25. And now as the whole Earth was3 together with the Word; fo was the fruit alfo, but the word remained in the Center of the Keaiven, which is al- io in this place, hiddenly; and this B.rth or Geni- turc caufed the feveH qual lfying or fountain fpirits, out of or from the outermoft,corrupt and dead Birth ©rGeniture to form we Body j andic felf, viz, the Q^qq a,Word 484 Pf the Third J>Af. Chap.XXL Word or Heart of God remained in its heavenly feat fitting on the Throne ot CMajefie^ and filled the Aftrall and alfo the mortal Birth or Geniture, but to them was the holy life Altogether incomprehensi- ble.
2 6. Thou muft not think, that thereupon the ou- termoft dead Birth orrpeniture of the Earth hath gotten /Wfc a Life through the rifen word that fprung up,fo that it is no wore a Death: No; that tan ne- ver be, for fhat which is once dea<.: in God, that, is really dead, and in its own power can never be living again, but the Word, wuichqualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Aftrall Birtii in the Part of the Love, that gcnerateth the Life through the aitrall Birth or Geniture ^ through the Death.
27. For thou fee it plainly, How all tholFruits of the Earth,whatfoever it Lnnge th forth, muüpu.riße and Ror$ alfo they arc a* Efeatn.
28. But3that the Fruits ^tuncther Body, then the Earth is 5 which is mucn fuller^of vertue, fairer, or more beautifull?, alfo of a better tafte reüth and fmell: it is, bee auf e the Aftrall Birth or Geni ure receiveth power or vertue from the Word, and formeth or frameth another Body3 which ftandeth half in the Death, and half in the Life, and ftand- eth hidden between the Wrath of God, and the Love.
19. But,thatthe Fruits upon the Body,are much pleafanter lovelier fweeter and milder, and with a Good Tafte and relifh: that,is even the Third Birth out of the Earth$according to which the Earth (hall be purged und cleanfed at the End of this time, and flaall be fet or put again into its firß Place, but the Wrath will abide in Death, rbt phap.XXL Of the Third q>ay, I The richly jqyfull (/ate of <£Man* 30. Behold, thus faich the Spirit in the Word, which is the very Heart of the Earth, and which rilethor fpringeth up in his Heaven, in the half fiafhof the Lite) wherewith my Jpirit in its know- ledge qualiticta mixeth or ur/itetu, and through which 1 write thefe words.
31. <£h/[ariU made out of the Seedofthe Earth? out of an in- corporated or compacted Adaffe or Lump; £<c U,>deffia/ulout of the Matrix of the Earth^bere- <c in the Eye is twofold $ the one in God> and the cc other in this world 5 out of Three frincU "pies:] and not out of the wrath? hut out of the 'Birth or Cjeniture of the Earth • andftoodintheAftrallBirthor Geri- fure in the fart of the Love, but wrath hung to him, w hich he fnould have put forth from himielf as the the fruit putteth forth from it, the bittemeße of the Tree.
32. And that be did not, but reached back from the Love into the wrath, and lujted after his dead or mortal Mother to eat of her, and to fuck her breaft, and to {land upon her flock» 33. Now r.
4$ f Of the nird BirtK Chap.XXl.
33. Now according to his wreftling, fo alfo it bekll him, and fo he brought himfelf with his ou- tcrmoft Birch or geniture into the Death or mortali- ty of his mother, and with his life he brought himfelf out from the Love into the Part of the wmhjul Aftral Birth or Geniture.
34. And there he ftandeth now between Heaven .and Hell in theF4^0t the Devill in his Kingdome, againft wnom thcDevil jp^wwfcfighteth and lj-hetn -continually, that he might either banifh him ouc of his Country into the Earth, or make him a child ot wrath in Hell.
And what is Now his Hope?
Anfwer.
35. Behold! thou blind Heathen: behold! thot Render Pervercer Obfcurer and wrefterofttit^^/- pturefy open thy eyes wide, and be not aihamed this iimple plainnerTe^ for God lyeth hid in th( Center, and is yet much more Simple and plain, but thou feeit him not.
