(107) Art thou a rational Man, in whom is the Spirit and Understanding? then look all about in the World, for there thou wilt find it thus.

(82) Here, O Man, consider thyself well, and mind what Manner of Seed thou sowest into the Earth, the very same will spring up, and bear Blossoms and Fruit for ever, either in the Love, or in the Wrath.

(3) And if it be a thing that pleaseth thee, or hath pleased thee before, there riseth in thee a passing delight for to think on that thing what so it be. Insomuch, that thou restest thee in that thought, and finally fastenest thine heart and thy will thereto, and feedest thy fleshly heart therewith: so that thee think for the time that thou covetest none other wealth, but to live ever in such a peace and rest with that thing that thou thinkest upon. If this thought that thou thus drawest upon thee, or else receivest when it is put unto thee, and that thou restest thee thus in with delight, be worthiness of nature or of knowing, of grace or of degree, of favour or of fairhead, then it is Pride. And if it be any manner of worldly good, riches or chattels, or what that man may have or be lord of, then it is Covetyse. If it be dainty meats and drinks, or any manner of delights that man may taste, then it is Gluttony. And if it be love or plesaunce, or any manner of fleshly dalliance, glosing or flattering of any man or woman living in this life, or of thyself either: then it is Lechery.

(56) If thou wilt now know from whence their Love, Humility, and Friendliness come, which rise up in their Heart, then observe that which follows.

(26) O Man! Here consider thyself, here thou seest, from whence the Devil and his fierce wrathful Malice has its Original, as also God's Wrath, and the hellish Fire, also Death and Hell, and eternal Damnation. Ye Philosophers, observe that!

(12) But if thou raisest thy Thoughts, and considerest where God is, then thou apprehendest the astral Birth or Geniture, where Love and Wrath move one against another. But when thou drawest up the Faith in God, who rules in Holiness in this Government or Dominion, then thou breakest through Heaven, and apprehendest or layest hold on God at his holy Heart.

(127) But thou must know, that the Kernel of Love also sticks in all in the hidden Center, unless it be too, too altogether evil; and so evil a Thing Man has neither no liking to at all. God possesses all, only as to Nature He is not the Essence, He possesses Himself. Or dost thou think thou dost well, if thou bathest or forsakest thyself in God’s Wrath? Take heed, that it does not kindle thy Body and Soul, and so thou wilt burn therein eternally, as befell Lucifer.

(89) Open your Eyes, and consider your Selves: Man is made according to the Similitude, and out of the Power of God in his Ternary. Behold thy inward Man, and then thou wilt see it most plainly and clearly, if thou art not a Fool, and an irrational Beast; therefore observe,

(50) Yes, dear Man, now boast thyself that thou hast hit it well! thou knowest God indeed above others. Behold, thou blind Man, wherever Love rises up in Meekness, there the Heart of God rises up. For the Heart of God is generated in the meek Water of the kindled Light, be it in Man, or any where else without Man; it is every where generated in the Center, between the outermost and innermost Birth or Geniture. And

(1) AND therefore I pray thee, lean listily to this meek stirring of love in thine heart, and follow thereafter: for it will be thy guide in this life and bring thee to bliss in the tother. It is the substance of all good living, and without it no good work may be begun nor ended. It is nought else but a good and an according will unto God, and a manner of well‑pleasedness and a gladness that thou feelest in thy will of all that He doth.