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 another 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 Father 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 before 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 fpiritqualifieth mixeth or uniteth witn God, and proveth or fearcheth the Deitie how it is in all its Births or Genitures 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 mceknefie of the Ternarie, but remaineth bidden in the Peep.
84. And tTie fharpnefs in the hidden fecrefie is calledGod'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 oLmuficali 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 created 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 Arrn^ 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 Kingdoms 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 holy Souls of Men till the Laft JudgmentOay:- Arid then the Holy Me^n are perfeB Angels, aa^he wicke&ferfeft Devils, and that in its eternity* ■** %. Here view thy felf0 thou Witty futtle Worlds and con ft der 0 from whence thy prudence futtlety 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 hidden 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 crafty *Defigns0 which bring Honour SPovver or authority and Riches.
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 meaning, or to this work and knowledge through my own Keafon, or through my own will and purpofe^neither C c c c have $6t Of the Deep akve the Barth] Chap.XXIII.
have I fought this knowledge, nor fo muchas.knew any thingr concerning it, 1 fought only for the Heart gf God 5 therein to hide my fclf fronvthe tempeftubus flörms oft he Deul] 92. But when 1 gat in thither, then this great »eighty and hard Labour was laid upon me^ which is, to Manifeft and reveal to the world, and to make known The great T>ay of the JLaJJlyJL/,. and being they feek and Long fo eagerly after the Root of the-Trce 5 to revealfatliem^ what the whole Tree is, thereby to intimate, that it is the 'Dawning or Mbrnin^^d^ mffeofthe 2)dJ?- which God hath long ago Decreed in his Counccl. AMEN; 93. Thus thou feeft, WhifX God ü± apdHoip h is Love and. math hath been from ~e~termty$. 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- generated themfelves, as the ■ Deitie generated it felf.
And 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 Angels 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 elevated 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 extingüifh'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 rifeth 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 fountain fpirits generate themfelvcs continually in the * right or inriermoft {harpneflc, according to the iharp * Law Order, of the Deitie.
105. Forotherwife they cannot generate themfelves, neither can they dye or paffe away, vanifh and be no more, but they hand in the raoft anguifhing 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 Prifoners 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 generated the Stars from or out of Nature out of the rifen Light. For the wheel of Gods Birth or Gtniture moved it felf again, as it had done from eternity.
a. Indeed it had moved on the Firft Day, and began 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 mobilityexiftcd.
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 together 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'oflible 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 benumm'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 knefle, 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 intend to write.
And now it may be Asked j What are the Stars > or out of what are they come to be > 14. They are the power of the feven Spirits of God: for when the wrath of c?od, was kindled by the Devil, in this world, then the whole Houfe of this world in Nature or the outermoft Birth or Geniture was as it were benumm'd or chilled in Death, from whence the Earth and Stones are come to be. But when this hard drofie or Scum was driven together into a Lump or Heap, then the Deep wasclear'd,but was very dark, for the light therein was dead in the wrath.
15. But now the Body of God, as to this world, could not remain in Death, but God moved himielf with Chap.XXIV. Of the incorporating of the St Art. j £p with his. feven qualifying or fountain fpirirs to the Birth or Gcniturc. ■ 'But thou mufl underßand thb high thing rightly: 16. The L/^kofGod, whichisthe^o/z^ofGod, as alio the Holy Ghoft^/V^ »of, but the Light,which is gone forth from or out of the heart of God from eternity, and hath enlightncd Nature, which is generated out of the feven ipirits, that is departed or gone away from the hard corrupted Nature -y from whence k is that the Nature of this world with its comprehenfibility or palpability hath remained in Death, and cannot apprehend the Light of God, but is a dark Houfe of Devils.
17. Upon this On the fourth Day of the Creation. C7od regenerated anew the whole Hotifcof this world with the qualities thereof, and hath placed or fet tre qualifying or fountain fpirits in the Houfe of Darkneflfe, that he might generate to himfelf again out of that, a nenr Body, to his praife honour and cJlory.