16. Behold! thy fpiritor thy foul, is generated from or out of thy Aftral Birth or Geniture, and is theThird J$lrth in thee -, Juil as an Apple upon a Tree is the Third Birth or Geniture of the Sartl, and hath not its vegetation in from or within the Earth, but from above the Earth; and if it were a 5"/»/Wf,as thy foul is, it would not fuffer the Earth any more to tye or £/Wit to corruption.
37. But thou muft know, that the Apple on its Sock or Branch, however with irs innermoft Birth or Geniture, qualifitth mixeth or uniteth with the word of God) through whofe power it is ^rown out of the Earth. 38. But Chap.XXL Of the Third Day. 4S7 3 8. But being the wrath is in its * Bodily or Cor- * or Mo- pored Mother, therefore it cannot fct or put it out therojits fron? the Comprehenfible* or palpable Birth, but Body. muft remain with its Body in the palpablencfle or comprehenfibility in Death.
19. But in its power, in which its life flandeth,. wherewith itqualifieth mixeth oruniteth with the Word of God, it will in its mother in the pdwcr of the Word at the laft Judgment Day be fee or put again into its heavenly Place j and befeparated from the wrathfull and dead or mortall palpablenefic,and fpring up in the Heaven of this world, in a hea- venly form, and fee a Fruit for Men in the other 'Life.
• [cc Here underft and y The power of the Principle, out 3 ci of which the Apple and AH growethyfhati in ic the Renovation of the world fpring up again in <c Paradife, with the wonders: ] 40. But being thou art made out of the Seed of- the Earth, [ c£ Aid Earth, is Fire and water, conceived with or j; <c by the word Fiat, out of the Matrix of the tc Earth $ but when {JMan Imagined or feL sc his de fire into the Earth, he became Earth* « ly. and haft fet or put thy Body lack again into thy Mo- ther, therefore thy Body alfo is become a palpable dead or Mortal Body,fuchas thy Mother is.
41. And thy Body.hath the fame Hope which thy Mother the Earth hath, viz. that at the laft Judge- ment Day, in the power of the wordj it fhall be let or put again into its firfi Place.
42. But being thy Aftral Birth ftandeth here on Earth in the wrath, and qualificth mixeth or uni» teth 488 Of the Third Day. Chap.XXi; tcth with the Love in the Word, Juft as the Fruit on the Tree doth: for the power or the fruit qualifieth orunitethwiththe word 5 TbCTCjOTC thy Hope flandetb in (jod.
For tne /iitrall Birth or Geniture ftandeth in Love and Wrath; an d,ftaf, in this time it cannot prevent, in regard ot the outermolt Birth or Geniture in the Flejh, which ftandeth in I^eath.
43. For the dead or Mortal Flefh hath encompaf- fed the AftrallBirtn, and Mans Flefh is a dead Car- kajjejwhileft. ic i yet in the Motners body or womb, and is tncompafled witn Hell and Gods wrath.
44. But ito,v tic Aftrali Birth generateth the ani- mated louliil; ß*rai,i/i. tue Thirds which ftandeth in the word, wherein the incorporated or compa&ed word lyeth hia 'en in its H-a en.
cc co rie h Uife in the third p, inctple^ And fg cc lijeth Oetw 'en foje And wrath ^ and bangeth cc to bot. i:] 45. But now bei. tg thou haft thy Reafon, and art not like die Apple on the Tree, but art Created an Angel and the limilitude or Image of God, in{iea/loi the Expulfcd Devils, and knowefi how thou canft with thy Aftrall Birth, in the part of Love, qualific or unite with the Word of God \ therefore thou canft in the Center in the Word, fet ox put thy animated or Jbultfh Birth into Heaven, and thou canft with thy * or. Body foul, even with thy * living Body in this Dead or alive. Mortal palpability ruk with God, in Heaven.
