82. Then what do thofe in the fVeß t their Bitter quality wilt rub it fclf with the other, but when they tafte the fweet water, then will their fpirit be mild and meek. j 83. But what do thofe in the Saß > thou art a lof- ty Proud Bride, from the beginning, the Crown was alwayes offered to thee from the beginning, but thou thought ft thy felf too Fair already; thou liveft as the reft do.
Of the Divine and Heavenly Statures operation and property.
84. Now if thou wilt know, what kind or manner of Nature there is in Heaven, and what kind of Na- ture the Holy Angelshzsc, alfo what kind of Nature Adam 2 1 £ of the Seventh Fountain Spirit Ch. XI; Adam had before his Fall, and what, properly^ the holy heavenly and Divine Nature, is: then obierve the circumftances exa&ly concerning this feventh qualifying or fountain-fpirk of God, as follow- eth.
85. The feventh qualifying or fountain fpirit oi God is the qualifying or fountain-fpirit of Nature: for the other fix do generate the feventh \ and the fe- venth, when it is generated, is then as it were the ^Mother of the fix, which encompaffeth the other fix, and generateth them again: for the corporeal and natural Being confifteth in the feventh.
Obferve here the Senfe: 8 6. The fix rife up in a full or compleat Birth ac- cording to the power and condition of each of them, and wnen they are rifen up, then is their power . mingled one in another, and the hardnefle drjeth ir, and is as it were the whole Being.
87. Tn is corporeal exficcation or drying, I call in this book, the Divine S A L I T T E R, for it is » In the Se- * therein the Seed of the whole Deity, andt is as it were ^Viritof a Mortar, which receivcth the Seed, and alwayes Nature," ' generateth fruit again, according to all the Qpalit thefaid fe-< ties of the Seed.
venthSpiric, 88 Now in ^ rifing up of the fix fpirits, there ril'eth up alfo the CMercnriw, Tone, qr Sound, of all the fix Spirits, and in the Seventh Nature-fpirit it fubfiftcth. Note- 96. As, &c.; -.
%?. [ « By the word* SALITTER, in this book, is « underjtood, How out of the Eternal " Center of Nature, the Second Prin- 0 Chap XL in the 'Divine Power. 217 cc cipie growth and fpri*getb up out of " the fir it, Jufi as the Light fpringeth up Ci out of the tire, wherein two Spirits are Cc underficody viz. I. Firfi a Hot, II. Se- Cc condly 9 an Atrial one, where*** in the cc aerial life, the true vegetation or grow- cc ingconfiftethy and in the fire-life y is, the cC caufe of the Quality.
cc 90 „ So, when it is written, the Angels are created <c out §f God 3 then it is understood or «c meant} Out of Gods Eternal Nature9 " wherein is under food or meant the feven cc forms, and yet the divine holy nature cc is not under food to be in the Fire, but in cc the Lieht.
cc 9 1. And yet the Firegiveth or holde th forth to us ce a Myftery of the Eternal Nature, and <c of the Deity alfo, wherein a Man is to un- ^ der ft and, two principles of a twofold «fource, viz. I. a Holy Fiercey Afrin- (C genty Bitter, Anxious, Con fuming One cc in the fi resource. ^Andout of the fire Cc cometh the II. viz. the light y which <c dwelleth in the Firey but is not appre- cc bended or laid hold on by the fire, alfo it cc hath another fource then the fire hathy cc which üy MeeknefTe, wherein there is a <c de fire of Love, where then in the hove* <c defire another willy is underfioody then <c that which the Fire hath.
cc 9 Z, For the fire will confume all, and caufeth a Cc high rifing in the fource, and the meek» neffe of 'the light, caufeth Entity or Sub» F f fiantialityy cc iS cc <c * Three Princit pies. Three- fold Life.
