The Propagation of the Love is most especially to be observed, for it is the loveliest, pleasantest, and sweetest Fountain of all. When the Love generates again a whole Birth, with all the Fountains of the original Essences out of itself, so that the Love in all the a springing Veins in that new Birth is predominant and chief, so that a Center arises therein, then the first Essence, vis. the Tartness, is wholly desirous or longing, wholly sweet, wholly light, and gives itself forth to be Food to all the Qualities, with a hearty Affection towards them all, as a loving Mother has towards her Children, and here the Bitterness may be rightly called Joy, for it is the Rising or Moving [thereof.] What Joy there is here, there is no other Similitude of it, than when a Man is suddenly and unexpectedly delivered out of the Pain and Torment of Hell, and put into the Light of the Divine Joy.

This generating is a very meek, beneficial welldoing, and the bitter spirit is now the living mobility.

In this rising up the astringent quality becometh meek, light, thin or transparent and pleasant or lovely, and obtaineth its life, whose original...

That same light is generated in the midst or centre, out of these four species, out of the unctuosity or fatness of the sweet water, and replenisheth...

For the sweet water, and the light in the sweet water, rise up continually in the astringent quality, and the bitter quality triumpheth continually th...

Now observe, The gracious, amiable, blessed love, which is the fifth fountain-spirit in the divine power, is the hidden source, fountain or quality...

The sweet spring or fountain-water is generated by the driving about or rising up of the spirits, for when the light is generated in the heat, then...

In the middle or central fountain or wellspring, which is the heart, where the birth riseth up, the astringent or harsh quality rubs itself with the...

But when the bitter flash, together with the astringent quality and the fire-spirit, tasteth this meekness, there is nothing else then but a mere long...

There each spirit tasteth of the others, and getteth mere new strength and power, for the astringent quality grows now very pliable and yielding,...

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...