(15) Upon this now ensued the spewing out thereof; for the Deity could not endure such a birth or geniture in the love and light of God, but the corrupted Salitter must be driven together into a lump, and lord Lucifer also with it. So then presently the innate light in the corrupted Salitter went out or extinguished, and the closure of the heaven was made between the wrath and the love, that so such Salitter might be generated no more, and that heaven might hold the wrath in the outermost birth or geniture in nature captive in the darkness, and be an eternal partition or separation between them.

(141) At the present time the darkness is separated from the light, and abideth in the outermost birth or geniture, wherein the wrath of God resteth till the Last Judgment Day; but then the wrath will be kindled, and the darkness will be the house or habitation of eternal perdition, wherein lord Lucifer, together with all wicked men who have sown into the darkness in the soil of the wrath, will have his eternal dwelling and residence.

(2) "This is the spirit of light who has come in them. And by the will of the majesty the spirit gazed up at the infinite light, that his light may be pitied and the likeness may be brought up from Hades. And when the spirit had looked, I flowed out—I, the son of the majesty—like a wave of light and like a whirlwind of the immortal spirit. And I blew from the cloud of the hymen upon the astonishment of the unconceived spirit. The cloud separated and cast light upon the clouds. These separated so that the spirit might return. Because of this the mind took shape. Its rest was shattered. For the hymen of nature was a cloud that cannot be grasped; it is a great fire. Similarly, the afterbirth of nature is the cloud of silence; it is an august fire. And the power that was mixed with the mind—it, too, was a cloud of nature that was joined with the darkness that had aroused nature to unchastity. And the dark water was a frightful cloud. And the root of nature, which was below, was crooked, since it is burdensome and harmful. The root was blind to the bound light, which was unfathomable because it had many appearances.

(57) Therein now is the darkness, wherein king Lucifer and his angels, as also all fleshly or carnal wicked men, lie captive, even with or in their living bodies, as also the separated spirits of damned men.