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

What kind of Principle eternal Nature is. 57

confift. All the forms of eternal Nature are co-effential and co-eternal with herfelf and with one another; none is before the other, becaufe all are one, and make up but one effence, which is eternal Nature herfelf.

Obje&. But you will object, that this contradiéts the former difcourfe, wherein I have fpoken of the 1ft, 2d, ad, &c. forms of nature, ciftinét from one 2nother.

Sol. I anfwer, that when I fpoke of the forms of eternal Nature under a diftinction of order and number; I confidered them as they were forming under God’s hand, and not as already made into an ever circling wheel, and fixed in an indiffoluble band in the feventh form, for fo they are but one eflence, and have neither beginning nor end, nor can they be faid to be one before the other in number and order. In this full and perfe&t union of the fix forms in the feventh, confilts the perfection of eternal Nature: for if we confider the fix forms apart and diftinét from one another, we fhall find them all wanting and imperfect, and plainly difcern that eternal Nature’s perfection confilts not in any one of the Sorms, as diftingt from the others, but on-

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