neth it, and mitigateth it; that, IS the true Heart of God, or Sonne of God.
for lie is continually generated out of the Father, and is another ^Perfon then the qualities and Geni- ture of the Father. Aaaa 2 3^.For 548 of the Deep above the Earth. Chap.XXHt ^6. For the Generating or.Genicure of the Fachet tannin catch or comprehend the Light, and rife it to its Generating, but the Li^ht ftandetb by itfcjf, and is not comprehended by any Geniture, and i.t reple- '-.ifneth and enlightneth the whole Geniture, viz.
the onely begotten Sonne of tlye Father0]ohn 1.1^. Andt hü Light 1 call in the humane 'Birth or (je- mtnre 0 the animated or Souliß "Birth, /, [ cc Uncle rfi and \ the rmage^ whiih Budded forth out <c of the Eß ernes of the Soul, according to the (C fimilitudeof God: ] or theBirth or Geniture,, which qualifieth mixeth oruniccth with this animated or foulifh Birth or Geniture of God 5 and herein is Mans foul One heart wifh God, but that is when it ftandeth in this Light.
v • 37. The -fifth Generating in God, is, when this Light thus very gently mildly and amiably prefleth through the firft four Births or Generatings, and then it bringeth along with it the Heart and mod pleafant lovely power and vertue of the fweet water, and fo when the (harp Births or Gcnitures tafte of it,thcn are they very meek andrichlyfuä of Love,and is as if continually the life did rife up in and from Death.
3S. There each fpirit tafteth of the other, and getteth Cha p.XXIH. Of tl e Deep alow the Earth, 5 47 gettcthmecrtffjp ftrcngth and power, for the aßrin- gent quality groweth now very pliable and yield- ing, becauie it is mitigated by the power of the Light that fpringeth out of the fweet water, for it warmeth the coldnefle, and the fweet water maketh the fharp tafte very plea fan t lovely and mild.
39. And lb in tne fharpand fiery Births or Gene- ratings there is nothing but a mec-r longing of Love, ataftmg) friendly afreet jug, gratious amiable and bleffed Generating,- there h nothing but mccr Love, and all wr«th and BitternefTe" in the Center is Bolted up as in a ftrong Hold. This generating is a very meek beneficial! well-doing, and the bitter fpirit now is the Living Mobility.
VI.
40. Now the Sixth Generating in God, is, when the Spirits in their Birth or Geniture thus taße, one of another, for then they become very full of Jo) h For the fire-fläfh or the fharpnefTe out of or from the Birth or Geniture rifcth up aloft, and moveth as the Ayr in this world doth.
4.1. For when one power or vertue toucheth the other, then they tafte one another, and become very full of Joy; for the Light becometh generated out of all tne powers^ and preffeth again through all the powers 5 wh'ereby and wherein the Tl ftHZ. *]Poy gencrateth it felf, from whence the Tone or * Tune * melody or cxifteth. Mufick.
42. For from thetouchins and moving' the living Spirit generateth it felf, and that fame S'pmt pref- feth through all Births or Generatings, very uncon- ceivedly and incomprehensibly to the Birth or Geni- ture, and is a very richly Joy full pleafan* lovely fharp- 5 5° Of the Deep dove the Earth. Chap.XXlII, iharpneflc, like melodious fwcct Mufick.
43. And now when the Birth gcneratcth, then it conceiveth or apprehendeih the Light, and fpcakcth or infpireth it again into the Birth or Geniture through the moving Spirit.
<&And this moving Spirit is the Yhird*Perfon in the "Birth or (/e- niture of God0 and is calld God the Holy Ghoß.
VII.
44. The ftventh Generating is, and keepeth its Birth or Geniture, and Forming in the Holy Ghoft, and fo when that goeth through the (harp Births cr Genitures, then it goeth forth with the Tone,and fo forrsethand Imageth all manner of Figures, all according to the wreftling of the {Karp Births or Genitures one with another.
45. For they wrcftle in the Birth or Geniture continually one with another like a loving Play or Scene,and according as the Birth or Geniture is with the colours and tafte in the rifing up3fo are the figures alfo Imaged.
