Now if we will search after the Tincture, what it is in its highest Degree, we shall find the a Spirit: For we cannot say, that the Fire is the Tincture, nor the Air neither. For the Fire is wholly contrary to the Tincture; and the Air stifles it; it is a very pleasant Refreshment; its Root, out of which is generated, is indeed the Fire: But if I may rightly mention the Seat where it sits, I cannot say otherwise, but that it is between the three Principles, viz. [between] the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Hell, and the Kingdom of this World, in the Midst, and [it] has none [of the three] for its own, and yet it is generated from all three: And it has as it were a several Principle, which yet is no Principle, but a bright pleasant Habitation. Neither is itself the Spirit, but the Spirit dwells in it, and it so renews the Spirit, that fit becomes clear and visible. Its true Name is Wonderful, and none can name [that Name,] but he to whom it is given, he names it only in himself, and not without [or outwardly,] it has no Place of its Rest in the Substance, and yet rests continually in itself, and gives Virtue and Beauty to all Things, as the in this World; and it is not the Thing itself, though indeed it works in the Thing, and makes the Thing grow and blossom, and yet it is found really [to be] in all Things, and it is the Life and Heart of all Things, but it is not the Spirit which is generated out of the Essences.

"Yet the fire giveth or holdeth forth to us a mystery of the eternal nature, and of the Deity also, wherein a man is to understand two Principles of...

But understand it as to the image of God, viz. in the soul's spirit; not in the fiery essence of the soul, but in the essence of the light, wherein th...

"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...

For the spirit, which is generated in the heart, must in its body walk through the midst or centre of the hellish gates, and may very easily be kindle...

Now in the body or fountain is the heat, which generateth the fire, and which is a form or kind of thing that a man can search into; and out of the...

Understand this rightly.

But thou must not think that nature was thus corrupted and kindled even to the innermost ground, but only the outermost birth or geniture; but the inn...

This fire-spirit, and right devil's spirit, elevated itself now also in the centre of the heart, and would rule through the animated or soulish...

Moreover, the wrath-fire of God does not reach in nature into the innermost kernel of the heart, which is the Son of God, much less into the secret gl...

Now when the animated or soulish spirit was generated in this severe and astringent fire's birth, then it pressed very furiously forth from the body...

For when the seventh nature-spirit is generated, then it is dried by the astringent quality, and is as it were staid and kept by its father, and canno...

When then the mind doth free itself from the earth-body, it straightway putteth on its proper robe of fire, with which it could not dwell in an...

Now these are the spirits wherein all things stand, both in heaven and in this world, and from these the third and outermost spirit is generated,...

What human motion, likewise, can then intervene, or what human reception of passion or ecstasy, or of aberration of the phantasy, or of any thing else...

Else if the astringent were not so much kindled in the cold fire, and the water were not so thick, also the bitter not so swelling, rising and...

In the deep the power of all stars, together with the heat and lustre of the sun, are all but one thing, a moving, boiling, hovering, like a spirit...

Every spirit has its own quality or source, though indeed it is generated of the others; and so it is with the apprehension of man; he has indeed the...

The hardness generateth a hard, raw, rough, cold and astringent quality. II. The sweetness is grown faint, and gaspeth, like a glowing coal splits whe...

For as the spirits of God rise up continually one in another, and have a sport or game of love in their birth or geniture, and yet every spirit keepet...

The Reader is advertised that he must not understand in any place, as if the devil had kindled or fired the light of God; no, but the forms of nature ...