Mysterium Magnum

6 Of the Center of the Eternal Nature. CHAP. 3.

4. Since this eternal good cannot be an insensible essence original: "unſenſible Eſſence"; here meaning a state without feeling, consciousness, or perception—for if it were, it would not be manifest to itself—it introduces itself within itself into a Lubet original: "Lubet," from the German Lust, meaning a divine longing, delight, or an inner inclination of the will to behold and see what it is. In this Lubet is wisdom. When the Lubet sees what it is, it brings itself into a desire to find out and feel what it is: namely, to achieve a sensible perception of the smell, taste, colors, powers, and virtues. Yet no perception could arise in the free spiritual Lubet if it did not bring itself into a desire, similar to a hunger.

5. For the Nothing hungers after the Something, and this hunger is a desire. This is the first Verbum: Fiat original: "Verbum: Fiat"; Latin for "The Word: Let there be" or Creating Power. The Desire has nothing that it is able to make or conceive, so it conceives itself and impresses itself. It coagulates itself; it draws itself into itself and comprehends itself. It brings itself from the Abyss into the Byss The "Abyss" is the bottomless void; the "Byss" (or "Ground") is the state of having a foundation or measurable essence and overshadows itself with its magnetic attraction. In this way, the Nothing is filled, yet it remains as a Nothing. It is only a property: namely, a darkness. This is the eternal origin of the darkness. For where there is a property, there is already "Something" * Or causes Darkness. and the something is not the same as the Nothing. It yields obscurity unless something else—namely, a luster—fills it. Then it is light, and yet it remains a darkness within the property itself.

6. In this coagulation, impression, desire, or hunger—by any of which I might express it for your understanding—I say that in this compacting or comprehensive complication, we are to understand two things: 1. The free Lubet, which is the wisdom, power, and virtue of the colors; and 2. The desire of the free Lubet within itself. For the free Lubet—namely, the wisdom—is not a property; it is free from all inclination and is one with God. But the desire is a property. Now, the desire arises from the Lubet; therefore, the desire conceives and comprehends the free Lubet all throughout the compaction and the impression, bringing it into feeling and finding.

7. Understand us correctly and precisely here: the desire arises out of the will toward the free Lubet. It makes itself out of the free Lubet and brings itself into a desire. This desire is the property of the Father, and the free Lubet—namely, the wisdom—is the * Or One. property of the Son. However, because God is a Spirit, he is not called Father or Son in this place until the manifestation through the Fire in the Light. Only then is he called Father and Son. But I set it down this way because of the "birth of nature," to provide a better understanding of the true ground, so that man might understand to which Person in the Deity * Nature is to be ascribed, and to which Person the Power in nature is to be ascribed.

8. The Desire proceeding from the will of the abyss is the first Form. It is the Fiat original: "Fiat"; Latin for "Let there be" or "Let there be." The power of the free Lubet is God, who governs the Fiat. And both together