4*. <*And this Birth or Geni- ture now is called, GOD the Father Sonne and Holy Ghoß ' and neither of them is the Firft, and neither of them is the Laif: though I make a diftinction, and fet the one after the other, yet neither of them is the firft or the laft, but they have all been from Eternity thus ieatcd m the lame Equality of Boeing, 47. 1 Cfeap.XXIIL Of the Dep dove the Earth. 551 47. I muft write by this way of rf/Jfo* ff/o/?3that the Reader may undcrftand it: forlcannoc write raeer heavenly words, but muit. write humane words. Indeed all is rightly truly and faithfully defcribed $ But the Beeing of God con ß ft- eth only in *PoWer0 and the Spirit only comprehendeth itD and not the dead or mortal Flefh.
48. <*And thus thou may ft un- der fiand0 what manner of Being the Deitie #5 and how the three Verfons of the 'Deitie are: thou muß not liken the *Deitie to any Image;for the Deity is the Birth or (jeniture of all things. And if there were not in the Firft four Species or kinds the iharpBirrh or Generating, then, there would be no mobility, neither could the Light kindle it felf, and gene-rare the Life.
49. But now this (harp Birth or Gen iti: re is the original o£ mobility and of Life, as alfo of the Light, from whcEccexifleththe JLlVWZ and ^4" tlOnai Jpint^ which diitinguifheth fcrmcth. and Imageth all in this Generating.
50. For the aftringent cold Birth or Geniture is the beginning of all things, which, is aftringent, fe-. vere, contracting and retentive, and formeth and con- 55* Of the D^ep above the Earth. Chap.XXIIL contra&cth the Birth togethcr,and maketh the Birth thick oriolid, fo that out of it ^sfdttiTe Corn- wall to Bee \ and hence Nature and cbmprehenfibi- litV) hath its original in the whole Body oi God.
li. Now tblS ü\(dtUre isasa</<Wun- intcllectual Being, and ftandeth or confifteth not in the power of the Birch or Geniture, tut is a Body, wherein the power generateth.
$2. But it is the Body of God,and hath all power as the whole Geniture hath, and the generating fpi- rits take their ftrength and power out of or from the Body of Nature, and continually generate again,and the aftringent fpirit continually compac/teth or draweth it together, and dr yeth it; and thus the Body fubfideth, and the generating fpiritsalfo.
53. Njw the other Birth or Geniture is the Wdt€?0 which takcth its original in the Body of Mature.
Olferve; 54. Now when the Light iriineth through the aftringent contracted Body, and mitigateth it, then the mild beneficicntn^//-*/0*#g generateth it feif in the Body, and then the hard power groweth very mild, and melteth as Ice in the Heatot the Sun^ and is extenuated or rariüed as water is in the Ayr j and yet the flock of Nature as to the heavenly cornpre- henfibility remaineth (landing.
5 5. For the aftringent and fTre-fpirit holdeth it faft, and the meek water, which melteth from the Body of Nature in the kindling of the Light, tnac goeth through the [eve re and earned cold and fiery Birth Ghäp.XXIII. Of the Deep dove the Etrth.. 553 Birth or Geniture, and is very fwect pleafant and lovely. > 56. Whereby now the earned and äußere Blnh. ©rGenitureisrefrefhedj and when it taftcth there- of, it groweth capable to be raifed up, and rejoyceth, andalfo is a joyful riling up, Wherein the life of MeeknefTe genera teth it feif.
57. For this is the water of Life, wherein the Love,in God3as alfoin Angels and Men, generateth it felf: For it is all of one fort of Power Vertue and Birth or Geniture.
5 8. And now when the Births or Genitures of the powers tafle the water of Life, then they quake or Tremble for very Love and Joy, and that trem- bling or moving, which rifethup in themidft or center of the Birth or Geniture, is Sitter. For it ri- feth up fwiftlyout of the Birth, when the water of life cometh into the Birth or Geniture j like a Joy- ful leaping or fpringing up of the Birth.
59. But being it rifethup fo fwiftly, that the Birth clevateth it felf fo fuddenly before it be fully affected with the water of life, thereupon that ter- rour or crack keepeth its bitternefle which it hath out of or from the äußere Birth: for the beginning or incaptive Birth or Geniture is very auftere, cold, fiery and aftringent.
