(80) But if thou sayest, it has but one Kind of Birth or Geniture, thou speakest again also like one that is blind; for the Herbs and Wood, which grow out of it, are not Earth, neither is the Fruit which grows upon a Tree Wood; so also the Power and Virtue of the Fruit is not God neither; but God is in the Center in the innermost Birth in all the three natural Births or Genitures, hiddenly, and is not known, but only in the Spirit of Man; also the outermost Birth in the Fruit does not comprehend, conceive, or contain him, but he contains the outermost Birth of the Fruit, and forms it. Another Question is, [Note, how God is in all Things, yet no Creature is He.] Why then is the Earth so mountainous, hilly, rocky, stony and uneven? Answer.

(17) For there, out of the Earth, sprung up Grass and Herbs, and Trees, and there now also it stands written thus: Each according to its Kind. In these Words lie the Kernel of the eternal Birth or Geniture hidden or concealed, and cannot be comprehended or apprehended by or with Flesh and Blood, but the Holy Ghost through the animated or soulish Birth must kindle the astral Man, otherwise he is blind herein, and understands nothing but concerning Earth and Stones, also Grass, Herbs, and wooden Trees. [Gen. 1. 12.]

(21) But seeing Adam’s Spirit longed after that Fruit which was of the Quality of the corrupted Earth, therefore also Nature formed or framed such a Tree for him as was like the corrupted Earth.

(39) But in its Power, in which its Life stands, wherewith it qualifies, mixes, or unites with the Word of God, it will in its Mother, in the Power of the Word at the last Judgment-Day, be set or put again into its heavenly Place, and be separated from the wrathful, and dead or mortal Palpability, and spring up in the Heaven of this World, in a heavenly Form, and be a Fruit for Men in the other Life. [“Here understand, the Power of the Principle, out of which the Apple and All grows, shall in the Renovation of the World spring up again in Paradise with the Wonders.”] [Deut. 13. 14. Rom. 12. 8.] [Or Body alive.]

(22) For thus stood the Birth or Geniture of Nature in the Time of the Kindling, and was thus together incorporated in the Earth, and must also in such a Birth spring up again: For it is written; 'That the dead Earth should let the Grass and Herbs, and Trees spring up, each according to its Kind,' that is, according to the Kind and Quality, as it had been from Eternity, and as it had been in the heavenly Quality, Kind and Form. For that is called its own Kind, which is received in the Mother's Body or Womb, and is its own by Right of Nature, as its own peculiar Life. [Gen. 1. 12.]

(65) But seeing Men now at the End of this Time do listen and long very much after the Root of the Tree, through which Nature fucceeds, that the Time of the Discovery of the Tree is at Hand, therefore the Spirit will show it to them. And the whole Deity will reveal itself, which is the Day-spring, Dawning, or Morning-redness, and the Breaking-forth of the great Day of God, in which, whatsoever is generated from Death, to the Regeneration of Life, shall be restored and rise again. [But seeing Men now at the End of this Time do listen and long very much after the Root of the Tree, through which Nature fucceeds, that the Time of the Discovery of the Tree is at Hand, therefore the Spirit will show it to him. And the whole Deity will reveal itself, which is the Day-spring, Dawning, or Morning-redness, and the Breaking-forth of the great Day of God, in which, whatsoever is generated from Death, to the Regeneration of Life, shall be restored and rise again.]

(37) But thou must know, that the Apple on its Stock or Branch however, with its innermost Birth or Geniture, qualifies, mixes, or unites with the Word of God, through whose Power it is grown out of the Earth.

(7) Behold and consider a Tree; on the Outside it has a hard gross Rind or Bark, which is dead, benumbed, and without Vegetation, yet it is not quite dead, but in a Faintness or Imbecility, and there is a great Difference between it and the Body, which grows next under the Rind or Bark. But the Body has its living Power, and breaks forth through the withered Rind, and generates many fair young Bodies or Twigs, all which stand in the old Body.

(19) First, thou hast the bestial Flesh, which is come to be through the lustful longing Bit of the Apple, for it is the House of Corruption. For when Adam was made out of the corrupted Salitter of the Earth, that is, out of the Seed, or Mass, or Lump, which the Creator extracted out of the corrupted Earth, he was not then at first such Flesh, else his Body had been created mortal, but he had an angelical powerful Body, in which he should have subsisted eternally, and should have eat angelical [Tex. Mist.] Fruit, which grew for him in Paradise before his Fall, before the LORD cursed the Earth.

(16) So also it went with this Spirit: The first Fire was but a Seed, and not a constant lasting Light: Since that Time many a cold Wind blew upon it; but the Will never extinguished. This Tree was also often tempted to try whether it would bear Fruit, and show itself with Blossoms; but the Blossoms were struck off till this very Time, wherein it stands in its first Fruit, in the Growth or Vegetation.