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And we must further a consider, that when the Shriek [or Crack] makes its Dwelling-house, in its strong Breaking-through, out of the Gate of the anxious Darkness, viz. the Tongue, that the Shriek [or Crack] has not then yet seen the Virgin; but when it reflected [or shined] back again into the Heart, into the opened Darkness, and found her so habitable, there then first sprung up its Joy, and Pleasantness, and it became paradisical, and desired not [to go] into the Tongue again, but into the Head, and [desired] there to have its Region out of the Source of the Heart. Therefore the Tongue ought not in all [or altogether] to be believed, for it sits not in the heavenly Region, as the friendly pleasant Virtue [does;] but it has its Region in the Crack and Flash, and the Flash is as near the hellish Region, as the Crack is, for they are both generated in the Sharpness of the Stars, in the Essences, and the Tongue speaks both Lyes and Truth; in which of the two the Spirit arms itself, according to that it speaks: Also it many Times speaks Lies in great Men; when it is armed from the Essences, then it speaks in the Crack, like a Rider in his [haughty, surly, vaunting State,] or high Mindedness. The Life of the Soul. The Gate.

Now, that the Spirit first conceives itself at the Heart, and breaks through all Watches and Guards till it comes upon the Tongue, unperceived, or...

Tongue is terrified, trembles, and crouches to the nether Gums, and then the Spirit comes forth from the Heart, and closes the Word, which conceives i...

But that the Mouth shuts, when the Spirit conceives itself upon the Heart, and that the astringent Quality grunts against, and waits on or in it, it s...

The Word [Nacht] conceives itself first at the Heart, and the Spirit makes a grunting Sound with or in the astringent Quality, yet not wholly...

Where it is said, The Doctor as well as the Plowman is meant. And sometimes the Peasant or Plow-man exceeds the Doctor in Knowledge, if he adheres to ...

But when it comes forth upon the Tongue, then the Tongue and the upper Gums close the Mouth; but when the Spirit thrusts at the Teeth, and will go for...

The Word (Sprach) conceives itself between the Teeth, for they bite or join close together, and the Spirit hisses forth through the Teeth, and the...

But, that after the conceiving and compacting of the Word together in the astringent Quality at the hinder Gums upon the Tongue, the Mouth opens itsel...

But that the Tongue crouches towards the nether Gums, and is sharp at the Point, and will not be used about the Hissing, it signifies, that the outwar...

It signifies, that God has conceived or framed the Place of this World at the Heart in the Midst or Center of it, and has built to himself again a Hou...

But that the Tongue does crouch too much towards the nether Gums when the Word goes forth, it signifies and denotes the animated or soulful Spirit of ...

The Word (Etten) is thrust forth from the Heart, and is conceived on the binder Part upon the Tongue, at the binder Gums, and trembles; the Tongue is...

Against which the Wrath, with its Snarling in the astringent and bitter Quality, at the hinder Gums in the Hollow on the Tongue, struggles, and keeps...

But now that the Spirit conceives itself at the Heart, and comes forth, and closes the Teeth together, and hisses with the Tongue through the Teeth, i...

But that the astringent and bitter Spirit sits still in its Seat at the hinder Gums on the Tongue, and thrusts forth the Word at the Mouth, and yet ca...

But that the Spirit suddenly affects the Tongue, when it comes upon it, whereupon it leaps for Joy, and will go before the Spirit forth at the Mouth, ...

But that the Lips stand open, when it is come hissing through the Teeth, it signifies, that he with his going forth out of the Heart of God, in the Cr...

For the Tongue signifies or denotes the Life of Nature, in which stands the animated soulful and holy Birth or Geniture: For it is a *Type of the Soul...

The Word (schang) conceives itself above and beneath the Tongue, and shuts the Teeth in the upper and lower Gums, and so presses itself close...