30. Behold the water, in the Deep above the Earth, which quaiifieth mixeth or uniteth with the elementary kyi and Fire, that, is the water of the Aßrall Birth or Geniture, wherein ftandeth the Aftral life, and wherein efpecially the Holy Ghoft moveth, and through which the Third and innermoft Birth doth generate incomprehenßbly as to the wrath of God therein: and that water to our Eyes fcemeth like the Ayr.
3 1. But, that Water, Ayr, and Fire, are one in an- other, in the Deep above the Earth j every intelli- gible Man may fee and underftand.
32. For thou feeft 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 theStars from above, and the water upon the Earth from be- neath kindle themfelvcs, and fo water is fuddenly there alfo generated s which would not be, if the wrath did not alfo Hand in the Aftral Birth or Geni- ture.
33. But being all is corrupted, therefore muft the upper water in the wrath of God, come to help the AftringentjBitter^ and Hot quality of the Earth3and allay mitigate and quench its fire3(o that the life may alwayes 4^4 Of the Second Day. Gha p, XX: alwayesbe generated, and that the fyoly Birth be- tween Death and the wrath of God, may be -genera- ted a lfo.
34. But,that alfo the Element of Fire is, and doth rule3 in the Deep of the Air and Water; thou feeft in Tempefts of Lightning 1 alfo thou perceiveft3hovv 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 <JWoon it is very cold.
3 5. But now, God feparated the palpable water from the impalpable, and placed the palpable on the Earth, and the impalpable remained ftill in the Deep iö its own Seat as it had been fror» Eter- nity.
3 6. Bat being the wrath alfo is in that water in the Deep above the Earth, therefore conftantly through the kin Jling of the Stars and of the water in the wrath, fuch palpable water generateth it felf, which, with its outermo ft Birth (tandeth in Death.
37. Whichjbeing it qualifieth or uniteth with its innermoft Birth of the Aitrall Birth or Geniture, it comcth to help the Salitter of the corrupted Earth,and quencheth its wrath, whereby in the Aftrall Birth or Geniture all ftandeth in the Life, and fo the Earth generateth the Life through the Death.
The Gate of the Afjflery.
3 8. But, that there is a Firmament, between the Waters; which Firmament is called Heaven \ it hath this under flandt 'no or meaning.
39. The wh-jle Deep,from the Moon to the Barth* ftandeth all with its working in the wnthfuli and com- Chap.XX..Of the Second Day. $6$ comprehenfible or palpable Birth or Geniflire.; for the CMoon is the Go ddcfte of enc palpable Birtn,arid fo theHoufeof theDevills 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. omermoft 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 ftill qualifiemix unite or co-operate with the Afiral Birtn or Geniture in the Deep.
41. Now Therefore God hath made the Firma- ment,'which is call'd Heaven, between the outermoft and innermof. Birth, and that is a Partition or divi- fion between the oucermoft and innermoft Birth or Geniture.
42. For, the outermoft Birth of the. water can- not comprehend the innermoft Birth of the water, which is called Heaven, and which is made out of the midft or Center of the water.
[cc Heaven is the Firmament, viz,, the fire-Sea, or q. <c Sea-of-F input of the f even fpir its ef Nature, <c out of which i>the Stars at a Quinteßence were "concreted incorporated err created by t\k mrd <c FIAT: And it hath or contained) both fire Cc and water, and hangeth in it J elf inwardly on cc the fir fi Principle, and {ball bring its wonders, cc with or & to the figure of them, into the Eter- cc nal'y but its Birth or Geniture ffidetb or paßetb <c away \ ] 43. Now the innermoft Birth ol Heaven refleBs jtro/.gly upon theEatch, and holdeth the. outermoft water upon the Earth, togetherjwith the Earth alfo, ftrongly captive.
