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(69) But seeing the Heart of the Deity bides itself in the Body of this World in the outermost Birth or Geniture, which is the Corporeity, thereupon the Corporeity is a dark House, and all stands in great Anguish, and needs a Light to shine in the Chamber of the Darkness, which is the Sun, and that so long till the Heart of God will move itself again in the seven Spirits of God in the House of this World, and kindle the seven Spirits. And

(51) Not that the Light of the Heart of God in its innermost Birth is imprisoned: No; but that Lustre and the Shining thereof, in the third Birth or Geniture, was together incorporated or compacted in the outermost Comprehensibility, and therefore it is, that Men are in love with all those Things which stand in that Salitter.

(121) Therefore Heaven must be a Firmament between the Sparkle which had conceived from the Heart of God in the first Glance, that though the Body might happen to perish, yet the holy Seed might remain, which is the Soul, which qualifies, mixes, or unites with the Heart of God, out of which a new Body might come to be; when the whole God should kindle again the Deep of this World in the Light of the Heart of God; and just so it is come to be with the Body. The Love of God have Mercy, and take Pity on it.

(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.]

(108) But seeing the Deep, that is, the whole Space of this World, was the Body of the Father, (understand the Father of the Heart of God,) understand the Father's Body; and the Heart in the whole Body did shine forth, viz. the Father's Luster or Brightness, then the corrupted Salitter was affected or possessed every where with the Light, and the Heart of God could not fly out from it, but hid its Luster and shining Light in the Body of the whole Deep, from the horrid kindled Spirits of Devils. And

(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.

(63) But now when the Father kindled himself in the Body of the Sharpness, he did not by that means kindle the holy Source, wherein his most loving Heart generates itself, and so thereupon his Heart should sit in the Source of Wrath. No! that is impossible that it should be, for the sharp Birth cannot apprehend the holy and pure Birth, but the holy and pure presses quite through the sharp, and generates to itself a new Body, which stands again in Meekness.

(36) For the Generating, or Geniture of the Father cannot catch or comprehend the Light, and use it to its Generating, but the Light stands by itself, and is not comprehended by any Geniture, and it replenishes and enlightens the whole Geniture, viz. 'the only begotten Son of the Father. And this Light I call, in the human Birth or Geniture, the animated or soulish Birth,' [*understand the Image, which budded forth out of the Essences of the Soul, according to the Similitude of God,*] or the Soul’s Birth or Geniture which qualifies, mixes, or unites with this animated or soulish Birth or Geniture of God; and herein is Man’s Soul one Heart with God; but that is when it stands in this Light.