The second Day.
140. In the SECOND Dayes worke, God separated the watery and fiery Mercury from one another, and called the fiery the Firma∣ment
XL. questions concerning the soule·: Propounded by Dr. Balthasar Walter· And answered, by Jacob Behmen. Aliàs Teutonicus Philosophus. And in his answer to the first question is the turned eye, or, philosophick globe. (Which in it selfe containeth all mysteries) with an exposition of it. VVritten in the Germane language. Anno. 1620.
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- XL. questions concerning the soule·: Propounded by Dr. Balthasar Walter· And answered, by Jacob Behmen. Aliàs Teutonicus Philosophus. And in his answer to the first question is the turned eye, or, philosophick globe. (Which in it selfe containeth all mysteries) with an exposition of it. VVritten in the Germane language. Anno. 1620.
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- Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
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- 1647.
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- Mysticism -- Terminology
- Theosophy -- Terminology
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- Walther, Balthaser, -- 1586-1640.
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"XL. questions concerning the soule·: Propounded by Dr. Balthasar Walter· And answered, by Jacob Behmen. Aliàs Teutonicus Philosophus. And in his answer to the first question is the turned eye, or, philosophick globe. (Which in it selfe containeth all mysteries) with an exposition of it. VVritten in the Germane language. Anno. 1620." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76951.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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The seven Formes of Spirits, mentioned, REVELA. cap. 1.
♄. ☾. The First. forme Harsh Desiring will. 1. Darke-world. a similitude of it is a Candle. ☿. ♃. Second. Bitter or stinging. ♂. ♀. Third. Anguish, till the flash of Fire. ☉. Fourth. Fire
- Dark-fire.
- Light-fire.
2. Fire-world a similitude of it is the fire of a Candle. ♀. ♂. Fifth. Light or Love, whence the wa∣tet of Eternall Life floweth. 3. Light-world a similitude of it is the Light of a Candle. ♃. ☿. Sixt. Noyse, sound, or Mercurie. ☾. ♄. Seventh. Substance or Nature.
The First Prin∣ciple. Darke or Fire of Wrath Light or Fire of Love The second Principle. The Dark-world; hence God the Father is called an Angry, zealous, Jealous God and a Consuming Fire. The Light world; hence God the Sonne, the word the Heart of God, is cal∣led a Loving and Merci∣full God. The third Principle.
This world of foure Elements, which is produced out of the two Inward Worlds, and is a Glasse of them; wherein L••ght and Darknesse, Good and Evill are mixt, it is not Eternall but hath a beginning and an End.
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of Heaven, which came out of the midst of the waters, viz. of Mercury, whence arose the Male and Female b kinde, in the Spi∣rit of the outward world: that is, the Male in the fiery Mercury, and the Female in the watery.
141. This Separation was made all over in every thing, to the end that the fiery Mercury should desire and long for the watery, and the watery for the fiery; that so there might be a Desire of Love be∣twixt them in the Light of Nature; from which the Conjunction a∣riseth: therefore the fiery Mercury, viz. the outflowne word sepa∣rated it selfe according both to the fiery and to the watery nature of the Light, and thence comes both the Male and Female kinde in all things both Animals and vegetables.
Notes
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This Table belongs to the Clavis, at the End of the 132. verse.
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Sex.