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(28) Now, when this union truly cometh to pass and becometh established, the inward man standeth henceforward immoveable in this union; and God suffereth the outward man to be moved hither and thither, from this to that, of such things as are necessary and right. So that the outward man saith in sincerity “I have no will to be or not to be, to live or die, to know or not to know, to do or to leave undone and the like; but I am ready for all that is to be, or ought to be, and obedient thereunto, whether I have to do or to suffer.” And thus the outward man hath no Wherefore or purpose, but only to do his part to further the Eternal Will. For it is perceived of a truth, that the inward man shall stand immoveable, and that it is needful for the outward man to be moved. And if the inward man have any Wherefore in the actions of the outward man, he saith only that such things must be and ought to be, as are ordained by the Eternal Will.

(116) And if the same be pleasing to it, it eats of it, and is affected with the Thing, and wrestles with it, and makes a Mixture or Temper together; let the Thing be as far off as it will, even so far as the Originality of its Kingdom in God reaches, so far can the Spirit govern or rule in a Moment, and is withheld, or hindred by Nothing.

(144) For as the Will of the Heart affects and stirs all the Members of the Body, so that the whole Body does as the Heart has decreed or concluded; or as the Holy Ghost rises up in the Center of the Heart, and enlightens all the Members in the whole Body; so the Cherubim with his whole Glance or Lustre and Will affects all his Angels, so that they all are together as one Body, and the King is the Heart therein.

(110) Here thou seest once more, how the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Hell hang one to another, as one Body, and yet the one cannot comprehend the other. For the second Birth, viz. the Heat, Light, Love, and the Sound or Tone, is hidden in the outermost, and makes the outward moveable, so that the outward gathers itself together, and generates a body. And

(16) For Meekness moves against the Wrath, and the Wrath against the Meekness, and so both are distinct Kingdoms in the one only Body of this World.

(90) If they had but continued in their meek Birth or Geniture, according to the divine Right, then all had been their own, and their Will would have been always fulfilled eternally, and nothing had been among them and in them, but merely the Joy of Love, to speak after an earthly Manner, as it were an eternal Laughing, and a perpetual Rejoicing in an eternal hearty Delight. For God and the Creatures had been one Heart and one Will. [“The Image out of, or proceeding from the Soul’s Fire, and the Love, or the divine Center, are in one Being.”]