46. For the Word is in thy heart, Deut. 30. 14. Rom. 10,8. and qualifi$$h oruniteth with tne SouJ as Chäp.XXl. Of the Third K$ <&£ as if it were one Seeing; and if thy Soul flandeth ia the Love, then it alfo is one Beeing; And, thou may ft fay, that according to thy fouf thou fitteft in Heaven, and liveft and reigneß with God.
\« Understand $ according to the fpirit ofthefoul^ Xj <c with the Im age out of the animated or foulifo «fire:] 47. For, the foul, which apprehendeth the Word, hath an open Gate in Heaven, and can be prevented by nothing, neither doth theDevillfee the foul, be« caufe it is not in his Country or Dominions.
48. But being thy Aftrall Birth ftandeth with the one part in the wrath, and that the Flefh through the wrath ftandeth in Death, thereupon the Devil, in the part of the wrath, feeth continually even into thy Heart,and if thou lets him have any Room or place there, then he teareth that part of the Aftrall Birth, which ftandeth in the Love,o«J from the word; 49. And then thy Heart is a dark Valley: And if thou doft not Labour and work quickly again to the Birth of the Light, then he kindlcth the wrath- fire therein, and then (ball thy foul be fpewed out from the Word, and then it qualifieth or uniteth with the wrath of God, and fo afterward thou art a Devil, and not an Angel, and canft not with thy animated or fouhfb Birth, rea*h the Gates of Hea- ven.
50" But if thou flghteft and ftriveft with the De- vill, and keepeft the Gate of Love in thy Aftrall Birth, and fo departeft from hence as to the Bo 'y, then thy Soul remaineth in the Word quite hidden from the Devil, and rcLneth with God, evcn';unt!d the Day of the Reftitution of that which was Loft.
Rrr 51. But £$ 0 Of the Third Dap Chap.XXI.
51. But if thou ftandeft with thy Aftrall Birch in the wrath when thou departed from hence as to the Body, and thy Soul not comprehended in the word; then thou canft never reach the Gates of Heaven, but into what thou haft fown thy feed, that is, thy Soulyin that very T^rfhali thy Body alfo arife, The Qate of the Tomer.
•* or und 5 2. But that. Soul and Body, (hall * come toge- "* one ano- thjer again3 at the Day of the Refurre&ion, thou ther9 may ft perceive fo much, here by the Earth. For ihc Creator faid; Let the Earth bring forth Cjrajje and Herbs, and Trees bearing Fruit, each according to its Kind. And then each fprung up according to its kind 5 and grew5 and as before the time of the wrath it had a Heavenly Body, fo it got now an. Earthly one, anfwerable to its Mother.
5 3. But it is to be confidcred, how all was com- prifed in the word at the great tumult and uproar of the Devill, fo that all fprung up in its own Being ac- cording to its power vertue and kind, as if it had never Leen deftroyed or alcered at all.
54. Now if it were thus at that Time,whcn there was iuch murthering and robbing, fure it will be much more/b at the Laft Judgment Day, when the Earth {hall be feparated in the kindled wrath-fire, and fhallbe living again or revived, then furely it will be comprehended in the Word of Love, as it hath in the fame Word here generated its Fruit, of Grafle, Herbs and Trees, as alfo all manner of mi* lieral Oars of Silver and of Gold.
55« But being the ^r^Birth of theEarthftand- €tbu Chap.XXI. Of the Third Day. ' $£g cth in the Love,and the outward in Death, therefore will each remain in its feat, and fo Life and Death will fever themfelves.