60. Therefore alfo is the terrour or Crack now fo (welling and trembling 5 for it moveth the whole Birth, and rubbeth it felf therein,till it kindleth the fire in the hard fierceneflc, from whence the Light taketh its original; And then the trembling crack becometh enlightned with the UMeeknefje of the Lights and goethin the Birth or Geniture up and B b b b down, 54 Of the Deep above the Earth. Cbap.XXIIL down^andcrofle-wayesboth upwards and down- wards iike a wheel made wich [even wheels one in another.
6i. In this prefling through and turning about exifteth the Tone, according to the Quality of each Jpirit, andalwaies one power affeð the other,for the powers are as loUag Brethren in one Body, and tiic aieckneffe rifeth up, and tbe Spirit genera teth and fheweth it felf infinitely.
62. For that power,, which in the turning alout fheweth it {elf the ftrongeft in the generating, ac- cording to that power, manner and colour the Holy Gbofi alio imagcth fhapeth or frameththe figures in the Body of Nature.
6$. Thu* thoufeeftj that none of the powers is the firft, alfo none the fecond,third,fourrhorLaft: but the laft generateth the Firft as well, as the firft the Laft, and the middlemoft takcth its original from the Laft as alfo from the Firft, as well as from the Second, Third, or any. of the reft.
6^, Thou feeft alfo, that Nature cannot be dU ftinguifh'd from the powers of God, but is all one Body, 65. TheDeitie* that is, the holy power of the Heart of God is generated in Natureyand fo alfo the Holy Ghoft exifteth or goeth forth out of the Heart of the Light continually^ through all the powers of the Father, and figureth ajl,and Imageth or frameth All..
66, This Birth or Geniture is now in Three diftincr Harts, everyone being fever a 1 and Totally and yet wither of them, is divided afunderfrom the other.
The Chap.XXII. and Creation of the fourth Da). 555 The Qate of the Holy Trinity.
*7- The whole 'Birth or (jenitUre which is the Heaven of all Heavens, as alfo this world, which is in the Body of the whole, as * alio the place of the Earth and oi all creatures, and whatever thou canft think on, all that tOZe~ ther t$ Q Od the Father, who hath nei- ther beginning nor end, and whcreloever and what- foever tnou thinkeft upon even in the fmalleft circle, that can be imagiued, is the whole Birth or Gcniture of God, perfectly incelTantly and irrefiftably.
68. But if in a Creature or in any Place the light beextinguijht, then istheauftere Birth or Geniturc there, which lyeth hid in the Light in the innermolt kernel 5 Andthü noTP is One Tart.
69. The fecond part or the fe- cond Terfon is the Light, winch is continually generated from or out of all powers,and eniightneth again all the powers of the Father^ and hath the fountain of all powers. But is therein 6'u ftinouifh'd from the Father as a ßngular Perfoa, in that it cannot comprehend the Birth or Geniture of the Father, and yet is the Fathers Sonne, which is alwaics generated from or out of the Father: An intlance whereof you have in all the kindled Fires, in this world, do but confider of it.
Bbbb 2 70. And jij.Ä Of the T>eep above the Barth. Chap.XXIIl; 70. And the Father loveth this his oncly begotten or innate Some therefore ib heartily, because he is the Light and the meek beneficent well-doing in bis Bo- ^through whofe power the Fathers^ and Delight riiech up.
71. 3\(ow thefe are two ~Perfons0 and neither of them can apprehend retain or com-r prehend the other, and the One is as great as the other^and if either of them were not,the other could not be neither.
72. Obferve here ye fews0Tur\$ and Heathens,, for it concerneth you; to you here are opened the yateS Of God0 harden not. your felves, for now is the acceptible time.
73. You are not forgotten of God at all, but if you convert, then the Light and Heart of God will rile up inyw, as the bright Sun at Noon-day.
74. This I Write in the power andperfeB knowledge of the great God, and I under Rand hü will »or have my herein ^er^Weü. For I live and * am in nee.ng in t/ him. him, and fpring up with this work and Labour out of his root and rtock, and it muß: befo: Onelytake thou heed; if thou blindeft thy felf, then there is no Remedy, more; neither canft thou lay, thou kneweft not of it, therefore arife, for the Daybreaketh!