Of the Seventh fountain Spirit Ch. XI. cc ftantiality, viz. In the eternal light it cc caufeth thewater-fpirit of Eternal life $ cc And in the third principle of 'this world, cc it caufeth water } together with the exi- Cc ßency or Original of the Ayr, $ 3, Thus the %jader is to under fand this book as cc concerning Three Principles or Births, cc viz one is the original of the Eternall <c feature, in the eternal will or deßre of a<jod; which de fire driveth it f elf on in cc great angnijb tiä it come to the fourth cc form, viz. to the Fire, 94. wherein thefecond, which is the Light, exifl- <c eth, andreplenijbeth the Sternal Liber- Cc ty befides or beyond Nature, wherein wz c< under fand the holy Ternarie in the "Light, without or beyond Nature, in the cc power of the Lights in the Liberty, as cc another orfecondfpring orfource without «Being; and yet united with the fire's cc NMure, viz.as Fire and Light together cc in One, 9 5. And the third principle of this world is gene- cC rated and created out of the Firß, that tc is, Magically.* as is clearly demonßra- « ted in our * Second and\ Third Book5 Cc unto which this Book is onely an Intro- ^cluBion, and is the firft Book5 which was «notfußiciently apprehended by the Au~ tct}mr at the fir ft time, though it appea- <c red clearly enough, yet all of it could not <c be conceived; alfo it was as when a Tor- <c rent or fiormy Showre of Rain pafjeth sC over Cb.XI. in the Divine Tower.
c* over a -place ^ from whence vegetation and <c (fringing exifleth: for, therein, is the Cc Seed of the whole Deity; ] — 96.
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As in the mother; and then the feventh genera- teth all manner of Fruits and Colours according to the Operation of the Six.
9 j. But here thou rauft know, that the Deity doth not ft and ftill, but vvorketh and rifeth up without ihtermißion, asa plcafant wreftling, moving or ftruggling; 98. Like two creatures, which in great Love play together, Embracing ftruggling and wreftling one with the other ^ now the one is above, by and by the other, and when one hath overcome, it yeeldeth or giveth over, and lets the other rife up again, $9. Thou may ft alio underftand it thus in a fimi- litude, as when Seven perfons had begun a friendly Sport and Play, where one gets the upper hand above another, and a third comes to help that one which is overcome ^ and fo there is a pleafant friend- ly fporting amongft them $ whereas indeed they all have one and the (ame agreement or Love-will toge^ thcr, and yet ftrive and fight or vie one againft the other in a way of Loie in fporting and paft- time.
100. And thus alfo is the working o{ the fix Spi- rits of God in the feventh j fuddenly one of them hath a ftrong rifing up, fuddenly another, and thus they wreftle in love one with another.
101. And when the Light rifeth up along in this ftriving, then the Holy Ghoft moveth in the power of the Light in the Play of the other fix fpirits, and Ff 2 fo 120 of the Se Venth Fountain Spirit Ch. XI.
foiiuhefevetuhthere//>/^g^ all manner of fruits of life, and all manner of Colours and vegetations or Ideas and forms..
1 02. Now as that quality is which is flrongefi> (o the Body of the fruit is Imaged, and the Colours al- foa in this driving, or wreftling the Deity form et h it felf into infinite and infearchable variety of kinds and manners of Images or Ideas.
103. For, the feven fpiritsare the /<?-x/«z-head- Sources or fprings, and when CA-lercunm rifeth np therein, that ftirreth all, and the bitter quality mo- veth it, and dißinguifheth it, and the aftringent dryeth it up.
104. [ " Nature and the Ternarie are not one and cc the fame, they are diflinft) though the cc Ternarie dweüeth. in Nature but un-^ cc apprehended, and yet is an eternall « Bmdj as is plainly expounded in our cc Second and Third 'Book, o\(j)TP obferve here, how the Ima- ging in Mature is in the fe- yenth Spirit.
105. The fweet water is the beginning of Natu re, and the aft ringent quality draweth or attracteth it together, that it becomes natural and creatural^ to ipeak in an Angelical way.
106. Now being drawn togcrhcr, it looketh like Azure or Skie-colour Blew, but when the light or flafh rifeth up therein, then it looketh like the pre- tious Jafpis, or J afp er fi one ^ or as I may call it in my language Chap. XL in the Divine Tower. 221 language, a GlaiTie Sea, on which the Sun fhineth, and that very clear and Bright.
107. But when the bitter quality rifeth up there- in, then it divideth and formeth it felf, as if it were alheot lively, or as if the Life did rife up there, in agreenifh flouriihing manner and form, like a Green FJafh of Lightening, tofpeak after the manner of men, even io that it dazlcth a mans Eyes, and blind- etb him.
108. But when the Heat rifeth up therein, then the Green form inclineth to a half Red or Ruddy form, as when a Carbuncle (tone fhineth from the Green fiafh or fyam of Light.
