(129) For at the very hour when Lucifer elevated himself the Father was moved to wrath in the qualifying or fountain spirits against the legions of Lucifer; and the Heart of God hid itself in the firmament of heaven, where the Salitter, effect, product or fabric of the corporeity was burning already; for without or distinct from the light is the dark chamber of death.

(113) But in the kingdom of Lucifer, the destroyer, it is otherwise, as I have written above concerning the fierceness; and in this world, which is now half kindled also, it is likewise after another manner, and will be so till the day of the restitution; of which I shall write when I treat concerning the creation of this world.

(22) For when king Lucifer had caused this place of the world to be appointed as a house of wrath for himself, and supposed thus fiercely and powerfully to rule therein, then instantly the light in nature went out, wherein he supposed to be lord; and the whole nature was benumbed and congealed as a body of death, wherein was no mobility; and he must remain there in darkness, as an eternal, captive prisoner.

(60) But they must use the heat of the sun to their kindling, because the qualities in this world are half dead, and are too weak; of which king Lucifer was the cause, which you will find, here following, concerning his fall, and concerning the creation of this world. Of the friendly Love, gracious, amiable Blessedness and Unity of the Five Qualifying or Fountain-spirits of God.

(101) For the light of God, and the spirit of God, cannot comprehend the sharp birth or geniture, and therefore they are two distinct Persons; and so lord Lucifer could no more touch, see, feel or taste the Heart of God and the Holy Spirit of God, with his austere, cold and hard firebirth, but was spewed out with his fire-spirit into the outermost nature, wherein he had kindled the wrath-fire.

(55) But seeing the body of Lucifer, was created out of nature, [which is] the most outward birth or geniture, therefore it was unjustly done that he should elevate himself into the innermost and deepest, which he could not do in the divine right, but must only so elevate and kindle himself that thereby the qualifying or fountain spirits might be set or put into the sharpest penetrating and infecting.

(36) Now Lucifer had the fairest, most beautiful and most powerful body in heaven, of or among all the princes of God, and his light, which he has, and which is continually generated in his body, that [light] has incorporated itself with the Heart or Son of God, as if they were one thing.

(99) For this world belongeth as well to the body or corpus [substantiality] of God the Father as the heaven does; but in the locality or space of this world the spirits were kindled through king Lucifer, in his elevation, so that all things in this world are as it were languid and half dead: And therefore it is that we poor men are so very much blinded, and live in such great and desperate danger.

(108) When in this qualifying or acting they had generated the spirit of Lucifer, then the life of the spirit, which riseth up in the water, as also the light, became very sour and sharp.

(145) It [the breaking forth of the light] is not, however, a permanent essence, nor a constant illumination of the qualifying or fountain spirits, much less of the bestial body; but it is the ray of the breaking through of the light of God with a fiery impulse, which riseth up through the meek water of life in the love, and remaineth, abiding in its heaven.

(79) In this hour king Lucifer prepared for himself the hell and eternal perdition, which now stands in the outermost qualifying or fountain spirit of the nature of God, or in the outermost birth or geniture of this world.

(120) Therefore no man ought to think that the devil is able to tear the works of the light out of his [man's] heart, for he can neither see nor comprehend them: and though he rageth and raveth in the outermost birth in the flesh, as in his castle of robbery or fort of prey, do not despair; only take heed that thou thyself bring not the works of wrath into the light of thy heart. Then thy soul will be safe enough from the deaf and dumb devil, who is blind in the light

(100) Now when that was done he roared with his kindled fire-spirit abroad into the nature of God, and then the whole body in the nature of God, as far as Lucifer's kingdom and dominion reached, was kindled. But seeing his light was instantly extinguished, he could no more qualify or unite with his spirit in the two births or genitures, viz. of the Son of God, and of the Holy Spirit of God, but remained fixed in the sharp birth or geniture of God.

(123) So in this manner lord Lucifer brought the Deity into anger and wrath; ["that is, kindled the eternal nature according to the first Principle;"] seeing he, together with all his angels, as a malicious devil, fought or strove against the Deity, intending to bring and subdue the whole circumference, circuit or region under his innate spirits, that they should form, frame, figure and image all, and the whole circumference, region or extent should bow, yield and suffer itself to be ruled and formed by the kindled sharpness of the innate spirits.

(122) And though the devil cannot take the light from me, yet he often hideth or eclipseth it with the outward and fleshly birth or geniture, so that the astral birth or geniture is in anxiety, and in a strait, as if it were captivated or imprisoned.

(62) Stay yet a little while, and the hellish fire will kiss thee; in the meanwhile make much of this Latin, till more grows out of it; thou wilt suddenly lose thy crown. Now one might ask, What then, in Lucifer, is properly that Enmity against God, for which he was thrust and driven out of his Place?

(24) But in the heavenly pomp or state it is not so elevating; for it does not elevate itself, neither does it kindle itself; king Lucifer alone has kindled this quality in his kingdom, through his elevation and pride, whence this quality is burning even till the last day.

(42) This fire-spirit, and right devil's spirit, elevated itself now also in the centre of the heart, and would rule through the animated or soulish spirit, ["Hereby is understood the spirit of the will, out of the centre, which is generated out of the genitrix, viz. out of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, which is the image of God,"] in the whole divine power, and kindle the whole Salitter of God as a new and potent God; and so the formings and heavenly imagings should rise up in a horrible fiery quality, and suffer themselves to be imaged and framed according to this fierceness.

(2) Therefore we must affirm no more than these three Primals: we are not to introduce superfluous distinctions which their nature rejects. We are to proclaim one Intellectual-Principle unchangeably the same, in no way subject to decline, acting in imitation, as true as its nature allows, of the Father.

And as to our own Soul we are to hold that it stands, in part, always in the presence of The Divine Beings, while in part it is concerned with the things of this sphere and in part occupies a middle ground. It is one nature in graded powers; and sometimes the Soul in its entirety is borne along by the loftiest in itself and in the Authentic Existent; sometimes, the less noble part is dragged down and drags the mid-soul with it, though the law is that the Soul may never succumb entire.

The Soul's disaster falls upon it when it ceases to dwell in the perfect Beauty- the appropriate dwelling-place of that Soul which is no part and of which we too are no part- thence to pour forth into the frame of the All whatsoever the All can hold of good and beauty. There that Soul rests, free from all solicitude, not ruling by plan or policy, not redressing, but establishing order by the marvellous efficacy of its contemplation of the things above it.

For the measure of its absorption in that vision is the measure of its grace and power, and what it draws from this contemplation it communicates to the lower sphere, illuminated and illuminating always.

(137) Else, if the light had kindled itself in the birth or geniture of the soul, then all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, according to the eternal birthright of the Deity, had triumphed and qualified, mixed or united in and with the light, and had been a living angel; but seeing the wrath had clearly already infected the Salitter, therefore that danger was to be feared that befell Lucifer. Now it may be asked: