(37) But when he saw that he was so fair and beautiful, and found or felt his inward Birth and great Power or Authority, then his Spirit, which he had generated in his Body, which is his ANIMAL (or animated) or Life-spirit, or Son, or Heart, exalted itself, intending to triumph over the divine Birth, and to lift up or extol itself above the Heart of God. Note, The Author calls the soulish Birth the ANIMAL Birth, from Anima, which signifies the Soul; but seeing the Scripture otherwise understands by the Word Animal the perished or corrupted Soul, or Animalem hominem, the Animal Man, or the corrupted natural Man, that is, the Adamical bestial Man, and so he being advertised of it, he altered that Expression, and used it no more any further. Here observe the Depth.

(31) Man is made out of the Seed of the Earth, out of an incorporated or compacted Mass or Lump; [“understand out of the Matrix of the Earth, wherein the Eye is twofold; the one in God, and the other in this World, out of three Principles;”] and not out of the Wrath, but out of the Birth or Geniture of the Earth; and stood in the astral Birth or Geniture in the Part of the Love, but Wrath hung to him, which he should have put forth from himself, as the Fruit puts forth the Bitterness of the Tree;

(84) When God had thus gently incorporated it, or compacted it together, then it found and felt itself to be mighty and powerful, and saw that it retained a Body as fair and excellent as the Figures were, that were without, distinct from it; thereupon it became high minded, and elevated itself in its Body, and would be more severe and eager than the Salitter was, which was without, distinct from its Body.

(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 that could have shone forth in the outward Body, besides the Heaven; there stood all Powers as it were captivated in Death, and were in great Anguish, till they had heated themselves in the Midst or Center of the Body.