109. But when the Light, which is the Sonne of God, fhineth into this Sea of Nature; then it get- teth its rellomjb and Whitifh Colour, which I can- not compare with any thing; but you muft be con- tent to ftay or tarry with this afpect or vifion, till you come into the other Life.
1 10. For this now is the true Heaven of Nature, which is out of or from God. wherein the Holy an- gels dwell, and out of which they were created in the beginning.
in. Behold now, when the Mercuvim or Tone in this Nature Heaven^rifeth up, there the Divine and Angelical joyfulneffe rifeth up, for therein rife up Forms, Imagings, Colours, and Angel ical 1 Fruits* which bloflome curioufly, grow, fpring, rlourifh-, and ftand in Perfektion, as to all manner of Bearing or fruit Trees, Plants and fpringing growths, of a Gracious comely lovely amiable blefled profped vifion or fight to be looked upon, with amoft deli- cious lovely pleafant Smell and Tafte.
112. But 2 2 2 0/ffo Seventh Vaunt din Spirit Ch. XI.
in. 2?#£ /^e I fpeakjpith an <*dngels Tongue, thou muß not under jhand it Earthly, like to this "World.
ii 3. It is with LfrZcnunM in this manner or form, alfo ^ thou mull «of think, that there is any hard bea- ring, ftr iking, toning or founding? or whittling and Piping, in the Deity, as when onetaketh a Huge Trumpet, and Bloweth in it, and maketh it to Sound.
114- O r.O) Dear Man -> thou half dead Angel, that is not fo3 but all is done and confifteth,in/ww: tor the Divine Being ftandeth in power: but the holy Angels fing, ring and Trumpet forth, with clear 2Lndfljrillfou/joi'itig: lor to that End God hath made them out of himfclf, that they fliould encreafe and multiply the Heavenly Joy: \_and therefore were the Angels made out of God!\ 115. Alfo luch an Image was Adam, as God crea- ted him, before his Eve was made out of him; but the corrupted Salitter did wreftlc with the Well- fpring of Life in Adarn^ till it overcame. And fo Adam became faint 3 which made him fall into a Sleep. Here he was undone • And if the Bamhert- zigkeit, or the Olfercy of God had not come to help him, and made a woman out of him, he mould have continued (till aileep.
Of Of Chap. XI. In the 'Divine l^ower. 223 Of this TPe Will fpedkjn its proper *Place.
116. This, as is mentioned above, is that fair Brght and holy Heaven, which is thus in the Tot all Deitie, which hath neither Beginning ncr End, whij rher no Creature with its fenfe can reach.
117. Yet thou (halt know this, that alwaies in a place fudenly one quality fheweth its telfrnore power- fully, then the other, fuddenly the fecond prevaileth, fuddenly the third, then fudenly the fourth, fudden- ly again the fifth, fuddenly the fixxh, then again fuddenly the feventh.
118. Thus, there is an Eternal tv-reftling, working, and friendly amiable rifing up of Love 5 where then in this rifing up, the Deity continually fheweth it felf more and more wonderful, more incomprehenfible and more unfearchable.
1 1 9. So that the holy Angels cannot fufficiently, enough rejoyce themfelves, nor fufliciently enough converfe walk and moft lovingly fport therein, nor fufliciently enough fing, that Te Deum Laudamus, We praifc thee, O God, in Haklujab's, as to each qua- lity of the Great God, according to his wonderful! Revelation, and Wifdome, and Beauty, and Fruit, and Form.
120. For the qualities rife up Eternally, and fo there is not with them or among them, either Be- ginning, Middle or End.
121. And although I have written here; how all is come to be, and how all is {taincdforme d and Ima- gedj and how the Deity rifethup, yet for all that thou 2&4 Of the SeVenth Fountain Spirit Ch.XL thou muft not think, that it hath any Heft ccafing or. extinction, and that afterward it riieth up thus again, 122. O no; but I muft write in part or by pieces, for the Readers better undcrftanding, that he might thereby apprehend/owf#te, and fo attain the Sence and Meaning thereof.
123. Neither muft thou think,that I have climbed up aloft into Heaven, and beheld it with my cam all or flefhly Eyes. O, no 5 hear me, thou half-dead Angel, 1 am as thou art, and have no greater light in my outward Being, then thou haft.
