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A55474	Theologia mystica, or, The mystic divinitie of the aeternal invisibles, viz., the archetypous globe, or the original globe, or world of all globes, worlds, essences, centers, elements, principles and creations whatsoever by a person of qualitie, J.P., M.D.	Pordage, John, 1607-1681.; Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.; Hooker, Edward.	1683 (1683)	Wing P2968; ESTC R8838	181,392	278

to the foregoing figure is in the midst or Center of the Abyssal Globe When the Eye is closed or shut up then neither the Eye of the Father nor the Son's Heart the Glory of the Eye nor the breathing forth of the Spirit from both is to be seen but are all shut up in the Eye but when the Eye opens then the Heart of the Son and the Holy Ghost are seen so that when the Eye of the Unity in the Center opens then the blessed Trinity becomes visible in the midst of the Abyssal Globe being otherwise shut up and concealed in the Eternal Unity of themselves Thus the Trinity is hid in the Eternal Unity of it self and from that Unity they proceed and become visible in the opening of the Eye So we see that the Unity is in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity The sight of the Holy Trinity from the open●ng of the Eye in the inward Court of the Holy Place is a lively operative reviving and yet amazing ●nd surprising sight a sight worth the whole World ●nsomuch as I am ashamed to present you such a dead ●iveless figure of it but no pen can decipher it on pa●er it is only the Spirit of the Eye that can open it ●elf and give you the living and ravishing sight of its own essentiality without similitudes or figures though can express it outwardly no better than I have in the ●oregoing figure Let no man here object that I do not make use of Scripture for the confirmation or illustration of these deep Mysteries the reason is becaus the Holy Sciptures speak of God as he hath introduced himself into Eternal Nature and not as he exists out of and before Eternal Nature in the Globe of Eternity therefore you must not expect my alledging of Scripture whilst I am treating of a Subject which they do not reveal though it be certain also that the opening of the Eye cannot discover any thing contrary or opposite to Scripture revelation but rather what is agreeable thereunto though it cannot be so readily confirmed from Scriptures becaus as hath been said it is not the scope or design of the Holy Scriptures to speak of the Being of God before and without Eternal Nature Neither do I in this speaking oppose or disparage the Holy Scriptures if my subject were to speak of the Fall and the Redemption of sinners by Christ then I should not be wanting to confirm my writing from Scripture but as long as I am writing of the solitary being of God in the Globe of Eternity the Spirit of God in the Eye must be my Guide and Witness in stead of the Scripture And thus much shall suffice to have spoken concerning the second opening of the Abyssal Eye whereby the Mystery of the Holy Trinity is revealed to the Spirit of the mind The third opening of the Eye discovers the Mystery of it self that is by opening it self it discovers and reveals what is in it self Now the Eye opening divides it self into three parts the first of which is the Abyssal Eye the second is the Heart and the third is the out-flowing breath The Eye is first before the Heart that is in relation to order and for distinction sake else being Co-essential and Co-eternal there is no first and last and the Heart is the Eye's Center and the breath proceeds from the Eye and the Heart The Ey● is before the Heart and generates the Heart the Hear● ●s generated from the Eye and the breath proceeds from both The Heart is the Eye's seat and Center wherein it is fixed and the Spirit is the virtue or power proceeding from the Eye and the Heart and ●n those three Eye Heart and Spirit consists the fulness and compleatness of the Deity nothing can be super-added neither can any thing be substracted To speak more particularly this third opening of the Eye doth manifest all those Powers commonly called the Attributes of God for this Eye of the Abyss sparkles forth from it self it s own perfections beam●ng forth its own beauty in many lustrous rays like the Sun These beams proceeding from the Eye are God's Eternity Infinity Immensity Incomprehensi●ility Omnipotency All-sufficiency c. as being the out-flowing powers and perfections of the Eye and of the Spirit of Eternity in the Eye they are God's es●ential perfections without which he cannot be God ●ccordin●●● that saying of the Schoolmen Whatsoever ●s in God is God therefore they are inseparable from him because they are himself But here it may be objected again how this multiplicity of Powers and Attributes in God can consist with his being the most absolute and perfect Unity 1. To which I answer First That a diversity and variety of powers may consist with perfect Unity pro●ided there be no contrariety or opposition in those powers to one another now nothing is more plain ●han that the attributes of God are without