Behold, thou seeking Mind, that which thou seest before thy Eyes, that it not the Element, neither in the Fire, Air, nor Earth; neither are there four, but one only, and that is fixed and invisible, also imperceptible: For the Fire which burns is no Element, but [it is] the fierce [stern Wrath,] which comes to be such in the Kindling of the Anger, when the Devils fell out of the Element: The Element is neither hot nor cold, but it is the Inclination [to be] in God, for the Heart of God is Barm [that is, Warmth] and its Ascension is attractive and always finding; and then the hertz [that is, the Heart] is the Holding the Thing before itself, and not in itself; and then the ig [the last Syllable of the German Word Barm-hertz-ig, (that is, warm-hearted, or merciful) explained according to the Language of Nature] is the continual Discovering of the Thing, and this is altogether ewig [eternal;] and that is the Ground of the inward Element, which makes the Anger substantial, so. that it was visible and palpable, which [Anger] Lucifer with his Legions did awaken; and thereupon he now remains to be the Prince in the Anger [or Wrath] (in the kindled Element) as Christ (according to this Form) calls him a Prince of this World.

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...

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 th...

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 L...

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;...

The Reader is advertised that he must not understand in any place, as if the devil had kindled or fired the light of God; no, but the forms of nature ...

As we see by Lucifer, who elevated and compressed himself so hard together with his legions, that the sweet fountain-water in him was dried up, wherei...

So in this manner lord Lucifer brought the Deity into anger and wrath; ["that is, kindled the eternal nature according to the first Principle;"] seein...

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...

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...

No; here lies the point: the wrath does not comprehend the innermost birth or geniture in nature, for the love of God is yet hidden in the centre, in ...

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...

For the heart of God delighted in love and meekness; and Lucifer would needs turn the same by force into a raging tyranny: So there was nothing but en...

Of the Fifth Kind, Species, Form or Manner of Sin's Beginning, in Lucifer and his Angels.

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 burn...

Now when that was done he roared with his kindled fire-spirit abroad into the nature of God, and then the whole body in the nature of God, as far as...

The heat is the kernel of the spirit, out of which the light goeth and kindleth itself in the midst or centre of the sweet quality, and becometh...

"Yet the fire giveth or holdeth forth to us a mystery of the eternal nature, and of the Deity also, wherein a man is to understand two Principles of...

Not that these three qualities of the outermost birth, in which the wrath-fire stands, are rejected and reprobated of the innermost; no, but only the...

Then the heat kindleth the sweet source or quality, with an intent to be refreshed, but there is no sap left, the sweet source or quality is now...

But when the astringent quality was kindled in Lucifer, then it became very cold; for the coldness is its own proper spirit, and thereupon now it kind...