(12) Thou must not here think, that God has made some new Thing, which never was before; for if that were so, then there had been another God, which is not possible to be. For without, or besides this one only God, nothing is at all, for the Gates of Hell are not any where without, beyond, or absent from this one only God; only there is a Partition or Distinction between the Love in the Light, and the kindled Wrath in the Darkness, so that the one cannot comprehend the other, and yet hang one to another as one Body.

(32) In short, I would have you to understand, that God (in so far as He is good) is goodness as goodness, and not this or that good. But here mark one thing. Behold! what is sometimes here and sometimes there is not everywhere, and above all things and places; so also, what is to-day, or to-morrow, is not always, at all times, and above all time; and what is some thing, this or that, is not all things and above all things. Now behold, if God were some thing, this or that, He would not be all in all, and above all, as He is; and so also, He would not be true Perfection. Therefore God is, and yet He is neither this nor that which the creature, as creature, can perceive, name, conceive or express. Therefore if God (in so far as He is good) were this or that good, He would not be all good, and therefore He would not be the One Perfect Good, which He is. Now God is also a Light and a Reason,40 the property of which is to give light and shine, and take knowledge; and inasmuch as God is Light and Reason, He must give light and perceive. And all this giving and perceiving of light existeth in God without the creature; not as a work fulfilled, but as a substance or well-spring. But for it to flow out into a work, something really done and accomplished,41 there must be creatures through whom this can come to pass.

(127) But thou must know, that the Kernel of Love also sticks in all in the hidden Center, unless it be too, too altogether evil; and so evil a Thing Man has neither no liking to at all. God possesses all, only as to Nature He is not the Essence, He possesses Himself. Or dost thou think thou dost well, if thou bathest or forsakest thyself in God’s Wrath? Take heed, that it does not kindle thy Body and Soul, and so thou wilt burn therein eternally, as befell Lucifer.

(1) There is above the Celestial Lights an Incorruptible Flame always sparkling; the Spring of Life, the Formation of all Beings, the Original of all things! This Flame produceth all things, and nothing perisheth but what it consumeth. It maketh Itself known by Itself. This Fire cannot be contained in any Place, it is without Body and without Matter. It encompasseth the Heavens. And there goeth out from it little Sparks, which make all the Fires of the Sun, of the Moon, and of the Stars. Behold! what I know of God! Strive not to know more of Him, for that is beyond thy capacity, how wise soever thou art. As to the rest, know that unjust and wicked Man cannot hide himself from the Presence of God ! No subtilty nor excuse can disguise anything from His piercing Eyes. All is full of God, and God is in All!

(47) "But in the Out-speaking of his Word, wherein the Nature of the spiritual World exists, wherein Perceptibility or Sensibility is understood to consist, and wherein God calls himself an angry, zealous or jealous God, and a consuming Fire, therein indeed God has known the Evil from Eternity, and that in Case he should once move himself therein, that the Source or Quality thereof would become creaturely also, but therein he is not called God, but a consuming Fire. [† In that, according to which he is called a consuming Fire.]

(43) When thou beholdest the Deep betwixt the Stars and the Earth, canst thou say, that is not God, or there God is not? O, thou miserable corrupted Man! be instructed; for in the Deep above the Earth, where thou seest and knowest nothing, and sayest there is nothing, yet even there is the high-holy God in his Trinity, and is generating there, as well as in the high Heaven aloft above this World. Or doth thou think, that he departed and went away from his Seat where he did sit from Eternity, in or at the Time of the Creation of this World? O no; that cannot be, for though He could himself do so, He cannot do it, for He himself is All: And as little as a Member of the Body can be rent off from itself, so little can God also be divided, rent, or separated from being every where.

(51) whatsoever thou dost but look upon, there is God, but the Comprehensibility stands in this World, in the Wrath, which the Devil has kindled; and in the hidden Kernel, in the Midst or Center of the Wrath, the Light or Heart of God is generated, incomprehensibly as to the Wrath, and to each of them remains in its Seat.

(17) But seeing the Light in the outermost Birth was extinguished, the Heat also was captivated in the Comprehensibility or Palpability, and could no more generate its Life. From thence Death came into Nature, so that Nature or the corrupt Earth could no more help it, and thereupon another Creation of Light must needs follow, or else the Earth would have been an eternal indissolvable Death; but now the Earth generates or brings forth Fruit in the Power and Kindling of the created Light. Now one might ask: What is the Condition then of this twofold Birth or Geniture? Is God then extinguished in the Kindling of the Wrath-fire, in the Place of this World, so that nothing is there else but a mere Wrath-fire? Or is the one only God become a twofold God? Answer.

(33) For before the Beginning of the Creation of the Creatures, there was Nothing but only GOD; and where there is Nothing, out of that, Nothing will be. All Things must have a Cause or Root, or else Nothing will be.

(48) Thou seest in this World nothing but the Deep, and therein the Stars, and the Birth or Geniture of the Elements: Now wilt thou say, God is not there? Pray then, what was there in that Place before the Time of the World? Wilt thou say, there was nothing? then thou speakest without Reason, for thou must needs say, that God was there, or else nothing would there have come to be.

(9) thus also is the whole House of this World; the outward Darkness is the House of God's Wrath, wherein the Devils dwell, and it is rightly the House of Death, for the holy Light of God has died therein. ["Understand, it stepped into its Principle, and is the outward Substantiality in God, as it were dead in our Esteem, whereas it lives in God, but in another Source or Quality."]