that he is a fevered part or divided piece^as when I 2 two 0o OftheTrinity the One only God. Chap.III.
two men ft and one by another, where one compre- hendeth not the other.
35. No! the Father and the Sonne is not of fuch a fubftance, or fuch a kind of thing: for the Father is not an Image^o be likened to any thing; but the Fa- ther is the fountain of all powers, and all the pow- ers are one in another as one power, and therefore he is faid to be ONE onely GOD. *■ 36*. Otherwife if his powers were divided) then he were not Al-mighty, but now he is the Self-fub- fifting. All-mighty, and All-powerful God.
37. And the 5ö/?/^ is the.Heart in the Father, all the powers, which are in the Father, are the proprie- ty of the Father.5 and the Sonne is the Heart or the Kernel or Pith,, in all the powers, in the whole Fa- ther, and he.is the c aufe of the fpringing Joy in all powers in the whole Father.
38. From the Sonne, who is the Fathers Heart in a,ll his powers, the Eternal Joy arifethand fpringeth in all tiie powers of the Father, fuch a joy, as no eye hath feen, nor ear heard 9 neither hath ever entred into the Heart of any Man, as St. Paul faith, 1 Cor.
39. But if a man here on Earth be enlightned with the Holy Ghoft from the fountain of JESUS CHRIST, fothat the fpirits of Nature, which fig-, nifie the Father, be kindled in him, then there an- feth fuch a Joy in his Heart, and it goeth forth into all his veins, to that the whole body trembleth, and the Soulifh animal fpirit triumpheth,as if it were fit-.
• ing in the holy Trinity, which is underftood onely by thofe, that have been Guefts in that place.
40. And this is but a Type or Glimpfe of the Sonne Chap.III. Of the Trinity the One only god. 6\ of god in Man, whereby Faith is ftrengthened and preferved: for the joy cannot be fo great in an ear- then njefjely as in a heavenly, wherein the perfect power, of God is fully.
Now here I muß write a Similitude, twill fliew thee a Similitude in Nature, Signify- ing how the holy Being in the holy Trinity, is.
42. Confider Heaven, which is a round Globe, having neither beginning nor end, but its beginning and end is every where, which way foever you look upon it: and (bis god, who is in and above the. Heaven, he hath neither beginning nor end.
43. Now confider further 5 the Circle or Sphear of the Stars, they denote the various Powers and Wifdome of the Father, and they are made alfo by the Power and Wifdom of the Father* 44. Now the Heaven, the Stars, and the whole Veep between the Stars, together with the Sarth 5 fignirle, the Father.
4 5. And the Seven planets, fignifie, the fe ven S pi- nts of God, or the Princes of the Angels, among which alfo Lord LUCIFER was one, before his Fall -, which all were made out of the Father in the beginning of the creation of Angels, before the Time of this World.
46. Now Qbfervei TheSunftirreth in themidft in the Deep between the Stars in a round circle, and is the heart of the S tars,and gi veth Light and power, to all the ftars, fo tempering the power of the ftarres, that all becometh pleafant and joy full.
47, It enlighteneth alfo the Heaven, the Sitars, and the St Of the Trinity the One only god. Ghap.III.
the Deep above the Earth, working in ail things that are in this world, and fo rightly fignifieth, the _ Sonne oi God.
48. For, as the Sun ftandeth in the midft betwixt the Stars and the Earth, enlightening all powers,and is the Light and Heart o{ all the powers, and is all the Joy in this world; befides, all beauty and pleafant- nelTe ftandeth in the light and power of" the Sun.
49. Even lev the Sonne of God in the Father, is the Heart in the Father, and fhineth in all the pow- ers of the Father -0 his power is the moving fpring- ingjoy in all the powers of the Father, and fhineth in the whole Father, as the Sun doth in the whole world.
5 o. If the Earth {hould be taken away,which fig- nifiethjthe Houfe of Mifcry Trouble or of Hell 5 then the whole Deep would be Light in one place, as well as in another: as indeed the whole Deep in the Fa- ther is as light in one place as in another, from the Luflre of the Sonne of God.
ft. And as the Sun is a Self-fubfifting creature, power, and Light; which fhineth not forth from or out of all creatures, but in and into all creatures, and all creatures rejoyce in its power • 52. So the Sonne in the Father, is a felf-fubfifting perfon, and enligheneth all the powers in the Father, and is the Fathers joy or Heart m his Centre, or the Midft of him.
Olferve here the great Myflery of God.
53. - The Sun is made or Generated from all theStars,and is a Light, taken from the whole Nature, and fhineth ted Cliap.II. Of the Trinity the One only god. 61 again, into the whole Nature of th;s World, it is uni- ted with the other Stars, as if it ielf together with all the ftars, were but one ftarr.
