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A96163 Astrologie theologized: wherein is set forth, vvhat astrologie, and the light of nature is. What influence the starres naturally have on man, and how the same may be diverted and avoided. As also, that the outward man, how eminent soever in all naturall and politicall sciences, is to bee denied, and die in us. And, that the inward man by the light of grace, through profession and practice of a holy life, is to be acknowledged and live in us: which is the onely means to keep the true Sabbath in inward holinesse, and free from outward pollution. / By Valentine Weigelius. Weigel, Valentin, 1533-1588. 1649 (1649) Wing W1255; Thomason E562_14; ESTC R204068 39,144 50

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world that they are not any more said to be of the world John 17. but of heaven although as to the body they are as yet conversant in the world And whatsoever any one doth by the Sabbath in the introversion of his mind he acts and orders with God and God with him in the hidden place of his heart this cannot be seen or known by any Spirit much lesse by Man In brief by the Sabbath alone the Phenix of our soul is renewed who altogether denying deposing refusing and accompting for nothing all the vanity of this world and it self from within and without plainly dies in the forgetfullnesse and contempt of all things Rom. 12. and of it self and offers it self a living and pleasing sacrifice to God and there being regenerate anew becomes a new creature a new off-spring from the seed of the woman by conception from the holy Spirit is made a Son of God a new Man an imitatour of Christ following his steps is made a hater of evill and a follower of good a new plant a new tree that is good which brings forth good fruits this is true repentance true penitence the true putting off the old Man c. Here some Astrologers are to be admonished of their want of knowledge who have not doubted to subject even the whole man with all things which are in him to the dominion of the world and Starrs in erecting their nativities as if a man were or had no more in himself then a bruit or beast through ignorance passing by the constitution of Man in three parts Spirit Soul and Body whose soul arising from the Firmamentall Zodiac and whose body from the Elements are altogether subject to the dominion of Nature But not the Spirit which we have from God and listning nothing to that that every Disciple of Christ and friend of God regenerate from above by faith and the death of sin in the most holy Sabbath hath within himself a most present medicine in his heart against all the poisonous and deadly wounds of nature and the Serpent and also the divine Commandement of deposing overcoming and conquering the old heaven with his inclinations of divers concupiscences and of walking in the newnesse of the Spirit in the Light of Grace To wisemen therefore that is to those that know both God and themselves rightly the matter is far better to be looked into for they know both are in us God and Nature The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of the world The Tree of Life and the Tree of Death The greater Light and the lesser Light The seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent And also that man is placed between these two to be exercised in this world in a perpetual war whether of these should overcome thence shall man have his reward for God will render to every one all crafty excuse and imbecillity being laid aside c. according to his works whether they be good or evill Here you shall observe an example touching the change of man from an inferiour and worser nature into a superiour and better nature If you take a certain stone lying by chance in a sunny place and very much heated by the too much parching heat of the Sun and put it into water or some river then the Sun can no more make it so hot or penetrate it with his heat in like manner the case is in the Theologization of Astrologie * The exercise of the Sabbath or Theologization of Astrologie is to dic to thy self and the whole creature to offer thy self wholly to God with all things which are within and without us Hither belong all the Scripture and all books speaking of the mortification of Man Take or gather and apprehend all thy evill nature and thy unsincere affections and unlawfull lusts too much operating and flourishing in thee I say take and put them by the Sabbath into the mind or spirit of thy mind which thou hast from God who is the everlasting fountain and water of life and sabathize in a solid and constant abnegation of thy self and of all things known unto thee which are within thee as well as without thee that thou maist almost wholly die there then will thy soul with all her adherent stones of concupiscences fall down and be drowned in the depth of the supernall water which is the Spirit of God infused in us and the firmamentall operation will more and more cease and be wearied in thee and the ascendant Starrs of thy concupiscences will no more afflict urge drive carry thee as before but from day to day thou shalt ease thy self from that most hard yoke of the Zodiac and of all the Planets thy youth shall be renewed as an Eagle and thou shalt be like an infant new-born and shalt perceive in thy self new vertues and affections to work and move in thee arising inclining oecupying leading and governing thee from the celestiall Starr and influence of the divine Spirit c. So as where heretofore thou hast bin the servant of sin and hast given thy members weapons of unrighteousnesse and malice now with trembling thou