And the Sound or Noise in the turning Wheel, is now the Declarer or Pronouncer in all the Fountains, that the beloved Child is born; for it comes with its Sound before all Doors, and in all Essences; so that in its Awakening, all the Virtues or Powers are stirring, and see, feel, have smell, and taste one another in the Light, for the whole Birth nourishes itself in its first Mother, vis. the harsh Essence, being now become so thin [or pure,] meek, sweet, and full of Joy, and so the whole Birth stands in very great Joy, Love, Meekness, and Humility, and is nothing else than a mere pleasing Taste, a delightful Sight, a sweet Smell, a ravishing Sound to the Hearing, a soft Touch, beyond that which any Tongue can utter or express. How should there not be Joy and Love, where, in the very Midst of Death, the eternal Life is generated, and where there is no Fear of any End, nor can be?

Here observe yet more plainly the Nativity or Birth of the bitter Quality.

For from the touching and moving the living spirit generateth itself, and that same spirit presseth through all births or generatings, very inconceive...

Whereby now the earnest and austere birth or geniture is refreshed; and when it tasteth thereof it grows capable to be raised up, and rejoiceth, and...

For it riseth up swiftly out of the birth, when the water of life cometh into the birth or geniture, like a joyful leaping or springing up of the birt...

For when one power or virtue toucheth another, then they taste one another, and become very full of joy; for the light becometh generated out of all t...

For in the driving together of the body, presently likewise rose up the birth also in great triumph, as in a newborn king, in God; and all the seven q...

For when the love-spirit out of the Heart of God glanced on the Salitter of the mass, then the Salitter did catch hold of it and conceived from it, an...

Then afterwards, that the sound is in every power, and the tone or tune of the sound is according to the quality of every power; and therein...

THE Sixth qualifying or fountain spirit in the divine power is the sound, tone, tune or noise, wherein all soundeth and tuneth; whence ensued speech,...

Though the body stands in the outward palpableness, yet it is formed according to the kind and manner of the inward birth, for in the inward birth or...