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

112 Of Adam in bis outward Life,

come dark and at laft wholly extinguifhed : fo it went alfo with Adam, fodhe by his loft brought his will and defire from God firtt into felf- hood, and vanity, and thereby began to darken the light of his divine life, and then broke himfelf off from God, namely, from the divine harmony.

5. For even then, he forthwith funk down into a {woon, or fleep, which is a figure of death: for the image of God, which is immutable, does not sleep whatfoever is eternal has no time in it; but with the fleep the time was manifefted in man; forhe flept in the angelical world, and spalied to the outward world.

6. His fleep was the real type of the reft of Chrift in the grave, where the new regenerate life in Chrift’s humanity mutt enter into Adam’s fleep, and awaken it again to the eternal life, and bring ic out of time into the eternal being.

7- And as Adam’s effence was broken and divided, when the woman was taken out of him, fo muft Chrift’s body be bruifed on the crofs from the fixth unto,the ninth hour, for fo long was the Fiat in Adam’s fleep in the feparating of the man and woman [or a making the fex of maleand female]

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