Queftkn* 2gö " The hvtfibU Tail ^Lüdfers Kingdom. Ch. XIlI, Quefiion* ffifarkpi Reifer, Where ly- eththe fault no°tt>0 that thou art become a T>e^iü\ Is €joä in faulty m thou lyingly fay fil Arfmr.
58. Ono, thou thy felf art faulty, the qualifying or fountain Spirits in thy Body, which thou thy felt' art, have generated thee fuch a little fonne: Thou canft not fay., that God hath kindled the SalitteryovLt 1 of which he made thee., but thy qualifying or foun«. xaiifipirits have done it, whereas thou wert clear- ly before,a Prince and King of God.
59. Therefore, when thou fay ft, God Created thee thus,or that he hath without fufiicient caufefpew* ed thee up out of thy place; then art thou a Lyar andMurtherer, For the whole heavenly Hoaft or Army beareth witnefle againft thee, that thou haft %/<^ferecl:edand prepared this fierce Quality for thy felf.
60.' If it benot fo, then go before the face of God; and Jujtifie thy felf. But thou feeft it plain enough without that 5 and befides, thou dareft not look on that matter: Wouldft not thou fain have a friendly kifle of the Sonne of God, that thou mightft once be eafed or refrefhed? if thou art in the Right, then <lo but once look upon HIM; perhaps" thou mayft be ma;de found or whole again.
tfi.But Ch.Xni. The horrible Fall of Lucifer s Kingdom,. 281 61. But (lay a \itt\cyanotber fitteth on thy Throne^ He is kiffed, and he is an obedient fonne to his Fa- ther, and doth as the Father doth.
6%. Stay yet a little while, and the Hellifh fire will kifle thee 5 in the mean while,, make much of this Latine till ' more growetrh out of it; thou wilt faddenlylok thy Crown.
Now one might Ask: what then in Lucifer, is properly, that Enmity figainfi God$ for wbicb be was Tbruft and driven out of his place £ • 6$. Here I will (hew you exactly the Pith Ker- nel and Heart of Lucifer,and then you will fee,what a Devil is, or how he is become a Devif. Therefore take heed j and do not Invite or Ent§rtain him as a Gueft, for he is the Arch-fworn Enemy of God, and of all Angels and Men, and, that in his Eter- nity.
' £4. r^wift^ouunder^anjdieft^nä^ppr^fendefl: this aright, then thou wilt not make of God a De- vil •> as fome do, which fay; Qod hath created the &vil, and that his will is, that fome men fhould be Loft; which men>thatfo fay, help. to encreafe the Devils LieSy and bring upon themfelv es the fevere Judgment, by their „perverting Gods truth, and Co turning them into Lies» ^3ii9goiiil« Oo; rible riblc/bi flffii i« which, the aftringcnt quality is a very horrible, tare, hard, dark and cold attra&inj* or drawing together, like winter, when cl.ere is a fiery bitter cold fro lV-vhen water is frozen, is to.lce, and -betides is very Intolerable» 66. Then prunk or luppofe if in fach a hard Win- te-r, when it is lb cold,the Sun fhould be taken away, what kind of hard Froft, and how very rough fierce and liar A darknefle would it be>wherein no life could fubfift.
6-j. After luci a manner and kind is the aftrin- gcnt quality in the inner mo ft kernel or Pith in it (elf y and to it lelf alone, without the other qualities tu. God; for the aufterenefie or feverity maketh the at- tracting or drawing together, and fixaaon or Glu- tinoufneffe of the body, and the hardnefle dryeth it * Creature* up, fo that it fubfifteth * as a Creature. h £S. And the bitter quality is a tearing, penetrating, and cutting bitter quality or fource:. tor it di- -Jdetb and driveth forth the hard and aftrmgent Quality, and maketh the mobility.
1 69. And betwixt thefe two qualities is heat- ge- nerated from its hard and fierce bitter rubbing, tea- ring and raging, which riieth up in the -Bitter and hard quality, as a fierce wrathful kindling, and prefTetn quite thr0ugh5 äs^ hard fiery Noife.
