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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 7: Of the Heaven and its eternal Birth and Essence, and how the four Elements are generated; wherein the eternal Band may be the more and the better understood, by meditating and considering the material World. The great Depth. (12)
But the Bitterness being so very much affrighted at the Flash of Fire in the Sourness, it catches its Mother (the Sourness) which is become material from the Crack, and flies out, and is clouded or swelled from the material Sourness, as if it also was material, and moves, and strengthens itself continually in the Mother; and that is the Element called Air in this World, which has its Original in the watery Mother, and the Water has its Original from the Air, and the Fire has its Original from the longing Anguish; and the Earth and Stones took their Beginning in the strong Attraction at the Fall of Lucifer, when the Sourness was so fierce, strong, rising, and attractive, which Attraction is stopped again by the Light in the third Principle.
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (80)
Then next the bitter spirit, which existeth in the fire-flash, is also in the matter or mass, and that cannot endure to be captivated or imprisoned...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (72)
This spirit taketh its original in the fire-flash, that is, in the bitter quality, and riseth up in the flash through the sweet water, wherein it...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (24)
The original of the bitter quality is when the flash of life in the heat riseth up in the astringent quality; and now when the flash of fire in the...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (12)
When the astringent quality rubbeth itself with the bitter, so that the heat riseth up in the sweet spring or fountain-water, then the heat kindleth...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (158)
So the sweet water being dried up, the bitter quality (which existed and was generated by the first flash, when the light kindled itself) rose up in t...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (28)
This is thus in the original of the quality in itself; but in the midst, in the rising up of this fierce spirit, this [same] spirit is caught and...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (119)
When the astringent or harsh quality, as the father, formeth the word or son, or spirit, then it stands captive in the centre of the heart, and is...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (91)
III. Thirdly, the bitter quality, which existeth in the kindling of the water in the fire-flash, is melted away, for that is a rager, raver, tyrant...