Ooo 43, And 44. And if that were not, then with the Revolu- tion ot the Globe of the Earth the water would be divided or diflbl ved again 3 alio then would the Earth Grumble, break, and moulder away in the Deep, [and all would be a CbAos again.]
45. But now therefore that Firmament between cheoutermoft palpable water and the Inward 3 hol- deth the Earth and the f alp able water Captive.
But mm thou mayß Ask: What? is the fire then a Firmament of that» Heaven, which I can neither fee nor apprehend?
Anfwen 4& Yes ^ It h the Firrfiament ktveee#tht clear Deity and the corrupt Nature, which thou muft break through, when thou intended to come to God; and it is that very Firmament, which doth not fwffftand in the wrath, neither is it altogether or perfectly pure: concerning which it is written, the very Jleavens are not pure in the fight of (jod, «*« fob if. iy.
and at the laft Judgment Day the wrath will be purged from them. For it is written, Heaven and Earth [ball paßt m»ayybut my word (ball not paße dway> faith-CbrtßyLMatth.24.11. OKark 13.31.
* • 47. Now that tmpurtty in that Heaven is the Wrath* but the parity is the WWd!
itf.God, yfhichheoncc fpake^kyiogj Lettbtwater.
undctj ChapjCX. Of m Secmtoq. ^ under the Fim&ment it feparated from the water tXovt thefirmament^Cen. i.
And that Word ftandcth, and is eomprifed, in the firmament of the water; and holdcth the outward water together with the Earth, captive ot fixed.
The (/ate of the tDeitie* ObfePvehere the hidden Mjferjof God.
48. When thou behöldeft the f>eep above the Earth, thou oughtcft mi to {"ay, that it is not the Gate of Cod, where God in his bolinefte d wclleth- No, no, think not fo: For the whole holy Trinity God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghoft, dwelleth in the Center under the Firmament of Heaven, but that very Firmament carmot comprehend him.
49. Indeed all is as it were one Body, the outer» moft and innermoft Birth, together with the Firma- ment of heaven, asaifothc Aftrall Birth therein^ in and with which the wrath of God alio qualified* mixcthand uniseth y but yet they are one to another as the Government frame or conftitution in Man.
50.* The F leih fignifieth, i°. The outward Birth * ^Qtim or Genitnre,which is the Houfe oi Death. »•. The Three lorn of fecond BirthorGeniturcin Man is the A frail 5 in BjfthsorGe* which the Life ftandeth, and wherein Love and jJJJj^8 ^ wrath wreftle one with another- And tbtnfarWiaa himfelf knowethhimfelf: for the Aft rail Birth ge- nerated the Life in the outermoft, thatis, in the ^«iFlefh: $°. The Third Birch, is generated be- tween the Aftrall and outeimoft, and that is called the animated or fwhjh Birth or Geniture, of the 0002 Soul; M* of the Second Day". Chap.XX, Soul: and is as Large as the whole Man.
51. And that Birth or Geniture, the outward Man neither knoweth. nor comprehendethy neither doth the Aftrali: comprehend it, but every qualify- ing or fountain fpirit comprehendeth only its innate or inftant Root, which fignifieth, or refembkth the Heaven..
52. And that animated or foulifn Man rauft prelle through the Firmament of Heaven to^God, and live with God, elfe the whole man#f««0f come into Heaven to God.
53. For every Man,; that defireth to be faved, rauft with his innate inftant Births, or Genitures,be, ß* the whole Deity with all the three Births in this "World, is.
54. Man cannot be abfolutely or wholly pure with- mt wrath andfin, for the Births of the Depth in this world are not fully pure before the Hear: of God, ^£■15. v. 1.5. but alwayes Love and wrath wreßle .one with another, whence God^s called an angry zealots C7o^,Exod.2o,5. Deur. 5.9, 5 5.: Now as man is, in the Government or Order of his NAti-uity Birth or Geniture • Juft/b alfo is the # whole Body- of God in or of this world, but in the water ftandeth the msek Life. ^f 56. As, I. Firft in the outward Body.of Godwin or of this world, there is the congealed, aitringent bitter and Hot Deaths in which the palpable water is alfo congealed and Dead.
