180 ON THE DIVINE INTUITION
by sense. And therein is rightly understood a
paradise or working of divine powers, as a per-
petual formation of divine will. And by this
budding is to be understood the outgoing of the
good senses, whereby the divine wisdom formed
itself in figure in a divine manner, and by such
formation the divine understanding manifested
itself through the outgoing of the life of sense.
Hence it was rightly called an image of God, in
which the divine will revealed itself.
4. But when this life in the first principle was
breathed upon in its image by the fierce wrathful
devil, so that the devil whispered it, that it
were good and profitable for it that the outgoing
of the senses from the life should break itself off
from the temperament, and should bring itself
into an image of its own according to the pro-
perties of plurality, to prove dissimilarity, viz. to
know and to be sensible of evil and good;
5. Then the life's own will consented, and
brought the senses as the outgoing Desire there-
into; it has introduced itself into desire , for
ownness, and impressed or comprehended itself
in selfhood.
6. And then immediately the life's understand-
ing became manifest in [separated] qualities;
Nature has taken the life captive in dissimilarity,
and set up her rule. Whence the life is become
painful, and the inward divine ground of the good
will and nature has been extinguished, that is,
has become inoperative as to the. creature. For
the life's will broke itself off therefrom, and went
into sensibility, out of unity into plurality; it
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