• 54. Thcßrft. I. difference is, which God hath älwaies held.ahd.maimaincdi that all &*/<?, who i*^^ what God is,and how they fhould ferve him, that they ihould be alle by their knowledge to prejje though the wrath into Gods Love, and oxer come the Devil: but if tbey do it not, then they are no better > then tjiofe, that; "knpvv it not..
5 5v But if he, that knoweth not the way> preßtth through the wrath into the Love, then is he like him, who prefs'd thorough by his knowledge; but thofe that pcrfevcre in the wrath, and wholly kindle ic in i^enafclvcs, they are all Mike one and othcr> be they Chriftians, Tews, Turks or Heathens, Or nbat doft thou fuppofe it is, wherewith ';' Man can ferve God?
9iu i& ^jlnf 5 6. It thou wilt EijTemtle with Him, and adora ormagnific thy Birch, then I fuppofe thee tobe a very fine Angel indeed: But He that hath Love in Jhis^carc, and lcadcth a mercifull meek and lowly- minded life, zndßgbtetb againft malice and hatred, and preßeih through the wrath of God into' the Light,. heliveth with God3 and is Ont Spirit with God.
57. For God needeth no other Service, but that his creature, which is in His Body, do not Aide back..
from Him, fat bttlol^ MJ$ß Üi u:; -, 5 8. There- )ffr syYbe Gesture of the Starres, Cnap.XXIL 5 8. Therefore alfo God gave the Law to the Jew?, that they fhould diligently ftudy and endeavour af- ter meek Holincfle. and Love, that thereby all the world migtit have them for their Looking- G 'laß e: But whea tr ey grew proud, and boattcd in their Birth;, injteadoi entring into Love, and curn'd the Jaw of Love into the fharpneffe of wrath, then God reth$- led their Candleftick and went to the Heathens.
59. Secondly II. There is this Difference betwixt the Chriftians, Jews, Turks and Heathens,.that the Cbrijliaxsknow theTree of Life,which isCHRISTUS, CHRIST, who is the Prince of our Heaven and of this world, and ruleth in all Births or Geniturcs as a King'm God his. Father, and Men arc his Members.
6ot And now Chriftians know, how they may, by the power of this Tree, preffe out frotn their Death through hü Death to him into his life, and raign and live with him, wherein they alio with their prefsittg through with thdr new birth 0 out from this "Dead Body, may be and arc with him in Heaven.
61. And though the dead Body is in the midjl cr Center of Hell among all the Devils, yet for all that, the new CkUn reigncth with God in Heaven, and the Tree cf life is to them a ftrong Gate, through which they do enter into Life: But of this thou (halt find more largely in its proper Place.
NowOiferVe: 62. tJlfofes wnteth, th,atGodfaid; Let there he Lights, lit fhfr&r#wvetf t>ßkkA%eh, vehitb ßoritö there- in give a Light to the E#rth, And divide er dißixguifl) Vay Day and NJgbh -dfo wake Tears fi^Timefj^Se^ 6%j This dcllription fheweth, that the £rft wri- ter did hot know, what the Stars are: But He took hold on theDcitie at the Heart, and look'd upo^or had refpeÄ to theHeart, to cönlider what the Heart and kernel of this Creation is, and the Spirit kept the Aftral and outennoft Dead Birth or Gcniturc hidden from him, and did onely drive him in Faith to the Heart of the Deitie.
£4, Which is alio the Principal Point, mod ne- ccflary for Man \ For when he layeth hold on true Faith, then he prclTcth through the Wrath of God, through Death into life, and reigneth with God.
*5- "But being Men now at the End of this time 5 do liflen and long very much after the ^pot of the Treejbrough which ZNjxture ßeweth0 that the time of the dis- covery of the "Tree is at hand: therefore the Spirit Will floeW it to them: and the whole 'Deitie will repeal it felf; which is the <!) ay- fpring dawning, or Morn- ing-Redneffe3 and the breaking forth of the great "Day of God0 in which, IPhatfoever ü generated from Death, to the Regeneration o}Life0ßall be^eßored and^ife again* 66, Behold, when God faid, Let there be light, then the light in the goners of Nature, or the feven fpirits ofGodrofc up, and the Firmament af Hea- ven, which ftandeth in the mrd, in the Heart of the water, between the aftrall and outcrmoft Birth or Geniturc was clofed or fhut up by or with the Word and Heart of the water, and the Aftral birth is the Place of the parting-mark or Limit which ftandeth half in Heaven5and half in the Wrath.
