Karanlık Alef ve Aydınlık Alef: Yaratılışın Eşiğinde

...the Second Person is the Light, and the Third is "Fiery Love," or a Divine Heate proceeding from both. Now, without the presence of this Heate there is no reception of the Light, and by consequence no influx from the Father of Lights. For this "Love" is the medium which unites the Lover to that which is beloved, and probably 'tis the Platonicks' "Chief Daimon," who doth unite us to the Rulers of Spirits. I could speak much more of the offices of this Loving Spirit, but these are "Grand Mysteries of God and of Nature," and require not our discusse so much as our reverence.

Here also I might speak of that supernaturall generation, whereof Trismegistus: "The one begetteth one, and doth reflect upon itself its own brightness;" but I leave this to the Almighty God as his own essentiall, centrall mystery. It is my onely intention in this place to handle exterior actions, or the process of the Trinity from the Center to the Circumference. And that I may the better do it, you are to understand that God before his work of creation was wrapped up and contracted in himself. In this state the Egyptians stile him "Solitary Monad," and the Cabalists "Dark Aleph;" but when the decreed instant of creation came, then appeared "Bright Aleph," and the First Emanation was that of the Holy Ghost into the bosom of the matter.

Thus we read that Darknesse was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Here you are to observe that notwithstanding this processe of the Third Person, yet was there no Light, but darknesse on the face of the deep, illumination properly being the office of the second...