Now when God was to create the World, and all things therein, he had no other a Matter to make it of, but his own which has neither Beginning nor End, and his Greatness and Depth is all. Yet a Spirit does nothing but ascend, flow, move, and continually generate itself, and in itself has chiefly a threefold Manner of Form in its Generating or Birth, vis. Bitterness, Harshness, and cHeat, and these three Manner of Forms are neither of them the first, second, nor third; for all these three are but one, and each of them generates the second and third. For between Harshness and Bitterness, Fire is generated: and the Wrath of the Fire is the Bitterness or Sting itself, and the Harshness is the Stock or Father of both these, and yet is generated of them both; for a Spirit is like a Will, Sense, [or Thought,] which rises up, and in its Rising beholds,perfects, and generates itself.

Before the Times of the created Heavens, the Stars and the Elements, and before the Creation of angels, there was no such Wrath of God, no Death, no...

Thus the Reader is to understand this Book as concerning three Principles or Births; viz. One is the Original of the eternal Nature, in the eternal...

In God all the Spirits triumph as one Spirit, and one Spirit always mitigates and loves the other, and so there is Nothing but mere Joy and Delight:...

For it is of God and in God, and cannot be withheld or hindered, but only by the seven Nature-spirits of the Body, which generate the animated or soul...

Understand this high Thing rightly.

Now then, seeing the Devils kindled their own Bodies, intending thereby to domineer over the whole Deity, therefore the Creator also, in his Wrath,...

Birth or Geniture might be accomplished, whether the Devil will or no, the Creator has therefore in the Body of this World generated himself, as it we...

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...