57. And therein now is the Dark/ieJJe, wherein King Luajcr with his Angels, as alfo all flefbly or carnal wicked Men lye captive even.with or in their /rj//*g Bodks: m alfoxhs Separated {pixits of damned Men..
58. This Ctap.XX: Of the Second Day. 4 69 5 8. This birth can-neither fee, hear, {eel, fmell nor comprehend the Heart of God: but is * a Foo- * or poJty, li(h Virgin -T which King Luciftv in his Pride hath caufed to be ib.
5.9. And II. The fecond Birth is the Aftral!, which thou muft understand to be the Life of the fe- ven qualifying or fountain fpirits, wherein now the + Love and the wrath is againft one another, and therein ftandeth the upper water, which is a fpi- rit of the life, and therein, or between is the Firma- ment of Heaven, which is made cut of the midft or Center of the water.
So. Now this Birth or Geniture prefTeth through the outward congealed Birth quite through Death, and the Aftral Life in the death, that is, in the con- gealed Earth, Water, and Flefh, of the Beads and of^len, alfo of the Fowls, Fifhes, and Worms, or Creeping things.
61, And the Devil can reach half into this Birth, fcrfar as the wrath comprehendeth or reacheth, and no deeper, and thus far goeth his dwelling, and no Deeper "5 therefore the devill cannot kmw^ how the other- Part in this Birth hath a Root. And io far Man is come in his knowledge from the Beginning of the world to this time, fince his Fall. But the other Root, called the Heaven, the fpirit hath kept that hidden and concealed from ivian,till this Timej Left the Devill iliouid have learned it from Man, and fhould have ftrowed Poifon into it, for Man* beforehis Eyes, 62. This other Part of the Aft rail Birth, which ftandeth in the Love in the fweet water, is the Fir- mament of Heaven, which holdeth the kindled wrath together with all the Devils, captive. For they/ 47* Of the Second Day. CbapXX.
they cannot enter thereinto, and in that Heaven dwelleth the Holy Spirit, which goeth forth from the Heart of God, and ftrivcth or fighteth againft the fiercenefTe, and generated to himfelf a Temple i» the midfi in the fiercenefle of the wrath of God, £3. And in this Heaven dwelleth the Man, that f ZtS'Zifar&b 9°d> cven wich and in t the living vfnExrtb. Body: for that Heaven is as well in Man» as in the Deep above the Earth $ And as the Deep above the Earth is, fo is Man alfo both in love and wrath, till after the departure of the foul; but then when the foul departeth from the Body, then it abideth either only in the Heaven of Love, or only in the Heaven of Wrath.
64. That Part which it here hath comprehended in its departure, that is now its Eternal permanent incefTant dwelling Houfe, and from thence it cat* never get: for there is a great * Cliff between them and the other: as Chrift fpeaks of the Rieh manJLvk. 16.26.
6$. And in this Heaven the Holy Angels dwell amongftus: and the Devils in the other Part: And in this Heavcn,Man liveth between Heaven and Hell, andmuft endure and fuffer from the fierccneffc,ma- ny hard Blowes, Temptations, Persecutions, and ma- ny times Torments and Squcezings. * + 66. * The tvrath is called theo oße, and the Love.
X. Große. Heaven is called Patience&nd thefpirit riiat rifcth up i.PattenceJherein is called Hope and Faith, which qualifieth 3. Hope, mixeth ox unite th with God, and wreflletit with the 4, Faith, wrath till it overcometh andgetteth the viftory, 1 John 5-4- 6j. And/herein lyetb the whole Chriftian do&rinc: He Chap.XX. Of the Second Dtiy. ^x He that teacheth otberwife, doth net know, what he teacheth, for his do&rinc hath no foot ground or foundation, and his heart alwaies tottereth waver- eth, and donbteth and knoweth not what it fhould do.
