Beginning and End 13. And in the Head is the divine Councel-Seat or Throne and it signifieth God the Father and the Five Senses or qualities are the Counsellours which have their influences out of the whole Body out of all the powers 14. Now the Five Senses alwayes sit in Councel in the Power of the whole Body and when the Councels Decree is concluded then the compacted or concreted Judge speaketh it out into its Center or midst of the Body as a WORD into the Heart for that is the fountain of all powers from which also it taketh its rise 15. Now it standeth there in the Heart as a self-subsisting Person composed out of all powers and is a Word and signifieth God the Sonne and now it goeth out from the Heart into the Mouth on to the Tongue which is the sharpnesse and that so sharpeneth it that it soundeth forth and is distinguished according to the Five Senses 16. From what Quality soever the word taketh its original in that quality it is thrust forth upon the Tongue and the power of the distinction or difference goeth forth from the Tongue and that signifieth the Holy Ghost 17. For as the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and distinguisheth and sharpneth all and effecteth or produceth that which the Father speaketh through the Word 18. So also the Tongue sharpneth articulateth and distinguisheth all that which the Five Senses in the head bring through the heart on to the Tongue and the Spirit goeth forth from the Tongue through the Mercurius or Tone in that place as it was decreed or concluded by the Councel of the five Senses and executeth it all Of the Mouth 19. The Mouth signifieth that thou art an un-allmighty Sonne of thy Father whether thou art an Angel or a Man For through the Mouth thou must draw into thee the power of thy Father if thou wilt live 20. An Angel must do so as well as a man though indeed he needs not to use the Element of Aire in that manner as a man doth yet he must attract into himself through the Mouth the Spirit from which the Ayr in this world existeth 21. For in Heaven there is no such Ayr but the qualities are very meek and joyful like a pleasant cheering Breath of wind and the Holy Ghost is among all the qualities in the Salitter 2nd Mercurius 22. And this the Angel also must make use of or else he cannot be a moveable creature for he must also eat of the heavenly fruit through the Mouth 23. Thou must not understand this in an earthly manner for an Angel hath no Guts neither Flesh nor Bones but is constituted or composed by the Divine power in the shape form and manner of a man and hath all members like Man except the Members of Generation and the Fundament or going out of the Draffe neither hath an Angel need of them 24. For Man gat his members of Generation and Fundament first in his dolefull and lamentable fall An Angel sendeth forth nothing but the Divine power which he taketh in at his Mouth wherewith he kindleth his heart and the heart kindleth all the members and that he sendeth forth from himself again at the Mouth when he speaketh and praiseth God 25. But the heavenly fruits which he eateth are not earthly and though they are in such a form and shape as the earthly are yet they are meer Divine power and have such a pleasant Lovely Taste and Smell that I cannot liken it to any thing in this world for they Taste and Smell of the Holy Trinity 26. Thou must not think that they are there only as it were a Type or shadow of things no for the Spirit sheweth plainly that in the heavenly pomp in the heavenly Salitter and Mercurius do grow Divine Trees Plants Flowers and all sorts of whatsoever is in this world but as a type and resemblance And as the Angels are so are the vegetation and fruits all from the Divine power 27. These heavenly Sprouts and Springings thou must not wholly liken to this world For there are two Qualities in this world a Good and an Evil and many things grow through the power of the Evill quality which doth not so in Heaven 28. For Heaven hath but one form or manner nothing groweth there which is not good Only Lord Lucifer hath deform'd and dress'd this world in that manner And therefore was Mother Eve ashamed when she had eaten of that which was dress'd by the Evil quality in like manner also she was ashamed of her members of Generation which she had caused by biting of this Apple 29. The Angelical and Heavenly fruit hath not such a substance indeed it is most certain and true that there are all manner of fruits in heaven and not meerly Types and Shadowes also the Angels pluck them with their Hands and eat them as we do that are Men but they need not any Teeth to do it withall neither have they any for the fruit is of a divine power 30. Now all this whatsoever an Angel maketh use of which is Externally without him for the supporting of his life is not his corporeal propriety as if he had it by a Natural right but the Heavenly Father giveth it them in love 31. True it is their Body is their own propriety for God hath given it to them for a propriety Now whatsoever is given to any for his own or for propriety that is his by right of Nature and he doth not deal righteously which taketh it from him again unlesse upon condition and agreement And thus God doth not neither and therefore an Angel is an eternal incorruptible Creature which standeth or subsisteth in all Eternity 32. But what would the Body profit him if God did not feed it for then it would have no mobility and would lye still like a dead Block Now therefore the Angels are obedient to God and humble themselves before the powerful God they honour laud and praise him in his Great Deeds and Works of Wonder and sing continually of Gods Holinesse Because He feedeth them Of the Gracious Blessed and Joyfull Love of the Angels toward God from a true Ground 33. The right Love in the divine Nature cometh from the fountain of the Sonne of God Behold thou child of man let this be told thee the Angels know already what the right Love toward God is but thou needest it in thy cold Heart 34. Observe when the gracious amiable blessed Joyful Glance and Light together with the sweet power out of the Sonne of God shineth into all powers in the whole Father then all the powers are kindled by the Gracious amiable blessed lovely Light and sweet power in a triumphing and joyful manner 35. So also when the Gracious amiable Blessed and joyful Light of the Sonne of God shineth on the loving Angels and casteth its Beams into their Heart then all the powers in their Body are kindled and there riseth up
heed what thou dost and consider what thou art thou judgest others and art blind thy self 53 But the Spirit saith thou hast no cause for it viz. to Judge him who is better then thou Have we not all one flesh and our life subsisteth in God be it in his Love or in his Anger for what thou sowest that thou shalt reap Note 54. God is not the Cause thereof that thou art lost for the law to do right or righteousness is written in Nature and thou hast that very Book in thy Heart 55. Thou knowest very well that thou shouldest deal well and friendly with thy Neighbour also thou knowest well that thou shouldest not vilifie thy own life that is thou shouldest not bemire and defile thy own body and soul and lay open their shame 56. Surely herein consisteth the Pith and kernell and the Love of God God doth not regard any mans Name or Birth but he that moveth or acteth in the Love of God moveth in the Light and the light is the Heart of God Now he that sitteth in the Heart of God who can spew him out from thence none for he is begotten or Generated in God 57. O thou blind half dead world cease from thy Judging O thou blind Jew Turk and Heathen desist from thy calumniating and submit thy self in obedience to God and walk in the Light then thou wilt see how thou shouldest rise from thy Fall and how thou shouldest Arme thy self in this world against the hellish fiercenesse and wrath and how thou mayst overcome and live with God Eternally 58. Most certainly there is but One God but when the vail is put away from thy Eyes so that thou seest and knowest him then thou wilt also see and know all thy brethren whether they be Christians Jews Turks or Heathens 59. Or dost thou think that God is the God of you Christians only Do not the Heathens also live in God whosoever doth right or righteousnesse God loveth and accepteth him Act. 10. 35. 60. Or what didst thou know that art a Christian how God would Redeem and deliver thee from Evill what friendship and familiarity haddest thou with HIM or what covenant haddest thou made with HIM when God caused his Sonne to become Man or be incarnate to redeem Mankind Is He only thy King Is it not written He is the comfort of all the Heathen Haggai 2. 8. 61. Hearken By one man sin came into the world and pressed through one upon all Rom. 5. 18. and through one came the Redemption into the world and pressed through one upon all what therefore lieth in any mans knowledge No! indeed thou didst not know how God would deale with thee when thou wert Dead in Sins 62. Now as Sin without distinction raigneth through one Man over all so Mercy and Redemption raigneth through one over all 63. But unto those Heathens Jews and Turks blindnesse did befall yet for all that they stand in an anxious Birth and seek for a rest they desire Grace though they seek not for it at the right mark or in the right Place or Limit but God is every where and looketh upon the ground of the Heart 64. But if in their anxious Birth the Light be generated in them what art thou that judgest them 65. Behold thou blind Man I will demonstrate this to thee thus Go into a Medow there thou seest several sorts of Herbs and flowers thou seest some that are Bitter some Tart Sweet Sowre White Yellow Red Blew Green and many various sorts 66. Do they not all grow out of the Earth Do they not stand one by another Doth the one Grutch the beautious form of the other 67. But if one among them lifteth up it self too high in its growth and so withereth because it hath not Sap enough How can the Earth help it Doth it not afford its Sap to that as well as to the other 68. But if Thorns grow among them and the Mower cometh to reap his crop he cutteth them down together but he casteth out the Thorns and they are to be burnt in the fire but the various flowers and good Crop he gathereth and causeth it to be brought into his Barn 69. Thus it is also with Men there are diversities of Gifts and accomplishments Endowments or Aptitudes one it may be is much Lighter or brighter in God then an other but all the while they do not wither in the Spirit they are not rejectible but when the Spirit withereth then that is good and usefull for nothing but for fewell and is only as wood for the Fire 70. But if the Turks be of an astringent Quality and the Heathens of a Bitter what is that to thee Is the light becom shining in the astringent and bitter qualities then it giveth Light also 71. But thou art generated in the Heat where the light riseth up in the sweet spring or fountain-water have a care lest the Heat burn thee it is time thou shouldst do well to Quench that Question 72. Thou sayest Is it right then that the Heathens Jewes and Turks should persevere in their blindnesse Answer 73. No but this I say How can he see that hath no Eyes for what doth the poor Lay or vulgar man know of the Tumults which the Priests have in their drunkennesse He goeth on in his simplicity and generateth anxiously in his Spiritual Birth Question 74. But then thou sayest Hath God blinded the Turks Jews and Heathens Answer No but when God kindled the light for them then they lived after the pleasures voluptuousnesse and Lusts of their own Hearts and would not be led or directed by the Spirit and so the outward Light extinguished 75. But it is not therefore so totally extinguished that it could not be generated in Man for man is out of or from God and liveth in God be it either in Love or in Wrath. 76. Now if man be in a Longing should he not be impregnated in his Longing and so if he be impregnated once then he can generate also But because the outward Light doth nor shine to him therefore he doth not know his Sonne whom he hath generated 77. But when the Light shall arise on the Last Jugment Day then he will See HIM 78. Behold I tell thee a mystery the time is already that the Bridegroom crowneth his Bride 79. Guesse Friend where lyeth the Crown Toward the North For in the Center of the astringent quality the light will be clear and bright 80. But from whence cometh the Bridegroom From the midst or Center where the Heat Generateth the light and goeth toward the North into the astringent quality there the Light groweth Bright 81. What do these toward the South They are in the Heat fallen asleep but a stormy Tempest will awaken them among these many will be terrified to Death 82. Then what do those in the West their Bitter quality will rub it self with the other but when they taste the sweet water then will their
riseth up the astringent or harsh quality rubs it self with the Bitter and Hot and there the light kindleth which is the Sonne of which it is alwayes impregnated in its Body and that enlighteneth and maketh it living 39. Now that light in Lucifer was so fair bright and Beautiful that he excelled the bright form of heaven and in that light was perfect Understanding for all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits generate that same light 40. But now the seven qualifying or fountain-Spirits are the Father of the Light and may permit or suffer the Birth of the Light to be as much as they please and the light cannot exalt or raise it self higher then the qualifying or fountain-spirits will permit or give it leave 41. But when the Light is generated then it enlightneth all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits so that all seven are Understanding and do all seven give their will to the Birth of the Light 42. But now every one hath power and Might to alter its will in the Birth of the light according as there is need now if that be so then the spirit cannot triumph thus but must lay down its prancing Pomp. 43. And therefore it is that all seven spirits are in full power every one of them hath the Reines in its hand that it may hold in and check the generated spirit from triumphing any higher then is fit for it 44. But the seven spirits which are in an Angel which generate the light and understanding they are bound and united with the whole God that they should not qualifie any other way either higher or more vehemently then God himself but that there should be one and the same manner and way between them both 45. Seeing they are but a part or peece of the whole and not the whole it self for God hath therefore created them out of himself that they should qualifie operate or Act in such a manner form and way as God himself doth 46. But now the qualifying or fountain spirits in Lucifer did not so but they seeing that they sate in the highest Primacie or Rank they moved themselves so hard and strongly that the spirit which they generated was very fiery and climbed up in the fountain of the heart like a Proud Damsell or Virgin 47. If the qualifying or fountain spirits had moved qualified or acted gently and lovely as they did before they became creaturely as they were universally in God before the Creation then had they generated also a gentle lovely mild and meek Sonne in them which would have been like to the Sonne of God and then the Light in Lucifer and the Light of the Sonne of God had been One thing one qualifying operating acting and affecting one and the same lovely kissing Embracing and struggling 48. For the great Light which is the Heart of God would have played meekly mildly and lovingly with the small Light in Lucifer as with a young sonne for the little sonne in Lucifer should have been the dear little brother of the Heart of God 49. To this End God the Father hath created the Angels that as he is manifold and various in his Qualities and in his alteration or variegation is incomprehensible in his Sport or Scene of Love so the little spirits also or the little Lights of the Angels which are as the Sonne of God should play or sport very gently or lovely in the great light before the Heart of God that the Joy in the Heart of God might here be encreased and that so there might be a holy Sport Scene or play in God 50. The seven spirits of Nature in an Angel should play and rise up gently in God their Father as they had done before their creaturely Being and rejoyce in their New-born sonne which they have generated out of themselves which is the Light and Understanding of their Body 51. And that light should rise very gently or mildly in the Heart of God and rejoyce in the light of God as a child with its Mother and so there should be a Hearty loving and friendly kissing a very meek and pleasant Taste or relish 52. In this the Tone should rise up and sound with singing and ringing forth in praising and jubilating also all the qualities should rejoyce therein and every spirit should exercise or practise its Divine work or labour as God the Father Himself doth 53. For the seven spirits had this in perfect knowledge for they were united and actuated with God the Father so that they could all see feel taste smell and hear what God their Father did or wrought and made 54. But when they elevated themselves in a sharp or strong kindling then they did against Natures Right otherwise then God their Father did and this was a stirring quality or rising up against or contrary to the whole Deity 55. For they kindled the Salitter of the Body and generated a high triumphing Sonne which in the astringent quality was hard rugged or rough dark and cold in the sweet was burning bitter and fiery The Tone was a hard fiery noise The Love was a lofty Emnity against God 56. Here now stood the kindled Bride in the seventh Nature-spirit like a Proud Beast now she supposed she was beyond or above God nothing was like her now Love grew cold the Heart of God could not touch it for there was a contrary will or opposition betwixt them The Heart of God moved very meekly and lovingly and the heart of the Angel moved very darkly hard cold and fiery 57. And the heart of God should now unite and qualifie with the Heart of the Angel but that could not be for there was now hard against soft and soure against sweet and dark against light and fire against a pleasant gentle warmth and a hard knocking or rumbling against a loving melodious song Question Hearken Lucifer Where lyeth the fault now that thou art become a Devill Is God in fault as thou lyingly sayst Answer 58. O no thou thy self art faulty the qualifying or fountain Spirits in thy Body which thou thy self art have generated thee such a little sonne Thou canst not say that God hath kindled the Salitter out of which he made thee but thy qualifying or fountain spirits have done it whereas thou wert clearly before a Prince and King of God 59. Therefore when thou sayst God Created thee thus or that he hath without sufficient cause spewed thee up out of thy place then art thou a Lyar and Murtherer For the whole heavenly Hoast or Army beareth witnesse against thee that thou hast thy self erected and prepared this fierce Quality for thy self 60. If it be not so then go before the face of God and Justifie thy self But thou seest it plain enough without that and besides thou darest not look on that matter Wouldst not thou fain have a friendly kisse of the Sonne of God that thou mightst once be eased or refreshed if thou art in the Right then do but once
