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

28 Confiderations on the Scope

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OF the true Principles, Darknefs and Light, whence (by the fall of Lucifer) are come- evil and good, fiercenefs and meecknefs, anger and Jove.

47 O begin with things neareft our out-

ward fenfes, palpable bodies, as darknefs, cold, &c. They condenfe, croud, throng, and fubftantiate ; contrarivife light and ;heat rarify, attenuate, make thin or fubtle, and actuate bodies adapted thereunto.

Both, while in due proportion, [as they were before the fall of Lucifer] equally good and amicable, but now in what time or place foever, either be extremely prevalent and tyrannous, they become in{tantly inimicitious and deftructive.

The confideration whereof, and deducible thence, might caufe J. A. Comenius to be offended with Campanella for found-

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