(60) O Man let this be told thee, for the Spirit is earnestly Jealous in this Thing especially: Desist from Pride, or else it will be with you as it befell the Devils. There is no jesting or trifling herein; the Time is very short, thou wilt suddenly taste it, I mean the hellish Fire.

(168) O thou lying Devil, stay but a little, the Spirit will discover thy Shame to thee; tarry but a little while longer, and thy Pomp, Pride, and Pageantry will be at an End. Stay, the Bow is bent, the Arrow will hit thee, and then whither wilt thou fall? The Place is ready provided and prepared, it wants only to be kindled, wilt thou bring Fewel lustily to it, that thou be not frozen with Cold? Thou wilt sweat very hard: Dost thou suppose thou shalt obtain the Light again? No, but Hell Fire. Smell to thy sweet Love, guess at it, what is that called? Gehenna; yes, that will be in Love with thee eternally. [Gehenna]

(178) O thou fair World, how does Heaven complain of thee? How dost thou trouble the Elements? O Wickedness and Malice! when wilt thou leave, and give over? Awaken! awaken! and bring forth, thou sorrowful Woman; behold thy Bridegroom comes, and requires Fruit at thy Hands: Why dost thou sleep? Behold he knocketh!

(112) But here I speak with an Angel’s Tongue, thou must not understand it earthly, like to this World.

(62) Stay yet a little while, and the hellish Fire will kiss thee; in the mean while, make much of this *Latin till more grows out of it; thou wilt suddenly lose thy Crown. Now one might ask, What then, in Lucifer, is properly that Enmity against God, for which he was thrust and driven out of his Place? [† Document.]

(164) O noble Guest! O why didst thou depart from us! O Fierceness, Wrath, and Astringency or Severity, thou art the Cause of it! O fierce wrathful Devil! O what hast thou done, who hast sunk down thyself and beautiful bright Angels into Darkness? Woe, Woe for ever!

(2) As unto those who are too reverential, Speaking in presence of superiors, Who drag no living utterance to their teeth, It me befell, that without perfect sound Began I: "My necessity, Madonna, You know, and that which thereunto is good." And she to me: "Of fear and bashfulness Henceforward I will have thee strip thyself, So that thou speak no more as one who dreams. Know that the vessel which the serpent broke Was, and is not; but let him who is guilty Think that God's vengeance does not fear a sop. Without an heir shall not for ever be The Eagle that left his plumes upon the car, Whence it became a monster, then a prey; For verily I see, and hence narrate it, The stars already near to bring the time, From every hindrance safe, and every bar, Within which a Five-hundred, Ten, and Five, One sent from God, shall slay the thievish woman And that same giant who is sinning with her. And peradventure my dark utterance, Like Themis and the Sphinx, may less persuade thee, Since, in their mode, it clouds the intellect;

(97) For what I here reveal or manifest, I must do it; for the Time of breaking through is at Hand: He that will now sleep, the stormy Tempest of the Fierceness will rouze him.

(32) But the Deity is in the outward Birth hidden, and has the Fan or casting Shovel in its Hand, and will one Day cast the Chaff and the kindled Salitter upon a [Genesis 1. See Ch. 21. v. 1. II. Ch. 26. v. 122, 123. And 1. Apology to Balthazar Tilchen. Part 2. No. 11.] Heap, and will draw away from it its inward Birth or Geniture, and give them to Lord Lucifer and his Crew of Followers for an eternal House.

(23) When we shall come together over this narrow Bridge of the fleshly Birth or Geniture, to be in yonder green Meadow, to which the Wrath of God does not reach or come, then we shall be fully requited for all our Damages and Hurts we have sustained: though indeed at present the World accounts us for Fools, and we must suffer the Devil in the Power of God's Wrath to domineer, rush, and roar over us: It should not trouble us, for it will be more excellent Reputation to us in the other Life, than if in this Life we had worn a royal Crown; and there is so very short a Time to get thither, that it is not worth the being called a Time. Now observe,

(37) But now thou must not think, that thereupon the whole Nature or Place of this World is become a mere bitter Wrath of God. No; here lies the Point; the Wrath does not comprehend the innermost Birth or Geniture in Nature, for the Love of God is yet hidden in the Center, in the whole Place of this World, and so the House which Lord Lucifer is to be in, is not fully separated, but there is still in all Things of this World, both Love and Wrath one in another, and they always wrestle and thrive one with another.