abhorrest the performances of thy forepast life and fraught with a new mind heart affections and desire from the exercise of the Sabbath by the Spirit of God hereafter thou shalt serve God and give up thy members weapons of justice piety charity mercy meeknesse temperance modesty chastity c. and so thou shalt rightly Theologize thy Astrologie so shalt thou best overcome correct amend thy nature so shalt thou rightly tread the head of the Serpent under thy feet so shalt thou well silence in thy self the assaults of the divell c. Hence the true Sabbath instituted and commanded of God is the best care and medicine against all kind of evill which quickly being death eternall to the soul and temporall to the body by which we may put off bear and take off that great and most grievous yoke and mountain of so great a Zodiac of so great a Firmament of so great Governours I say to take away the Kingdom or rule and to precipitate into the immense Sea of eternall water and ever and anon get new strength and come out more vivacious which was well known and used by the Patriarchs in the first age whence also they could get to themselves the Enochian long life upon earth by the exercise of this kind of mentall Sabbath which indeed is altogether obliterated abrogated in this our age and seems to be a thing unknown But how every one of us ought and may know and try in himself what and what kind truly is their Astrologie or firmamentall action or operation of the Light of Nature and how he may and can Theologize the same that is overcome Nature be made the Son of God c. this the following Chapters will illustrate and teach more clearly then the Sun CHAP. VII Touching the distribution of all Astrologie into the seven
God who dwells with me that is if I could accustom my mind to quiet and spiricuall tranquillity that it should cease to wander in the variety of thoughts cares and affections that it might be at leisure from the externall things and creatures of this world and chiefly from the love of my self that I might wholly die and as it were be anihilated in my self and could come into a loathing and oblivion not alone of all the things of the whole world placed without me and of mundane friendship which I have with men but also into a plenary dereliction of my self that is of my will of mine if there be any Wisdom Knowledge Science Art Industry Prudence of mine if there be any dignity praise honor authority estimation in the world amongst men of mine if there be any Office State Degree Order and in brief into an absolute forgetfullnesse of all my negociations and occupations and of my self as well within as without which is nothing els then to Theologize Astrologie Then at length should I begin more and more to see and know the most present habitation of God in me and so I should tast and eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of Paradise which Paradise I my self am as a guest with whom God is and ought to be and I in like manner with God This I say should be the exercise of my soul the theologization of Astrologie and a regression From Externalls to Internalls Nature to Grace The Creature to God The friendship of the World to the friendship of God The tree of Death to the tree of Life Terrene things to Celestiall So should I go again to my first originall from whence I went forth by arrogating to my self a liberty of willing desiring coveting thinking speaking and doing what I pleased me God in the mean time being neglected without whom I ought not to do any thing Whatsoever therefore we have from the Light of Nature all this with most humble self-deniall once in the week is to be laid down at the feet of the best and greatest God whether it be Magic or Gabalistic or Astronomic or Chimic or Medicinall or Phisicall Science Also Liberall Arts and Methanick work and whatsoever Study Office State Order Dignity Kind of life also Wealth Riches Houses and all kind of naturall gifts All these appertain to this our Astrologie and ought so to be Theologized by the exercise of sanctifying the Sabbath which is an universall forgetfullnesse of all things and of our selves and the rest of our soul from all disquiet in a sacred silence a cessation from all will thought desire affection discourse operation c. as well within as without And this is that only and principall cause of the Sabbaths being divinely commanded to Man to wit that man should not eat death and perish to himself by the eating of the forbidden Tree To eat is to be delighted in himself and in the creatures rather then in the Creator himself To kisse himself in the gift received Rom. 1. 1. Cor. 2. 1. John 2.6 Mat. 2. Gen. 20. Exod. neglecting the giver To love the world and things which are in the world neglecting God To serve Mammon neglecting God To use all things after his pleasure and will dispising the Law of the Lord. Thou shalt not covet thou shalt not eat thou shalt not desire to turn himself from God to the creatures and to himself To commit whoredom with the creatures To depend on himself and on things created To languish in love of terrene things and temporall good things setting God aside which may be described a thousand waies Hence the Doctrine of Christ who came from above and brings celestiall and divine Wisdom from the Light of Grace sounds altogether contrary to wit That a man ought to be converted into a child and to have so much of the knowledge of good and evill to live in him as he had when he was but a child or infant newly born I say the Doctrine of Christ commands a man to eat of the Tree of life to live by the inspiration of the internall God-head which is