54. And To the Sonne of Goi is Continually Gene- rated from all the powers of his Father, is from Eter- nity,and is not made,but the Heart and Lußre fhining forth from the powers of his Heavenly Father; a felf-fub fitting Perfon, the Center, or Body of the Lutfre in the deep.
55. For the Fathers power Generateth the Sonne continually from Eternity, to Eternity: but if the Father fhould ceafe to Generate, then the Sonne would be no more; alfo if the Sonne fhould fhine no more in the Father, then the Father would be a dark valley: alfo then the Fathers power would not rife from Eternity, to Eternity, and fothe Divine Being would not Suifiß* 56. Thus the Father is the felfe-fubßßwg Being of all powers, and theonne is the heart in the Father, which is Generated continually out of all the powers ofthe Father,and who again enlightnetb the powers of the Father.
5 7. Do not conceive, that the Sonne in the Father isfomix'd, that his perfon can neither be feen nor known? No; for if it were fo, then it were but one Perfon.
58. For as the Sun fhineth not from or out of the other ftars, though it had its original from the other ftars; lo alfo the Sonne fhineth not from or out of the powers ofthe Father,as to his Body or Corporeity.
59. And though he be generated continually out of the powers ot the Father ^ And yet he fhineth back again into the powers of: theFatiter, for he is another Perfon than the Father, but not another God. tfo.He. • 6i\ Oftl:e Trinity the One only God. Chap.M.
60. He is eternally/» the Father, and the Father gencrateth him continually from eternity to eternity, and the Father and the Sonne is ONE Gody of an Equall Being in Power and Omnipotence.
61. The Sonne feeth, tafteth, heareth, feeleth, fmelleth and comprehendeth All, as the Father doth; in His power, alllivethandis, whatfoever is Good, as in the Father; But that which is Bad or Evill is not in Him.
Of GOD the Holy ©HOST.
6%. God the Holy gbofl, is the Third Perfon in the tri- umphing holy Deity, and proceedeth from the Fa- ther and the Sonne, out of the holy moving fpring or fountain of Joy in the whole Father.
63. He is a pleafant,meek quiet Wind or whifpe- ring Breathor Still voyce, out of all the powers of the Father and of the Sonne; as,o# Mount Horeb wkh the Prophet Sliah, 1 Kings 19.12. And on tvkitfunday or the Day of Pentecoft, with the Apoftles, ^Aü.z. may be perceived.
64. Therefore if we will defcribe his Perfon,fub- ftance and property from the true Ground; it muft be reprelented in a Similitude. For the Spirit can- not be written down, being no Creature, but the mo- ving flowing boyling power of God.
65. Confider, the Sun and Stars again 5 the Stars being many and feveral, inexpreflible and innume- rable, they fignifie the Father: out of the ftars the Sun is come to be 5 for God hath made it out oithenty and it (ignifieth the Sonne 01 God.
66. And from the Sun and ftars proceed thejW Elements^ Chap.IH. Of the Trinity the One only god. 6% Elements, Fire, Ayr, Water,and Earth: ashdreafter I {hall demonftrate plainly, when I (hall write of the Creation, Now Okfervt: l! * Tfo three Blemente, Fire, Ayr and Watery have a threefold moving or qualification, but proceed from one Body: and confider, the fire or heat iwclls and flies alott from the Sun and ftarsj and from the Heat the Ayr *fwellsand flies aloft -> and from the Ayr * or Expand comes the Water. cchfcfeif, 6i. And in this motion or qualification con fifteth the life andfpirit of all creatures, and whatever can be named in this world • and that fignifieth the Holy Ghoft.
69. And as the three Elements, fire ayr and wa- ter, proceed from the Sun and ftars, and are one Body in one another, and caufe the living motion, and the fpirit of all the Creatures of this world * 70. So the Holy Ghoft proceedeth from the Fa- ther and the Sonne, and caufeth the living motion in all the powers of the Father.
7 1. And as the three Elements move in theDeep,as afeiffubfifting fpirit, and caufe heat,cold,and clouds, and do flow forth from the power of all the ftars; and as all the powers of the Sun and ftars are in the three Elements, as if they themfelves were the Sun and Stars, from whence is the life and fpirit öf all Crea- tures, and doth confift therein: 7». Juftfo the Holy Ghoft proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne, and moveth in the whole Fa- ther.
K Obfcrvt i\ 1 6 Of the Trinity the One only C od, Chap.IH.
Olferie here, the deep (Jktyften, 7*. All the Stars which men fee, and thole which they do not fee, they all fignifie the Power of God the^ Father: and out oi thefe ftars is Generated the£#/z, which is the Heart of ail the ftars.