5 6. And where now would the Soulof Man rather be at the day of Regeneration, then wich its f Fa- 1 w,C*mffi$ rfvjthat is 3 -\ in the Body, which hath Generated Sanded w it > kisf^hwr 57. But being the Soul, all the »bile the 5ody had been in Death, remained hidden in the Word, and being the fame Wordalfo holdeth the Earth in the Aftral birch in the Loi/f,therefore it qualified! mix- eth or uniceth through the Word, all the time of its hiddennefTe and fecrefic, alfo wich ics OKother the JSody, according or as to the a^ßral Birth or Geni- ture in theEarth,and fo £ody and Soul in the Word, were never feparated one from another, but live joyntly and equally together in God, 5 8. And though indeed the Befiial 5ody rauft pu- trifie and Rot, yet its power and vertue liveth, and in the mean while there grow out of its power, in its Mother, fair beautiful Rofes.ßloffoms and Flowers: and though it were quite burnt up and Confumed in the Fire, yet its power and vertue ftandeth in the fourElementsinthefW^, and the Soul qualifieth mixeth or uniceth therewith: for the Soul is in Hea- venj$n& the fame Heaven is every where> even in the nudft or center of the Earth.
59- 0 T>ear JMLamview thy. f elf for a while, in this Looking-Qlaffe; thou wilt find it more largely to be read of concern- ing the Creation of Man: this I fet down here for fhis verycaufe, that thou mighteft*/,* better under- ftand the power of Creation, and that thou mighteft iiL. Rrr 2 the 4?.a Of the Third Day. Chap.XXIi the better conceive, and fit thy Self for, this Spirit, and fo learn to underftand its Language.
The open (/ate of the Earth.
Now it might he Asked % From or Out of what matter or power and vertue then did the GrafTe, Herbs, and Trees fpring forth? what manner of fubftance or condition or Conftitution hath this kind of Creature?
♦ * &4nfwerm 60, The fim pie faith. Cod made All things outtf Nothing: but He knoweth Jior, That God 5 neither doth he know, what He is: for when he beholdeth the Earthy together with the Deep above the Earth, he thinketh, verily, all this is not God, or elfe he thinketh, God is not there. He alwaies Imagineth with himfclf, that God dwelleth onely alone the Azure Heaven of the Stars, and ruleth as it were.> * with fome Spirit which goeth forth from him into this world y and that hü Body is not prefent here up- on the Earth, nor in the Earth., 61. And juftfuch Opinions and Tenents I nave read alfo in the £ooks and Writings of Do&ors ( DW *3CT*L«r^ ^0tfO*etl): anc* tiFiere are ai^° very many Onions edinFoUyj Diiputations and Controverts arifen about this ®f.^erbaU very thing among the Learned.
3W*, ^2. #ut feeing God openeth to me the Gate of h is ^eing in his great Love, and remombreth the Covel nant> which he hath with Mancher ejf ore I will faith- :■ " " fully Chap.XXL Of the Third Day. ^ j fully and earneftly according to my Gifts jtnfhut and fet wide Open M the Gates ofGodJo far as God will give me leave.
£3. Itis*offotobeunder{tood,asthat Iam/wf- ficient enough in thefe things, but only fo far as I am able to comprehend.
64, For,the Being of God, is like a Wheel, where- in many wheeles are made one in another, upvvard3 downward, croffc-ways, and yet continually turn all of them together.
65, Which indeed when a man bcholdeth the wheel) he highly marvaileth at it, and cannot at once in its turning learn to conceive and apprehend it: but the more he beholdeth the wheel, the more he learn- cth its Form or frame, and the more he learned), «he greater Longing he hath to the Wheel 5 for he continually feeth ibmewhat, that is more and more wonderful!, (o that a man can neither behold it or learn it Enough, 66, Thus,Ialfo, what Ido not enough defcribe in one place concerning this Great Myftery, that you will find in another place: and what 1 cannot de- fcribe in this book in regard of the Largeneflc of the Myftery, and my Incapacity, that you will find in the other following.
67, For this Book is the fir ft fprouting, or vegeta- tion of this Twigg, which fpringeth or groweth Green in its Mother, and is as a C/;Ä/,which is learn- ing; to go, and is not able to run a Pace at the Ftrfl.
68, -For though the Spirit feeth the Wheel, and would fain comprehend its form or frame in every Place, yet it cannot do it exa&ly enough, becaufe of the turning of the wheel: But when it cometh about again> 4?4. Of the Third Day. Chap.XXI; again, fo that the fpirit can fee the firft apprehended or conceived form again, then continually it learneth more and more, andalwaics delighteth and loveth the wheel* and longcth after it ßill more and more.
