A Discovrse of Fire and Salt: Discovering Many Secret Mysteries as well Philosophicall, as TheologicallVigenère, Blaise de
Religion
A Discovrse of Fire and Salt: Discovering Many Secret Mysteries as well Philosophicall, as Theologicall
Vigenère, Blaise de
Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Fire -- Early works to 1800; Salt -- Early works to 1800
blew the Celestiall and Ethereall body, and the white, souls stript of
all Corporeity: which in good men shall be burnt with fire that burns
alwaies upon the altar, and salted with salt from the Covenant, the
promises namely of his Messiah, into which the Prince of this world,
hath but seen, as it hath done in the posterity of _Adam_, which is
al filled with ashes whereof it was first built, & with the soot of
originall sin, whereunto he fastned by his disobedience, prevarication;
So that we are the night where _Moses_ began to reckon the day, for
that we are according to the flesh, before the _Messiah_, who being
come after, is the enlightned day of this clear sun of Justice, which
the Cabballists say is the representation of _Jehovah_, whose sheath
(as they call it) is _Adonei_, from whence God must be drawn out: for
it is hee, that mundifies the righteous, and burneth the wicked with
dark and obscure fire. To which that also beateth, which is said of
the Thrones Animalls, there shall descend a Lion enflamed, that shall
devour the oblations. There are Angells committed upon every member
that sinneth, of whom they constitute themselves the bringers on: for
every man that commits any offence, he suddainly delegates to himself
an accuser, which will be no more favourable to him then he must be,
but will lend him a fire from above, to burn that member that shall
have trespassed. But _Jehovah_ intervenes from above, who with his
water of mercy, quencheth this fire, after the party Delinquent shall
have his spots purged away. And there is but he alone, that is the
angel of peace, that make the souls reconcilation with God, to whom she
comes by the intercession of this sacred name: there is no other name;
all that the _Zohar_ sets down, which is as Christian-like spoken by a
Rabbin which was never baptized.
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