For it stands in the Gate in the Center, viz. in the Door [Way,] between Heaven and Hell; and the Word is in the Heaven. And if the Soul gives Way to be drawn away from that Gate, then it loses the Word; but if the Soul reaches forward again, towards the Gate, then it attains that again; and the Virgin (who is the Servant of the Word) goes continually [along] with the Soul, and warns it of the evil Ways. 1 10. But if the Soul be a Dog, an Adder, or Serpent, then the Virgin goes away to the Word into the Heaven, and then the Door is shut. And then there is a whole Birth between the Soul and the Word, whereas else there is but half [a Birth between the Word and the Soul;] and then there is Need of hard Striving, and [such a Soul] will hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; yet it is possible enough.

The Gate of the Power.

And now as the whole earth was, together with the word, so was the fruit also; but the word remained in the centre of the heaven, which is also in thi...

The devil can reach half into this birth, so far as the wrath comprehendeth or reacheth, but no deeper, and thus far goeth his dwelling, but no...

Now elevate thy sense, thoughts and spirit into the deep of the Deity, for here a gate is opened. The place or space of this world, the deep of the...

The way leads from the sacrum upward in a backward- flowing manner to the summit of the creative, and on through the house of the creative; then it...

But the animated or soulish spirit, which qualifieth or uniteth with God, that comprehends it well; but the bestial body attains only a glimpse thereo...

But if thou fightest and strivest with the devil, and keepest the gate of love in thy astral birth, and so departest from hence as to the body, then t...

Then thy heart is a dark valley: And if thou dost not labour and work quickly again to the birth of the light, then he kindleth the wrath-fire...

Here thou seest once more how the kingdom of God and the kingdom of hell hang one to the other, as one body, and yet the one cannot comprehend the...

For the soul, which apprehendeth the word, has an open gate in heaven, and can be prevented by nothing; neither does the devil see the soul, because i...

But now, that the spirit conceiveth itself at the heart, and cometh forth and closeth together the teeth, and hisseth with the tongue through the teet...

But heaven is the partition between love and wrath, and is the seat wherein the wrath is transmuted or changed into love.

Behold, when God said, Let there be light, then the light in the powers of nature, or the seven spirits of God, rose up, and the firmament of heaven,...

Thou child of man, behold now, how great a gate of heaven, of hell, and of the earth, as also of the whole Deity, the spirit openeth to thee.

This other part of the astral birth, which stands in the love in the sweet water, is the firmament of heaven, which holdeth captive the kindled...

But seeing the soul, all the while the body had been in death, remained hidden in the word, and seeing the same word also holdeth the earth in the ast...

Here the spirit answereth, that at the end of the time of this corrupted birth or geniture, after the resurrection from the dead, this place or space...

It further signifieth that the Holy Ghost in like manner has an open gate in the wrathhouse of this world, where he may drive and perform his work,...

But the spirit is eternal life, which uniteth, qualifieth or mixeth with God, and comprehendeth the internal Deity in nature.

The word or syllable (den) conceiveth itself on the tongue again, and the spirit attracteth the power and virtue out of the word, and therewith goeth...