Now Olferve: 69. The Earth hath juft fuch qualities and qua- lifying or fountain fpirits, as the Deep above the Earth, or as Heaven hath, and all of them together belong to one only Body: and the whole or univetfal God is that one onely Body: but that thou doft not wholly and fully fee and know him, SlflS ClTC the CdUJ60 vvith and by which, thou in this great Divine £ody, Lyeft/J;#f up in the dead or trior-« tal Flejhy and the power or vertue of the ^DcttlC is bidden from thee, even as the marrow in the itones is hidden from the Flejh.
7o. But if thou in the fpirit breakeft through the Death of the Flefh, then thou feeft the hidden God. For as the Marrow in the Bones penctrateth prefieth cr brcaketh thorough, and giveth vertue power and ftrcngth to the Flejb, and yet the Flefh cannot com- prehend or apprehend the Marrow, but onely the power and vertue thereof: no more canft thou fee. the hidden Deity in thy Flefh, but thou received its pcwer^ndundctüsindQCi therein that God dwell- eth m the*.
71. For the dead or mortal Fiefh belongeth not * on, into. * to the Birth of ///V, as that it can receive or con- ceive the life of the Light as a propriety, but the life of the Light in God rifeth up in the dead or mor- tal Chap.XXi. Of the Third Day. 4i? 5 talFlefh, and generateth to it felf, from or out of the dead or mortal Flcfh another heavenly and Li- ving Body, which knowcth and uhdetfandeih the Light- 72. For th is Bod y is but a S/;?//, from which the new Body groweth.
£tC The new Body grovt -eth out of the heavenly fub- y. " jlantiality in the wordy out of the Flejh and « Blood of Cbrijty out of the My fiery of the « Old Body: ] As it is, with a Grain of wheat in the Earth. The Husk or fhell Jh all not rife and be living again, no more then it doth in the wheat, but will remain for everm Death and in Hell.
73. Therefore, Man carricth about with him hereupon Earth, in his Body the Devil's Eternall Dwelling houfe. O thou fair excellent GoddefTe! may ft thou not well Prance and Trick thy iclf there - in, and in the mean while invite the Devill into the new Birth for a Guefl, will it not profit thee very much 5 take heed, thou doft not Generate a New Devill, who will remain in his own Houfe.
74. Behold the Myftery of the Earth, As that Generateth or bringeth forth, fo muft thou Gene- rate or brir.g fortli. The Earth is vot that Body, which groweth or fprouteth forth, but is the CMo- , ther of that Body, As alfo thy Flcfh is not the fpirit, but the Fle\h is the Mother of the Spirit.
75. But now in Both of them, viz. in the Earth and in thy Flefh, there is the Light of the clear Dei- ty hidden, and it breaketh thorough, and genera- teth to itfelf a Body according to the kind of each Body, for Man according to his 5ody 5 and for the Earth, according to its itody ^ for as the Mothec is, fo alfo is the child,. ' 7 *• Mans 49 6 Of the rtitf Vyl Chap. XXI.
j6. Mans Child, is the Sou!? which is generated out of the Aftral Birch from or out of the t'lefh; and the Earths child is the Grsße, the Herbs, the Trees; Silver, Gold, and all mineral Oars.
Now thou Askefi: How then (hall I do, that I may underftand i fomewhat concerning the Birth or Geniture of the Earths Arfwer.
77. Sehold! the 5irth of the Earth (landcth in its £irth or Geniture, as the whole Deitie doth, and there is no difference at all, but onely as to the cor* ruption in the wrath, wherein comprehenfibility or palpability ftandeth: that only is the difference or diftin&ion, and is the Death between God and the Earth.
78. Thou mu ft know, that all the feven fpirits of God are in the Earth, and Generate, as they do in Heaven: For, the Earth is in God, and God never Dyed, but the outermoft Birth or Geniture is dead, in which the wrath refteth, and is rcferved, for King Lucifer-^ to be aHoufe of Death and of Dark- nefle3 and to be an eternal Prifon or Dungeon.
