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(137) Here is cause for the judging World to see, and consider, who condemn Man in his Mother's Body or Womb, whereas they do not know, whither the Wrath-fire of the Parents be fully kindled in the Fruit, or not; and seeing that the Spirit of God moves also in the Darkness which stands yet in quiet Rest, and can easily generate the Darkness to be Light: And moreover the Hour of Man's Birth or Nativity is very helpful and profitable for it; but in many it is very hurtful and obstructive, but not compulsive.

(70) But if thou art wicked, then thy Birth or Geniture is not capable of Heaven, but of the Wrath, and remains in the other Part of the astral Birth or Geniture, wherein the earnest and austere fire-source rises up, and bolts it up into Death, so long, till thou breakest through Heaven, and livest with God.

(6) But in fact everything follows its own Kind; the birth is a horse because it comes from the Horse Kind, a man by springing from the Human Kind; offspring answers to species. Allow the kosmic circuit its part, a very powerful influence upon the thing brought into being: allow the stars a wide material action upon the bodily part of the man, producing heat and cold and their natural resultants in the physical constitution; still does such action explain character, vocation and especially all that seems quite independent of material elements, a man taking to letters, to geometry, to gambling, and becoming an originator in any of these pursuits? And can we imagine the stars, divine beings, bestowing wickedness? And what of a doctrine that makes them wreak vengeance, as for a wrong, because they are in their decline or are being carried to a position beneath the earth- as if a decline from our point of view brought any change to themselves, as if they ever ceased to traverse the heavenly spheres and to make the same figure around the earth.

Nor may we think that these divine beings lose or gain in goodness as they see this one or another of the company in various aspects, and that in their happier position they are benignant to us and, less pleasantly situated, turn maleficent. We can but believe that their circuit is for the protection of the entirety of things while they furnish the incidental service of being letters on which the augur, acquainted with that alphabet, may look and read the future from their pattern- arriving at the thing signified by such analogies as that a soaring bird tells of some lofty event.

(95) Hearken, there belongs more than so to this; thy animated or soulish Spirit must first qualify, operate or unite with the innermost Birth or Geniture in God, and stand in the Light, that it may rightly know and understand the astral Birth or Geniture, and that it may have a free and open Gate into all the Births or Genitures, else thou wilt not be able to write a holy and true Philosophy, but as it were full of Lice and Fleas, and to wit be found a Mocker against God. [Or many evil Beasts and creeping Vermine.]

(40) Where therefore the fierce Wrath of God in the outermost Birth or Geniture, in the Deep, becomes daily kindled, and blown up by the Devil's, and all wicked Men, through the great Sins of Man, which still qualify, mix, unite, or co-operate with the astral Birth or Geniture in the Deep. Now

(22) For thus stood the Birth or Geniture of Nature in the Time of the Kindling, and was thus together incorporated in the Earth, and must also in such a Birth spring up again: For it is written; 'That the dead Earth should let the Grass and Herbs, and Trees spring up, each according to its Kind,' that is, according to the Kind and Quality, as it had been from Eternity, and as it had been in the heavenly Quality, Kind and Form. For that is called its own Kind, which is received in the Mother's Body or Womb, and is its own by Right of Nature, as its own peculiar Life. [Gen. 1. 12.]

(42) But seeing thy astral Birth stands here on Earth in the Wrath, and qualifies, mixes, or unites with the Love in the Word, just as the Fruit on the Tree does; for the Power of the Fruit qualifies, or unites with the Word; therefore thy Hope stands in God. For the astral Birth or Geniture stands in Love and Wrath, and that in this Time it cannot boast of, in Regard of the outermost Birth or Geniture in the Flesh, which stands in Death.

(61) the Devil can reach half into this Birth, so far as the Wrath comprehends or reaches, and no deeper, and thus far goes his Dwelling, and no deeper; therefore the Devil cannot know how the other Part in this Birth has a Root; and so far Man is come in his Knowledge from the Beginning of the World to this Time, since his Fall. But the other Root, called the Heaven, the Spirit has kept that hidden and concealed from Man till this time, lest the Devil should have learned it from Man, and should have strewed Poison into it for Man before his Eyes.