Register of the 1st Chap.

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1. Man does not belong at home in this outward life.
2. Threefold life in man / eternal / corruptible / and a life in which the evil or the property of life stands.
3. Life is a burning fire / which (without food) goes out.
4. The soul is a fire / and requires food.
5. The life of our soul (called the Divine life) also requires food.
6. Every life desires its own mother for food.
7. Wherein the elemental, perishable life consists / the soul life is eternal.
8. Where the life of the soul comes from.
9. The threefold life is not divided. In what manner God the Father is everything.
10. In what manner the soul dwells in the body / and is encompassed by the elemental spirit.
11. The soul dwells in another being / than in the spirit of the elements.
12. From where the essentien essential outgoing powers of the soul have their beginning / namely / out of the bond of eternal nature; God dwells purely in himself.
13. The Spirit of God is not subject to the bond of eternal nature.
14. How the soul out of the bond of nature desires to press into God.
15. How the light and the life of God come into the soul.
16. In the eternal nature (outside the Divine Light) is an anxious property / the souls and Angels are only out of the eternal nature : why the outward being is perishable / the cause of the terrible fall of our souls.
17. In what ways / we are able to press into the new birth / a beautiful explanation.
18. A parable / how the soul is in a rejoicing in the Divine life.
19. How in the fire of the Divine life no nature is felt / the inability of the soul in the Light of God / she is a fire in the eternal nature / she is without comprehensibility / she is a spirit in sevenfold forms : wherein the kingdom of Heaven and hell are understood : the Author knows / or understands the eternal birth.

20. The Author excuses himself regarding the knowledge of the being of God / to which no one can come / except by grace.
21. How the soul becomes seeing / to be able to speak of her Fatherland.
22. Who they are / who can understand the Author.
23. Concerning the fire of life / its origin / whose mother is the eternal will of the Father.
24. Concerning the eternal will and the eternal desire.
25. How the will impregnates itself.
26. How the will desires to be free: what the second will / or the eternal mind is.
27. Concerning the form in the dark nature : the darkness / longs for the light.
28. Concerning the first two forms / amper harsh or astringent and bitter / the origin of all kinds of being / the eternal will is their mother.
29. The harshness and the bitterness are together a single bond / which makes itself.
30. From what the breaking and woe arise.
31. From what the multiplicity of essences arises. Why the first will / assumes / or bears another will : and falls into a great anxiety.
32. What the will / the counter-will / and the desire is / or makes.
33. How the great vastness desires the narrow / and how there must be a counter-will / nothing is nothing / neither darkness / light / life / nor death.
34. The light and darkness / an eternal moving and forming / is without end and limitation : the Angelic world is not outside this place.
35. The womb which is a darkness : the birth of the eternal being.
36. An address to the mind / for reflection from where life and death come.
37. Question to the mind why it speaks more of God than it understands.
38. How the word is God / that makes itself from eternity.
39. The speaker is the father of the word / these two are one / yet in two forms / the abyss of hell stands in the centro center of the Father.
40. Which is the eternal bond / from which everything is made / the Deity is incomprehensible.
41. To what end the Author’s writing tends : much explanation without knowledge.
42. Rebuke of the Learned / because they only have the history of the Saints.