Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	child_n	mother_n	womb_n	3,217	5	9.6644	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28525	Forty questions of the soul concerning its original, essence, substance, nature or quality and property, what it is from eternity to eternity : framed by a lover of the great mysteries, Doctor Balthasar Walter, and answered in the year 1620 / by Jacob Behme, called Teutonicus Philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow ...; Viertzig Fragen von der Seele. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1665 (1665)	Wing B3407; ESTC R14533	160,272	442

Spirit of this World 19. By which then the Image in the Spirit becometh attered all according to what is contained in the Will which the Soul hath framed or contrived or brought forth out of the Center also out of the Fierce Wrath into the Light viz. according to the Imagination 20. And we give you to understand that the Spirit can alter it self in this Time of the Body which is done without its knowledge or apprehension through the Imagination viz. through the seeking Lust or Longing Pleasure and Delight where the desiring figureth such a Form in the Souls Will as the lust or longing Pleasure is to Evil or Good 21. And we say that the pure Soul is not corporeal but there groweth a Body in the Tincture either heavenly or hellish and yet it is no palpable body according to the outward but a Power-Body God's Body Christ's Heavenly Body heavenly Flesh which Christ giveth us to eat in his Testament 22. It is a Body which the Turba cannot touch or apprehend it is immortal unfadable comprised in Nothing but only in the noble or pretious Tincture which is without substance and this body is to the outward Flesh incomprehensible 23. But the Outward Spirit if the Soul do not hinder it but letteth it in bringeth its Imagination thereinto and covereth vaileth or obscureth it so that another strange Image cometh to be in the Spirit in the Tincture according to the contents or condition of the longing Pleasure or lust viz. a Covetous of a Wolf an Envious of a Dog a Proud of a Horse Peacok or other Beast or living Creature also of Toads Adders Vipers Serpents other Worms or creeping things which Image God's Spirit so long as it standeth or continueth so doth not receive or accept 24. And therefore Christ saith You must be born anew of Water and the Spirit if you would see the Kingdom of God and therefore God became Man and brought the divine Image again into the Souls Tincture being it was perished in Adam so that now we must be born anew in Christ if we will see God 25. And this is done through the Imagination or Faith or Believing for believing is eating of God's Body and every Body groweth by eating 26. And the New-Birth is not in such a Manner as Babel teacheth her Matters are only a Looking-Glass of the right and true way into God which Looking-Glass must be broken For Moses his cover or vail is done away we should see further with clear Paradisical Eyes understand thus much ye Children of God The Eighth Question In what Manner the Soul cometh into Man or into the Body 1. THis Question I understand of the Souls Propagation For how it came into Adam Moses telleth you and it is mentioned above but because you ask concerning its Propagation how it cometh into a Child in the Mothers Womb we must put on another Habit or Garment 2. In our Third Part it is written very exactly and at large with many Circumstances concerning its Propagation how Adam was created in an Image He was Man and Woman before his Eve he had the fires and waters Tincture that is Soul and Spirit and should have generated his like an Image of himself out of himself through his Imagination and own Love and this he could have done without disrupture 3. For as it is above mentioned that the Soul hath such might or ability to change the Body into another Form so it hath also had ability to generate a Branch out of it self according to its Property if Adam had stood out the tryal or Proba 4. But being he imagined after or desired the Omnipotence and let the Spirit of this World into the Soul into the Tincture and the Serpent and gazed on the Earthly Fruit longing to eat of Evil and Good then also his Tincture conceived such an Image viz. a Monster which was half earthly thereinto also instantly the Turba insinuated it self and sought the Limit 5. Thus the noble or pretious Image was found in the Earthly where then Fragility Corruption and Death Began and Adam could not then generate for his Omnipotency was lost 6. And would indeed for ever have been lost if the Heart of God had not suddenly with the Word of Promise turned in it self into Adams Soul which so preserved it that so Adams Image must break and the Soul with the heavenly Body sink down through Death into the New-Life where its Spirit became renewed again 7. Thus Adam fell into inability into sleep and the other or second Creation began for God took the Waters Tincture as in a Twig or Branch out of Adams Soul and a Rib out of Adam and the Half Cross in Adam and framed a Woman out of it 8. As ye know that the Woman hath the one half Cross in her Head and the Man the other for in the Head in the Brain dwelleth the Souls Spirit out of which God hath taken a Branch viz. a Child out of Adams Souls Spirit and given it to the Woman that she should not generate or bring forth Devils 9. And the Man hath the Fires Tincture viz. the right true Original of the Life 10. And therefore hath the Woman gotten the Matrix viz. Venus's Tincture and the Man the Fires-Tincture understand the Woman hath the Lights-Tincture which can awaken no Life the Life standeth in the Fires-Tincture 11. But now being it could not be otherwise they must propagate in a Beastial Manner in Two Seeds the Man soweth Soul and the Woman Spirit and is being it is sown in an Earthly Soyl or Field conceived or hatched after the kind and man-of all Beasts 12. And yet nevertheless all the Three Principles are in the Seed but the Inward is not knowable or apprehensible to the Outward for in the Seed there is no living Soul but when the Two Tinctures come together then it is wholly in Substance for the Soul is in the Seed Essential and in the Conception or Hatching it becometh Substantial 13. For so soon as the Fire is struck up by Vulcan then is the Soul in the Substance wholly perfect and presently the Spirit goeth out of the Soul in the Tincture forth and draweth the outward Dominion viz. the Stars with or by the Air. 14. And thus is an Eternal Child and and hath also the frail or corruptible Spirit with the Turba hanging to it which Adam through his Imagination took in 15. And there the Turba instantly seeth the Limit in the Spirit of this World and will enter into the limit then is the Body old enough as soon as the Soul hath its Life to dye also many a Soul perisheth in the Essence while it is a Seed in the Sulphur 16. But you are to observe this that the Man hath the Fires Tincture and the Woman the Lights Tincture in the Water viz. Venus's Tincture as is to be understood by both their vehement Imagination one towards another for