(13) Now when these evil, devilish Spirits (understand the Center of the Genitrix) moved or boiled in God’s Salitter, and made havock, or spoiled all therein, then there was nothing but Stinging, Burning, Murdering, Robbing, and a mere opposite or contrary Will.

(6) And between these two spirits the Demon-gods (and they who give them worship) can make no righteous choice , since we have beguiled them. As they were questioning and debating in their council the (personified ) Worst Mind approached them that he might be chosen. (They made their fatal decision.) And thereupon they rushed together unto the Demon of Fury, that they might pollute the lives of mortals .

(96) Then the Devil mocked the Image, and Hell opened its The Soul. Jaws wide, and had the Bridle in their Essences, and continually drew them therewith towards the hellish Fire of the fierce Wrath; and then there was Trembling and Horror in the Mind, and they could not reach the Love of God. Heaven was their Enemy, no Angel came near them, but the horrible Devils, they showed themselves, and hopped, crying, Ho, ho! we have gotten the Game, we are Princes over Men, we will torment them soundly, because they would have possessed our Throne; we should have been their Footstool, and now we are their Judges; what Care we for God, he dwells not in our Kingdom; why has he thrust us out? we will be sure to wreak our Spleen upon his Image. The most pleasant, and most lovely Gate [or Explanation] of the Promise of the Treader upon the Serpent, highly to be considered.

(7) And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood.

(92) And from hence the wild, fierce, and evil Beasts have their Original in this World. For the Host or Army of Lucifer had kindled the Saltiter of the Stars and of the Earth, and half killed, spoiled and destroyed it.

(72) Now this animated or soulish Spirit was bound or united with the Deity, in Nature, and could qualify, mix or operate in and with the same, as if it were one and the same thing; and that now flung forth out of the Bodies of the Devils into the Nature of God, like a Thief and a Murderer, that desired to rob, murder, and spoil all, and bring all under its Power, and so kindled all the seven Spirits in Nature, and then there was nothing else but an astringent, bitter, fiery and cracking Burning, Tearing and Raging.

(123) so in this Manner Lord Lucifer brought the Deity into Anger and Wrath; “that is, kindled the eternal Nature according to the first Principle;” seeing he together with all his Angels, as a malicious Devil, fought or strove against the Deity, intending to bring and subdue the whole Circumference, Circuit, or Region, under his innate Spirits, that they should form, frame, figure, and image all, and the whole Circumference, Region, or Extent, should bow, yield, and suffer itself to be ruled and formed by the kindled Sharpness of the innate Spirits. And

(86) Now the qualifying or fountain Spirits became so fierce and wrathful in their Kindling, that the one continually spoils the other with its evil corrupt Quality or Source, and so also now do the Creatures, which were made out of the qualifying or fountain Spirits, and live in the same Impulse, the one biting, beating, worrying and annoying the other, all according to the Kind or Disposition of the Qualities.

(157) Now in all the Spirits there was nothing else but a mere hot, fiery, cold and hard Corruption, and so one evil Quality tasted the other, whereby the whole Body grew so very fierce and wrathful; for the Heat was against the Cold, and the Cold against the Heat. And

(35) But seeing the Devils kindled themselves out of Pride, Wantonness, and Wickedness; therefore they were quite thrust out from the Birth or Geniture of the Light; and they can neither lay hold of, or comprehend it eternally.

(84) Now the Devil cannot endure that a holy Church should grow up in his Dominions, he will murder Abel still, as he did then; because Cain feared not God, therefore the Devil got an Access to him, and stirred up the inbred Wrath in Cain against Abel, that he slew him. Here surely all the Devils danced at it, and thought, now is the Kingdom ours again; whereat Adam and Eve were much amazed and affrighted, when they saw that he whom they accounted for a Prince, became a Murderer; and they copulated [or knew one another] no more in seventy Years after.

(1) "He continued in the discourse and said: "The second order is called Ariouth the Æthiopian, a female ruler, who is entirely black, under whom stand fourteen other [arch]demons which rule over a multitude of other demons. And it is those demons which stand under Ariouth the Æthiopian, that enter into strife-seekers until they stir up wars and murders arise, and they harden their heart and seduce it to wrath in order that murders may arise. "And the souls which this authority will carry off in ravishment, pass one-hundred-and-thirteen years in her regions, while she tormenteth them through her dark smoke and her wicked fire, so that they come nigh unto destruction. "And thereafter, when the sphere turneth itself, and the little Sabaōth, the Good, who is called in the world Zeus, cometh, and he cometh to the fourth æon of the sphere, that is the Crab, and Boubastis, who is called in the world Aphroditē, cometh into the tenth æon of the sphere which is called the Goat, at that time the veils which are between those of the Left and those of the Right, draw themselves aside, and Yew looketh forth to the right; the whole world becometh alarmed and is agitated together with all the æons of the sphere. And he looketh on the dwellings of Ariouth the Ethiopian, so that her regions are dissolved and ruined, and all the souls which are in her chastisements are carried off and cast back into the sphere anew, because they are ruined through her dark smoke and her wicked fire."

(8) And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjâzâ taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl, (taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, Ezêqêêl the knowledge of the clouds, 〈Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun〉, and Sariêl the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven . . .

(65) From hence now existed the great contrary opposite Will and eternal Enmity between God and Lucifer; for the Power of God moves very softly, meekly, pleasantly, and friendly, so that its Birth cannot be conceived of or apprehended, and the Spirits of Lucifer move and tear very harshly, astringently, in a fiery Manner, swiftly and furiously.

(53) By this you may understand, what great Power the Spirits of the expelled Angels have had in the heavenly Nature; and what Manner of Substance this Perdition or Corruption is of; how they have corrupted and spoiled Nature in Heaven in their Place with their horrible Kindling, from whence the horrible Fierceness which is predominant in this World exists.

(7) Which themselves shall suddenly be sure to see with great Terror, Anguish, and eternal Despair, as also to their Shame and Scorn: of which the Devils are a terrible Example, who were once the fairest and brightest Angels in Heaven, as I shall reveal, write, and manifest as follows. I will suffer God’s Impulse, I am not able to withstand it, Of the Divine Quality.

(2) The Learned have produced many and various Monsters concerning the Beginning of Sin, and Original of the Devil, and scuffled one with another about it; every one of them thought he had the Ax by the Handle, yet it continued hidden from them all till this very Time.

(64) For you must know, that as soon as the divine Light went out in the Devils, they lost their beauteous Form and Image, and became like Serpents, Dragons, Worms, and evil Beasts; as may be seen by Adam's Serpent; and thus it is also with the damned Souls. For this we know in the Original of the first Principle very well. If you ask, how so? Read this following. A Description of a Devil, how he is in his own proper Form, and also how he was in the angelical Form.

(59) And then they looked one upon another, and were ashamed one before another, and they were afraid of the Wrath [or Severity] that entered into them, for it was the Anger of God; and thus they were captivated by the first Principle, as by the Abyss of Hell, which held Adam and Eve captive in their Souls in the eternal [Part;] for it sprung up with Terror, Fear, and Doubt, concerning the Kingdom of God; and they could have no Comfort, [in that Condition,] for they saw the Paradise no more, but the Garden in Eden; so also they had lost the Deity, they could set no Will [or Desire] into it, for the Wrath and Doubt stood in the Way.