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

66 What kind of Principle eternal Nature is.

_ In the fifth place, God brings forth the air, which blows up the love Sire effence, and together with it conftitutes the Sixth form of eternal Nature. The fire effence being placed between two dangerous enemies, the darknefs on the one hand, and the water on the other; either the thick fmoke of the darknefs might ftifle and {mother it, or the water might overwhelm and drown it: therefore that the fire of his eternal furnace might never be in danger of being extinguithed, the great Creator of all things brought forth the air effnce to blow up the fire, that it might not go our. It is this air fpirit that keeps the wrath fire in its due bounds, that it may neither be too ftrong, nor too weak: for when it is too ftrong, it is in danger of drying up the water, and when too weak, its attractive hunger wiil not be great enough to maintain its own being; for the hunger of the fire is the caufe and fource of the fire life, in the fire effence. If the moderate thinft and hunger of the wrath fire were not preferved, the caufe of life, fenfibility, and mobility would be taken away, and there would remain nothing but an in-

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