in it 153. Thus now the Heat kindled the dryed water and the light could no more elevate and kindle it self for the water was dryed up and was quite consumed by the fire or great Heat 154. The meaning is not here as if the spirit of the water were swallowed up or devoured which dwelleth in all the seven qualities but its Quality or upper place or predominancy was changed into a dusky hot and sour Quality 155. For here in this place the sour quality hath taken its first original and beginning which now also is inherited in this world which is not in Heaven in God after such a manner at all nor in any Angel for it is and signifieth the house of affliction trouble and misery and is a forgetfulnesse of all Good 156. Now when this was done the qualifying or fountain spirits rubb'd themselves one upon another in that manner and way as I have mentioned above concerning the Figure of the Sevenfold wheel for they use thus to rise up one in another and to taste one another or to affect one another from whence life and love existeth 157. Now in all the spirits there was nothing else but a meer Hot Fiery Cold and Hard corruption and so one evil quality tasted the other whereby the whole Body grew so very fierce and wrathfull for the Heat was against the Cold and the Cold against the Heat 158. And so the sweet water being dryed up the bitter quality which existed and was generated by the first flash when the light kindled it self rose up in the Body through all the spirits as if it would destroy the Body and so raved and raged like the rankest or worst Poison 159. And from thence existed the first Poison wherein we poor men now in this world have enough to chew upon and thereby the bitter poisonous Death is come into the flesh 160. In this raging and tearing now the life of Lucifer was generated that is his dear little sonne in the circle or center of his heart and what manner of life and dear little sonne came to be I offer to any Rational Soul to consider of 161. For such as the Father was such was the Sonne also viz. a dark astringent Cold hard bitter hot sour stinkiug fountain or source and the Love stood in the Bitter quality in its penetrating taste and relish and became an emnity against all the qualifying or fountain spirits in the Body of the high minded arrogant King 162. Thus the Tone rose up through the penetrating of the bitter quality through the heat and dryed water and through the astringent hard quality into the heart into the little new dear sonne 163. And here the spirit went forth and as He was generated in the heart so he went forth now at the Mouth but how welcome a Guest he was before God and in God also before the Holy Angels of the other Kingdoms I leave to thee to consider of 164. He should now have united with the Sonne of God as one Heart and one God Alas for ever Who can write or expresse this sufficiently The Fourteenth Chapter How Lucifer who was the Beautiousest Angel in Heaven is become the most horrible Devil The House of the murtherous Denne 1. HEre King Lucifer pull thy Hatt down into thy Eyes lest thou shouldst see how man will take off thy Crown away from thee thou canst no more Rule in Heaven stand still a little while we must first view thee and observe what a Beautious fair Bride thou art and whether the filth of thy whoredom may not be cleansed and washed away from thee that thou mayst be fair again we will a little describe thy chastity and vertue 2. Come on ye Philosophers and ye Lawyers and Advocates that justifie and defend King Lucifer Come near and bring him to the Barre whilest he hath yet the Crown upon him for here we will hold a Court of Judgment against Malefactours for him If ye can maintain his cause to be right then he shall be your King if not then he shall be turn'd out and cast down into Hell and another shall get his Royall Crown who will Govern Better then He. Now Observe 3. When Lucifer had thus horribly spoiled and destroyed himself all his qualifying or fountain spirits were Emnity against God for they all qualified or acted much otherwise then God and so there came to be an eternal Emnity betwixt God and Lucifer But now it might be Asked Question How Long did Lucifer stand in the Light of God The Depth Answer 4. When the Royall Body of Lucifer was incorporated or compacted together in that very Hour the Light kindled it self also in Lucifer 5. For as soon as his qualifying or fountain spirits in the framing of the Body began to qualifie or operate and to generate themselves according to the right of Nature then rose up the flash of life in the heart in the sweet spring or fountain water and so the Royall Body was ready furnished or compleat and the spirit went forth in the heart from the light through the mouth into the Heart of God 6. And so he was a most exceeding beautifull Prince and King and very dear and acceptable to the Divine Being and was received and embraced with great Joy 7. In like manner also the spirit went forth from the heart into all qualifying or fountain veins of the Body and kindled all the seven spirits and so the Royall Body was glorified in the twinkling of an Eye and there he stood as a King of God in an unsearchable clarity or Brightnesse transcendently excelling the whole heavenly Hoast or Army 8. Now in this clear and light flash the seven qualifying or fountain spirits were instantly affected as a man kindleth a fire for they were affrighted at the terrible clarity or brightnesse of their spirit and so instantly at the first flash suddenly became highly triumphing rising aloft extream stately and over-joyful and so moved themselves towards a higher Birth 9. But if they had continued in their seats and had qualified or operated as they had done from eternity then that high Light had not hurt them 10. For they were not new spirits made of any new thing but they were the Old spirits which had no beginning which had been in God from Eternity and knew very well the Right of the Deity and of Nature how they should move and stir 11. Also when God figured or framed the Body together he did not aforehand destroy the qualifying or fountain spirits but figured or framed the Body of King Lucifer together out of the kernel of that which was the best wherein was the best knowledge of all 12. Else if the qualities had been dead aforehand they had had need of a new Life and it wonld have been in doubt whether the Angels could have subsisted Eternally Conceive it aright 13. God created Angels out of himself therefore that they might be harder and dryer incorporated or
The Devil also knoweth as much but it profiteth him Nothing so thou also thou foolish world goest no further but contentest thy self with the bare knowledge and therefore this thy knowledge will Judge thee 15. But if thou woudlst know what the true Faith is then observe Thy heart must not qualifie or co-operate with the four Sonnes of the Devill in Pride Covetousnesse Envy Wrath Extortion Oppression Lying Deceiving Murther and tearing the Bread out of thy neighbours Throat studying day and night to do mischief in bringing subtile Devices and designs to Effect that thou mayst give satisfaction to the Proud Covetous Envious and wrathful Devils to Court them and exercise thy self in worldly pleasures and voluptuousnesse 16. For thus saith the spirit in its zeal or in the Jealousie of Gods wrath in this world while thy spirit and will qualifieth or co-operateth with and in the four Abominations of the Devill thou art not one spirit with God and saith the spirit though thou presentest me every Hour with thy Lips and Prayest and bowest thy knees before me yet I will accept none of thy Labour Is not thy breath however continually before me whar shall thy Incense be to me in my fierce wrath dost thou think I will recive the Devil into my self or exalt Hell into Heaven 17. Convert Convert and strive against the malice and wickedness of the Devill and incline thine heart towards the LORD thy GOD and walk in his will Heart will incline to me saith the spirit then will I also incline to thee or dost thou think that I am false and wicked as thou art 18. Therefore I say now if thy heart doth not qualifie mix or Co-operate with God in thy knowledge out of a true Purpose of Love then thou art a Dissembler Lyar and Murtherer in the sight of God for God doth not hear any mans Prayer unlesse his Heart be fully directed and bent in Obedience to God 19. Wouldst thou fight against the Wrath of God then thou must put on the Helmet of Obedience and of Love otherwise thou wilt not break thorough and if thou dost not break thorough then thou fightest in vain and remainest to be a Servant or Minister of the Devil in one way as well as in the other 20. What will thy knowledge do thee Good if thou wilt not strive and fight therein It is Just as if one knew of a great Treasure and would not go for it but though he knoweth he might have it would rather starve for hunger in the bare knowing of it 21. Thus saith the spirit many Heathens who have not thy knowledge and yet strive or fight against the wrath will enter into the Kingdome of Heaven before thee 22. For who shall Judge them if their Heart do qualifie unite or operate with God For though they do not know him and yet work and labour in his spirit in Righteousnesse and in the purity of their Heart in true Love one to another they testifie assuredly that the Law of God is in their Heart Rom. 2. 15. 23. But being thou knowest it and dost it not and the other know it not but yet do it they with their Doing judge thy knowledge and thou art found to be a hypocrite dissembler and an unprofitable Servant who wert put into the Vineyard of the Lord and wilt not work therein 24. What dost thou suppose the Master of the House will say to thee when he shall require and demand his Talent which he entrusted thee with thou having buried it in the Earth will he not say thou Perverse wicked servant why didst thou not put my Talent out upon use and then I could have demanded the Principall and the Interest or profit 25. Note And so the sufferings of Christ will be quite taken from thee and will be given to the Heathens who had but One Talent and yet made Five good for it to the Master of the House and thou must howl with the Dogs Now Observe 26. Now if we will rightly consider How God separated the water under the Firmament from the water above the Firmament then great Things are to be found herein 27. For the water which resteth on the Earth is as a corrupt perished and mortal or Dead Being or Thing as the Earth is and belongeth also to the outermost Birth which with its comprehensibility or as to its palpability standeth in Death even as the Earth and Stones do 28. The meaning is not that it is quite reprobated rejected or thrust out from God for the Heart therein belongeth yet to the Astrall Birth or Geniture out of which the holy Birth becometh Generated 29. But Death standeth in the outermost Birth and therefore is the palpable water separated from the impalpable Now thou wilt Ask How is that Answer 30. Behold the water in the Deep above the Earth which qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Elementary Ayr and Fire that is the water of the Astrall Birth or Geniture wherein standeth the Astral life and wherein especially the Holy Ghost moveth and through which the Third and innermost Birth doth generate incomprehensibly as to the wrath of God therein and that water to our Eyes seemeth like the Ayr. 31. But that Water Ayr and Fire are one in another in the Deep above the Earth every intelligible Man may see and understand 32. For thou seest that often the whole Deep is very clear and pure and in a quarter of an Hour is covered with watery Clouds that is when the Stars from above and the water upon the Earth from beneath kindle themselves and so water is suddenly there also generated which would not be if the wrath did not also stand in the Astral Birth or Genitute 33. But being all is corrupted therefore must the upper water in the wrath of God come to help the Astringent Bitter and Hot quality of the Earth and allay mitigate and quench its fire so that the life may alwayes be generated and that the holy Birth between Death and the wrath of God may be generated also 34. But that also the Element of Fire is and doth rule in the Deep of the Air and Water thou seest in Tempests of Lightning also thou perceivest how the Light of the Sun kindleth the Element of Fire on the Earth with its reflection although many times aloft in the upper Region towards the Moon it is very cold 35. But now God separated the palpable water from the impalpable and placed the palpable on the Earth and the impalpable remained still in the Deep in its own Seat as it had been from Eternity 36. But being the wrath also is in that water in the Deep above the Earth therefore constantly through the kindling of the Stars and of the water in the wrath such palpable water generateth it self which with its outermost Birth standeth in Death 37. Which being it qualifieth or uniteth with its innermost Birth of the Astrall Birth or Geniture it cometh to help the Salitter
is not God Himself and that my spirit is false and wicked then I will be the first that will burn my book in the Fire and recall and recant all whatsoever I have written and will accurse it and in all obedience willingly submit my self to be instructed by you 38. I do not say that I cannot erre at all For there are some things which are not sufficiently declared and are described as if it were from a Glimpse of the great God when the wheel of Nature whirl'd about too swiftly so that Man with his half dead and dull capacity or apprehension cannot sufficiently comprehend it but what thou findest not sufficiently declared in one place thou wilt find it done in another if not in this yet in the other Books Now thou wilt say It doth not become me to ask such Questions for the Deitie is a Mystery which no man can search into Answer 39. Hearken If it doth not become me to ask then it doth not become thee to Judge mee Dost thou boast in the knowledge of the Light and art a Leader of the blind and yet art blind thy thy self How wilt thou shew the way to the blind must ye not both fall in your blindnesse But you will say We are not Blind for we well see the way of Light though none can see it rightly 40. Ye teach others the way and you are alwaies seeking after it your selves And so you grope in the dark and discern it not Or do you suppose that it is Sin for any Man to ask after the way 41. O ye blind Men leave off your contentions and shed not innocent blood also do not lay waste Countries and Cities to fulfill the Devils will but put on the Helmet of Peace Girt your selves with Love one to another and practise Meeknesse Leave off Pride and Covetousnesse Grutch not the different forms of one another also suffer not the Wrath-fire to kindle in you but live in Meeknesse Chastity Friendlinesse and Purity and then you are and live ALL in God 42. For thou needest not to Ask Where is God Hearken thou Blind Man thou livest in God and God is in thee and if thou livest holily then therein thou thy self art God For wheresoever thou lookest there is God 43. When thou beholdest the Deep betwixt the Stars and the Earth Caâ—st thou say that is not God or there God is not O thou miserable corrupted man Be instructed for in the Deep above the Earth where thou seest and knowest nothing and sayst there is nothing yet even there is the Light-Holy God in his Trinitie and is generating there as well as in the high Heaven aloft above this world 44. Or dost thou think that he departed and went away from his seat wherein he did sit from eternity in or at the time of the Creation of this world O no that cannot be for though He would himself do so He cannot do it for he himself is All And as little as a member of the Body can be rent off from it self so little can God also be divided rent or separated from Being Every where 45. But that there are so many Formings figurings or framings in him is caused by his Eternall Birth or Geniture which first is Threefold and out of or from that Trinitie or Ternarie it generateth it self infinitely or immensely unconceiveably 46. Of these Births or Genitures I will here write and shew to the children of the last world what God is not out of any Boasting or Pride thereby to disgrace or reproach any body No the Spirit will instruct thee meekly and friendly as a Father doth his children for the work is not from my fleshly Reason but the Holy Ghosts dear Revelation or breaking through in the Flesh. 47. In my own faculties or powers I am as blind a Man as ever was am able to do nothing but in the Spirit of God my innate spirit seeth through ALL but not alwaies with long Stay or Continuance onely when the Spirit of Gods Love breaketh thorough my spirit then is the animated or soulish Birth or Geniture and the Deity one Being one Comprehensibility and one Light 48. Am I alone onely so No but All Men are so be they Christians Jews Turks or Heathens in whomsoever Love and Meeknesse is in them is also the Light of God If thou sayst No this is not so Consider 49. Do not the Turks Jews and Heathens live in the same Body or Corporeity wherein thou livest and make use of that power and vertue of the same Body which thou usest moreover they have even the same Body which thou hast and the same God which is thy God is their God also But thou wilt say They know him not also they honour him not Answer 50. Yes Dear Man now boast thy self that thou hast hit it well Thou knowest God indeed above others Behold thou blind Man where ever Love riseth up in Meeknesse there the Heart of God riseth up For the Heart of God is generated in the meek water of the kindled Light be it in Man or any where else without Man it is every where generated in the Center between the outermost and innermost Birth or Geniture 51. And whatsoever thou dost but look upon there is God but the comprehensibility standeth in this world in the wrath which the Devil hath kindled and in the hidden kernel in the midst or center of the wrath the light or Heart of God is generated incomprehensibly as to the wrath and so each of them remaineth in its Seat 52. Yet for all that I do no way approve or excuse the Unbelief of the Jews Turks and Heathens and their stiff-necked stubbornnesse and their fierce wrath furious malice and hatred against the Christians No these things are meer Snares of the Devil whereby he allureth Men to Pride Covetousnesse Envy and Hatred that he may kindle in them the hellish fire neither can I say that these four sons of the Devil are not domineering in Christendome nay indeed in every Man Now thou sayst What then is the difference between Christians Jews Turks and Heathens Answer 53. Here the Spirit openeth both Doors and Gates if thou wilt not see then be blind 54. The first I. difference is which God hath alwaies held and maintained that all those who know what God is and how they should serve him that they should be able by their knowledge to presse through the wrath into Gods Love and overcome the Devil but if they do it not then they are no better then those that know it not 55. But if he that knoweth not the way presseth through the wrath into the Love then is he like him who press'd thorough by his knowledge but those that persevere in the wrath and wholly kindle it in themselves they are all alike one and other be they Christians Jews Turks or Heathens Or what dost thou suppose it is wherewith Man can serve God 56. If thou
