(90) Now behold! As in the Deep of this World, through the kindling of the Stars, a Seed is generated out of the Body of the dark Deep, like the creaturely Body, so also in like manner, in Man's House of Flesh, there is generated a Seed, according to the eternal Birth-right of the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits.

(91) Timaeus: which marrow, in our previous account, we termed “seed.” And the marrow, inasmuch as it is animate and has been granted an outlet, has endowed the part where its outlet lies with a love for generating by implanting therein a lively desire for emission. Wherefore in men the nature of the genital organs is disobedient and self-willed, like a creature that is deaf to reason, and it attempts to dominate all because of its frenzied lusts.

(43) Now God said, Let all Manner of Beasts come forth, every one after its Kind; and so there came forth out of the Essence of every one's kind, a Male and Female. And thus the Spirit of the Stars, or the Spirit of the Form of Fire, had now by its Longing copulated with the watery [Spirit,] and two Sexes sprung out of one Essence; the one according to the Limbus in the Form of Fire, and the other according to. the Aquaster [or Spirit of the Water] in the watery Form; yet so [blended or] mixed, that they were alike as to the Body. And so the Male was qualified according to the Limbus, or Form of Fire, and the Female according to the Aquaster in the watery Form.

(113) and the Woman on the Man, and to the Spirit of the Man, understand the root of the Love, which in the Rising up of the Life out of the Water, rises up through the Fire, as also the Woman's Spirit does; and so one Spirit catches the other in that Oil of the Heart, whereby presently a Mass, Seed, or driving Will, or Desire to the propagating of a Man again, arises in the Mass.

(124) For the astringent and bitter Quality receives the Power from the Spirit out of the Heart, and infects or affects itself therewith: And therefore is Nature now become to weak in the Spirit of the Heart, and is not able to elevate its own innermost Birth of the Heart; and for that Cause Nature has brought forth a Male and a Female.

(60) Bonellus* saith: Know, all ye disciples, that out of the elect things nothing becomes useful without conjunction and regimen,* because sperma is generated out of blood and desire. For the man mingling with the woman, the sperm is nourished by the humour of the womb, and by the moistening blood, and by heat, and when forty nights have elapsed the sperm is formed. But if the humidity of the blood and of the womb were not heat, the sperm would not be dissolved, nor the foetus be procreated. But God has constituted that heat and blood for the nourishment of the sperm until the foetus is brought forth, after which it is not nourished, save by milk and fire, sparingly and gradually, while it is dust, and the more it burns the more, the bones being strengthened, it is led towards youth, arriving at which it is independent.t Thus it behoves you also to act in this Art. Know ye that without heat nothing is ever generated, and that the bath causes the matter to perish by means of intense heat. If, indeed, it be frigid, it puts to flight and disperses, but if it have been tempered, it is convenient and sweet to the body, wherefore the veins become smooth and the flesh is augmented. Behold it has been demonstrated to you, all ye disciples! Understand, therefore, and in all things which ye attempt to rule, fear God.

(53) The astringent and bitter Qualities are the Father of the Heat, and the sweet Fountain-water is its Mother, which conceives, retains, and generates it: For the Heat exists through the astringent and bitter hard Driving, which rises up in the sweet Quality, as in Wood or Fuel.

(41) Now then the feminine Tincture comes in to aid, and strives for the Child, and supposes that it has the Virgin: And the two Tinctures wrestle both of them for the Virgin, and yet neither of them both has her, and which of the two overcomes, according to that the Fruit gets the Mark of Distinction [or Sex.] But because that the feminine [Tincture] is weak, therefore it takes the Blood also to it in the Matrix, whereby it supposes it shall retain the Virgin. The secret Gate of Women.

(48) The Seed of Man is generated in such a Manner, as the wonderful Proportion, Harmony, or Form of Nature in its Wrestling and Rising up, is generated from Eternity.

