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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	darkness_n	light_n	shine_v	1,307	5	9.6147	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Nature makes them wholly meek sweet soft and delightful so that nothing but a pleasing sight sweet smell delightful taste ravishing sound and soft pleasant feeling is to be found amongst them Here the Darkness becomes lustrous the Fire loseth its burning and scorching property and becomes mild luminous and quickning and the Water clear and refreshing This Light if we further enquire into its originality doth not immediately proceed from the Divine Essence which is an increated Light but this is ●reated by that and brought forth out of the Abyssal Chaos as the Darkness Fire and Water were before It is placed by God in the root of the Water-essence and from thence it shineth forth and with its meek bright virtue penetrates and tincture 's all the forms of Nature In the fifth place God brings forth the Air which blows up the Love-fire-essence and together with it constitutes the sixth form of Eternal Nature The Creator of all things knew that the Fire-essence was placed between two dangerous Enemies the Darkness on the one hand and the water on the other either the thick smoak of the Darkness might stifle and smother it or the Water might overwhelm and drown it wherefore that the Fire of his Eternal furnace might never be in danger of being extinguish'd he brought forth the Air-essence to blow up the Fire that it might not go out It is this Air-spirit that keeps the Wrath-fire in its due bounds that it may neither be too strong nor too weak for when it is too strong it is in danger of drying up the Water and when too weak its attractive hunger will not be great enough to maintain its own being for the Hunger of the fire is the cause and source of the Fire-life in the Fire-essence If the moderate thirst and hunger of the Wrath-fire were not preserved the cause of Life Sensibility and Mobility would be taken away and there would remain nothing but an unactive dead Darkness the Fire being extinguished This Air-spirit doth not only m●d●rate the W●●th-fire but it also blows up the Love-fire-essence w●th which being united ● constitutes the sixth form of Eternal Nature This Love-fire hath its root in the Meek-water from whence it springeth as the Fier●●-fire from the harsh astringent Darkness It riseth 〈◊〉 through the Meek-light as the Wrath-fire through the Darkness and is blown up and preserved by the Air. This Love-fire doth not immediately proceed from the Divine Essence which is an increated Fire-life but this is created and brought forth out of the Abyssal Chaos But the Love-fire which proceeds immediately from the Divine-Essence is the Loveliest pleasantest and sweetest birth of all as Iacob Behme saith for it makes all the forms of Nature Ioyful Pleasant and Lovely As soon as this Child of Love is born the whole birth of Eternal Nature stands in great Triumph of Divine Ioy all its Powers and Essences become substantial and they so see hear smell taste and feel one another in the most ravishing joyfulness beyond words and this pen's expression For the Love-fire giveth forth it self for food to all the properties of Nature it becomes unto them Eternal Bread and Wine wherewith they are fed and refre●hed for ever which makes them all cry out O Love thou hast satisfied our Hunger and quenched our Thirst nay thou hast filled us with the highest exulting Ioys behold we desire no longer to have any will of our own but that all our wills may be thine and so thy will may be our will thou shalt have the dominion over us only feed us with thy Heavenly food and give us thy Wine to drink Eternally When this Love-essence mingles with the Spirit it begets in him a Divine and Spiritual understanding and opens his spiritual senses of Seeing Hearing Tasting Smelling and Feeling thus the blind properties of Nature come to see Spiritually and Intellectually the Deaf to Hear the Dumb to Sing and the Barren to become Fruitful This is the feeling Life of Nature and proceeds from the Love-fire's-dominion in and over all its properties When this Love-fire-tincture enters into the Dark-fire-forms and comes to penetrate the burning Sulphur poisonous Mercurie and Salt-Nitre of the Fire-spirit and to change them into its own N●ture there ariseth such triumphing Ioy charming Pleasure ravi●hing Extasie and Exultation as none can imagine but those that have felt them and tincture 's them with such variety of beautiful sparkling colours as surpasseth all the pretious Stones and Gems of this visible Creation This Love-fire-Tincture as Iacob Behme declares proceeds from the Union of the Fire and Light and it is the joy and end of Eternal Nature neither is there any birth to be looked for or enjoyed beyond this birth of Love in which the Eternal beginning hath found the end of its own hand-work and is indeed the perfection and accomplishment of the five preceding forms of Eternal Nature And now in the last place for a conclusion of all the Creator brings forth the seventh form in which the ●ix forementioned working forms and properties do act and qualifie as the Soul in the Body It is the House and dwelling place and is the Eternal Earth which gives ●he Eternal Substantiality and Corporiety to them all Here ●hey dwell in triumphant Ioy here they are all fed with the Eternal food which the Love-essence gives ●orth unto them and circle in and through one ano●her in the greatest Unity and Harmony in the triumphant joy of the Love essence which pierceth through ●hem all Thus you see the birth of Eternal Nature ●ull compleat and perfect you see her in comly garments wherewith she was arrayed when she came out of the ●ands of her great Creator you see all her Variety and Diversity Centred in Love's Harmony all contrariety and ●●rife banish'd from her Court But before we leave this prospect of Eternal Na●●re's excellence and perfection Let us consider First That amongst all her distinct forms there is ●o disorder or confusion Secondly That the variety and diversity of forms ●hich are in her do not produce the least strife or ●ontrariety but are all reduced to a perfect agreement ●n Love's Harmony All the seven have but one will one ●●sire and one joy and pleasure And indeed how could it be otherwise Since the God of Love Peace and Unity could not be the Author of contrariety in Eternal Nature's Essence out of which he was to bring forth his whole Host of Creatures And thus much concerning the perfection of Eternal Nature's Essence 10. Ans. In the tenth place Eternal Nature's Essence is a Blessed and Happy Essence I do not mean that she is the Summum Bonum the most High and Soveraign happiness for that is only to be found in the Divine Essence but that she is so far happy and blessed as a created Essence is capable of being This happiness of Eternal Nature consists in this that she is free from all contrariety strife misery and anguish