Lumen de Lumine

This spirit or Intelligence is the πρηστὴρ, a Notion of the admirable Zoroaster, as I find him render’d by Julian the Chaldaean. It comes from πρήθω uro, and signifies Lightning, or a certaine burning Turbo, or whirl-wind, but in the sense of our Chaldee it is the Fire-spirit of Life. It is an Influence of the Almighty God, and it comes from Terra Viventium, namely the second person, whom the Cabalists style the Supernaturall East. For as the Naturall Light of the Sun is first manifested to us in the East, so the Supernatural Light was first manifested in the second person, for he is Principium Alterationis, the Beginning of the wayes of God, or the first Manifestation of his Father’s Light in the Supernatural Generation. From this Terra Viventium, or Land of the Living comes all Life or spirit, according to that position of the Mekkubalim: