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(12) And in his Pride he struck and smote himself with Darkness and Blindness, and made himself a Devil, and that he must be, and abide so eternally. [Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9.] [“He knew in God only the Majesty, and not the Word in the Center, which has the Fan or casting Shovel: He blinded himself with the astringent Darkness; for he would needs inflame himself, and rule in the Fire over the Light, and over the ‘Meekness.’”]

(6) Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

(68) If not, then a Hell or Hole, Burrow or Dungeon, shall be given to him for an everlasting Prison, and there shall He together with his Sons be Prisoners for ever: And you shall take heed lest a Court of Justice be held, and pass upon you also.

(24) For though he ascend unto heaven, Thence will he be brought down, And though he make himself strong on earth, Thertce will he be dragged forth, And though he hide himself amongst the nations, Even from thence will he be rooted out ; And though he descend into Sheol, There also will his condemnation be great, And there also he will have no peace.

(22) For when King Lucifer had caused this Place of the World to be appointed as a House of Wrath for him, and supposed thus fiercely and powerfully to rule therein, then presently the Light in Nature went out, wherein he supposed to be Lord; and the whole Nature was benumbed and congealed as a Body of Death, wherein was no Mobility, and he must remain there in Darkness, as an eternal captive Prisoner.

(3) And therefore shape thee to bide in this darkness as long as thou mayest, evermore crying after Him that thou lovest. For if ever thou shalt feel Him or see Him, as it may be here, it behoveth always to be in this cloud in this darkness. And if thou wilt busily travail as I bid thee, I trust in His mercy that thou shalt come thereto.

(33) For he has made the House of Light to be a House of Darkness, and the House of Joy to be a House of Mourning, Lamentation, and Sadness; that which was the House of Pleasure, Delight, Vivifying, and Refreshing, he has made to be a House of Thirst and Hunger; the House of Love to be a House of eternal Enmity; and the House of Meekness to be a House of Knocking, Rumbling, Thundering and Lightning; the House of Peace to be a House of Lamenting, and eternal Howling; the House of Laughing to be a House of eternal Trembling and Horror;

(141) But now the Darkness is separated from the Light, and abides in the outermost Birth or Geniture, wherein the Wrath of God rests till the last Judgment-Day: but then the Wrath will be kindled, and the Darkness will be the House or Habitation of eternal Perdition, wherein Lord Lucifer, together with all wicked Men who have flown into Darkness into the Soil of the Wrath, shall have their eternal Dwelling and Residence.

(36) If to be born amongst beasts, rock-caverns and deep holes in the earth and mists will appear. Enter not therein.

(114) Nay, if they could be locked in or barred up into a Hole, that the angry Face of God might not touch them, then they might be quiet and contented, and would not be necessitated to endure eternal Ignominy, Shame, and Reproach.

(24) For he can no more see in the Light of the Sun, but in the Darkness; for he is not become a Creature in this Light, and therefore it is not profitable or useful to him.

(130) thou wilt be such an eternal almighty God therein, as a Prisoner in a deep Prison or Dungeon, where thou wilt neither attain nor see the eternal Light of God. But the kindled bitter Wrath of God will be thy Grate, Bolts and Bounds, out of which thou canst never get.

(145) Stoop not down unto the Darkly-Splendid World; wherein continually lieth a faithless Depth, and Hades wrapped in clouds, delighting in unintellible images, precipitous, winding, a black ever-rolling Abyss; ever espousing a Body unluminous, formless and void.

(12) Thus one of the Wicked curses the other, who has caused him to commit such Wickedness; the Inferior his Superior that has given him Offence, [and been a Stumbling-block to him;] the Laity curse the Clergy or Priests, who have given them evil Examples, and seduced them with false Doctrine; the wicked Curser, Swearer, and Blasphemer, bites and gnaws his Tongue, which has so murdered him; the Mind beats the Head against the Stones; and the Ungodly hide themselves in the Caves and Holes of the Earth, before the Terror of the LORD; for there is great Quaking and Stirring in the Essences of the Anger and fierce Wrath of the LORD; and the Anguish breaks the Heart, and yet there is no Dying; for the Anger is stirring, and the Life of the Ungodly flows up in the Anger. There the Ungodly curses the Heaven and the Earth that bore him, as also the Constellation [or Stars] that led him, and the Hour of his Birth; all his Uncleanness stands before his Eyes, and he sees the Cause of his Horror, and condemns himself; he cannot look upon the Righteous for very Shame; all his Works stand in his Mind, and in the Essences cry, Woe to him that did them, they accuse him; the Tears of those he has afflicted and oppressed are like a fiery stinging Serpent; he desires Rest or Ease, but there is no Comfort, Despair rises up in him, for Hell terrifies him.

(24) As when a Man takes a Stone, or any hard Thing, and rubs it against Wood, these two Things are heated: Now this Heat is but a Darkness, having no Light therein: And so it is also in the Divine Power.

(4) "'1. I have cried unto thee, O Light of lights, in my oppression and thou hast hearkened unto me. "'2. O Light, save my power from unjust and lawless lips and from crafty traps. "'3. The light which was being taken from me in crafty snaring, will not be brought unto thee. "'4. For the traps of Self-willed and the nooses of the merciless [one] are spread out. "'5. Woe unto me, that my dwelling was far off, and I was in the dwellings of the chaos. "'6. My power was in regions which are not mine. "'7. And I entreated those merciless [ones]; and when I entreated them, they fought against me without a cause.'"

(41) With tears starting from his eyes through deadly fear; Yea, tens of founts of tears through terrible dread; With eyes wide opened in deadly apprehension Then will the evildoer be sent to the fiery prison, When his guardian angels behind and before, Who before were unseen, shall appear like patrols, They will hurry him off, pricking him with their spears, And saying, "O dog, begone to thy kennel!" Then the prisoner will cry, "O Lord, I am a hundred,

(2) "'1. O Light of lights, I have had faith in thee. Save me from all these rulers who pursue after me, and help me, "'2. That in sooth they may never take from me my light, as the lion-faced power [did]. For thy light is not with me and thy light-stream to save me. Nay, Adamas is the more enraged against me, saying unto me: Thou hast imprisoned my power in the chaos. "'3. Now, therefore, O Light of lights, if I have done this and have imprisoned it, if I have done any injustice at all to that power, "'4. Or if I have constrained it, as it hath constrained me, then let all these rulers who pursue after me, take my light from me and leave me empty; "'5. And let foe Adamas pursue after my power and seize upon it and take my light from me and cast it into his dark power which is in the chaos, and keep my power in the chaos. "'6. Now, therefore, O Light, lay hold on me in thy wrath and lift up thy power above my foes who have lifted themselves up against me to the very end. "'7. Quicken me quickly, as thou hast said unto me: I will help thee.'