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

32 “Confiderations on the Scope

For though it was from eternity, yet was in the higheft-harmony, and {0 is in God in eternity, undividable and infeparable'from the-moft holy fpiritual light world and love-principle ; yet [by the fall of Lucifer} it became in its own abyfs, and diftinét property, as-is above defcribed.

This now, after fevering from the loveprinciple, is as the glowing fire, the flame whereof is extinct: in that principle,the dark life burneth.

And muft-needs be called the firft ;~ becaufe from it (2s from an eternal root of living fire) the majeftic fplendor of glocious light is eternally generated, that is the fecond principle.

Thus thefe two principles, in perfect unity (as in eternity they are in God) are the one only highef, ablolute compleat eood : but wherever the light is withdrawn, there is iound a wrathful, evil fpirit, creature, thing or world.

For further explanation we may obferve, that the Holy Ghoft, who fays (as above) «¢ God is light, and in him ts no darkneis ‘¢ arall,” fays alfo, ** Fury is not in me,” Ifa. xxvii. 4. And that yet (befide many other places of the fame and other prophets)

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