(64) If I had the Tongue of an Angel, and thou hadst an angelical Understanding, we might very finely discourse of it. But the Spirit only sees it, and the Tongue cannot advance towards it. For I can use no other Words than the Words of this World; but now the Holy Ghost being in thee, thy Soul will well apprehend it.

(112) But here I speak with an Angel’s Tongue, thou must not understand it earthly, like to this World.

(162) Or why and what do I write, whose Tongue does but stammer like a Child, which is learning to speak? With what shall I compare it? or to what shall I liken it? Shall I compare it with the Love of this World? No, that is but a mere dark Valley to it.

(64) If thou wert come to this Window, thou wouldst not then say, that it is earthly: And though I must indeed use the earthly Tongue, yet there is a true heavenly Understanding couched under it, which in my outermost Birth I am not able to express, either in Writing or in Speaking.

(112) But that the Spirit suddenly affects the Tongue, when it comes upon it, whereupon it leaps for Joy, and will go before the Spirit forth at the Mouth, it signifies, that the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits of Nature, which are called the astral Birth, when the Light of God, which is called the Day, rose up in them, they suddenly got the divine Life and Will, and so highly rejoiced, as the Tongue in the Mouth here does.

(110) But that the Tongue crouches towards the nether Gums, and is sharp at the Point, and will not be used about the Hissing, it signifies, that the outward Birth or Geniture, together with all the Creatures which are therein, cannot comprehend, or reach to apprehend the Holy Spirit, which goes forth out of the innermost Birth or Geniture out from the Heart of God, neither can they hinder him by their Power. [The Natural Man cannot perceive the Things of God.]

(29) Therefore we must use Similitudes, if we intend to speak of God: For we live in this World, as Men who know but in Part, and are made of that which is but in Part. Therefore I cite the Reader into the Life to come, where and when I shall speak more properly, and more clearly of this high Article.

(119) So that the holy Angels cannot sufficiently enough rejoice themselves, nor sufficiently enough converse, walk, and most lovingly sport therein, nor sufficiently enough sing that Te Deum laudamus, We praise thee, O God, in Hallelujah’s, as to each Quality of the great God, according to his wonderful Revelation, and Wisdom, and Beauty, and Fruit, and Form.

(105) No; but I speak in a corporeal, or angelical, or human Way, that the Reader may the better understand it, in such a Manner, as the angelical Creatures were imaged or framed, and as it is in God every where universally.

(2) Whoso lamenteth him that here we die That we may live above, has never there Seen the refreshment of the eternal rain. The One and Two and Three who ever liveth, And reigneth ever in Three and Two and One, Not circumscribed and all things circumscribing, Three several times was chanted by each one Among those spirits, with such melody That for all merit it were just reward; And, in the lustre most divine of all The lesser ring, I heard a modest voice, Such as perhaps the Angel's was to Mary, Answer: "As long as the festivity Of Paradise shall be, so long our love Shall radiate round about us such a vesture. Its brightness is proportioned to the ardour, The ardour to the vision; and the vision Equals what grace it has above its worth. When, glorious and sanctified, our flesh Is reassumed, then shall our persons be More pleasing by their being all complete; For will increase whate'er bestows on us Of light gratuitous the Good Supreme, Light which enables us to look on Him;

(34) but stammer it like a Child, that is learning to speak, and can by no Means rightly call it as the Spirit gives it forth to be known.

(48) Though in many, a Source or Fountain and Quality has risen up, but then suddenly Pride pressed after it, and spoiled all; whereupon it was unwilling to write it down in its Mother-Tongue; it supposed that was too childish a Thing, it must show it in a deeper Language, that the World should see that it is manly; and for its Advantage, it kept it a secret, and daubed it with deep strange Names, that Men might not know it; such a Beast is the Devil's proud Disease.

(38) What Manner of Joy this must be, let every Soul consider: I, in my corrupted Nature, cannot apprehend it, much less can I write it.