(97) But here thou must know, that the Bodies of Angels cannot apprehend the Birth or Geniture of God, neither does their Body understand it, their Spirit only understands it, but the Body holds still, as the Nature in God does, and lets the Spirit co-work and labour with God, and play lovingly.

(60) in this Body of Nature now was the Kindling made, for out of this Body the Angels also were created; and if they had not elevated and kindled themselves in their Highmindedness, then their Body might have stood eternally in a Stillness, and in an incomprehensible Meekness, as it is in the other Principalities of Angels that are without, distinct from this World, and their Spirit had generated itself eternally in their Body of Meekness, as the holy Trinity does in the Body or Corporiety of God, and their inborn or innate Spirit had been one Heart, one Will, and one Love with or in the holy Trinity: For to that End also they were created in the Body of God, to be a Joy to the Deity.

(16) the Angels are not only imaged or framed out of the seventh Nature-Spirit, as the transitory Creatures are, but when the Deity moved itself to the creating of Angels, then in every Circle, wherein each Angel was incorporated or compacted together, there the Deity with its whole Substance and Being was incorporated or compacted together, [* Understand the two eternal Principles, viz. “the Fire and the Light, and yet not the Quality or Source of the Fire, but the Essence of it,”] and became a Body, and yet the Deity continued in its Seat, as before. Understand this well:

(28) But here you must elevate your Mind in the Spirit, and consider how the whole Nature, with all the Powers which are in Nature, also the Extension, Depth, and Heighth, also Heaven and Earth, and all whatsoever is therein, and all that is above the Heavens, is together the Body or Corporeity of God; and the Powers of the Stars are the Fountain Veins in the natural Body of God, in this World.

(102) And that Nature is indeed the Body of God, wherein the Deity generates itself, but the Devils cannot apprehend the meek Birth of God, which rises up in the Light. For their Body is dead to the Light, and lives in the outermost and austere Birth or Geniture of God, wherein the Light never kindles itself again any more.

(2) This is the very Spirit of Nature, yea Nature itself, wherein Apprehensibility or Comprehensibility consists, and wherein all Creatures are formed in Heaven and on Earth. Yea Heaven itself is therein formed; and all Naturality in the whole God consists in this Spirit.

(9) Further also, the most conspicuous fact of all theology--the God-formation of Jesus amongst us--is both unutterable by every expression and unknown to every mind, even to the very foremost of the most reverend angels. The fact indeed that. He took substance as man, we have received as a mystery, but we do not know in what manner, from virginal bloods, by a different law, beyond nature, He was formed, and how, with dry feet, having a bodily bulk and weight of matter, He marched upon the liquid and unstable substance; and so, with regard to all the other features of the super-physical physiology of Jesus. Now, we have elsewhere sufficiently spoken of these things, and they have been celebrated by our illustrious leader, in his Theological Elements, in a manner far beyond natural ability--things which that illustrious man acquired, either from the sacred theologians, or comprehended from the scientific, search of the Oracles, from manifold struggles and investigations respecting the same, or was instructed from a sort of more Divine Inspiration, not only having learnt, but having felt the pangs of things Divine, and from his sympathy with them, if I may so speak, having been perfected to their untaught and mystic union and acceptance. And that we may display, in fewest words, the many and blessed visions of his most excellent intelligence, the following are the things he says, concerning the Lord Jesus, in the Theological Elements compiled by him.

(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.

(33) Every Angel is created in the seventh qualifying or fountain Spirit, which is NATURE, out of which his Body is compacted or incorporated together, and his Body is given him for a Propriety, and the same is free to itself, as the whole Deity is free. [Viz. the Body.]

(20) Now one may ask, what Manner of Substance or Thing is it, that the Son of God is generated in the Center or Midst of these Three Kingdoms? Surely one Angelical Host must needs be nearer unto him than the other, seeing their Kingdom has so great a Deep.

(26) in the heavenly Pomp, the Sharpness of the Spirit, out of which, and whereby, the creaturely Being is so formed or constituted, that a heavenly Body may be framed, as also all Manner of Colours, Forms and Sprouts, or Vegetation.