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 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 condition 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 venomous power; and predeth forth up together in the midlt or center of the Body in the growth or vegetation, as a Heart thereof.
80. (*j£nd herein picketh now the kernel of the 'Deitie in the Qenter in its Heaven, which pandeth 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, condition 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 innate inilant Wheel of the feventh nature-Spirit, flood ill the Fabrick work or operation of the Love, wherein the meek beneficence or well-doin^ eencrateth it felf behind the Fire-Flafh; wherein the Holy Heaven itandeth, which in this Birch or Geniture, 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 beauteous 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 companion 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 fountain 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 rcmaineth 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 melted away, which is the grofle ftony Droße.
IL 90...Then Secondly, the aftringent Death of the water is to befeparated,from which proceeds a poifonous 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 fethe 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 deltroyer; 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 fountainfpirit, 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 moyerhj 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 ringing 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 generated it fclf in the Love in the rifing up of the Lights power out of the water,is kindled again in the fiercenefle in the wrath-Fire, and the Mineral Oar becomes 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 Deitie: 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 beauty 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 fometbing 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 Regenerate Man, which ftandcth not in the palpability» 106. At the Description of the SUN you will find more and deeper things concerning it: my intention 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 nothing, 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 Dominion/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 vertue 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 Mahow can the CWan and Ktng Chrid be Gods Bodily or terialls, corporeal Sonne, whoaijiehath generated or begotten out of his Heart >' 7. Now, if his Deicie be another Boeing (ubdance or thing, than his Body; then there rouii be a twofold 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£ therein, 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 Heathenifnly.
Hearken and behold! Opfer ve the diftindt anderftanding, How allrhis isTo: fori write not Heathen 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 confidere.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 regiment or Dominion in thee, and art alfo Inch a Perlon, 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 meekly and lovingly, and formed framed and figured it felf in Ideas (hapes and Images, which were incorporated-.
5<P* Of the Deep nfovttB Earth. Chap.XXIU »potited according to tl>e qualifying -or fountain (pints 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 predomnancy 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 eleorDomince- j j *' -• ring. 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 Begining, but have ib generated themfelves from Eternity; 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 Beginning 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 apprehend 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 tetaineth 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 coldnefle, and makcth the coldneile moveable-, from whence motility exifteth.
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2 2. The Fourth Generating is the fire, which exifteth from the mobility or rubbing in the aftringent (pirit, and that is now fharp burning, and thebhtcr is ftingingand raging. Buc when the fire-fpiritrubbethit 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 refined 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 Dying Man, when Body and Soul arc parting afundcr, a mod horrible anxiety a wotul painful Birth or Geniture.
26. Oman1 here confider thy felf here thou fee ft, from whence the T>evil0 and his fierce Wrathful 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 therrilclvesone 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 firetcrrouror 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 vvelltafting 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 imartingfcalding pains which he felt afore by the burningof 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 refreshment, 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 Devils 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 Generating 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 replenifheth or filleth the whole Geniture, and enlightneth 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 Geniture 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 (jemtnre 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 aßringent quality groweth now very pliable and yielding, 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 Generatings 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.
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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 preffeth through all Births or Generatings, very unconceivedly and incomprehensibly to the Birth or Geniture, 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 (/eniture of God0 and is calld God the Holy Ghoß.
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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 Geniture 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 fteth only in *PoWer0 and the Spirit only comprehendeth itD and not the dead or mortal Flefh.
48. <*And thus thou may ft under 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 Cornwall to Bee \ and hence Nature and cbmprehenfibilitV) hath its original in the whole Body oi God.
li. Now tblS ü\(dtUre isasa</<Wunintcllectual 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 fpirits 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 cornprehenfibility 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 thereof, 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 trembling or moving, which rifethup in themidft or center of the Birth or Geniture, is Sitter. For it rifeth up fwiftlyout of the Birth, when the water of life cometh into the Birth or Geniture j like a Joyful 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 terrour 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 downwards 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, according 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 neither beginning nor end, and whcreloever and whatfoever 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 fecond 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