73. Alfo there goeth forth from all the ftars, the Power which is in every ftar, into the Deep: And the Power, Heat and ihining of the Sun. goeth like- wife into the Deep.
74. And in the Deep, the power of all Stars, to- gether with the Heat and luftre of the Sun, are all tut one thing; a moving boy ling hove ring,\ike a Spi- rit or Matter. Onely it hath not Rcafon, for it is not the Holy Spirit ♦ an4.thus alii) the fourth Element mu ft adhere or belong to a natural fpirit 5 or itis nop capable of Reafon.
A, cc [75. And ' thm God the Father. goeth forth in hi* a Deep out ofaU his powers, and (jener ateth the ^Splendor the- Heart or the Sonne of Cod m cc his Renter,,] -£.. Which may be likened to, the round Cjlohe. of the Sm^ which fhineth upwards, downwards,.and on every fide j And fo the fplendor together with all the powers, goeth forth from, the. Sonne of God in the. whole Father* 77, Now, in the whole Deep of the Father, Ex- ternally without the Sonne, there is nothing but the 1 manifold and Unmeafurable. or.unfearchahle Power of the Father., 78. And the unfearchablc Power and Light of the I Sonne^is in the Deep of the^f ather, a living,all- pow- erful Cha p.III. Of the Trinity the One only god. $-j erful, ail-knowing, all-hearing, all-feeing, all-fmell- ing, ail-tafting, all-feeling Spirit, wherein is all power fplcndor and wiidorii> as in the Father and the Sonne.
79. And as in the four Elements, there is the power and fplcndor of the Sun and all the ftars: fo it is in the whole Dff/> of Lhe Father: and that is* and is rightly called, the Holy ghofl, which is the third iclf-fublifting Terfon in the Deity.
Of the Holy TRINITY.
So.
Now when we fpeak or write of the Three Perfons in the Deity, you muft not conceive that therefore there are three Gods, each Raigning and Ruling by himfelf,Uke temporal Kings on the Earth.
8 1. No.- '* Such a Subßance and Being, is not in, ortllc Tr<., God: for the Divine Being confifteth in power and nity hpth H# not in Body or fiefh. £uch fufc; 82. The Father is the whole Divine power, Being in whence all creatures have proceeded; and hath been God., * aiwayes from Eternity^ He hath neither beginning nor end, 83. The Sonne is in the Father, being the Fathers. Heart or Light, and the Father generateth the Sonne continually from Eternity, to Eternity 5 and the •Sonnes Power and Splendof fhineth back again in the whole Father, as the Sua doth in the whole World.
84. Alfo the Sonne is another perfon then the Fa- ther, but not Externally without or fevered from the Father, nor is he any other God then the Father is 5 K 2 his £S Of the Trinity the One only Go J. Chap.IIL liis povvcr> Splendor, and Omnipotence is m leßc then the whole Father.
85. The Holy Ghoft yroceedeth from the Father and the Sonne, and is the Third feif-fub fitting pcrfon in the Deity: As, the elements in this World go forth from the Sun and the Scars, and are the moving Spi- rit, which is in every thing in this world.
$6. So the Holy Ghoft is the moving Spirit k%- the whole Father, and proceedeth or goeth forth from Eternity to Eternity continually from the Father and Sonne } and replenii"heth the whole Father; he is nothing LeflTc, or Greater then the Father and Sonne; His moving power is in the whole Father.
87. Alt things in this World are according to the fimilitude of this Ternary. Ye blind Jewes, Turks, and Heathens, open wide the Eyes of your Mind: I muft fhew you, in your Body, and in every Natural thing, in Men, Bcafts, Fowles, and worms -> alfo in wood, ft one, leaves and graife, the Likenes of the Holy Ternary in God.
Ob,eBioi7* 88. Ye fay, there is but One Being inGodj and.. that, God hath no Sonne.
Affaer.
§?. Open your Eyes, and con fider your Selves; Man is made according to the fimilitude, and out of the power of Goi in his Ternary. Behold thy in- ward man, and then thou wilt fee itmoft plainly,, and clearly, if thou art not a fool, and an irrational Beaft; therefore obferve, 60. In thy Heart, in thy Veins, and in thy Brain, thou haft thy fpirit 5 and all the powers which move in Ghap.III. Of the Trinity the One only god. Cj in thy heart, in thy Veins, and in thy Brain, wherein thy Life confifteth,(ignifieth God the Father.
5? i. From that power Springcthupthy Light* Co that thou feeft, under ftandeft and k no weft in the fame power,, what thou art to do; lor that Light glimmcreth in thy whole Body ■ and the whole Body moveth in the power and knowledge of the Light, for ' the Body hclpeth all the Members in the knowledge of the Light: which fignifieth,God the Sonne.
