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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B20917	The union of Christ and the church, in a shadow by R.C.	Cudworth, Ralph, 1617-1688.	1642 (1642)	Wing C7472; ESTC R22662	17,596	38

out some Jewish Cabala or Tradition concerning that piece of Story in Genesis which is so mystically expounded by Saint Paul although we do not yet know the meaning of it onely Maymonides hath taught us that it must be understood in some OCCULT SENSE But before we come to that that we may shew how ancient this piece of Cabalisme was and that it was long before Saint Pauls time by whom this Epistle to the Ephesians was written wee will produce the very selfe same thing out of Plato as he had received it some way by Tradition in the Orientall Parts which will deserve no little admiration He therefore in that excellent Symposiack dialogue concerning the nature of Love brings in Aristophanes discoursing in this manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. Non erat antiqua hominum natura qualis nunc est sed longè diversa ANDROGYNUM tunc enim erat specie nomine ex Maris Foeminae Sexu commixium Compare this with that of Maymonides before Adam Eva creati fuerunt sicut unus and goe on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. Erat porro rota hominis species rotunda dorsum latera circum habens manus quatuor totidemque crura facies item duas teriti cervice connexas Here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are the very same words which we quoted from the Talmud 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for in that declining age of the Hebrew and Chalday Tongues about the time of the destruction of the Second Temple many Greek and Latine and other barbarous words were mingled with them and there is withall added a larger explication of it But then when he comes to speak of the dividing of this Androgynon into two whereof one should be Male and the other Female he puts in something for the occasion of it which we have not found mentioned to this purpose in Jewish Authors although he received it also by Tradition though not immediately from the Jewes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. Animos superbos habuerunt Diis bellum inferre conati in coelum ascendere quemadmodum de Ephialto Oto narrat Homerus ut violentas manus in Does inferrent Whereupon the Gods consulting what to do Iupiter at last found out this plot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vnumquemque in duas partes dissecabo Whereupon it followes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. Haec fatus bifariam partitus est singulos instar eorum qui ova dividunt ut sale condiant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They are incomparable words expressing in the Type exactly according to the Scripture-Notion the Nature of Marriage but yet so as looking also beyond that they aime at some further Mystery viz. Hinc nimirum ex illo tempore mutuus hominibus innatus est amor PRISCAE NATURAE CONCILIATOR annitens VNUM EX DUOBUS efficere what could be more like that of the Scripture They two shall he one Flesh hominumque naturae mederi est igitur unusquisque nostrum hominis Collatio quasi Dimidium veluti dissecatus ut illi Pisciculi qui Psettae vocantur scissi ex Vno efficiuntur Duo I cannot consent with † Lib. 12. Praepar Evang. Eusebius that Plato had seen Moses his words and there had taken out this whole Story as well as divers other things for * besides many weighty Reasons which I have to think he never saw any of those Sacred Volumes Vide Engubinum in Timaeum Platonis this doth not agree with Moses his relation of it but is the very same with that Jewish Cabala before recited which he had therefore certainly received by Tradition when he was in Egypt or some other of those Orientall Parts bordering upon the Jewes Onely as Leo Hebraeus a disguised Author whose true name I think was Iuda Abravanel well observes having there heard of these two distinct things The making of Eve out of Adam by Cutting of him in two and then of the Fall of our first Parents which was by their Pride desiring to be as God He thought these two did belong to one another and therefore joyned them both together making their Pride to be the reason why they were so divided into two as a Punishment inflicted on them whereas in Mose's Story the Fall of Man came after the making of Eve out of Adam And certain it is that Plato in all this did thinke there was contained some Mysticall meaning concerning the Nature of Divine Love either as Ficinus or Leo Hebraeus allegorize it or else perhaps more simply thus That Man in his first Estate being united unto God and one with him afterward Sinning was divorced from him and sunk down quite into the Body but so as that by Divine Love he might still recover himselfe and so by degrees work up himself again unto God and be made perfectly one with him as by a Carnall and outward Affection Man and Wife here below are united together But if we would have a true and genuine Interpretation of this Jewish Tradition we must have recourse to the Jewish Authors themselves and especially the Masters of the Cabala and they will tell us that here also Adam and Eve are mystically signified Tipheret and Malcuth of which wee have spoken sufficiently before that were at first both one Sephirah as it were Male and Female together but afterward were parted asunder into two 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from being so conjoyned but then were united together againe as Man and Wife 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is fully handled and explained with many Cabalistick Mysteries by the sore-cited Author of Shephah Tal in a Discourfe on purpose the Title whereof is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arcanum duarum facierum I will only transcribe some few remarkable passages out of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. Anima Adami qui erat masculus emanavit ex Tipheret anima Evae quae erat Foemina emanavit ex Malcuth Duas facies habuerunt post creationem hoc est post creationem eorum in mundo hoc corporeo materiali habuerunt duas facies in corpore uno Et sicut Adam Eva materiales habuerunt duas facies in corpore uno sic etiam Fontes unde emanarunt Tipheret Malcuth sc Fons Amimae Adami qui erat Tipheret Fons animae Evae qui erat Malcut quando erant hae duae Sephirot Tipheret Malcuth in secreto Binah erant tunc corpus nnum Sephirah una consummata ex duabus faciebus quae erant secretum maris Foeminae Et Zohar loquitur quidem viz. in that Tradition before related out of him de inferioribus de animis Adami Evae sed intelligendus est de Superioribus scilicet de Fontibus undè emanarunt And againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Notum est quod istae Sephiroth Tipheret Malcuth Secretum maris Foeminae administrant mundum nec necesse est ut revelentur distinctè nisi post creationem hominis