Behold, when God had created the third Principle, after the Fall of the Devils, when they fell from their Glory (for they had been Angels, standing in the Place of this World) yet nevertheless he would that his Will and Purpose should stand; and therefore he would give to the Place of this World an angelical he having created the Creatures, whose Shadows after the Changing of the World should continue for ever, yet there was no Creature found that could have any Joy therein [in the Shadows,] neither was there any Creature found that might manage the Beasts in this World; therefore God said, Let us make Man an Image like unto us, which may rule over all the Beasts, and Creatures upon the Earth; and God created Man to be his Image, after the Image of God created he him.

Now the Purpose of God was, to make a curious excellent angelical Host or Army out of the Earth, and all Manner of Ideas, Forms, or Images. For in...

For in Respect of this Light, Understanding, and Government, is Man distinguished from Beasts, and is an Angel of God, as I shall clearly show, when I...

He would create an Angel, which was Adam, who should generate out of himself Creatures like himself, which should possess the House of the new Birth, ...

Body of Nature now was the Kindling made, for out of this Body the Angels also were created; and if they had not elevated and kindled themselves in th...