though we are risen with Christ in our Souls Spirits and Minds serving the Law of God in this Life with a perfect Hearâ— â—ay though sinne dwell in our flesh yet if we let it not raigne in our Mortall or imperfect Bodies so that we obey it not in the Lusts thereof then the Holy Spirit dwelleth in our minds and in our bodies which are the Temples of the Holy Ghost but if we let sin raigne then our Souls and Bodies are Denns of Theeves and Murtherers and the habitations of all Devills This for the present is my understanding which I pray may be enlightened and helped by the Father of Lights from whom is every perfect Gift to my selfe and all mankinde my brethren who have severall measures of the same Light and divers Gifts by the same Spirit of which I desire to be made partaker from themselves and shall highly rejoyce my selfe therein with them But the Ground to the understanding the things here mentioned and of all things contained in the Scriptures is exactly described in this Authors writings For they discover both where the Things themselves are to be found in which are hidden all Divine and Naturall Mysteries and likewise shew as with the finger how those secret things have proceeded to their Being and manifestation from the infinite Incomprehensibility wherein Nothing can be perceived and yet All things have proceeded from thence and how they have come to be as they Are to the discerning what the Effable Manifested Revealed God is and all Creatures whatsoever and amongst the rest what we our selves are and how we may attain the true only and eternal happiness and blessednesse of Life everlasting with and in God And can there be anything more usefull beneficiall necessary and worthy then this Also further by his writings we may come to understand how Christ is the Saviour of All Men and yet all will not attaine salvation Though it be confessed and must be granted that Eternal Salvation is attained by some Infants also by some innocent ignorant Persons of yeares that have been born of Hethenish Jewish and Christian Parents being such as have served God according to the Law of their fore-fathers with an upright Conscience as Paul who was a Jew and so the Eunuch Servant to Candace Queen of Aethiopia a stranger and Cornelius the Centurion and all others fearing God and working Righteousnesse in every Nation are accepted of him though they know nothing of the Great and Common Salvation that hath appeared to all Men as the Apostles knew it For if any be cleansed from his Sinnes it is done by the blood of JESUS CHRIST which clenseth us from all Sinne and this is effected in us and for us when we knew not and though we know not of it nor how it is done in the least to satisfie a Soul that it may undoubtedly be convinced thereof And indeed had not the Holy Scripture mentioned this thing concerning the Blood of Christ it had not been possible for any Man but such as the Prophets and Apostles were to have procured any that are now called Christians to Believe and Confesse it Neither can any understand this though he reade of it in the Scriptures but by the Holy Spirit within himselfe which proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne in the Soul of every one and by the word in the Heart the word of Faith which is God and Christ even that true Divine Light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world The same also may be said concerning all those that have been are or shall be saved though they attain not the understanding of the mysteryes of Salvation in this Life as those 〈◊〉 who wrote the Holy Scriptures neither can any understand them as they did but by the Same Gifts of the Holy Spirit in the Soul Therefore let none boast that he is not born among those that are called Heathens but among those that were outwardly called Jewes of old or Christians now or of the Church of Rome or Protestants or of the Reformed Religionâ—â— Presbyterians Independents Separatists Seekers or Perfectists though every one of these have outwardly a high Prerogative and Excellency above the Heathen yet the lives and fruits of these not exceeding their's they will â—â—se up in Judgment against these but let every Soule in Love rejoyce with all other Soules in this that God is our Father in whom wee live and move and have our Beings ruling in our Soules ' and manifesting his infinite Grace and Mercy and bringing all things to passe according to his unconceivable Wisdome and Goodnesse and according to the purpose of his good will towards Men which 〈◊〉 his Eternall Gospell To those that hearken and yeeld to his will and Word of Life alwaies calling in the Soul of every one or else none could be condemned for neglecting and contemning it as they shall be also provoking the Soul to forsake that which it perceiveth to be evill and embrace and Co-work with that which it perceiveth to be good Holy and divine within it selfe therefore also let every Soul groape after God in its Heart that it may feele and know him whom to know is Life Eternall and feele the Hope of enjoying the inestimable good things that are laid up for them that Love God though few here know anything thereof and yet he will certainly give them unto us at that Day which himselfe hath appointed which will also assuredly come though no man knoweth when nor what that day will be or bring forth but he to whom God doth reveale it Aud indeed such Person 's Writings whose unsterstandings have been filled with Spirituall Divine Wisdome are to be prized above all others And though it be an exceeding happinesse and joy to us that God hath bestowed so large understanding to those that have written the Scriptures and therefore we ought diligently and frequently to read and deeply consider them yet in most of the Mysteries thereof it remaineth very dark to us we having so little knowledge of the things it speaketh of therefore how highly in exceeding Love to the Scriptures should we value and esteeme the writings of this Author Jacob Behme which disclose the very things which are but briefly hinted therein and so fundamentally as to satisfie all the objections of Reason that can be made and which do also direct us plainly in the way to find the infallible Conductor the Holy Spirit which will open our understandings to discerne those hidden Mysteries mentioned in the Scriptures so long agoe that we through patience and comfort of them might have Hope And yet but darkly of purpose that some things should be kept secret from the beginning of the world and not revealed till the due time and season in every Age and some not till this last age which is appointed for the manifesting of all mysteries And because this Author could not so deepely and fundamentally disclose these mysteries but in
such significant though hard Termes of expression as he useth he wrote therefore for the satisfaction of his loving friends some explanatory Tables and a Clavis which are already printed in English yet still for all that they are accompted very difficult to be understood And I also who have much and studiously traced his writings over have found them difficult but far exceeding in recompence the utmost paines that I could possibly bestow upon them I find also that the understanding of them cometh by Degrees and frequent Loving conversation in all the parts and pieces he hath written and yet also I must say that this book Aurora hath conduced more to open my mind to the understanding of all his writings and of all Mysteries both Naturall and Divine and so consequently of the Holy Scriptures then any other helps and books which I could ever meete withall besides Which the Reader will also perceive by the diligent perusâ—ll of this book in a continued order from the Beginning and so on find Whatsoever his heart desireth or ever longed for and that it is as this Author says neere the end of the Preface to this Book The Wonder of the World And though it was not quite finished at the time when he wrote it nor ever after being it was taken away and kept from him till he had written severall compleate Treatises and so in them that defect of the Aurora was supply'd in abundant measure for instead of 30. Sheets which that book wanted to the end there are written of the same Mysteries when he had more full knowledge and leave to declare it and set it down in writing more then 300. Sheetes of Paper which containe all Mysteries in succinct Termes very deeply expressed but in this the Ground of those Termes are largely and plainly described after the manner of the Infancy of his high Manifestation in a Childish way so that it is a large and most cleere A B C being the fitter and plainer for Beginners with which his other books may the easier be understood and is a summary contents of all his Mysteries and may serve instead of a Manuduction introduction and key to unlock all the difficult expressions in his other Books And that because it explaines the first Ground concerning the Seaven Properties of the Eternall Nature which here he calleth the Seaven Qualifying or fountaine Spirits or Qualities which are the Seaven Spirits of God in and from and to All Eternity with Notes of Reference to the Book of the three Principles and threefold Life of Man which are the supply to the want of finishing this Book and which he wrote down with his own hand in their severall proper places by way of exposition in a manuscript of Michael von Enderns his own written Copy being kept from him by Gregory Rickter the superintendent at Gerlitz and Published in Print with many whole verses Lines and words left out printed in high Dutch 1634. But these Notes were added by the Author in the yeare 1620. and are here inserted with Alphabetical marks in this translation into English which is made from a Copy taken from that of his own hand writing which was kept laid up for 27 yeares together till the 26 of November in the yeare 1641 when it was brought to Light by D. P. S. A Burgomaster at Gerlitz and presented to the Prince Elector of Saxonies Marshall of his House George Pflugen in Dresden But is now in the Hands of a worthy Person in Holland and lately printed in High Dutch and so the rest of this Authors Manuscrips in his Hands will be printed by degrees in Nine parts in the same Order the Author hath written them in This Aurora being the first But the Author was resolved to leave it unfinished to remaine as an Eternall remembrance of the endeavour to suppresse and quash this Revelation in its first downing which will also be manifested at the Last Day when all things shall appeare to be judged whether they be Good or Evill and everything receive its just recompence of reward Therefore Deare Reader In true sincere Love to thee as to my self I commend this Book the Aurora to thy reading whosoever thou art desiring thy Prayers that is thy good desires that I with thee may be received into the Grace and Mercy of the All-mighty Omni-present God whose whole fullnesse is allwaies with and in himself every where and so be protected through this miserable Pilgrimage under corruption in the vale of sinfull Flesh and that most hurting us in the greatest Pleasure Honour Pomp Riches and fullnesse of Worldly content in this transitory Life till we awak and meete together in the everlasting joy of our ever blessed God who filleth us throughout and al things else with himselfe within and without which we should perceive if we would learne to distinguish Him from the Creature in every thing I willingly yeeld my self to be thine though with thâ— acknowledgment that I am one of the unworthiest of thâ— Children of Men John Sparrow The Brief Contents of the 26. Chapters of the First Book of the Author called the Aurora A Preface to the Reader JAcob Behme's Preface being a brief Information Concerning the Two Qualities the Evill and the Good in Nature from the Beginning to the End Page 1 Also the Contents of this Book Aurora Page 23 Chapter I. Concerning the searching out of the Divine Beeing in Nature Also concerning the Two Qualities the Good and the Evill Page 33 Chapter II. An Instruction shewing how men may come to apprehend the Divine and Natural Beeing and further of the Qualities Page 43 Chapter III. Of the most highly Blessed Trinity ONE God Page 54 Chapter IV. Of the Creation of the Holy Angels Page 74 Of the Divine Quality Page 75 Of the Divine SALITTER Page 77 Chapter V. Of the Corporeall Substance Beeing and Propriety of an Angel Page 86 Chapter VI. How an Angel and a Man is the similitude and Image of God Page 100 Of the blessed Love of the Angels towards God Page 106 Chapter VII Of the Court Place and dwelling Also of the Government of Angels how it stood at the Begining after the Creation and how it is become as it is Page 108 Of the Nativity of an Angelical King and how they came to be Page 117 Of the Deepest Ground and Mysterie Page 118 Chapter VIII Of the whole Body or Corporation of an Angelical Kingdom The Great Mystery In his other Writings called Mysterium Magnum Page 123 Of the first Species Circumstance Quality or Spirit of God in the Divine Power or SALITTER Page 127 Of the Second Page 129. Of the Third Page 131 Of the Fourth 134 The Great Mystery of the Spirit Page 135 Of the End of Nature in this world Page 138 Of the Language of Nature Page 146 Of the Fifth Circumstance or Spirit in the Divine power of the Father viz. The Love Page 153 Chapter IX Of the Gracious amiable
and so then it reciprocally maketh all the powers in the Father living and moving and through that Spirit are all the Angels formed and Imaged out of the Fathers Powers 143. And that Spirit preserveth and supporteth all formeth all all vegetation colours and Creatures both in heaven and in this world and above all the Heaven of Heavens For the Birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity above all is thus and no otherwise neither will it be otherwise in all Eternity 144. But when the fire is Kindled in a Creature that is when a Creature elevateth it self too high or too much as Lucifer and his Legions did then the light extinguisheth or goeth out and the fierce wrathfull and hot source the source of the hellish fire riseth up that is the Spirit of the fire riseth up in the fierce Quality 145. Observe here the Circumstances how this is done or how it can come to be done Therefore consider an Angel is formed figured composed or compacted together out of all powers as I have described it at large 146. Now when he elevateth himself he elevateth himself first in the astringent quality which he gripeth close together as a woman which is in travel and presseth himself whereby the hard quality becometh so hard and sharp that the sweet water can force or prevail with it no more and so can rise up no more meekly or mildly in the Creature but is captivated and dried up by the astringent quality and changed into a hard sharp fierce Coldnesse 147. For it becometh too empty and dry by the astringent contraction and loseth its bright lustre and its unctuosity fatnesse or Oylinesse wherein the light Spirit riseth up which is the Spirit of the Holy angelical and divine life becometh so hard compacted and pressed together by the astringent qualitie whereby it is dried up like sweet dry Wood. 148. And so when the bitter quality riseth up in the exsiccated or dryed sweet quality then cannot the sweetnesse mollifie it and imbibe it with its sweet light-water because it is dried up 149. And there the bitter quality raveth and rageth and seeketh for rest and food and finds it not and moveth or boyleth in the Body as a faint Poyson 150. And now when the heat kindleth the sweet quality and would mitigate its heat in the sweet water whence it riseth up and shineth in the whole Body there it finds nothing but a hard dry sweet source or quality there is no sap or moisture it being quite exsiccated or dryed up by the astringencie 151. Then it kindleth the sweet source or quality with an intent to be refreshed but there is no sapp left only the sweet source or quality is now burning and glowing even as a hard dryed or burnt stone and can no more kindle its light and so the whole Body remaineth now a Dark valley in which there is nothing but a fierce hard coldnesse in the astringent quality and in the sweet a hard glowing fire only wherin the fierce Wrathful heat riseth up in all Eternity and in the bitter quality there is a raving raging stinging and burning 152. And thus you have here the true description of an Expulsed Angel or Devill as also the Cause thereof and that not written in a similitude only but in the Spirit through that power out of which all things are come to be 153. O man behold thy self herein look before thee and behind thee it is not in vain 154. This great History or Action how it came to passe and how it went you will find it at large concerning the Fall of the Devill V. Of the Fifth Circumstance or Species 155. The Fifth Quality or the fifth Spirit of God among the the Seven Spirits of God in the Divine power of the Father is the gracious amiable blessed friendly and joyful Love 156. Now observe what the fountain of the gracious amiable blessed and friendly love of God is Observe it exactly for it is the very Pith Marrow or Kernel 157. When the heat in the sweet quality riseth up and kindleth the sweet source fountain or spring then that fire burneth in the sweet quality now seeing the sweet quality is a thin or transparent lovely pleasant sweet fountain or spring-water it allayeth the heat and quencheth the fire and so there remaineth in the sweet fountain spring of the sweet water only the joyful light 158. And the heat is only a gentle soft warming even as it is in a man which is of a Sanguine Complexion wherein also the heat is only a friendly cheerly warming if the party liveth temperately and keepeth a due Measure 159. That friendly Courteous Love-Light-fire goeth along in the sweet quality and riseth up into the bitter and astringent quality and so kindleth the bitter and astringent quality feeding them with its sweet Love-sap refreshing quickning and enlightning them and making them living or lively cheerfull and friendly 160. And when the Light-love-power cometh at them so that they taste thereof and get its life O there is a friendly Meeting Saluting and Triumphing a friendly wellcoming and great love a most friendly and gracious amiable and blessed kissing and well relishing taste 161. There the Bridegroom kisseth his Bride O gracious amiable Blessednesse and great love how sweet art thou how friendly and Courteous art thou how pleasant and lovely is thy rellish and taste how ravishing sweetly dost thou smell O noble light and bright glory who can apprehend thy exceeding Beauty how comely adorned is thy love how curious and dainty are thy colours and All this Eternally who can expresse it 162. Or why and what do I writeâ— whose Tongue doth but stammer like a child which is learning to speak with what shall I compare it or to what shall I liken it Shall I compare it with the love of this world No that is but a meer dark valley to it 163. O Immense greatnesse I cannot compare thee with any thing but only with the Resurrection from the Dead there will the love-fire rise up again in US and embrace Man courteously and friendly and re-kindle again our astringent bitter and cold dark and dead Quality and embrace us most friendly 164. O noble Guest O why didst thou depart from us O fiercenesse wrath and astringency or severity thou art the cause of it O fierce wrathfull Devil O what hast thou done who hast sunk down thy self and beautiful bright Angels into darknesse woe woe for Ever 165. O was not the gracious amiable blessed and fair Love in thee also O thou High and Lofty minded Devil why wouldst thou not be contented wert thou not a Cherubin and was there any thing so beautiful and bright in heaven as thou what didst thou seek for wouldst thou be the whole or Total God didst thou not know that thou wert a Creature and hadst not the Fan and Casting shovel in thy own hand or Power 166. O why do I pity thee thou stinking Goat O