"o. From whence exiftefh the härdTenC, «uidüi thatrifing up, or dl&b4hg, it is iftv ironed undfiked in the aftringent quality, fo that it becometha Bö* dy, which fubfiftetfu 71. Now if there were.»0 other quality ki this Body,which could quench the fercenejje of thefe four * or were tf&Rkfc% "then thete * woufcl bfe a perpetual Emaftrlbgen^ Ch. XIII. the horrible Fall of Lucifers Kingdom. 2 g 3 aftringent, in that it flormeth and teareth fo vehe- mently therein, and break eth openxhe aftringent. ' 72. And then the aftringent. alfo would be agairffl the bitter, in that it attradteth, drawcth together and holds faft, the bitter, captize, that it could not have its own courfe.
73. And the Hear would bea£ainftboth,in that with its' fierce wrathful kindling and rifing up, it makcth all hot, 'burking, and raging, and is fully or totally againft the cold.
74. AndYo the Tone would be a great Emnity in all the other, in that it penetratcth forcibly througfi all [ike a Tyrant.
75. And thu30 this is the very deepefi and innermojl hidden^ ^ßirth öftfOdi according td which,he cafterh riimfeif an angry zealous or Jeaictu c?w/,as may ie feen by the Ten Commandem'ents on; Nteünt Sinai, Exod. 20.5. Deut.5.9.
76.. And in thisquality ftandeth H<fZfand Eternal Perdition, äs alfo the eternal Emnity and murthe- rous Den, and fuch a creature the Dezilis come to be.
77. But now, feeing he is afworn Arch-enemy of God3 and though indeed trie DHputants and Hel- pers of the Devil will needs force it fo, in argu- ments; that God willeth the good and alfo the evil, and that he hath created [owe men to Damnation > therefore and thereupon the Spirit of God ehejh tflem upon pain of eternal Emnity 3 to come tefdre this Loöking-Gläffe, wherein their Bean {hall be: * '" föfopefl V äriö-they friälFfee,' »MG&&SÜ& *&• -'■•'* 7 O02 the lS." T))tWritte rJ öf Lucikvs Kingdom. Gh-.XHI.
the Devil is, of bow he: is become a Devil.
78. If thy heart be not bolted and- barred tip- in death, through thy ßMorn wilfulncfle aed Blafphe- myyänd' Mofoid in horrible: ims, purpofmg not. to deiift from th.6nvy or leave them, then awake > arid behold^ I take Heaven "and Earthy alio the Stars and Elements^ and aH-ehe Creatures, and Man himfelf alfo in his whol e fubftdttce, to witneffe, and fo I willprove it 0b-flanly and clearly in its due place, with all thefe forefnentioned things, efpeej- ally, when we come to treat of the Creation of all the Creatures.
79: If thefe -things will mt give thee fatisfa&i- . on-, then pray to Govt, that He would -open thy Hearty and theti^thpu wilt kaow and/Vf Heaven and Hell, as alfo the whole Deity with all its qualities 5 and then no döüttt tHoü^Wflt1 forbear, and jiiitifle the 'öe^iino mofc { I am not able to open thy heart forthee.
f or the Divine Birth, orGenitureof God in its inrierrtiöft Beings in thefe {our qualities -0 is thus Sharp or Tart.
-)-• — '-'. ' '■ • 81. The aftringent quality is thus, (harp in its, ;«yvüt proper quality in stiff if\\ but it isnotaloaej or generate it, and they alfo.hold it by the Reins, and may let their Reins and authority go as far only, as theyplcafe.
$2; For, the iweet ipring or fountain water-is fuddenly a whip fcourge or Lafh upon the aftringent quality, and mitigateth fottneth or iiippleth it, fo that it groweth very thin, gentle mild and I foft, as alfo very Bright.
So. But that it is thusiharp in it felf, is to tl>e end, that a Body may be Imaged or framed through j its attra&ing or drawing together, otherwise the Deity would not fubfift, much lefje a creature, g 84. And in this {harpnefle, God is an AU-com- prehenfibleand all-fixing or all-faftning fharp God: for the Birth Geniture and {harpnefle ot God is thus everywhere, 85. But if I fhall defcribe the Deity in its Birth or Geniture in a fmali round circle, in the higheft Depth, then it is thus In a Similitude* 8 6. As fuppofe a WHEEL {tending before thee, with {even metles one fo made in the other, that it rcould go on a//, fides, forwards backward,, and crofle ;waye$, without need of any turning back or {top- 8 7. And in its going, that, alwayes one Wheel iß its turning about^c^r4/^ the other,. and yet none of them do vaniih out of fight, but that all fevenbe triable.; 01 in fight, • >•> BB. Andthe feveA Wheeles alwaies generating the Waves in the ajidiVor center according to their. turning about, fo» that thc3Na\eftand alwaies; free without i 1?
