Het tweede boeck des auteurs, handelende van de drie principien

28. Register of the fourth Chapter. Chapter 3.

29. The stars are mute without knowledge and feeling. Their operation. The consideration of the tincture the spiritual essence or life-force in which life rises. Question: from where do the senses and the mind come?
30. Where the key to this knowledge lies.
31. God is a spirit. Before our eyes he is as a nothing. If God were not from eternity, then nothing would have become.
32. Of that which was before the times of the world. Question: where does one find God? This is answered hereafter.
33. Question: from where does evil and the will of the Devil come, and the matter of evil? This is answered hereafter.
34. The Devil was once an Angel. God wills no evil.
35. Question: from where is the origin of hell? This is answered hereafter.
36. Which is the hell of the Devil, from which he was created and made. Why he is an enemy of God.
37. Had God made the Devil and the evil ones from evil matter, then no sin would be reckoned to them.
38. Why no sin is reckoned to a beast.
39. How the Scripture says: That God has rekindled the extinguished light in man again.
40. Proof that the soul of man is or must be from God.
41. What God brought to man in the flesh when he came.
42. In the three Principles the three realms of spiritual and physical existence one finds what God, Devil, Hell, Sin, Angel, Man, and Animal are.
43. The Author's warning in the reading of his book. He has written for himself.
44. Where we must seek God. The first Principle is God the Father.
45. What one finds in the primordiality. The world has its beginning from the first Principle.
46. From where the Angels, the Devils, and the souls are, and remain.
47. Of that which stands in the first Principle.
48. Author must speak locally. From where darkness has its name.
49. Recapitulation of that which is in the first Principle.
50. How the fire-flash the sudden ignition of life and spirit is sent into its Mother.
51. How the second Principle rises.
52. Of the joy that the bitterness has in its Mother. The hearing, the sixth form.
53. How the Spirit confirms everything. Where the birth receives the seventh form.
54. Author has power to speak of this depth, as a child

of his Father. God himself knows in himself neither beginning nor end.
55. How the Author speaks of the Holy Trinity, of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
56. What the Father is. How the Son is another person, who is the radiance and the mercy of the Father. How the Holy Spirit goes out from them.
57. Where the Son receives his person and name. Why he is rightly called the power of God.
58. Why the Holy Spirit is a distinct person.
59. From where the visible Heaven has become. How the birth of the Holy Divinity stands in the water-source the spiritual element of life.
60. The Spirit of God moves upon the water in the birth of the Son of God in his eternity.
61. God is one single undivided being. Triple in personal distinction.
62. One must understand no beginning in the birth. How far the Author is permitted to write of the origin.
63. Admonition that we must not extinguish the light in us, and must not count ourselves so lowly.
64. What the Devils (after the extinguishing of their light) have become.

65. From what and for what the Angels are created. Their food. The Son enlightens the first Principle.
66. What the food, the imagination, the conforming, and the joy of the Angels in Paradise is. Why God created them.
67. How Lucifer (why so named) has himself corrupted the play of love. He also stood in Paradise.
68. The cause of Lucifer's fall. How he was spat out.
69. How the second Principle was closed to Lucifer, and how he remained in the four anxieties.
70. His quality after his fall, a wonderful and true description.
71. How Lucifer remains locked in eternal death. He wants to have everything, and receives nothing. His eternal torment.
72. The angels of Lucifer are of many kinds. The reason why.
73. How in the rising of life every Essentia essential being or substance again receives its own center.
74. How Lucifer's fall has corrupted all his Legions. Each has remained in his own self-essence.

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