1 8. For his purpofc was to create another Angelical Hoaft or Army3out of thisHoufe^ which was thus tobe done: He would create an Angel, which was Adam^wY.o fhould generate out of himfelf Creatures like himfelf, which lbould poffeflfe the Houfe of the New Birth, and in the middleof Time, their King fhould be generated or born out of a Humane Body, and pofleflethe new-born Kingdom as a King of thefe Creatures, inftead of the corrupted and expelL'd Lucifer.
19. And at thcfulne/Jecr accompliihmentof this Time, c?od would adorn and Trim this Houfe with its qualities, as a Royal Government, and let thofe D d d d very 5 7° Of we Incorporating of the Stars. Chap.XXlV.
very qualifying or fountain fpiritsfo/V/j^the whole Houfe, that they might in that Houfe of darkaeflc and of Death, bring forth Creatures and Images again, as they had done from eternity, till the accomplifhment or fulfilling of the whole Hoaftor Army, of the new created Angels, which were Men: And Then^God would bolt and barr up the Devil in the Houfe of darkneffe in an eternal Hole, and then •kindle the whole Houfe in its own Light again, all but the very Hole Hell or Dungeon of the Devils.
Now it may be Asked; Why did not God bolt him up inftantly, and then he had not done fo much mifchief?
jivfwer, 20. Behold [ this was Gods purpoft,and that muft üandyivhich isy he would re-edifie out of the corrupted Nature of the Earth, or build again to himfelf an Angelical Hoaftor Army: Underftand, viz,, a true Body, which fhould Subfift eternally in God.
2 1. It was not Gods intention at all to let the Devil have the whole Earth for an eternal dwelling houfe, but onely the Death and ßerceneße of the Earth, which the Devil had brought into it.
22. For what fin hath the Saliner committed againft God, that it ihould ftand totally in Eternal fhame? None j Ic was onely a Body, which muft hold ftill, when the Devil elevated or fwelled himfelf therein.
2 3. Now if He lliould have inftantly left it to the Devil for an Eternal dwelling Houfe, then out of that place a New Body could not have been built.' Now what Sin had that fpace place or Room committed Chap.XXIV. Of the IncöYpovAtingof the Start] tfl mitted againft God, that it fhould ftand in eternal Shame? None: and therefore that were unequAÜ to befo.
2 4. Now the purpofe of God was, to make a curious excellent Angelical Hoaftor Army out of the Earthy and all manner of Ideas forms or Images. For, in and upon that all fhould Spring, and generate themfelves anew, as we fee in mineral Oares, Stones, Trees, Herbs and Grafle, and all manner of Beads 5 after a heavenly Image or Form.
25. And though thofe Imagings were tranfitoryy being they were not pure before God, yet God would at the End of this time, extrail and draw forth the Heart and the kernel, out of the new Birth or Geniture, andfeparate it from Death and Wrath, and the new Birth (hould Eternally fpring up in God, without, dißinü from this place, and bear Heavenly fruits again.
2 6. But the death of the Earth and the wrath therein fhould be Lord Lucifers eternal Houfe, after the accomplifhingof the new Birth or Geniture: in the mean while Lord Lucifer fhould lie captive in the Darkneffe in the Deep above the Earth; and there he is now, and may very fhortly expect his Portion.
27. And that this New Birth or Geniture might be accomplished, whether the Devil will or no, the Creator hath therefore in the Body of this world generated himfelf, as it were creaturely in his qualifying or fountain fpirits, and all the Stars are nothing elfe but Gods powers, and the whole Body of this world confifteth in the feven qualifying or fountain fpirits.
2 8.Butthat there arefo many Stars of fo manifold different effects and operations, it is from the Infi- Dddd 2 Mtexefje, 572 Of the incorporating of the Starrs. Chap. XXIV.
* InfeBion niteneße, which is in the * efficiency of the fcaven or Afiett- fpirks of God, in one another, which generate then*-ifigu felves infinitely.
29. But that the £irth or the Bodp of the Starrs doe not change or alter in their feat, but do as they did from eternitic, it fignifycth that there (hall be a conftant continued Birth or Geniture, whereby the tenumm'd Body of the Earth ihould continually and csnßantly, in one uniform operation, which yet itandeth in the infinitencfle, be kindled ag aine, and generate it fclfe anew, and fo alfo fhould the Houfe of darknefle of the Deep above the Earth; whereby the new Body might continually and conftantlybe generated out ol Death, till time fhould beatcompliihedj and the whole new borne Body.