124. Moreover* I am a fmful and mortall man^ as well as thousand I muft every day and hour grap-, pie ftruggle and fight with the Devill who afflið me in my corrupted loft Nature, in the fierce or wrathful quality, which is in my rlefh,as in all Men, continually.
125. Suddenly I get the better of him, fuddenly he is too hard for me; yet for all that he hath not overcome or conquered me, though he often getteth theadvantageovermc: for OUT life Ü dS a perpetuaü Warfare TPith the VeyiU.
126. [<c This Strife and 'Battle is about that mofi cc High Noble ViBorioui Garland, till the cC corrupted periled <>Adawical Man is «killed and dead, in which the Devill cc hath an a.ccc{k to CWan.
127. <c Of which the Sophifter will know nothing: for cc he is not generated of God, but is born cc of Flefh and Blood.* and though in- «deed Chap 5(1. in the 'Divine Power. & «deed the Birth ßandeth open for -anJ <c towards bim> yet he will hot enter; for u the Deiil withholds him: god ilindetb "None.]
V28. <If he buffefteth me, then I rhuft retire and give backj but the Divine power Vielpethtnc again* -then he allbgetteth a Blow,and ofien lofeth-thc-day, in che fight.
12^. -But when lie is overcome, then the heaven- ly Gate openeth in mjfpirit, and then the fpirit feeth the t)ivine and heavenly Being, not externally with- out che Body, but in the fountain or weli-fpring of the Heart there rtfethup the fialh in the [eajibility or . Thoughts ofrhe Brain, and therein the fpirit doth contemplate or meditate.
1 30. For CMm is made out of all the powers of God, out of all the feven Spirits of God, as the An- gels are alfo. But now feeing Man is c orruptedjhert- fore,the Divine Birth doth not alwayes fpring qualifie or operate in him, no,nor in ail men neither: And though indeed it fpringetii in him, yet the highlight ilothnot prefently (hinein all men; and though in- deed it doth (hine, yet it is incomprehenfibie 10 the corrupted Nature.
131. For, the Holy Ghoft will not be caught held I or retained in die finfui flelh; but rifeth Up like a flafh oi lightning 5 even as fire flalhes and fparcktes out of a Stone, when a man ftrikes fire upon it.
132. But when the flafli is caught in the fountain of the Heart, then the Holy Ghoft rifeth up in the {even qualifying or fountain fpirics, into the Brain G g like 226 Of the Seventh Fountain Spirit Ch. XL like the Day-break, Dawning of the Day, or Morn- ing Redntfle: and therein ßicketh the mark Aime or fcope, and knowledge.
133. For in that light, the one feeth the other,feel- cth the other, fmelleth the other, tafteth the otherj, and heareth the other, and is as if the whole Deity did rife up therein.
134. And herein the fpirit feeth into the depth of theDeityjfor in God,near and afar off,is all one; And that fame God, of whom I write in this Book* is as well in his Temarie in the Body of a Holy foul; As in Heaven.
135. From this God I take my knowledge, and from no other thing y neither will I know any other thing, then that fame God, and the fame it is which maketh that aflurance in my fpirit, that I ßeadfaßly believe, and truft in him.
1 3 £. And though an Angel from heaven (hould tell this to me, yet for all that I could not believe it; öiuch leffe lay hold on it,for I fhould alwäyes doubt, whether it were certai.ilyfo or no: But the Sun it felf arifeth in my fpirit, and therefore I am moft fure of it, and I my felf do fee the proceeding and Birth of the holy Angels and of all things7 both in heaven arid in this world.
1 37. For the Holy Soul is one fpirit with <7oä/,though indeed it is a Creature, yet it is like to the Angels: Alfo the Soul of Man feeth much deeper then the Angels; for the Angels fee onely to the heavenly Pomp, but the Soul feeth loth the Heavenly and the Hellifh, for it liveth between both.
138. Therefore it rauft undergo many hard Bangs and pinches, and mull every day and hourwreftle and Ch.XI. in the Bhinc Power. 227 and ftruggle with thedevill, that is, with the *hel- » ot dwUiMi Hjh qualities, and fo it liveth in great danger in this, [n°cydhj?™ world: and therefore this life is very well called, ^dpaiiions the Fattey ofmifery, full of anguifh, a perpetual hurli- ««*; burly pulling and haling, worrying warring fightr ing, ftruggling and ftriying.
