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 pure eternal Nature. 23

form now in pure eternal nature is undivided and has the quality and condition of. all the forms in itlelf.

8. But mark. the depth in a Sraflirade which | fet down thus; the harfh fpring in the original is the mother out of which the other five fprings are generated, namely, bitternefs, fire, love, found, and water. Now thefe are members of this birth of their mother, and without them there would be nothing but an anguifhing dark vale [or vacuum] where there could be no° mobility, nor any light,-or life: But now

e life is born in her by the kindling of the, liahe, and then fhe rejoices in her own property, and labours in her own tart four quality to generate again, and in her quality there arifes a life again, and a center

ielf again, and the life comes to be generated. agajn out of her in a fixfold form; yet not in any fuch anguifh as -atthe beginaing, but in great joy.

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The eternal generating, or begetting, is not.a beginning birth; it, has neither number nor end, and its depth.is bottomleis, and the band of life'is indifloluble and incorruptible. The fyderial, aftral, or aie= ry, and elementary fpiric of man cannot

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