(26) And this [process] together [with the agents therein] is the wrath or anger of God, the source and original of the hellish fire. As we see by Lucifer, who elevated and compressed himself so hard together with his legions, that the sweet fountain-water in him was dried up, wherein the light kindleth, and wherein the love riseth up.

(53) For it has not this understanding or meaning, that the wrath-fire should be extinguished, and be no more; for then the devils also must become holy angels again, and live in the holy heaven; but that not being so, a hole, burrow or dungeon in this world must remain to be their habitation.

(30) So if it be kindled, then it is a fierce source of wrath, and a beginning of hell, and a torment and woe of the hellish fire, also a quality of darkness; for therein are extinguished the divine love, and also the divine light.

(10) And further, when the Horror [or Crack or Shriek] of the Fire is come into its harsh Mother, and has thus overcome its Mother, then itself is much more terrified, for there it loses its fierce or strong Property, because the Mother [has] attained another is come to be, which in the inanimate Matrix, the Materia, [or Matter,] in the Midst of the Horror [or Crack] is come to be a soft and bright mixt Matter, viz. from the Crack of the Light [is proceeded] Gold, Silver, Copper, Tin, Lead, &c. according as every Place in the Matrix stood in the wrestling Center. 1 1. For the Birth in the whole Space of this World (as far as Lucifer's Kingdom reached) was thus; and therefore there is very different Kind of Earth, Metals, and other Things in one Place, than in another. And it is plain before our Eyes, that all Metals are mixed which proceeds from the a bringing forth in infinitum; which we well understand and see, but cannot utter, nor dare we speak it, for it troubles us, and it reaches into the Deity, which is without Beginning, and eternal; therefore the Creature must let it alone upon Pain of the Loss both of its Reason and Sense.

(113) On the contrary, the devils, with all wicked men, will be forced into a hole, where a hellish stink will well up and rise up, and the hellish fire, and the hellish coldness and bitterness, will burn after the manner of the kindled spirits of God, eternally in their body, as also in their courts, dominions, regions, space or circumference.

(92) IV. Fourthly, the fire-spirit, which stands in the horrible anguish and pangs of life, must be also melted away, for it is a continued father of the wrath, and out of or from that is generated the hellish woe.

(42) And the Element remains hidden to the Anger and Fierceness [or Wrath,] and stands in Paradise; and the fierce Wrath goes still out from the Element; and therefore God has captivated the Devils with the Element in the fierce Wrath, and he keeps them [in] with the Element; and the fierce Wrath cannot [touch or] comprehend it, like the Fire and the Light; for the Light is neither hot nor cold, but the fierce Wrath is hot; and the one holds the other, and the one generates the other.

(68) For the wrath-fire in nature is not, during this time of the world, the devil's own house of his power; for the love stands hidden in the centre of the wrath-fire, and Lucifer, together with his angels, lies imprisoned in the outward wrath-fire, even until the Judgment of God: Then he will have the wrath-fire separated from the love, for an eternal bath or lake, and he will wash his juggler's head and face withal, doubtless.

(36) If to be born in Hell, songs [like wailings], due to evil karma, will be heard. [One will be] compelled to enter therein unresistingly. Lands of gloom, black houses, and white houses, and black holes in the earth, and black roads along which one hath to go, will appear. If one goeth there, one will enter into Hell; and, suffering unbearable pains of heat and cold, one will be very long in getting out of it. Go not there into the midst of that. It hath been said, Exert thine energy to the utmost': this is needed now.

(41) And now after that the Stars and Elements (as is mentioned before) have got their Region and the House to dwell in, then begins the mighty Strife in great Anxiety about the King of the Life. For the Chamber of the Building (or Fabrick] stands in very great Anguish, and [here] we must consider the Original of the Essence of all Essences, the eternal Birth and the Root of all Things; as that there is in the House of the Anguish, first one only Essence [or Being,] and that Essence is the Mixing of all P Essences, and it has first a Will to generate the Light, and that Will is attractive, [astringent or sour.] Or Hell, A Dwelling for the Senses and Thoughts,

(38) Now in this quality king Lucifer has prepared for himself the right hellish bath or lake. He dares not say that God has framed or erected the hellish quality for him, but he himself has done it: Moreover, he has offended the Deity, and turned the powers of God into a hellish bath or lake, for his own eternal habitation.

(115) But here is no help, their torment increaseth and becometh but the greater; the more they bewail it, the more does the hellish fierceness or wrath kindle itself, they must lie in hell, as dead bones, like singed scorched sheep in the fire, their stink and abomination gnaweth them.

(22) But we say that the fire sanctifies s not flesh, but sinful souls; meaning not the all-devouring vulgar fire but that of wisdom, which pervades the soul passing through the fire.

(67) And when all this took place, from that fiery molten metal and from the convulsion thereof in that place, there was produced a smell of sulphur, and it was connected with those waters, and that valley of the angels who had led astray (mankind) burned beneath that land.

(41) On the other side, the cold fire of the astringent quality was in a mad furious rage against the heat, and against the bitter venom or poison, like a great uproar or hurliburly; and now, furthermore, in the body of Lucifer there was nothing else but a murdering, rubbing, fretting, burning and stinging, a most horrible hellish fire.

(16) Thus you must understand what it is [or means] when the Scripture speaks of revenging the Ungodly, that there is Joy in the Saints at it; for the fierce Wrath [or Grimness,] and the Source [or Torment] of Hell, is the Joy of the Heaven: For if there was no Source [or Pain,] there would be no Flowing-up [or Springing.] But if the Light comes [to be] in the fierce, [austere, sour] Source, then there is mere Joy; and in the Darkness there is a peculiar Enmity in itself, and therein is the eternal Worm generated.

(75) Thus thou shalt know in what Manner it is Sin before God; thou hast in thyself the [one eternal pure] Element, which is a Joy in the Presence of God; and now if thou ragest and ravest with the Source [Quality or Property] of Hell, then thou touchest [or troublest] the Element; and thou stirrest up the did, when he awakened [or stirred up,] and kindled the Fierce and Stones; thou sinnest [piercing] into the Heaven in the Presence of God, upon which the Prophets complained in many Places, That the Disobedient did grieve their God. Though (in himself) he felt no Pain, yet his Wrath was kindled in the first Principle, in the Gate of the Deep, wherein the Soul stands, and that is a mere Abomination before him.

(15) Upon this now ensued the spewing out thereof; for the Deity could not endure such a birth or geniture in the love and light of God, but the corrupted Salitter must be driven together into a lump, and lord Lucifer also with it. So then presently the innate light in the corrupted Salitter went out or extinguished, and the closure of the heaven was made between the wrath and the love, that so such Salitter might be generated no more, and that heaven might hold the wrath in the outermost birth or geniture in nature captive in the darkness, and be an eternal partition or separation between them.

(69) Therefore it is that the wrath-fire of God is yet in the body of God which is in this world, till the end, and many a creature is swallowed up and devoured in the wrath-fire, of which much is to be written, but it is referred to its proper place.

(144) But when the fire is kindled in a creature, that is, when a creature elevateth itself too high or too much (as Lucifer and his legions did), then the light extinguished or goeth out, and the fierce, wrathful and hot source, the source of the hellish fire, riseth up, that is, the spirit of the fire riseth up in the fierce quality.