For he is always shut up in the first Principle (as in the eternal Death,) and yet he raises himself up continually, thinking to reach the Heart of God, and to domineer over it; for his bitter Sting in the Birth climbs up thus eternally in the Source of the Fire, and affords him a proud Will to have all [at his Pleasure,] but he attains nothing; his Food is the Source of Water, viz. the Brimstone-Spirit, which is the most aking Mother, from which the indissoluble Band is fed and nourished; his Refreshing is the eternal Fire, and eternal Freezing in the harsh Mother, an eternal Hunger in the Bitterness, an eternal Thirst in the Source of the Fire; his climbing up is his Fall, the more he climbs up in his Will, the greater is his Fall; like one that standing upon a high Clift, would cast himself down into a bottomless Pit, he looks still further, and he falls in further and further, and yet can find no Ground.

But seeing he elevated and kindled himself against the Right of the Deity, thereupon the sharp Birth in the Body of the Father rose up against him, an...

Creatures which will continually sow and reap in the hellish Fire, especially that Man who lives in a continual Desire of Pride, Covetousness, Envy, a...

Now further into the Depth.

Then it kindles the sweet Source or Quality, with an Intent to be refreshed, but there is no Sap left, only the sweet Source or Quality is now...