Of the feu en Spirits of God> and of their operation in the Earth, 7?] The Firft is the aftringent Spirit, and that conträð or draweth together in the Aftral £irth of the fe\ en qualifying or fountain fpirits >a Maße or Lump 1.1 the Earth, through the kindling of the fuperiour Chap.XXI. Of the third Day. ^f fupc-rionr.Birth or Getriture above the Earth, and dryeth that up with its (harp coldnejje, juft as it con- tra fteth or drawcth the water together, and makcth Ice thereof, fo it alfo contracted or drawe'th toge- ther the water in the Earth, and makcth thereof a dry MafTe or Lump.
80. Then next, the Bitter fpirit, which exifteth in the fire-flafh, is alio in the Matter or MafTe, and that cannot endure to be captivated or imprifoned in the dryed *x^dte*/Matter,but rubs it felt againft the aftringent fpirit in the dryed Maile or Lump, fo k)ng till it kindle th the fire; and fo when that is done, then the Bitter fpirit is terrified, and getteth its life.
1 Conceive this here aright.
8 1. In the Earth, thou canft not perceive, find,ot fearch out any thing, befides the Herbs Plant or Ve- getables and Metals, morexfrzn Aftringency, Bitter- nefle, and water:.But the water now therein is faeet, oppofite to the other two Qualities: Alfo it is thin or Tranfparent, and the other two are Hard, Rough and Sowr, and alwaies the one is againft the other. Thereupon there is a perpetual itruggling fighting and wreitling, but in the ftruggling of thefe three9xhc Life doth not yet ftand: but they are a dark ▼alley, and they are three things which can never endure one another,but there is an eternal ftruggling amongft them 83. And from hence mobility raketh its Originall, alfo Gods wrath which reftcth in the hidden fe- creiie, taketh its original from hence: and fo alfo the Original of the Devil, of Death and of Hell, ic Sff arifcth 4?.8 Of the Third Day. Chap.XXI.
arifeth from hence 5 as you may read thereof,con- ccrning the Fall of the Devill* ■» The Depth in tie Center of the Birth er Geniture, 84. Now when thefc three, viz. the Aftringency, Bitternefle and Swectnefle rub themfelves one againft another, then the aftringent quality grow- eth predominant, for it is theftrongeft3and/örr^/y attrað or drawcth the fweetnefte together, for the Sweetnefle is meek and cxtenftve in refped of its Suppleneße, and mud yield to be captivated or im- prifoned.
8 5. And fo when that is done,then the Bitternefle is alfo together captivated or imprifoned in the Bo- dy of the fweet water, and becometh alfo together dryed up, and then the Aftringent fweet and bitter are one in another, and ßruggle fo ftrongly in the ^^Mafleor Lump, till the Mafle be quite dry: For the Aft/ingent quality alwaies contradkth re together, and dryeth it more and more.
8£, But when the fweet water can defend it felf no longer, then ( anguifo ) rifeth up in if, juft as in Man, when he is Dying,, when the fpirit is departing from the Body, and fo the Body yieldeth it felf cap- • tiveas aPrifonerto Death: juft fo the water alfo yieldeth it felf captive as a Prifoner.
87. And in this f anxious riftng up) an angnifli- * Humour ingHeat isgerierated, whereby a * Sweat- prefTeth or moi- forth, as it doth in a dying Man; and that fweat fit**** qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the aftringent and ~ bitter qualities^for it is their fonne, which they have generar Chap.XXI. Of the Third Dafi 4? i \* generated out of the fwect water, which they had A^Wand brought to Death.
88. Now when that is done, then the Aftringent and Bitter qualities rejoyce in their fonne,underftand in the Sweat, and each of them givcth to it their power vertue and Life, and. ftuffe it, like a greedy Gurmandizing Hogg, fo that it foon comes to grow full and fwelled: For the aftringent quality, as alfo the bitter, ahvaies draw the fap out of the Earth, and ftuffe it into their young fonnc.
