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

Heavenly and earthly Man. 93

<< thing.” John vi. Alfo ** flefh and blood «© fhall not inherit the kingdom of heaven :” and yet verily the true body is comprifed in this beftial grofs property; as the gold in the ore.

tr. All that is earthly on man, is beftial and corruptible, and not man; for although God created man an external body out of the limus of the earth, yet it is not to be confidered of us, as now it is; for the true human body according to the inward world, is a fpiritual fulphur, a fpiritual mercurius and a fpiritual fal: each property of the foul-has a corporeal or eftential quality on it.

12. God created fuch a body, as the foul was in its effence, namely, in the fpirated word of the underftanding; and breathed the foul thereinto for the underftanding ; the true real body which is hidden in the groffnefs, is a fpiritual body in comparifon to the groffnels: it is created indeed in flefh and blood, but in a fixed, fledfaft, incorruptible fieth and blood.

13. By the luft and imagination of Adam, the grofinefs was manifeft; the true Outward body is a fulphureous, mer-

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