(78) For the Devil could not touch the Heart, neither could he touch the innermost Birth or Geniture of the qualifying or fountain Spirits; for his Glory of the seven Spirits was already mortified in the first Flash of kindling, and was presently held captive and imprisoned in the first Exit of the animated or soulish Spirit.

(9) The holy Angels live and qualify in the Light, in the good Quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigns. But the Devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful Quality, in the Quality of Fierceness and Wrath, Destruction or Perdition.

(2) That this is sooth, it seemeth by this that followeth. The devil is a spirit, and of his own nature he hath no body, more than hath an angel. But yet nevertheless what time that he or an angel shall take any body by leave of God, to make any ministration to any man in this life; according as the work is that he shall minister, thereafter in likeness is the quality of his body in some part. Ensample of this we have in Holy Writ. As oft as any angel was sent in body in the Old Testament and in the New also, evermore it was shewed, either by his name or by some instrument or quality of his body, what his matter or his message was in spirit. On the same manner it fareth of the fiend. For when he appeareth in body, he figureth in some quality of his body what his servants be in spirit. Ensample of this may be seen in one instead of all these other. For as I have conceived by some disciples of necromancy, the which have it in science for to make advocation of wicked spirits, and by some unto whom the fiend hath appeared in bodily likeness; that in what bodily likeness the fiend appeareth, evermore he hath but one nostril, and that is great and wide, and he will gladly cast it up that a man may see in thereat to his brain up in his head. The which brain is nought else but the fire of hell, for the fiend may have none other brain; and if he might make a man look in thereto, he wants no better. For at that looking, he should lose his wits for ever. But a perfect prentice of necromancy knoweth this well enough, and can well ordain therefore, so that he provoke him not.

(119) On the other hand, the Devil with his Poison shoots and darts at the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits which generate the Soul, intending to destroy and to kindle them, that thereby he may get the whole Body for his own Propriety.

(124) as this has a Being or Substance, Form or Condition in Angels, so it has also a Being, Substance, Form or Condition in Man. Therefore bethink and consider yourselves, you that are proud, covetous, thievish, extorting Usurers, calumniating, blasphemous, envious, and whorish or lascivious, what Manner of little Son or Spirit you send into God. [Or as this Condition is in Angels, so there is such a Condition in Man also.] “The Soul was originally comprehended in the eternal Nature with the Word Fiat, which is God’s Nature according to the first Principle and eternal Original of Nature; and if it kindles itself in the Original, then it kindles God’s Wrath in the eternal Nature.” Objection. Thou wilt say: We do not send this into God, but only into our Neighbour, or into his Work which we like and have a Mind to. Answer. [Or meddle with in our Minds.]

(51) But the infectious Lust, Longing, and Malady of the Devil, who had infected and spoiled the Salitter of which Adam was made, that brought Man into an Evil Longing or Lust to eat of both the Qualities, the Evil and the Good, of which I shall write clearly, as follows, and demonstrate it. Of the Creation of Angels.

(34) Now then, seeing the Devils kindled their own Bodies, intending thereby to domineer over the whole Deity, therefore the Creator also, in his Wrath, kindled this third Spirit, or this third Birth or Geniture in Nature, and imprisoned the Devil therein, and made an eternal Lodging therein for him, that he might not be higher than the whole God. [decorated X] Understand, in the outward Sources or Qualities; for the outermost of all, is also the inmost of all.

(62) Though there are of a corrupted and twofold Being, which is not living, nor has Understanding; for it is but the corrupt Salitter and Mercurius, in which King Lucifer kept House, wherein is both Evil and Good, though it be indeed the real Power of God, which before its Corruption was bright and pure, as now it is in Heaven.

(65) And in this Heaven the holy Angels dwell amongst us, and the Devils in the other Part: And in this Heaven Man lives between Heaven and Hell, and must endure and suffer from the Fierceness many hard Blows, Temptations, Persecutions, and many Times, Torments and Squeezings.