Now thou wilt objeR and fay.
Then Aire the Starrs are God, and they mud be honoured and worfhipp'd as God?
30 »The- wife Heathen alfo came to mis who indeed' in their (harp or accute understandings idiX. excelled ourPhilofophers,but x\\q right Door of knowledge hath remained yet hidden to them.'
13. Behold! the Starrs are plainly incorporated or compaHedout of or from God, but thoumuft underftand' the difference between them:f or, they are not the Heart, and the meek pure Deitie, which man h^to honour and worfhip as God ^ ^ut they are.the innermoft and fharpeft 5irth or Geniture, wherein all things ftand in wreftling and j;^//W3wherein the Heart of God alwaies generateth k felt, & the Holy Ghoft continually rifcth up from the rifing of theLife* 32. ^ut'th^iliarp^ifth or Geniture of the Starrs cannot Cha-p.XXlV. Of the incorporating oftheSiarrS. 5 73 cannot apprehend the Heart of God again, nor the HolyGhoft; but the Light of God, which rilethup in the anxiety jogethcz with the moving of the Holy Ghoflremaineth/w to itfelfas the Heart, and ru-Ieth in the mid'ft or center of the flofure of the hidden Heaven, which is from or out of the Water ot Life.
33. For from the Heaven the Starrs have their firfl kindling, and are onely as an infirument, which God ufeth to the #irthor< Geniture.
It is Juft fuch a #irth,as is in Manche Body ise v:-n tYie Father o£ the foule,,and when the Body ftandeth in the anguifhing #irth or ejenitureoi God, as the Starrs doe, and not in the fierce helliin ßirth, then the foul of Man qualifieth mixcth or unitetb with the pure Dcitic, as a Member in or of his Body.
35. Thus alio is the Heart or Light of God alwaies generated in the #ody of this world, and that generated Heart is one Heart with the eternal beginninglefTe infinite Heart of God 3 which is in and above all Heavens.
3 6. It is not only generated in and from the Starrs, bnt in the whole Body of this world, but the Starrs alwaies kindle the Body of. thjs VVorld, that the ftixth or Geniture may Cub Cii\ every where: But here thou muß well obferve thif*, 37. Thetight or the Heart off/od taketh«^it& or iginal,barely from the wild rough Starrs, where indeed Love and wrath are one in another, but our of or from the Seat where the meek water of Life is continually, generated.
38, For. that water/, at or. in thekindling of the wrath.
574 Of the Incorporating of the Stars. Chap.XXIV.
wrath was not apprehended by Death, but fubfifteth from eternity to eternity, and reacheth to all" the Ends and Parts of or in this world, and is the WCiter Of Life, which breaketh through Death, out of vvnich the new Body of God in thisworld is built.
$$. But it is /«the Stars as well as in all Ends co ners and places, but not in any place, comprehenfibleor palpable, but fillethor replcnifheth all alike at once: It is alio in the Body of Man, and he that thirtieth after this water, and dri,.keth thereof, in him the light of life ^indleth it felfo which is the heart of God, and there prefentiy fpringeth forth, the Hply Ghoft.
Now thou Ash eft \ How then do the Stars fubfift in Love and Wrath?
sAnfveer.
40. Behold! the Stars are rifen or proceeded out t the firftin- 0f the Kindled Houfe of Gods wrath, as the f mobi- 5t£?*.ltty or ilirring of a Child in the Mothers Body or the Chad. Womb in Tnree ** Months: But now they have • asGenj8, attained their kindling from the eternal benummed *4. water of Life, for that water in Nature was neier dead.
41. But when God moved himfelfintheBodyof this world, then on the third Day the anxiety, in thebirth of this world rubbed it feif, from whence the firt-flaihexifted,and the light of the Stars kindled it felf.in the water of Life.
42. For C hap.XXI V. Of the Incorporating sf 'the Stars. 575 42. For till the third Day from the time of the kindling of Go. s wrath in this world. Nature in the anxiety was a dark valley, and flood in Death, but on the third Day the life brake through Deaths and the New Birth began.
