V*»*.*V* JT V^V JL\^jL.JLJLfMJ.J,t,\J JULJ. CU.-l^ IkJJL iAJLAJl UJL V V-' V^V/JLJEXUL \Jl\JHM, \JJL OL7JLJ.Jt.ti. for it hath else no seat. 6. But in this Word is a will, which desires to go out into a being. This will is the life of the original will, and proceeds out of the pregnation, as out of the mouth of the will, into the life of Magic, viz. into Nature; and reveals the non- understanding life of Magic, so that the same is a mysterium in which an understanding exists essentially, and thus obtains an essential spirit. There, every essence is an arcanum or a mysteriurn of an entire being, and is thus a comprehension as an unfathomable wonder of eternity; for many lives without number are generated, and yet all is together but one being. 7. The threefold Spirit without being is its master and possessor; and yet it possesses not the Nature- being, for it (the Spirit) dwells in itself. 8. The Word is its centre or seat, and is in the midst as a heart; and the spirit of the Word, which takes its origin in the primal eternal will, reveals the wonders of the essential life. There are, then, two mysteries : one in the spirit-life, and one in the essential life. The spirit-life is acknowledged as God, and is rightly so called; and the essential life is acknowledged as the Nature-life, which would have no understanding if the Spirit or the spirit- life were not desirous. In this desire the divine Being, as the eternal word or heart of God, is continually and from eternity generated; from which the desiring will as Spirit eternally goes out into the Nature-life, and reveals therein the mystery in essences. So that there are two lives