89. But the Body, which was firft contracted or drawn together out of the fweet water, remaineth dead or Mortal, and the j- Sweat of the body, which -j- or Juice qualified! mixeth or uniteth with the aftringent and of the Bo^ bitter qualities, hath the houfe therein, where it dy. fpreadeth it ielf forth, groweth Grolle * full and * Fat^Luf Lu ft y or wanton. ciotti) Laf- 90. But now the Two Qualities, viz. the Aftrin- ciuotts, gent and Bitter, cannot leave their contention and oppofuion or contrary will, but wreftle continually one with another: The aftringent is ftrong, and the bitter is fmft.
/ 91. And fo no,v when the aftringent grapleth with the bitter, then the bitter leaps afide, and ta- keth the fonne's fap along with it 5 And then the aftringent every where preffeth hard ^fter it, and would fain captivate it, then the Bitter rufheth out from the Body, and extendeth it felf fo far as it can.
92. But then when the Body begins to be tco ßraight or narrow for it, that it can extend or ftretch it no more, and that the contention be too great, then the bitter muft yield it felf captive. Yet for all that, the aftringent cannot kill the bitter, but only holds it captive, and fo the ftrife in them is fo S f f 2 great-» * 5oo Of the Third Day. Chap. XXI.
great, that the bitter breaks out of the body in * Fib*. *ftriags like Tbrids, and taketh fome of the Sonnes fap or Bo"3y along with it.
And this now is the vegetation or growing and tncorporatingor im- vodying of a 1{oot in the Earth.
Now thcu Askeft: How can God be, in that Birth or Geniturc x Anftrer.
93. Behold! that is the Birth or Genitureof Na- ture: and fo now, i{ in thefe three qualities, viz. the aftringent, bitter and fweet, the wrath-fire were not k'ndled, then thou wouldft/>//w7*/y fee, where God is.
94. But now the wrath-fire is in all Three: for the aftringent is too very cold, and contrað or draweth tneUody too tan/ together,, and the fwcet i$ too very thick and dark, which the aftringent foon catcheth, and holds it captive, and dryeth it too much: and then the bitter is too flinging, muxtherous and raging -9 and fo they cannot be reconciled to e-ree.
95. Elfe if the Aftringent were not fo much kin- dled, in the cold fire, and the water not fo thick, alfo the bitter not io [welling xKmg and Murtherous,then * or, that they Might kindle * the fire, from whence the Light Fire* would Exift, and from the light the Love, and foout of the fire flafh, the Tone would Exift: and then tiiou ihouldft/V^ plainly, whether there would not be Chap.XXI. Of the Third Day. 50 1 be a heavenly Body there ^ wherein the light of God would and doth fat ne.
$ 6t But being the aitringent is too cold, and dry eth the water too much, thereupon it captivated) the Hot fire in its coldncfic, and killethor deitroyeth the Body of the fweet water, and fo the bitter capti- vateth it, and dryeth it up.
97. Andfo in this exfecatim or drying up, the undtuouinefle 01 fatnefje in the fweet water is killed or deftroyed, in which the fire kindleth it felf, and fo out of thatunctuofity or fatnefle an aftringent and titter fpirit comes to be. For when the unctuoufnefTe or fat in the fweet water djetb, then is it turn'd into an anguishing fweatj in which the aftringent and bit- ter do qualirie mix or unite.
98. The meaning is not, that the water dyeth quite 1 no, that cannot be, but the aftringent fpirit taketh thefwectnefTeor the un&uofity and fatnefje of the water captive in its cold fire, and, qualified! mixeth or uniteth therewith, and maketh ufe there- of for its Spirit: Its own fpirit being wholly benum- med^ and in Death, therefore it maketh ufe of the water for its Life, and draweth out its unctuoiity or fatnefje to it felf, «id bereaveth it of its power.
$$. And then the water becometh an angmjhing fweat, which ftandeth between Death and Life, and fothe fire of the Heat cannot kindle it felf: For the un&uofity or fatnejje is captivated in the cold fire, and fo the whole Body remaineth a dark Valley, which ftandeth in an anguifhing Birth or Geniture, and cannot comprehend or reach the life. For the life which ftandeth in the Light, cannot elevate it felf in the hard, bitter, and aitringent Body: lor it is captivated in the coldfire^buc not quite dead.
