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

Of Paradife. 103

but neither of them comprehend the other : and as one element generates another, and yet is not of the efience, fource, or property thereof: fo the three principles are in one another, and one generates the other : and yet none of them all comprekends the other, nor is any of them the effence or fub{tance of the other.

12. The third principle, namely, this material world fhall pafs away and go into its ether, and then the fhadow of all creatures remain, alfo of all growing things j vegetables and fruits] and of all that ever came to light: as alfo the fhadow and figure of all words and works; and that incomprehenfibly, like a nothing or fhadow in refpect of the light, and after the end of time, there will be nothing, but light and darknefs: where the fource or property remain in each of them as it has been from eternity and the one fhall not comprehend the other.

13. Yet whether,God will create more after this world’s time; that my fpirit doth not know: for it apprehends no ‘farther than what is in its centre wherein it Jives, and in which the Paradife and the kingdom of heaven ftands,

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