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.

This Spirit takes its Original in the Fire-flash, that is, in the bitter Quality, and rises up in the Flash through the sweet Water, wherein it...

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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...

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 mo...

When the astringent or harsh Quality, as the Father, forms the Word or Son, or Spirit, then it stands captive in the Center of the Heart, and is...

But here thou must know, that this Quality penetrates very gently and pleasantly with its Touching or Stirring, through all the Spirits, in such a Way...

There each Spirit tastes of the other, and gets mere new Strength and Power, for the astringent Quality grows now very pliable and yielding, because...

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 eter...