any con●rariety whatsoever among themselves 2. In the Second place I say That Eternal Unity ●oth not exclude a diversity of powers if they all do ●rise and stand united in one root Now all the At●ributes of God are inseperably united in God's Es●ence they spring from and are rooted in the same ●nd are one and the same with it and in it And this ●he opening of the Eye of the Abyss discovers that all the Atrributes of God are but one Power diversified● they stand one in another his Infinity Omnipotency c. are shut up in his all-sufficiency and whe● they beam forth they proceed from thence as from their Root and Original So that all God's Attributes proceed from one Power and are shut up in on● Power and are but the Variation of one and the same Power and consequently are but one Power and s● cannot take away God's Eternal Unity These Powers or Attributes of God are ●ixed in the Eye being nothing else but the various beamings for●● of the Eye and may be called the Head Powers of th● Godhead as being seated in the Eye and from them glancing forth themselves We must know that this was one chief end of God bringing forth the Abyssal Globe even the manifes●●tion of his Attributes and Powers to himself for ●e Eternity is manifested in this Abyssal Globe to h●●e ● beginning and end which else would be without beginning or End and so his Infinity Immensity 〈◊〉 Incomprehensibility are bounded and limited by the circumference of the Abyssal Globe which else wo●●● be without all bounds or limits without all Heigh●●● Depths or Breadths and thus they come to be ma●ifest in the Abyssal Globe St. Paul saith that this ●●sible Creation doth manifest God's Eternal Godh●●● and Power and so it is but if so how much mO●● then doth the Abyssal Globe which is the first man●● on of the Holy Trinity manifest all the Eternal A●tributes and Powers of his Godhead This sight of God's Attributes from the opening o● the Eye in the Abyssal Globe is both a ravishing

of the Holy Trinity is Magical viz. and that it acts magical Thus God brought forth the Eternal World viz. the still Eternity with all its wonders out of Himself by Himself and for Himself to dwell in Magically and after the same manner the Divine Chaos and Eternal Nat●●● were brought forth The Spirit of the Holy Trinity doth will desire and act from nothing else but from its pure Magia for it is not a rational Spirit but a wise intelligent Spirit which wisdom and intelligence is grounded in the Divine Magia There is no use of Reason in the still Eternity for the Divine Magia supplies its room neither is reason made use of in Paradise nor in the Angelical World nor in the New Ierusalem becaus reason belongs only to the Spirit of this outward World and however enlightned Reason may be exalted by some yet my Spirit knows it to be an Eternal infallible Truth that there is no use of Reason but in this Babylonish Principle and the Kingdom of the beast Sixthly Eternal Nature was brought forth that it might be a garment of the Holy Trinity and a vesture wherewith their pure naked Deity might be cloathed upon for as the Soul is hid and wrapt up in the Body and the Body in its cloaths so the Holy Trinity is cover'd and wrapt up in Eternal Nature's Essence and in the Creatures thence proceeding Blessed are they who through all these wiles and disguisements can find him who is the desire of all Nations who in this Rubbish can find the pearl of price which yet if we can search deep enough we cannot fail of for the Holy Trinity in their pure Deity is the most innermost kernel of all things being hid under Eternal Nature's Essence and all her working forms and Elements Seventhly Eternal Nature was to be an Habitation for the Holy Trinity For though the Eternal World be the most glorious Palace of the Deity and the most Holy place yet it was the will of the Holy Trinity to have the outward Court of Eternal Nature added to it in which they might dwell as the Soul in the Body Eighthly Eternal Nature was produced that it might be a Medium between tw● extreams God and the Creature whereby God ●ight communicate himself to Creatures and Creatures might have fellowship with him Ninethly Eternal Nature was brought forth that the Eternal Vnity of the Deity might be display'd in variety diversity and multiplicity Object But you will say was there not a variety of properties and attributes in the Deity even before the birth of Eternal Nature viz. his Power Wisdom Goodness Mercy Truth c. Sol. I answer that all these perfections are all one in the Deity and make up but one most simple Essence for else God would be divided in himself and could not be the supreme Unity and Simplicity as before hath been proved at large But by the Elements and working forms of Eternal Nature this Unity displays and as it were dissolves and dilates it self into an infinite variety and diversity of Creations according to the purpose of his Will Tenthly A tenth end was that the still Divine Essence by entring into the contrariety of Eternal Nature might bring forth the Glory of the Majesty and triumphing and exulting joy which were not to be found in the