43. For folong, and not an hour longer, the newborn King and Qrand^Prince of this World, jesus christ, retted W \Deäth0 and hath born or generated the firß three Dayes of the Creation of Nature, and that very Time; in Death to Light again, that this time might again beo^Time witn the Eternal Time, and that no Day of Death might be between: and that the Et. rnal Love, and the new born or Regenerated Love out of the new Body of Nature might htone Eternal Loie, and that there might be /<* difference between the eternal Love, and the newborn or regenerated Love, but that the new-born Love might reach into the Being or Subitance, which was from Eternity, and it [elf alio be in Eternity.
44. Thus the new-born Love, which role out of the water of Life in the light in the Stars, and in the whole Body of this world, is wholly bound and united with the eternal beginninglefie infinite Love,fo that they are one Heart and one Spirit, which fupporteth and preferveth all» 45. In this kindling of the Light in the Stars and Element?, the Birth of Nature did not thereupon. wholly trar.fnute or change it felf into the holy Mecknefle, as it was before the Time of the wrath, fa that the Birth of Nature is now altogether l.oly and (ttre 5 No> but it ftandeth in its fharpelt, aultereft* and V7& Of the Incorporating of the Stars. Chap.XXIV, and raoft anxrous Birth, wherein the wrath of God unceßantly fpringeth up-like hellifh-Fire.
46. For it* Nature had fully chang'd it (elf with its fharp Birth intoLovc, accordi; g tothe heavenly Rigi)t Law or Manner, then were the Devils again in the Seat of God.
47i And this thou mayft very well perceive and underftand in Extream Heat and Cold, as alfo by the PoHon, Bitternefle and Sowrnefle in this world -y all which (land in the Birth or Geniture of the Stats? wherein the Devil Jyeth Captiie, 48. The Stars are onely the kind'ingof the great Hoüfe: for the whole hoiiie is t enumm'd in Death, as che Earth is, for the ouiermoft Birth or Genitüre is^f^/andbenumm'd, as the Rind Shell or Bark of a Tree: but the Aftral birth is the Bo y in which the Life rifeth up* . 49. Buc it is in its Body very lharp, yet the new Birth, which rifeth up in the water of Life, and prefTerh through Death, mitigatetb it. But it cannot alter the kernel of the iharp Birth, but is generated out of h>and keeps its holy new life to it felf,and preffech through the angry Death, and the angry D^ath comprehendeth it not.
50. Now this love and wrath is indeed one Body, but the water of Life is the heaven of Partition between them, fo that the Love doth not receive or comprehend theWrath,nor the wrath theLove,but the Love rifeth «/>in the water of Life, and receivcth into it felf from the Earth and auftere Birth, the few r, which is in the Light, which is generated out of the Wrath; fo that, the New Body is born out of the OH.
51. For the old Body, which ftandeth in the äußere tfirth, Chap.XXIV. Of the Intoryomingof the Stars. %Jf Birth, belongeth to the Devil for a Houfe, and the new belongeth to the Kingdom or Chrift.
Now it may be Asked: Are not all the Three Perfons of the Deitie in the Birth or Geniture of Mceknelkjin cms World?
Anfwer.
52. r«, they are all three in this world in the full Bixth or Geniture;of Love, nueknefle, Holincilc and purity, and tney are älwaies generated in fuui äiuWta'nce and 8 ei g,as was done from Eternity.
53. Bihol i! God t.icFitl er Spake to the People of llraci on Mou u Sinai, w.en ne. pave the Law to them, faying, I am an dnyry \ea1otis or fealom C/od to tbofe, that hate me, Exod.io.j. Deut.f p.
54. Now tioucanitnot make oi tnis One onely' Father, who is both Angry and alio full of Love, two Period, but he is one onely Father^ w ikh continually generateth his heard!y beloved Sonne, and from Doth thefc the Holy Ghofi goeth forth continually.
Observe the depth in the Center, 55. The Father is the One one'y being-, whohimfelf is ALL 5 wlioco.itinuillygenir.ivt 1 his heartily belove-i Smne trom etc r i;ty,and in both of them ti.e Holy Gfrofi is continually Handing in the Fiafhj wherein the Life is Generated, y6. But now from the attfttre ad eatneli Bin.' or Eeee Geniiure 57$ Of the incorporatingaf the Stars Chap.XXlV.
