(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.

(100) 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 Lucifer's kingdom and dominion reached, was kindled. But seeing his light was instantly extinguished, he could no more qualify or unite with his spirit in the two births or genitures, viz. of the Son of God, and of the Holy Spirit of God, but remained fixed in the sharp birth or geniture of God.

(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.

(99) For this world belongeth as well to the body or corpus [substantiality] of God the Father as the heaven does; but in the locality or space of this world the spirits were kindled through king Lucifer, in his elevation, so that all things in this world are as it were languid and half dead: And therefore it is that we poor men are so very much blinded, and live in such great and desperate danger.

(31) The other heaven is this world, in which Lucifer was a king, who kindled the outermost birth or geniture in nature; and that now is the wrath of God, and cannot be called God or heaven, but perdition.

(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. ["Understand, in the outward sources or qualities; for the outermost of all, is also the innermost of all."]

(130) Therefore he has set upon him the crown of honour, of might, power and authority, so that there is in heaven no higher nor more excellent nor mightier than he is, except God himself in his Ternary. And this is one king, rightly described, with a true ground in the knowledge of the spirit. Of the second King LUCIFER, now so called, because of his Fall.

(75) For in that place, or in this birth or geniture, is lord Lucifer become a creature, and his dominion did reach no farther or deeper than so; but if he had continued in the love, then his animated or soulish spirit had reached even to the centre of the heart of God, for love presseth or penetrateth through the whole Deity.

(8) Now elevate thy sense, thoughts and spirit into the deep of the Deity, for here a gate is opened. The place or space of this world, the deep of the earth, and above the earth even to heaven, as also the created heaven, which was made out of the midst [or center] of the waters, which moveth above the stars, and which we behold with our eyes, whose depth we cannot sound or reach with our sense, all this place or room together was one kingdom, and Lucifer was king therein, before his being thrust out.

(73) Now when the heaven was made for a distinction or partition between the light of God and the kindled corruption of the body of this world, then was the body of this world a dark valley, and had no light besides the heaven that could have shone forth in the outward body; all powers stood as it were captivated in death, and were in great anguish, till they had heated themselves in the midst or centre of the body.

(36) Now Lucifer had the fairest, most beautiful and most powerful body in heaven, of or among all the princes of God, and his light, which he has, and which is continually generated in his body, that [light] has incorporated itself with the Heart or Son of God, as if they were one thing.

(22) 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 rule therein, then instantly the light in nature went out, wherein he supposed to be lord; and the whole nature was benumbed and congealed as a body of death, wherein was no mobility; and he must remain there in darkness, as an eternal, captive prisoner.

(55) But seeing the body of Lucifer, was created out of nature, [which is] the most outward birth or geniture, therefore it was unjustly done that he should elevate himself into the innermost and deepest, which he could not do in the divine right, but must only so elevate and kindle himself that thereby the qualifying or fountain spirits might be set or put into the sharpest penetrating and infecting.

(40) But this third birth or geniture is the clear and holy heaven, which qualifieth or uniteth with the heart of God without, distinct and above all heavens, as one heart; also they are the one heart, which, as an almighty, incomprehensible God, holdeth and bears up or sustaineth the place of this world, and holdeth the devil captive in the outermost birth in the angerfire.

(2) Whoso lamenteth him that here we die That we may live above, has never there Seen the refreshment of the eternal rain. The One and Two and Three who ever liveth, And reigneth ever in Three and Two and One, Not circumscribed and all things circumscribing, Three several times was chanted by each one Among those spirits, with such melody That for all merit it were just reward; And, in the lustre most divine of all The lesser ring, I heard a modest voice, Such as perhaps the Angel's was to Mary, Answer: "As long as the festivity Of Paradise shall be, so long our love Shall radiate round about us such a vesture. Its brightness is proportioned to the ardour, The ardour to the vision; and the vision Equals what grace it has above its worth. When, glorious and sanctified, our flesh Is reassumed, then shall our persons be More pleasing by their being all complete; For will increase whate'er bestows on us Of light gratuitous the Good Supreme, Light which enables us to look on Him;

(114) And then there riseth up the striving or fighting fire in man, just as it rose up in heaven with Michael and Lucifer, and so the poor soul comes to be miserably crushed, stretched, tormented and put upon the rack.

(5) Not in the guise that man o'ercometh man, But conquers it because it will be conquered, And conquered conquers by benignity. The first life of the eyebrow and the fifth Cause thee astonishment, because with them Thou seest the region of the angels painted. They passed not from their bodies, as thou thinkest, Gentiles, but Christians in the steadfast faith Of feet that were to suffer and had suffered. For one from Hell, where no one e'er turns back Unto good will, returned unto his bones, And that of living hope was the reward,— Of living hope, that placed its efficacy In prayers to God made to resuscitate him, So that 'twere possible to move his will. The glorious soul concerning which I speak, Returning to the flesh, where brief its stay, Believed in Him who had the power to aid it; And, in believing, kindled to such fire Of genuine love, that at the second death Worthy it was to come unto this joy. The other one, through grace, that from so deep A fountain wells that never hath the eye Of any creature reached its primal wave,

(146) Now Lucifer being so royally imaged or framed, that his spirit in his forming and imaging rose up in him, and was received or embraced of God very excellently and lovingly, and was set or put into glorification, then instantly he should have begun his angelical obedience and course, and should have moved (as God himself did) as a loving son in the house of his Father; and that he did not.

(79) In this hour king Lucifer prepared for himself the hell and eternal perdition, which now stands in the outermost qualifying or fountain spirit of the nature of God, or in the outermost birth or geniture of this world.

(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.