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(139) But that the bitter Spirit is not awakened, whilst the Spirit goes through its Place, it signifies, that the dark Night in the outward birth or geniture of this World has never comprehended the Light; also never shall comprehend it in all Eternity. [Gen. 1. 6, 7, 1. 8.]

(136) But that it goes likewise through the dark Way or Passage, it signifies, that the Spirit goes forth also through the Darkness, which is yet in a quiet Rest, and generates it to be Light, if it holds still, and does not kindle the Fire. Note.

(113) Now upon the seventh Spirit of God their Foot does stay, which is solid like a Cloud, and clear and bright as a Chrystalline Sea, wherein they walk upward and downward, which Way soever they please. For their Agility or Activity is as swift as the divine Power itself is, yet one Angel is more swift than another, and that answerably according to their Quality.

(44) But the seven Spirits, which are in an Angel, which generate the Light and Understanding, they are bound and united with the whole God, that they should not qualify any other Way, either higher or more vehemently, than God himself; but that there should be one and the same Manner and Way between them both.

(35) For even in the Divine Power, one Spirit does not go through all the Spirits equally at once in its rising up: For when it rises up, then indeed it touches or stirs them all at once, but it is caught in its rising up, so that it must lay down its Stateliness and Pomp, and not triumph over all the Seven. [Or Afcension.]

(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

(42) And so now the Angels and blessed Men [will] remain in the Birth of the Light; and the Spirits of Alteration out of Light into the Source [or Torment,] together with the Spirits of the wicked Men [will remain] in the eternal Darkness, where no Recalling is to be found; for the Spirits cannot go into the Corruptibility [or Transitoriness] again. They are created out of the aLimbus of God, out of the harsh Matrix, out of which the Light of God exists from Eternity; and not like the Beasts out of the Out-Birth, which went forth out of the Limbus of the conceived Purpose of God, which is finite [or takes an End,] and has been [or appeared] here, only that it might be an eternal Shadow and Figure.

(121) Behold, thou understanding Spirit: The Spirit speaks to thee, and not to the dead Spirit of the Flesh: Open the Door of thy astral Birth wide, and elevate that one Part of the astral Birth in the Light, and let the other in the Wrath stand still, and take Heed also that thy animated or soulish Spirit do wholly unite with the Light. And

(61) Now if these seven Spirits in any one Place were not triumphingly, then in that Place there is no Mobility, but a deep Darkness; and although the Spirits are perfect in that Place, yet that Place is a dark House, as you may perceive and understand by a dark Cave or Room close shut up, in which the kindled Spirits of the Planets and Stars cannot kindle the Elements.

(145) it is not a constant and lasting Thing or Being, Clarifying or Brightening of the qualifying or fountain Spirits, much less of the bestial Body, but it is the Ray of the breaking through of the Light of God with a fiery Impulse, which rises up through the meek Water of Life in the Love, and remains standing in its Heaven.

(19) For that Spirit springs up out of all the Powers of the Angel, and goes up into the Mind, where it has five open Doors, there it can look round about and see whatsoever is in God, and also whatsoever is in itself,

(12) But the Spirit of the Grimness [or Fierceness] in the eternal Source [or working Property] would also be manifested, and open its Wonders; of which much may not be written, for it is a Mysterium [Mystery or hidden Secret] that belongs not to us to open, though indeed we have the Knowledge of it; let it stay till the Time of the Lily, wherein then the Rose will blossom, and then the Thorns in Babel will not prick us.

(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.

(23) But now the holy God would not let this Place of his Body, understand the Space or Room of this World, stand in eternal Darkness and Ignominy, and leave it to the Devils for their proper own, but generated a new Regiment or Dominion of Light, and of all the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits of the Deity, which the Devil could neither apprehend, nor lay hold on or touch; neither was it useful or profitable to him at all.

(15) And now when the Spirits move and would speak, the hard Quality must open itself; for the bitter Spirit with its Flash breaks it open, and then there the Tone goes forth, and is impregnated with all the seven Spirits, which distinguish the Word, as it was decreed in the Center, that is, in the Middle of the Circle, whilst it was yet in the Council of the seven Spirits.

(21) For in Heaven there is no such Air, but the Qualities are very meek and joyful, like a pleasant clearing Breath of Wind, and the Holy Ghost is among all the Qualities in the Saltiter and Mercurius. And

(108) For in the Light in the sweet Water all Astringency, and Hardness, and Bitterness, and Heat, are mitigated and made pleasant, and so there is in the seven Spirits nothing else but a pleasant Striving, Struggling, and wonderful Generating, like a divine holy Sport or Scene of God.

(142) Now for such an End has God created the Angels, and they do so too: for their Spirit, which in the Center or Heart goes forth from their Light in the Power of all the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits, that goes forth at their Mouth, as God the Holy Ghost goes forth from the Father and Son, and helps to form, image or frame all in God (that is to say, in the divine Nature) through the Mercurius, Song and Speaking, and Sport or Scene of Joy.

(18) After that there goes forth out of all the Powers of the Angel, and also out of the Light of the Angel, a Fountain which springs or boils in the whole Angel; and that is its Spirit, which rises up into all Eternity: For in that Spirit is all Knowledge and Skill of all the Powers which are in the total God.