And so instead of the paradisical Joy and Refreshment, there has been a mere Brimstone-Spirit, which stands in Anguish and Trembling, of Corruption [or Fragility,] which kindles the Tincture of the Blood, wherein Tearing, Stinging, and Tormenting is wrought; and if the Fire in the Brimstone-Spirit be too much kindled, then it burns the Tincture up, and the Light of Life goes out, and then the Body falls away to be a dead-Carcase; and if the tart Sourness be kindled too much by the hard Attracting and Holding, then also the Light of Life goes out, and the Body perishes; so also of the Water; if the Tincture kindles itself in the Meekness, then it becomes windy, gross, swelled, wholly dark, also infectious.and corrupt, wherein the Flash of the Life is as a pricking Thorn. And so Man's Life is every where begirt with Enemies, and the poor Soul is always in a close Prison fettered with many Chains, and is continually in Fear that (when the Body shall [die or] break) it may fall into the Kingdom of the Executioner, the Devil.

For the Life which stands in the Light cannot elevate itself in the hard, bitter, and astringent Body; for it is captivated in the cold Fire, but not ...

There is also therein a Raging, Raving, Stinging, and Burning, and that Water is continually as a dying Man, when Body and Soul are parting asunder,...

I. The Hardness generates a hard, raw, rough, cold, and astringent Quality. II. The Sweetness is grown faint, like a glowing Coal, when there is no mo...

Then it kindles the sweet Source or Quality, with an Intent to be refreshed, but there is no Sap left, only the sweet Source or Quality is now...

Water being dried up, the bitter Quality (which existed and was generated by the first Flash, when the Light kindled itself) rose up in the Body throu...

Whereby then, in many a Creature, the Wrath-fire would be so very hard kindled, that the Body together with the Spirit will afford and produce an...

But when the sweet Water can defend itself no longer, then (Anguish) rises up in it, just as in Man, when he is dying, when the Spirit is departing fr...

And the sweet spring Water became very thick, and stinking, and brittle, as in many Pieces: and the bitter Quality became very raging, tearing and rav...

And the Life of the Light breaks through the Death, and generates to it another Body out of Death, which is not conformable to, or of the Condition of...