(45) 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 Meekness, as it was before the Time of the Wrath, so that the Birth of Nature is now altogether holy and pure: No, but it stands in its sharpest, sufferest, and most anxious Birth, wherein the Wrath of God continually springs up like hellish Fire. [continually springs up]

(42) This Fire-spirit, and right Devil’s spirit, elevated itself now also in the Center of the Heart, and would rule through the animated or soulish Spirit, [“Hereby is understood the Spirit of the Will, or of the Center, 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.

(37) And indeed he has done somewhat, in that he has set the divine Power into a Burning, which appears even in the Sun and Stars; also the Fire in the Salitter in the Elements is often kindled, so that it seems as if the Deep was of a burning Fire; of which I shall speak in another Place. He slept back out of the Meekness into the anxious Fire-will, and fell into Darkness. 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 only, out of which the Light shines. For he has not comprehended the Light, as little as the Fire does, which cannot lay hold on the Light: But he entered into the Fire, and is expelled into the Darkness, and has neither Fire nor Light, besides, without, or distinct from his Creature. [Or his own creaturely Existence.]

(74) in the Deep the Power of all Stars, together with the Heat and Lustre of the Sun, are all but one Thing, a moving boiling Hovering, like a Spirit or Matter; only it has not Reason, for it is not the Holy Spirit. And thus also the fourth Element must adhere or belong to a natural Spirit, or it is not capable of Reason. ["And thus God the Father goes forth in his Deep out of all his Powers, and generates the Splendor, the Heart, or the Son of God in his Center."]

(34) Now then, seeing the Devils kindled their own Bodies, intending thereby to domineer over the whole Deity, therefore the Creator also, in his Wrath, kindled this third Spirit, or this third Birth or Geniture in Nature, and imprisoned the Devil therein, and made an eternal Lodging therein for him, that he might not be higher than the whole God. [decorated X] Understand, in the outward Sources or Qualities; for the outermost of all, is also the inmost of all.

(13) Now when these evil, devilish Spirits (understand the Center of the Genitrix) moved or boiled in God’s Salitter, and made havock, or spoiled all therein, then there was nothing but Stinging, Burning, Murdering, Robbing, and a mere opposite or contrary Will.

(72) Now this animated or soulish Spirit was bound or united with the Deity, in Nature, and could qualify, mix or operate in and with the same, as if it were one and the same thing; and that now flung forth out of the Bodies of the Devils into the Nature of God, like a Thief and a Murderer, that desired to rob, murder, and spoil all, and bring all under its Power, and so kindled all the seven Spirits in Nature, and then there was nothing else but an astringent, bitter, fiery and cracking Burning, Tearing and Raging.

(25) And by this now, in the Creation of this World, the Stars and the Elements, as also the Creatures, tremble and burn, out of which exits also the House of Death and of Hell, also eternal, base, loathsome Habitation for the Kingdom of Lucifer, and for all wicked Men. This Quality generates,