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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54 The Creation of Angels, and of Lucifer.

angels, and he cannot now frame any other will in himfelf,

g. His angels or devils are of very man7 feveral forts; for, at the time of Lucifer’s creation, he ftood in the kingdom of heaven in the point, locus, or place, where the Holy Ghoft in the birth of the heart of God in Paradife, did open infinite and innumerable centres in the eternal birth of pure eternal nature; and therefore their quality. was alfo manifold, and all fhould have been and continued angels of God, if Lucifer had not corrupted and thereby deftroyed them: and fe now every one in his fall continues in his own effences, excluded from the light of the fecond principle, which they extinguicied in themfelves: and fo it is with the foul of man, when it rejects the light of God, and it goes out of that foul,

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