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

64 Of the Separation in the Creation of

fhould by degrees come to fee the feparation or diftinétion, and the eternal mother, the genetrix or bringer-forth of all things.

2. We have it clearly and plainly in ourfelves, and might fee it in all things, if we were not fo mad, blind and felf-conceited as to be drawn and led by the fchool-bey outward reafon, but were attentive, and kept || clefe to the {chool-mafter, who is the true and

- only teacher, and mafter of all mafters.

3. We fee indeed that all things fpring out of the eternal mother, but if we would fee the ground thereof, we muft look upon the firft mother, who in the original, without the light, is four, harfh, dark, hard, and cold, and yet there is the fpiric of water in the bringing forth the light, and in the wirtue of the light is the pure element of eternal nature.

4. She in her fpringing forth in multiplication, has generated this world, and every creature [of, or] in it, as fhe is in her own birth, where every fountain or fource has a centre in it of feparation or diftin@tion, but undivided, and in her unite in one. Nor is this world feparated, or fundered from the eternal mather, but