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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even fo, the fpiritual body, namely, the birth had been brought forth, and in its coming forth had become fubftantial, without pains, cares and diftrefs, in great joyfulnefs and delight, and had been a virgin-like image wholly perfect according to the firft.

11. Which afterward, when Venus’s matrix was taken from Adam, and formed into a woman, mutt be done through aneuifh, trouble, fmart, pangs and diftrefs ; as God faid to Eve, “ I will multiply thy «: {orrows when thou conceiveft, thou thalt <¢ now bring forth children with forrow, ‘< and thy will fhall be fubject unto thy <¢ hufband ;?? Wherefore ? becaufe it was fprung forth from the man’s will : Eve was half the Adam, namely, the part wherein Adam fhould have loved himfelf; and imbodied his iffue: but when he ftood not, the fame was taken from him in his fleep and formed into a woman: therefore when Adam faw her, he faid: fhe fhall be called woman [or mannefs] becaufe fhe is taken out of man.

12. Man fhould have walked naked upon the earth, for the heavenly inward part pe- | netrated the outward, and brightnefs was

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