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

92 Confiderations on the Scope

fecond principle, by giving up their wills into the firft four forms, which without the fecond principle (namely, the light of the love, the Son of God) are at eternal enmity.

Whence the two aétive elements {prung.

Alfo out of the holy element were created the two active elements of fire after the property of the Father, and air, wherein is light, after the property of the Son, Out of which two, after dividing of the properties in the dark deep (the effe@ of the fall of the angels) came the mortal water, and dead earth, in both which, by the prevaJency of the aftringency, came rocks and ftones.

To ceafe that immoderate coagulation the Word commanded light, expelling

- Lucifer, at which the holy angels rejoiced ;

“© where waft thou when the morning-ftars “* fang together, and all the fons of God “ fhouted for joy? Job xxxviii. 7; for then was the out-birth or third principle founded by the exit of the Holy Ghoft.

Then alfo out of the holy element and the divided properties,’ which Lucifer had brought into a confufed chaos or darlk

deep,