his necessity becommeth enlightned and kindled by the Holy Ghost As the Sun kindleth the cold heat in a Tree or Herb whereby the cold chilled Heat becometh living Now Observe 64. As the members of Mans Body love one another so do the spirits also in the Divine power there is nothing else but a meer longing desiring and well liking acceptation as also a triumphing and rejoycing the one in the other for through these spirits cometh the understanding and distinction in God in Angels Men Beasts and Fowles and in every thing that liveth 65. For in these Five Qualities riseth up the seeing smelling tasting and feeling and so a Rational spirit cometh to be 66. As when the light riseth up then one spirit seeth the other 67. And when the sweet spring or fountain water riseth up in the light through all the spirits then the one tasteth the other and then the spirits become living and the power of life penetrateth through all 68. And in that power the one smelleth the other And through this qualifying influence and penetrating the one feeleth the other 69. And so there is nothing else but a Hearty loving and friendly aspect or seeing curious smelling a good relishing or tasting and lovely feeling a gracious amiable blessed kissing a feeding upon and drinking of one another and lovely walking and conversing together 70. This is the gracious amiable blessed BRIDE which rejoyceth in her BRIDEGROOM herein is love joy and delight here is light and brightnesse or clarity here is a pleasant and lovely smell here is a friendly and sweet taste 71. And this for ever without End How can a Creature sufficiently rejoyce therein O Dear love and gracious amiable blessednesse Surely thou hast no End No man can see any End in thee thy profound Deep is unsearchable thou art every where all over thus onely in the fierce Devil thou art not thus they have spoiled and perished thee in themselves Question 72. Now thou wilt say Where then are these gracious amiable and blessed spirits to be met with Do they dwell onely in themselves in Heaven Answer 73. This is the other open Gate of the Deity here thou must set thy eyes wide open and rouze up or awaken the spirit in thy half dead heart for this is not an Obscure Fiction Contrivance or Phantasie Observe 74. The Seven Spirits of God contain or comprehend in their circumference and space Heaven and this world also the wide breadth and depth without and beyond the heavens even above and beneath the world and in the world yea the whole Father which hath neither Beginning nor End 75. They contain also all the Creatures both in heaven and in this world and all the Creatures in heaven and in this world are imaged fashioned or framed out of these spirits and live in them as in their own propriety 76. And their Life and Reason is generated in them in such a manner as the Divine being is generated and also in the same power 77. And out of and from the same Body of the seven Spirits of God are all things made and produced all Angels all Devils the Heaven the Earth the Stars the Elements Men Beasts Fowles Fishes all Worms Wood Trees also Stones Herbs and Grasse and all whatsoever is Now thou wilt ask Question 78. Seeing God is every where and is himself All How cometh it then that there is in this world such Cold and Heat such biting and striking among all Creatures and that there is nothing else almost but meer fiercenesse or wrath in this world Answer 79. The cause is that the first four Forms of Nature are one at Enmity against the other without the light and yet they are the causes of Life 80. Behold here the wickednesse and malice which is the Cause viz. when King Lucifer did sit in his Kingdom like a high-minded proud Bride then his Circuit Circle or Orbe contained or comprehended the place or space where now the Created Heaven is which is made out of the water 81. And the place also of the created world even unto heaven as also the Deep where now the Earth is that was all a pure and holy Salitter wherein the Seven Spirits of God were Compleat and Pleasant as now in Heaven although they are still compleat and full in this world But observe the Circumstances rightly 82. When King Lucifer elevated himself then he elevated himself in the seven qualifying fountain-spirits and kindled them with his elevation so that all was wholly burning and the astringent quality was so hard and Compact that it generated stones and was so cold that it made the sweet spring or fountain-water turn to Ice 83. And the sweet spring water became very thick brittle and as in many pieces and the bitter quality became very raging tearing and raving whence Poyson arose aloft and the fire or heat was violently and zealously or fervently burning and consuming and so there was a very great distemper and confused Mixture 84. Upon this King Lucifer was thrust out of his Royal Place or Kingly Throne which he had in that Place where now the created Heaven is and thereupon instantly ensued the Creation of this world 85. And the hard Brittle matter which had wrought forth it self in the kindled seven qualifying or fountain-spirits was driven together from whence the Earth and Stones came to be and after that all the Creatures were created out of the kindled Salitter of the seven Spirits of God 86. Now the qualifying or fountain Spirits became so fierce and wrathfull in their kindling that the one continually spoileth the other with its evill naughty quality or source and so also now do the creatures which were made out of the qualifying or fountain spirits and live in the same impulse the one biting beating worrying and annoying the other all according to the kind or disposition of the Qualities 87. Upon this now the Totall or Universall God hath Decreed the Last Judgment wherein he will separate the Evil from the Good and set the good again in the meek mild and Pleasant delight as it was before the horrible kindling of the Devill and will give that which is fierce or wrathfull to King Lucifer for an Everlasting Habitation 88. And then there will be two Parts or divisions of this Kingdom the one Men will get with their King JESUS CHRIST the other the Devills shall have with all ungodly Men and wickednesse 89. This is a short Introduction that the Reader might the better understand the Divine Mystery concerning the Fall of the Devil and concerning the Creation of this world you will find all more at large particularly described Therefore I would have the Reader admonished that he read all in order and so he will come to the true ground 90. It is true that from the beginning of the world it was not so fully revealed to any Man but seeing God will have it so I submit to his Will and will see
and they become living and Love the light that is they take it into them and are impregnated with it and that Spirit which is so taken in is the Love of the Life which is the fifth Spirit 29. Now when they have taken the love into them then they qualifie Act or operate for great Joy for the one seeth the other in the Light and so the one toucheth or stirreth the other 30. And then the tone riseth up and the harâ— Spirit beateth striketh or thâ—mpeth but the sweet maketh that beating or striking Mild and the Bitter divideth it according to the condition or kind of every quality the fourth causeth the ringing the fift causeth joyfulnesse and the compacted incorporated sounding is the Tone or Tune or the Sixth Spirit 31. In this Tone riseth up the power of all the six Spirits and becometh a palpable Body to speak after an Angelicall manner and subsisteth in the power of the other six Spirits and in the light and this is the Body of Nature wherein all heavenly Creatures Ideas Figures and Sprouts or Vegetations are Imaged or fashioned The Holy Gates 32. But the Light which subsisteth in the midst or Center in all the Seven Spirits and wherein standeth the Life of all the seven Spirits and whereby all seven become triumphing and Joyful and wherein the heavenly joyfulnesse riseth up 33. That is it which all the seven spirits do generate and that is the Sonne of all the seven spirits and the seven Spirits are its Father which generate the Light and the Light generateth in them the Life and the Light is the Heart of the seven spirits 34. And this Light is the true Sonne of God whom we Christians worship and honour as the Second Person in the holy Trinity 35. And all the seven Spirits of God together are God the Father 36. For no one spirit of them is alone or without the other they all seven generate one another for if one were wanting the other could not be 37. But the Light is another Person for it is continually generated out of or from the seven spirits and the seven spirits rise up continually in the light and the powers of these seven spirits go forth continually in the glance or splendor of the light in the seventh Nature-spirit and do form and Image all in the seventh Spirit And this out-going or Exit in the Light is the Holy Ghost 38. The flash or stock or Pith or the Heart which is generated in the powers remaineth standing in the midst or Center and that is the Sonne and the Splendor or Glance in all the powers goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne in all the powers of the Father and formeth and imageth in the seventh Nature-spirit all according to the power and operation of the seven Spirits and according to their Distinction and impulse And this is the true Holy Ghost whom we Christians honour and adore for the Third Person in the Deitie 39. Thus O blind Jew Turk and Heathen thou seest that there are Three Persons in the Deitie thou canst not deny it for thou livest and art or hast thy being in the Three Persons and thou hast thy life from them and in the power of these three Persons thou art to rise from the Dead at the Last Day and live Eternally Note 40. Now if thou hast lived well and holily in the Law of Nature in this world and hast not extinguished the half Flash which is the Sonne of God which teacheth thee the Law of Nature in thy seven qualifying or fountain spirits and hast not put it out through a fierce elevation which runneth on contrary to the Knowledge of Nature Then wilt thou with all Christians live in eternal Joy Note 41. The Law of Nature is the Divine Ordinance out of the Center of Nature he that can live therein needs no other Law for he fulfilleth the will of God 42. For it lyeth not in thy unbelief to hinder it thy unbelief doth not take away or make void the truth of God but Faith bloweth up the Spirit of Hope and testifieth that we are Gods Children The Faith is generated in the flash and wrestleth so long with God till it overcometh and gets the victory 43. Thou Judgest us and thereby thou judgest thy self in that thou blowest up the zealous or Jealous Spirit in Anger and Wrath which extinguisheth thy Light But if thou art grown on a sweet Tree and suppresseth the evil influence or suggestions and livest well and holily in the Law of Nature which sheweth thee very well what is Right If thou art not indeed grown out from a fierce or wrathful Twig or Branch Here is meant or understood out of or from a very wicked Seed where out there often groweth a Thistle though yet there were a remedy if the will were but once broken but it is a Rare and Pretious thing However indeed on a Good Tree it is often so that some branches do also wither Note 45. Moreover thou art blind For who shall separate thee from the love of God in which thou art born or Generated and wherein thou livest if thou perseverest and continuest therein till the End who shall separate thee from God in whom thou hast lived here 46. That which thou hast sowen in the Ground that will spring up be it Rye Wheat Barley Tares or Thorns that which is not combustible or capable of the final or last Fire that will not burn at all but God will not corrupt or spoil his good Seed himself but will husband Till and manure it that it may bear fruit in the Eternal life 47. Seeing then all live and have their Being in God why do the weeds Glory and boast against the Wheat Dost thou think that God is a Dissembler and that he regardeth or respecteth any mans person or name 48. What Man was the Father of us All was it not Adam And when his Sonne Cain lived wickedly before God why did not his Father Adam help him But here it may be said He that sinneth shall be punished Ezek. 18. 4 20. 49. If Cain had not quenched or extinguished his light who could have separated him from the love of God 50. So thou also thou boastest thou art a Christian and knowest the light why dost thou not walk therein Dost thou think the Name will make thee Holy Tarry friend till thou comest thither into the other world then thou wilt know it by experience Behold many a Jew Turk and Heathen will sooner enter into the Kingdom of Heaven who had indeed their Lamps well Trimmed and Furnished then thou who Boastest Question What Prerogative or Advantage then have the Christians Answer 51. Very much For they know the way of life and know how they should rise from the Fall but if any will lye still then he must be thrown into the Ditch and there must perish with all the wicked Heathens 52. Therefore take
Now as there are in him chiefly seven qualities whereby the whole Divine Being is driven on and sheweth it self infinitely in these seven qualities and yet these seven qualities are the Chief or Prime in the infinitenesse whereby the divine Birth or Geniture stands eternally in its Order unchangeably 31. And as in the Midst or Center of the seven Spirits of God the heart of Life is generated whence the divine Joy riseth up thus also is the order of Angels 32. The Angel-Princes were created according to the spirits of God and the Cherubin according to the heart of God And as the divine Being worketh so also do the Angels 33. That quality which riseth up in Gods Being and chiefly sheweth it self in its working as in the rising up of the Tone or Tune or of the divine working wrestling and fighting that Angelical Prince which is most strongly addicted to that Quality begins in his Rank or File and Round with his Legions with singing ringing forth dancing rejoycing and Jubilating 34. This is heavenly Musick for here every one singeth according to the voice of his quality and the Prince leadeth the Qâ—ire or Chorus as a Chantour or singing-Master with his Scholars and the King rejoyceth and Jubilateth with his Angels to the honour of the great God and to the encreasing and multiplying of the heavenly Joyes and that is in the Heart of God as a Holy Sport or Scene and to that end also are they created for the Joy and Honour of God 35. Now when the heavenly Musick of the Angel riseth up then in the heavenly Pomp in the Divine Salitter there rise up all manner of Vegetations Springings or Sprouts also all manner of figures shapes or Ideas and all manner of colours for the Deity presenteth sheweth or discovereth it self in endlesse and unsearchable varieties of kinds colours Ideas forms and Joyes 36. Now that qualifying or fountain-Spirit in the Deity which doth shew it self then in a singular manner with its rising up and Love-wrestling as having become the Prince or Chief of them that very Angel-Prince belonging to it beginneth instantly his heavenly Musick with his own Legions according to his Quality with singing ringing forth Piping melody and in all the manners of heavenly Skill and Art which riseth up in the Spirits of God 37. But when the Center in the Midst riseth up that is when the Birth or Geniture of the Sonne of God sheweth it self in a singular manner as a Triumph then there rise up the Musicks melodies or Joyes of all the three Kingly Governments or Royal Regiments of the whole Creation of all the Angels 38. What manner of Joy this must be let every Soul consider I in my corrupted nature cannot apprehend it much lesse can I write it 39. By this song I invite or Cite the Reader unto the other Life there himself will be also of that Quire or Chorus and then first will he give credit to this spirit what he doth not understand here that he will have there apparently in his view 40. Thou must know that this is not forged out of a Stone but when the flash riseth up in the Center then the Spirit seeth and knoweth it 41. Therefore look to it and be not too scornfull in this Place else thou wilt be found a scorner and mocker before God and then well mayst thou fare as King Lucifer did Now it may be asked Question What do the Angels then when they sing Not Answer 42. Behold What the Deity doth that they do also When the Spirits of God lovingly generate one in another and rise up one in another as in a loving saluting Embracing kissing and feeding one another in which Taste and Smell the life riseth up and the eternal refreshing of which thou mayst read before at Large 43. Then the holy Angels also walk and Converse one with another friendlily graciously amiably and blessedly in the heavenly Circumference or Region and do behold the wonderful and pleasant form or prospect of heaven and eat of the gracious amiable blessed and delicate fruits of Life Now thou wilt Ask Question What do they Talk of one with another Answer 44. Behold thou Pompous stately lofty and Proud Man the world is even too narrow for thee here and thou thinkest there is none like thee or Equal to thee bethink thy self in this whether thou hast in thee the manner quality or condition of an Angel or of a Devill To whom now shall I liken the Angels 45. I will liken them to little children which walk in the fields in May among the flowers and pluck them and make currous Garlands and Poseys carrying them in their hands rejoycing and alwayes talk together of the several forms or shapes of curious flowers leading one another by the hand when they go to gather flowers 46. And when they come home they shew them to their Parents and they also rejoyce in their children and are merry and cheerly with them 47. So do the Holy Angels likewise they take one another by the Hand and walk together in the curious May of heaven and parly or talk of the pleasant and fair Spring or fruits in the heavenly Pomp and feed on the delicate blessed fruits of God and make use of the beautiful heavenly Flowers for their play or sport in their Scenes and make curious Garlands and rejoyce in the delicious pleasant May of God 48. Here is nothing but a Cordial or Hearty loving a meek and gentle love a friendly courteous discourse a gracious amiable and blessed Society where the one alwaies delighteth to see the other and to honour one another 49. They know of no malice cunning subtlety or deceit but the divine fruits and pleasant lovelinesse are common among them one may make use of these things as well as the other there is no disfavour or hatred no Envy no contrary or opposite will but their hearts are knit together in Love 50. In this the Deity hath its highest Delight as Parents have in their children that its dear and beloved children in heaven behave themselves so well and so friendlily for the Deity in it self playeth or sporteth also thus one qualifying or fountain-spirit in the other 51. And therefore the Angels can do no other then their Father doth as also our Angelical King JESUS CHRIST testified when he was with us on earth as it is written in the Gospel where he saith Verily the Sonne can do nothing of himself but what He seeth his Father do that the Sonne doth also John 5. 19. Also if you do not convert aud become like children you cannot come into the Kingdom of heaven Matth. 18. 3. 52. Whereby he meaneth that our hearts should be knit together in Love as the Holy Angels of God are and that we should deal friendly courteously and kindly one with another and love one another and prevent one another in kindnesse and respects as the Angels of God do 53. Not that we should
