(2) That this is sooth, it seemeth by this that followeth. The devil is a spirit, and of his own nature he hath no body, more than hath an angel. But yet nevertheless what time that he or an angel shall take any body by leave of God, to make any ministration to any man in this life; according as the work is that he shall minister, thereafter in likeness is the quality of his body in some part. Ensample of this we have in Holy Writ. As oft as any angel was sent in body in the Old Testament and in the New also, evermore it was shewed, either by his name or by some instrument or quality of his body, what his matter or his message was in spirit. On the same manner it fareth of the fiend. For when he appeareth in body, he figureth in some quality of his body what his servants be in spirit. Ensample of this may be seen in one instead of all these other. For as I have conceived by some disciples of necromancy, the which have it in science for to make advocation of wicked spirits, and by some unto whom the fiend hath appeared in bodily likeness; that in what bodily likeness the fiend appeareth, evermore he hath but one nostril, and that is great and wide, and he will gladly cast it up that a man may see in thereat to his brain up in his head. The which brain is nought else but the fire of hell, for the fiend may have none other brain; and if he might make a man look in thereto, he wants no better. For at that looking, he should lose his wits for ever. But a perfect prentice of necromancy knoweth this well enough, and can well ordain therefore, so that he provoke him not.

(152) thus you have here the true Description of an expelled Angel or Devil, as also the Cause hereof, and that not written in a Similitude only, but in the Spirit, through that Power out of which all Things are come to be.

(71) Now when King Lucifer, together with all his Angels, kindled himself, then the Wrath-Fire rose up instantly in the Body, and the gracious amiable and blessed Light was extinguished in the animated or soulish Spirit, and became a fierce, furious, devilish Spirit, all according to the Kindling and Will of the qualifying or fountain Spirits.

(91) But when Lucifer exalted himself, and kindled his qualifying or fountain Spirits, then the animated or soulish Spirit went forth in the Tone out of or from all the Bodies of Lucifer’s Angels, into the Saltiter of God, as a fiery Serpent, or Dragon, and imaged and framed all Manner of fiery and poisonous Forms and Images, like to wild, cruel, and evil Beasts.

(35) thus it befell the Pride of Lucifer, he triumphed a little while with his kindled Light; but when his Light was spent and burnt up, then he became a black Devil.

(48) And the serpent makes answer: "Behold, O Adam, the nature of thy Adversary!" The serpent disappears in a blinding sunburst of radiance and in its place stands an angel resplendent in shining, golden garments with great scarlet wings that spread from one corner of the heavens to the other. Dismayed and awestruck, the Adam falls before the divine creature.

(7) Which themselves shall suddenly be sure to see with great Terror, Anguish, and eternal Despair, as also to their Shame and Scorn: of which the Devils are a terrible Example, who were once the fairest and brightest Angels in Heaven, as I shall reveal, write, and manifest as follows. I will suffer God’s Impulse, I am not able to withstand it, Of the Divine Quality.

(35) But seeing the Devils kindled themselves out of Pride, Wantonness, and Wickedness; therefore they were quite thrust out from the Birth or Geniture of the Light; and they can neither lay hold of, or comprehend it eternally.

(81) Hence that takes its Original, that the Devil is called 'the old Serpent'; and also, that there are Adders and Serpents in this corrupted World, moreover, all Manner of Vermine, or venomous Broods of Worms, Toads, Flies, Lice, and Fleas, and all such like Things whatsoever; and from hence also tempestuous Weather of Lightening, Thundering, Flashing, and Hail-stones, take their Original in this World. Observe, [1 Rev. 12. 9.]

(63) Here I will show you exactly the Pith, Kernel and Heart of Lucifer, and then you will see, what a Devil is, or how he is become a Devil. Therefore take heed, and do not invite or entertain him as a Guest, for he is the arch-sworn Enemy of God, and of all Angels and Men, and that in his Eternity.

(11) The holy Angels live in the Power of Meekness, of the Light and Joyfulness: And the Devils live in the Power of the rising or elevating Quality of Fierceness, Terror, and gross Darkness, and cannot comprehend the Light; into which Condition they precipitated and cast themselves through their Pride and Elevation of themselves, as I shall show afterwards, when I shall write of the Creation. But

(53) By this you may understand, what great Power the Spirits of the expelled Angels have had in the heavenly Nature; and what Manner of Substance this Perdition or Corruption is of; how they have corrupted and spoiled Nature in Heaven in their Place with their horrible Kindling, from whence the horrible Fierceness which is predominant in this World exists.

(41) When King Lucifer, together with his Angels, was so gloriously, beautifully, and divinely created, as a Cherubim and King in God, then he suffered his bright beauteous Form to behold him, in that he saw how noble, glorious, and fair a Spirit rose up in him.

(95) These are the seven Kinds, Species, Forms, or Manner of Sin’s Beginning, and eternal Enmity against God. Now follows briefly concerning the four new little Sons of Lucifer, which he has generated in himself in his corporal Regimen, for which he was expelled from his Place, and is become the most horrible Devil. Of the First Son, Pride. Now it may be asked, What moved Lucifer to this, that he would needs be above God? Answer.

(92) And from hence the wild, fierce, and evil Beasts have their Original in this World. For the Host or Army of Lucifer had kindled the Saltiter of the Stars and of the Earth, and half killed, spoiled and destroyed it.

(126) Therefore thou must here know, that the Angels with their animated or soulish Birth, in which they qualify and unite with God, have strove and fought in God’s Power and Spirit against the kindled Devils, and turned them out from the Light of God, and driven them together into a Hole, that is, into a narrow Court, Quarter, or Compass, like a Prison, which is the Place or Space in, upon, and above the Earth, up to the Moon, which is a Godless of the earthly Birth or Geniture.

(1) THE Learned, and almost all Writers, have very much incumbered, and troubled their Heads greatly, to search, contrive, and conceive in Nature (and have brought forth many and various Opinions) concerning how, and of what the Holy Angels were framed: And on the other Side, what that horrible Fall of the Great Prince Lucifer was, or how he became so base a wicked, and fierce wrathful Devil. From whence that Evil Quality should spring, or what drove him to it.