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and is the Habitation thereof. Therefore, O Man! whatsoever you sow here, that you shall reap, for your Soul in the Tincture remains eternally: And all your Fruits stand in the Tincture, manifested in the clear Light, and follow after you; this the Virgin says in Sincerity [for a Warning,] with great Longing after the Lily. 46. And now if we consider of the Tincture, [and search] how various it is, and [that it is] many Times so wholly false; then we may [be able] fundamentally to demonstrate the Falsehood of the many various Spirits, [and] how they are generated. Therefore we will make a short Entrance, concerning the Propagation of the Soul, which we will enlarge [when we speak] about the Fall of Adam, and the Birth of Cain. For the Seed (as is abovementioned) is sown in the Lust of the Tinctures, where the sour [or] harsh Fiat receives it, and supposes that it has received the Virgin; there both the Tinctures (the masculine and the feminine) then strive together about it, and there the Spirit of the great World, viz. the Spirit of the Stars and Elements, figures [images or imprints] itself also in it, and he fills u Images or represents himself. x That the Soul listens and yields to the Devil. the Tinctures with his Elements, which the Tinctures in the Fiat receive with great Joy, and suppose they have the Virgin. 47. But seeing the Fiat is the mightiest among them all, (for it is as it were a Spirit, and although it be no Spirit, yet it is the sharp Essence,) therefore it attracts the Seed to it, and desires the Limbus of God in Paradise, out of which Adam’s Body was created by the Fiat, and y would create an Adam out of a heavenly Limbus; and then the Spirit of the great World insinuates himself and supposes, [and says,] the Child is mine, I will rule in the Virgin; and he always fills it with the Elements, from whence the Tincture becomes full and very thick, [gross, swelled, or impregnated;] and there then the Tincture gets a Loathing against the Fulness; for the Tincture itself is clear, and the Fiat with the Elements is thick, [gross and] swelled; from whence Women (when they z grow big [with Child]) know well enough, that many of them loathe some Meats and Drinks; and long, still after some strange Thing [to eat], for the Tincture comes to have a Loathing of all that the Spirit of this World with his Elements fills in, and wills to have somewhat else; for this Virgin does not relish them, but becomes [discontented and] sorry, and forsakes them, and goes into her a Ether, and comes not again. 48. And then the Spirit of the Sun, Stars, and Elements of this World, supposes with itself [saying,] Now thou art in the right, the Child is thine, the Foundation is laid, thou wilt bring it up, the Virgin must be thine, thou wilt live therein, and have
thy Joy, [Delight, and Habitation] in her, h^r Ornament must be thine; and thus [he] attracts always to himself in his great Lust, by the Fiat, which in Eternity goes not away; and [he] supposes that he has the Virgin. Saturnus: This is done in the first Month. 49. And there the Blood of the Mother (wherein the Tincture of the Mother is) is drawn into the Seed. And when the [sour] harsh Fiat has tried, [and perceives] that to be sweeter than its own Essence, then it frames [images or represents] itself with great Earnestness [or Longing] therein, and becomes sharp in the Tincture, and will create Adam, and so severs the Materia [or Matter;] and then the Spirit of the Stars and Elements is in the Midst, and rules mightily in the Fiat. y Will. z Or are impregnated or with Child. a Or own Principle. Jupiter: This is done in the second Month. 50. And then the Materia [or Matter] is severed according to the Wheel of the Stars, as they (viz. the Planets) stand in Order at this Time, and which of them [all] is predominant, that (by the Fiat) figures the Matter most, and the Child gets a Form, after the Kind of that [Planet.] Mars: All this which follows is done in the third Month. 51. Thus the Matter (by the Fiat) is severed into Members. And now when the Fiat thus attracts the Blood of the Mother into the Matter, then b it is stifled [or choked;] and then the Tincture of the Blood becomes false, and full of Anguish; for the [sour] harsh Essence (viz. the Fiat) is terrified, and all the Joy (which the sour [harsh] Fiat got in the Tincture of the Blood) withdraws; and the Fiat begins to tremble in the Terror, in the sour [harsh] Essence; and the Terror goes away like a Flash, and would fain depart and fly away out of the Essence, and yet is withheld by the Fiat, which [Terror] is now turned hard, and made tough by the Essence, which now closeth the Child about; this is the Skin of the Child. And the Tincture flies suddenly, flashing upwards in the Terror, and would be gone; yet it cannot neither (for it standeth in the OutBirth [or Procreation] of the Essences) but c rises up suddenly in the Terror, and takes the Virtue [or Power] of all the Essences with it. And there the Spirit of the Stars and Elements d figures itself also therein, and fills itself also therein, in the Flight, and supposes that it has the Virgin, and will go along with it; and the Fiat gripeth it all, and holds it [fast,] and supposes that the Verbum Domini [the Word of the Lord] is there in the e Uproar,
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The Eighth Chapter. Of the Creation
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Matrix. For the fifth Essence was n
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Night: Also he made the Stars. And
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the Harshness causes the Attracting
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comprehended. 31. And God is immens
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is the aquastrish [or watery] Spiri
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45. But that I now write, that the
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from the Constellation: So the Heav
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Mother Eve are got into, in which t
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34. Therefore the m stedfast Faith
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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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x Or active Property. y Disrupted.
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[or yielding Pliableness,] the Tast
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only] a Beast in the Will, Manners,
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25. e In Brief, the Regimen of the
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