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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EMNIBELANEBCEANDOPANDEPANER EEA SD

Gia od bP a Of God and the divine Nature.

t. E CAUSE there belongs a divine

light to the knowledge and apprehenfion of this; and that without the divine light there is no comprehenfibility at all of the divine effence: therefore I will a - little reprefent this high hidden fecret in a creaturely manner, that thereby the reader may come into the depth ; for the divine offence cannot be exprefied by the tongue : it is the fpirit of the foul which looks into the true light, and only comprehends it.

2. The foul, which has its original out of God’s firft principle in creation, and was breathed from God into man, in the third principle, (that is, into the fiderial and elementary birth) is capable of {eeing further, chan any other creature, into the firft prin-

ciple