•i 3 U thehombie Uli of Lucifer s Kingdom. Ch.Xin, without alteration or •rerriovirig j whether the wheeles go forward or backward or croflc waies>or upward or downward; 8?. And the Nave alwaies generating the Spoaks, fothat in their türhing about, they ftand right and direct from the Nave to the Feileys of the wheel; and yet none of the-- [peaks' to be out of fight, but füll turning abouty thus one with another, going whi. therfoever the mxddtixc it, and that without need of any turning back or flopping.
Now oh[erve what I [hall Lrformycu in the applu - cation of this.
90. Thefeven wheeles are the feven Spirits of God, the one alwaies generating the other \ and are like, the turning about of a wheel, which hath feven wheels one tn' another, and the one alwaies wheeled* it felf otrier wife then the other in its ftation, and the feven wheeles aje Felleyed, or hooped Round with Feileys, like around tf/a£f.
91. And yet that a man may fee all the feven wheeles turning round about feverally apart, äsial- fo the wbolcßtnejje or compafle of the frame* with all its Feileys and Spoaks and Naves.
f 2. And the [even Naves in the middor Center being as it were one Nave, which doth fit every Where in the turning about, and the wheeles conti- nually generating thefe Naves, and the Naves ge- nerating the Spoaks continually in all the feven wheeles, and yet none of the wheeles, as alfo none of the Naves, nor any of the Feileys or Spoaks to be ^ of fight, and as if this wheel had [even wheeles, and yet were all 'but > we wheel, and went atyvayes forward Gh.XIII. The homHeBaÜ0l Lucifcrs Kingdom, forwrdy whitherfoever the wind drove it.
Now Behalf and Confider-, - ■ ?$. Thefeven whceles one in another, the o;ie alwaies generating the other, and going on every fide, and yet none out of fight, or turning back.: thefe are the [even qualifying or fountain Spirits of • God the Father.
94. And they generate in the feven wheeles, jn each wheels Nave, and yet there are not feven Naves, but only Q#e, which fitteth in all the feven wheeles: And this is the Heart or inmrtnofy Body of the wheeles, wherein the wheels run about, and that fignifieth the £0/2/^ of God. --.,.-.
95. For all thefeven Spirits of God, the Father generate continually in their circle, and that, is the forme of all the feven fpirits, and all thofe qualifie or aB in his Light, and is in the midft or Center of the Birth, and holds together ail the feven fpirits. of God, and they in their Birth turn about therewith, thus.
96. That is, they clime either upward or down- ward, backward or forward or croüe-wayes, and (o the Heart of God is alwayes in the midft or center, and fitteth alwaies every qualifying or fountain Spi- 9 7. Thus there is One Hear* of God» and mt fc- vecy which is aiwaicj generated from all the feven, and is the heari and lift of all the feven, 98. Now the Spools 9 which are alwaies generated front the Naves- and Wheeles, and. which do fit all tie wheeles ia their cum-, Big, and-ar4 their Roat/ftay^ and foftning, in Which 2 $ 8 Ü* horrible Fall of Lucifers Kingdom] Cfi.Xffi.
which they (land, and out of which they are gene-, rated; fignifie God the Holy Gboft, which goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne, even as the Spoaksgoout from the Nave and Wheel, and yet Abide alio in the wheel.
$$. Now as the Spoaks are many,and go alwaies about with and in the wheel; fo the Holy Ghoft is the mrkmafter in the wheel of God, and formeth> Imageth and frameth all, in the whole. or total ' God, ioo. Now this wheel hath (even wheels one in another, and one Nave, which is fitted in all the feven wheels: and all the feven wheels turn on that one tfave: Thus God is one God, with feven qua- lifying or fountain fpirits, and yet is but one God^ juil as thefe feven wheelcs are but One wheei.
