(7) But behold! when Lucifer with his host or army stirred or awakened the wrath-fire in the nature of God, so that God was moved to anger in nature in the place of Lucifer, then the outermost birth or geniture in nature gat another quality, which was very fierce, astringent, cold, hot, bitter and sour.

(11) When God was now moved to anger in the third birth or geniture, in the court, quarters or region of Lucifer, which was all the space and room or extent of this world, then the light was extinguished in the third birth or geniture, and all became a darkness, and the Salitter in the third birth or geniture was rough, wild, hard, bitter, sour, and in some parts stinking, stagnant and morasslike, all according to the birth or geniture of the qualifying or fountain spirits then at that time working.

(29) For from the fiery quality the spirit becometh trembling and hot, and from the astringent it becometh severe, astringent, hard and corporeal, so that it is a spirit which always subsisteth; and from the sweet it becometh meek or mild, and the fierceness changeth it into a gentle bitterness; which stands now in the fountain or wellspring of the seven spirits of God, and helpeth continually to generate the other six spirits. Understand this rightly.

(101) For the light of God, and the spirit of God, cannot comprehend the sharp birth or geniture, and therefore they are two distinct Persons; and so lord Lucifer could no more touch, see, feel or taste the Heart of God and the Holy Spirit of God, with his austere, cold and hard firebirth, but was spewed out with his fire-spirit into the outermost nature, wherein he had kindled the wrath-fire.

(27) But whether Lucifer has done rightly, in that he has awakened and stirred up the fierceness in the Salitter of God, whence this world is become stinging, venomous, thorny, rocky, envious and evil, false or wicked, let the attorneys, proctors, advocates and defenders of Lucifer answer, and plead and justify it if they can; if not, then this third bitter, stinging, venomous spirit shall be condemned also. Of the Fourth Kind, Species, Form or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer.

(119) 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 examined or tried by the other spirits, whether it be good or no. Now if it pleaseth the fire, then the fire letteth the flash (in which the bitter spirit stands) go through the sweet water, wherein it conceiveth the love, and goeth therewith into the astringent quality.

(119) But that the bitter spirit lies still, and neither heareth nor comprehendeth nor apprehendeth the work of the spirit, signifieth that the bitter wrath-fire, which ariseth in the flash of fire at the time of the birth or geniture of the light, is not awakened by the light, neither comprehendeth it, but lies captive, imprisoned in the outermost birth or geniture, and must give leave to the spirit of light to do its work in nature, how it pleaseth, and yet can neither see nor hear nor comprehend the work of the light.

(129) For at the very hour when Lucifer elevated himself the Father was moved to wrath in the qualifying or fountain spirits against the legions of Lucifer; and the Heart of God hid itself in the firmament of heaven, where the Salitter, effect, product or fabric of the corporeity was burning already; for without or distinct from the light is the dark chamber of death.

(108) When in this qualifying or acting they had generated the spirit of Lucifer, then the life of the spirit, which riseth up in the water, as also the light, became very sour and sharp.

(93) Behold! that is the birth or geniture of nature; and so, if in these three qualities, viz. the astringent, the bitter and the sweet, the wrath-fire were not kindled, then thou wouldst plainly see where God is.

(71) Now when king Lucifer, together with all his angels, kindled himself, then the wrath-fire rose up instantly in the body, and the gracious amiable and blessed light was extinguished in the animated or soulish spirit, and became a fierce, furious, devilish spirit, all according to the kindling and will of the qualifying or fountain spirits.

(26) So when the third spirit in its rage rubs itself in the astringent, then it kindleth the fire, and then the fierceness in the fire riseth up in the astringent. In that fierceness now the bitter spirit becometh self-subsisting; and in the sweet it becometh meek or mild; and in the hard it becometh corporeal; and so now it subsisteth, and is also the fourth spirit.

(42) 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 spirit, ["Hereby is understood the spirit of the will, out of the centre, which is generated out of the genitrix, viz. out of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, which is the image of God,"] in the whole divine power, and kindle the whole Salitter of God as a new and potent God; and so the formings and heavenly imagings should rise up in a horrible fiery quality, and suffer themselves to be imaged and framed according to this fierceness.

(123) So in this manner lord Lucifer brought the Deity into anger and wrath; ["that is, kindled the eternal nature according to the first Principle;"] seeing he, together with all his angels, as a malicious devil, fought or strove against the Deity, intending to bring and subdue the whole circumference, circuit or region under his innate spirits, that they should form, frame, figure and image all, and the whole circumference, region or extent should bow, yield and suffer itself to be ruled and formed by the kindled sharpness of the innate spirits.

(39) 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 burnt in the sweet water, and the flash or terror, which riseth up fiercely in the birth of the light, became raging and tearing, burning and stinging, and a being or substance of a mere opposite or contrary will.

(30) The outward comprehensibility or palpability in the whole nature of this world, and of all things which are therein, stands all in the wrath-fire of God, for it is become thus through the kindling of nature; and lord Lucifer with his angels has his dwelling now in the same outward birth or geniture which stands in the wrath-fire.

(110) This was the second enmity against God, from whence is existed the sour quality in this world, for it was not so from eternity; as you have an example thereof in this, viz. if you set any sweet thing in the warmth, and let it stand therein, it grows sour of itself; as also water, beer or wine in a vessel will do; but none of the other qualities alter, but only into a stink, which is caused by the quality of water. Now thou wilt ask, Question. Why did God suffer Lucifer's evil spirit, which proceeded out of the body of Lucifer, to come into Himself? Could God not hinder it? Answer.

(6) Just in such a kind and manner also was the bitter quality in Lucifer, and [it] had no cause to elevate itself, neither had it any impulse to it from anything, but followed the proud loftiness of the astringent quality, as its father, and supposed also that it would reign in its kind and manner over the whole Deity, and so kindled itself in its elevation.

(41) On the other side, the cold fire of the astringent quality was in a mad furious rage against the heat, and against the bitter venom or poison, like a great uproar or hurliburly; and now, furthermore, in the body of Lucifer there was nothing else but a murdering, rubbing, fretting, burning and stinging, a most horrible hellish fire.

(2) "This is the spirit of light who has come in them. And by the will of the majesty the spirit gazed up at the infinite light, that his light may be pitied and the likeness may be brought up from Hades. And when the spirit had looked, I flowed out—I, the son of the majesty—like a wave of light and like a whirlwind of the immortal spirit. And I blew from the cloud of the hymen upon the astonishment of the unconceived spirit. The cloud separated and cast light upon the clouds. These separated so that the spirit might return. Because of this the mind took shape. Its rest was shattered. For the hymen of nature was a cloud that cannot be grasped; it is a great fire. Similarly, the afterbirth of nature is the cloud of silence; it is an august fire. And the power that was mixed with the mind—it, too, was a cloud of nature that was joined with the darkness that had aroused nature to unchastity. And the dark water was a frightful cloud. And the root of nature, which was below, was crooked, since it is burdensome and harmful. The root was blind to the bound light, which was unfathomable because it had many appearances.