67. For from or out of that half Part of the wrath, the Dead Birth generateth it (elf continually, and out of the other half Part,' which reacheth with its innermoft Degree even i»to the innermoft Heart and light of God, generateth it ielf now continually through Death,and yet the Aftrall Birch or Geniturc is not tj»oy but One Body.
£8. But when in thefc two Days the Creation of Heavenandof Earth was complcated, and that the Heaven was made in the heart of the water, fcr a difference or djJttnBion between the Light of God, and the Wrath of God, then on the Third Day, through the terrour or crack of the h>e-Flafli, which rofeup in the heart of the vvater,and prefled through Death, inconiprehenfibly as to Death, there fprung up all manner of Ideas Formsand Figures, as was done before the time of the kindled wrath, 6$. But being the water, which is the Sprit of the A(tralLife,ftoodin themidft orCeßter of wrath, and VtcTalfö in Death, thereupon alfo every Body-tfohfy fd k felt; as the Birth or Genitüre to Life and mobil- ity was.
Of the Earth. () 70. But now, the Earth was the Salitter^ which was caft up out ot the innermoft. Birth> and ftood in Death; but when the fire-rlafh3throughthe Wqrjfy rofe up in the water, then it was a terrour ot crack, from which exilted the mobility indeacb, and that Mobility in all the feven fpirits, is now the Aßrall ßirth or Geniture.
j The Depth.
Underhand this Aright, 7 1. Now when on the the Third Day the fire^flaüi in the water of death had kindled it felf, then the Life prefled torth quite through the dead body of the water and of the Earth.
72. But yet the Dead water and Eat th, com pre-» hcnd/7o more then the flalh or terrour or crack of the Firey where-through their mobility cxiftcth: Bu$ the Light which rifeth up very foftly Gently or meekly in the fire-fialri, that, neither the Earth, nor the dead water, can comprehend.
73. Butitretaineth its.fort in the kernel, which is the un&uofity or fatneße, or the water of. life or the Heaven 5 for it is the Body of Life, which the Death cannot comprehend,and yet it rifeth up in the Death.
74. Neither can the wrath take hold of it or ap- prehend it, but the Wrath remaineth in the terrour Y y y or 53© The Gesture of tie Stwes, Chap.XXII.
orcrackoftheFire-Flafh, and tn aketh the Motility in the dead body of the earth and the water.
75. But the Light prcfleth in very gently after, and formeth the>Birth3 which through the terrouror crack of thcfire-rkfh-h:Kh gotten its compacted Bo- dy.
Of the (jrowths or Vegetables of the Earth.
76. When now the v/rathfull fire-flafh awakened and rouzed up the fpirics of Nature, which ftand in Death in the Earth, by its fierce terrouror crack j then the fpir its began, according to their peculiar Divide Eight to generate themfelves, as they had done from eternity, an \ form figure or frame a Body together according to die innate inftant qualities of that Place.
77.. Now that kind of Saliner which in the time of the kindling of the wrath, dyed in Death, and as it did qualifie or operate at that time, in the innate * e/-3 In- * inftant Life of the ieven fpirits ot God, fo alfo it (tending, did rife again in theTimeof the Regeneration in the Fire-Flafli, and is not become any Nm thing, but onely another form of the Body, which ftandeth in thecomprehenfibility or palpability in Death.
78. But now the Saliner of the Earth and of the water is no more able to change or alter it felf in its dead Being, and (hew forth it felf infinitely, as ic did in the heavenly place or Seat ^ but when the qualifying or fountain fpirits form the Body, then it nfeth up in the power and vertue of the Light. j 9. And the Life of the Light breaketh through the Chap.XXII. andCreaü on of the Fourth 7)a 53; the Death, and generateth to it another Body out of Death, which is not conformable to, or of the condi- tion of the water, and the dead Earth; alfo doth not get their tafte and lmell, but the power of the Light prciTeth thorough, and tempereth or mixeth it iclf with the power of the Earth,and taketh from Death, its Stingy and from the wrath its poifonous veno- mous power; and predeth forth up together in the midlt or center of the Body in the growth or vege- tation, as a Heart thereof.
80. (*j£nd herein picketh now the kernel of the 'Deitie in the Qenter in its Heaven, which pan- deth hidden in the Water of Life • if thou can ß now, apprehend or lay hold on it.