Now Observe t i o i. The wheel in its incorporated ßru&ure and frame fignifieth the aftringent quality, which attract eth or draweth together the whole corporeal Being of the Deity, and holds it, and dryeth it, fo that ic fubßßeth.
io2. And the fweet fpring or fountain-water is generated by the driving about or rifing up of the fpirits, for when the light is generated in the Heat, then the aftringent quality is amazed or terrified for great Joy, and this is a fubmitting or lying down, or growing thin, and the bard corporeal being,(ink* eth down like a meeknefTe or mildneffe.
103. And fo now the terrour or the glance of the Light rifeth up in the aftringent quality very gently and fhiveringa and tfembieth^ which now in the water water is bitter, and trie Light dryeth it, and maketh it friendly and tweet, -v *■/ 104. Now therein ftandetlr/^ and joy j for the tetrotnJor fiafh riieth up m a-Tl the qualities, like thCj wheel afore mentioned which eutrieth about, and then' there all the feven 'fpirits oqjfet up one in ano- ther, i and gener ate themrclves 'as ink circle, and the light is (Tuning in the midftdr. (Center of the k> veA&pirksy-iad re^ineth bask -^flün in all thefpi- rits, and all the fpirits triumph therein, and rejoyc©. in the light. ' 105,; "And as the feven Wheeled turn about üpoü one-Nate,' as uponvthetr Heart \ I which Md$, them, and: they hold the Nave; "fo the < feven fpirits gehe- rate the Heart, andthe fow holds the feven fpirits, and fo there arife^ojw,. and-^/'t/^ joyfulnefle, of * hearty loving and khTtng. * or 'q[0m 106, For when the £p«?\fcs withxtheir light move, rious% or boyl, turn about and rife one in another, then the life is fokwtä generated jl for oire fpirit alwaies affotdctbto the<oth£rits tafte or-reli{h>thati?> it is tfiefäzdwith the other. ^ . ig?.. Thus the one tafteth andfeeleth the other, and the Tone prefleth forth fromall the feven fpirits towards ikto Heart, and rifcth up in the heart in the flafh of the light, and then rife up the voices and jvyfalneße of the, Sonne of God: and all the feven fpirits triumph and rejoyce in the Heart of God, each according to its quality.
1 o 8. For in the Light in thefoeet water, all aftrin- gency, and hardnefie, and bitcernefe and hcata are / mitigated and made pleafanc, and fo there is, in the, feven fpirits nothing elfe but afleafänt ftriving ftrug- P p " ling 2?o: 'The horrible Fall of Lucifers Kingdom. Ch.XIII ling and wonderful generating like a divine holy Sport or Scene of God.
iop. But their lnarp or Tart Birth, of which I have written ^bove, -abidcrh hidden as a kernel, for it becometh mitigated by the light and fwcet wa- ter.
no. Juft as a four bitter green Apple is forced by the Sun, that it becometh very pleafantor lovely to be eaten, and yet all its qualities are tafted: fo the Deity keepeth its qualities alfo, but ftriveth or fkuggleth gently, like a pleafant lovely Sport or Scene.
in. But if the qualifying or fountain fpirits fhould extoll or lift up themlelves, and penetrate iuddenly one into another, driving hard, rubbing and thronging, crowding or fqueezing $ then the fwect water would be fqueezed out, and the fierce heat would be kindled, and then would rife up the fire of the feven fpirits, as in Lucifer.
in. Thü ü no*tt> the true "Birth or (jmtture of the T>eity0 which hath been fo from eternity in all Comers and T I aces whatfoeyery and abideth fo in all Eterni- ty \ \ »hvtjitu* *I3. But in thG Kingdom of Lucifer, tthe Derc-u, 9. n. If ro) er 1 it is 'otherwise; as I have written above concerning the ßerceneße 5 and in this world which is now half kindled alio, i\ is like wife after another manner j Ch. XIII, Tbe forribk? til. (fLucifcts Kingdom. 2QI manner 5 and will be fo till the day of the Reftitu- tion -y of which I {hall write when I treat concerning the Creation of this world.
1 14. Now in this glorious lovely and heavenly Salitter or divine Qualities, the Kingdom of Lucifer a lfo was created without any greater motion, then the other.
