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A44580	An introduction to the Teutonick philosophie being a determination concerning the original of the soul, viz. whether it be immediately created God and infus'd into the body, or transmitted from the parent / by C. Hotham ... at the close of the dispute held in the publique schooles of the University of Cambridge at the Commencement, March 3, 1646 ; Englished by D.F.; Ad philosophiam teutonicam manuductio. English	Hotham, Charles, 1615-1672.; Hotham, Durant, 1617?-1691.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2896; ESTC R11445	21,441	96

but do not believe that before the fall of Lucifer it did break forth into its hellish actuality but was so becalm'd by the benigne effluence of the all-present Deity that it greatly further'd the manifestation of the eternal Godhead Fifthly Out of the friendly wrestling of the beams flowing from the Center of the Deity and the properties of the eternal Immense or Abysse there ariseth let the Reader understand that our expressions designative of a time must be understood from all eternity a majestatick light filling all this infinite space A slight resemblance of which we may perceive in our fire which when it hath digested the darknesse of its nourishment triumphs in a radiant flame having wrought through the clung prison of dark matter This light or at least its vital and chearing rayes breathing a sweet gale through the circuit of the infinite Abysse the holy Scripture especially the Apocryphal book of Solomon called by the name of Wisdome Sixthly Hence it may truly be affirmed that there was from all eternity is and shall be a divine World whose omnipresent Center is the Eternall Unity whose body and soule is the Abysse and its spirit is the divine Wisdome it self born of God the everlasting Father and of its mother the Abysse by which name I understand not any of the Divine Attributes but a certain Essence on all parts eternal living intelligent inferior only in dignity to the eternal Unity from whence this divine world hath all its ornament and variety and in which as in a glasse God hath from all eternity had a lively and most delightful prospect of his own lovely visage and incomprehensible beauty And now I desire the Auditors would attend whither all these notions carry them We have hitherto explained the first two Principles only by the first I understand the eternall Abysse by the second the Wisdome such as we have clearly described From these two principles it pleased the highest Creator after infinite revolutions of Eternity to create another world to wit the Angelical distinguished into three Regions like a nest of spheres whose inhabitants were Angels severed into three Hierarchies The middle and fullest of Light which is now our World was the habitation of Lucifer and his Angels whose Souls and Bodies as likewise of all other Angels were from the Abysse their Spirit from the fruitfull womb of the Eternal Wisdome This Lucifer beautifullest of all the rest and who resembled after whose Image its like he was made the Son of God with his Legions contemning the Milk of Gods divine Breast which was ordained to be the food and support of his spirit by an enormous appetite looked downward for the sustenance of his life to the menstruous efflux of the Nurse and Mother of his two inferiour Principles whereby his minde and will was choaked and his Angelick wings lim'd in unproportionable mire By this means the Spirit of Wisdome whose sweet rayes before had temper'd the bitter corrosions of the foure properties of the Matrix being stifled and extinct the sore-recited properties of the Abysse budded forth and flourished in their naturall vigour by whose dark and filthy fumes those proud Spirits being intoxicated fell then and still fall being in a bottomlesse into this following irrecoverable condition First A desire to appropriate the beauty of all the other Hierarchies yea of the whole Deity to themselves This arieth from the contractive and coagulative power of the Abysse Secondly To aspire beyond the limits of the whole Creation and to erect themselves a Throne in the Highest whereby they might subject God and all their fellow-creatures to a footstoole of their feet This desire began from the second Property which violently resists Coagulation or Confinement and whose motions are alwaies from the Center to the Circumference for they scorned to be pin-folded within the created Spheres but would make themselves in all points equall to the immense and infinite Creator Thirdly When this violent rising received a check by the limits wherein God had set all created Being there arose from the aforenam'd Properties a spirit of anguish and envy gnawing it self Fourthly and lastly broke forth that smoldering heat of darke fire whose proud force filled all their Region with flames and smoak and sulphurous tempest And here you may see the first originall of sinne and Hell-fire especially those foure Bases or corner-stones upon which 't is founded Covetousnes Pride Envy and Wrath For from these apostate Souls the spirit had retired to its mansion God had withdrawn drawn himself to his own Center the Wisdomes sweet light becalm'd the raging Deep or properties of the Abysse no more and what now remains but that these unhappy branches fallen from that communion with the Divine stock continue in their own sphere the eternal fewel of the fire themselves have kindled And now at last not without much toile under the difficulty of expressing these unheard of Notions we are arriv'd at a known Land describ'd ofold by the Poets to wit the Chaos the ancientest terme from whence they deduce all their story really no figment but a true adumbration of the topsie-turvie Regiment of Rebellious Lucifer in this mundane space before this new Creation And we may well suppose th●t by the strength of this venome the fel force of which we feel in our selves the other Hierarchies had soon been infected had not Gods seasonable right arme check't this magick vapour For the Eternal Father unwilling that so large a space destined above the rest for a seat of glory should eternally be bereft of his good influence and himself frustrate of his bountifull purpose to communicate happinesse to so many creatures on this stage applied himself by his powerfull word to appease these tumults that is created this sensible World out of that disordered heap And first of all He digested those particles or atoms of crass matter congealed by the constringing force of the Abysse into one body or if we may speak with the Copernicans into severall opake spheres separating them from the fluid matter and this is called in Scripture the Creation of Heaven Earth Then proceeding he gathered the darknesse which was disperst through the whole Luciferian region together with its Author into a narrow compasse framing thereof a stiffe dungeon for a receptacle of their all-comprehending Pride And this in Scripture is called the Creation of Light and the work of the first day And this was the first victory over Lucifer It would take up too much time to recite all the degrees of conquest but it is most cleare by the series of divine story that the holy Spirit of God desisted not from his conflict with this Chaos before it had perfected an absolute victory and overcome all the enflamed dark matter captivating it to some peculiar use subservient to the necessities or ornament of this world the temple and habitation of mankind And it is worthy our observation that God after the perfection of every dayes