still Eternity before the working properties of Eternal Nature were brought forth Eleventhly Eternal Nature was brought forth that it might be the true Primum Mobile or the first source and spring of all motion and action For this end it pleased the Trinity to produce this Eternal turning wheel and indissoluble band of the seven forms of Eternal Nature for in the still Eternity there is nothing but stilness quiet and rest and that such as passeth all the thought and conceptions of Man and that Spirit only knows it who hath been taken up into it Twelfthly Eternal Nature was produced that the one single Essence of the Holy Trinity might be manifested in distinction according to the distinct Essences and properties of Eternal Nature Thus the Father is manifest in Fire the Son in Water the Holy Ghost in Air. Thus you see how the Holy Trinity may be distinguish'd from one another in Eternal Nature's Essence Thirteenthly and Lastly Eternal Nature was produced that all the Ideas forms and patterns in the Divine Mind might become actual and substantial which could not be brought to pass in the still Eternity nor without the working properties of Eternal Nature which do bring all that into act and existence which in the Divine Will and Mind is only in purpose and Idea And thus much concerning the ends for which Eternal Nature was created by God Having hitherto discoursed of what Eternal Nature is I shall next come to shew you according to my method propounded at the beginning of this third part What kind of Principle Eternal Nature is Quest. If it be asked what kind of Essence Eternal Nature is Answ. 1. I answer first that it is a Created Essence as hath been sufficiently declar'd before Answ. 2. Eternal Nature is an Eternal Essence for whatsoever is immediately created by God out of the Divine Chaos is Eternal becaus it proceeds from an Eternal root now since Eternal Nature is immediately brought forth from the Abyssal Chaos it must consequently be Eternal Answ. 3. Eternal Nature is an Original Essence that is it is the first created Essence out of whose fruitful womb all created Essences do proceed it is the first Essence of all Essences and the ground and source of them There is nothing above befo●e or beyond it but the Holy Trinity in the still Eternity All Essences proceed from it whether Temporal or Eternal for time it self is rooted in Eternity Object But it will be objected how can Eternal Nature be the first Original Essence since the Eternal World and the Divine Chaos are before it Answ. The answer is obvious for I do not say that Eternal Nature is the first Essence but the first created ●ss●●ce now the Eternal World and Divine Chaos were not created by God but generated out of him therefore it remains unshaken that Eternal Nature is the first Original Created Essence Object But you will object again that God himself is the Essence of all Essences and the original Cause and first matter of all things which I own to be true but with distinction Ans. For first God is the original Essence of all Essences ●● he is the efficient Cause and Creator of Eternal Nature's Essence out of the Divine Chaos Secondly I say God is the Essence of all Essences remotely but not immediately for all created Essences do immediately proceed from Eternal Nature and not from God becaus both the Divine Chaos and Eternal Nature ●and between them and God Now that created Essences ●id not immediately proceed from God will appear by these following reasons First If all creatures had immediately proceeded from God they must all have been a

perfect Unity without all duality diversity or contrariety becaus God's Essence from which they immediately proceeded was such But we find that all created Essences are ●ot a perfect unity but that diversity and duality is found in them which is not in the Divine Essence therefore we must necessarily conclude that they did not immediately proceed from God's Essence Secondly If all crea●●d Essences do immediately proceed from God it ●●ll follow that God's Di●ine Essence is not unintelligible and incomprehensible but may be easily known from the nature of those Essences which immediately proceed from him for such as their Essence is such must God's be if we allow this immediate procession becaus whatsoever doth immediately proceed from any Essence is of the same Essence with that from whence it proceeds We conclud● therefore that Light Fire Darkness c. are not i● God nor do they immediately proceed from him fo● if they did we might then know what God's Na●ture and Essence is viz. that it is Light Fire Dark●ness c. Answ. 4. Eternal Nature is a distinct Essence from th● Divine Chaos out of which it was created by God which appears First Becaus that which is brought forth differs an● is distinct from that which is brought forth as the frui● is distinct from the tree the Son from his Father wherefore Eternal Nature being created out of the Di●vine Chaos must needs be distinct from it Secondly Eternal Nature is distinct from the Divin● Chaos becaus in Eternal Nature the Elements an● the working powers of Nature are essentially an● actually whereas in the Divine Chaos they are only potentially and remotely Thirdly In Eternal Nature there is order and distinction there we find the four Eternal Elements● and seven working forms of Nature whereas in the Divine Chaos all things lye hid without any order o● distinction and therefore this Principle is called 〈◊〉 Chaos or confused mixture Gen. 1. 