(96) In God all the Spirits triumph as one Spirit, and one Spirit always mitigates and loves the other, and so there is Nothing but mere Joy and Delight: But their severe Birth or Geniture, which is effected or done in secret, must be so: For Life, Understanding, and Omniscience are thus generated; and this is an eternal Birth or Geniture, which is never otherwise.

(22) But thou must know here, that they all have a Love-will one to another, none of them grudges the other his Form and Beauty: For as it goes among the Spirits of God, so it goes among these.

(69) Thus it is also with Men, there are Diversities of Gifts and Accomplishments, Endowments, or Aptitudes; one it may be is much lighter or brighter in God than another; but all the while they do not wither in the Spirit, they are not rejectible; but when the Spirit withers, then that is good and useful for Nothing but for Fewel, and is only as Wood for the Fire.

(64) As the Members of Man's Body love one another, so do the Spirits also in the Divine Power; there is nothing else but a mere longing, desiring, and well liking Acceptation, as also a triumphing and rejoicing the one in the other: For through these Spirits come the Understanding and Distinction in God, in Angels, Men, Beasts, and Fowls, and in every Thing that lives. [triumphing]

(5) But knowledge, conveyed from communication through the grace of God as a deposit, is entrusted to those who show themselves worthy of it; and from it the worth of love beams forth from light to light. For it is said, "To him that hath shall be given:" to faith, knowledge; and to knowledge, love; and to love, the inheritance.

(49) so also in God's Love there is only the Fountain and Knowledge of Joyfulness, for every Science or Root causes or produces its like.

(20) no more does the whole, full, and perfect Knowledge of God stand in the angelical Body, but in the Spirit, which is generated in the Heart, which goes forth from the Light, which qualifies, or operates also with the Heart and Spirit of God, wherein the whole, full and perfect Knowledge of God stands. But the Body cannot apprehend that animated or soulish Spirit; as also the seventh Nature-Spirit comprehends not the deepest Birth or Geniture of God.

(2) This, then, is truer than all truth, and plainer than what the mind [’s eye] perceives;—that from that Universal God of Universal Nature all other things for evermore have found, and had bestowed on them, the mystery of bringing forth; in which there is innate the sweetest Charity, [and] Joy, [and] Merriment, Longing, and Love Divine. We might have had to tell the mighty power and the compulsion of this mystery, if it had not been able to be known by every one from personal experience, by observation of himself.

(134) Whereby in the heavenly Pomp always such fair beauteous Forms, Ideas, Figures, and Vegetations spring up, as also various Colours and Fruits; and this the qualifying or fountain Spirits of God do in God, as a holy Play, Sport or Scene. Now behold!

(5) But there is that species of knowledge which is characteristic of the herald, and that which is, as it were, characteristic of a messenger, and it is serviceable in whatever way it operates, both by the hand and tongue. "For he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well-doing." On him who by Divine Providence meets in with it, it confers the very highest advantages, - the beginning of faith, readiness for adopting a right mode of life, the impulse towards the truth, a movement of inquiry, a trace of knowledge; in a word, it gives the means of salvation. And those who have been rightly reared in the words of truth, and received provision for eternal life, wing their way to heaven. Most admirably, therefore, the apostle says, "In everything approving ourselves as the servants of God; as poor, and yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things.