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forth) was thus loosed from the Terror of the Anxiety, and became so very sweet, like sweet Water, then the Spirit of the great World figured [or imprinted itself] instantly, in the Matrix, and fills the four Elements also within it, and thinks with itself, now I have the sweet Virgin; and the Fiat creates z it, and separates the Elements, which also are in Strife: And each of them would have the Virgin, and are in a Wrestling, till they overcome one another, and that the Fire (being the mightiest and strongest) stays above, and the Water sinks down; and the Earth, being a hard gross Thing, must stay below: But the Fire will have a a Region of its own. 17. For it says, I am the Spirit, and the Life, I will dwell in the Virgin; and the [sour] harsh Fiat attracts all to it, and makes it a Mesch, [Massa, b Concretion,] and moreover [it makes it] Flesh; and the Fire keeps the uppermost Region, viz. the Heart: For the four Elements separate themselves by their Strife, and every one of them makes itself a several c Region; and the Fiat makes all to be Flesh: Only the Air would have no Flesh; for it said, I dwell in no House; and the Fiat said, I have created thee, thou art mine, and closed it in with an Inclosure, that is, the Bladder. 18. Now the other Regions set themselves in Order; first the stern Flash, that is, the Gall; and beneath the Flash, the Fire, whose Region is the Heart; and beneath the Fire, the Water, whose Region is the Liver; and beneath the Water, the Earth, whose Region is [in] the Lungs. 19. And so every Element qualifies [or acts] in its own Source [or Manner of Operation,] and one could do nothing without the other, neither could one have any Mobility without the other. For one generates the other, and they go all four out of one Original, and it is in its Birth but one only [Thing or] Substance y About, or near the Heart. z That which was brought in. a Kingdom or Dominion. b Or Substance. c Or Dominion. as I have mentioned before at large about the Creation, concerning the d Birth of the four Elements. 20. The [sour, strong, or] bitter Gall, (viz. the terrible poisonous Flash of Fire) kindles the Warmth in the Heart, or the Fire, and is itself the Cause, from whence all else take their Original. 21. Here we find again, in our Consideration, the lamentable, and horrible Fall in the Incarnation, because when the Light of Life rises up, and when the Fiat in the Tincture of the Spirit of the Soul renews the Matrix, then the Fiat thrusts the Death of the Stifling [Choking, Checking, or Stopping] and Perishing, in the Sternness (viz. the Impurity of the stifled [or checked]
Blood) from itself, out of its Essences, and casts it away, and will not endure it in the e Body, but as a f Superfluity; the Fiat itself drives it out, and of its tough [glutinous] Sourness makes an Inclosure round about it, viz. a Film, or Gut, that it may touch neither the Flash nor the Spirit, and leaves the nethermost Port open for it, and g banishes it eternally, because that Impurity does not belong to this Kingdom; as it happened also to the Earth, when the h Fiat thrust it out of the Matrix in the Midst in the Center, upon a Heap [as a Lump,] seeing it was unfit for Heaven, so also i here. 22. And we find greater Mysteries yet in k Evidence of the horrible Fall; for after that the four Elements had thus set themselves every one in a several Region, then they made themselves Lords over the Spirit of the Soul, which was generated out of the Essences, and they have taken it into their Power, and qualify with it. The Fire, viz. the mightiest of them, has taken it into its l Region [or Jurisdiction] in the Heart; and there it must m keep, and the Blossom and Light thereof goes out of the Heart, and moves upon the Heart, as the kindled Light of a Candle, where the Candle resembles the fleshly Heart, with the Essences out of which the Light shines. And the Fire has set itself over the Essences, and continually reaches after the Light, and it supposes that it has the Virgin, viz. the divine Virtue [or Power.] 23. And there the holy Tincture is generated out of the Essences, which regards not the Fire, but sets the Essences (viz. the Soul) in its pleasant n Joy. Then come the other three Elements out of their Regions, and fill themselves also by Force d Or Generating. e Corpus. f Excrement. g Condemns. h At the Creation. i In the Incarnation. k Testimony. l Or Dominion. m The Spirit must there be kept in Obedience. n Refreshment, or Habitation. therein, each of them would taste of the Virgin, receive her and qualify [or mingle] with her: viz. the Water, that fills itself by Force also therein, and it tastes the sweet Tincture of the Soul. And the Fire says; I would willingly keep the Water, for I can quench my Thirst therewith, and refresh myself therein. And the Air says; I am indeed the Spirit, I will blow up the Heat and Fire, that the Water do not choak thee. And the Fire says to the Air; I will keep thee, for thou upholdest my Quality for me, that I also go not out. And then comes the Element [of] (Earth) and says; What will you three do alone? You will starve and consume one another; for you depend all three on one another and devour yourselves, and when you shall have consumed the Water, then you extinguish; for the Air cannot move, unless it
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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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Or attain it. c That little which w
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and does so grapple with his r Oppo
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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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all the three Principles are in him
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Words of the Heart of God, and rejo
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the Midst of the Garden, and the Tr
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x Come of Course. y The Devil says
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Will, nor yet any f Birth: This Min
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25. e In Brief, the Regimen of the
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