work did with the whole Quire of Angels sing a triumphant song over the spoils of repulsed Hell of which himselfe beares witnesse in the book of Job And it is probable that the Seventh day being the utter subduing of the Luciferian tyrannie rendred that day a day of songs and jubilation to all created beings And although what I am about to say will be received with derision yet I shall utter my thoughts with freedome to wit That the 148. Psalm and the 104. were in the seventh day that great day of triumph and perhaps in all succeeding Sabbaths carol'd out by the Angels and afterwards dictated to the holy Prophets that Gods will might be done on earth as it is in heaven But if the naming of Israel and other expressions of the like nature in these Psalms should be to any man an occasion of the disrelish of this opinion Let that man know that there was an Israel in Heaven before Jacob was borne and a Tabernacle from whence Moses-his was copied out And who-so reads the Song of the Angels at our Saviour Christs birth and compares it with Davids Psalms he will judge them both composed for one Quire and sent down from thence to be learnt by those holy souls which shal be thought worthy to assist that Musick But this is but a Notion en passant I return to the matter in hand You had before a delineation of the two first Principles and now out of what hath been last delivered you may frame to your selves a definition of the third Principle For under that name I comprehend the Spirit and Body yea the whole Compages of this our late created sensible world And now as I conceive it sufficiently appeareth that Creation was not out of nothing and you likewise understand what I mean by the Three Principles the first and second of which namely the Abysse and the Wisedome are on all parts eternal and all things proceeding from them are finally eternal and immortal but what proceeds or is created out of the third Principle is as it self frail and mortal That I may therefore touch the matter at last at which all these Notions are levelled After the region of Lucifer was again made habitable and he relegated into sublunary darknes it seemed good to the Creatour to create in his place another Hierarch who with his numerous progenie might people this Region the dominion and possession whereof the former by his transgression had forfeited And that was Adam who though in reference to the predominant part of his composition he he called Earth of Earth yet it is very probable that every one of the Elements yielded of its finest parts to the composure of so goodly a Fabrick But whether in the begining his body were so grosse dark such as we now weare or rather such as we hope for in the Resurrection I am not yet satisfied with my self But concerning these mysteries with the sleep of Adam and formation of Eve they concern not the matter in hand Into this body of Adam perfect in all parts God breathed the breath of life by which breath if we ingenuously compare Scriptures we must necessarily understand the threefold life issuing from the three forementioned Principles to wit The life of the Spirit from the Wisdome the life of the Soule from the Abysse the life of the Body from the Mundane spirit by the mediation of all which he is enabled to communicate with all the three Worlds And although the life of the Spirit did according to Gods just commination fall asleep in Adam yea so deep asleep that he being in truth dead as to that spirit and it as to him it is in Scripture called death yet did it not utterly perish but is together with the body and soules conveyed from our first parents into their posterity asleep still except it be revived and re-enlivened in that great mysterious work of the Regeneration after the consumation of which we are able by its ministry to search the hidden things of the Deity For as being carried in the chariot of the Worlds spirit with the five attendant Senses we view all its frame and know its motions so by our Soul we have a prospect into the eternal Abysse and by the Spirit into the magick glasse of the Wisdom and depth of the Deity and herein is our dignity above the brute beasts whose composition participates onely of the last principle we besides that of the first and second But if any man wonder that three such noble and spiritual Essences should croud themselvs up into so mean and contemptible a vehicle and not presse into freedome let that man likewise consider and begin first to wonder that such a spiritual and vivacious essence as the Soul is by all supposed to be should be coop'd in so pervious a cask as the Body is and know that that full-grown bulk is as unproportionable to her greatnes as this contemptible Epitome And let this be a further answer That the Spirit which out-stretched the branches of the mustard-tree that our Saviour speaks of in which the fowls of the aire made their nests sate with as much elbow-room in that smallest of seeds from whence that greatest sprung Further more they affirm that this threefold life is not yet actually and visibly existent no more then the body such as it appears afterwards in all its dimensions but that therein are three roots of substances lodged which in processe of time bud forth together with the Body into a th●e fold life where if any dark impervious matter hinder their joint progresse each retires to its mother-Ocean from whence it issued These things premised and well weighed it will not be difficult to determine either of the Creation or Traduction of Soules when the terme and manner of both well understood differ in no real concernment For seeing we have proved that Creation neither is nor ever was from nothing I understand not why we may not affirm that both Body and Soul were and are created by God but of matter derived from the Parents But the Soul not of that visible and sensible which the obtuse beams of our Senses can penetrate but such as disappears from all material anatomy Yet if any man shall think that these opinions in this are stil at odds in that an immediate creation and infusion of the soul is maintained by the one The other builds it by the same hand but mediately and of secondary materials This difference too will be easily reconciled for we affirm and doubt not to an unbiass'd judgment to prove it that both our bodies and soules do yet as immediately proceed from God as that of our first father Adam A great illustration of the matter in hand is that vision of Ezekiel of the dry bones timbred into bodies and inspired with life It is in the 37. Chapter of Ezekiel from the first to the eleventh verse 1. The hand of the Lord was upon me and