penetrate suddenly one into another driving hard rubbing and thronging crowding or sqeezing then the sweet water would be squeezed out and the fierce heat would be kindled and then would rise up the fire of the seven spirits as in Lucifer 112. This is now the true Birth or Geniture of the Deity which hath been so from eternity in all Corners and Places whatsoever and abideth so in all Eternity 113. But in the Kingdom of Lucifer the Destroyer it is otherwise as I have written above concerning the fiercenesse and in this world which is now half kindled also it is likewise after another manner and will be so till the day of the Restitution of which I shall write when I treat concerning the Creation of this world 114. Now in this glorious lovely and heavenly Salitter or divine Qualities the Kingdom of Lucifer also was created without any greater motion then the other 115. For when Lucifer was created he was altogether perfect and was the fairest Prince in heaven adorned and indued with the fairest clarity or Brightnesse of the Sonne of God 116. But if Lucifer had been spoiled or destroyed in the moving of the Creation as he pretendeth then he had never had his Perfection beauty and clarity but would have been presently a fierce dark Devill and not a Cherubin Of the glorious Birth and beauty of King Lucifer 117. Behold thou murtherous and lying spirit here I will describe thy Royall Birth how thou wert in thy Creation how God created thee and how thou becamest so beautiful and to what end God created thee 118. If thou sayst any other thing then this which Heaven and Earth and all the Creatures testifie then thou Lyest nay the whole Deity testifieth against thee that God created thee for his praise out of himself to be a Prince and King of God as he did Prince Michael and Prince Uriel Now Observe 119. When the Deity moved it self to Creation and would form Image or frame Creatures in its Body it kindled not the qualifying spirits else they would have burnt Eternally but it stirr'd them very gently or softly in the astringent quality 120. That drew or attracted the Divine Salitter together and dryed it so that it became a Body and so the whole divine power of all the seven qualifying or fountain-spirits of that place or Room as far as that of the Angels reached was captivated in the Body and became the propriety of the Body which neither can nor shall be destroyed again in Eternity but shall remain the Bodies propriety or proper own in Eternity 121. Now the captivated or incorporated power of all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits had its propriety in the Body and is risen in the Body and hath generated it self in the same manner as the Deity generateth it self from all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits 122. One quality hath alwaies generated the other alike and none of them have vanished or gone out of sight just as it is in the whole Deity and then the whole Body as it is also in the Ternarie generated it self just as the Deity generateth it self without or distinct from the Body in the Ternarie 123. But this I must mention here viz. that Lucifer the King was incorporated together out of his whole Kingdome as the Heart of the whole place or Room thereof so far as his whole Angelical Hoast or Army reached when it was created and so far as that circumference or circle Region or Quarter reach'd wherein He and his Angels became a creature and which God before the time of Creation had enclosed or concluded as a Room or Space for a Kingdom whose circuit or Extent comprehendeth Heaven and this world as also the Deep of the Earth and of the whole Circle Sphear or Circumference of this whole world of the Heavens and Stars 124. And according to the qualities were his qualifying or fountain Princes created which are his Kingly Counsellours and so also were all his Angels created 125. Yet you are to know that every Angel hath all the seven spirits in him but one of the seven is chief or principal Now behold 126. When the King was thus incorporated or compacted together as one comprehending his whole Kingdom then instantly the same hour and in the same Moment when he was incorporated or compacted together the birth of the Holy Trinity of God which he had for a propriety in his Body Understand in the Liberty not essentially but as the fire shineth forth or gloweth through the Iron that is flaming hot and the Iron remaineth Iron still or as the light replenisheth or filleth the Darknesse the dark source or quality being changed into Light and so becometh joyful and yet in the Center remaineth a darknesse which is understood to be Nature for a spirit is repleninish'd onely with the Majestie rose up and generated it self without distinct from the Creature in God 127. For in the driving together of the Body presently likewise rose up the Birth also in great triumph as in a New-born King in God and all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits shewed themselves very joyful and triumphing 128. And instantly in the same Moment the light was generated and rose up out of the seven spirits in the Center of the heart as a new-born sonne of the King which also instantly in a Moment clarified or brightened the Body of all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits from the Center of the Heart and externally from without the light of the Sonne of God clarified or brightened it 129. For the Birth of the new Sonne in the Heart of Lucifer also penetrated through the whole Body and was glorified from the Sonne of God which was without distinct from the body and was friendlily welcommed with the greatest Beauty of Heaven according to the Beauty of God the Sonne and it was to him as a loving Heart or propriety with which the whole Deity qualified or operated 130. And then instantly also the spirit of the new born sonne in the Heart went forth from the light of Lucifer through his Mouth and united qualified or cooperated with the holy Spirit of God and was with highest Joy received and embraced as a dear little Brother 131. Now here standeth the Beautious Bride what shall I write of her now was she not a Prince of God as also the most beautiful moreover in Gods love also and as a dear Sonne of the Creatures Of the horrible proud and henceforth doleful Lamentable Beginning of Sin The highest Depth Observe here 132. When King Lucifer was thus fairly gloriously Beautiously highly and holily framed or built he should surely have now begun to praise honour and magnifie his Creatour and should do that which God his Creator doth 133. Viz. God his Creator qualifieth or operateth very meekly lovingly and Joyfully and one qualifying or fountain-spirit of God alwaies loveth the other and bringeth its affection into the other and alwaies helpeth the other to
Region and circumference also he would fain have kindled that whole circumference by his Elevating that so all might have burned and qualified or operated as he did in his own body 34. Though indeed the Deity without or distinct from his Body would have meekly and gently qualified or acted towards him and have enlightned and exhorted him to Repentance yet now there was no other will in Lucifer but that he would needs rule over the Sonne of God and kindle that whole Region or circumference and in such a way himself would be the whole God above and over all the Angelical Hoasts or Armies 35. Now when the Heart of God with his meeknesse and Love made haste toward Lucifer he despised it and thought himself far better then it and then storm'd back again with fire and coldnesse in hard Claps of Thunder against the Sonne of God supposing he must be in subjection under him and that He himself was Lord. For he despised the Light of the Sonne of God Question Then thou Askest How Had he such Power Answer 36. Yes he had for he was a great part of the Deity and besides was from or out of the kernel thereof for he made an attempt also upon that King and Great Prince MichaEL to spoil and destroy him who at last fought with him and overcame him in whom the power of God in Lucifer's Kingdom fought vehemently also against its King till at last he was thrust down from his Kingly seat as one that was vanquished Apocal. 12. Objection Now thou wilt say God should have enlightned his Heart that he might have Repented Answer 37. No! He would receive no other Light then his own for he scorn'd the Light of the Sonne of God which did shine without distinct from his Body being he had such a glittering light in himself and so elevated himself more and more till his water This here is the water of eternal Life Generated in the Light of the Majestie but in the Center it is like the Sulphur or Brimstone spirit or to Aqua-fortis or the water of separation was quite dryed up and burnt and his light was quite put out and then all was done with him Concerning the Fall of all his Angels One might Ask. Question How comes it that at this time all his Angels did fall also Answer 38. As this Lord commanded so his Subjects obeyed when he elevated himself and would be God his Angels seeing it follow'd their Lord doing as he did all made a proffer to assault and storm the Deity 39. For they were all in subjection under him and he ruled in all his Angels for He was created out of the Pith or kernel of that Salitter out of which his Angels were all created and he was the Heart and Lord of all his Angels 40. Therefore they all did as he did and all would sit in the Primacie of the Deity and would rule powerfully in the whole Region Circuit or circumference over and above the whole Divine power They were all of one will and would not suffer the same to be taken from them Now thou wilt Ask. Question Did not the whole Total or Universal God know this before the time of the Creation of Angels that it would so come to passe Answer 41. No for if God had known it before the time of the Creation of Angels it had then been an eternal predestinate purposed will in God to have it so and it had been no Emnity against God but God had indeed at the beginning created and made him a Devil 42. But God did create and make him a King of Light and when he became disobedient and would be above the whole or Total God then God did spew him out of his seat and in the midst or Center of our Time did create another King out of the same Deity out of which Lord Lucifer was Created understand it a right out of the Salitter which was without distinct from the Body of King Lucifer and did set him on the Royal Throne of Lucifer and did give him might authority and Power as Lucifer had before his Fall 43. And the same King is called JESUS CHRIST and is the Sonne of God and of Man 44. And this I will demonstrate clearly and at Large in its proper Place Note 45. This is explained in the Second and Third Book God knew this very well according to his wrath but not according to his Love according to which God is called God into which no fiercenesse nor â—magination entreth neitherâ—is there any searching in the Love concerning the Hellish Creature 46. This foregoing Question is thus understood or meant as when I say God knoweth not the Evil Also God willeth not the Evil according to the Tenure of the Scripture then I understand or mean that in his Love which alone is the one onely Good and is alone called God there is no glimpse of Evil revealed or manifested otherwise if any evill were revealed or manifested therein then the Love were not the Eternal Meeknesse and Humility 47. But in the outspeaking of his word wherein the Nature of the spiritual World existeth wherein perceptibility or Sensibility is understood to consist and wherein God calleth himself an angry zealous or Jealous God and a consuming fire Therein indeed God hath known the Evil from eternity and that in ease he should once move himself therein that the source or Quality thereof would become creaturely also but therein is he not called God but a consuming fire 48. I understand the abovesaid Question magically taking notice how Gods Love and wrath differ and are distinguished and how the Knowledge of Evil viz of the Devil and Fall is discerned to differ from his well-spring or source from whence the Fall also took its Original 49. And so also in Gods Love there is onely the fountain and knowledge of Joyfulnesse for every Science or Root causeth or produceth its like 50. For if I should say Gods Love had willed the Evil or that there were a false Science or Root in Gods Love and Meeknesse then I should speak contrary to the Scripture for what Gods love knoweth sensibly or feelingly in it self that it also willeth and nothing else 51. From hence in the Creation Good and Evil is existed and I exhort the Reader to conceive our very deep sense aright and not mistake or go astray here but to read our other writings where these things are sufficiently explained Of the great Sin and contrary or opposite will and of the Eternal Emnitie of King Lucifer together with his whole Hoastor Army against God 52. This is the right Looking-Glasse of Man before this Court of Justice for Malefactours the Spirit inviteth and citeth all men to stand as before a Looking-Glasse wherein they may see themselves and what the hidden Secret Sin is 53. This hath remained hidden ever since the World began and was never so fully and altogether revealed in any Heart of man
proper own to deal with and to dispose of then their own compacted incorporated Body for they saw very well that the Deity generated it self without severally distinctly apart from their body as it had done from Eternity 79. IIII. They knew likewise very well that they were not the whole Room or Place But were therein to encrease the Joy and wonderful proportion variety and Harmony of that same place and were to accord qualifie and act friendlily with that Room or Place of the Deity and friendlily affect the Qualities that are without distinct from their Bodies 80. V. They had also all power to dispose of all the Ideas figures and growths or vegetations as they would all was a hearty Love-play Sport or Scene in God they had not at all moved God their Creator to any contrary will though they had broken all the heavenly Ideas figures or vegetations and growths and had made of them all Horses to Ride on God had still alwaies cause enough of other to come up instead of them for it had all been but a play or Scene in God 81. For to that very End also they were created that they should play and sport with the Ideas figures and growths or vegetations and dispose of them for their own use as they pleased 82. For the Ideas or figures have in a manner framed themselves thus from eternity and have passed away and altered again through the qualifying or fountain spirits for this was the Eternall Play Sport or Scene of God before the Times of the Creation of the Angels 83. Thou hast a very good Example and Instance of this if thou wilt but see and wilt not be stark blind here viz. In the Beasts Fowles and all vegetations or growths in this world all these were created aforehand e're Man was created who is and signifieth the second Hoast or Army which God created instead of expell'd Lucifer out of the Place of Lucifer Question But now What did the Astringent or harsh quality do in Lucifer Answer 84. When God had thus gently incorporated it or compacted it together then it found and felt it self to be mighty and powerful and saw that it retained a Body as fair and excellent as the figures were that were without distinct from it thereupon it became high minded and elevated it self in its Body and would be more severe and eager then the Salitter was which was without distinct from its Body 85. But being it could not do any thing alone it flattered and playd the hypocrite with the other Spirits so that they followed it as their Father and did all as they saw it do each in its own Quality 86. Now being thus agreed they generated also such a spirit which did come forth at the Mouth at the Eyes at the Ears and at the Nostrils and affected or mixed it self with the Salitter that was without distinct from the Body 87. For the intent and purpose of the astringent or harsh quality being it was so glorious when the kernel was incorporated or compacted together out of the whole Kingdome viz. its intent was that it also through its spirit which it did generate by or with the other spirits would rule powerfully with the sharpnesse Externally without its own Body in the whole Salitter of God and that all should stand and be in or under its own Power and Authority 88. It would Image frame and form all through its own spirit which it generated as the whole Deity did It would have the Primacie in the whole Deity This was its purpose 89. But being it could not effect it in its true Netural seat it thereupon elevated it self and kindled it self 90. And so by this kindling it kindled its spirit also which now went forth at the Mouth the Ears the Eyes and the Nostrils as a very fierce furious spirit and strove against the Salitter in its place as a furious storming raging Lord and kindled the Salitter and attracted or drew all forcibly together Thou must understand it aright 91. The astringent or harsh Quality in the spirit that went forth kindled the astringent or harsh Quality which was in the Place of its Region or in Nature viz. in the seventh qualifying or fountain Spirit and ruled powerfully in the astringent quality in the Salitter and that the Astringent Quality in the Salitter would not have but strove with the sweet water against this spirit but all would not help the storm grew hotter and hotter the longer the greater till at length the astringent or harsh Quality of the Salitter was kindled 92. And so when this was done then the storm grew so hot that the astringent quality drew the Salitter together so that hard stones proceeded from it whence the stones in this world have their Original And the water in the Salitter was also attracted or drawn together so that it became very thick as it is now at present in this world 93. But when the astringent quality was kindled in Lucifer then it became very Cold for the Coldnesse is its own proper spirit and thereupon now it kindleth with its cold fire also all in the Salitter 94. And hence the water of this world became so cold dark and thick and hence it is that all is become so hard and palpable which was not so before the Times of the Angels 95. Aud this now was a great contrary will in the Divine Salitter a great Battel and strife and an Eternall Emnity But now thou wilt say Objection God should have withstood him that it might not have come so far Answer 96. O Dear Blind Man it was not a Man nor a Beast that stood here before God But it was God against God one strong one against another Besides How should God withstand him with the friendly Love that could not avail for Lucifer did but scorn and dispise that and would himself be God 97. Should God withstand him then with Anger or Wrath which indeed must be done at length then God must have kindled himself in his qualities in the Salitter wherein King Lucifer dwelt and must in the strong zeal or Jealousie strive and fight against him which he did and so this striving made this kingdom so dark waste and evil that another Creation must needs afterwards follow upon it 98. Ye Philosophers and Jurists or Lawyers of Prince Lucifer here you must first defend the astringent or harsh quality in Lucifer and answer whether it hath dealt righteously or no and prove it in Nature I do not accept of your extorted wrested bowed stretch'd and far-fetch'd Texts of Scripture brought in by head and shoulders for a proof but I will have living Testimonies 99. And I will set before you also living Testimonies viz. the created and comprehensible Heaven the Stars the Elements the Creatures the Earth Stones Men and lastly your dark cold hot hard rough smoaky wicked Prince Lucifer himself all these are come into this present condition through his elevation
