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(30) That same Light is generated in the Midst or Center out of these four Species, out of the Unctuosity or Fatness of the sweet Water, and replenishes the whole Body of this Generating. But it is such a meek, pleasing, well-doing, good-smelling, and well-tasting Relish, that I know no Similitude to liken it to, but where Life is generated in the Midst or Center of Death; or as if a Man did sit in a huge scorching hot flaming Fire, and was suddenly snatched out from thence, and set in such a very exceeding easy Place of Refreshment, where instantly all the smarting scalding Pains, which he felt before by the Burning of the Fire, should suddenly pass away, and he be put into such a pleasing Temper and Soundness. Just so the Generating of the four Kinds or Species are set, or put into such a soft and meek Welldoing, and Refreshment, as soon as the Light rises up in them. Thou must understand me here right.

(46) This is the Source of Joy, or the Cause of the laughing elevating Joy, whereby a Thing trembles and jubilates for Joy; whence the heavenly Joy exists.

(3) Now this highly triumphing and joyous Spirit is very fitly and excellently, in the divine Salitter, used to the imaging or forming; because it chiefly moves in the Tone or Tune, and in the Love, and is nearest to the Heart of God in the Birth, and bound or united therewith in Joy, which indeed is itself also the Spring and Source of Joy, or the Rising up in the Heart of God.

(56) But now from the austere and earnest Birth or Geniture of the qualifying or fountain Spirits of the Father, wherein the Zeal or Jealousy and the Wrath stands, the Body of Nature always comes to be, wherein the Light of the Son, viz. of the Father's Heart, stands incomprehensibly as to Nature.

(38) In the Middle, or central Fountain or Well-spring, which is the Heart, where the Birth rises up, the astringent or harsh Quality rubs itself with the bitter and hot; and there the Light kindles, which is the Son, of which it is always impregnated in its Body, and that enlightens and makes it living.

(39) But if a Man here on Earth is enlightened with the Holy Ghost from the Fountain of JESUS CHRIST, so that the Spirits of Nature, which signify the Father, are kindled in him, then there rises such a Joy in his Heart, and it goes forth into all his Veins, so that the whole Body trembles, and the Soulfish animal Spirit triumphs, as if it were fitting in the holy Trinity, which is understood only by those that have been Guests in that Place. And

(39) And so in the sharp and fiery Births or Generatings, there is nothing but a mere Longing of Love, a Tasting, friendly affecting, gracious, amiable, and blessed Generating; there is nothing but mere Love, and all Wrath and Bitterness in the Center is bolted up as in a strong Hold. This Generating is a very meek beneficial Welldoing, and the bitter Spirit now is the living Mobility.

(63) But now when the Father kindled himself in the Body of the Sharpness, he did not by that means kindle the holy Source, wherein his most loving Heart generates itself, and so thereupon his Heart should sit in the Source of Wrath. No! that is impossible that it should be, for the sharp Birth cannot apprehend the holy and pure Birth, but the holy and pure presses quite through the sharp, and generates to itself a new Body, which stands again in Meekness.

(111) Behold now, when the Mercurius or Tone in this Nature-Heaven rises up, there the divine and angelical Joyfulness rises up, for therein rise up Forms, Imaginings, Colours, and angelical Fruits, which blossom curiously, grow, spring, flourish, and stand in Perfection, as to all Manner of Bearing or Fruit Trees, Plants and springing Growths, of a gracious, comely, lovely, amiable, blessed Prospect, Vision or Sight to be looked upon, with a most delicious, lovely, pleasant Smell and Taste.

(33) In this rising up, the astringent Quality becomes meek, light, thin, or transparent, and pleasant or lovely, and obtains its Life, whose Original rises up out of the Heat in the sweet Water, and this now is the true Fountain or Well-spring of Love. Observe this in the deep Sense. [Observe this in the deep Sense.]