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the divine will works, and introduces the divine
power into forms and separability for the mani-
festation of the divine power and glory.
30. And in this world always. two natures in
one are to be understood : First, an eternal,
divine and spiritual; and secondly, one that
has a beginning, and is natural, temporal and
perishable in self-will. For two kinds of will
are found in one life : First, one that has a
beginning and is natural, in which the will is an
individual astrum, and inqualifies with all that
is external, natural, elemental and sidereal; and
secondly, an eternal spiritual will, or eternal
spiritual nature, which is a comprehension or com-
prehended existence of the divine will, with which
the divine will also makes for itself a counter-
stroke and being, wherein it works. And these
two are understood in two principles : the first
divine in a heavenly, and the second temporal in
an earthly.
31. And as the heavenly hangs on the earthly,
so also does the earthly on the heavenly, and yet
neither is the other. For the heavenly has a
spiritual nature, which is wholly an essential power,
and permeates and pervades the earthly, and yet
possesses only its principle. And it gives power
to the earthly, so that it obtains another new will,
and longs after the heavenly. Which longing is a
desire to go out from the vanity of Nature, whereof
the Scripture says : All creatures do earnestly long
with us to be freed from the vanity to which they
are subjected against their will (Rom. viii. 19-22).
32. Understand it aright. The egressed Desire