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(33) Only the Spirit here sets open for thee the Gates of Hell, that thou mayest see what is the Condition of the Devils and of Hell, and what the Condition of Man is, when the divine Light extinguishes in him, so that he sits in the Wrath of God, and then he lives in such a Generating, in such an Anguish, Smarting, Pains, Woe and Misery.

(34) the Birth or Geniture of Light, Munificence, and Well-doing, to be an eternal hellish Pain and Torment; the Food of pleasing Relish to be an eternal Abomination and Stink, a Loathing of all Fruits; and the House of Lebanon and Cedars to be a stony and rocky House of Fire; the sweet Scent or Relish to be a Stink, and a House of Ruin and Desolation, an End of all Good; the divine Love to be a black, cold, hot, eating, corroding, and yet not consuming Devil, who is an Enmity against God and his Angels; and so he has all the heavenly Hosts or Armies against him. Note, observe. [Note, observe.]

(51) "From hence, in the Creation, Good and Evil are existed: And I exhort the Reader to conceive our very deep Sense right, and not mistake or go astray here, but to read our other Writings, where these Things are sufficiently explained." Of the great Sin, and contrary or opposite Will; and of the eternal Enmity of King Lucifer, together with his whole Host or Army against God.

(12) And in his Pride he struck and smote himself with Darkness and Blindness, and made himself a Devil, and that he must be, and abide so eternally. [Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9.] [“He knew in God only the Majesty, and not the Word in the Center, which has the Fan or casting Shovel: He blinded himself with the astringent Darkness; for he would needs inflame himself, and rule in the Fire over the Light, and over the ‘Meekness.’”]

(77) But now seeing he is a sworn Arch-enemy of God, and though indeed the Disputants and Helpers of the Devil will needs force it so in Arguments, that God wills the Good and also the Evil, and that he has created some Men to Damnation, therefore and thereupon the Spirit of God cites them, upon Pain of eternal Enmity, to come before this Looking-Glass, wherein their Heart shall be laid open; and they shall see what God is, and who the Devil is, or how he is become a Devil.

(37) And indeed he has done somewhat, in that he has set the divine Power into a Burning, which appears even in the Sun and Stars; also the Fire in the Salitter in the Elements is often kindled, so that it seems as if the Deep was of a burning Fire; of which I shall speak in another Place. He slept back out of the Meekness into the anxious Fire-will, and fell into Darkness. The Reader is advertised, that he must not understand in any Place, as if the Devil had kindled or fired the Light of God; no, but the Forms of Nature only, out of which the Light shines. For he has not comprehended the Light, as little as the Fire does, which cannot lay hold on the Light: But he entered into the Fire, and is expelled into the Darkness, and has neither Fire nor Light, besides, without, or distinct from his Creature. [Or his own creaturely Existence.]

(106) But seeing God has accused him as an eternal Enemy, and condemned him to eternal Imprisonment, where he now sees his Hour-Glass more and more plainly before his Eyes; and seeing his hellish Kingdom is revealed to me by the Spirit of God; so I curse him also together with and among all holy Souls of Men, and renounce and defy him as an eternal Enemy, who has often spoiled and torn up my Vineyard.