(31) Man is made out of the Seed of the Earth, out of an incorporated or compacted Mass or Lump; [“understand out of the Matrix of the Earth, wherein the Eye is twofold; the one in God, and the other in this World, out of three Principles;”] and not out of the Wrath, but out of the Birth or Geniture of the Earth; and stood in the astral Birth or Geniture in the Part of the Love, but Wrath hung to him, which he should have put forth from himself, as the Fruit puts forth the Bitterness of the Tree;

(54) And all the waters shall be joined with the waters: that which is above the heavens is the masculine, and the water which is beneath the earth is the feminine.

(94) And then also it presses forth in little Leaves, like a Woman which is in travel and bringing forth, but the little Leaves or Blossoms have no more its Colour and Form, but the Form of all the Qualities; for now the sweet Quality must bring forth the Children of the other Qualities.

(88) Behold, dost thou know how a Child comes to be Flesh and Blood, and in the End a living Soul? And do you not know that the Tincture of the Mother is first, when a Child shall be conceived? which is done in the Desire of the Will between Man and Woman; where then the Seed [for the Child] is sown, and then the Tincture in the Matrix assumes it, with the Mixture of the Limbus of the Man. And though the outward Mother does not desire [to have] the Child, but desires many Times only to have her Pleasure; yet the inward [Mother] desires it, and also first of all impregnates itself in the Tincture, and then attracts the oFiat to it, and holds the Limbus of the Man, and becomes impregnated.

(44) And so now there is a vehement Desire in the Creatures. The Spirit of the Male seeks the loving Child in the Female, and the Female in the Male; for the Irrationality of the Body in the unreasonable Creatures knows not what it does; the Body would not, if it had Reason, move so eagerly towards Propagation; neither does it know any Thing of the Impregnation [or Conception,] only its Spirit does so burn and desire after the Child of Love, that it seeks Love, (which yet is paradisical) and it cannot comprehend it; but it makes a P Semination only, wherein there is again a Center to the Birth. And thus is the Original of both Sexes, and their Propagation; yet it does not attain the paradisical Child of Love, but it is a vehement Hunger, and so the Propagation is acted with great Earnestness.

(38) But know that the Tincture is in Mankind somewhat diverse from that in Womankind; for the Tincture in Mankind goes out of the Limbus, or Man, and the Tincture in Womankind goes out of the Matrix. For the Virtue of the Soul frames [imprints, fashions or images] itself not only in the Tincture, but in the whole Body; for the Body grows in the Tincture.

(94) Now that Seed has first a Mother, which is the dark Chamber of the House of Flesh. Secondly, it has a Mother, which is the Wheel of the seven Spirits, according to the Kind and Manner of the seven Planets. Thirdly, it has a Mother which is generated in the Circle of the seven Spirits in the Center, and is the Heart of the seven Spirits.

(82) But seeing Man's Body is its proper own, and is a Son of the whole Body of God, therefore it generates also a proper Seed of its own, according to the Government or Dominion of his corporeal, qualifying, or fountain Spirits.

(87) This corporeal Exsiccation, or Drying, I call in this Book the divine SALITTER, for it is therein the Seed of the whole Deity, and is as it were a Mother, which receives the Seed, and always generates Fruit again, according to all the Qualities of the Seed. [The said seventh Spirit.]

(2) The silver one became this earth, the golden one the sky, the thick membrane (of the white) the mountains, the thin membrane (of the yoke) the mist with the clouds, the small veins the rivers, the fluid the sea.

(32) "After this manner were the seven men generated. Earth was the female element and water the male element, and from the fire and the æther they received their spirits, and Nature produced bodies after the species and shapes of men. And man received the Life and Light of the Great Dragon, and of the Life was made his Soul and of the Light his Mind. And so, all these composite creatures containing immortality, but partaking of mortality, continued in this state for the duration of a period. They reproduced themselves out of themselves, for each was male and female. But at the end of the period the knot of Destiny was untied by the will of God and the bond of all things was loosened.