100, And 50 2 Of the Third Day'. Chap.XX I.
loo. And thou mnft fee, that all this is really fo; For Example, take a Root which is of a Hot quality, put ic;n warm water; or take it into //jy.Mouth, and make it warm and fupple or moift; and then thou wilt foon perceive its life, and aftive or operative quality; Buc (o long as it is without or absent from the Heat, it is captivated in Death, and is £oldz.% any other Root or pitfee of wood is.
i o i. And then thou fceft, that the Body upon the Root is dead&Ko \ for when the venue is gone ouc of the Root, then the Body is but a dead Carcaße,and can operate or Effect Nothing at all; and that is, becauje the aftringent and bitter fpirit hath killed or denroyed tfyc Body of the water, and attracted the fatneße or un£tuofuy thereof to it ("elf; and tnus they t Bred or hat- have drawn for fucked up the Spirit tnereofj into ched up their ^ a'ea^ %0dy.
deadVody. C I02« Other wife, if thefweet water could keep its un&uofity or fat tiefte in its own power, and that the aftring'ent and the bitter fpirit did rub thern- felves one wirh another very gently in the fweet wa- ter-hen they would kindle theun&uofityorfatnefle in the fweet warer, and then the Light would in- ftantly generate it felf in the wate/, and would en* lighten the aftringent and the bitter quality.
103. Whereupon they would get their true Life, and would be fatisfied by the Light, and.rejoyce highly therein,and from that living JoyJLovc would anfe up, and then the Tone would rife in the fire- fl a (li, through the riß/ig up of the Bitter quality in . the aftringent. And if that were do.ne,there it would be a Heavenly Fruit, juft as it fpringeth up in Hea- ven.
104. But thou art to know, that the Eartk hath all Chap.XXI. Of the Third D.iy. 503 allelic qualifying or fountain- fpirits: for through the Devils kindling, the fpirits of Life were incor- porated or compacted together alfo in Death, and as it were captivated, but not quite murthercd.
105. Ihe firft three, viz. the Attringent, Sweety and bitter, belong to the Imaging or framing of the Body, and therein ftandeth the mobility and the Bo- dy or Corporeity: and theie now have the com pre - hentibility or palpability, and are the Birth of tue cutermoft Nature.
106. The other three, viz. the Heat, Love, and Tone ftandintheincomprehenfibility, and are ge- nerated out of the firft Three,4 and this now, is the inward Birth, wherewith trfc *eity qualifieth mix- eth or unitetlu 107. And now, if the fiftt three were not congea- led or benumm'd in Death, fo that they could kindle theHeat,then thou wouldft foon fee a bright fhining heavenly Body, and thou wouldft fee plainly, when God is.
108. But being the firft Three qualities of the Earth are congealed or benummed in death, there- fore they remain alfo a Death, and cannot elevate their life into the Light, but remain a dark valley, in which, there ftandeth Gods Wrath, Death, and H«ll3 as alfo the Eternal Prifon, and Source or Tor- ment of the Devils.
109. Not that thek three qualities of the outer- molt Birth, in which the wrath-fire ftandeth, are vej,etted and reprobated even to the innermoft; no, but oncly the outward palpable Body, and therein tihe outward hellifh fourcc quality or Torment.
1 10. Here thou feeft once more, how the King- dom of God and the Kingdom of Hell hang one to another*,.
504 Of the Third Dty Chap.XXI.
another, aso»^Bodyy and yet the one cannot com- prehend the other. For the fecond Birth, viz. the H^at, Light, Love and tfte Sound or Toners hidden in thcoutermoft, and makech the outward moveable To that the outward gathereth ic fc\£ together, and generated"! a Body.