(90) He that does not know nor understand this, he does not at all know the Birth of the Stars, for all concreted together is one Body. Every Creature, when Life is once generated in it, then afterwards its Life stands or subsists in its Body, as the Birth or Geniture of the Natural Body of this World does, for every Life must be generated according to the Right, Law, or Ordinance of the Deity, as the Deity generates itself continually.

(34) It is just such a Birth as is in Man; the Body is even the Father of the Soul, for the Soul is generated out of the Power of the Body, and when the Body stands in the anguishing Birth or Geniture of God, as the Stars do, and not in the fierce hellish Birth, then the Soul of Man qualifies, mixes, or unites with the pure Deity, as a Member in or of his Body.

(22) For thus stood the Birth or Geniture of Nature in the Time of the Kindling, and was thus together incorporated in the Earth, and must also in such a Birth spring up again: For it is written; 'That the dead Earth should let the Grass and Herbs, and Trees spring up, each according to its Kind,' that is, according to the Kind and Quality, as it had been from Eternity, and as it had been in the heavenly Quality, Kind and Form. For that is called its own Kind, which is received in the Mother's Body or Womb, and is its own by Right of Nature, as its own peculiar Life. [Gen. 1. 12.]

(89) If we will rightly search into the Original of the Stars Birth and Geniture, or their Beginning, then we may exactly know the Birth or Geniture of the Life, viz. how the Life generates itself in a Body; for these all are one Kind of Birth or Geniture.

(6) But in fact everything follows its own Kind; the birth is a horse because it comes from the Horse Kind, a man by springing from the Human Kind; offspring answers to species. Allow the kosmic circuit its part, a very powerful influence upon the thing brought into being: allow the stars a wide material action upon the bodily part of the man, producing heat and cold and their natural resultants in the physical constitution; still does such action explain character, vocation and especially all that seems quite independent of material elements, a man taking to letters, to geometry, to gambling, and becoming an originator in any of these pursuits? And can we imagine the stars, divine beings, bestowing wickedness? And what of a doctrine that makes them wreak vengeance, as for a wrong, because they are in their decline or are being carried to a position beneath the earth- as if a decline from our point of view brought any change to themselves, as if they ever ceased to traverse the heavenly spheres and to make the same figure around the earth.

Nor may we think that these divine beings lose or gain in goodness as they see this one or another of the company in various aspects, and that in their happier position they are benignant to us and, less pleasantly situated, turn maleficent. We can but believe that their circuit is for the protection of the entirety of things while they furnish the incidental service of being letters on which the augur, acquainted with that alphabet, may look and read the future from their pattern- arriving at the thing signified by such analogies as that a soaring bird tells of some lofty event.

(68) Consider this Similitude: Out of the Sun and Stars go forth the Elements, and they make in the Salitter of the Earth a living Spirit, and the Stars remain in their Circle or Sphere, and that Spirit likewise gets the Quality of the Stars.

(60) Now this Birth or Geniture presses through the outward congealed Birth quite through Death, and generates the astral Life in the Death, that is, in the congealed Earth, Water, and Flesh, of the Beasts and of Men, also of the Fowls, Fishes, and Worms, or creeping Things. And

(50) accordingly I find, that the Birth or Geniture of Nature stands to this Day, and generates itself just so as it first took its Beginning; and whatsoever rises up in this World, whether Men, Beasts, Trees, Herbs, Grass, mineral Oars, or be they what they will, all rises up in such a Quality, Manner, and Form; also every Life, be it good or bad, takes its Original thus.

(58) And though indeed the bestial Body must putrefy and rot, yet its Power and Virtue live, and in the mean while there grow out of its Power, in its Mother, fair beautiful Roses, Blossoms and Flowers. And though it were quite burnt up and consumed in the Fire, yet its Power and Virtue stands in the four Elements in the Word, and the Soul qualifies, mixes, or unites therewith; for the Soul is in Heaven, and the same Heaven is every where, even in the Midst or Center of the Earth.