For the Fire in the Essence comes to be a a soft meek Light, and is nothing else but a zealous [or eager] Kindling of the Tincture, and the harsh Essence causes that the divine Virtue can draw it to itself, and taste it, for in the [sour or] harsh Essence the Taste does consist, in Nature: In like Manner the bitter Essence serves to [make] the moving rising Joy, Fragrancy and Growing; and out of these Forms the Tincture goes forth, and it is the House of the Soul; as the Holy Ghost [goes forth] from the Father and the Son, so also the Tincture goes forth from the Light of the fiery Soul, and then also from its virtuous [or powerful] Essences, and so it resembles the Holy Ghost, but yet the Holy Ghost of God is a Degree higher; for he goes forth from the Center of the Light wholly in the fifth Form, from the Heart of God, at the End of Nature.

Understand this rightly.

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...

Thus the light in the heat is a quick spring or living fountain, into which the Holy Ghost entereth, but the Holy Ghost entereth not into the fiercene...

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...

When the astringent or harsh quality, as the father, formeth the word or son, or spirit, then it stands captive in the centre of the heart, and is...

There each spirit tasteth of the others, and getteth mere new strength and power, for the astringent quality grows now very pliable and yielding,...

"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...

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...

For when he and all his angels had kindled in their bodies the qualifying or fountain spirit of the fire, then the unctuosness, marrow or fatness burn...

IV. The fourth generating is the fire, which existeth from the mobility or rubbing in the astringent spirit, and that is now a sharp burning, and the...

On the other hand, it is highly to be rejoiced at, that man's spirit, in his necessity, becometh enlightened and kindled by the Holy Ghost: [just] as...

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...

Then the heat kindleth the sweet source or quality, with an intent to be refreshed, but there is no sap left, the sweet source or quality is now...

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...

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...

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 ...

As the excellent, precious and amiable blessed savour or smell goeth forth from all the powers of the Father and of the Son, and tempereth itself...

This spirit taketh its original in the fire-flash, that is, in the bitter quality, and riseth up in the flash through the sweet water, wherein it...

The light's flame or flash, which in the twinkling of an eye, or in a moment, shineth into all the powers, even as the sun does in the whole world,...

Now those powers of the Father which stand in the kindling of the light are the holy Father, and the meek Father, and the pure birth or geniture of...