As it is mentioned above, so the Life in the Anguish, with the Kindling of the Light, takes its Beginning from the Glance of the Sunshine, from the Spirit of the Stars and Elements in the great Anguish, where Death and Life wrestle one with the other. For when Man departed from Paradise into another Birth (viz. into the Spirit of this World, into the Quality of the Sun, Stars, and Elements) then the paradisical [Vision or] Seeing ceased, [or was extinguished,] where Man sees from the divine Virtue, without [Need of] the Sun and Stars; where the Springing up of the Life is in the Holy Ghost, and the Light of God is the Glance of the Spirit, from whence he sees; which went out; for the Spirit of the Soul went into the Principle of this World.

From thence Death came into Nature, so that Nature or the corrupt Earth could no more help it, and thereupon another Creation of Light must needs foll...

Now, that the Spirit first conceives itself at the Heart, and breaks through all Watches and Guards till it comes upon the Tongue, unperceived, or...

In this Kindling of the Light, in the Stars and Elements, the Birth of Nature did not thereupon wholly transmute or change itself into the holy...

But seeing the Heart of the Deity bides itself in the Body of this World in the outermost Birth or Geniture, which is the Corporeity, thereupon the Co...

And the Life of the Light breaks through the Death, and generates to it another Body out of Death, which is not conformable to, or of the Condition of...

Now when the Heaven was made for a Distinction, or Partition between the Light of God and the kindled Corruption of the Body of this World, then was...

The Light of God, which is the Son of God, as also the Holy Ghost, died not, but the Light, which is gone forth from or out of the Heart of God from...