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(63) Consider, when the Souls of Children come to their Parents, who in the Body did generate them, whether Heaven can chuse but be there? Or dost thou think my Writing is too earthly?

(5) Whatever melody most sweetly soundeth On earth, and to itself most draws the soul, Would seem a cloud that, rent asunder, thunders, Compared unto the sounding of that lyre Wherewith was crowned the sapphire beautiful, Which gives the clearest heaven its sapphire hue. "I am Angelic Love, that circle round The joy sublime which breathes from out the womb That was the hostelry of our Desire; And I shall circle, Lady of Heaven, while Thou followest thy Son, and mak'st diviner The sphere supreme, because thou enterest there." Thus did the circulated melody Seal itself up; and all the other lights Were making to resound the name of Mary. The regal mantle of the volumes all Of that world, which most fervid is and living With breath of God and with his works and ways, Extended over us its inner border, So very distant, that the semblance of it There where I was not yet appeared to me. Therefore mine eyes did not possess the power Of following the incoronated flame, Which mounted upward near to its own seed.

(12) For as Nature with the working, wrestling, and rising up of its Birth or Geniture stood in the Time of the Kindling, just such a Matter attracted itself together. Now it may be asked: How then is a comprehensible or palpable Son come to be out of an incomprehensible Mother? Answer.

(56) where now would the Soul of Man rather be at the Day of Regeneration, than in its Father, that is, in the Body which hath generated it? [Note, Christ's not being af- fended to his Father.]

(95) And this now is the Mother of the Soul, which shines through the seven Spirits, and makes them living, and in their Stead the Seed qualifies, mixes, or unites with the Heart of God: But it is that Seed only, in which the Light is kindled; but in that, in which the Wrath-fire burns, there this third Mother remains Captive in the Dark Chamber.