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(85) For when the Body of Nature was kindled by the Devil, then the Word or the Heart of God drew the Mass together, before the corrupted Salitter was pressed together, which now is called the Earth, because of the hard Fierceness or Corruption.

(79) And the Life of the Light breaks through the Death, and generates to it another Body out of Death, which is not conformable to, or of the Condition of the Water, and the dead Earth; also it does not get their Taste and Smell, but the Power of the Light presses through, and tempers or mixes itself with the Power of the Earth, and takes from Death its Sting, and from the Wrath its poisonous venomous Power, and prefers forth up together in the Midst or Center of the Body, in the Growth or Vegetation, as a Heart thereof.

(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.

(24) Not that the Fruits of the Earth are thereupon wholly in the Wrath of God; for the one only incorporated or compacted Word, which is immortal and incorruptible, which was from Eternity in the Salitter of the Earth, sprung up again in the Body of Death, and brought forth Fruit out of the dead Body of the Earth; but the Earth comprehended not the Word, but the Word comprehended the Earth.

(57) But seeing the Soul, all the while the Body had been in Death, remained hidden in the Word, and seeing the same Word also holds the Earth in the astral Birth in Love, therefore it qualifies, mixes, or unites through the Word, all the Time of its Hiddenness and Secrecy, also with its Mother the Body, according or as to the astral Birth or Geniure in the Earth, and so Body and Soul in the Word were never separated one from another, but live jointly and equally together in God.

(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.

(3) For on the third Day the Body of Nature travelled so hard in Anxiety, till the Love-Fire had kindled itself in the Death, and till the Light of Life was broke forth through the congealed Body of Death, and sprung up out of Death; but on the third Day it stood only in the Fire-crack, from whence Mobility existed.

(20) But now when the Light rose up again in the outward Comprehensibility, or in Death, then the eternal Word stood in its full Birth, and generated the Life through and out of Death, and the corrupted Salitter brought forth Fruit again.

(32) When God had brought the Body of this World in two Days into a right Form, and had made the Heaven for a Partition between the Love and the Wrath, then on the third Day the Love pressed through the Heaven and through the Wrath, and then instantly the old Body in Death stirred and moved itself to the Birth or Geniture.

(112) But seeing the Sound of God's Word must rise up through the astringent bitter Death, and generate a Body in the half dead Water, thereupon that Body is good, and also evil, dead and living; for it must instantly attract the Sap of Fierceness, and the Body of Death, and stand in such a Body and Power, as the Earth its Mother does.