92. For as the Fathtr generateth the Sö^p out of his power, and as- the Sonne fhineth back in thr whole Father; fo in like manner the Power of thy Heart, of thy Veins, and of thy Brain, generateth a Light which ihincth in all thy powers in thy whole Body. Open the Eyes of thy Mind, confider it, and i you mail find it fo.
93.. And Offerte: As from the Jacher and the Sonne there goeth forth the Holy Ghoft, and is a felf- - fubfifting Perfon in the Deity, and moveth in the whole Father $ fo alfo out of the powers of thy heart, veins and thy brain, goeth forth the Tower which moveth in thy whole Body; and out of thy light goeth forth in the fame Power, Reafon, Underftand- ing} skill, and Wifdom, to govern the whole body, and to diftinguifh.all whatfoever is Externally with* Extra out the Body. Corpm 94. And both.the.fe are but one in the government: of thy Mind? tiz>. thy f pi r it, which fignifieth God the Holy Ghoft; alfo the Holy Ghoft from God ru- - ktb in this fpirit in thee; if thou art a child of Light and not öidarkneße, $ 5. For in reipeft of this light underftanding and ' government, is man difiinouityed from Beafts, and is an Angel of God, as I mall clearly (hew, when I fhaM write of the Citation of Man.. $ 6. There- 1 ^d Oftfje Trixity the One only God. Chap JII. $6. Therefore obferve exactly, and take notice of the order of this Book, and thou wile find, Whatfoeve thy Heart defireth0 or ever longed for.
97. Thus you find in Man three fountains. Firft the "Tower in thy whole Mind, which fignifieth, God the Father 5 Then fecondly, the Light inthy whole mind, enlightening the whole Mind, which figni- fieth, ood tne.sonne: Then thirdly, there goeth forth out of all thy powers, and out of thy light al- io, a //*/>/>, which hath undtrftanding.
? 8. For, all the Veins together with the Light in thee, as alfo thy Heart and chy Brain, and all what- foever is in thee, make or Conititute that fpirit, and that is thy Soul -> and it well fignifieth, the Holy Ghoft, which goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne, and raigneth in the whole Father: for the Souloi Man raigneth in the wjjole Body.
99. But the Body or the beaftial flefh in man, fig- nifieth,the dead corrupted Ear th,wh ich Man through his Fall hath fo framed it to himfelf, as more fhall be fpoken of in its due place.
100. The Soul contameth the flrft Principle, and the Soul's fpir it the fecond principle,/» Ternariofanfto, in the Holy Ternary^ and the outward fpirit^ viz. the Aftral,containeth the third principle of this world.
1 o 1.Thus you find alfo the Ternarie of the Deity,in Beads: for as the Spirit of a man, is, and Exifteth, fo it is alfo in a Beaft, and therein is no difference, 102. But the difference, lyeth in this, that Man is made by God himfelfc out of the belt Kernel or Pitb Chap.III, Of the Trinity the One only GoS. 71 Pith of Nature, to be his Angel and Similitude, and yedRuleth in man with his holy Spirit; To that Man can Speak difcourfe diftinguiili and undcrftand all things.
103. But a Beaft is made of the wild Nature of this World; the Stars and. elements \\2l\q generated Beafts through their- motion,. according to the will of God.
104. And fo- the fpirit in Birds, Fowles and Wormes, Exifkrh al(o: and all hath its three- fold fource infimilitude to the Ternary in the Deity.
105. And you fee alfo the Ternarie of the Deity in Wood and Stones, as alfo Herbs, Leaves,' and in Grafle: only tiefe are all Earthly.
106. However Nature Generateth nothing, be it what it will in this W7orld, and though perhaps« fhould (land or continue, but fcarce a Minute, yet it is all generated in. the Ternarie, or according to the fimilitudc of God, 107. jsrotp dkferve \ In either wood,ftone or herbs, there are three things contained, 'neither can any thing be generated or.grow,. itbutoneof the three fhould be left out.
108. I. Firft ttiere is thrower, from which a- Body comes to be,: whether wood,, ftone, or herbs. A> II. After that in the mm e, there is a S-aphi that thing, which is üiq ßeart of the ■thing P,? • HI. AadrtWr^y!tith«e-,is in *J*JH»M . flowing Power, Smell or Tafte,' which is:riie Jpfrit-öf'tht thing, whereby it groweth and encreafeth. Now if znf of rhefe three fail, the thing cannot.
10?, fk*$ 5 -2 Ofth e Trinity the One only God. Cha p.10