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

The Fall of Lucifer. 43

Son. In the firft principle, I have mentioned harfhnefs, bitternefs, anguilh, and fire, yet they are not feparate but one only thing, and they generate one another in the firft fource of all creation: And if now the fecond principle did not break forth, and fpring up in the birth of the Son, then the Father would be a dark valley; and the Son, who is the heart, the love, the brightnefs, and the fweet rejoicing of the Father [in whom the Father is well pleated] opens another principle.

45. This is now what the evangelift John fays, chap. i. ‘* In the beginning «© was the word: and the word was with * God: and the word was God. The « fame was in the beginning with God. *¢ All things were made by him, and with** out him was not any thing made. In *¢ him was life.” And he is another perfon than the Father, for in his centre there is nothing elfe but meer joy, love and pleafure. And here begins the unfathomable, unfearchable multiplication ; for the flowing, ipringing fpirit, that proceeds from the firft and fecond principle, confirms, fixes and eftablifhes all; and in the whole birth it is as a growing or multiplying in one

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