Of the Metalls in the Earth.
81. The Metals have the fame fubftance, condi- tion and Birth or Geniture, as the vegetables upon the Earth have. For the Metalls or Mineral Oares at the time of the kindling of the wrath in the in- nate inilant Wheel of the feventh nature-Spirit, flood ill the Fabrick work or operation of the Love, wherein the meek beneficence or well-doin^ eenc- rateth it felf behind the Fire-Flafh; wherein the Holy Heaven itandeth, which in this Birch or Geni- ture, when the Love is predominant, prefents or Y y y 2 (hewcth fhcweth forth it fclf in fuch a gracious amiable and blcfied Clarity or Bnghtneile, and in fuch beau- teous colours, like Gold, Silver, and Pretious Scones'." wu» idnfiabnj; 82. But Silver and Gold in the dead Palpability or Tangibility arebui as a Dark (tone in compan- ion of the Root of the uavenly Generating: but I let it down here only, that thou mayft know, from whence it hath its Original. bsri^tcti 83. But being it ha:h been, the excellent eft rifing up and generating, ta the holy heavenly Nature, therefore alfo it is lo\ ed by man above all other in this world. For NatLre hath indeed written in Mans Heart, that it «better, the not her Stones and Earthy but Nature could net 1 evcal or manifeft to him, the ground thereof from whence it is come or preafe4? ed3wberety now thou mayft Obferve the Day-fprir.g or Morning-Rednefie.
84. There are many feveral forts of mineral! Oars, according as the Salitter in Natures Heaven was predominant at its rifing- up, in the Light of Lovv; For every qualifying or radical fpirk in the-hcavenly Nature containeth the property or kind of.aU the qualifying or fountain fpirits, for it is ever infected or affected with the other, from whence the Life and the unfearchablc Birth or Geniture of the. Deitie, exifteth: But yet is predominant as to one Power, and that is its own Body, from whence it hath the, Name*.
85. But now every qualifying or fountain, fpjrit hath the property of the whole or Totall Nature, and its Fabrick or work at thetime.of the kindling of the wrath was together alfo incorporated in l^eath, and out of every Spirits fabric* or worjc, Eajth, Cha p. XXUi And Creation of the Fourth Bay. 5 33 Earth, Stones, mineral Oars, and water came to be.
86. Tncrcfore alio in the Earth there are fou nd according to the quality of Each Spirit, mincrall Oars, Stones, water, and Earth $ and therefore it is that the Earth is of lo many various qualities, all as Each qualifying or fountain Spirit with its innate Inltant Birth or Geniture, was, at the time of the kindling.
87. Naturehathlikewile Manifested or repealed io much to man, that he knoweth, how he may melt away the itrange or Heterogene matter from every qualifying or fountain Spirits ftrange infected innate Birth or Geniture: whereby that qualifying or foun- tain fpirit might remain chief in its own Primacy.
88. You have an Example of this in Gold and in Silver, which you cannot make to be pure or fine Gold or Silver, unlcffe/r be melted [even times in the fire, Pfal.12.7. But when that is done, then it rc- maineth in the middle or Central Seat in the Heart ©f Nature, which is the water, fitting in its own quality and Colour.
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8?. Firft, the afiringent quality, which holdet'i the Saliner captive in the hard Dcath,muft be melt- ed away, which is the grofle ftony Droße.
IL 90...Then Secondly, the aftringent Death of the water is to befeparated,from which proceeds a poi- fonous venomous water of feparation or Aquafortis, which ftandeth in the rifingupof thej^-^/^which is the evilMalignant,e ven the very worft fource of all in Death>eyen the Aftringent and EittQi Death it feJf; for; 5 34 *rt*e Genhure of the Stars, Chap.XXII.
for this is the Place, where the Lite, which exifteth * or dyed in the fweet water, * dyed in Death; And that fe- the Death parateth it (elf 'now in the fecond Melting.
III. ?i. Thirdly, the sitter Quality, which exifteth in the kindling of the water firc-flafh is melted away,for that is a Rager Raver Tyrant and deltroy- er; alfo no Silver nor Gold can fubiilt, if that be not killed or mortified, for it rnaketh all dry and Brittle, and prefenteth or fheweth forth it felt in fevcrall Colours 5 for it rideth through all fpirits, nßwvii.g the Colours of all. fpirits.
