Three Principles of the Divine Essence Chap. 8-16 - meuser

that the Elements fill it, then that Filling becomes hard Bones;
and there the Fiat figures the whole Man with his bodily Form,
all according to the first Wrestling of the two Tinctures, when
they wrestle [or strive] together in the Sport of Love, when the
Seed is sown; and that Tincture which there gets the upperhand
(whether the masculine or the feminine) according to that Sex
the Man is figured. And the Figuring [or Shaping] is done
very suddenly in the Storm of the anguishing Terror, where the
Blood is stifled [or stopt;] and there the elementary Man gets
up, and the heavenly [Man] goes down. For in the Terror, the
bitter k Sting is generated, which rages and raves in the hard
g Jurists.
h Can go to Law.
i Judge.
k Or Pricking.
terrified [Sourness or] Harshness in the great Anxiety of the
stifled [or stopped] Blood.
55. Women have sufficient Experience of this, in the third
Month, (when this is done in the Fruit,) [and feel] how the
Raging and Pricking comes into their Teeth, Loins, Back, and
the like. This comes upon them from the stifled, [choaked, or
stopped] Tincture in the Fruit, and from their stifled [or
stopped] Blood in the Matrix, because the evil Tincture qualifies
[or mingles] with the good [Tincture] of their Bodies. Therefore
in the same Manner as the Tincture in the Matrix suffers
Pain, after the same Manner also the good [Tincture suffers in
the Members [Limbs or Parts] of the Mother, as in the hard
Bones, Teeth, and Ribs, as such People know very well.
56. So now when the bitter Sting [or Prickle,] (which is generated
in the anxious Terror in the Stifling [or Stopping,] and
in the Entering in of Death,) does thus rage and rave, and show
forth itself in the Terror, and flies upwards, then it is caught
and withheld by the [sour] Harshness, so that it cannot get up
aloft. For the [sour] Harshness draws it continually the more
eagerly and vehemently, because of l its Raging, and cannot endure
it, from whence the Pricking often becomes more terrible,
and this is after no other Manner, than as when a Man is dying,
and Soul and Body part asunder; for in the Stifling [or Stopping]
of the Blood by the [sour] Harshness, the bitter Death is
also there; and therefore m it is like a furious whirling Wheel,
or swift horrible Thought, which worries and vexes itself: And
here is a Brimstone­Spirit, a venomous [poisonous] horrible
aching Substance in the Death; for it is the Worm to the Springing
up of Life.
57. And now when the Spirit of the Stars and Elements has
mingled [or figured] itself together in the Incarnation, then the
Virtue [or Power] of the Stars and Elements is together wheeled