Mysterium Magnum

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

together are named Verbum Fiat original: "Verbum Fiat"; Latin for "the Word: Let there be", that is, the Eternal Word, which creates where nothing is; and is the origin of Nature and all beings.

9. The first property of the desire is astringent, harsh, and ♄ Saturn eagerly pressing. It conceives itself and overshadows itself. First, it makes the great darkness of the Abyss. Second, it makes itself substantial in a spiritual manner, becoming wholly rough, harsh, hard, and thick. It is the cause of coldness and all keenness and sharpness. It is also the cause of everything called essence, and it is the beginning of perception original: "Perceptivancy"; the capacity for sensation or feeling. In this state, the free Lubet original: "Lubet"; from the German Lust, meaning a divine inclination or longing finds and perceives itself, and introduces the contemplation of itself. But the desire in itself brings itself into pain and source original: "source"; Böhme often uses this in the sense of the German word Qual, which implies both a quality and the stinging or torment of life. Yet the free Lubet only receives this finding [or perception].

10. The second form or property is the constringency [or at- ...