It is not without a Cause, that Christ calls the Devil a Prince of this World, for he is so, according to the first Principle, according to the Kingdom of Wrath, and continues so to Eternity. But he is not so according to the Kingdom of the four Elements and Stars; for if he had full Power in that, then there would be no vegetative [Fruit] nor living Creature upon the Earth. He cannot master the P Exit of the four Elements; for he is in the Originality, and there is a [whole] Principle between; only when the Constellations awaken the fierce Wrath of the Fire, in the Elements, as in a tempestuous Storm, then he is Master- Juggler [in Mischief,] and rejoices himself [therein.] Though indeed he has no Power there neither, except it be permitted him from the Anger of God, then he is the Hangman [or Executioner,] and executes the Right as a Servant [Minister or Officer;] but not as a Judge, but as an Executioner.

Whether he be loose or no I offer it to every one to consider; but view the world in the clear light, and thou wilt find, that at present the four...

It is not that spirit of God which is lord and chief in nature, which causes or makes the juggling, but it is made in the fierceness of the Salitter,...

For the wrath-fire in nature is not, during this time of the world, the devil's own house of his power; for the love stands hidden in the centre of th...

Thou must not think that the devil has thus powerfully and mightily overcome the Deity. No; but he has kindled the wrath of God, which, indeed, had...

In the meanwhile lord Lucifer must lie captive and imprisoned in the outermost birth in the nature of this world, in the kindled wrath-fire; and...

Which at present in this time, in the house of this world, cannot be, because of the fierce, captive devil, who keepeth house in the outermost birth...

But seeing thy astral birth stands with the one part in the wrath, and that the flesh through the wrath stands in death, thereupon the devil, in the p...