The sixth property. What the Will speaks, and what love produces when it expresses. Not information, not doctrine, and not a thing that can be handed over, which is why every mechanism built to deliver it delivers something else.
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The Word is what the Will speaks.
The Father is the Will that expresses. The Son is the Word the Will speaks. The Spirit is the going-forth out of the spoken Word. The Trinity is not three parties to a settlement. It is one speaking, heard from three positions: the speaker, the spoken, and the going-forth.
Böhme reads in the beginning was the Word as an account of how anything came to be at all, and not only as a statement about salvation.
[See BÖHME · UNGRUND · THE SEVEN QUALITIES]
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WHAT THE WILL SPEAKS, AND WHERE IT CAME FROM
The Will desires the Joy. The desiring attracts it. The attracting infects the Will. The infection makes the Will swell. The Will holds what swelled it.
That is a pregnancy at the eternal level, and what is brought forth is the Word: not manufactured, not decided on, not selected from options. Conceived, in the only sense the word has when there is nothing outside to conceive from.
Which is why the Word had no matter to work with. It made everything out of the darkness and brought it to light so that what was there could appear. Manifestation is the purpose and not a by-product. A depth that never speaks is indistinguishable from an absence, including to itself.
[See THE ETERNAL DISCOVERING · SOPHIA · THE FOURTH DAY]
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WITHOUT IT THE MATRIX GENERATES AND CANNOT SPEAK
The eternal Word worked in the dark matrix, which in itself, without the light, would be dumb.
Not empty. Dumb. The matrix generates without ceasing and cannot say what it is generating, and the difference between those two is the whole of what the Word supplies.
And it imprinted itself in all the forms, including the wrathful ones, so that what came from a harsh form was not harsh where the Word had touched it. That is not a sweetening. It is the same substance under a different condition, which is what tempering means everywhere else in this body of work.
The Fiat is the Word's operation in the third principle, and the Fiat does not initiate. Darkness longs, fire kindles, and the Fiat completes. A command that had to start things would be a different cosmology, with a maker standing outside.
[See FIAT · THE MATRIX · TEMPERATUR]
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IT DID NOT RESCUE FROM OUTSIDE
The essences of the soul were infected, and the soul could not be helped unless it were born anew through the Word.
The Word did not reach in. It entered the condition. Became man completely, became a human soul, and went into the eternal dying that is the first principle without light.
Then generated the soul anew from the ground. Not from outside the ground, and not by substituting a clean thing for a spoiled one. From the same ground where the infection held, which is the only place a regeneration could occur that would still be the same creature afterwards.
That is the difference between this and a transaction. Nothing was paid and nothing changed hands. Something went into the place where the damage was and worked there.
[See THE REGENERATOR · TRANSACTION · WOUND AS APERTURE]
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WHERE IT IS NOW, AND IT IS NOT ABOVE THE STARS
The Word sticks in the center of the soul and is the bridegroom of the soul. It does not stick in mortal flesh and blood, because the corruptible cannot hold the incorruptible.
The soul stands in the gate, in the doorway between heaven and hell, and the Word is on the heaven side of it. If the soul is faithful the Word rests in its bosom. If the soul departs, the Word remains where it was, which means the departure is a departure and not a destruction.
And then the sentence that removes every intermediary at once: the Word is near thee, yea in thy heart and lips.
Not above the stars. Not behind a gate. Not requiring anyone's law for access, and not in the keeping of whoever is currently authorized to keep things.
[See THE GATE · THE THROAT · DIRECT ENCOUNTER]
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WHAT CANNOT BE LENT
The learned master in the hood of his degree cannot believe what the soul receives directly, and the reason is not arrogance. He is operating the instrument that cannot register it. Comprehension is in darkness, and darkness does not comprehend light.
So the credential can speak about the Word and cannot speak it. The Word that the Will speaks cannot be spoken by anything derivative, because speaking it requires the Will that generates it, and a derivative does not have one.
Which forecloses the whole machinery of transmission without needing to accuse anyone of bad faith. Nothing is being withheld. There is nothing in transit.
The pearl is the Word received. Not explained, not interpreted, not mediated. Received, by the life in the creature that resonates with it because the life came from it, which is a recognition and not an acquisition.
[See PEARL · THE TOLLBOOTH · GELASSENHEIT]
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THE SIXTH PROPERTY
Love radiates at the fifth. The sixth is what love produces when it expresses, and the seventh is the body that participates.
So the Word is voice-substance: what makes an interior communicable without making it extractable. That pair is the whole difficulty. Anything communicable can be taken, unless what makes it communicable is the same thing that refuses to be held, and the Word is that or it is nothing.
Which is why the tampering happened here rather than anywhere else. A translation corrupted at the sixth property does not merely misreport a doctrine. It occupies the position through which the creature would have said what she perceives.
[See AUDIBILITY · THE ROUGH VOICE · TESHUQAH]
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The Word is not information and not doctrine, and both of those can be delivered, which is what makes them attractive to whoever wants a delivery mechanism.
It is what the Will speaks, brought forth from the Will's own pregnancy, and it is in the heart and on the lips of the creature already.
Nothing has to be brought to her. Something has to stop standing where it already is.
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