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

22 Of she manifold engendering

away, ye children of God. It is now high time to awake from afleep, for the Bridegroom maketh himfelf ready to fetch home his bride, and he cometh with a clear fhining light; they that fhall have oil in their lamp, their lamps fhall be kindled, and they fhall be guefts: but thofe that thall: have no oil, their lamps fhall «continue dark, and they fhall retain the marks of the beaft until the fun rife, and then they fhall be horribly affiighted, and ftand in eternal fhame: for the judgment fhall be executed, and the children of God fhall obferve it.

7- The birth of the pure eternal element [or eternal nature] is, in fimilitude, like the thoughts or fenfés in Man; as when a thought, or fenfe, is generated by fomewhat, and afterwards propagates itielf into infinite many thoughts. Or as a root of a tree generates a ftock, and many buds and branches from one root, and all of them from that one firft root. Therefore obferve, that as pure eternal nature confifts ot fix forms or properties, fo every form generates again a form out of itfelf, of the fame quality and condition of itfelf, and this

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