(12) For as Nature with the working, wrestling, and rising up of its Birth or Geniture stood in the Time of the Kindling, just such a Matter attracted itself together. Now it may be asked: How then is a comprehensible or palpable Son come to be out of an incomprehensible Mother? Answer.

(36) But seeing the Wrath also is in that Water in the Deep above the Earth, therefore constantly through the Kindling of the Stars, and of the Water in the Wrath, such palpable Water generates itself, which with its outermost Birth stands in Death.

(31) Man is made out of the Seed of the Earth, out of an incorporated or compacted Mass or Lump; [“understand out of the Matrix of the Earth, wherein the Eye is twofold; the one in God, and the other in this World, out of three Principles;”] and not out of the Wrath, but out of the Birth or Geniture of the Earth; and stood in the astral Birth or Geniture in the Part of the Love, but Wrath hung to him, which he should have put forth from himself, as the Fruit puts forth the Bitterness of the Tree;

(120) But it has its Life in its Seat, and that cannot be taken from it, but Death hangs to it in the outermost Birth or Geniture, as also the Wrath in Death; for the Wrath is the Life of Death and of the Devil; and in the Wrath stands also the corporeal Being, or the Bodies of the Devils, but the dead Birth or Geniture is their eternal Dwelling-house. The Depth in the Circle of the Birth or Geniture. Now one might ask, what Manner of Substance has it, or what is the Condition thereof, that the astral Birth of the Earth did begin its qualifying, operating, and generating one Day sooner than the astral in the Deep above the Earth; seeing the Fire in the Deep above the Earth is much sharper and easier to be kindled, than the Fire in the Earth; and seeing also that the Earth must be kindled by the Fire in the Deep above the Earth, else it can bear no Fruit? Answer.

(9) For when the seven Spirits kindled themselves in their outermost Birth or Geniture, then they generated such a violent moving Spirit; and to the sweet Water, which before before the Times of the Wrath was very rarified and thin, and incomprehensible, grew very thick and elevated, and swelled, and the astringent Quality grew very sharp, and cold-fier, or fierce-cold, for it got a strong Attracting together, like Salt.