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

84 Of the imyftery of the Creation.

it is the inftrument whereby the holy external fpeaking word fpeaks and forms externally : for they are meer powers which enter into and mutually embrace each other, whence arifes the found in the effence: and the defire, namely, the fiat receives this found, and makes it fubftantial: this fubftance is a fpirit of the ftars : which the elements receive into them: and coagulate it in them, and hatch it, as a hen her eggs: whence the true rational life is in the elements: and thus alfo is the fyderial fpirit hatched, and coagulated in all creatures.

g. For the male and female do mutually caft a feed, which is a fulphur of the aftrum and four elements, that afterwards is hatched in the matrix, and coagulated to a living ipirit.

10. And when the fire is inkindled in the feed that is fown in the matrix: the fpirit fevers itfelf from the body, as appropriate, [like as the light from the fire] according to the right of the eternal nature: and two becomes manifeft in one; namely, a fpiritual body from the aftrum, and a flefhly body from the four elements.

rr. And