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92. Fourthly, thcjfo fpirit alfo, which (Tandeth in the horrible anguifri, and pangs of life, muft be alfo melted away, for it is a continued Father of the wrath, and out ot or from that is generated the HeU U\h woe.
93. Now when the wrath of thefe four fpirits is hilCd, then the mincrall Oary Saliner (landeth in the water like a tough Matter, and looketh like that fpirit, which is predominant in the mincrall Ore: f or Tin- and the light, which ftandeth in the lire, f colonreth Bureth. it according to its own Qualities be it Silver or Gold.
24» And now this matter in the fourth melting *Subfiftent looks like Silver or Gold, but it is not yet *fixt, nor is it tough or malleable and pure enough, its body indeed is Subfiftent, but j vjt the Spirit.
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9 5. Now when it is melted a Fifth Time, then / the C ha p.XXIL and oration of the Fwru Day. 535 the Loi'f-fpirk rifeth up in the water through the Lights and maketh the dead Body living again, fo that the matter, which remained in the firft four Meltings, gettcth power or firength again, which was the proper own of that qualifying or fountain- fpirit, which was predominant in this Mineral Oar.
VI. 9 6, Now when it is melted the {ixt Time, then it growcth fomewhat harder, and then the Life mo- yerhj which is riien up in the Love, and ftirreth it lelf: and from this lUrring exifteththeTo^ in the HardnefTe, and the mineral Oar gets a clear found, for the Hard and dead beating or noifeof the bitter fiery matter is gone away.
97. In this fixth Melting 1 hold.to be the greatefi Danger for f Chymifts about the * preparing of their \den Alckj* Silver and Gold. For there belongeth and is requi- mifte». red a very fubtile fire for it, and it may foon be burnt * oimaking, and made dead or Deaf; and it becometh very dim ©r blind, if the fire be too cold.
98. For it mud be a middle or mild fire, to keep the fpirit in the Heart from rifing, it mult be gently S'wipring, then it getteth a very fweet and meek ring- ing found, and continually rejoyceth,^ if itihouki now Le kindled again irjv the Light of God.
99. But if the fire be too Hot in the Fifth and Six.th Melting, then the new life, which hath gene- rated it fclf in the Love in the rifing up of the Lights power out of the water,is kindled again in the fierce- nefle in the wrath-Fire, and the Mineral Oar be- comes a burnt fcum and Droße3 and the Chymift hath din inftead of Gold» VIL.
53$. TbeGeniture of the Starres, Chup.XXII.
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100. Now when it is melted the Seventh tim< then there belongeth and is required yet a more it tile fire,for therein the life rifeth up, and rejoycetb in the Love, and will {hew forth it felf in infinity, as it had done in Heaven before the Time of the wrath«, ioi. And in this motion it groweth itnBuowQT fat and lufcious or luxuriant, it increafech and fpreadcth it fclf, and thehighcft depth gehcratetli it feif very joyfully out of or frcm the BearVoi the Spirit, jutt as if ic would begin an Angelical Triumph, and prcient or (hew forth it felf infinitely in ttixit.e power and form according to the Right of the Dei- tie: and thereby the Body getteth its greatcft ftrcngth and power, and the Body coloureth or tinctureth it felf with the highefi degree, and getteih its true beau- ty excellency and vertue.
io2. And now when it is alrnoß madcjthen it hath its true vertue and colour, and there is onely one thing wanting, that the fpirit cannot elevate it felf with its Body into the Light, but muft remain to be a dead ftone; and though indeed it be of greater vertue, then other Stones, yet the Body remaineth in Death.
103. And this noffr ü the earthly Cföd Of ^Blind men; which they Love and Honour, and leave the living God, who ftandeth hidden in the Center, fitting in his Seat. For the deadFlelli comprehendeth onely a Dead God, and longeth alfo onely after fuch a dead God.
<But "But it isfuch a GOD; as hath Thrown many men headlong into Heß*.; 104. Do not take me for a Chy milt, fori write, onely in the knowledge of the fpirir, and not from Experience. Though indeed I could here {hew fome- tbing clfe> zd£. in bow many Dayes>and in what Hours thefe things rauft be prepared: for Gold cannot be jnade in one Day, but a whole Moneth is requifite for it.
