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45. Seeing then that the Shriek of the Joy in the Virtue of God (which breaks the Doors of the deep Darkness) thus springs up in the Heart, and flies with its Glimpse [or Sparkling] into the Head, then the Virtue of the Joy sets itself above, as being the strongest, and the Flash [or Glance] beneath, as being the weakest; and so when the Flash [or Glance] comes into the Head into its Seat, then it makes itself two open Gates. For it has broken the Doors of the deep Darkness, and therefore it continues no more in the Darkness, but it must be free as a victorious Prince [or Conqueror,] and will not be held captive. And this signifies to us the Resurrection of Christ from the dead, who is now free, and will not be held [therein,] which in its due Place shall be very deeply described. And those Gates which the Glance holds open, they are the Eyes, and the Spirit of Joy is their Root, which [Spirit] springs up at first in the Kindling of the Life. 46. Thus then the strong reconceived Will (to fly out from the Darkness and to be in the Light in the Heart) generates itself; and therefore we cannot know [or apprehend] it to be any u The Will. w Break with treading upon it. x Imagined, figured, or formed itself. y Viz. in the Place of the Springingup of the Life. other than the noble Virgin, the Wisdom of God; which thus springs up in Joy, and in the Beginning marries herself with the Spirit of the Soul, and helps it to the Light, which after the springing up of the Soul (viz. after the Kindling of the Virtue of the Sun in the Essences) puts herself into its paradisical Center, and continually warns the Soul, z of the ungodly Ways, which are held before it by the Stars and Elements, and brought into its Essences. Therefore the Virgin keeps her Throne thus in the Heart, and also in the Head, that she may defend and keep them off from the Soul, all over. 47. And we must further a consider, that when the Shriek [or Crack] makes its Dwellinghouse, in its strong Breakingthrough, out of the Gate of the anxious Darkness, viz. the Tongue, that the Shriek [or Crack] has not then yet seen the Virgin; but when it reflected [or shined] back again into the Heart, into the opened Darkness, and found her so habitable, there then first sprung up its Joy, and Pleasantness, and it became paradisical, and desired not [to go] into the Tongue again, but into the Head, and [desired] there to have its Region out of the Source of the Heart. Therefore the Tongue ought not in all [or altogether] to be believed, for it sits not in the heavenly Region, as the friendly pleasant Virtue [does;] but it has its Region in the Crack and Flash, and the Flash is as near the hellish Region, as the Crack is, for they are both generated in the b Sharpness of the Stars, in the Essences, and the Tongue speaks both Lyes and
Truth; in which of the two the Spirit arms itself, according to that it speaks: Also it many Times speaks Lies in c great Men; when it is armed from the Essences, then it speaks in the Crack, like a Rider in his [haughty, surly, vaunting State,] or high Mindedness. The Life of the Soul. The Gate. 48. Thus now when the Virtue of the Life and the Spirit of the second Principle, d is generated in the first Originality of the first Principle (viz. in the Gate of the deep Darkness, which the Will of the Virtue of the Virgin, in the fierce earnest Flash of the fierce Might of God, did break, and set itself in the pleasant Habitation) then instantly the Essences of the Stars and Elements, in z Of the Ways of the Ungodly. a Think, or conceive. b Or stern grim Sharpness. c Such as have Esteem, Authority, and Riches, or such as are high minded, and stout, and have the World at Will. d Or was. the Flash of the Springingup of the Life, pressed in also, yet after the Building of the pleasant Habitation first [made.] 49. For the Habitation is the Element, and the Virtue of the inward Element is the paradisical Love, which the outward Elements (being generated out of the Element) will have for their Mother, and the sharp Fiat brings them into the Habitation. And there the Light of the Life becomes rightly kindled, and all Essences live in the Habitation. For in the Beginning of the Life, each Principle e takes its Light. 50. The first Principle (viz. the Darkness) takes the fierce and sudden Fireflash; and so when the f recomprehended Will, in the first Will of the first attracted Darkness of the Harshness, discovers itself, and breaks the Darkness in the Flash, then the harsh dark Fireflash remains in the first Will, and stands over the Heart, in the Gall, and kindles the Fire in the Essences of the Heart. 51. And the second Principle retains its Light for itself, which is the pleasant g Habitation, which shines there, where the Darkness is broken, [or dispelled,] wherein the courteous loving Virtue, and the Pleasantness arises, from whence the Shriek [or Crack] in the strong Might becomes so very joyful, and h turns its forcible Rushing into a joyful Trembling; where then the Fireflash of the first Principle sticks to i it, which causes its Trembling. But its Source [or active Property] is Pleasantness and Joy, that cannot sufficiently be described; happy are they that find it [by Experience.] 52. And the third Principle retains its Light wholly for itself, which (as soon as the Light of Life springs up) presses into the
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The Eighth Chapter. Of the Creation
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Night: Also he made the Stars. And
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comprehended. 31. And God is immens
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45. But that I now write, that the
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out of the b OutBirth, which went
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gave itself up in this Way more veh
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all the three Principles are in him
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Words of the Heart of God, and rejo
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Will, nor yet any f Birth: This Min
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