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For the Harshness is as hard as a Stone [or Flint,] and the Bitterness rushes and rages like a P breaking Wheel, which breaks the Hardness, and stirs up the Fire, so that all comes to be a terrible Crack of Fire, and flies up; and the Harshness or Astringency breaks in Pieces, whereby the dark Tartness is terrified and sinks back, and becomes as it were feeble or weak, or as if it were killed and dead, and runs out, becomes thin, and yields itself to be overcome: But when the strong Flash of Fire shines back again upon or into the Tartness, and is mingled therein, and finds the Harshness so thin and overcome, then it is much more terrified; for it is as if Water was thrown upon the Fire, which makes a Crack: Yet when the Crack or Terror is thus made in the overcome Harshness, thereby it gets another Source, [Condition or Property,] and a Crack, or Noise of great Joy proceeds out of the wrathful Fierceness, and rises up in fierce Strength, as a kindled Light: For the Crack in the Twinkling of an Eye becomes white, clear, and light; for thus the Kindling of the Light comes in that very Moment as soon as the Light (that is, the new Crack of the Fire) is infected or impregnated with the Harshness, the Tartness or Astringency kindles, and shrieks, or is affrighted by the great Light that comes into it in the Twinkling of an Eye, as if it did awake from Death, and becomes soft or tmeek, lively and joyful; it presently loses its dark, rough, harsh, and cold Virtue, and leaps or springs up for Joy, and rejoices in the Light; and its Sting or Prickle, which is the Bitterness, that triumphs in the turning Wheel for great Joy.

The Original of the bitter Quality is, when the Flash of Life in the Heat rises up in the astringent Quality; and now when the Flash of Fire in the...

And then the bitter Quality trembles, and dissolves the Hardness in the astringent Quality, the Light becomes dry in the astringent, and shines clear,...

But when it sees that it is like to be taken or captivated, the bitter Quality from within pressing so hard upon it, and the Heat from without pressin...

Now when the astringent or harsh and bitter Quality get their Light from the Heat, then they see the sweet Quality, and taste of its sweet Water, and...

For the Flash, as a Crack, penetrates suddenly, whereby Joy exits, and then the Stock of the kindled Light in the sweet Water abides standing, and pre...

Against which the Wrath, with its Snarling in the astringent and bitter Quality, at the hinder Gums in the Hollow on the Tongue, struggles, and keeps...

But when the bitter Flash, together with the Astringent and Fire-spirit, tastes this Meekness, there is nothing else then but a mere Longing, Desiring...

And betwixt these two Qualities is Heat generated from its hard and fierce bitter Rubbing, Tearing and Raging, which rises up in the bitter and hard Q...

For the astringent or harsh Quality, in its Stock or Kernel, when it qualifies or operates in its own Power, is a Darkness: And the sweet Quality, in ...

Then it kindles the sweet Source or Quality, with an Intent to be refreshed, but there is no Sap left, only the sweet Source or Quality is now...

And the powerful and great bright Flash, which was risen up in the sweet Water in the Heat, from whence the bitter Quality exits in the sweet Water, t...

Yet further, this Quality, when it is kindled, is the bitter hellish Fire, which puts out the Light, turning the sweet Quality into a Sink, causing a ...

When the astringent Quality rubs itself with the Bitter, so that the Heat rises up in the sweet Spring or Fountain-water, then the Heat kindles the...

When it goes from the Hardness and Heat, then the Hardness makes a knocking Sound in the Flash, and the Heat rings forth, and the Light in the Flash...

Now the astringent and bitter Quality, without the sweet Water, rub and drive themselves so hard one against another, that they generate the dark...

And the Flash in itself keeps its Fierceness, from whence exists the bitter Quality, or the bitter Spirit, which now rises up in the astringent Qualit...

But when the sweet Quality leaps or springs up through the Knot, then the bitter Quality had so much affected, or wrought upon it, that it was all in ...

The Fierceness or Bitterness is generated in the Midst or Center of the Hardness, and the Heat is generated in the Flash, and therein also it...

There each Spirit tastes of the other, and gets mere new Strength and Power, for the astringent Quality grows now very pliable and yielding, because...