(18) For his Purpose was, to create another angelical Host or Army out of this House, which was thus to be done. He would create an Angel, which was Adam, who should generate out of himself Creatures like himself, which should possess the House of the new Birth, and in the Middle of Time, their King should be generated or born out of a human Body, and possess the new-born Kingdom as a King of these Creatures, instead of the corrupted and expelled Lucifer.

(73) And in this Manner it is with the Angels, they are also all composed, framed, or figured out of the Divine Seed, but every one has his own Body to itself, though they are in God's House, and feed on the Fruit of their Mother, out of which they were made, yet the Bodies are their proper own.

(65) Behold, O Child of Man! All the Angels were created in the first Principle, and by the outflowing Spirit were formed, and made a Body in a true angelical and spiritual Manner, and enlightened from the Light of God, that they might increase the paradisical Joy, and abide [therein] eternally. But seeing they were to abide eternally, they must be figured [or formed] out of the indissoluble Band, out of the first Principle, which is an indissoluble Band; and they ought to look upon the Heart of God, and feed upon the Word of God, and this Food would be their holy Preservation, and would make their Image clear and light; as the Heart of God, in the Beginning of the second Principle, enlightens the Father, (that is, the first Principle;) and there the divine Power, Paradise, and the Kingdom of Heaven spring up.

(20) Behold! this was God's Purpose, and that must stand, which is, he would re-edify out of the corrupted Nature of the Earth, or build again to himself an angelical Host or Army: Understand a new Body, which should subsist eternally in God.

(24) Now the Purpose of God was, to make a curious excellent angelical Host or Army out of the Earth, and all Manner of Ideas, Forms, or Images. For in and upon that all should spring, and generate themselves anew, as we see in mineral Ores, Stones, Trees, Herbs and Grass, and all manner of Beasts, after a heavenly Image or Form.

(1) And He said to the angel of the presence : "Write7 for Moses from the beginning of creation till My sanctuary has been built among them for all eternity.

(32) The Angel-Princes were created according to the Spirits of God, and the Cherubim according to the Heart of God: And as the Divine Being works, so also do the Angels.

(143) For as God works in Nature to the Producing of all Manner of Forms, Ideas, Images, Vegetations, Springings, Fruits and Colours; so do the Angels also in very great Simplicity or Sincerity; and though they should scarce touch the least Twig, or scarce rejoice in the beauteous Flowers in the heavenly May, and discourse and confer never so little, weakly, meanly, or simply thereof; yet nevertheless that very Tone or Speech rises up together in the divine Salitter, and helps to co-image, and frame or form all.

(1) And the angel of the presence who went before the camp of Israel took the tables of the divisions of the years — from the time of the creation — of the law and of the testimony of the weeks, of the jubilees, according to the indivi- dual years, according to all the number of the jubilees [according to the individual years], from the day of the [new] creation fwhenf the heavens a and the earth shall be renewed and all their creation according to the powers of the heaven, and according to all the creation of the earth, until the sanctuary of the Lord shall be made in Jerusalem7 on Mount Zion, and all the luminaries be renewed for healing and for peace and for blessing for all the elect of Israel, and that thus it may be from that day and unto all the days of the earth. The Angel dictates to Moses the Primaeval History : the Creation of the World and Institution of the Sabbath (ii. - ; cf. Gen. i-ii. ).

(16) the Angels are not only imaged or framed out of the seventh Nature-Spirit, as the transitory Creatures are, but when the Deity moved itself to the creating of Angels, then in every Circle, wherein each Angel was incorporated or compacted together, there the Deity with its whole Substance and Being was incorporated or compacted together, [* Understand the two eternal Principles, viz. “the Fire and the Light, and yet not the Quality or Source of the Fire, but the Essence of it,”] and became a Body, and yet the Deity continued in its Seat, as before. Understand this well:

(60) in this Body of Nature now was the Kindling made, for out of this Body the Angels also were created; and if they had not elevated and kindled themselves in their Highmindedness, then their Body might have stood eternally in a Stillness, and in an incomprehensible Meekness, as it is in the other Principalities of Angels that are without, distinct from this World, and their Spirit had generated itself eternally in their Body of Meekness, as the holy Trinity does in the Body or Corporiety of God, and their inborn or innate Spirit had been one Heart, one Will, and one Love with or in the holy Trinity: For to that End also they were created in the Body of God, to be a Joy to the Deity.

