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The First Question. (Book 1)
Whence the Soul Existed from the Be∣ginning of the World. (Book 1)
1. VVE have sufficiently in the * 1.1 Second and † 1.2 Third Book, explain'd the Mystery of the Soul, by the Three Principles of the Di∣vine Substance; where we have described the Eternal Centre of the Eternal Nature; as also the Number Three of the Divine Substance, with many cir∣cumstances; and what Eternity hath ever been; and how the beginning of the Crea∣tion came to be; what an Angel and Soul is; as also the heavy Fall of Lucifer, and then both the Mothers that have so brought it forth; the one generating the Heavenly Substantiality, the other, the Hellish † 1.3 Abomination; also of Light and Darkness.
2. Therefore in this Trea∣tise we are not so very easily to be under∣stood, unless the Third part of our writings have been read and apprehended.