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

94 Confiderations on the Scope

holy light world; his body out of the one holy clement, the root of the four elements ;fo that he might by his divine holy principle of love and meeknefs, illuftrate and. fweetly ufe his firft, as the fallen angels fhould have done: He was alfo furnifhed with the third Principle, which the angels were not; and in that refpect a more compleat image of God than they; Over which third principle he might alfo bear rule by the power of the divine fecond principle.

And by his third; (in fubordination to the fecond) might rule over the aftral birth and elementary, not only as he was the natural Lord in that principle, but enobled alfo with the light or angelical principle and therefore able and adapted to rule over the creation, knowing what they were, Whence they fpringed, and whither they tended; for all properties were open in him; therefore Adam could name them, knowing their parentage and ufe.

Thus the manifold wifdom of God apPears in every thing, and fummarily to be obferved in thefe following :

Firft, From the firft principle glorified with the fecond, according to the feven

fountains,