Geniture of the qualify ing or fountain fpirits of the Father,'whcrein the Zealeor Jealoufy and the wrath ftandeth5the Body of Nature alvvaies cometh tobe, wherein the Light of the Sonne, viz: of the Fathers Heart ftandeth, incomprehensibly as to Nature, 57. For the light is in the Midft or Center of the.Birth or Geniture, and is the place of Life, wherein the meek Life of God is generatedfrom or out of all the powers of the Father, and in the fame place the Holy Gfoft goeth forth from the Father and the t Sonne.
5 8. Now thofe powers of the Father, which ftand Inthe kindling of the Light, are the hoty Father 0 and the meekFather 0 and the pure "Birth or Cjeniture of CjOU 5 and the Spirit, which rifeth therein^ is the holy Ghoft 5 but the (harp Birth or <7enitufeis the Body, wherein this Holy Life is continually generated.
59. But when the Light of Godfhineth through this (harp Birth or e7eniture3 then itbecometh very meek, and is as it were like a Man that is a fleep, in whom the Life fliä movetb, and the Body is in a fweet quiet reft.
60. And in this Body of nature now was the kindling made, for out of this Body the Angels alfo were created; and itthey had not elevated and kindled themfelves in their HighmindednefTe; then their Body might have flood eternally in aßilLeße and in an incomprehensible meekneffe, as it is in the tiher Principalities of Angels that are without,diftinä ftincVfrom this world, and their ipirit had generated ic felt' eternally in their Body oi mceknelfe, as che holy Trinitie doth in the Body or Corporeity of Gud, and their inborn or/W^dpirit had been onetiearc, one Will, and one Love with or in the Holy irinity: for to that end alio they were created in che Bjdy oi God, to be a. joy to the Deitie.
6 1. But Lord Lucifer^ would bimfelfe be the M ighty God, and kindled his Body, and excited or Jiirred up therein the (hasp Birth of God, and oppofed the Light or bright Heart of God, in tending to rule therein wich his fharpnefle, which was a thing impoflible to be done.
62. But being he elevated and kindled himfelf againft the Right of the Deitie, thereupon the fharp Birch in the Body of the Father rofe up againft him: and took him as an angry Sonne Prifoner or Captive 3 in the iharpeft Birch, and therein now is his eternall Dominion, 63. But now when the Father kindled himfelf in the Body of the {harpnerTc ^ he did n$t for all that kindle the holy foirce, wherein hismoft lovingHeart genera tech ic fclf, and fo thereupon his Heart fhould fit in the lource of wrath. No! that is impoffible thaticihouldbe, for the fharp Birch cannot apprehend the holy and pure Birth, but the holy and pure preffeth quite through the fharp, and generate h to it fclf a new Body, which ftandeth again in meeknefTe.
*4- A"d that new Body is the WAlCY öf JLtjC which is generated when the light pre (Teth tbr&u^hUiC wrath., and the holy Ghoft is the Former or i ram er therein: but He ven is the Partition be- E e e e 2 tween 580 of the Incorporating of the Stars. Chap.XXIV.
twecn love and wrath > and is thefeat> wherein the wrath is tranfmuted or changed into Love.
£5. Now when thou beholdeft the Sun and Stars, thou mull not think, that they are the Holy and pure God, and thou muft not o$er to pray to them or aske any thing of them, for they are not the Holy God,. but are the kindled äußere hirth or Genitureof his Body, wherein Love and Wrath wrefiU one with another.
66. But the holy Cod is hidden in the Centn of all thefe things in his Heaven, and thou canft neither fee nor comprehend him, but the /W comprehended!, him, and the Aftral Birth but half, for the Heaven, is the Partition between Love and Wrath: That lieaven is every where, even in thyfelfe..
67. And now when thou worfhippeft or prayeft to. the Holy God in his Heaven then thou worfhippeft or prayeft tohim, in that heaven, which is in thee, and that fame God with his light 5 and therein the holy Ghoft break eth through in thy Heart, and gencratcth *o New ^ Soil^ ZQ ^c * a Nevv Body of G^d, which ruleth Divine Jfrdi anc* raigneth with God in hü Heaven»