(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;

(3) And He was wroth with the woman, be- cause she hearkened to the voice of the serpent, and did eat; and He said unto her : " I shall greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy pains : in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy return shall be unto thy husband, and he will rule over thee." 25. And to Adam also He said, " Because thou hastheark- ened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat thereof, cursed be the ground for thy sake : thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat thy bread in the sweat of thy face, till thou returnest to the earth from whence thou wast taken ; for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return/'

(24) Not that the Fruits of the Earth are thereupon wholly in the Wrath of God; for the one only incorporated or compacted Word, which is immortal and incorruptible, which was from Eternity in the Salitter of the Earth, sprung up again in the Body of Death, and brought forth Fruit out of the dead Body of the Earth; but the Earth comprehended not the Word, but the Word comprehended the Earth.

(19) First, thou hast the bestial Flesh, which is come to be through the lustful longing Bit of the Apple, for it is the House of Corruption. For when Adam was made out of the corrupted Salitter of the Earth, that is, out of the Seed, or Mass, or Lump, which the Creator extracted out of the corrupted Earth, he was not then at first such Flesh, else his Body had been created mortal, but he had an angelical powerful Body, in which he should have subsisted eternally, and should have eat angelical [Tex. Mist.] Fruit, which grew for him in Paradise before his Fall, before the LORD cursed the Earth.

(20) But seeing the Seed, or Mass, or Lump, out of which Adam was made, was somewhat infected with the corrupt Disease or Malady of the Devil, Adam therefore longed after his Mother, that is, to eat of the Fruit of the corrupted Earth, which then in its outward Comprehensibility was become so evil, and in the Wrath-fire was become so hard, palpable, and comprehensible.

(40) But seeing thou art made out of the Seed of the Earth, ["red Earth, is Fire and Water, conceived with or by the Word Fiat, out of the Matrix of the Earth; but when Man imagined or set his Desire into the Earth, he became earthly,"] and hast set or put thy Body back again into thy Mother, therefore thy Body also is become a palpable, dead, or mortal Body, such as thy Mother is. And

(23) Thus also the Earth brought forth no strange Life, but even that which had been in it from Eternity: And as before the Time of the Wrath it had brought forth heavenly Fruits, which had a holy, pure heavenly Body, and were the Food of Angels, so now it brought forth Fruits, according to its comprehensible, palpable, hard, evil, wrathful, poisonous, venomous, half-dead Kind; for as the Mother was, so were her Children.

(30) Also the new Birth blossomed in the Time of the Creation, when Man had not spoiled or corrupted it; but by him Nature was full more corrupted, and so God cursed the Ground. But seeing Man took hold of the Fruit of the old Body, thereupon the Fruit of the new Body was hidden in its Heaven, and Man must now behold it with the new Body, and cannot partake of it with the natural Body.