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

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curial, and faltifh property; a pure effential power according to the nature of the foul: that which the foul is in the fpirit the fame is the true human body in the _ effence, as a manfion of the foul.

14. All the properties of the inward holy body, together with the outward, were, in the firft man, compofed in an equal harmony; no one lived in felf-defire, but they all gave up their defire unto the foul, in which, the divine light was _manifeft, as in the holy heaven: the light flione through all the properties and made an equal temperature in all the properties : all the properties gave their defire unto the light, namely, into the manifefted fweetnels of God, which penetrated all the properties ; in which penetration they were all tingtured with the {weet love: that fo there was nothing but mere pleafing love defire and delight between them.

15. The inward holy corporality of

the pure eternal element penetrated through the four elements, and held the Jimus of the earth [mamely, the outward fulphureous body] as it were fwallowed up in itlelf. It was really there, but in manner as the darkaeis dwells in the light and yet its

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