On the Worship and Love of God: Treating of the Birth of the Earth, of Paradise, and of Living Creatures, Also of the Nativity, the Infancy, and the Love the First Begotten, Or AdamJ. Allen, 1832 - 213 páginas |
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Página 92 - Now if instead of light we take intelligence, the quality of the object of which is the truth of a thing; since intelligence is universally allowed to be spiritual light, this conclusion follows : Intelligence discovers the truth of a thing, but the truth of a thing appears according to the state of the intelligence ; wherefore that is not always true which is supposed to be true...
Página 197 - ... and order, the chain snaps asunder, at its first link, and thus their view remains fixed in mere earthly objects, or in matters which are born from the ultimate form.
Página 21 - These seeds or beginnings lay as yet unseparated in their rudiments, one folded up in another, namely, the vegetable kingdom, in the mineral kingdom, which was to be the matrix; and in the vegetable kingdom, which was to serve as a nurse or nourisher, the animal kingdom.; for each afterwards was to come forth distinctly from their coverings.
Página 142 - God. 11 tations, but we really here live and walk as little universes, and carry both heaven and the world, consequently the kingdom of God in ourselves: The Supreme Deity, our Most Holy Father, is actually in our souls with His life ; His only-begotten, or our love, is actually in the mind itself, which we inhabit. And that prince of the world is actually with his life in the mind [animus], or in this lowest mind [mens], but without disturbance, because he is bound and fettered...
Página 81 - Let us not, then, I pray, immerse our rational views in empty sophisms, or rather in mere shades, ... by asking, whether our minds and souls are material, or whether they are extended, so as to fill spaces, and whether their activities are to be measured by times or the velocities of times, and the like; for matter is only an expression, the attributes and predicates of which ought to be defined absolutely to all sense and apprehension, before it can be demonstrated according to what understanding...
Página 24 - The proximate atmosphere itself, or air, breathed the most grateful temperature in consequence of receiving so copious a light and alternate heat, and at the same time, being warmed by fruitful dews exhaled from the bosom of the earth ; for as yet there was no furious wind, no Boreas to disturb the air with his stormy whirlwind ; nor as yet did the smallest cloud intercept the splendour of the sun and of the stars ; but the face of everything was serene, and zephyrs only, with their gentle fannings,...
Página 53 - ... the first-begotten and hope of the whole human race, lying with his breast and face upward, and his tender hands folded and lifted up to heaven, moving also his little lips, as if he would venerate the Supreme Builder, and his Parent, not in mind only, but also by a certain posture and correspondent gesture of the body, under a species of the purest thanksgiving, that the workmanship of the world was now completed in himself. 40. He was naked, but encompassed with the mildest spring, as with...
Página 12 - ... large bodies revolve, which, performing their circuits round the sun as a common centre, grow to their respective ages. The sun, like an anxious parent, regards these revolving globes no otherwise than as his own offspring which have attained to a considerable maturity ; for he continually consults their general and particular interests ; and although they are distant, he never fails to exercise over them his care and parental protection, since by his rays he is, as it were, present in his provisions...
Página 92 - ... clearly in what follows: for such is the established correspondence, that by natural and moral truths, by means of the transpositions only of the expressions that signify natural things, we are introduced into spiritual truths, and vice versa, and thus, as it were, from one Paradise into another. For the sake of illustration, let one or two examples suffice., as first, Light reveals the quality of its object...
Página 53 - It was midnight, and the constellations of heaven as if also about to applaud, did now shine not only with brightness, but also glittered with a kind of flaming beam ; they were also ardent to prevent their setting, but the day-dawn, hastening to its rising, dimmed their lustre, and instantly opened the gates of day for the sun.