(130) Therefore he has set upon him the crown of honour, of might, power and authority, so that there is in heaven no higher nor more excellent nor mightier than he is, except God himself in his Ternary. And this is one king, rightly described, with a true ground in the knowledge of the spirit. Of the second King LUCIFER, now so called, because of his Fall.

(91) For the devil cannot be expelled quite out, away, beyond God, into another kingdom of angels; but a place must be reserved to him for a habitation.

(112) For the devil has power in the outermost birth or geniture of man, for his seat is there. [This seat is] the murderous den of perdition, and the house of misery and woe, wherein the devil whetteth the sting of death, and through his animated or soulish spirit he reacheth in into the heart of man, in man's outermost birth or geniture.

(80) Behold here the wickedness and malice which is the cause; viz. when king Lucifer did sit in his kingdom, like a high-minded proud bride, then his circuit, circle or orb contained or comprehended the place or space where now is the created heaven, which is made out of the water:

(34) Now then, seeing the devils kindled their own bodies, intending thereby to domineer over the whole Deity, therefore the creator also, in his wrath, kindled this third spirit, or this third birth or geniture in nature, and imprisoned the devil therein, and made an eternal lodging therein for him, that he might not be higher than the whole God. ["Understand, in the outward sources or qualities; for the outermost of all, is also the innermost of all."]

(64) Now if thou understandest and apprehendest this aright, then thou wilt not make of God a devil, as some do, who say, God has created the evil, and that his will is that some men should be lost; which men, that say so, help to increase the devil's lies, and bring upon themselves the severe judgment, by their perverting God's truths, and so turning them into lies. Now observe:

(25) Now, after that a man hath walked in all the ways that lead him unto the truth, and exercised himself therein, not sparing his labour; now, as often and as long as he dreameth that his work is altogether finished, and he is by this time quite dead to the world, and come out from Self and given up to God alone, behold! the Devil cometh and soweth his seed in the man’s heart. From this seed spring two fruits; the one is spiritual fulness or pride, the other is false, lawless freedom. These are two sisters who love to be together. Now, it beginneth on this wise: the Devil puffeth up the man, till he thinketh himself to have climbed the topmost pinnacle, and to have come so near to heaven, that he no longer needeth Scripture, nor teaching, nor this nor that, but is altogether raised above any need. Whereupon there ariseth a false peace and satisfaction with himself, and then it followeth that he saith or thinketh: “Yea, now I am above all other men, and know and understand more than any one in the world; therefore it is certainly just and reasonable that I should be the lord and commander of all creatures, and that all creatures, and especially all men, should serve me and be subject unto me.” And then he seeketh and desireth the same, and taketh it gladly from all creatures, especially men, and thinketh himself well worthy of all this, and that it is his due, and looketh on men as if they were the beasts of the field, and thinketh himself worthy of all that ministereth to his body and life and nature, in profit, or joy, or pleasure, or even pastime and amusement, and he seeketh and taketh it wherever he findeth opportunity.

(73) And this firmament of heaven is his throne or footstool, and the qualifying or fountain spirits of his natural body rule in the whole body of this world, and all is tied, bound or united with them, all whatsoever that stands in the astral birth in the part of love: The other part of this world is tied, bound and united with the devil.

(2) For nothing does torment the devil more than when his glory is upbraided to him, by signifying what a glorious king and prince he has been: When this is objected to him, then he is in a rage and madness, as if he would storm and overflow all the world.

(97) Should God withstand him then with anger or wrath, (which indeed must be done at length), then God must have kindled himself in his qualities in the Salitter, wherein king Lucifer dwelt, and must in the strong zeal or jealousy strive and fight against him, which he did; and so this striving made this kingdom so dark, waste and evil, that another creation must needs afterwards follow upon it.

(84) Upon this king Lucifer was thrust out of his royal place or kingly throne, which he had in that place where now is the created heaven, and thereupon instantly ensued the creation of this world.

(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 centre, 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 the other, and they always wrestle and strive one with the other.

(123) But this I must mention here, viz. that Lucifer, the king, was incorporated together out of his whole kingdom, as the heart of the whole place or room thereof, so far as his whole angelical host or army reached when it was created, and so far as that circumference or circle, region or quarter reached, wherein he with his angels became a creature, and which God before the time of creation had enclosed or concluded as a room or space for a kingdom, whose circuit or extent comprehendeth heaven and this world, as also the deep of the earth, and of the whole circle, sphere or circumference of this whole world of the heavens and stars.

(117) Which thing reason, or the outward birth or geniture of man, without the experience of this fight or battle, cannot comprehend. For the third or outermost birth or geniture in man, which is the carnal or fleshly birth, and which man through the first fall in his lust has raised and prepared for himself, is the devil's castle or fort of prey or robbery and dwelling-house, wherein the devil, as in a bulwark, fighteth with the soul, and giveth it many a hard knock on the head.

(22) For when king Lucifer had caused this place of the world to be appointed as a house of wrath for himself, and supposed thus fiercely and powerfully to rule therein, then instantly the light in nature went out, wherein he supposed to be lord; and the whole nature was benumbed and congealed as a body of death, wherein was no mobility; and he must remain there in darkness, as an eternal, captive prisoner.

(129) For at the very hour when Lucifer elevated himself the Father was moved to wrath in the qualifying or fountain spirits against the legions of Lucifer; and the Heart of God hid itself in the firmament of heaven, where the Salitter, effect, product or fabric of the corporeity was burning already; for without or distinct from the light is the dark chamber of death.

(43) In this heaven now sitteth our King JESUS CHRIST, at the right hand of God, and encompasseth or surroundeth all the three births, as an almighty Son of the Father, who is present in and throughout all the three births in this world, in all corners and places, and comprehendeth, holdeth and bears up or sustaineth all, as a newborn Son of the Father, in the power, and upon the seat or throne, of the once great, mighty, potent, and now expelled, accursed and damned king Lucifer, the devil.

(71) For instead of thy heaven thou hast the wrath-devil sitting there; but if thou breakest through, then he must get him gone, and the Holy Ghost ruleth and reigneth in that seat; and in the other part, viz. the fierceness, the devil tempteth thee, for it is his nest; and the Holy Ghost opposeth him, and the new man lies in his own heaven, hidden under the protection of the Holy Ghost, and the devil knoweth not the new man, for he is not in the devil's house, but in heaven, in the firmament of God.

(54) But it was [or became] in the creation of the angels, the kingdom of the great prince Lucifer: [Understand according to the second Principle, out of which he was thrust forth into the outermost, which also is the very innermost of all.]

(93) But, that afterwards the astringent and bitter qualities awaken behind, and coimage afterwards to the framing of the word, signifieth that indeed all is as it were one body, but the heaven and the Holy Spirit, together with the heart of God, has its proper seat to itself; and the devil, together with the wrath of God, can comprehend neither the Holy Spirit nor the heaven; but the devil, together with the wrath, hangeth in the outward birth in the word, and the wrath helpeth to image all in the outermost birth in this world, all whatsoever that stands in the comprehensibility or palpability; just as the astringent and bitter qualities afterwards rouse themselves behind to the framing of the word, and qualify, operate or unite therewith.