(13) God created Angels out of himself, for this reason, that they might be harder and drier, incorporated or compacted together than the Ideas, Figures, Shapes or Forms, which through the Qualifying or Operating of the Spirits of God in Nature rise up, and also through the Moving of the Spirits vanish or pass away again, that their Light in their Hardness should shine the clearer and brighter, and that the Tone of the Body should sound the clearer and shriller, whereby the Joyfulness should increase the more in God. This was the Cause that God created Angels.

(11) Now you will ask; How are the Angels then created according to the Image of God? Answer.

(16) And, behold, it was commanded and engraven concerning all his seed, on the heavenly tables, to remove them and root them out, and to 1 t. e. the angels. execute judgment upon them like the judgment of Sodom, and to leave no seed of the man on earth on the day of condemnation.

(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.

(8) Behold, when God had created the third Principle, after the Fall of the Devils, when they fell from their Glory (for they had been Angels, standing in the Place of this World) yet nevertheless he would that his Will and Purpose should stand; and therefore he would give to the Place of this World an angelical he having created the Creatures, whose Shadows after the Changing of the World should continue for ever, yet there was no Creature found that could have any Joy therein [in the Shadows,] neither was there any Creature found that might manage the Beasts in this World; therefore God said, Let us make Man an Image like unto us, which may rule over all the Beasts, and Creatures upon the Earth; and God created Man to be his Image, after the Image of God created he him.

When the Almighty determined to create mankind to be proved by good and evil, He deputed the angel Gabriel to bring a handful of earth for the purpose of forming Adam's body. Gabriel accordingly girded his loins and proceeded to the Earth to execute the divine commands. But the Earth, being apprehensive that the man so created would rebel against God and draw down God's curse upon her, remonstrated with Gabriel, and besought him to forbear. She represented that Gabriel would at the last day be pre-eminent over all the eight angels who would then support the throne, and that it therefore was only right that he should prefer mercy to judgment. At last Gabriel granted her prayer, and returned to heaven without taking the handful of earth. Then God deputed Michael on the same errand, and the Earth made similar excuses to him, and he also listened to her crying, and returned to heaven without taking a handful. He excused himself to the Almighty by citing the example of the people to whom the prophet Jonah was sent, who were delivered from the threatened penalty in consequence of their lamentation for their sins; and the text, "If He please, He will deliver you from that which ye shall cry to Him to avert." Then God sent the angel Israfil on the same errand, and he also was diverted from the execution of it by a divine intimation. At last God sent 'Izrail, the angel of death, who, being of sterner disposition than the others, resolutely shut his ears to the Earth's entreaties, and brought back the required handful of earth. The Earth pressed him with the argument that God's command to bear away a handful of her substance against her will did not override the other divine command to take pity on suppliants; but 'Izrail would not listen to her, remarking that, according to the canons of theological interpretation, it was not allowable to have recourse to analogical reasoning to evade a plain and categorical injunction. He added, that in executing this injunction, painful though it might be, he was to be regarded only as a spear in the hand of the Almighty. The moral is, that when any of God's creatures do us a harm, we ought to regard them only as instruments of God, who is the Only Real Agent.

(86) And as the rising up of the Spirits in every Place is, so the Tone also forms itself, but very meekly, and incomprehensibly to the Bodies of the Angels, but very comprehensibly to the animated or soulish Birth or Geniture of Angels: And as the Deity presents itself in each Place, so the Angels also present themselves: For the Angels were created out of this Being, and have among them their Princes of the qualifying or fountain Spirits of God, as they are in the Birth or Geniture of God.

(6) When God Almighty had decreed in his Council, that he would make Angels or Creatures out of himself: then he made them out of his eternal Power and Wisdom, according to the Form and Manner of the Ternary in his Deity, and according to the Qualities in his Divine Being.

(46) But the Angels and the Devils, as also the Soul of Man, are merely and purely out of the same Spirit. The Devils and the Angels, in the Time of their Corporization, continued therein; and the Soul of Man, in the Time of the creating of the Body, [is] breathed in from the Spirit of God, in the Root of the third Principle, and now continues therein, in Eternity, inseparately and immoveably in the eternal Substance or Essence of GOD. And as little as the pure eternal Birth and the indissoluble Band of the Father ends or vanishes, so little also will such a Spirit have an End.