Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	blood_n	body_n	part_n	8,155	5	4.9083	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26665	Centrum naturæ concentratum, or, The salt of nature regenerated for the most part improperly called the philosopher's stone / written in Arabick by Alipili ... ; published in Low Dutch, 1694, and now done into English, 1696, by a lover of the hermetick science.; Centrum naturae concentratum. English	Ali Puli.; Brice, E.	1696 (1696)	Wing A931; ESTC R18664	26,537	97

saw the light might be the God and Lord of all elementary and created things only God alone should be his Lord. Thus God placed Man in the middle between that which is superiour and that which is inferiour and did inspire into him by the word Ruach Elohim noted in the Hebrew Book through the two nostrils the breath of a twofold life one whereof was the breath of the eternal word of God or of the eternal life the other was the elementary and astral airy breath or spirit and word of time Both these infused powers of life in Man divided themselves so that each formed and possessed its own Center to it self which was the continual will and desire of each of them after its first original or primordial nature Both of them desired its Mother from whence they proceeded and each desired for her self to be nourish'd by her essence So the Will as the Father did generate in the Lifes Center for himself the Appetite or Desire as his Son and Offspring from both which the Will and Desire did proceed the Spirit as the power of living by the attracting and breathing nature from God and the Airy world But the Body of the Element did also produce out of their properties the Center the Will the Desire and Power of attracting out of its Mother the Earth and Water and out of it desired to quench its thirst and suck her Breasts he eat therefore and fill d himself with her containing in himself a tripl triunity in one body of Man and living in this manner that Man might be an Image of God after his likeness But yet the Center of the Body Spirit and Soul were not compelled by any necessity to sill and satiate themselves from the Water Air and Earth but the highest liberty of Will was left unto them after the likeness of the Free-will of God It was free to the good lucid pleasant sweet will which took its beginning from the pleasant meekness to contract it self and diffuse it self in and through all circumferences over which as their Center and Ruler she held her Empire Yea it was lawfull and free to him to divide himself more or less as it pleased him He could also without any thing opposing him by a too ardent strong and vehement motion of his Seed and out-going powers from himself produce in himself another sharp pestilent appetite and malignant desire after a sharp austere and venemous food He could also shut his mouth and appetite by not attracting that aliment which was necessary for him But it would be too long and large here to tell what was the nature and condition of that food and how at that time Adam and Eve by a power and hurtfull pleasure did eat together and dyed that death which in heavenly natures happeneth in a heavenly and spiritual manner It is also not our business here to relate how they fell in their Will and kept as it were imprisoned the Appetite and Power of the good which they receiv'd from the highest good and made it unfruitful and how they closed obdurated the mouth of their soul and choaked the very good exerting it self in them because the lamentable condition of them both O! alas maketh it sufficiently known But not only the Soul in Adam and Eve did undergo the deplored condition of death but seeing all were knit together in one Body the burning fire of the Soul kindled also the Spirit and Body the Spirit and Body did infect the Air Water and Earth and compell'd them to consent and precipitated them into that miserable condition with themselves because the Body and Spirit were the Center and Universal Heart and held the potency of their Imagination in their Mother the Air Water and Earth it was of necessity it should so come to pass Like as in this time when the Heart in the Body is sick the whole Body is sick and suffers pain When self-desires go forth from the Heart according to the word of God all things pertaining to that Man contract thence some impurity Yea sometimes for the Offences of the Heart all the other Members shall be afflicted although they have done nothing but a forced duty and by a necessary obedience After the same manner the Earth ought and yet must bear for Adam's sake the horrour of the curse But let us not expatiate too much in the Field of Theology We must return to Natural Philosophy I have affirmed that Man is the Center and Compendium of all created things to him before the Fall all things in this World were obedient through the force and power of his Imagination which he exercised from the Center into all his Circumferences But as the Devil through the malignant force of his Imagination lost the right and power of the good Imagination in his first Kingdom this our World so Adam who was constituted by God in the place of the lapsed Angel which then assumed a grosser substance through the fall of Lucifer who rendred that place of a grosser substance by the like false and malign Imagination destroyed and lost the first or ancient power of the good and the right of the Divine Nature His imagination in this time and station is odious to nature and abominable neither hath it any ingress so nothing is left remaining to Man but a miserable Body which with its Spirit is heavily or with grief sustained by nature He has but a weak and slender power even to this day given to him through his judgment reason and labour of the body to bring some things in nature from worse into better and from better into worse and by this means to make some particular and gross mutations The Natural man therefore doth draw the Vital Spirit from the Air Water and Earth in a twosold manner from beneath and from above From above by the attraction of the Air or his respiration he enjoyeth the spirit power and breath of the out-flowing and out-going word to wit the gale or out-flowing spirit of the Air and turneth it into his nourishment but from beneath he partakes of the Flesh and Blood of the World The Flesh of the World Animals Vegetables and Minerals afford the Blood the Water affordeth the quintessence and spirit or most subtle breath and highest outgoing power of this Flesh and Blood Man enjoyeth That Spirit with its spiritual Salt doth not only refresh and nourish the Spirits of Men but from it also the Alchahistical dissolving power of the ferment in the Stomach derives its original the other parts of the Body do also take their ferment from thence so the Flesh and Blood of all the Macrocosm receiving a kind dissolution in the Humane Body by separating and preparing do afford and yield his Salt to the preparation of the Flesh and Blood of the Microcosm so that the thirsty and hungry particles of the Microcosm do eagerly desire and imbibe it but the excrementitious outsides do find their egress through the emunctories

