Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	father_n	person_n	trinity_n	1,795	5	9.6706	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64767	Lumen de lumine, or, A new magicall light discovered and communicated to the world by Eugenius Philalethes.	Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666.	1651 (1651)	Wing V150; ESTC R146	43,781	117

he speak and he will shew you things to come He shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you All things that the Father hath are mine Therefore said I that he shall take of mine Here wee plainly see there is a certaine subsequent order or Method in the operations of the blessed Trinity for Christ tels us that he receives from his Father and the Holy Ghost receives from Him Againe that all things are conceived Ideally or as we commonly expresse it created by the second person is confirmed by the word of God The World was made by him saith the Scripture and the world knew him not He came unto his own and his own received him not This may suffice for such as Love the Truth and as for that which the Cabalist speaks of the fourth and fifth Dayes it suits not with my present designe and therefore I must wave it It is clear then that Terra viventium or the Eternall Fire-Earth buds and sprouts hath her fierie spirituall Flowers which we call soules as this natural Earth hath her natural Vegetables In this mysterious sense is the Prester defin'd in the Oracles {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Flower of thin Fire But that we may come at last to the thing intended I think it not amisse to instruct you by this Manuduction You know that no Artificer can build but the Earth must be the Foundation to his Building for without this Ground-work his Brick and Mortar cannot stand In the Creation when God did build there was no such place to build upon I aske then where did he rest his Matter and upon what Certainly he built and founded Nature upon his own Supernaturall Center He is in her and thorough her and with his eternall spirit doth he support Heaven and Earth as our bodies are supported with our spirits This is confirmed by that oracle of the Apostle Omnia portat verbo virtutis suae He bears up all things with the word of his power from this power is he justly styl'd {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The infinitly powerfull and the All-powerfull power-making power I say then that Fire and spirit are the Pillars of Nature the props on which her whole Fabric rests and without which it could not stand one minute This Fire or Prester is the Throne of the Quintessentiall Light from whence he dilates himself to Generation as we see in the effussion of the Sun-beams in the great world In this Dilatation of the Light consists the joy or pleasure of the passive spirit and in its Contraction his Melancholie or sorrow We see in the great Body of Nature that in Turbulent weather when the Sun is shut up and clouded the Aire is thick and dull and our own spirits by secret Compassion with the spirit of the Aire are dull too On the contrary in clear strong Sun-shines the Aire is Quick and Thin and the spirits of all Animals are of the same rarified active Temper It is plaine then that our joyes and sorrows proceed from the Dilatation and Contraction of our inward Quintessentiall Light This is apparent in despayring Lovers who are subject to a certain violent extraordinary panting of the Heart a timorous trembling pulse which proceeds from the Apprehension and Feare of the spirit in relation to his Miscarriage Notwithstanding he desires to be dilated as it appears by his pulse or Sallie wherein he doth discharge himself but his Despaire checks him againe and brings him to a suddain Retreat or Contraction Hence it comes to passe that we are subject to sighs which are occasion'd by the suddain pause of the spirit for when hee stops the Breath stops but when he looseth himself to an outward Motion we deliver two or three Breaths that have been formerly omitted in one long E●piration and this we call a sigh This ●●sion hath carried many brave men to very ●●● Extremities It is originally occasion'd●● the spirit of the Mistris or affected ●irty for her spirit ferments or leavens the ●●●t of the Lover so that it desires an union●● far as Nature will permit This makes us ●●sent even smiles and frowns like Fortunes●nd Misfortunes Our Thoughts are never ●t Home according to that well-grounded Observation Anima est ubi amat non ubi ●●●●●t the soule dwels not where she lives out where she loves We are imploy'd in a ●erpetuall Contemplation of the absent Beau●● Our very Joyes and Woes are in her power ●he can set us to what Humor she will as ●ampian was alter'd by the Music of his Mistris When to her Lu●e Corinna sings Her Voice inlives the Leaden strings But when of sorrows she doth speak Even with her sighes the strings doe break And as her Lure doth Live or Die Lea'd by her Passions So doe I. This and many more miraculous sympa●hies proceed from the Attractive nature of the Prester it is a spirit that can wonders and now let us see if there bee any possibility to come at him Suppose then wee should dilapidat or discompose some Artificiall Building stone by stone There is no question but we should come at last to the Earth whereupon it is founded It is just so in Magic if we open any Natural Body and separat all the parts thereof one from another we shall come at last to the Prester which is the Candle and secret Light of God Wee shall know the hidden Intelligence and see that inexpressible Face which gives the outward Figure to the Body This is the S●●lagism we should look after for he that ●ath once past the Aquaster enters the Fire-world and sees what is both Invisible and Incredible to the common Man He shall discover to the Eye the miraculous Conspiracy that is between the Prester and the Sun Hee shall know the secret Love of Heaven and Earth and the sense of that deep Cabalism Non est planta hic inferiùs cui non est stella in Firmamento superiùs ferit eam stella dicit ei Cresce There is not an Herb here below but he hath a star in Heaven above and the star strikes him with her Beame and sayes to him Grow He shall know how the Fire-spirit hath his Root in the Spirituall Fire-Earth and receives from it a secret Influx upon which he feeds as Herbs feed on that Juice and Liquor which they receive at their Roots from this Common Earth This is it which our Saviour tels us Man lives not by Bread alone but by every word that comes out of the Mouth of God He meant not by Inke and P●pyr or the dead Letter it is a Mystery and St. Paul hath partly expounded it He tels the Athenians that God made Man to the end That he should seek the Lord if happily he might feel after him and find him Here is a strange Expression you will say that a Man should feel after God or seek Him with his Hands But