115. For when Lucifer was created, he was alto- gether perfeSfy and was the faircft Prince in heaven? adorned and indued with the faireft clarity or Brightnefle of the Sonne of God.
1 1 6. But Lucifer had been fpoiled or deftroyed in the moving of the Creation, as hepretendeth* then he had never bad his Perfection, beauty and clarity; but would have been prefently a fierce dark De v ill, and not a Cherubin.
1 • Of the gloriotti Birth and beauty of King Lucifer.
117. Behold thou murtherous and lying fpirit! here I will defer ibe thy Roy all Birth, how thou wert in thy Creation, how God created thee> and how thou becameft fo beautiful, and to what end God created thee.
1 1 8%. If thou fayft any other thing then this,which Heaven and Earth, and all the Creatures teftifie, then thouLyeft,nay the whole Deity teftifieth againft thee; that God created thee for his praife out of himfelf, to be a Prince and King of God, as he did Prince Ultichael and Prince Uriel.
Pp 2 Now '...Now Olfirve; 119. When the Deity moved it felf to Creation*, and would form Image or frame Creatures in its Bo- /fy, it kindled not the qualifying fpirits, elfe they would have burnt Eternally, but it ltirr'd them very gently or foftly in the aftringent quality.
120. That, drew or attracted the Divine Saliner together 3 and dryed it fa that it became a Body, and fo the whole divine power of all the feven qualify- ing or fountain-fpirits ofthat 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 (hall, be deftroyed again, in Eternity, but (hall remain the Bodies propriety or proper own, in Eternity.
i2i. Now the captivated or incorporated power of all the feven qualifying or fountain fpirits had its propriety in the Body, and is rifen in the Body, and hath generated it felf in the fame manner as the "Deity generateth it felf from all the feven qualifying or fountain fpirits.
l: 2. One quality hath, alwaies. generated the other alike, and none of them have vanifhed or gone out of fight, juft as it is in the »hole Deity; and then the whole Body, as it is alfo in the Ternarie, gene- rated it felf juit as the Deity generateth it felf. with- out or diilin'ft from the Body,"in the Temar.ie*.: 12?. But this Imuft mention here 5 r^'s. that Lucifer, the King, was incorporated together out of bis whole Kingdome, as the Heart of the whole place or Room thereof, {o.far as his whole Angeli- cal Hoait or Army reached when it was created, and fo fo far as that circumference or circle, Region or Quarter,« reach'd, wherein He and his Angels be- came a creature, and which God before the time of Creation had cnclofed or concluded as a Room or. Space for a Kingdom,, whofe circuit or Extent com- prehended Heaven and this world^ as alfo the Deep of the £ayth>an& of the whole.Cir.cle Sphear or Circum- ference 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 Counfellours, and fo alfo were all his Angels created.
125. Yet you are to know, that every Angel hath all the feven f pirits in him, but one of the feven is chief or principal.
3vj)B? behold V 126. When the King was thus incorporated or compared together, as one comprehending his whole Kingdom, then inftantly, the fame hour, and in the lamemsoment: when he was incorporated or com- pacted together: the birth of the Holy Trinity of God, which he had for a propriety in his Body,.
[iff Under f and in the Liberty, not eßentially, but cC as the fire jhineth firth orgloweth through the Cc Iron that is flaming hot> and the Iron yemau- cc neth Ironfall'} or as the light replenifyetb « crfilleth the Darkneß'e^ the dark' fource or u quality being changed into Light, andfo le- tf cometh joyful, and yet in the (f enter remain- "eth.a dark mße^ which ü underfiood to. be " Nature -0 3£4 The horrible Fall of Lväfas Kingdom. CrnXIIX.
« Nature $ for a fpirif, is repleninifh yd one ly «with the <JMa]e\\ie-~\ tofc up and generated it felf without, difUnd from the Creature, in God.
127. For in the driving together of the Body pre- fently like wife rofe up the Birch alfo in great tri- umph, äs in a New-born King, in God\ and all the {even qualifying or fountain fpirits fhewed thera- felves very joyful and triumphing.
