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

This World in the third Principle. 69

powers coagulated: and the {peaking word of God, which dwelt in the manifefted powers and properties, took away the difobedient child’s patrimony, and caft him as a perjured wretch, out of his inheritance, into an eternal prifon,. into the houfe of darknefs and anger; wherein he defired to be mafteri.over the effence of God’s_love.

12.. We may fee very clearly that it is thus: for there is nothing in this world fo evil, but it has a good in it:. the good has its rife originally out of the good or heavenly property, and the evil has its de{cent from the property of the dark world; for both worlds, namely,. light and darkneis, are in each other as one, and therefore they allo. went together into the compaction or coagulation; and that from the degrees, condition or properties of the pure eternal. nature: namely,. from the four forms or properties-to the fire life; and alfo from the properties in the oily, and fpiritual watry ligbt’s effence.

13. The groffnels of the ftones, metals, and earth, proceed from the property of the dark world; underftand as to the {ub-

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