75- The third dherfity, or the third (Chap.XXIIT. Of the Deep dove the Earth, e 5 7 third ¥ erf on in the "Being of Qod is the moling Spirit \ which cxiftech from the riling up in the terrour or Crack, where life is generated, which now inoveth in all powers, and is the Spirit of Life \ and the powers can no. more comprehend him or apprehend him, but he kindleth the powers, and by his moving maketh figures and Images, and formeth them according to that kind and manner, as the wreftling Birth itandeth in every place.
76. And if thou art not wilfully blinds thou may ft know, that the Ayr is that very fpirit, but in the Place of. this world Nature is kindled therein very fwellingly in the wrath-fire, which Lord Lucifer effected, and the Holy Ghoft, who is the Spirit of MeeknefTe, lyeth bidden therein in his Heaven.
77. Thou needeft not to ask, where that Heaven is; It is in % Heart, do but open it^ the Key is here Ihewed to thee.
78. Thus there is one Cjod and three difkinft ^Perfons one in an- other 0 and neither of them can comprehend or withhold or fathom the Original of the other, but the Father generateth the Sonne, and the Sonne is the Fathers Heart,and his Love and his Light, and is an original of Joy, and the beginning of all Life. ' 7?. And the Holy Ghofl is the Spirit of Life, and aförmerj frarncr-and Creator of all things, and a performer o{ the will in. God,. that hath formed and created out of or from the Body and in the Body of the 5 53 Of the Deep dove the Earth, Chap.XXIII.
the Father, all Angels and Creatures, and hoidetri and formeth aWjiifl daily, and is the iharpnefle and the Living Spirit of God: And OS the Fa- ther fpeaketh or Expreffeth the Word out of or from his power s0fo the Spirit formeth or frameth them.
Of the great ßmplicity of (jod.
80. Come on Brave Sir, upon thy Brown Nagg! who ridefl from Heaven into Hell, and from Hell into Death, and therein the lung or death lyeth: view thy /V^ here thou worlo iy wife Man, that art full offofe wit Cunning and iubtile Policy.
8 1. Take notice ye worldly wife Lawyers-, if you will not, come before this Looking-Glafle, even be- fore the bright and clear face of God, and view your {cUcstbereirt) then the Spirit prefenteth to you the Kirthor Geniture in the innermoft aßringent circle 5 where wit cunning and prudence is generated, where the jharpnefle of the anxious tfirth or Geniture - of God is, for there your prudence cunning and deep reaching wit is generated.
82. Now if you will be Gods, and not Devils, then make ufe of the Holy and meek Law of God, if not, then you lhall for ever Eternally generare in the ftflere and fevere B\x:h r r Geniture of GoA.
Tim faith the Spirit \ as the Word of God 9 and not of my dead or mortal Ftefli. 8 3. Thou Chap.XXIII. Of the Deep dove the Earth. 5 57 83. Thou muft know, that I do not fuck it out from the dead or mortal Reafon, but my fpiritqua- lifieth mixeth or uniteth witn God, and proveth or fearcheth the Deitie how it is in all its Births or Ge- nitures in itstafteand fmell: and I find, that the Deitie is a very fimplc,/wv, meek, loving and Quiet Beeing^ and that the birth of ' the Teraarie of God gencrateth it felf very meekly, friendly, lovingly and unanimoufly,and the ßarpneße of the innermoii Birth/*/? never elevate cr fwell it felf into the mcek- nefie of the Ternarie, but remaineth bidden in the Peep.
84. And tTie fharpnefs in the hidden fecrefie is call- edGod'sWR ATH,and the.Being of meekneffe in the Tcrnarieor7>;/i//jy, is called GOD. Here nothing goeth out of or forth from the iharpneffe, which perißjeth, or which doth kindle the wrath, but the fpiritsPiay very gmüjf one with another, like little children,whcn they rejoyce one with another,where every one hath his work, and fo they play one with another, and lovingly kifle and court one another.
85. Sucto a work alfothe Holy Angels exereife themfelves in, and in thcTemarie of God there is a very meek, pleafant, and fweet beeing, where the* Tuneme- Spiritalwaies elevatcth it (elfin the *To: e,and the fody or one power touchcth the other, as if there were plea- Mufuk.. font Melodious Hymnes or Songs and cohorts oLmu- ficali Inftruments plaid upon.
