172 ON THE DIVINE INTUITION
prehendingness for selfhood : or ownness, as for a
place, for a something. And through this some-
thing the Mysterium magnum, as the unnatural
power, is become substantial and natural; and
the something has comprehended itself so as to
become an individual will.
24. For this individual will is a ground of its
selfhood, and shuts itself in as a desiring will,
whence the magnetic impression for sharpness and
hardness has taken its. origin; and is a ground of
darkness and of painful feeling, whence contrary
will, anxiety and flight (sensibility) have their
origin; and is a ground of Nature, from whence
comes the plurality of the qualities, so that in
such a contrariety each will has arisen from
the other, to separate itself from pain, like as
sense takes its rise from the soul, the soul through
the senses being in continual anxiety, working,
willing and breaking.
25. In this divine emanation, in which the
divine power breathes forth itself from itself, and
brings and has brought itself into Nature and
creation, we are to recognize two things. First,
the eternal understanding of the one good will,
which is a temperament, and thus only introduces
itself into a sensibility and activity for the
manifestation of power, colours and virtue; that
power and virtue may be realized in separability,
in form, and the eternal wisdom be revealed and
pass into knowledge. From thence also the angelic,
soulic and creaturely ground has proceeded, as well
as thrones and dominions, together with the visible
world.