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

Of Jacoz Benmen’s Writings. 8%

r{t demonftration of the third principle.

For as the air is produced by fire and light, yet being produced, is not only a felf-fubfifting body, but the food of the fire, and confequently of the light; fo is the third Perfon in the Trinity to the firlt and fecond.

The out-birth is not the ji, for it cannot be a root, but afruit; nota foundation, but a fuperftructure; not a creator, but a creation; compofed of darknels or fubftantial matter, like a chaos arifing from the firft, and the light arifing from the fecond.

Neither is it the fecond, as is apparent, being a diftinct life, in a fort inanimate without underftanding, an image of the inward fpiritual world in the various figures and properties thereof, reprefenting all as in a mirror. As we fee the outward glorious fun figures the infinite inward fecond principle, but is not a feeing, but a feen light or power.

What then if it be neither the firft nor fecond, can it be but the third? and though the third it only be, yet it has in every part of it the vigour of the firft

Hi 3 principle,