%6. And as therifingupof thefpiritf, in every place is, fo the Tone alfo formeth it felf, but very weekly^ and incomprehenfibly to the Bodies of the Angels, but very comprehenfibly to the animated or ioulifh Sirth or Gcniture of Angels: and as the Deitie prcfentcth it felf in each place, fo the Angels alio 5 6o Of the Deep above the Earth. Chap.XXIII.
alio prefent themfelves: For the Angels were crea- ted out of this Beings and have among them their Princes of the qualifying or fountain ipirits of God, as they are in the Birch or Gcnitureof God.
87. Therefore as the Beeing of God prefents or iheweth forth it felf in the Birth or Geniture, fo do the ^Angels a! fa, and that power, which at any time hath theprimacie in the Birth or Genitucc of God, and rejoyceth out of the Heart oi God in the Holy Gbofi, that Power's Prince of the Angels beginncth alfo his Hymn, and jubilateth with his Hoait or Ar- rn^ now one, thenfiiddenly another, for the Birth or Geniture of God is like a wheel. \ 88. But when the H>4rtofGodfheweth forth it felf with its Clarity or Brightnefle, then there rifeth up the whole Hoaftor Army of aä the three King- doms of the Angels > and in this riling up of the CHRIST ü King and Chiefs be leadeth the Royal Chorus cr Quire with all the ho- ly Souls of Men till the Laft JudgmentOay:- Arid then the Holy Me^n are perfeB Angels, aa^he wick- e&ferfeft Devils, and that in its eternity* ■** %. Here view thy felf0 thou Witty futtle Worlds and con ft der 0 from whence thy prudence futtle- ty and wit proceedeth.
Now Chap.XXIII. Of the Deep above the Earth, tf j Now thou wilt fay to me j s>°. %)ofi not thou fee\t after deeper juttlety than We? thou wilt needs clime into the moß hid- den fecr et s ofQod) which ü not jit for any Man to go about. JVefee^ only after humane ^Prudence and juttlety 3 but thou Wouldfl be e quail With Qod0 and know all; HoW Qod is* in every thing both in Heaven andin Heß, in <D evils* <&Angels and Aden. Therefore fare it is not unlawful to feek^for a cunningßarp wit and after craf- ty *Defigns0 which bring Honour SPovver or authority and Ri- ches.
A Reply.
91. If thouclimeft up this Ladder, on which I climb up into the Deep of God, as I have done, then thou haft climbed well: I am not come to this mean- ing, or to this work and knowledge through my own Keafon, or through my own will and purpofe^neither C c c c have $6t Of the Deep akve the Barth] Chap.XXIII.
have I fought this knowledge, nor fo muchas.knew any thingr concerning it, 1 fought only for the Heart gf God 5 therein to hide my fclf fronvthe tempeftu- bus flörms oft he Deul] 92. But when 1 gat in thither, then this great »eighty and hard Labour was laid upon me^ which is, to Manifeft and reveal to the world, and to make known The great T>ay of the JLaJJlyJL/,. and being they feek and Long fo eagerly after the Root of the-Trce 5 to revealfatliem^ what the whole Tree is, thereby to intimate, that it is the 'Dawning or Mbrnin^^d^ mffeofthe 2)dJ?- which God hath long ago Decreed in his Counccl. AMEN; 93. Thus thou feeft, WhifX God ü± apdHoip h is Love and. math hath been from ~e~termty$. lib how his Birth .orGeniture is: and now.thou canft mt fay,that thou art not in God, or doft not live in God, or-tha*God \$a\iy firange Thing, which thou canft hot come 4^, but mud compile,.that _whcrc thou axi> tbert is (Be Gate of God. ^ 94. Now if thou art holy\ then as to thy Soul thou art with God in Heaven; but it thou art w&stfßhm as to thy So«/ thpu art in Hell-fire. ' .
Now Observe fu rther; "V5. When God -created the Angels, all of them were created wholly out of this Bi?th or Geniture . of God, their Body was compared or incorporated out of Nature, therein their Spirit and Light- gene- rated themfelves, as the ■ Deitie generated it felf.
And 1 Cha p.XXIlk Of the Deep dove the Earth, 5 6y And as the qualifying or fountain fpirits of God slU waics took 'their- power and ftrcngthout of or from the tody of Nature, fo the Angels alfo, they rook their power and ftrcngthalwaies outof or from the Nature of God.