is caught or laid hold on by the astringent quality and in the clear bright light in the astringent spirit is Glorified and exceeding highly Joyfull which now is the mobility or the root of life which in the astringent quality Imageth frameth and formeth the Word or maketh it distinct or severall so that in the body a Thought or Will doth exist 3. Now this highly triumphing and Joyous spirit is very fitly and excellently in the Divine Salitter used to the Imaging or framing because it chiefly moveth in the tone or Tune and in the Love and is nearest to the heart of God in the Birth and bound or united therewith in joy which indeed is it self also the spring and source of Joy or the rising up in the heart of God 4. And there is no difference here but onely such as is between the Body and Soul in Man and so the Body signifieth or Resembleth the seven qualifying spirits of the Father and the Soul signifieth or Resembleth the onely begotten Sonne of God the Father The spirit of the Soul signifieth or representeth the Heart of God and the Soul the Eye of God in the first principle as is declared in our Third Book concerning the Threefold Life of Man 5. Now as the Body generateth the soul so the seven Spirits of God generate the Sonne and as the Soul is a peculiar distinct thing when it is generated and yet is united with the Body and cannot subsist without the Body so also is the Sonne of God when he is generated a peculiar severall distinct thing also and yet cannot subsist without the Father Now Observe 6. Just in such a Kind and manner was also the bitter quality in Lucifer and had no cause to elevate it self neither had it any driving to it from any thing but followed the proud loftinesse of the astringent quality as its Father and supposed also it would reign in its kind and manner over the whole Deity and so kindled it self in its elevation 7. Now when it had half generated the animated or soulish spirit in the Body that spirit became in this kind and manner a fierce stinging raging kindled and tearing spirit bitter as Gall and is rightly the Quality of Hell fire a very fierce and Enimicitious hostile Being 8. Now when this spirit in the animated or soulish spirit out of or from the heart of Lucifer and his Legions roved or speculated into the Deity that is brought its will thereinto as into the Genitrix then it was no other but a tearing breaking murthering and poisonous burning concerning which Christ said The Devil is a Liar and murtherer from the beginning and hath not continued in the truth Joh. 8. 44. 9. But Lucifer intended by that means to be above God none could domineer and rule so terribly as himself all must stoop to him he would with his spirit in the whole Deity Rule as a powerfull King over all being he was the fairest and beautifullest he would needs also be the most Potent 10. But he saw and knew very well the meek and humble Being in God his Father moreover he knew also very well that it stood in such meeknesse from eternity and that he also should generate in such meeknesse as a loving and obedient Sonne 11. But now being he was so beautiously and gloriously Imaged or formed as a King in Nature his beautious form and feature tickled him and so he thought with himself I am now God and formed or framed out of God who can vanquish me or who can alter or change me I myself will be Lord and with my sharpnesse rule in all things and my Body shall be the Image which shall be worshipped I will prepare and erect for my self a new Kingdom for the whole circumference Extent or Region is mine I am God alone and none else 12. And in his pride he struck and smote himself with darknesse and blindnesse and made himself a Devill and that he must be and abide so Eternally He knew in God onely the Majestie and not the Word in the Center which hath the Fanne or Casting shovell He blinded himself with the astringent darknesse for he would needs inflame himself and rule in the fire over the light and over the Meeknesse 13. Now when these Evil Devillish Spirits understand the Center of the Genitrix moved or boyled in Gods Salitter and Imagined Speculated or roved thereinto then there was nothing but stinging burning murthering Robbing and a meer Opposite or contrary will 14. For the Heart of God delighted in Love and meeknesse and Lucifer would needs turn the same by force into a Raging Tyranny And so there was nothing but Emnity and a contrary or Opposite will for by force he kindled the Salitter of God which had rested from Eternity and stood in its Meeknesse 15. Concerning this kindling in this circumference or Extent it is that God calls himself an angry Zealous or Jealous God against those that hate him Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9. that is against those who kindle his wrath and fiercenesse yet more with their diabolical spirits with swearing cursing blaspheming and all manner of furious fiercenesse and wrath which sticketh in the Heart with pride covetousnesse envy and Anger all that whatsoever is in thee thou castest into God that is into the Genitrix of Nature and therefore that must be proved and tryed through the fire and the Soul's spirit also and the wickednesse or malice must abide and remain in the Fire Now thou Askest How can that be Answer 16. When thou openest thy Eyes and feest the Being of God then thou prickest as it were with Thorns into the Being of God and movest or stirrest up the Wrath and Anger of God 17. And when a Tone or Noise soundeth in thy Ears so that thou receivest or catchest it up from the Being of God then thou infectest it as if thou didst dart Thunder-Claps into it 18. Consider what thou dost with thy Nostrills and with thy Mouth whence thy dear newborn little sonne rusheth forth with thy speech as a little sonne of all the seven spirits and observe whether it doth not storm and assault in Gods Salitter as Lucifer did O! there is no difference at all in this 19. But again on the other side God saith I am a merciful God to those that love me Those I will do good to and blesse them to a thousand Generations Exod. 20. 6. Deut. 5. 10. Here Observe 20. And such are those who contrary to the kindled wrath-fire do with their Love meeknesse and industrious earnest yernings and kindlings of love with their prayers Quench the wrath-fire and presse on against the kindled fiercenesse 21. And here indeed is many a hard Blow or Crushing for the kindled wrath-fire of God falls many times so heavy upon them that they know not where to bestow themselves heavy Mountains lye upon them the Love-Crosse presseth sore and is heavy 22. But this is their Comfort and
Strong Helmet against the fiercenesse and the kindled fire according as the Kingly Prophet David saith To the Honest or the upright the light riseth up in the darknesse Psal 112. 4. 23. And in this strife and fight against the wrath of God and the kindled fiercenesse of the Devils and of all wicked Men the Light riseth up in the heart of the Honest and upright and the friendly Love of God embraceth him that he may not despair in his Crosse but strive further still against the wrath and fiercenesse 24. If there were not at all times some honest upright Men on Earth who quench the wrath of God with their opposing the Hellish fire had kindledâ— self long ago and then it would have well been seen where Hell is which men do not now believe 25. But thus saith the Spirit assoon as the fiercenesse overcometh the opposition of love in this world then the fire kindleth it self and then there is no more time in this world 26. But that the fiercenesse doth terribly burn now at present it needs no proof here for it is known as clear as the Day by wofull experience Behold there riseth up yet a little fire in the opposition against the wrath out of a singular especiall Love-restraint of God when this groweth weak also then is the End of this Time 27. But whether Lucifer hath done rightly in that he hath awakened and stirr'd up the fiercenesse in the Salitter of God whence this world is become Stinging Venomous Thorny Rocky Envious and Evill false or wicked let the Atturneys Proctors Advocates and defenders of Lucifer answer plead and justifie it if they can if not then this third Bitter stinging venomous spirit shall be condemned also Of the Fourth Kind Species form or manner of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer 28. The Fourth Spirit of God is Heat which is generated between the bitter and astringent quality and is conceived or bred in the sweet water and is shining and giving light and is the true fountain of life 29. For in the sweet water it is very meek from whence Love existeth and is onely a loving warmth and no fire 30. And though indeed it be in the hidden kernel of the fires quality or Originall yet that fire is not kindled or burning for it is generated in the sweet water 31. Now where the water is there is not burning fire but a pleasing warmth and gentle qualifying or vivifying but if the water should be dryed up then there would be burning fire there 32. Thus Lord Lucifer thought also if he did but kindle his fire then he might domineer forcibly in the Divine power but he thought it would have burnt Eternally and also have given Light his purpose was not to put out the Light but he would have it burn continually in the fire he thought he would dry up the water and then the light would move stirre or shine in the burning fire 33. But he knew not that if he kindled the dryed water that the kernel that is the unctuosity oyl or heart of the water would be consumed and that the light would turn into darknesse and the water turn into a sowr stinck 34. For the oyl or unctuosity in the water is generated through meeknesse or well-doing and that is the unctuosity oyl unction marrow or fatnesse wherein the Light becomes shining But if the unctuousnesse be burnt up then the water is turn'd into a sowr stinck and moreover becometh very dark 35. And thus it befell the Pride of Lucifer he triumph'd a little while with his kindled Light but when his light was spent and burnt up then he became a Black Devill 36. But he supposed he would Eternally reign thus in his burning light in the whole Divine power as a very terrible God and so with his fire-spirit he wrestled with the Salitter of God intending to kindle the whole circumference or Extent of his Kingdome 37. And indeed he hath done somewhat in that he hath set the Divine power into a burning which appeareth even in the Sun and Stars also the fire in the Salitter in the Elements is often kindled so that it seemeth as if the Deep were of a burning fire of which I shall speak in another place He stept back out of the meeknesse into the anxious fire-will and fell into darknesse The Reader is advertised that he must not understand in any place as if the Devill had kindled or fired the Light of God no but the forms of Nature only out of which the light shineth For he hath not comprehended the Light as little as the fire doth which cannot lay hold on the Light But he entred into the fire and is expelled into the Darknesse and hath neither fire nor light besides without or distinct from his creature or own Creaturelinesse 38. Now in this quality King Lucifer hath prepared for himself the right Hellish Bath or Lake He dares not say that God hath framed or erected the Hellish quality for him but he himself hath done it Moreover he hath offended the Deity and turn'd the powers of God into a hellish Bath or Lake for his own Eternal habitation 39. For when he and all his Angels had kindled in their Bodies the qualifying or fountain spirit of the fire then the unctuousnesse marrow or fatnesse burnt in the sweet water and the flash or terrour which riseth up fiercely in the birth of the light became raging and tearing burning and stinging and a being or substance of a meer opposite or contrary will 40. And here in this quality the Life was turn'd into a Sting of Death for through Heat the bitter quality grew so fierce stinging raging and burning as if the whole body were meer fiery Stings these did tear and rage in the astringent quality as if one did thrust fiery Pins Needles or red-hot Bodkins through the Body 41. On the other side the cold fire of the astringent quality was in a mad furious rage against the heat and against the bitter venom or Poison like a great Uproar or hurliburly and now furthermore in the Body of Lucifer there was nothing else but a murthering rubbing fretting burning and stinging a most horrible hellish fire 42. This fire-spirit and right Devils-spirit elevated it self now also in the Center of the heart and would rule through the animated or soulish spirit Hereby is understood the spirit of the will out of the Center which is generated out of the Genitrix viz. out of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits which is the Image of God in the whole Divine power and kindle the whole Salitter of God as a new and potent God and so the formings and Heavenly Imagings should rise up in a horrible fiery Qvality and suffer themselves to be Imaged and framed according to this fiercenesse 43. Now when I write of the animated or soulish spirit then thou must exactly know what it is or how it is else thou wilt read this Birth or
would govern with its sharpnesse 65. From hence now is existed the great contrary opposite will and Eternall Emnity between God and Lucifer for the power of God moveth very softly meekly pleasantly and friendly so that its Birth cannot be conceived of or apprehended and the spirits of Lucifer move and tear very harshly astringently firily swiftly and furiously 66. An example whereof you have in the kindled Salitter of the Stars which because of this kindled fiercenesse must Roul with the vanity even to the last Judgment Day And then the fierceness will be separated from them and be given to King Lucifer for an Eternal house 67. But that this is a great opposite contrary will in God needs no proof but a Man may think in case such a fierce fire source or quality should rise in his Body what an untowardnesse and contrary will he should have in him and how often the whole Body would be in a rage and fury 68. Which indeed befalls those who lodge the Devil within them but so long as he is but a Guest he lyeth still like a Tame Whelp but when he becometh the Host himself and Master of the house then he stormeth and maketh havock in the House as he did to the Body of God 69. And therefore it is that the wrath-fire of God is yet in the Body of God which is in this world till the End and many a creature is swallowed up and devoured in the wrath-fire of which much is to be written but is referred to its proper place 70. But now whether God himself hath created and kindled this Emnity and fierce fire-source in Lucifer they are to plead for and justifie which dispute for Predestination Foreseeing and the Election of Grace and they are to prove it in Nature if they can if not then this corrupted fire-source which standâ—s in the place or stead of Love shall be condemned also Of the Sixth Species Kind form or manner of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer and in his Angels 71. The Sixth qualifying or fountain spirit in the Divine power is the Mercurius or Tone or Tune wherein the distinction and heavenly Joy riseth up 72. This spirit taketh its original in the fire-flash that is in the bitter quality and riseth up in the flash through the sweet water wherein it mitigateth it self so that it becometh clear and bright and is reserved and kept in the astringent quality and there it toucheth or stirreth all the spirits and from this touching or stirring riseth up the Tone its rising source or quality standeth in the flash and its Body or Root standeth in the sweet water in the Love 73. Now this Tone or Tune is the Divine Joyfulnesse the triumphing wherein the Divine and meek Love-play sport or scene in God riseth up as also the formings Imagings and all manner of Ideas shapes and Figures 74. But here thou must know that this quality penetrateth very gently and pleasantly with its touching or stirring through all the Spirits in such a way and manner as when a pleasant and meek fire of Joy riseth up in the heart of a man in which fire of Joy the animated or soulish Spirit triumpheth as if it were in Heaven 75. Now this spirit doth not belong to or concern the Imaging or framing of the body but to the distinction diversifying and mobility especially to the Joy and to the distinction or difference in the Imaging or shaping 76. And when the animated or soulish Spirit in the Center of the heart in the midst or Genter of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits is generated so that the will of the seven Spirits is incorporated or compacted together then the Tone bringeth it forth from the Body and is its Chariot on which the spirit rideth and executeth that which is Decreed in the Council of the seven spirits 77. For the Tone goeth through the animated or Soulish spirit into the nature of God and into the Salitter of the seventh qualifying or fountain spirit in the Divine power which is its â—â—ceptive or beginning Mother and uniteth qualifieth or co-operateth with the same in the forming or framing and also in the distinguishing or diversifying of the Imaging or shape 78. Therefore when King Lucifer changed or transmuted his high-minded prancing Nagg or Palfrey in the Tone into a firy resting in all the seven spirits that was a terrible contrary or opposite will in the Salitter of God 79. For when his animated or soulish spirit was generated in his body then he stung forth from his Body into the Salitter of God as a fiery Serpent out of a hole 80. But when the Mouth opened to speak that is when the seven spirits had incorporated or compacted the word together in their will and sent it through the Tone into the Salitter of God then it was no otherwise then if there went a fiery Thunder-bolt into Gods Nature or as a fierce Serpent which tyrannizeth raveth and rageth as if it would tear and rend Nature all to pieces 81. Hence that taketh its original that the Devill is called the old Serpent Apocal. 12. 9. and also that there are Adders and Serpents in this corrupted world moreover all manner of vermine or venomous Broods of Worms Toads Flies Lice and Fleas and all such like things whatsoever and from hence also Tempestuous weather of Lightning Thundring Flashing and Hail-stones take their Originall in this world Observe 82. When the Tone riseth up in the Divine Nature then it riseth up gently from all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits joyntly together and generateth the word or Ideas figures and shapes very gently 83. That is when one qualifying or fountain spirit attracteth a will to the Birth or Geniture then it presseth very gently through the other qualifying or fountain spirits even into the Center of the Heart and there that will is formed and approved by all the spirits 84. And then the other six spirits speak it forth in the Tone out from Gods animated or soulish spirit forth understand out from the heart of God out from the Sonne of God which abideth standing in the center as a compacted incorporated Word 85. And the flash out of that same Word or the stirring of the Word which is the Tone goeth forth very finely and gently from the Word and executeth effecteth or performeth the will of the Word 86. And that same forthgoing from the Word is the Holy Ghost which formeth frameth and Imageth all whatsoever was Decreed in the center of the heart in the Councel of the seven spirits of God the Father 87. In such a gentle way and manner should King Lucifer also have generated qualified or operated and according to the Right of the Deity with his animated or soulish spirit in the Salitter or in the Nature of God have helped to Image or frame things as a dear sonne in Nature 88. Just as a sonne in the House helps his Father to drive or manage his work
