(91) yet the Fire gives or represents to us a Mystery of the eternal Nature, and of the Deity also, wherein a Man is to understand two Principles of a twofold Source, viz. I. a hot, fierce, astringent, bitter, anxious, consuming One in the Fire-source. And out of the Fire comes the II. viz. the Light, which dwells in the Fire, but is not apprehended or laid hold on by the Fire; also it has another Source then the Fire has, which is Meekness, wherein there is a Desire of Love, where then, in the Love-desire, another Will is understood than that which the Fire has.

(92) For the Fire will consume all, and causes a high Rising in the Source, and the Meekness of the Light causes Entity or Substantiality; viz. in the eternal Light it causes the Water-spirit of eternal Life: and in the third Principle of this World, it causes Water, together with the Existence or Original of the Air.

(119) For the kindled Spirits of God generate themselves thus. I. The Hardness generates a hard, raw, rough, cold, and astringent Quality. II. The Sweetness is grown faint, like a glowing Coal, when there is no more Sap in the Wood, that gasps, and there is no Refreshment for it. III. The Bitterness tears like a hot Plague, and is as bitter as Gall. IV. The Fire burns as a fierce wrathful Sulphur. V. Love is an Enmity here. VI. The Sound is a mere Beating, Rumbling, or Cracking, like the Noise of a Fire breaking forth out of a hollow Place, as if it were great Claps of Thunder. VII. The Circuit, Region, Court, or Residence of the Body is a House of Mourning.

(151) Then it kindles the sweet Source or Quality, with an Intent to be refreshed, but there is no Sap left, only the sweet Source or Quality is now burning and glowing, even as a hard dried or burnt Stone, and can no more kindle its Light, and so the whole Body remains now a dark Valley, in which there is Nothing but a fierce hard Coldness in the astringent Quality, and in the sweet a hard glowing Fire only, wherein the fierce wrathful Heat rises up in all Eternity, and in the bitter Quality there is a Raving, Raging, Stinging, and Burning. And

(42) This Fire-spirit, and right Devil’s spirit, elevated itself now also in the Center of the Heart, and would rule through the animated or soulish Spirit, [“Hereby is understood the Spirit of the Will, or of the Center, which is generated out of the Genitrix, viz. out of the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits, which is the Image of God,”] in the whole divine Power, and kindle the whole Salitter of God as a new and potent God; and so the Formings, and heavenly Imagings, should rise up in a horrible fiery Quality, and suffer themselves to be imaged and framed according to this Fierceness.

(39) For when he and all his Angels had kindled in their Bodies the qualifying or fountain Spirit of the Fire, then the Unctuosity, Marrow or Fatness burnt in the sweet Water, and the Flash or Terror, which rises up fiercely in the Birth of the Light, became raging and tearing, burning and stinging, and a Being or Substance of a mere opposite or contrary Will. And

(53) All Qualities take their Beginning-Original in their Middle or Center: Therefore observe where the Fire is generated; for there rises up the Flash of the Life of all the Qualities, and is caught in the Water, so that it remains shining; and is dried in the Astringency, so that it remains corporal, and becomes shining, bright, and clear. Observe here, [Finite or transitory Original.]