9 6. And as the Holy Ghoft in Nature formcth and Imagcth or frameth <*//, fo the fpirit of the An- gels alto qualified or united with the Holy Ghoit, and did mJp to form frame- and Image *//, that all might be One Heart and will> and a meet delight and Joy: For the Angels are the Children of the Great God,which He hath generated in his Body of Nature for the multiplying of the divine Joy.
97. But here thou mufi know> that the Bodies of .'Angels cannot apprehend tft&Birth or Geniture of God, neither doth their Body utiderß aridity their (pi* rit oncly underftandeth it, but the Body holdeth Hill, as the iV^»^ in' God doth, and lets the fpirit co-work and Labour with God, and Play lovingly*.
9$. For the Ängels Play betöre and in God, as little children play before their Parents, whereby the Divine Joy is increafed.
99, But when the mighty potent Prince and King Lucifer was created, he would not do fo, but eleva- ted and fwelled himfelf, and would be God alone, and kindled the wrath-fire in himfelf, and fo did ail his Angels aifo.
100. But when that was done, he roared with his kindled fire-fpirit, abroad into the Nature of God, and then the whole Body in the Nature of God, as far as his Kingdom and Dominion reached, was kindled.♦ But being his light was irßantly extin- güifh'd, he could no more qualific or unite with his Spirit in the tm Births or Gcnitures,x//>,,of the Soqne C c C C 2 of j*'4 Of the Deep alaVe the Earth, Chap.XXIII.
of God, and of the Holy Spirit of God, but remained {landing in thejharp Birth or Geniture of God.
I o i. For the light of God and the S pirit of God, cannot comprehend the (Tiarp Birth or Geniture,and therefore they are two difiintt perfons: And fo Lord Lucifer could no more touch, fee, feel or tafte the Heart of God and the Holy Spirit of God, with his äußere^ cold, and hard fire-Birth, but was Spewed out with his fire-fpiric, into the outermoft Nature, wherein he had kindled the wrath-fire..
1 02. And that Nature is indeed the Body of God, wherein the Deitie gencrateth it felf,but the Devils cannot apprehend the meek Birth of God, which ri- feth up in the Light: For their Body is dead to the Light, and liveth in the outermoft and auftere Birth or Geniture of God, wherein the Light never kin» dleth it fell again any more.
103. For their un&uoufnefle or fatneffe in the fweet water is burnt up, and that water is tum'd in« . to afowr ftincky wherein the Light of God can no more kindle it felf, and the Light of God can no more enter into it.
1 04. For the qualifying or fountain fpirits of the Devils are (hut up in the hard wrath, their Bodies are a hard Death, and their fpirits are a fierce Sting of the wrath of God, and their qualifying or foun- tain fpirits generate themfelvcs continually in the * right or inriermoft {harpneflc, according to the iharp * Law Order, of the Deitie.
105. Forotherwife they cannot generate them- felves, neither can they dye or paffe away, vanifh and be no more, but they hand in the raoft anguifh- ing Birth or Geniture, and there is nothing in them» but meer fiercenefle, wrath and malices the kindled fire- Chap.XXIV* Of the Incorporating rf the Stars. 5^5 fire-fource rifeth from eternity to eternity, and they can never touch nor fee nor apprehend the Sweet and Light Birth or Genen iture of God any more.
Of the kindled 3\[ature.
10 6. But God hath therefore kindled Nature fo much and fo hard, and did fo kindle the burning in his wrath therein, that he might thereby build a' dwelling houfe for the Devils, and keep them Pri- foners therein, in that they were the children of wrath, in whom he muft rule with his fierce Zeal or Jealoufie, and they alfo in the wrath of God.
The Four and Twentieth Chapter.
Of the Incorporating or Compa&ionvo™tg!l of the Stars. 53ÄÄ Day.- I.
