These the Fiat created to a Similitude and Image of God, and overshadowed the same in the Fiat with the overflowing Virtue of God; and the Will of God i set itself [right] against the Image and Similitude, and they now which received the Will, they became Angels, for they set their Imagination, in the Will, in the Heart of God, and they did eat of the Verbum Domini [of the Word of the Lord;] but they that set their Imagination in the dark Mind, as Lucifer [did, that he might] fly out above the Deity and Meekness in the Might of the Fire in the Flash, in the sharp Might of God, and be Lord alone, they became Devils, and they have that Name from their being thrust [or driven] out of the Light; for they were in the Light when the Fiat created them, for the Fiat which created them stood in the Light.

THE learned, and almost all writers, have very much encumbered and mightily troubled their heads, to search, contrive and conceive in nature (and...

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...

The holy angels live in the power of meekness, of the light and joyfulness: The devils live in the power of the rising or elevating quality of...

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

But seeing the devils kindled themselves out of pride, wantonness and wickedness; therefore they were quite thrust out from the birth or geniture of t...

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;...

Although these are of a corrupted and twofold being, which is not living, nor has understanding; for it is but the corrupt Salitter and Mercurius, in...

Now when God constituted Lucifer with his host or army, he created them out of this friendly Deity, out of himself, out of the place of heaven and of...

But when Lucifer exalted himself, and kindled his qualifying or fountain spirits, then the animated or soulish spirit went forth in the tone out of or...

All forms and ideas should rise up in the qualifying and acting of his [Lucifer's] spirit. He would be lord of the Deity, and would not endure any cor...

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...

Now when this spirit in the animated or soulish spirit, out of or from the heart of Lucifer and his legions, roved (or speculated) into the Deity;...

From hence now existeth the great contrary opposite will and eternal enmity between God and Lucifer; for the power of God moveth very softly, meekly,...

Therefore thou must here know, that the angels with their animated or soulish birth, in which they qualify and unite with God, have striven and fought...

Stay yet a little while, and the hellish fire will kiss thee; in the meanwhile make much of this Latin, till more grows out of it; thou wilt suddenly...

These are the seven kinds, species, forms or manners of sin's beginning, and eternal enmity against God. Now followeth briefly concerning the four...

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...

Thus you have here the true description of an expulsed angel or of a devil, as also the cause thereof, and that not written in a similitude only, but...

Now when this horrible Lucifer, as a tyrant and raging spoiler of all that is good, shewed himself thus terribly, as if he would kindle and destroy...

For when king Lucifer had caused this place of the world to be appointed as a house of wrath for himself, and supposed thus fiercely and powerfully to...