To fall off again from the creatures and from himself to God To adhere to God Mammon being left To be united with God the love of the creatures being left To believe in God to offer and to give up himflef to God to pray thy will be done c. To put off the old Man and to put on the new Man To flie evill and adhere to good which in like sort may be explicated by a thousand manner of speakings and phrases from the very writings of the Apostles But in what manner all and singular kinds of sciences and naturall gifts and those vain studies actions businesses and differences of men c. arise from the Light of Nature or the Starrs and in what order they are referred to the seven Governours of the world and how a man ought to use them also how every one of us ought to Theologize his own Astrologie flourishing in himself and to erect to himself a new nativity from the heaven of the new Creature and to institute and assume a new kind of life and chiefly what is the solid and the most certain cause of all of the holy Sabbath that is after what manner a man ought to labour six daies and on the seventh day to sanctifie the Sabbath rightly All these things are most evidently set forth and propounded in the following Chapters of this book CHAP. 4. Of the composition of the Microcosme that is Man from the Macrocosme the great World ADam the first parent of the whole humane kind was produced and formed by the admirable wisdom and workmanship of God as to his soul and body of the slime or dust of the earth which slime or dust was such a Masse or matter which had conjoyned and composed in it self the universall essence nature vertue and propriety of the whole greater World and of all things which were therein I say that Masse slime or dust was a meer quintessence extracted from every part from the whole frame of the whole world from which slime or Masse was made such a creature with it's form excepted was one and the same with the great world of which it was produced Hence that creature was called Man who afterwards his admirable creation formation being revealed amongst the wise was wont most fitly to be called the Microcosme that is the little or lesse world The absolute description and essentiall explication of this slime dust or masse extracted from the whole macrocosme we shall find every where abundantly and wonderfully declared alone by Theophrastus Paracelsus in his most excellent writings Seeing therefore it is manifest that every produced and composed thing can take or assume his essence nature and propriety from nothing els but from that where of it is made and produced which even that first Man as an other and later World made
from without by the constitution of the externall Heaven And that saying A wise man will rule the Starrs a wise man shall rule the Starrs is not to be understood of the externall Starrs in the Heaven or Firmament of the great World but of the internall Starrs bearing sway and running up and down in man himself which will more and more appear by that which followeth But this we promise for the beginning to be noted That the externall Heaven with it's continuall revolution hath a most convenient correspondency with the inward Heaven in the Microcosme and this with that which you may thus understand Whatsoever the sigure of the externall Heaven is in the point of conception of any men which happens in the matrix of the woman by the Ens of seed even now sent forth from Man that Man which is born and grows from that seed receiveth from within such a constitution of his nature and life to be performed on earth Yet that constitution lies so long hid and unknown that is without act in a naked power untill a man born into the world and educated to the use of free-will and reason putting forth it self begins to be moved and incited For then and not before that constitution of his heaven begins by little and little to roll bring forth move and shew forth it self when the Ascendants of that sigure by the imagination and fantasie newly sprung up in the will and reason arise and proceed to the motion of the mind and operation of the body And so the internall Heaven in the Microcosme begins his motion and course that a man from within from the guidance of his own Nature begins to imagine think desire hear speak do the same thing which before was signified from the positure of the externall Heaven while he was conceived Therefore the externall heaven in the Macrocosme as it hath respect to Man is at least a looking glasse and perludium by which the Astrologer may look into search know and describe what and what kind of nature and propriety shall happen and rule in him from the beginning of his nativity to the end of his life as he shall live Astrologically and not Theologically what and what manner his imagination shall be what his affections what his cupidities what his desires what his manners what his study what his kind of life and death with what things he shall be most delighted and on the contrary with what he shall be adverse and all things whatsoever seem to belong to the condition of humane life This I say may from the position or erected sigure of the externall heaven be prognosticated foretold not that those things are so done by necessity or coactive force but only that those things are presignified and as it were preludiated and are indeed a certain picture of humane life as in like sort a certain living man is painted by a painter on the wall from which picture his species and proportion with all his habit is exhibited and declared to be known So also we men living according to the course of nature and not Theologizing