(93) But when the astringent Quality was kindled in Lucifer, then it became very cold; for the Coldness is its own proper Spirit, and thereupon now it kindles with its cold Fire also all in the Salitter. And

(90) so by this Kindling, it kindled its Spirit also, which now went forth at the Mouth, the Ears, the Eyes, and the Nostrils, as a very fierce, furious spirit, and strove against the Salitter in its Place, as a furious, storming, raging Lord, and kindled the Salitter, and attracted or drew all forcibly together. Thou must understand it right.

(9) For the Spirit of Heat could not kindle itself, from whence the Light exists, and out of or from the Light through the Water the Love and Meekness exist, but it was a Birth or Geniture of an austere, cold, and severe Fierceness, which is a Drier, Spoiler, and Enemy of Meekness, which in the Creatures generates the hard Bones.

(91) The astringent or harsh Quality in the Spirit that went forth, kindled the astringent or harsh Quality which was in the Place of its Region, or in Nature, viz. in the seventh qualifying or fountain Spirit, and ruled powerfully in the astringent Quality, in the Salitter; and that the astringent Quality in the Salitter would not have, but strove with the sweet Water against this Spirit; but all would not help, the Storm grew hotter and hotter, the longer the greater, till at length the astringent or harsh Quality of the Salitter was kindled.

(9) For when the seven Spirits kindled themselves in their outermost Birth or Geniture, then they generated such a violent moving Spirit; and to the sweet Water, which before before the Times of the Wrath was very rarified and thin, and incomprehensible, grew very thick and elevated, and swelled, and the astringent Quality grew very sharp, and cold-fier, or fierce-cold, for it got a strong Attracting together, like Salt.

(82) When King Lucifer elevated himself, then he elevated himself in the seven qualifying Fountain-spirits, and kindled them with his Elevation, so that all was wholly burning, and the astringent Quality was so hard and compact, that it generated Stones; and it was so cold, that it made the sweet Spring or Fountain-water turn to Ice.

The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE. BOREAS, whose wint'ry blasts, terrific, tear The bosom of the deep surrounding air; Cold icy pow'r, approach, and fav'ring blow, And Thrace a while desert expos'd to snow: The misty station of the air dissolve, With pregnant clouds, whose frames in show'rs resolve: Serenely temper all within the sky, And wipe from moisture, Æther's beauteous eye. Next: LXXX: To The West Wind Sacred Texts | Classics « Previous: The Initiations of Orpheus: LXXVIII: To Themis Index Next: The Initiations of Orpheus: LXXX: To The West Wind » Sacred Texts | Classics

(76) And if thou art not wilfully blind, thou mayest know, that the Air is that very Spirit, but in the Place of this World Nature is kindled therein very swelling in the Wrath-fire, which Lord Lucifer effected, and the Holy Ghost, who is the Spirit of Meekness, lies hidden therein in his Heaven.

(20) So now a Spirit is nothing else but a Springing Will, and in the Will there is the Anguish to the Birth, and in the Anguish the Fire generates itself, and in the Fire the Light, and from the Light the Will becomes friendly, pleasant, mild, and sweet, and in the sweet Will the Kingdom and the Glory generates itself. Thus the Light keeps the Might [or Power;] and if that be put out, then the Virtue [or Power] and Glory ceases, and the Kingdom also.

(19) The Cold also in God is not of such a Kind, but is a Cooling or Refreshing of the Heat, a Mollifying or Allaying of the Spirit, a rising up, boiling, or moving of the Spirit. Note here the Depth. God saith

(66) It is not that Spirit of God which is Lord and Chief in Nature, which causes or makes the Juggling, but it is made in the Fierceness of the Salitter, which Lord Lucifer has kindled with his Elevation, which is his eternal Kingdom.

(100) But when that was done, he roared with his kindled Fire-spirit abroad into the Nature of God, and then the whole Body in the Nature of God, as far as his Kingdom and Dominion reached, was kindled. But seeing his Light was instantly extinguished, he could no more qualify or unite with his Spirit in the two Births or Genitures, viz. of the Son of God, and of the Holy Spirit of God, but remained standing in the sharp Birth or Geniture of God.

(30) And they say, Yes, we will take thee in, for thou art a Member of our Spirit; thou shalt dwell in us, and strengthen the Essences of our Spirit, that it may not faint; yet we must also have the Children of the Earth (for they have our Quality also in them) that we may rejoice. And the Spirit of the Lungs says; Then I will live in you wholly, and rejoice myself with you. The Gate of the Syderial, or Starry Spirit. 3 1. Thus now when the Light of the Sun, which had discovered and imprinted itself in the Fire-flash of the Essences of the Spirit, and was shining in the Fire-flash (as in a strange Virtue, and not in the Sun's own Virtue,) [when he] sees that he has gotten the Region, and that the Essences of the Soul (which are the Worm or the Spirit) as also the Elements will rejoice in his Virtue and Splendor, and that the Elements have made their four Regions [or Dominions] and Habitations, for an everlasting Possession, and that he should be a King, and that they should serve at Court (in the Spirit of the Essences) in the Heart, and so exceedingly love him, and rejoice in their Service, and have besides brought the Children of the Earth, that the Spirit might present them (where then they will first be frolick and potent, and eat and drink of the Essences of the Children of the Earth) then i he thinks with himself, it is good to dwell here, thou art a King, thou wilt bring kthy Kindred [Offspring, or Generation] hither, and raise them up above the Elements, and make thyself Gate where the Children of this World are wiser than the Children of Light. O Man! consider thyself! And he draws the Constellations to him, and brings them into the Essences, and sets them over the Elements, with their wonderful and unsearchable various Essences, (whose Number is infinite,) and makes himself

(6) And, afterwards, the wind spirit, so that it may not be contaminated (gûmîkht), stirs up the wind and atmosphere as the life stirs in the body; and the water was all swept away by it, and was brought out to the borders of the earth, and the wide-formed ocean arose therefrom.

(70) If thou stirrest or awakest the Spirit in the Fire, then there rises up in thee the bitter and harsh Anger; for as soon as the Fire is kindled, which is done in the Hardness and Fierceness, then springs up the bitter Fierceness or Wrath in the Flash. [Anger]

(40) But he that will be capable of the kindled Fire of the seven Spirits of God, he shall abide therein, and his qualifying or fountain Spirits shall rise in hellish Pain, which I shall demonstrate clearly in its due Place.

(86) Now being thus agreed, they generated also such a Spirit, which came forth at the Mouth, at the Eyes, at the Ears, and at the Nostrils, and affected or mixed itself with the Salitter that was without distinct from the Body. [y The astringent or harsh Spirit.]

(69) As is apparent in Winter, when there is so hard Cold or Frost, that the Water becomes Ice; though the Sun shines somewhat warm through all the cold Frost, yet for all its Beams, by which it shines on them, it freezes into Snow and Ice.

(92) IV. Fourthly, the Fire-Spirit also, 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.