A compendious view of the grounds of the Teutonick philosophy : with considerations by way of enquiry into the subject matter and scope of the writings of Jacob Behmen, commonly called, the Teutonick philosopher : also several extracts from his writings and some words used by him explained

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ties [fince the fall]: the feven fat and good, what God made thes feven properties to be [in their ftate of purity].

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Of the three principles of the Divine Effence. ,

‘YY a principle is meant a chief beginB ning power, a felf-fubfifting life, an original root, foundation, or in fome fenfe a myftery or genus, whence other fpirits, bodies, fpecies or things originate as from a fuprerne power.

And thus is God the only one principle.

And this one principle is alfo three eternal births or principles, ever without ceafing, begetting, being begotten, and proceeding by, in, and from each other, of which all worlds are conjunétly or fevetally an image, but very different according to the infcription, ftamp, figure and degrees they attain, or are capable of.

And although the three principles are by an indiffoluble band ever infeparably one’ in God, yet are they diftinguifhable.

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