*8. For his fpirit alwaies fecketh fox Refl, but findeth ic not, for it is impatient,and alwaies feeketh after Novelties, or fome New thing j and when it findeth fomewhat, it tickleth it felf therewith, as if it had found foaie new Treafttre> and yet no ftedfaft- nefle liability of certainty in him, but he fecketh continually for Abftinence or for a Diverfion.
**. 0 ye Theologies, the Spirit here Openeth a Door & Cjate for yOU • If you will not now fee3and feed yourSheep and Lambs on a green meadow, but on a dry feaire Heath, you mult be aecomyuble for it before the fc* vcre earneft and wrathful! Judgmentof God^ there- fore look to it.
70. I take Heaven to witneffe, that I perform here what I muft do: for the fpirit driveth we to it, fo that I am wholly captivated therewith, and can- not be freed from it, whatever may befall me hcrc- aftcr^or enfue upon it.
The Holy Gate.
71. III. The Third Birth or Geniture in the Body of God in or of this world, is under the firmament, of Heaven, hidden or concealed ^ and the Rrma- mem of. heaven qualifieth mixeth or uniteth there» with* £1^ Of the Second Day. Chap.XX.
with, but yet not fully Bodily, but Maturely, as the Angels, and the Soules of Men do. *.
72. And this Third Birth or Geniture is the Al- mightyzwx Hti\y Kean oi God, wherein our King JeßuChrlß with his natural Body fitteth at the rigltf hand of God, as a King and Lord of the whole Body or place of this world, who encompafll-th holdeth and preferveth all, with his Heart.
73. And this Firmament of Heaven is his Throne or footftool, and the qualifying or fountain fpirits of his natural Body rule in the whole Body of this world? and all is tyed bound or united wich them, whatfocver ftandeth in the Aftral Birth in the Part of Love * Trie other part of this world is tyed bound and united with the Devill.
74. Thou mud not think, as Johannes Catvw or CaU i'inuf, thought, which was, that the Body of 'Chrift is not an Almighty Being, and that it comprehendeth orreacheth no further then a little Circumicnbed Place wherein it is.
75. No; thou child of Man, thou crrefr, and doft not rightly underltand the Divine Power; Doth not every man in his Aftrall qualifying or fountain" Spirits comprehend the whole place or Body of this world,and the place comprehendeth Man? it is aU but one Body, onely there arc diftinct Members.
76. Why then fhould not the qualifying or foun- tain fpirits in the.uaturall.Body of Chrilt qualifie raix or unite with the1 qualifying or fountain fpirits of Nature I Is not his Body alio out of the qualify- ing or fountain fpirits of Nature, and his heart ani- mated or become foulifh from or out of the third Birth or Geniture, which is the Heart of God,which comprehendeth all Angels and the. Heaven oi Hea- vens, even the whole Father, fj. Ye \y Chap.XX. Of the Second Dayl 47$ 1 - 77, Ye Calvinifts, defift from your Opinion,and do not Torment your felves with the comprehenliblc or palpable Being; for God is a Spirit-, John 4. 24. and in the comprehcnfibility orpalpabilityftandeth Death.
78. The Body of Chrifl is no more in the hard comprehenfibility or palpability, but in the Divine comprehenfibility or Palpability of Nature, likeahe Angels.
