Now observe, the Heaven is the whole Deep so far as the Ethera, or Skies have given up themselves to the Birth of this World, and that Heaven is the Matrix, out of which Earth, Stones, and the material Water are generated. And there God separated the material Water from the Matrix; and here it is very plainly discerned, that the material Water is as it were dead, or has Death in it; for it could not abide in the moving Mother, but was created [to be] upon the Globe of the Earth, and God called it Sea, [Meer;] in which [Word] is understood in the Language of Nature, as it were a Springing [or Growing] in Death, or a Life in Corruption: Although herein I shall be as one that is dumb to the Reader, yet I know it very well, and I am very well satisfied therewith. But because the bestial Man is not worthy to know it, therefore I will not here cast the Pearl before the Swine; but for the Children of God, which will be benefited by it, the Spirit of God will certainly teach and instruct them in it. Note.

For the outermost birth of the water cannot comprehend the innermost birth of the water which is called heaven, and which is made out of the midst or ...

For he can neither see nor comprehend nor apprehend the light and holy generation or production, which stands in the water of the heaven, but he can s...

And thus the light of God in the sweet water of heaven brake through the astringent and hard, dark death; and thus the heaven is made out of the midst...

The heaven which was made out of the midst or centre of the water is the cleft between them, so that the comprehensible or palpable water is a death, ...

The love of God have mercy, and take pity on it!

But that the place of this world is not called heaven, and that there is a firmament or fast enclosure between the upper heaven above us, has this und...

Now the innermost birth of heaven reflects strongly upon the earth, and holdeth the outermost water upon the earth strongly captive, together with...

The whole nature of the heaven stands in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, and in the seventh consisteth nature or the apprehensibility of...

Thus also is the change and alteration of heaven into many several colours and forms, but not in such a manner and kind as in this world, but all...

That heaven is everywhere, even in thyself.

For this now is the true heaven of nature, which is out of or from God, wherein the holy angels dwell, and out of which they were created in the begin...

And now as the whole earth was, together with the word, so was the fruit also; but the word remained in the centre of the heaven, which is also in thi...

Thus thou now understandest what God made on the second day, when he separated the water under the firmament from the water above the firmament. Thou...

So heaven is the heart in nature, wherein all the powers are, as in the stars and elements, and it is a soft, supple and meek matter of all powers, as...

This, as is mentioned above, is that fair, bright and holy heaven, which is thus in the total Deity, and which has neither beginning nor end, whither...

But that there is a firmament between the waters, which firmament is called heaven, has this understanding or meaning:

Now that impurity in that heaven is the wrath, but the purity is the word of God, which he once spake, saying [Gen.i. 6.]; Let the water under the...

As is the deep above the earth, so is man also, both in love and wrath, till after the departure of the soul; but when the soul departeth from the bod...

But observe the circumstances rightly.

And though indeed that is united with thy heaven as one body, and so together is but the one body of God, yet thou art not in that very place which is...