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(81) and the Place also of the created World, even unto Heaven, as also the Deep where now the Earth is; that was all a pure and holy Saltier, wherein the seven Spirits of God were compleat and pleasant, as now in Heaven, although they are still compleat and full in this World. But observe the Circumstances rightly.

(27) For the Water which rests on the Earth, is as a corrupt, perished, and mortal or dead Being, or Thing, as the Earth is, and belongs also to the outermost Birth, which with its Comprehensibility, or as to its Palpability, stands in Death, even as the Earth and Stones do.

(71) The outward Earth is a bitter Stink, and is dead, and that every Man understands to be so. But the Saltiter is destroyed or killed through the Wrath; for thou canst not deny, but that God's Wrath is in the Earth, otherwise it would not be so astringent, bitter, sour, venomous and poisonous, neither would it engender such poisonous, venomous, evil Worms and creeping Things. But if thou shouldst say, that God has created them thus out of his Purpose, that is as much as if thou shouldst say, that God himself is Evil, Malice, Malignity or Wickedness.

(33) But seeing all is corrupted, therefore must the upper Water in the Wrath of God come to help the astringent, bitter, and hot Quality of the Earth, and allay, mitigate, and quench its Fire, so that the Life may always be generated, and that the holy Birth between Death and the Wrath of God may be generated also.

(7) With a cup of pure water from the Deep shalt thou purify thy way!

(40) In the Water it causes a Stink, Putrifieds, and Rankness, a Forgetfulness of all Good, a Sadness of Life, a House of Death, a Beginning of Sorrow, and an End of Joy. Of the Astringent and Salish Quality.

(15) Now observe, the Heaven is the whole Deep so far as the Ethera, or Skies have given up themselves to the Birth of this World, and that Heaven is the Matrix, out of which Earth, Stones, and the material Water are generated. And there God separated the material Water from the Matrix; and here it is very plainly discerned, that the material Water is as it were dead, or has Death in it; for it could not abide in the moving Mother, but was created [to be] upon the Globe of the Earth, and God called it Sea, [Meer;] in which [Word] is understood in the Language of Nature, as it were a Springing [or Growing] in Death, or a Life in Corruption: Although herein I shall be as one that is dumb to the Reader, yet I know it very well, and I am very well satisfied therewith. But because the bestial Man is not worthy to know it, therefore I will not here cast the Pearl before the Swine; but for the Children of God, which will be benefited by it, the Spirit of God will certainly teach and instruct them in it. Note.

(20) "(Last Digestion.) IN GREAT MEASURE IT ASCENDS FROM THE EARTH UP TO HEAVEN, AND DESCENDS AGAIN, NEWBORN, ON THE EARTH, AND THE SUPERIOR AND THE INFERIOR ARE INCREASED IN POWER. The Azoth ascends from the Earth, from the bottom of the Glass, and redescends in Veins and drops into the Earth and by this continual circulation the Azoth is more and more subtilized, Volatilizes Sol and carries the volatilized Solar atoms along with it and thereby becomes a Solar Azoth, i.e. our third, and genuine Sophic Mercury, and this circulation of the Solar Azoth must continue until it ceases of itself, and the Earth has sucked it all in, when it muse become the black pitchy matter, the Toad [the substances in the alchemical retort and also the lower elements in the body of man], which denotes complete putrefaction or Death of the Compound.