79. For our Bodies alfo at the Refurre&ion will have no more fuch hard Flefh and Bones* ■ but be like the Angels 9 and though indeed all forms and powers (hall be therein, and all faculties and Members even to the Privy Parts, and thefe fhall be in another manner of form, and fo alfo the Entrails and Guts, and yet we fhall not have the £W 'comprehcnfibili- ty or Palpability. V1 So. For Chrift faith to Mary Magdalen in Jofepb's Garden at the Sepulcfcer, after his refurre&ion: Touch me not, for I am not yet' djc ended to my Qod and to your (jod0 Joh. 2, 0. Vi 17. As if he would fay, I have not now the Beflial Body any more; although. I (hew my felf to thee in my form or fhape which / W,othenrife, thou> in thy beftial couldft. not fee me, 8 l And fo during the Fourty Dayes after his Refurre&ion hedid not aiwaies walk fifthly among the Difcrples, but invifiUy, according to his hea~ venly and angelical Property; but when he would fpeakor talk with his Difciples; then he {hewed or prefented himfelf in a comprehenfiblc or palpable Ppp manner manner and form, that thereby he might (peak na- tural words with them, for the corruption cannot comprehend or apprehend the Di vine [words or things], 82. Alfo it fufficientlyappeareth 5 that his Body V'. was of an angelical kind,in that he went tohisDifcipies through the spoors being fbmy John 2.o.i£?.
"83. Thus, tbou tuuft know now, that his Body qualified} mixeth or uniteth;with allthefeven fpi- ritsin Naturein the Aftrall Birth in the part of Loz,eb and holdeth. Sin, Death, and the.Deyill cap- tive in its wrath-Part > 84, And thus thou now underftandeft,what God made on the Second Day,.when he feparated the wa- ter under the Firmament., from the water above the Firmaments Thou feeft alfo. How thou. art in this world every where in Heaven and alfo in Hell, and dwelleft, between Heaven andHeU in great Qan- "85. Thou feeft a Xujom. Heaven is in a Holy man>. and that every where, wherefoevcr thou ftandeit, go- eft or lyeft, if thy ipirir do but qualifie or •. co-ope- rate with-God, then as tq that Part, thouart in Hea- ven, and thy Sou! i% in God. Therefore alfo föjth- Chrift t, My Sheep' are in my Hands, no man can puli. them away from mey John 10.
8(5, In like manner thou feeft alfo, How thou art alwaies in Hell among all the Devils,as to the wraths if thy Eyes- were but open, thou wouidft fee voider*. full things, but thou ftandeft between Heaven and; Hell, and can ft fee neither of them, and w-alkcft.up»-- fift a very Narrow Bridge,.
Chap.XX. 'Of the Second T>af. ^75 87. Some Men have many Timesj according' to ' or in the Sidereal or Aftral fpirit, cntred in thither: being ravifhed in an Extaße, as men call it; and have prefently known the Gates of Heaven and of Hell, and have fold {hewed and declared how that many men dwell in Heil with or in their living Bo- dies, or with their Bodie* alive: And fuch indeed have been fcorned derided or laugh'd at, but with great ignoranceand indifcretion; fork is Juftfo as they declare: which I will defcribealfo more at large •in its due place, and Ihew in what manner and con- edition it is with them.
88. But that the water hath a Twofold Birth, I will here prove it alfo with or by the Language of Nature. For that is the Root or CMether of all the Languages, which are in this world; and therein ftandeth the whole perfeft knowledge of all things.
8$. For when Adam Spake at the fitft, he gave ames to all the Creatures, according to their qua- lities and innate Inftant Operations, vermes or fa- culties. And it is the very Language of the total! univerfal Nature, but is not known to every One. For it is a hidden fecret Myftery, which is imparted to me by the Grace of God from the Spirit, which ■hatha Delight and Longing towards me, Ppp z Now N Now Ohferve: -.