true and essential humility to will to be without desire without will without the knowledge of any thing and to cast away himself as an unprofitable piece of wood in the presence of the Lord that he may make of it an Ark or Chest wherein he may work wherein he may not find resistance from Ihood from a strange fire in strange motions which may hinder the purity of the divine motions This is necessary For blessed at length are those dead who cease from their own works and so in God lose their own life and part with all their own delights Thou who stirrest up thy self to begin this work art thou certain this spirit that moves thee is pure certainly if there be the least impetuosity it is not the spirit of God that moves thee for he is far off from any impetuous desire And truly this is the best Examen that such a spirit that compells with force is far off from the spirit of divine truth because we know that God inhabits not in the fire nor in the earthquake but in the still small voice Plainly another in this way ought to be a guide and author to thee That will not presently succeed according to thy desire which thy phantasie suggests unto thee If thou art called to this work he that is to shew thee the way without which it is impossible to attain the end will make himself known to thee by word of mouth and will lay such strict bands upon thee that presently in that very moment thou shalt cease to be Master of thy self or of thy work for why does wretched Man attempt without the spirit of God to intermeddle with this work or does he think he shall effect any thing in this matter without an internal word speaking inwardly or an expert Master Verily he deserves to be counted a Fool who thinks divine treasures are not kept in stronger holds But if any one thinks he will with feigned words deceive God and with an impetuous desire is instigated and will conceive hope where there is none and as the Poet saith flectere si nequeo superos Acharonta movebo let him look well to himself and hearken to this admonition lest he invites such guests from which it is very difficult yea impossible to be free again For God is a pure spirit far distant from all terrestreity Let the tincture be as wholly as may be yet the curse and anger of God is in all terrestreity and corporeity which is a truth we certainly affirm In that accursed part the Devil finds an open entrance through the impetuous desire of Man and in various ways deludes those whom he finds in his Kingdom of which thing it would be very irksome to bring examples But God is a Spirit and will be worshipp'd in spirit and truth and whosoever is one spirit with him will see that his spirit has the rule and dominion in and over all things yea in and over Hell and the Devil and will admire and yet he will not touch the forbidden tree Therefore where there is any covetous desire it were better for them to leave the work For seeing terrene things belong to the Devil the Prince of this World and this work is partly coelestial and partly terrestrial let every one know that is covetous of this Art that the Devil has an entrance in his covetousness for it is his own proper habitation For the corrupt nature of Man and the malignant spirits by Man do easily mix together and what they are not capable to doe of themselves they are made capable of by Man and they teach him the Science to use their power and mingle their malignity together with it But he that is ruled by the Spirit of God will always behave himself in a passive manner and if Heaven were opened to him he would not enter in unless he were sweetly introduced by a divine power holy pure quiet friendly lucid and serene beyond his own will and expectation Nothing can remain in the divine fire which Jesus Christ has not wrought in the Soul in the light of his Conscience by which every one may be saved without an historical faith whether he be Christian Turk Jew or Gentile He that is faithfull to that light in the smallest things shall receive a greater light in greater things The word which was with God from eternity shineth in the darkness as John writeth enkindleth this light in its beginning and more and more enkindles it as man is faithfull as in its own propriety in eternity and what is there wrought is a new birth plainly another thing from the Natural man and it worketh all those things which the Natural man cannot work as the Imitation of Christ in meekness and patience and self-denial and it seeketh and with ardor desireth to perform those things which are written from the Lord Matth. 3. 4 5 6. He that hath built his house on this foundation that in all fights against natural motions he first seeks the renewing of his heart his structure will not easily be overturned by the storms but will stand against the swelling waves of the Sea it will swim above them as in an Ark by the power of a well exercised spirit He will know the Devil and the Dragon sitting on the waters and will overcome him But he that as Solomon by a large effusion of gifts without essential regeneration founded on death and desertion of the spirit of grace thinks he can stand will be much deceived and in the end will see the slippery firmness of his foundation Whoever had greater knowledge than Lucifer who greater riches than he was he not the greatest of all the Angels could all those gifts help him who had not yet sufficiently learned to bridle his own motions therefore there is need of the opposer and slayer of this diabolical poison sown in us What is without us can help us nothing but it must be born wax strong and exercise its power over us our Esauitish birth must be opposed and overcome by the Jacobean birth Jesus Christ in the womb of this principle by the power of love and patience All knowledge and riches cannot save us from the judgments of the Father nothing is admitted to his purity but what is from the spiritual seed of his Son He therefore that in all things acknowledgeth justice and in justice mercy and well understands that where sin is it is his own fault and of those good things which he hath received and doth daily receive judgeth himself unworthy yea unsufficient for any thing who after that he has been according to the flesh and spirit judged he will in humility of heart remain safe from all flatteries and poisoned darts of the enemy But they who like thieves come and arrogate that to themselves which belongs to God and attribute that to God which is their own shall one day hear that voice Friend how camest thou in hither not having on a