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 himfelf in the Trinity. 17 chafte virgin of the eternal wifuom and underftanding.

g. And as we perceive that in this world there is fire, air, water, and earth, alfo the fun and the ftars, and therein confit all the things of this world: fo you may conceive, by way of fimilitude, that the Father is the fire of the whole, holy, conftellations, and that the Son, namely, his heart, is the fun which fets all the conftellations in a light pleafant habitation: mi that the Holy Ghoft is the air of the life, without which neither fun nor conftellation would fubfift: and then that the concreted {piricus majoris mundi, [or fpirit of the great world] is the chafte virgin before God; which fpirit of the great world in this world gives to all creatures, mind, fenfe, and underitanding, through the influence of the ftars; and fo alfo does the chafte virgin in heaven.

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