105. But it is not my purpofc., to make anytty- •ällof it, becaufelknow not how to manage the Fire, neither do I know the colours or tinctures of the qualifying or fountain-fpirits in their outcrmofl Birch cr Geniture, which are Tno Great Defec~ts,but I know them according to (another) or the Regene- rate Man, which ftandcth not in the palpability» 106. At the Description of the SUN you will find more and deeper things concerning it: my intenti- on isronely^todcfcribe the whole or Total Deitie^ as far as I am capable, in my weakneffc to apprehend, liz. How, that is in Love and Wrath, and how ic doth generate it felf now at prefent in this world.
foufhali find more concerning fetoeh and pretiom flones at the defcriptionofthefeven T Janets.
Zzz The 53& Of the' Deep above the Earth, GhäjpäCXHI.
The Three and Twentieth ■ Of the Veep above the Earth "Hen Man beholdeth the Beep above the Earth,. he feeth no- thing, but Stars and Clouds of wa? ter, and then he thinketh, Sure there muft be another place, where the Deitie pre* fenteth or iheweth forth it felf, together with the heaue/Jy und Angelical government:; He will needs have the Deep together with its regiment or Domi- nion/Hw^/ from the Deitie: for there he ieeth no*- thing, but StarS) and the regiment or Dominion be-. iweev^ is Eire, Air and Water.
2. Then prefently he thinketh, God hath made this thus out of or homhis-predeßinate furpofe, out of ■Nothing y How then can God be in this Being > or, Can that be GodHimfelf? He continually Imaginv eth, that this is onely a Houfe^ wherein God r'uleth and dwelleth by his Spirit: Gpd cannot be fuch a God, whofe being confifteth in the power of this government, or Dominion.
3. Many will dare to fay, what m&mer of^Gad would that Be, whofe Body, Being, and Power or vertue ftandethcr confifteth in Fire, Air, Water and. Earth > 4. Behold! thou «/?apprchenfive Man, I will fnew.
Chap.XXIIL Of the Deefafove-the Earth f$?
.{hew thee the true groswd of the Dcitie: If this whole or univerfal feeing, be not God, then thou art not Godslmage; If he be any other,or drangt God, then thou haft no Part in him: For thou art created out of this God, and lived//? this very God, and this very God continually givcth thee power, or ver- tue and BlelTing, alfo meat and drink out of Himfelf alfo all thy knowledge ftandeth in this God, and when thou dyeft, then thou art Buried in this God.
5. Now, if there be any other or dränge God without and bcfides this God, who then (hall make thee living again out of this God, in whom thou (hale be departed and turned to dufi? How {hall that dränge God, out of whom thou art not created, and in whom thou didftneier Live, bring thy Body and ipirit together again} 6. Now if thou art *of any other Matter, than w or, of any God himfelf, how canft thou then be his Child? or ether Ma- how can the CWan and Ktng Chrid be Gods Bodily or terialls, corporeal Sonne, whoaijiehath generated or begot- ten out of his Heart >' 7. Now, if his Deicie be another Boeing (ubdance or thing, than his Body; then there rouii be a two- fold Deitie in him, his Body would be of or from the God of this world, and his Heart would beef or from the unknown God.
%. 00 thou Child of Man \ open the Eyes of thy Spirit 0 for I mil ßew thee herejhe right and reall proper (jate of the *DeitieJ as in- ■Z^\z deed deed that very One onely §<% Will häVd it. iwwoW 3£i f:%ho\A! that is the fettle One/only God, out of whom thou art created, and in whom thou Liiieß: and when thou beholdeft the Deep and the Srars, and theEarth, then- thou beholdeft thy God,, and m that fame thou Liveft,andalfo-art or hafl thy J5dW£ there- in, and that fame God govcrncth or rulcth thee al* fo, and out of or from that kme God alfo thou haft thy Senfes, and thou art a Creature out of or from Him and in him j elfe thou hadft been Nothing-, or wouidft never have been.
io. Now perhaps thcu wilt fay y I write Hea- thenifnly.
Hearken and behold! Opfer ve the diftindt an- derftanding, How allrhis isTo: fori write not Hea- then i (Til y or Babarou fly, but Philofophically $ riei* theram I a Heathen, but I have the Deep and true knowledge of the One onely sreat God,- who i* ALL.
,ii. When thou beholdeft the Deepy the Stars, the Elements and the Earth, then thou comprehended not, with thy Eyes, the bright and clear Deitie^ though indeed it is there and in them y but thou feeft and comprehendeft with thy Eyes, Fir ft, Death,and then, the Wrath of God,, and theHellifh fire.
