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. 113

The fecond ftep was his fleep. Sleep or fwooning is death’s elder brother, a debility to the motion of fenfitive creatures; an inability in a great meafure to action, every inclination to it is hoftilicy againft an eternal perfect flate ; Noah’s fleep fhowed the figure of Adam’s fhameful fleep: and Lot’s fleep figured fomewhat worfe than fhame, as the confequence of Adam’s fleep; yet both effected by their declining in the third principle, in oppofition to which, Daniel calls the angels watchers.

The third ftep was his being divided. Dividing by difieétion of parts is diminution, and fo diametrically oppofite to entirenefs againft union, for if the leaft divifible part be fevered or cut off from any body, wanting the leaft degree of infinity, that whence it is diffeéted, how immenfe foever, is made lefs, until the fection do as really and locally re-unite as before it feparated. But Eve’s being taken from Adam, made her a numerical feif, was a local fevering, as truly diftinct as the female from the male of other creatures, nor could the tinéture re-unite to, be as before in pure

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