159. But the cold and half-dead Body ofoth not alwayes underftand this fight of the Soul r The Body doth not know how it is With it, but is heavy and anxious, it goeth from one room or bufwejje to ano- ther, and from one Place to another -> it leeketh for eafe and reft.
740. And when it cometh thither, where it would biy yet it findeth no fuch thing: then doub tings and unbelief fall in between and come upon it \ fome- times it feems to it as if God had quite caft it off: but it doth not underftand the fight of the Spirit,how the fame is ibmetimes down, and fomctimes gets aloft.
141. And what vehement and furious warre and fight there is betwixt the heilifhand heavenly Quali- ty> which fire the Devils Blow up, and the Holy An- gels Quench it; I leave to every Holy Soul to confi- der of.
142. Thou muft know, that I write not here as a Story or Hiftory, as if it were related to me from anotner, but I muft continually ftand in that Com- bat or Battle^ and I find it to be full of heavy ftri- vings, wherein I am often ßruck doyen to the ground, as well as all other Men.
143. But for the fake of the violent fight, and for the fake of the earnefineße, which we have toge- ther^ this Revelation hath been given me, and the Gg 2. vehement j j j}. Of the Seventh fountain Spirit CH.XL.
vehement driving or impulfe, to bring it fqtopafle as to let all this down in Paper,, 144. But what the Totajl fecpiel is, which may follow upon, and after this,! do not fully know: one-, ly (bmetimes,future Myfteries in the depth,are jbem- ed to me. ', 145. Tor- when rix aCh rifeth up in the Center, one (eeth through and trough, but cannot well ap^ prehend or lay hold on it; tor it happeneth to. fuch a one as when there is a Tempeft of Lighteningy wr ere the flairi of. fire openeth it felf, and fuddeo- Jy vaniil.efh.
14^. So it goes alfo in the Squ1x when it prefleth or breaks quite through in its fight or (fombaty tb^tv it beholdeth the Dfjty, as a fiafh of Lightening; but the fource quality or, fountain of Sins, coverethit *ori?4o. Suddenly again •> For the Old Adam belonged! * to the Earth, and doth not,with this flefTi, belong * to the Deity.
147. I do »or write this for my own Psaife, but co that end, that theRcader.roay. know, wherein my Knowledge ftandeth, that he might not feek that from me, wjiich I have not, or think me to be what J am not, 148. But what I arr, that, all men are, who wreftle in } E S U S Q H R I S T our, King, for< the Crown of the Eternal Joy -> and Üye in the Hope of Perfection y the beginning whereof is at the Day of the Refurre&ion, which is now ßqrtly near at Hand: which, in the circle of the rifing or Horizon of, the EaÜ in, the fjafti, is very well to be feen, in w,hich Nature fhewejh it felfas if it would-be Payr 14&I&Ä- Chap. XL, in the "Divine 'Power. 2*9 149. Therefore take heed, that you be not found afleep tfiyour Sinnes; furely the prudenr and the wife will take notice hereof* but the wicked will continue in their Sins.
1 50. They fay, What ayles the Fool, when will he have done with his Dreaming > This is, Bc- caufe they are afleep in flejbly Lufts, Well, welf* you {hall fee what- kind of - Dream this will Beei 151. I would fain take eafe and reft in my meek- neflfy if I were not puMiponthis worlo^ but that God who hath maie the world, is too ftrong for me, lam the work ofhis Hands, he may fet me and place me, where he will.
152. And though I muft be a byword and Spe- ctacle of fcoru to the WTorld and Devils, yet my hope is in God, concerning the Life. to come, in Him Iv/iW venture to hazard my falf, and not refijj., or ßrive againft the: Sgirit.. t/imen^ The 2X9 Of the tfatiüty and Life of the Holy Angels. ChJCIL The Twelfth Chapter.
^^Ht Of the Nativity and f proceeding sp£gingor j:ortfc or defcent 0f the Holy dngelso m alfo of their (govern- ment * Order ^ and Hea- venly joyous Life.
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T» ^T TTErbura Domini 3 The word of the Lord, ^ I *f comprifed tie Qualifying or fountainyf " / p ir its by the Fiat; that is > the faying, cc Lei there be, Angels; into a vna, and <c that is the Creation of the Angels {] Queftion.