2. becaus in this Principle there is no Essences to be found but all things are in it in a hidden dark confused manner Answ. 5. Eternal Nature is a middle Essence becaus it is placed by God between the Eternal World and the Angelical and this vis●ble Creation and is the original ground ●rom wh●nce all middle Worlds and Creations do proceed Were not Eternal Nature a middle Essence there would be no middle Worlds no middle States nothing but the still Eternity But the Scripture tells us of Worlds in the plural number Heb. 1.2 which must be these middle Worlds of which here ● have spoken Answ. 6. Eternal Nature is in it self an invisible Essence for it is the ground from whence all invisible Worlds and Creations do proceed and we are taught that even this outward visible World was made of an in●isible matter viz. Eternal Nature's Essence Heb. 11. 3. The things which are seen were not made of the things ●hat do appear Answ. 7. Eternal Nature's Essence is a mixed and compounded Essence it is mixed and compounded of the four Eternal ●lements and their essential forms and thus it is an Essence compounded of multiplicity va●iety and contrariety and therefore must needs be distinct from the Divine Essence which is an Eternal Vnity and Simplicity which cannot admit of any mixture or composition whatsoever Now we must further know that this mixture and composition of the Eternal Elements in Eternal Nature is wrought by the Art of Divine Wisdom in such a manner that all their contrarieties are reduced to the greatest harmony and agreement insomuch that they qualifie in and through another with the greatest concord and amity as brethren and members of the same body This harmonious mixture and composition of the Elements in Eternal Nature is the beauty and perfection of Eternal Nature and that whereby it is fitted to become the fruitful Mother of all things If we consider Eternal Nature only as made up of fighting contrarieties we shall find nothing but deformity and disorder in her but if we regard her as she is mixed and compounded by the hand of Eternal Wisdom to a perfect temperature harmony and concord so she appears and is ina●●●d all beautiful and lovely Answ. 8. Eternal Nature is a Good Essence there is no evil in it notwithstanding it is made up of Contrarieties for God who is Eternal Goodness could not make that evil which he designed to be the original matter of all created Essences for so he would have entailed evil upon all his Creatures which were to proceed out of its womb Neither was it partly good and partly evil for this is a mixture that God declares against and therefore would never be a cause of it himself Neither can we say that evil is in Eternal Nature's Essence but that it is swallowed up of the good becaus nothing can proceed from God but what is wholly good The Darkness in Eternal Nature is as good as the Light and the Fire as the Water All the ●orms of Eternal Nature must needs be alike good for these following reasons First Becaus they have one efficient cause one Creator even God Secondly Becaus they all have but one Mother viz. the Abyssal Chaos out of whose womb they proceed Thirdly Becaus God hath implanted in them all an hunger and desire to answer the end of their Creation Now whatsoever answers the end for which it is made that we may truly say is good Fourthly All the forms of Eternal Nature are equally good becaus they all obey the Will of their Creator Fifthly Becaus they are all serviceable and helpful to one another as appears by their qualifying together and union in the sixth form where the Darkness is serviceable to the Light and the Light to the Darkness the Fire to the Water and the Water to the Fire But here is to be observed That when I say that all the forms of Eternal Nature are good I do not mean that they are the chiefest ●●od for that is only to be found in the Divine Essence but that they are endowed by God with a Natural Goodness suitable to their kind and such as they are capable of and free from Evil. Object You 'l say evil is not in God therefore it must be in Eternal Nature Sol. Yet the inconsequence of this argument doth appear in that it may be so easily retorted for say I becaus evil is not in God therefore neither can it be in Eternal Nature which was created by him for such as the cause is such must the effect be no evil is in the Cause of Eternal Nature therefore neither can there be any evil in Eternal Nature which is the effect Quest. But you 'l question further if evil be not in God nor in Eternal Nature where then will you place it What will you make the ground and source of evil Answ. I answer that the mutability of the Creature is the Cause of evil For though all things be created good by God yet they are not immutably so