our Astrologie are known described and discovered by an Astrologer from the Table sigure face and concordance of the superiour Firmament as by a looking glasse For living naturally we have from the figure of Heaven a naturall description of our life whether it be honest or dishonest whether vertuous or vicious Yet so as the impulsive or efficient cause of living thus or so may not be thought to proceed and be impressed on man from the externall Heaven but from within from our internall Heaven which is in our soul delighted with this or that manner of living For neither God nor the Macrocosme do compell or force man placed in the midst from without to this or that good or evill kind of life by a certain naturall necessity but that very thing which is put into us by God and by the Macrocosme that is it whereby we are led whereby we are constellated moved Rom. 6. Galat. 5. instigated stirred up invited governed and inclined The one is the Spirit of God the breath of God the deity and heavenly light the holy Spirit the mind of God The other is the Spirit of Nature the breath of the World the Light of Nature the affections of the flesh t●rrene Wisdom the animall Man the Syderean Spirit the reason of Man Both leads to their originall and sheweth what are theirs Our Nature instigates moves and leadeth to our naturalls But the Spirit of God which we have in us from God instigates moves urgeth and leads us to supernaturalls that is thither whence he himself is There are I say two Inspirers two Governours two Captains two Lords in us to whom none of us can equally serve The one tends to the straight way to inherit and possesse the Kingdom of Heaven by contempt of the world and deniall of our selves the other neglecting the Kingdom of God to enter into the broad way The one is of God which is the Theologicall Spirit propounding and perswading the Theologicall life to Man the other is from Nature from the World which is the Astrologicall Spirit propounding and perswading the Astrologicall life to Man The Theologicall Spirit being endued with supernaturall Light and Wisdom shews the Kingdom of God and eternall life But the Astrologicall Spirit endowed with naturall Wisdom and Light shews the shop of Nature and the glory of this world therefore those which are acted by the Spirit of God these are the Sons of God that is who live Theologically But they which are acted and led by the Spirit of Nature caring nothing for the Kingdom of God and the eternall Countrey these are the sons of Nature the sons of this world animall men not doing the will of God but the will of the flesh in which with all their glory and magnificence they whosoever they are how great soever they are and wheresoever they are must perish For without the Theologization of Astrologie no mortall man can attain eternall salvation and beatitude We must die once to flesh and bloud and to the whole animall Man and we must live to God which life is altogether contrary to the worldly life Of which more largely in the Epistles of Paul and other Apostles But the Starrs which a wise man is commanded to rule are not those celestiall Starrs extant in the Firmament of the Macrocosme which are set before the Creatour of the Elements that they might illuminate the earth and be for signs and seasons and rule over the day and the night those have their peculiar Regent Lord and Governour to wit the Spirit or soul of the world diffused into the seven Planets and the rest of the Stars of the whole Zodiac by which he exerciseth his rule hath his influx into inferiour things therefore there is no cause that any should through simplicity think the dominion which a wise man hath over the Starrs
ASTROLOGIE Theologized Wherein is set forth VVhat Astrologie and the light of Nature is What influence the Starres naturally have on Man and how the same may be diverted and avoided AS ALSO That the outward Man how eminent soever in all Naturall and Politicall Sciences is to bee denied and die in us AND That the Inward man by the light of Grace through profession and practice of a holy life is to be acknowledged and live in us Which is the onely means to keep the true Sabbath in inward holinesse and free from outward pollution By Valentine Weigelius Sapiens dominabitur Astris LONDON Printed for George Whittington at the blue Anchor in Cornhill neer the Royall Exchange 1649. Astrologie Theologized CHAP. I. What Astrologie is and what Theologie and how they have reference one to another AStrologie is Philosophie it self The Kingdom of Nature or it is the whole light of Nature from whence ariseth the universall naturall Wisdome or a solid sincere and exquisite knowledge of naturall things which light of Nature is twofold externall and internall Externall in the Macrocosm internall in the Microcosm Or Astrologie is the very knowledge of good and evill which is and bears rule in things subject to Nature which science flourishing in man unlesse it be ruled and governed by Theologie that is divine Wisdome as the handmaid by her mistresse it is vicious And by her specious appearance and concupiscible jucundity man seduceth himself and as it were by eating of the forbidden tree or by who reing with the creatures he maketh his soule the Babylonian Whore sitting upon the Beast having seven heads and ten hornes c. and being sweetly deceived of himself obtains eternall death to himself But Theologie is the whole light of grace The Kingdom of grace happening to man from the holy Spirit effused from above which is the universall wisdome of the Kingdom of Heaven and the saving knowledge of divine and supernaturall things making chast