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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fountains, were created the throne, angels, arch-angels, and their hofts.

The creatures that derive immediately from the one holy element as the paradifical body of Adam, that was more pure than feven times refined gold, and to have remained eternally.

The aftral birth of the-vifible heavens, and their invifible powers : Of alliance, dependence and affinity, with which is man’s aftral fpirit; which ordinarily predigs by dreams, a kind of intuitive impulfes of approaching good or evil; fmall, alfo important natural events, &c.

Out of the aftral feem to be born thofe mortal (yet to the outward eye moftly invifible) creatures, in all the four elements called aerial fpirits; others alfo of the fire: fome aquaftrifh and thofe of our horofcope, terreftial, and fubterranean, but of which we do not mean to difcourfe.

Out of the holy elements proceeded the two elements; and confequently the four ; more pure and paradifical than after the curfe.

Hence by the fteady conduct of the Separator or Father of nature (fubftituted by the great Creator’s Word) and by the fpiric

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