2. Now the Queftion is; What is properly as Angel?
• Anfiver, Behold, when God ^ S the Angels; tben £ created j he created them out of the feventh qualifying or fountain fpirit, which is Nature -? or the Holy Hea- ven.
3. The Ch.XII. Of the Natkity vol Life of the Holy Angels. 231 3». The word < > thou muft undcrftand cCreatcdi thus, as when a man fayes,* drawn together, or *attr*8ed. t driven together, as the Earth is driven or Com- t ComPa^m paded together: In like manner, when the whole ed, God did move himfelf, then the aftringent quality drew or drove together the Saliner of Nature, and dryed it, and fo the Angels came tobe: now fuch as the Quality was, in every place, fucb alio was the Angel..
O^ferve the depth.
4. There are feven Spirits of God, all thefefe-iea have moved thcmfelves, and the Light therein hath moved it felf alfo, and the Spirit^ which goeth forth out of the feven Spirits of God, hath moved it felf alfo, 5. Now the Creator intended, according to his Ternarie, to create three * Hoafts, not one from * Armies another, but one by another, as in a circle or Bands or fphear..fimpa- 6. Now Obferve:^tf_the t Spirits were therein nies. in.their moving boylingor riling up, /o alfo were tfcven Spirit* the Creatures: In themidftor Center of each Hoaft ^God. was the Heart of each Hoaft incorporated „or com- pacted together, out of which an Angelical or Great or Chief-Prince, proceeded, or came to be.
7. And as the Sonne of God is generated in the midft or center of the feven Spirits of God, and is the life and heart of the feven Spirits of God; fo there was one Angelical King created in the midft or center of his circumference fphear extent or * Re- *or M. gion out of Nature, alfo our of Natures Heaven, v^e* out j Ja ' ^Ofibe Vjtivity and Life of the Holy Angels. 'Ch.Xfl.
outofthe/wwr of all the (even qualifying or foun- tain fpirits j and that now was the heart in-one Hoaft, and had in him the quality might power and ftrength of his whole Hoaft, and was the faireft amongft them or of them ail.
8. Juft as the Sonne of God is tr:e heart and Lif -and ftrength ofali the feven Spirits of God, fo is ai- fo that o/^'King of Angels in his Hoaft.
9. -And as there are feven principal qualities ia the divine power out of which the heart of God is generated; fo there are alfo fome mighty Princely Angels created in each Hoaft, accotding to each Head or chief quality. 5 The number oi which I do not exaBly knows arccft hey ate with or near the King, headers oi the other Angels.
io. Here thou mult know, that the Angels are not all of one ejualiry, neither are they equal or alike one to another in Power and Might: Indeed, * every Angel hath the power of all the feven qualifying or fountain- fpirits, but in every one there is fomewhat of one Quality more predominant and ftrong then another,and according to that quality is he glorified alio.
11. For mch as the Saline r was, in every place, at the time of Creation, fuch alfo was the Angel that came forth,and according to that quality,which isftrongeftinan Angel, he is alfo named and glori- fied.
1 2. As the Flowers'iti the Meadowes do every one Teceive its colour from ks quality, and is named al- fo according to its quality, foaiethe Holy Angels * Dusky or "" alfo: fome are ftrongeft in the afiringent quality,and Q\Ü,ö^ulk thofeareof a * BrownifliLieht, and are neareft of **A Quality to the Cold.
13, And Ch.XÜ. Of the Nativity and Life of the Holy Angels, v 233 1 3. And fo when the Light of the Sonne of God fhineth on them, then are they like a brownifh or Purple flafh of Lightening, very Bright and clear in their quality: 14. Some are of the quality of the w#*r,and thofe are light, like the holy Heaven; and when the light fhineth on them, then they look like to a Cryfiaiime Sea.
15. Some are ftrongeft in the Bitter quality,. and they are,like a * green Pretious ftone,which i park- \or Erne- leth like a flafh of Lightening; and when the light raudm fhineth on them, then they fhine and appear as a Greenish Red, as if a Carbuncle did {hine forth from it, or as if the Life had its Original there.
1 6. Some are of the Quality of Heat&nd they are the Lighteft and brighteft of all, Tellom\b and Red- difh; and whe$ the Light (hineth on them, they look like the flafh or Lightening of the Sonne of God.
