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

44. The final Caufe of eternal Nature.

eternity, before the working properties ot eternal Nature were brought forth.

Eleventhly, Eternal Nature was brought forth, that it might be the true primum mobile, or the firft fource and fpring of all motion and aéfion. For this end it pleafed the Trinity to produce this eternal turning wheel, and indiffoluble band of the feven forms of eternal Nature: for in the ftill eternity there is nothing but ftillnefs, quiet and reft: and that, fuch as furpaffes all the thoughts and conceptions of man; and that fpirit only knows it, who has been taken up into it.

Twelfthly, Eternal Nature was produced, that she one fingle effence of the Holy Trinity might be manifefted in diftinfion, according to the diftiné? effences and properties of eternal Nature. Thus the Father is manifeft in fire: the Son in water: the Holy Ghoft in air. Thus you fee how the Holy Trinity may be diftinguifhed from one another in eternal Nature’s eflence. And,

Laftly, Eternal Nature was produced, that all the ideas, forms and patterns in the divine mind might become aéiual and fub/tantial, which could not be brought to pais in the ftill eternity, nor without the working

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