Zinzendorf and the seven Spirits - NCCG.ORG Ning Network Archive 2008-10

Shalom, I´m reading a book about Zinzendorf. I qoute a long passage which is interesting because he talks about the seven spirits: "Now also a reatus (accusation) stands against us which is no mere imputation, as the righteeousness of Jesus Christ, but such a one as is mixed with its own guilt. Because we by nature stand not only as servants under sin but we so easily marry our tyrant and consent to his government because we are indeed bound to him, because sin is pleasant to us, naturell, and suitable to our taste; on the other hand the intercourse, with God and divine matters are foreign, unreal, fatal and unpleasant, and the more precious a truth is, the closer it is to heart, the more offensive it is to the heart by nature.When one sees that bad children come from good parents and good children come from bad parents, one finds repeated proof, that the son does not bear the iniquity of the father, and that in the least is there any spiritual inheritance, neither among the good or bad; but in the case of the Gospel it depends upon each person obtaining his allotted little Spirit for himself, and that the Holy seven Spirits go out to kindle a fire from the hole in Jesus side, that out of the element of soul, out of the parente communi animarum [universal parent of souls] (so the eternal fire is called - Isaiah 33:14, Hebrews 12:20) sparks enter the heart, living sparks, as the Protestant confessions say, which ignite in persons and enthrone the spirit of Christ in such a body and soul.

From the book "An ecumenical theology of the heart, The Theology of Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf" by Artur J. Freeman .

It does not mean that Zinzendorf actually belived that the Ruach haQodesh were seven but he was aware of the fact that the bible speaks about the seven Spirits.

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