taaSCaf- po. The word Waflfct [»*#/] is thruft forth from the Heart, and c/«/W/; the Teeth together, andpaffeth oxer the aftringent and Bitter qualities and touch.eth. them not, but gocth forth through the m Teeth, and the Tongue con trað and rouzeth up it (elf together with the fpirit, and belpeth to hiffe, * ' and foqualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Spirit, and the fpirit prefieth very forcibly through the Teeth. But when the fpirit is tlnyft quite gone forth, then the Aftringentand Bitter fpirit contract- eth and rouzeth up it ielf, and afterwards firft qua- lifieth with the word,but yet it fitteth ftill in its (ear> and after ward s;'<*rm/; mightily andftrongly in the -fet. fy liable -ftr. - 9 1. But now, that the Spirit conceiveth it fclf at the Heart, and cometh forth, and clofeth the Teetl^ together, and hißeth with the Tongue through the Teeth • it fignirieth, that the Hem of God hath mo- ved it ielf, and made a clofure round about it3which is xhzEirmAmentoi Heaven %. Alio, as the Teeth do* iliut and clcfe together; and then the Spirit goeth through the Tcctn: io alfo the fpirit goeth forth from the heart into, the A}r&U Birth or Geni- ture.
p 2. And as the Jongueframeth it felf for the hif- fing, andqualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the ipi- rit, and moveth therewith: lo the foul of Man cq~ Zmageth or frame th it ieli with tin* Holy Spirit, and qualifieth opcrateth or uniteth therewith* and pref- feth joyntly together in the power thereof, through Heaven and ruleth together alio therewith in the WordoiQQ^ ^3. But Chap.XX, Of the 'Second Day. 477 93. But that the Aftringent and Bitter quali- ties awaken behind afterwards, and co-image af- terwards to the framing of the word; it fignifieth, that indeed all is as it were one Body, but the Hea- ven and the Holy Spirit together with the Heart of God, hath its proper * Seat to it felf, and the Devill * One Cepy together with the wrath of God, can neither com- bathjLifcy prehend the Holy Spirit, nor the Heaven 5 but the Devill together with the wrath, hangethin the out- ward Birth in the wordy^nd the wrath helpethto Image all in the outermoft Birth in this worlds whatfoever itandeth in the comprehenfibility, or palpability r juft as the aftringent and bitter qua- lities rouze themfelvcs behind afterwards to the fra- ming of the word 3.and qualifie operate or unite therewith.
94. But that the fpirit firfl goeth over the aitrin. gent and bitter qualities unperceived; it fjgnif]eth, tnat the Gate of Cud is every where in this world ail overy wherein the Holy Ghoftruleth, and that the Heaven ftandeth open every where, even in the midftor center of the Earth: And that the Devill no where can either lee comprehend or apprehend the Heaven, but is a grumbling and fnarling Hell- Hound, which alter wards firft cometh out from behind, when the Holy Ghoft hath built or raifed to himielf a Church and Temple 0 and deftroyeth it in the wrath, and hangeth behind at the word as an Ene- my, who will not endure, that a Temple of God fhould be raifed or built in his Land or Country, whereby his Kingdom might be leaned or diminish- ed» (The 47 £ °f tke TtirdÜA]. Cha p, XXI; TThe One and Twentieth Chapter.
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L though the Spirit in the Writings of c^f«?- fes hath kept the Deepeft Myfttries fccrcc hidden and concealed in the Letter y yet all is fo very regularly deferibed, that there is no DefeEl at all in the Order thereof.
2. For when God through the Word had created Heaven and Earth, and had feparated the Light from the Darknefs,and had given a place to each of them, then prefently each began \xs Birth or Geniture, and qualifying or working.
3. On the Firfl Day>God drave together Jorxom- pa&cd] the Corrupt Saliner which came to be fo in the kindling of his wrath: I fay, God then drave it together or Created it through theflrong fpirit; for the word fccljttff [created] {ignifieth here, a Driving together, [or Compaction}, 4. In this driving together or companion of the xorrupred wrath-S alitter, was King Lucifer alfo, as an Impotent Prince together with his Angels, driven into the Hole of the wzath-Salitter into that place, where the outward half dead comprehenfibility is generated, which is theplaceor Space between the 'Nature-Goddefle the Moony and the Dead Earth.