power which in the Center or midst is compacted together or incorporated out of all the seven spirits is incomprehensible and unsearchable but not invisible for it is not the power of one spirit alone but of all seven 51. Therefore one spirit in its own Body besides and distinct from its instanding or innate instant Birth or Geniture cannot reach into the whole Heart of God and examine try and search all for it comprehends besides and distinct from its instanding Birth or Geniture onely its own Birth or Geniture in the heart of God but all the seven spirits joyntly together comprehend the whole heart of God And so also in Man but understand it as to the Image of God viz. in the Soul's spirit not in the fiery Essence of the soul but in the Essence of the Light wherein the Image of God standeth 52. But in the instanding or innate Birth or Geniture of the spirits where the one still generateth the other there every spirit generateth all the seven spirits but yet only in the rising flash of the life 53. But the Heart when it is generated is singular or distinct viz. a peculiar Person and yet not separated from the Spirits but the spirits cannot transmute or change themselves in their first Birth or Geniture one into another 54. Also the second cannot change it self into the third which is the exit of the spirit but every Birth or Geniture abideth in its seat and yet all the Births or Genitures together are but the One Only God 55. But being the Body of Lucifer was created out of Nature and the most outward Birth or Geniture therefore it was unjustly done that he should elevate himself into the innermost and deepest which he could not do in the Divine Right but must so elevate and kindle himself onely that thereby the qualifying or fountain-spirits might be set or put into the sharpest penetrating and Infecting 56. I verily suppose indeed that thou fair Necromancer hast changed thy self to purpose and mayest well teach men also thy Black Art that they perhaps might also become such potent Gods as thou art 57. Ye blind and proud Necromancers Jugglers and Sorcerers your Art consisteth in your changing the Elements of your Body by your conjurations and Instruments of the Qualities or qualifying Properties which you make use of to that purpose and ye think ye have Right so to do but is it not against the Birth or Geniture of God If you think so make that appear 58. How can you well suppose that you can change your selves into another form Indeed you suffer the Devill thus to play the Ape with you and cheat you and all this while you are but blind in your own skill though you have learned your Art never so well yet you do not know the Scope it driveth at for the Pith and Heart therein is the changing or altering of the qualifying or fountain-spirits as Lucifer did when he would needs be God Now thou Askest How can that be Answer 59. Behold when the corporeall qualifying or fountain spirits set their will into Sorcery or Witchcraft then the animated or soulish spirit which they generate and which in the Astral Elementary Quality ruleth in the hidden and deepest Center is clearly already a Sorcerer or Witch and hath changed transformed or metamorphosed it self into Sorcery or Witchcraft 60. But the Bestial Body cannot follow so suddenly and nimbly but must be charmed to it by Characters and Conjurations and some instruments for that purpose whereby the animated or soulish spirit maketh the bestial Body invisible and changeth it into such a form as the will of the quaifying or fountain spirits was at the beginning of its purpose to a Metamorphosis or Transmutation 61. The Bestial flesh cannot well change it self or put it self into another Birth or Geniture but is brought into a slender and inferiour Base form as of a Beast of Wood or such like thing which hath its Body qualifying or boyling in the Elements as in their fountain 62. But the Astral spirits can well cloath themselves in another form or shape but that continueth onely so long as the Birth or Geniture of Nature above their Pole or Zenith permitteth them 63. For when it changeth it self with its wheeling and penetrating so that another qualifying or fountain spirit becomes chief or predominant then their Art lyeth down upon the ground and their Deity in the first qualifying or fountain spirit in which they had begun their Art hath an End 64. Now if it be to last any longer then it must be made again afresh according to the qualifying or fountain spirit then ruling at that Present or the Devill with his animated or soulish spirit must be in the astraâ—l spirits of the Body which instantly and suddenly changeth it or else his Art is here at an End also 65. For Nature will not suffer it self to be Juggled with at all times and houres as the spirits would have it but all must be done according to that spirit which then at that present time is Lord and chief or predominant 66. It is not that Spirit of God which is Lord and chief in Nature which causeth or maketh the Jugling but it is made in the fiercenesse of the Salitter which Lord Lucifer hath kindled with his elevation which is his eternal Kingdom 67. But when the power or might of that spirit is allayed then the kindled fire can be no more useful to the Juggler 68. For the wrath-fire in Nature is not during this Time of the world the Devils own house of his power for the love standeth hidden in the Center of the wrath-fire and Lucifer together with his Angels lyeth imprisoned in the outward wrath-fire even untill the Judgment of God then he will have the wrath-fire separated from the Love for an eternall Bath or Lake and doubtlesse he will wash his Juglers Head and Face withall 69. This I set thee down here for a warning that thou mayst know what manner of Ground Sorcery or Witchcraft hath not in such a way as if I would write any heathenish forcery or witchcraft neither have I studied any but the animated or soulish spirit beholdeth their Juggling which in the Body I do not understand 70. But being it runneth counter clean contrary to the Love and Meeknesse of the Birth or Geniture of God and is a contrary or opposite will in the Love of God so that he is loath without pressing necessity driveth him to it to hurt Man therefore will the spirit have the wrath-Bath or Lake of Nature set apart to be an Eternal Parching or drying place for Jugglers perverters or changers of Gods Ordinance or Order And therein they may practise and shew forth their new Deity Of the Kindling of the Wrath-Fire 71. Now when King Lucifer together with all his Angels kindled himself then the wrath-fire rose up instantly in the Body and the gracious amiable and blessed Light was
have no Hope and then this world did not stand in the Power and Love of God 32. But the Deity is in the outward Birth hidden and hath the Fanne or Casting shovel in its hand and will one Day cast the chaffe and the kindled Salitter upon a Heap and will draw away from it its inward Birth or Geniture and give them to Lord Lucifer and his Crew of followers for an Eternal House 33. In the mean while Lord Lucifer must lye captive and Imprisoned in the outermost Birth in the Nature of this world in the kindled wrath-fire and therein he hath great Power and can reach into the Heart of all Creatures with his animated or soulish spirit in the outermost Birth or Geniture which standeth in the wrath-fire 34. Therefore the Soul of man must fight and strive continually with the Devill for he still presents before it the Swine-Apples of Paradise That is the fierce source of Malignity wherewith the Soul is infected and invites it also to Bite thereof that he thereby may also bring it into his Prison 35. And if that will not succeed to his purpose then he strikes many a hard blow at the stomack ready to choak it and that man must continually lye under the Crosse affliction and misery in this world 36. For he hideth the Noble Grain of Mustard-feed so that Man doth not know himself And then the world supposeth that he is thus plagued and smitten of God whereby the Devils Kingdom remaineth alwaies hidden and undiscovered 37. But stay a little thou hast given me also many a Blow I have experimentall knowledge of thee and here I will open thy Door to thee a little that another also may see what thou art The Eighteenth Chapter Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth and of the first Day 1. MOses writeth in his first Book as if he had been Present and had beheld all with his Eyes but without doubt he received it in writing from his Forefathers it may be He might have well discerned somewhat more herein in the Spirit then his Forefathers 2. But because at that time when God created Heaven and Earth there was yet no Man which saw it therefore it may be concluded that Adam before his Fall while he was yet in the deep knowledge of God did know it in the Spirit only 3. But yet when he fell and was set into the outward Birth or Geniture he knew it no more but had onely a Remembrance of it as of a dark and secret Action or History and so left it to his Posterity 4. For it is manifest that the first World before the Deluge or Flood knew as little of the qualities and Birth or Geniture of God as this last world wherein we now live for the external fleshly Birth or Geniture could never apprehend or understand the Deity otherwise somewhat more would have been written of it 5. But being through the Divine Grace in this High Article this Great Mystery hath been somewhat revealed to me in my spirit according to the inward Man which qualifieth mixeth and uniteth with the Deity therefore I cannot forbear to describe it according to my Gifts And I would have the Reader faithfully admonished not to be offended at the Simplicity of the Author 6. For I do it not out of a desire of Boasting and vain-glory but in a humble information to the Reader that thereby the works of God might be somewhat better known and the Devils Kingdom revealed and laid open being this present Modern world moveth and liveth in all malice wickednesse and Devillish vicious Blasphemies that it might once see in what kind of power impulse or driving it liveth and in what kind of Inne it taketh up its Lodging 7. And try whether I may happily with the entrusted Talent get gain of Usury and not return it to my God and Creator again singly and empty without improvement like the lazie servant who had stood idle in the vineyard of the Lord and would require his wages without having laboured at all 8. But if the Devil should raise Mockers and despisers who would say It doth not become me to climb so high into the Deity and to dive so deeply thereinto 9. To all of them I give this for an Answer That I am not climbed up into the Deity neither is it Possible for such a mean man as I am to do it but the Deity is climbed up into me and from its Love are these things revealed to me which otherwise I in my half-dead fleshly Birth or Geniture must needs have let alone altogether 10. But being I have such an impulse upon me I let him act and move in me who knoweth and understandeth what it is and whose pleasure it is that I should do it I poor man of Earth Dust and Ashes could not do it But the spirit inviteth and Citeth all such mockers and despisers before the innermost Birth or Geniture of God in this world to desist from their wickednesse and malice If not then they shall be spewed out as Hellish chaffe into the outermost Birth or Geniture in the wrath of God Now Observe 11. When God was now moved to Anger in the Third Birth or Geniture in the Court Quarters or Region of Lucifer which was all the space and room or Extent of this world then the light was extinguish'd in the third Birth or Geniture and all became a Darknesse and the Salitter in the third Birth or Geniture was rough wild hard bitter sowr and in some parts stinking Muddy and Brittle all according to the Birth or Geniture of the qualifying or fountain spirits then at that time working 12. For in that place wherein the astringent quality was predominant there the Salitter was attracted together and dryed so that hard dry Stones came to be but in those places where the astringent spirit and the bitter were equally alike predominant there sharp small Gravel and Sand came to be for the raging bitter spirit brake the Salitter all to pieces 13. But in those places where the Tone together with the astringent spirit were predominant in the water there Copper Iron and such like rocky Oar of Minerals came to be but where the water was predominant together with all the spirits joyntly and equally there the wild Earth came to be and the water was here and there like a cloud or vapour held captive in the Clefts and veins or spaces of the Rocks for the astringent spirit as the Father of corrupted Nature held it captive with its sharp attracting together 14. But the Bitter spirit is the chiefest cause of the black Earth for through its fierce bitternesse the Salitter became kill'd in its outermost Birth or Geniture from whence existed the wild or Barren Earth 15. But the Heat in the astringent spirit chiefly helped to make the Hardnesse but where that came to be there it generated the noblest and pretiousest Salitter in the Earth as Gold Silver and Pretious
of the corrupted Earth and quencheth its wrath whereby in the Astrall Birth or Geniture all standeth in the Life and so the Earth generateth the Life through the Death The Gate of the Mystery 38. But that there is a Firmament between the Waters which Firmament is called Heaven it hath this understanding or meaning 39. The whole Deep from the Moon to the Earth standeth all with its working in the wrathfull and comprehensible or palpable Birth or Geniture for the Moon is the Goddesse of the palpable Birth and so the House of the Devills of Death and of Hell is in the circuit orb or Extent between the Moon and the Earth 40. Where therefore the fierce wrath of God in the outermost Birth or Geniture in the Deep becometh daily kindled and blown up by the Devills and all wicked Men through the Great Sins of Man which still qualifie mix unite or co-operate with the Astral Birth or Geniture in the Deep 41. Now Therefore God hath made the Firmament which is call'd Heaven between the outermost and innermost Birth and that is a Partition or division between the outermost and innermost Birth or Geniture 42. For the outermost Birth of the water cannot comprehend the innermost Birth of the water which is called Heaven and which is made out of the midst or Center of the water Heaven is the Firmament viz. the fire-Sea or Sea-of-Fire out of the seven spirits of Nature out of which the Stars as a Quintessence were concreted incorporated or created by the word FIAT And it hath or containeth both fire and water and hangeth in it self inwardly on the first Principle and shall bring its wonders with or as to the figure of them into the Eternal but its Birth or Geniture fadeth or passeth away 43. Now the innermost Birth of Heaven reflects strongly upon the Earth and holdeth the outermost water upon the Earth together with the Earth also strongly captive 44. And if that were not then with the Revolution of the Globe of the Earth the water would be divided or dissolved again also then would the Earth Crumble break and moulder away in the Deep and all would be a Chaos again 45. But now therefore that Firmament between the outermost palpable water and the Inward holdeth the Earth and the palpable water Captive But now thou mayst Ask What is the fire then a Firmament of that Heaven which I can neither see nor apprehend Answer 46. Yes It is the Firmament between the clear Deity and the corrupt Nature which thou must break through when thou intendest to come to God and it is that very Firmament which doth not quite stand in the wrath neither is it altogether or perfectly pure concerning which it is written the very Heavens are not pure in the sight of God as in Job 15. 15. and at the last Judgment Day the wratn will be purged from them For it is written Heaven and Earth shall passe away but my word shall not passe away saith Christ Matth. 24. 35. Mark 13. 31. 47. Now that impurity in that Heaven is the wrath but the purity is the word of God which he once spake saying Let the water under the Firmament be separated from the water above the firmament Gen. 1. And that Word standeth and is comprised in the firmament of the water and holdeth the outward water together with the Earth captive or fixed The Gate of the Deitie Observe here the hidden Mystery of God 48. When thou beholdest the Deep above the Earth thou oughtest not to say that it is not the Gate of God where God in his holinesse dwelleth No no think not so For the whole holy Trinity God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost dwelleth in the Center under the Firmament of Heaven but that very Firmament cannot comprehend him 49. Indeed all is as it were one Body the outermost and inhermost Birth together with the Firmament of heaven as also the Astrall Birth therein in and with which the wrath of God also qualifieth mixeth and uniteth but yet they are one to another as the Government frame or constitution in Man 50. The Flesh signifieth 1o. The outward Birth or Genitute which is the House of Death 2o. The second Birth or Geniture in Man is the Astrall in which the Life-standeth and wherein Love and wrath wrestle one with another And thus far Man himself knoweth himself for the Astrall Birth generateth the Life in the outermost that is in the dead Flesh 3o. The Third Birth is generated between the Astrall and outermost and that is called the animated or soulish Birth or Geniture or the Soul and is as Large as the whole Man 51. And that Birth or Geniture the outward Man neither knoweth nor comprehendeth neither doth the Astrall comprehend it but every qualifying or fountain spirit comprehendeth only its innate or instant Root which signifieth or resembleth the Heaven 52. And that animated or soulish Man must presse through the Firmament of Heaven to God and live with God else the whole man cannot come into Heaven to God 53. For every Man that desireth to be saved must with his innate instant Births or Genitures be as the whole Deity with all the three Births in this world is 54. Man cannot be absolutely or wholly pure without wrath and sin for the Births of the Depth in this world are not fully pure before the Heart of God Job 15. v. 15. but alwayes Love and wrath wrestle one with another whence God is called an angry zealous God Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9. 55. Now as man is in the Government or Order of his Nativity Birth or Geniture Just so also is the whole Body of God in or of this world but in the water standeth the meek Life 56. As I. First in the outward Body of God in or of this world there is the congealed astringent bitter and Hot Death in which the palpable water is also congealed and Dead 57. And therein now is the Darknesse wherein King Lucifer with his Angels as also all fleshly or carnal wicked Men lye captive even with or in their living Bodies as also the Separated spirits of damned Men. 58. This birth can neither see hear feel smell nor comprehend the Heart of God but is a Foolish Virgin which King Lucifer in his Pride hath caused to be so 59. And II. The second Birth is the Astrall which thou must understand to be the Life of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits wherein now the Love and the wrath is against one another and therein standeth the upper water which is a spirit of the life and therein or between is the Firmament of Heaven which is made out of the midst or Center of the water 60. Now this Birth or Geniture presseth through the outward congealed Birth quite through Death and the Astral Life in the death that is in the congealed Earth Water and Flesh of the Beasts and of Men also of the Fowls Fishes and
