(110) Now, that the Spirit first conceives itself at the Heart, and breaks through all Watches and Guards till it comes upon the Tongue, unperceived, or unobserved, it signifies, that the Light broken forth out of the Heart of God, through the corrupted, outermost, fierce, dead, bitter and astringent Birth or Geniture in the Nature of this World, incomprehensibly both as to Death and the Devil, together with the Wrath of God, as it is written in the Gospel of St. John, "The Light shined in the Darkness, and the Darkness comprehended it not." [John 1. 5.]

(19) But the animated or soulish Spirit, which qualifies or unites with God, that comprehends it well; but the bestial Body attains only a Glimpse thereof, just as if it lightened: For this is the Posture of the innermost Birth or Geniture of the Soul, when it tears through the outermost Birth or Geniture in the Elevation of the Holy Ghost, and so breaks through the Gates of Hell; but the outermost Birth presently shuts again; for the Wrath of God bolts up the Firmament, and holds it captive in its Power. And

(61) Though it be impossible for the Hands of Men to describe this sufficiently, yet the enlightened Spirit of Man sees it; for it rises up just in such a Form and Birth, as the Light in the Divine Power, and also in the Qualities which are in God. [enlightened]

(110) The Spirit alone understands this hidden Secret, which must fight daily and hourly with the Devil, the outward Flesh cannot comprehend it; also the astral Spirits in Man cannot understand it, neither is it comprehended by Man at all, unless the animated or soulish Spirit unites, qualifies, and operates with the innermost Birth or Geniture in Nature, in the Center, where the Light of God is set opposite against the Devil’s Kingdom, that is, in the third Birth or Geniture, in the Nature of this World.

(23) But now the holy God would not let this Place of his Body, understand the Space or Room of this World, stand in eternal Darkness and Ignominy, and leave it to the Devils for their proper own, but generated a new Regiment or Dominion of Light, and of all the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits of the Deity, which the Devil could neither apprehend, nor lay hold on or touch; neither was it useful or profitable to him at all.

(15) now the Body of God, as to this World, could not remain in Death; but God moved himself with his seven qualifying or fountain Spirits to the Birth or Geniture. But thou must understand this high Thing rightly.

(129) But when he is overcome, then the heavenly Gate opens in my Spirit, and then the Spirit sees the divine and heavenly Being; not externally without the Body, but in the Fountain or Well-spring of the Heart there rises up the Flash in the Sensibility or Thoughts of the Brain, and therein the Spirit does contemplate or meditate.

(28) If a Man will see God the Son, he must once more look upon natural Things; otherwise I cannot write of him: The Spirit indeed beholds him, but that can neither be spoke nor written; for the Divine Being consists in Power, which can neither be written nor spoke.

(5) Man in his limitations had not power To satisfy, not having power to sink In his humility obeying then, Far as he disobeying thought to rise; And for this reason man has been from power Of satisfying by himself excluded. Therefore it God behoved in his own ways Man to restore unto his perfect life, I say in one, or else in both of them. But since the action of the doer is So much more grateful, as it more presents The goodness of the heart from which it issues, Goodness Divine, that doth imprint the world, Has been contented to proceed by each And all its ways to lift you up again; Nor 'twixt the first day and the final night Such high and such magnificent proceeding By one or by the other was or shall be; For God more bounteous was himself to give To make man able to uplift himself, Than if he only of himself had pardoned; And all the other modes were insufficient For justice, were it not the Son of God Himself had humbled to become incarnate.

(70) But if thou in the Spirit breakest through the Death of the Flesh, then thou seest the hidden God. For as the Marrow in the Bones penetrates, presses or breaks through, and gives Virtue, Power and Strength to the Flesh, and yet the Flesh cannot comprehend or apprehend the Marrow, but only the Power and Virtue thereof, no more canst thou see the hidden Deity in thy Flesh, but thou receivest its Power, and understandest therein that God dwells in thee.

(146) So it goes also in the Soul, when it presses or breaks quite through in its Fight or Combat, then it beholds the Deity, as a Flash of Lightning; but the Source, Quality, or Fountain of Sins, covers it suddenly again: For the Old Adam belongs to the Earth, and does not, with this Flesh, belong to the Deity. [Or into.]

(11) But when, in my resolved Zeal, I gave so hard an Assault, Storm, and Onset upon God, and upon all the Gates of Hell, as if I had more Reserves of Virtue and Power ready, with a Resolution to hazard my Life upon it, which assuredly were not in my Ability without the Assistance of the Spirit of God, suddenly, after some violent Storms made, my Spirit did break thorough the Gates of Hell, even into the innermost Birth or Geniture of the Deity, and there I was embraced with Love, as a Bridegroom embraces his dearly beloved Bride.