5. Now when this was done, the Deep became -clear, Ghap.XXL Of the Third Day.. 479 clear, and with the hidden or concealed Heaven,the Light was feparated. from the DarkncfTe, and the Globe oi the Earth in the great wheel of Nature was rolled or turned once about ^ and accordingly there pafs'dthe Time of *onc Resolution, or of One Day y*'thcDiur*«l- which containcth Twenty Four Hours. mot':$» of 6. In the Duration of the Second Day, began the f^e £art^ foarp ieparaticnj -,and the incompreh edible Cliff be- 24-H**rs* tween the Wrath and the Love of Light was made, andfo King Lucifer firmly ftronglyor faft bolted up into the Houfe of Darkneue, and was referved to the. final Judgment..
7. And io alfo the water of Life was feparated from; the water of Death, yet in that manner as that they hang one to another in this. Time of the world, as Bo- dy andSauly and yet neither of them comprehend the other 5 ^but the Heaven which was made out of the midft or center of the water, is the Clip between them, £0 that the comprehenfible or palpable wa- scr is a Death, and the incomprchenfibie 01 impal- pable is the Life.
8. Thus now the incomprehenfible fpirit, which is God ^ ruleth everywhere in this world, and rcplc- "nifheth orfilletb *//, and the comprehenfible hangeth or dependeth on him, and dwellcth in the Darknefs,. and can neither fee, hear, fmell, nor feel the incom- prehenflble one, but feeth the.works thereof, and is • a.Deflroyer of them.
?. And now when God had bound up the Devill in the Darkncffe through the clofure of the Heaven^ which Heaven is every where in all places 5 then. HE E. began again his wonderful Birth or Geniture in the feventb Nature-fpirit, and all generated again. ■asMhM.done fvm Eternity,.
10. Vor Mtfes wrizcth thus1: AnclGodfaid^Letthe E ay 'th fetid forth G raffe and Herbsthat yield a Seed, and the fruit-Tree yielding or bearing fruit after its kind, and which hath its own feed in itfelfufton the Earthy and it was Co done. And the E%rth fent forth graße> and the herb that yieldeth feed each1 After its kind, and the tree ji elding fruit, and which hath its feed in itfeif? every one according to its kind, and God faw that it was good., tAndfo out of Evening and Morning the Third Day came tobe, Gen. i. v. 11,12,15.
11. This indeed is very rightly and properly de* fcribedy but the true ground iticketh hidden or con- cealed in the Word, and hath never been under- ftood by Man. For Man fince the Fall could never comprehend or apprehend the inward Birth or Gen i- ture to perceive, How the heavenly Birth or Geni- ture is; but hisMeafon Jay captivated in the outward comprehenfibility or palpability, and could not pene- trate and preffc through Heaven, and fee thfc inward Birth or Geniture of God, which alfo is in the cor- rupted Earth and every where in all Places.
12. Thou rauft not here think, that God hath made fome New thing, which never was before. For if that were fo, then there had been another God, which is not poffible to be. For without, or beßdes, this one onely God, nothing is at all, for the Gates of Hell are not any where without beyond or abfent from this oneonely Godj onely there is a Partition or diftinotion between the love in the light, and the kindled wrath in the DarknefTe, fo that the one can- not comprehend the other, and yet hang one to an- other as one Body.
13. Ihc Salitter, out of which the Earth is come tobe, m$ from Eternity, and flood i« the feventb quali- Chap.XXi: Of the Third D^l 481 qualifying or fountain fpirit, which is the Nature- {pirit, and the other fix have generated the fevemh continually, and are incompafied or furrounded therewith, or lie captivated or inclofed therein as in their Mother, and are the power and life of the ft-' yenth, juft as the AßraÜ Birth is, in the Flefli.
14. But when King Lucifer had ftirred the wrath in chis Birth or Geniture, and had with his loftiaeße brought the Poiibn and Deatn into it, then in the wrathful Birth, in the fierceneffe, or Sting of Death, fuch Ear tli ad Stonei were Generated.