NOw when the whole Body of Nature in the Extent Space or Circumference of this world, was benumm'd or dewned&% in the hard Death, and yet that the Life was hid therein, thereupon God moved the whole Body of the Nature of this world on the Fourth Day, and ge- nerated the Stars from or out of Nature out of the rifen Light. For the wheel of Gods Birth or Gtni- ture moved it felf again, as it had done from eternity.
a. Indeed it had moved on the Firft Day, and be- gan the tfirth or Genityre inthe^pdyoftheeorr«^ Nature: foron tbe^Dayvthelife/^r4^it fclfe from the Death, arid on -'t-he/^^flf-DS^i-firmamcnc was Created between, and oo the third Day the Life fake.forth thrpugh Death. For there. the light b^keforth through the Darknefle, and made the dead body of Nature to fpring fiourifh arid to be äirringandaoile.
3. For on the third Day the Body of Nature did travell/b hard in anxietie, till the Love fire had kin- . died it felfe in theDeath,and till theLight of life was broken forth through the congealed Body of Death, and fprung up out of Death 5 but on the third Day it ttood onely in the Fire crack, from whence mobili- tyexiftcd.
4. On the fourth Day the Light rbfc up, and made its feat in the houfe or death, and yet Death could not, nor cannot comprehend it.- As little as the auftcre .Birth of God, which ftandeth in the innermoit. kernel, from whence life exifteth P can apprehend the meeknelTe 3 and the light of the meeknene toge- ther with the Spirit in the meeknc(Ie;/o Utile alfo can the dead Darknefle of this world comprehend the Light of Nature^o more can the Dcvills neither.
5. Bqt the light fhineth through Death, and hath made its Royall feat in the midft or center in the -or ^Divine Houfe of Death, and of Gods wraths^ and gcii^rate|h Fody, to it feile a new * Body of God, out of the houfe oT wrath which fubfifteth eternally i» the Love of God in comprehenfibly to the old kindled Body in the outmott Birth or Genuure...•. j..., Oki>.XXT\r OfihelncwfiminiofthiStms. tif : riJ lo y fc 2^oW thou wilt t^sk. unn'riHowiliall I underftand this?
6. I ^»«ot at all write it in thy Heart, for it is not for every Mans capacity, understanding and ap: preHenfion, especially where the Spirit [tandctrvm the Houfe of wrath, and doth /zdrqualifie operate or unite with the Light of God. But I will {new it to thee in an Earthly fimilm-ie^h^t thou might ft ifp'o- flible get a little into the deep Sencc, 7. Behold and cohFide'r a Tree, on thcoutfideit hath a hard grolle \K/W or 5dr£ which is Dead be- numm'd/and without Vegetation, yet it is not quite Dead, but in a faintneflTeorimbecillity, andthere is a great difference between it and the Bodyywhrch growech next under the Rind or Bark. ifut trW-Be-i dy hath its Living Power, and breaketh Forth through the withered rtind, and generateth.many faire \qwj £odys or TwM\ all which ftand in the 8. Bat the Rind\%!L%h were dead, and cannot comprehend the Life of the Tree, but only hangs to it, and is a Cover to the Tree in which worms doe Harbour, which in theEnd deftroy the Tree.
9. And tlm alfo is the whole Houfe of this world; the outward DarknefFe is the Houfe of Gods Wrath, wherein the Devils dwell, and it is rightly the Houfe of Death, for the Holy Light of God hath dyed therein.
[ " Under ft and) itftepp'dinto its principle, and is the b b. - cc outward fubftantiality in God3as it were dead <c in our Efteem, whereas it liveth in God, hut <c - in mother Source or Quality'} 1 oa.Eu* i, 5 6% Of the Incorporating of the Stars. Chap.XXIV, i o. But the Body of this great Houfe,which lyeth hid under the Sheä or Rind of darknefle, incoraprehenfibly to darkneffe,^ is the houfe of Life,whcrein Love and Wrath wreflle one with another.
ii. Now the Love alwaies breaketh through the Houfe of Death,and generateth holy heavenly Twigs in the great Tree-, Which Twiggs ftand in the Light: For they fpring up through thethell or skin of Dar k- nefle, as the Twiggs do through the {hell or Bark of the Tree, and are One Life with c?od.
12. And the wrath fpringeth up alfo in the Houfc of darknefle, and holdeth many a Noble Twigg captive in Death through its infection in the houfe oißerceneße, 1 3. And this now is the Summe ^ or the Contents, of the Aftral Birth or Geniture, of which I here in- tend to write.
And now it may be Asked j What are the Stars > or out of what are they come to be >