12. But if thou raileft thy Thoughts, and confide- re.ft where God is,, then thou apprehencTeft the Aftral Birth or Geniture, where Love and. Wrath, move one againft another y but when thou draweft up the Füiih in God,, who rulcth in holn.effew. this Govern^ mentor Dominion,, then thou breakeft thorough : Heaven, €%tfr..pUl. Of. d* Deep dole the EMb. 54, 13. Now when this is done, then thou art as the vyho^pr touli God isrwho bimfilf is Hea vcn,Earth, Scars,and the Elements, and haft alfö fuch a regi- ment or Dominion in thee, and art alfo Inch a Per- lon, as the whole Cod, in the place of this world, iC ■ How fhall lunderßand this t for the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Hell and of the Devill arc 0 ßinti one from another, and cannot be one Body?
Alfo the Earth and Stones arc not God? nor the Heavcn,Stars and Elements: much lefjecma Man be God; for if fo, he could not be rejeBed by God.
Here I will tell thee the ground of all by degrees, one thing after another: therefore keep the Queft ion in Mind.
Of the Ajlral "Birth or <jeniturex andoftheBirth or Geniture of tyod.
r4. B^/cr<? the Times of the created Heavens, the , Stars and the Elements, and before the creation of ^Angels there wis no fuch wrath of God, no Death, no Devil, no Earth nor Stones, neither were there any Stars, but the Deitie generated it felf very meek- ly and lovingly, and formed framed and figured it felf in Ideas (hapes and Images, which were incor- porated-.
5<P* Of the Deep nfovttB Earth. Chap.XXIU »potited according to tl>e qualifying -or fountain (pi- nts in their generating, wrefliingmd riling up, and >paj]ed away again alio through- trieir WTcftling 5 and figured or framed themfelves into another form or condition, all according to the primacy ot predom- nancy of each qualifying or -fountain fpirir, as you may read before. in 15. But obfene here rightly., the earned and [even Birth or Geniture, out of which the wrath of God, Hell and Death are come to be; which indeed have been from Eternity u\ t not kindkd God, but t not accenfible nor elering. Vdple* \6. For the whole or Totall God ftandethin [even Species or Kinds'; or in a icvenfold Form or Generating; and if thefe Births or Genitures were not, then there would be neither God nor Life, nor Angel, nor any Creature.
17. And thefe Births or Genitures have no Begin- ing, but have ib generated themfelves from Eter- nity; and as to this Depth, God Him f elf knoweth not What Heü: For He knoweth no "Beginning of him f elf ^ alfo heknoWeth not anything that is like Him f elf > w alfo he knolVeth no End of him f elf.
1 8. Thefe [even Ge nera t ifigs in all a re none of them the firit,the fecond, or the Third, or Lad, but they arc CJhap.XXHL Of the Deep doie the Earth, 543 arc all Seven every one of them, both thefirß fecond third, fourth and laft: yet Imuft fee them down pne after another according to a creature!) way and mannen, otherwife thou eeuklit not underftand it: For the Dei:y is as a Wheel with feven wheels made one in another, wherein a man feeth neither Begin- ning nor End.
^t,Äg,n Wi Nojp Olfirve: 19. V irft, there is the Aflringent quality, which isdiivaies generated from the other fix Spirits,which in itfelfis hard, cold, fharp like Sale, and yet farre {harper. For a. Creature cannot fulficientiy appre- hend its fharpneffe, feeing it is not jingly and alone in a creature; but according to the manner and kind of the kindled. Hellilh quality, 1 know Hove it is: This ail ringe nt fharp qualify a.ttractcth or drawcrh Together, and in the Divine Love holdeth or tetain- eth the forms and Images, and «ryeth them fo> that they fubflft or are f%edm % % 20. The Second Generating is the Stveet wßtey, which is generated al£o outof all the fix fpirits: for it is the MeekneCTe, which is generated outof the other nW and prefleth it felt forth in the altringent Birth o?Geniture,andtf/jp*/Vs-kindleth theadringpt again, and then quenchcth and Wf/frftatHtv that it be not too much altringent3as it might bq in its own fharpnefTe, if it wer^e notioi the water.
1H III. 2 r. The third Generating is the Bitter Keß >, which exifteth out of the fire in the water: for it rubbcth and vexeth it felf in the aftringent and fharp cold- nefle, and makcth the coldneile moveable-, from whence motility exifteth.