15. And upon this now eniued the Shewing out thereof: f< r t.c Deity could not endure fach a* Birch or Geniture in tncLove and Light of God,but the conupied Saliuer mull be driven together in a Lump, and Lord Lucifer alfo with it, io then pre- fently the innate Lignt in the corrupted SaUttery went out or cxtinguifhed,and the cloßre of the Hea- ven between tne YVrath a d the Love was made, that fo fucn S.dn.tr might be generated no more, and that Heaven might held the Wrath in the ou- tcrmoft Birth or Geaiti fce io Nature captive in the DarknelTe,and be an Eternal Partition orfeparation between them.
16. But this being accomplifhed in the Two Dayes, taen on the Third Day the Light rofe up in the DarknefTe, and the Darkneffe together with the Prince thereof, could not comprehend it: 17. For there, out of the Earth fprung up Grade and Herbs, and Trees, and there riow,alfo it-ftandcth written thus: Each dCCOrding tO tti j{tnd0 Geil. I. V. II. In thefe words lyeth the Kernel of tweeter rial Birth »r Geniture hidden 4$ 3 Of the Third Day. Chap. XXI« or concealed, and cannot be comprehended or ap- prehended by or with Flefh and Blood, but the Holy Ghoft through the animated or foulifh Birth, muft kindle the Jjirall man, otherwifeheisblind herein, and underftandeth nothing but concerning Earth and Stones,. alfo Gräfte > Herbs 3 and woodden Trees.
cfjfltat^,7 18. But now is it written here 5 God< raiä j Let the Earth bring forth Grs^e^ find Herbs > and fruit* full Trees.
Obferve here: 19. The word ^jprat^, [Said] is an Eternal word3, and was before the times of the wrath 5 from eter- nity in this Saliner y. when it ftood^r in the heavenly form and life, and now alfo it is not quite dead in its Center, but only in the comprehenhbility oipaL pability, 20. Butnow when the Light rofe up again in the outward comprehenfibility, or in Death, then the Eternal Word flood in its full Birth, and generated the life through and out of Death, and the corrupted Saliner brought forth fruit again.
a 1. But being the eternal tfWmuftqiaalifre mix, or unite with the corruption in the Wrath, there- upon the Bodies of the fruits were Evill and Good. For the outward Birth or Geniture of the fruits muft beoutof or from the Earth which is in Death y And £he fpirit or life muft beoutof the ^/fr4/Birth,which ftande th in Lo ve and Wrath.
22. Fur thus ftood the Birth or Geniture of Na- ture in the Time of the Kindling,and was thus toge- ther incorporated in the Earth, and muft alfo infuch Chap.XXI. Of the Third Da?. ' 48$ a Birth fpring up again: For it is written 5 that the dead Earth ßjeuld let the Graße and Herbs, and Trees faring up, each according to its kind, Gen. 1. 1 2. that is3 according to the kind and quality, as it had been from eternity, and as it had been in the heavenly quality, kind and form. For that is called itS (ffPK kind, wjbich is received in the mothers Body or Womb, and is its own by right of Harare, as its own peculiar Life.
23. Thus alfo the Earth brought forth no ftrangc Life, but even that which had been in it from eter- nity; And as before the time of the wrath it had brought forth heavenly fruit, which had a holy pure heavenly Body, and were the food of Angels: fo now it Utought forth fruits, according to itscom- prehcnfible palpable harJ,Evil,wrathful> poifonous, venomous, M/-deadkincf; for as the Mother was, fo were her children; 24. Not that the fruits of the Earth are thereup- on wholly in the wrath of God: for the incorporated or compacted Word, which is immortal and incor- ruptible, which was from eternity in the Saliner of the Earth, fprung up again in the Body of death,and brought forth fruit out of the dead Body of the Earth: but the Earth comprehended not the Word, but the Word comprehended the Earth.