128. And inftantly in the fame (Jtfoment the light was generated and rofe up out of the feven fpirits it» the Center of the heart, as a new-born fonne of the King, which alfo inftantly in a Moment, clarified or brightened the Body of all the feven qualifying or fountain fpirits from the Center of the Hearty 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 alio penetrated through the whole Body, and was glorified from the Sonne of God,which was without diftincl: from the body, and was friendlily welcommed with the greatefi Beauty of Heaven, ac- cording 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 inftantly alfo the fpirit of the new born fonne in the Heart, went forth from the light of Lucifer through hisAfo«^,and united qualified or co- operated with the holy Spirit of God, and was with higheil Joy received and embraced, as a dear little Brother.
131. Now here ftandeth the Beautious Bride: what fhall I write of her now? was fhe not a Prince of God 5 as alfo the moft beautiful 5 moreover in Gods Ch. XIII. The horrible Fall of Lucifers Kingdom, %$ j Gods love alfo, and as a dear Sonne of the Crea- tures?
Off^ horrible ', proud, and henceforth doleful Lamentable "Beginning of Sin.
The highefi Depth. Obferve here,.
When King Lucifer was thus fairly glorioufly Beautioufly highly and holily framed or built, he {hould furely have now begun topraife, honour and magnific his Creatour; and {hould do that,, which God his Creator doth.
133. Viz. God his Creator qualifieth or opera- teth very meekly lovingly and Joyfully, and one qualifying or fountain-fpirit of God alwaies loveth the other, and bringeth its affettion into the other, and alwaies helpeth the other to Image form and frame all in the heavenly Pomp.
134. Whereby, in the heavenly pomp alwaies fuch fair beautious forms. Ideas, figures, and vege- tations, fpring up, as alfo variom colours and fruits ^ and this the qualifying or fountain fpiritsof God do, in God, as a holy Play Sport or Scene, Now behold I 135. Seeing then God had incorporated or com- pacted together out of himfelf, Eternal Creatures jthey {hould not qualifie or operate in the heavenly pomp in in fucha way and manner, as tobe like god hinafelf.
1 3 £. No, by no means; for they were not thus Imaged or framed to that End: For, the Creator had for this caufe incorporated or compacted the Body of an Angel together, to be more dry, then he is in his Body $ that he might be and remain to be God j fo that the qualities fliould be harder and tougher5that die Tone or Sound might be bud clear and thrill.
1 37.S0 that,when the feven qualities in an Angel, in the Center of the heart, 60 generate the Light and the fpirit or undemanding $ that then, that fame fpi- rit, which in the light of the heart, goeth forth at the mouth of the Angel,in the 'Divine power; fhould as a loud clear ilirill found in the power of all the qualities in God^ fing and ring forth as a melodious Mufick,an& in the forming Imaging framing or qua- lifying of God, rife upas a pleaiaiu hearty loving voyce; in Gods forming.
138. And when the Holy Ghoft formeth the hea- venly fruit, then jfhould the Tone, which fhould rife • up. in the praiiingof God, from the Angels, be alfo together in the forming or Imaging of the fruity and fo on the other fide again, the fruit fhould be the food of the Angels.
139. And therefore alfo we pray in Our Fatbery C<E53$5 mt0 unfer&agltclj Jftott,?
fayingx >Mat,6.n fo that the Tone or word «^ *> which, we thr uft Igive S ¥■ rpfuchi- fotth from our Center of the Light, through the ani- call^ mated, animal or * Souliih fpirit, out at the Uttoutk forth Ch.XIIL Of the horrible Fall o/Lucifcrs Kingdom. 2^7 forth from us,into the divine powcrjfhould in the di- vine power, as a * fellow-forming o* t fellow-gene- *co-forn> C TCnfet ^agUcfe Xfyoöt ing. rating, help to Image or frame«f t co-gene- £ Our daily Bread, rating, CSDet tratet sfbet tRttsp which afterwards < > for C the Father givetb to Usy Food.* * printed 140. And then when our Tone is thus incorpora- Copie, ted in Gods Tone, fo that the fruit is formed Imaged {in fide et or framed, it muft needs be whokfome or healthtull dilettione for us, and fo we are in Gods Love, and have that -^0 food to make ufe of, as by the right of Nature, be- ing our fpirit in Gods Love did help to Image and form the fame.
141. Herein ftandeth the in- nertnoft andgreatefb depth of Qod0 O, Man, confider thy felf \ I will mote largely de- clare it, in its due place.
