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And now it may very exactly be understood by the Essences and Property of the Soul, that in this House of Flesh (where it is as it were generated) it is not at Home; and its horrible Fall may be also understood [thereby.] For it has no Light in itself of its own, it must borrow its Light from the Sun; which indeed springs up along with it in its Birth, but that is corruptible, and the Worm of the Soul is not so; and it is seen that when a Man dies it goes out. And if then the divine Light be not again generated in the Center, then the Soul remains in the eternal Darkness, in the eternal anguishing [Source or] Quality of the Birth, where nothing is to be found in the kindled Captive. Fire, but a horrible Flash of Fire, in which [Source, Property, or] Quality, also the Devils dwell; for it is the first Principle.

House of this World; the outward Darkness is the House of God's Wrath, wherein the Devils dwell, and it is rightly the House of Death, for the holy Li...

Now as the Deep, or the House of this World, is a dark House, where the whole Corporeity generates itself, and so is very thick, dark, anxious, and...

So it goes also in the Soul, when it presses or breaks quite through in its Fight or Combat, then it beholds the Deity, as a Flash of Lightning; but t...

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...

Now this Birth of the Flesh is not the Mansion-house of the Soul, but in its Strife it goes in with its Light into the divine Power, and fights...