and purging the soul from every defilement of sin abiding in the mortall body in respect whereof that naturall Wisdome is but a shadow which when the world is blotted out and removed will together with it be blotted out and removed and then Theologie alone shall reigne Astrologie is so called because it ariseth from the Stars As Theologie because it flowes from God To live Astrologically is with a pleasing concupisence to eat of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evill and to bring death to himself To live Theologically is to eat of the wood and Tree of life by an intimate abnegation of ones self and thence to attain to ones self Life and Salvation The Light of Nature in Astrologie with his incitative fruits is the probatory instrument whereby Man placed in the midst that is between God and the Creature is proved which way he would direct or convert his free will desire love and appetite whether to God his Creatour by loving him above all things with his whole heart with his whole mind with his whole soul and with his whole strength which should be the Theologicall life Or whether casting God behind he would reflect to himself and to the Creature by love of himself and arrogating of good things received which was the Astrologicall life at the Babilonish fornication as will appear by that which followeth Astrologie possesseth our soul with the externall body wherein the Light of Nature dwells and shines forth in some more excellently in others lesse And it contains in it self two things 1. All kind of Sciences Arts Tongues Faculties and naturall Studies all the gifts as well of the mind as of the body and also all negotiations occupations actions and labours of men how many soever of them are found exercised and used in all times upon the whose earth every where amongst men aswell grosse as subtile aswell old as new serving aswell to good as to bad uses 2. Under Astrologie are referred all orders states and degrees of men distinctions of persons dignities gifts offices and every kind of life as well naturally ordained by God himself as thought of and invented by humane wit and found out in the whole world from the highest and most honourable to the lowest and most base All these are the fruits of the Starrs and have their originall from Astrologie and pertain to the body and soul and may be as well good as bad according to the divers pleasures of the users and abusers But Theologie possesseth our Spirit which we have from God which alone is Theologus that is the Speech of God the Breath of God the Word of God being and inhabiting in the Temple of our heart from which alone according to sacred Letters true Theologie is to be drawn forth That is the knowledge of God of things divine and celestiall and supernaturall arising from within from the illumination of the holy Spirit it self dwelling within us According to whose beck will and command we ought to institute direct and finish all our Sciences Arts Studies Actions Offices Vocations Industries Labors and kinds of of life invented drawn forth on earth from the Light of Nature so as whatsoever we think say or do in the world in all Arts Sciences and Labors it all proceeds from the Will of God and seems as it were to be done and governed by God himself in us as by his fit instruments For every Astrologicall gift comming from the Light of Nature ought to be ruled and subjected to the Divine will by the Theologicall Spirit dwelling in us that so the will of the Lord be done as in heaven so also in earth For all Wisdome both Naturall and Supernaturall is from the Lord. Astrologie is the science of tilling and perlustrating of the inferiour terrestiall earth ground garden Paradise from which Man was taken and made as to his body and his soul in the labor and culture whereof six daies were ordained and appointed But because this Science of it self confers not Salvation and eternall Beatitude but alone belongs to this present life it is necessary the Lady and Mistresse of all Sciences and Arts Theologie be added which seeing it is Wisdome from above it hath in it self the Science of tilling and perlustrating the celestiall earth ground garden paradise from whence also man was taken created according to the similitude and image of God which garden man also hath in himself to the culture whereof the seventh day alone which is the Sabbath day is appointed For so it was ordained between God and man from all eternity that Man should be God and God Man neither without the other that is as God himself is and will be the Paradise Garden Tabernacle Mansion House Temple and Jerusalem of Man So also was man created for the same end that he should be the Paradise Garden Tabernacle Mansion House Temple and Jerusalem of God that by this mutuall union and friendship of God with Man and of Man with God all