1 7. Some are ftrongeft in the quality of Love,and thofe are a Glance of the heavenly JoyfulneiTe, very light, and Bright, aud when the light fhineth on them, they look like * Light-Blew, of a pleafant * Azure or Glofle Glance or Luftre. watchet.
1 8. Some are ftrongeft in the quality of the Tone, or Sound, and thofe are Light or bright alfo; and when the Light fhineth on them, they look like the rifing of the flafh of Lightning, as if fome thing would lift it felf aloft there.
19. Some are of the Quality of the tot allot whole Nature, as a General mixture, and when the light fhineth on them, they look like the holy Heaven, which is formed out of all the Spirits of God.
.20. But the King is the heart of all the qualities, Hh and Afice.
2^4 Of the NaÜ tih) and Life of the Holy Angeh. Ch.XII.
* or 2Vo- and hath his circumference * Court Quarters or Refi- dence in the midftor Center, like a fountain: And as the S/*# ftandeth in the midft among the Planets, and is a Kino; 0f the Stars, and the heart of Nature in this world f fo great alfo is a Cherubin or King of Angels.
21. And as the other fix planets with the Sun are Leaders of Hoaits, and give up or fubmit their will to the Sun, that it may raign and work in them; fo all the Angels give up or fubmit their will to the King, and töe TrUcely Angels are in Cetmcel with the King.
22. But thou muß know here, that they all have a Love-will one to another, none of them grut- eheth the other his Form and Beauty « For as it goeth among the fpiritsof God, fo it goech among thefe.
23. They ail have joyntly and equally the Divine Joy, and they equally enjoy the heavenly Food, therein there is no difference.
24« Only in the Colours and firengthot power there is a difference, hut no difference at all in the perfection; for every one hath in them the power of all the fpirits of God; therefore when the light of the Sonne of God lbinethon therri^ then each An- gels quality tTiewcth it felf by the Colour.
2 5. I have reckoned up onely fome few of the forms and colours of them, but there are a great many more that might be written down, which I will omit for brevity fake.
2 6. For as the Deity prefenteth ir felf infinitely in its riling up, fo there are infearchable many varie- ties of colours and forms among the Angels.: I can &ew thee no right fimilitudeof it in this world but in Ch.XIL Of the Nativity and Life of the Holy Angeh, 2 35 in the blofjoming field of flowers in May, which yet is but a dead and Earthly Type.
Of the ^Angelical Joy.
Queftion, 27. Now it may be asked: wlmtthon is it, which the Angels do m heaven; or why, or to what End and purpofe hath God created them?
Anfveer.
28. Ye greedy covetous griping perfons may ob- ferve this, you who in this world jeek after Pride, State, dignity, Honour, Fame, Glory, Power, Mo- ney and Goods, andfqueeze out the fwcat and blood of the poor opprefled and diftrefled, and fpend their Labours upon your Gallantry bravery and ftatcli- nefle, and think your felves Better then plain and fimple Lay-vulgar people, and fuppofe it is that God hath created you for.
Que ft ion.
, Why hath God created Angel-Princes, and hath not made them all EquaU, or alike.
Arfwer.
29, Behold (Jod ii the god of Order: and as it is, goethjandboyleth, in his Government in himielf, that is, in his Birth or Geniture, and in his rifing up, fo alfo is the order of the Angels.
30, Now as there are in him, chiefly feven quali- ties, whereby the whole Divine Being is driven on, H h 2 and 2;3# Of the NMvity and Life of the Holy Angels. Ch. XII.
and fhcweth it felt infinitely in thefefeven qualities, ani yet thefc feven qualities are the Chief or Prime in the infiniteneffe, whereby the divine Birth or Gcniture ftands eternally in its Order unchange- ably.
3 1. And as in the CMidfl or Center of the feven Spirits of God,the heart of Life is generated whence tie divine Joy rifeth up, thm alio is the order of Angels.
32. The Angel-Princes were created according to thefpirits of God, and the Cherubin according to the heart of God • And as the divine Being work- . eth, fo alio do the Angels.
3 3; That quality which rifeth up in Gods Being, and chiefly uiewethit felfinits workings as in the riling up of the Tone or Tune, or ofthe divine work- ing, vvreftling and fighting 5 that Angelical Prince, which is molt ftrongjy aMfted to that Quality, be- gins in his Rank or File and Round, with his Legi- ons; with (inging, ringing forth, dancing, rejoycing and Jubilating.