142. Now for fuch an end hath God created the Angels, and they dofo too: for their fpirit, which in the Center or heart goeth forth from their light in the power of all the {even qualifying or fountain- fpirits, that goeth forth at their Mouth, as God the Holy Ghoft goeth forth from the Father and Sonne, and helpeth to form Image or frame all,in God (that is to fay, in the Divine Nature) through the cJ^o*- curiui fong and fpeaking and Sport or Scene of Joy.
143. For, as God worketh in Nature to the pro- ducingof all manner of forms, Ideas, Images vege- tations fpringings, fruits and colours: fo do the An- CLq ', gels 2^8 The horrible Fall of Lucifers Kingdom. C h. XIII gels alfo in very great fimplicity orfincerity; and though they thould fcarce touch theleaft Twigg, or fcarce re Joyce in the beautious flowers m the hea- venly vJWaj) and difcourfe and confer never fo little, weakly meanly or {imply thereof 5 yet neverthclefTe that very Tone or fpecch rifcth up together in the Divine Saliner ^ and helpeth to co-Image and frame or form all.
144. Thou haft many examples thereof in this world, that if fome Creature or Man look upon a thing, it perifheth becaufe of the Poifon or venome in the Creature: On the other fide again, fome men, as alfo Beafts and other Creatures can with their Tone or words change or alter the malignity or evilnefle of a thing, and bring it into a right form.
145. And that now is the Divine Power, which all the Creatures are fubje&ed to; for all whatfo- over it is that liveth and moveth3 is in God,, and God himfelfis ally and all whatfoever is form'dor framed^ is formed out of HIM> be it either out of Love or out of Wrath.
The Head Spring or fountain Vein of Sinne* 146. Now Lucifer being fo Royally Imaged of framed, thathisfpiritin his forming and imaging rofe up in him, and was received or embraced of God very excellently and lovingly, and wasfet or put into Cjloripeation, then inftantly he {hould have begun his Angelical Obedience and courfe, and fhould have moved(as God himfelf 'did) as a loving too in the houfe Ch. XIII. The horrible Fall of Lucifers Kingdom. 299 houfe of his Father, and that he did not.
147. But when his light was generated in him in his heart, and that his qualifying fpirits were in- • ftantly affected or inxironed with the high light, they then became fo highly rcjoycing, that they elevated themfelves in their Body againlt the Right of Na- ture, and prefently began as it were a Higher./?*/?» //>/-, more Pompous or Active qualifying or Opera- tion, then God himfelf exercifed.
148. Butthefe fpirits elevating themfelves thus, and triumphing fo eagerly and vehemently one in another* and rifing np againft the right of Nature^ by that means they kindled the qualifying or foun- tain fpirits too exceeding much 5 viz. the aftrin- gent Quality attracted or compacted the Body too hard together, fo that the fweet water was dryed up.
149. And the powerful and great Bright Flafti, which was rifen up in the fweet water in the Heaty from whence the bitter Quality exifteth in the fweet water, that rubb'd it fclf fo horribly hard with the aftringent quality, as if it would break in pieces for great Joy.
150. For the flafh was fo Bright, that it was as it were intolerable to the qualifying or fountain fpirits, and therefore the bitter quality or fource trembled and rubb'd it felf fo hard in the aftringent, thatthe heat was kindled contrary to the Right of Nature, and the aftringent alfo dryed up the fweet water by its hard attracting together.
151. But now the quality of Heat was/b [evere} furious and eager, that it bereaved the aftringent quality or fource of its power: for the heat exifteth in the fountain or fource of the [met water.
Qcj % 1 52. But 3oo the horrible Tall 0/ Lucifers Kingdom. Ch.XIII. 1 5 2. But the fweet water being dryed up through the aftringent attracting together, therefore could not the Heat any more rife to a flame or to any light, (for the light exifteth in the unctuofity or Oy/ineJJe of the watery) but glowed like a red hot Iron,or like Iron not quite glowing, but very dimly and darkly: or as if you tliould put a very hatdßone into the tire, and iliould let it lye there in great heat, as long as you pleafe, yet it would not be glowing light, becaufe it hath too little water, or Oylrnejje in it.