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greater, which yet the [sour] Harshness holds l Prisoner; and this together is the great Anxiety, which was there in the dark Mind of God the Father, when the Darkness was anxious [or longed] after the Light; from whence in the Anxiety (from the Glance of the Light) it attained the Twinkling Flash: Out of which the Angels were created, which afterward were enlightened from the Light of God (m by their Imagination into the Heart of God;) and the other (like Lucifer) for their Haughtiness [or Pride’s] Sake, remained in the Flash of Fire and Anxiety. 10. This Birth [or active Property] with the indissoluble Band, is generated in every Soul; and there is no Soul before the Kindling of the Light in the Child in the Mother’s Body. For with the Kindling, the eternal Band is knit [or tied,] so that it stands eternally, and this Worm of the three Essences does not die, nor separate itself; for it is not possible, [because] they are all three generated out of one [only] Fountain, and have three Qualities, and yet are but one Being [or Substance;] as the Holy Trinity is but in one only Essence [or Substance;] and yet they have three Originalities in one Mother, and they are one [only] Being [or Substance] in one another. Thus also (and not a whit less) is the Soul of Man, but only one Degree in the first Going forth; for it is generated out of the Father’s eternal Will (and not out of the Heart of God) yet the Heart of God is the nearest to it of all. 11. And now it may very exactly be understood by the Essences and Property of the Soul, that in this House of Flesh (where it is as it were generated) it is not at Home; and its horrible Fall may be also understood [thereby.] For it has no Light in itself of its own, it must borrow its Light from the Sun; which indeed springs up along with it in its Birth, but that is corruptible, and the Worm of the Soul is not so; and it is seen that when a Man dies n it goes out. And if then the divine Light be not again generated in the Center, then the Soul remains in the eternal Darkness, in the eternal anguishing [Source or] Quality of the Birth, where nothing is to be found in the kindled l Captive. m By their longing after, or imprinting the Heart of God in their thoughts. n The Light of the Sun, or a Man’s Faculties beholding of that Light ceases. Fire, but a horrible Flash of Fire, in which [Source, Property, or] Quality, also the Devils dwell; for it is the first Principle. 12. And the Soul here in this World uses the Light of the third Principle, after which the Soul of Adam lusted, and thereupon was captivated by the Spirit of the great World. But if the Soul be regenerated in the Holy Ghost, so that its Center to the Regeneration springs forth o., then it sees with two Lights, and lives in two Principles. And the most inward [Principle] (viz. the
first) is shut up fast, and hangs but to it, in which the Soul is tempted and afflicted by the Devil; and on the contrary, the p Virgin (which belongs to [and is in] the Tincture of the Regeneration, and in the Departure of the Body from the Soul, shall dwell [in the same Tincture,]) is in continual Strife and Combat with the Devil, and tramples upon his Head in the Virtue [and Power] of the [Sours] Prince and q Champion, (viz. the Son of the Virgin,) when a new Body (out of the Virtue [or Power] of the Soul) shall r spring forth in the Tincture of the Soul. 13. And that (when the Soul is s departed from the Body) it might no more possibly be tempted by the Devil and the Spirit of this World; there is a quiet Rest for the Soul included in its Center in its own Tincture, which stands in Paradise, betwixt the Kingdom of this World and the Kingdom of Hell, to continue until God shall put this World into its t Ether, when the Number of Men, and Figures (according to the Depth of the eternal Mind of God) shall be finished. 14. And now when we consider how the temporary and transitory Life is generated, we find that the Soul is a Cause of all the u Members [or Faculties] of [or to] the Life of Man, and without it there would not be one Member [to, or] of the Life of Man generated. For when we search [into] the Beginning and Kindling of Life, we find strongly with clear Evidences all Manner of [Faculties or] Members; so that when the clear Light of the Soul kindles, then the Fiat stands in very great Joy, and in the Twinkling of an Eye does in the Matrix separate the Pure from the Impure, of which the Tincture of the Soul in the Light is the x Worker, which there renews it, but the Fiat creates it. 15. And now when the [sour] harsh Matrix is [made so very humble, thin, and sweet, by the Light, the [stern or] strong Horror (which was so very poisonous before the Light [kindled]) o In true Resignation. p The Virtue or Power of God. q Saviour or Conqueror. r Or be generated. s Or separated. t Or Receptacle. u Organs or Instruments. x Or Workmaster. flies upward; for it is terrified at the Meekness of the Matrix; and it is a Terror of great Joy, yet it retains its strong [or stern] Right [or Property,] and cannot be changed; neither can it get far from thence (for it is withheld by the Fiat) but it raises itself suddenly aloft, and the Terror makes it a Film from the [sour or] harsh Fiat which holds the Terror fast, and that is now the Gall y of the Heart. 16. But when the Matrix (from which the Terror was gone
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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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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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x Come of Course. y The Devil says
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