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2 2. The Fourth Generating is the fire, which ex- ifteth from the mobility or rubbing in the aftringent (pirit, and that is now fharp burning, and thebhtcr is ftingingand raging. Buc when the fire-fpiritrub- bethit felf thus ragingly in the aftringent coldnefle, then there is an anxious horrible quaking Trembling and &arp oppoftte contentious generating.
Obferve here the Depth.
25. If peak here as to the kind and manner of the DeviU as if the Light of Cj -od had not yet kindled it felf in thefe four kjßds: and as if the ^Deitie had a beginnings I can no other or nearer -way offer it to your Judgment that you may under fand it.
24. In this Fourth rubbing is a very hard and irioft horrible fharp andjw^coldneflio like a refi- ned melted and very cold fah*watcr>which yet is nop Ghap.XXIII. Of the Deep alove the Earth, 545 not water, but fuch a hard kind of power and venue as is like Scones.
25. There isalfo therein a raging raving flinging and burning, and that water is continually as a Dy- ing Man, when Body and Soul arc parting afundcr, a mod horrible anxiety a wotul painful Birth or Ge- niture.
26. Oman1 here confider thy felf here thou fee ft, from whence the T>evil0 and his fierce Wrath- ful Malice hath its original 0 <& alfo Qods Wraths and the Hellifh fire 0 alfo Death and Hell0 and eternal 'Damnation.
Ye Thilofophers ohferve that \ 2 7. Now when theje four Generating^ rub therri- lclvesone upon another, then heat gets the Primacy and predominancy, and kindieth i: felf in the Tweet water, and then initantly the Light rifcth up.
Underhand thü rightly: 28. When the Light kindieth it feif,then the fire- tcrrouror crack coraeth forth j*rjj,as when you ftcike upon a Stone, the fire-crack is firft, and then the light firft concciveth it felf from the fire-crack.
"29. Now the fire- crack in the water goeth through the aftringent quality, and maketh it moveable, but the light gencrateth it felf in the rratery and becomes A a a a. fbim*A 5 4^ Of the Veep dove the Earth, Chap. XXIII.
fining Light, and is an impalpable meek and moft richly loving Beim, which neither I nor any other Creature can fufficiendy write or fpeak of, but I jtjmmtr only like a Child,which would fain learn to Speak.
30. That fame Light is generated in the midft or Cuter out of theie four Species out of the un&uofity or fatnetfeof thciWcet water, and replenifheth the whole Body of this Generating. But it is fuch a meek, pleafmg, well-doing, wcll-fmelling and vvell- tafting Relifh, that I know nofimiliude to liken it to* But where Life is generated in the midft or Center of Death 5 or as if a Man did (it in a huge fcorching hot flaming fire, and were fuddenly fnatched out from thence, and let in fuch a very exceeding calie place of rcfrefhment, where inftantly ail the imart- ingfcalding pains which he felt afore by the burning- of the Fire lTiould fuddenly pafleaway, and he be put into fuch a pleaiing temper and foundaeffe \ juft 10 the Generating of the 4. Kinds or Species are'fet or put into fuch si f oft and meek well-doing, and re- freshment, afoon as the Light rifeth up in the-m.
Thou muß under ß And me here arigjbt.
31. Iwriteandmeanitin a creaturely kind and manner, as if a Man had been the Devils Prifoncr, and were fuddenly removed out of the Devils^ into t\ic Light of God.
32. For the Light hath had no beginning in the generating of God, but hath lhined or given Light Jo from eternity in the Generating, and God hirrfelf fciowcth no beginning therein. 3 3.0/,/y Chap.XXIII. Of the Deef dote tie Earth. 5 47 33. Only the Spirit here fett et h Open for thee the (j at es of Hell, that thou may ft fec,what is cue condition of the De- vils and of Hell, and what the condition of Man is, when the divine Light extinguish in him, fo that hefutcthin the wrath of God, and then he liveth in ftich a Generating in fuch an anguifh, Smarting Pains, woe and mifcry.
34. Neither can I declare it unto thee in any other manner; for I muß: write To, OS if the Gene- rating or Geniture of God had or took^a beginning * when things came to be thus; but I write here very, really true, and ^Pretiow dear Words, which the Spirit alone underßandeth.
Now Observe \ The Cfatesof Qod.
35. The Lights which generateth it felf from the Fire, and becometh fhining in the water, and reple- nifheth or filleth the whole Geniture, and enlight-