the body invisible as to it's soul is without us From this we are all essentially in and with the first man complicitly made and created and incontinently after the Creation were put and placed into it And seeing it is manifest That every thing that is derived retaines the essence nature and propriety of it's originall That although the Macrocosme is without us yet neverthelesse it may also be found truly within us I say the World is in us and we are in it and yet this is as that is without us and we without that For indeed we have no existence or originall from any thing els but from that which is without us and which was before us Nor are we nor do wee inhabit walk and live in any thing els save in that weherof we are made Neither do we seek and draw forth meat and drink from any other either for the body or the sonl but from that into which we are placed and which is placed in us As to the Spirit we are of God move in God and live in God and are nourished of God Hence God is in us and we are in God God hath put and placed himself in us and we are put and placed in God As to the Soul we are from the Firmament and Starrs we wove and live therein and are nourished thereof Hence the Firmanment with it's astralick vertues and operations is in us and we in it The Firmament is put and placed in us and we are put and placed in the Firmament As to the Body we are of the Elements we move and live in them and are nourished of them Hence the Elements are in us and we in them The Elements by the slime are put and placed in us and we are put and placed in them So God is whole without us and also whole within us by the being of inspiration that is by his spirit communicated to us So the World is whole without Adam and also the whole World is within Adam by the being of extracted slyme So Adam is whole without us and also whole within us by the being of seed And so we bear God within us and God bears us in himself God hath us with himself and is neerer to us then we are to our selves We have God every where with us whether we know it or know it not We bear the World in us and the World bears us in it self Therefore whatsoever we perceive feel touch tast smell hear see imagine think speculate learn understand savour know eat and drink and wheresoever we walk this the very same from whence we have drawn our originall We are alwaies conversant in those things of which we are made For Man is the centre of the whole universe So we learn nothing els but the very same thing that was before us and whereof we are made and which before we begin to learn lies hid in us Yea we learn search and know nothing els then our selves to wit learning searching and knowing that whereof we come and whence we have received our being So we eat and drink nothing els but our selves to wit eating and drinking that whereof we are made So our body hath it's hunger and thirst in it self from within and desires perfection of it self by meat and drink taken fromthe Elements from without See Paracelsus of the Loadstone of Nature in the Macrocosme and Microcosme So the soul hath it's hunger and thirst in it self and desires the perfection of it self by meat and drink from the Starrs which is the wisdom and knowledge of naturall things by Arts Tongues Sciences c. Hence spring the Artificers and Wisemen of this world Moreover as in meat and drink taken from the Elements there is alwaies pure and impure conjoyned which when they come into the stomach to the Fire of digestion are by the internall Vulcan or Arthens of Nature separated from one another after a spagiricall manner an that which is pure is retained and abides in us that is the essence extracted from meat and drink the pure is separated from the impure which passeth into flesh and blood For it penetrates the body like unto leven and is made one with it and causeth it to incrtase that it may become greater and more solid in it's strength and nerves but the impure differing from nutriment is cast forth into the draught and that by the operation of Arthens labouring in the ventricle By like reason the matter is even in all Sciences arising from the Light of Nature where alwaies good and evill are joyned together For in Nature all things are convertible as well to good as to evill Wherefore unlesse Astroiogie be Theologized that is unlesse that which is good be retained and that which is evill rejected Man from thence acquires to himself eternall death And this the probation of Man CHAP. III. Of the three parts of man Spirit Soule and Body from whence every one is taken and how one is in the other THe parts of the Universe of which the whole Man is made are three The World of Eternity the Evial World and the World of Time The parts of Man are three Spirit Soul and Body and these three parts spring and are taken from these three parts of the whole Universe The Spirit of Man comes from the Spirit of God and participates with Eternity and Aevo The Soul in Man is extracted from the soul of the world and participates with Aevo and Time The Body of Man is formed and composed from the body of the world as Elements and participates with Time only The Body extracted from the Elements and constituted into this form is the House the Tabernacle the seat of the Soul and resident chiefly in the heart The Soul of Man extracted from the soul of the world and delivered over to the heart is the habitation of the Divine Spirit and hath the Divine Spirit in it self So one exists inthe other and dwells in the other abides in the other and operates in the other The Spirit in the Soul and by the Soul The Soul in the Body and by the Body The Body in and by externall subjects Every thing which is without is as that which is within but the internall alwaies excels the externall in essence vertue operation For By how much any thing is more inward by so much the more it is more noble potent and capacious Great vertue is in the Body if it be excited Greater in the Soul of the Firmament if it be excited Greatest in the Divine Spirit if it be exhited By excitation all things are laid open which are hidden and placed in Ignorance For both Divine and Naturall Wisdom sleep in us and each light shines in darknesse and without excitation Man wants the having Great and excellent is the knowledgeof the humane body extracted from the Elements and disposed into this form Greater and more excellent is the knowledge of the Soul taken from the Firmament