of the fruit qualifieth or uniteth with the word Therefore thy Hope standeth in God For the Astrall Birth or Geniture standeth in Love and Wrath and that in this time it cannot prevent in regard of the outermost Birth or Geniture in the Flesh which standeth in Death 43. For the dead or Mortal Flesh hath encompassed the Astrall Birth and Mans Flesh is a dead Carkasse whilest it iâ— yet in the Mothers body or womb and is encompassed with Hell and Gods wrath 44. But now the Astrall Birth generateth the animated soulish Birth viz. the Third which standeth in the word 〈◊〉 the incorporated or compacted word lyeth hiddeâ— in iâ—s Heaven The Sulphur to he production of the Soul is the first Principle in the eternall will-spirit and cometh to Life in the third Principle and so liveth between love and wrath and hangeth to born 45. But now being thou hast thy Reason and art not like the Apple on the Tree but art Created an Angel and the similitude or Image of God instead of the Expulsed Devils and knowest how thou canst with thy Astrall Birth in the part of Love qualifie or unite with the Word of God therefore thou canst in the Center in the Word set or put thy animated or soulish Birth into Heaven and thou canst with thy soul even with thy living Body in this Dead or Mortal palpability rule with God in Heaven 46. For the Word is in thy heart Deut. 30. 14. Rom. 10. 8. and qualifieth or uniteth with the Soul as if it were one Beeing and if thy Soul standeth in the Love then it also is one Beeing And thou mayst say that according to thy soul thou sittest in Heaven and livest and reignest with God Understand according to the spirit of the soul with the Image out of the animated or soulish fire 47. For the soul which apprehendeth the Word hath an open Gate in Heaven and can be prevented by nothing neither doth the Devill see the soul because it is not in his Country or Dominions 48. But being thy Astrall Birth standeth with the one part in the wrath and that the Flesh through the wrath standeth in Death thereupon the Devil in the part of the wrath seeth continually even into thy Heart and if thou lets him have any Room or place there then he teareth that part of the Astrall Birth which standeth in the Love out from the word 49. And then thy Heart is a dark Valley And if thou dost not Labour and work quickly again to the Birth of the Light then he kindleth the wrath-fire therein and then shall thy soul be spewed out from the Word and then it qualifieth or uniteth with the wrath of God and so afterward thou art a Devil and not an Angel and canst not with thy animated or soulish Birth reach the Gates of Heaven 50. But if thou fightest and strivest with the Devill and keepest the Gate of Love in thy Astrall Birth and so departest from hence as to the Body then thy Soul remaineth in the Word quite hidden from the Devil and reiâ—neth with God even unto the Day of the Restitution of that which was Lost. 51. But if thou standest with thy Astrall Birth in the wrath when thou departest from hence as to the Body and thy Soul not comprehended in the word then thou canst never reach the Gates of Heaven but into what thou hast sown thy seed that is thy Soul in that very Part shall thy Body also arise The Gate of the Power 52. But that Soul and Body shall come together again at the Day of the Resurrection thou mayst perceive so much here by the Earth For the Creator said Let the Earth bring forth Grasse and Herbs and Trees bearing Fruit each according to its Kind And then each sprung up according to its kind and grew and as before the time of the wrath it had a Heavenly Body so it got now an Earthly one answerable to its Mother 53. But it is to be considered how all was comprised in the word at the great tumult and uproar of the Devill so that all sprung up in its own Being according to its Power vertue and kind as if it had never been destroyed or altered at all 54. Now if it were thus at that Time when there was such murthering and robbing sure it will be much more so at the Last Judgment Day when the Earth shall be separated in the kindled wrath-fire and shall be living again or revived then surely it will be comprehended in the Word of Love as it hath in the same Word here generated its Fruit of Grasse Herbs and Trees as also all manner of mineral Oras of Silver and of Gold 55. But being the Astrall Birth of the Earth standeth in the Love and the outward in Death therefore will each remain in its seat and so Life and Death will sever themselves 56. And where now would the Soul of Man rather be at the day of Regeneration then with its Father that is †in the Body which hath Generated it 57. But being the Soul all the while the Body had been in Death remained hidden in the Word and being the same Word also holdeth the Earth in the Astral birth in the Love therefore it qualifieth mixeth or uniteth through the Word all the time of its hiddennesse and secreâ—ie also with its Mother the Body according or as to the Astral Birth or Geniture in the Earth and so Body and Soul in the Word were never separated one from another but live joyntly and equally together in God 58. And though indeed the Bestial Body must putrifie and Rot yet its power and vertue liveth and in the mean while there grow out of its power in its Mother fair beautiful Roses Blossoms and Flowers and though it were quite burnt up and Consumed in the Fire yet its power and vertue standeth in the four Elements in the Word and the Soul qualifieth mixeth or uniteth therewith for the Soul is in Heaven and the same Heaven is every where even in the midst or center of the Earth 59. O Dear Man view thy self for a vvhile in this Looking-Glasse thou wilt find it more largely to be read of concerning the Creation of Man this I set down here for this very cause that thou mightest the better understand the power of Creation and that thou mightest the better conceive and fit thy Self for this Spirit and so learn to understand its Language The open Gate of the Earth Now it might be Asked From or Out of what matter or power and Vertue then did the Grasse Herbs and Trees spring forth what manner of substance or condition or Constitution hath this kind of Creature Answer 60. The simple saith God made All things out of Nothing but He knoweth not That God neither doth he know what He is for when he beholdeth the Earth together with the Deep above the Earth he thinketh verily all this is not God or else he
cannot kindle it self For the unctuosity or fatnesse is captivated in the cold fire and so the whole Body remaineth a dark Valley which standeth in an anguishing Birth or Geniture and cannot comprehend or reach the life For the life which standeth in the Light cannot elevate it self in the hard bitter and astringent Body for it is captivated in the cold fire but not quite dead 100. And thou must see that all this is really so for Example take a Root which is of a Hot quality put it in warm water or take it into thy Mouth and make it warm and supple or moist and then thou wilt soon perceive its life and active or operative quality But so long as it is without or absent from the Heat it is captivated in Death and is cold as any other Root or piece of wood is 101. And then thou seest that the Body upon the Root is dead also for when the vertue is gone out of the Root then the Body is but a dead Carcasse and can operate or Effect Nothing at all and that is because the astringent and bitter spirit hath killed or destroyed the Body of the water and attracted the fatnesse or unctuosity thereof to it self and thus they have drawn or sucked up the Spirit thereof into the dead Body 102. Otherwise if the sweet water could keep its unctuosity or fatnesse in its own power and that the astringent and the bitter spirit did rub themselves one with another very gently in the sweet water then they would kindle the unctuosity or fatnesse in the sweet water and then the Light would instantly generate it self in the water and would enlighten the astringent and the bitter quality 103. Whereupon they would get their true Life and would be satisfied by the Light and rejoyce highly therein and from that living Joy Love would arise up and then the Tone would rise in the fire-flash through the rising up of the Bitter quality in the astringent And if that were done there it would be a Heavenly Fruit just as it springeth up in Heaven 104. But thou art to know that the Earth hath all the qualifying or fountain spirits for through the Devils kindling the spirits of Life were incorporated or compacted together also in Death and as it were captivated but not quite murthered 105. The first three viz. the Astringent Sweet and bitter belong to the Imaging or framing of the Body and therein standeth the mobility and the Body or Corporeity and these now have the comprehensibility or palpability and are the Birth of the outermost Nature 106. The other three viz. the Heat Love and Tone stand in the incomprehensibility and are generated out of the first Three and this now is the inward Birth wherewith the Deity qualifieth mixeth or uniteth 107. And now if the first three were not congealed or benumm'd in Death so that they could kindle the Heat then thou wouldst soon see a bright shining heavenly Body and thou wouldst see plainly where God is 108. But being the first Three qualities of the Earth are congealed or benummed in death therefore they remain also a Death and cannot elevate their life into the Light but remain a dark valley in which there standeth Gods Wrath Death and Hell as also the Eternal Prison and Source or Torment of the Devils 109. Not that these three qualities of the outermost Birth in which the wrath-fire standeth are rejected and reprobated even to the innermost no but onely the outward palpable Body and therein the outward hellish source quality or Torment 110. Here thou seest once more how the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Hell hang one to another as one Body and yet the one cannot comprehend the other For the second Birth viz. the Heat Light Love and the Sound or Tone is hidden in the outermost and maketh the outward moveable so that the outward gathereth it self together and generateth a Body 111. And though the Body standeth in the outward palpablenesse yet is it formed according to the kind and manner of the inward Birth for in the Inward Birth or Geniture standeth the Word and the Word is the Sound or Tone which riseth up in the Light in the fire-flash through the bitter and the astringent quality 112. But being the Sound of Gods Word must rise up through the astringent bitter Death and generate a Body in the half-dead water thereupon that Body is Good and also Evill dead and living for it must instantly attract the sapp of Fiercenesse and the Body of Death and stand in such a body and power as the Earth its Mother doth 113. But that the Life lyeth hid under and in the Death of the Earth as also in the children of the Earth I will here demonstrate it to you 114. Behold Man becometh weak faint and sick and if no remedy be used then he soon falls into Death The sicknesse caused either by some bitter and astringent Herb which groweth out of the Earth or else caused by an evil mortiferous deadly water or by severall mixtures of earthly Herbs or by some evil stincking and rank flesh or Meat and surfet from thence to Loathing 115. Now if a Learned Physitian inquireth from the sick Person from what his Disease is proceeded and taketh that which is the cause of the Disease whether it be Flesh Water or Herbs and distills or burneth it to powder according as the Matter is and so burneth away the outward Poison thereof which standeth in Death then in that distill'd Water or burnt Powder the Astral Birth remaineth in its Seat where life and death wrestle oâ—e with another and are both capable of being raised up for the Deadâ—Body is gone 116. And so now if thou minglest with this water or powder some good Treacle or the like which holdeth Captive the rising up and the power of the wrath in the Astrall Birth and givest it to the sick party or Patient in a little warm drink be it Beer or Wine then operateth the innermost and hidden Birth of the thing which hath caused the Disease in man through its outermost dead Birth 117. For when it is put into warm Liquor then the life in the thing becometh rising and would fain raise it self and be kindled in the Light â—ut it cannot because of the wrath which is opposite to it in the Astral Birth or Geniture 118. But it can do thus much viz. it can take away the Disease from a Man for the Astral Life riseth up through Death and taketh away the power from the Sting of Death and so when that hath gotten the victory then the Party becometh sound again 119. Thus thou seest how the power or vertue of the Word and eternal life in the Earth and in its children lyeth hidden in the center in Death and springeth up through Death incomprehensibly as to the Death and continually travelleth in anguish to the Birth of life and yet cannot flourish or budd till the
wilt Dissemble with Him and adorn or magnifie thy Birth then I suppose thee to be a very fine Angel indeed But He that hath Love in his heart and leadeth a mercifull meek and lowly-minded life and fighteth against malice and hatred and presseth through the wrath of God into the Light he liveth with God and is One Spirit with God 57. For God needeth no other Service but that his creature which is in His Body do not slide back from Him but be Holy as He is 58. Therefore also God gave the Law to the Jews that they should diligently study and endeavour after meek Holinesse and Love that thereby all the world might have them for their Looking-Glasse But when they grew proud and boasted in their Birth instead of entring into Love and turn'd the law of Love into the sharpnesse of wrath then God removed their Candlestick and went to the Heathens 59. Secondly II. There is this Difference betwixt the Christians Jews Turks and Heathens that the Christians know the Tree of Life which is CHRISTUS CHRIST who is the Prince of our Heaven and of this world and ruleth in all Births or Genitures as a King in God his Father and Men are his Members 60. And now Christians know how they may by the power of this Tree presse out from their Death through his Death to him into his life and raign and live with him wherein they also with their pressing through with their new birth out from this Dead Body may be and are with him in Heaven 61. And though the dead Body is in the midst or Center of Hell among all the Devils yet for all that the new Man reigneth with God in Heaven and the Tree of life is to them a strong Gate through which they do enter into Life But of this thou shalt find more largely in its proper Place Now Observe 62. Moses writeth that God said Let there be Lights in the Firmament of Heaven which should therein give a Light to the Earth and divide or distinguish Day and Night also make Years and Times or Seasons 63. This description sheweth that the first writer did not know what the Stars are But He took hold on the Deitie at the Heart and look'd upon or had respect to the Heart to consider what the Heart and kernel of this Creation is and the Spirit kept the Astral and outermost Dead Birth or Geniture hidden from him and did onely drive him in Faith to the Heart of the Deitie 64. Which is also the Principal Point most necessary for Man For when he layeth hold on true Faith then he presseth through the Wrath of God through Death into life and reigneth with God 65. But being Men now at the End of this time do listen and long very much after the Root of the Tree through which Nature sheweth that the time of the discovery of the Tree is at hand therefore the Spirit will shew it to them and the whole Deitie will reveal it self which is the Day-spring dawning or Morning-Rednesse and the breaking forth of the great Day of God in which whatsoever is generated from Death to the Regeneration of Life shall be Restored and Rise again 66. Behold when God said Let there be light then the light in the powers of Nature or the seven spirits of God rose up and the Firmament of Heaven which standeth in the Word in the Heart of the water between the astrall and outermost Birth or Geniture was closed or shut up by or with the Word and Heart of the water and the Astral birth is the Place of the parting-mark or Limit which standeth half in Heaven and half in the Wrath. 67. For from or out of that half Part of the wrath the Dead Birth generateth it self continually and out of the other half Part which reacheth with its innermost Degree even into the innermost Heart and light of God generateth it self now continually through Death and yet the Astrall Birth or Geniture is not two but One Body 68. But when in these two Dayes the Creation of Heaven and of Earth was compleated and that the Heaven was made in the heart of the water for a difference or distinction between the Light of God and the Wrath of God then on the Third Day through the terrour or crack of the fire-Flash which rose up in the heart of the water and pressed through Death incomprehensibly as to Death there sprung up all manner of Ideas Forms and Figures as was done before the time of the kindled wrath 69. But being the water which is the Spirit of the Astral Life stood in the midst or Center of wrath and also in Death thereupon also every Body formed it self as the Birth or Geniture to Life and mobility was Of the Earth 70. But now the Earth was the Salitter which was cast up out of the innermost Birth and stood in Death but when the fire-flash through the Word rose up in the water then it was a terrour or crack from which existed the mobility in death and that Mobility in all the seven spirits is now the Astrall Birth or Geniture The Depth Understand this aright 71. Now when on the the Third Day the fire-flash in the water of death had kindled it self then the Life pressed forth quite through the dead body of the water and of the Earth 72. But yet the Dead water and Earth comprehend no more then the flash or terrour or crack of the Fire where-through their mobility existeth But the Light which riseth up very softly Gently or meekly in the fire-flash that neither the Earth nor the dead water can comprehend 73. But it retaineth its Seat in the kernel which is the unctuosity or fatnesse or the water of life or the Heaven for it is the Body of Life which the Death cannot comprehend and yet it riseth up in the Death 74. Neither can the wrath take hold of it or apprehend it but the Wrath remaineth in the terrour or crack of the Fire-Flash and maketh the Mobility in the dead body of the earth and the water 75. But the Light presseth in very gently after and formeth the Birth which through the terrour or crack of the fire-flash hath gotten its compacted Body Of the Growths or Vegetables of the Earth 76. When now the Wrathfull fire-flash awakened and rouzed up the spirits of Nature which stand in Death in the Earth by its fierce terrour or crack then the spirits began according to their peculiar Divine Right to generate themselves as they had done from eternity and form figure or frame a Body together according to the innate instant qualities of that Place 77. Now that kind of Salitter which in the time of the kindling of the wrath dyed in Death and as it did qualifie or operate at that time in the innate instant Life of the seven spirits of God so also it did rise again in the Time of the Regeneration in the Fire-Flash and is not