(70) And he was raised aloft on the chariots of the spirit and his name vanished among them.

(24) And, afterwards, he (the evil spirit) came to fire, and he mingled smoke and darkness with it.

(9) Now when God had bound up the devil in the darkness through the closure of the heaven, which heaven is everywhere in all places, then he began again his wonderful birth or geniture in the seventh nature-spirit, and all generated again as it had done from eternity.

(35) Thus it befell the pride of Lucifer: he triumphed a little while with his kindled light; but when his light was spent and burnt up, then he became a black devil.

(72) Pray tell me, Why was the devil expelled or thrust out? Surely thou wilt say, Because of his pride, in that he would needs be above God. But guess, Sir, with what the devil would be so: What power had he to do it? Here tell me, if thou knowest anything of it; if thou knowest nothing, be silent and attentive.

(4) Verily, this person, by being born and obtaining a body, is joined with evils. When he departs, on dying, he leaves evils behind.

(19) Further, at the fulness or accomplishment of this time, God would adorn and trim this house with its qualities, as a royal government, and let those very qualifying or fountain spirits possess the whole house, that they might, in that house of darkness and of death, bring forth creatures and images again, as they had done from eternity, till the accomplishment or fulfilling of the whole host or army of the new created angels, namely men. Then God would bolt and bar up the devil in the house of darkness in a narrow hell, and then kindle the whole house in its own light again, all but the very hole, hell or dungeon of the devils. Now it may be asked, Why did not God bolt him up instantly, and then he had not done so much mischief. Answer.

(68) Which indeed befalls those who lodge the devil within them; but so long as he is but a guest, he lies still like a tame whelp; but when he becometh the host himself, the master of the house, then he stormeth and makes havock in the house, as he did to the body of God.

(38) Poor man did not fall out of a resolved, purposed will, but through the poisonous, vonomous infection of the devil, else there had been no remedy for him.

(3) And God cursed the serpent, and was wroth with it for ever. . . .

(4) And now when he saw and knew by that which God had told him, that he should die and perish, if he did eat of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, it made him continually imagine that he was now no more the Child of God, and that he was not created out of God's own Essence or Substance, out of the first Principle. He conceived that he was now but a mere Child of this World, when he beheld his Corruptibility, and also the monstrous Image which he was in; and that the paradisical that his Spirit and Perfection were driven out of Paradise, (that is, out of the second Principle of God, where the Light or the Heart of God is generated from Eternity to Eternity, and where the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and the Son;) and that he now lived no more merely by the Word of God, but did eat and drink, viz. the Birth of his Life henceforward consisted, in the third Principle, that is, in the [Region,] Kingdom, or Dominion of the Stars and Elements, and he must now eat of the Virtue and Fruit thereof, and live thereby: And upon this he then supposed, that he was past Recovery, and that the noble Image of God was destroyed. And besides, the Devil also continually represented his Corruptibility and Mortality to him, and himself could see nothing else, seeing he was gone out of Paradise, that is, out of the incorruptible holy i Geniture [or Operation] of God; wherein he was God's holy Image and Child, in which God created him to continue therein for ever. And if the merciful Love of God had not appeared to him again in the Center of the Birth of his Life, and comforted him, he would have thought that he was wholly departed, or quite separated from the eternal divine Birth, and that he was no more in God, nor God any more in him, and that he was no more of God's Essence.

(9) Whether he be loose or no I offer it to every one to consider; but view the world in the clear light, and thou wilt find, that at present the four new sons which the devil generated when he was thrust out of heaven, do govern the world, viz. 1. Pride, 2. Covetousness, 3. Envy, 4. Wrath; these rule the world at present, and are the devil's heart, his animated or soulish spirit.

(12) And in his pride he struck and smote himself with darkness and blindness, and made himself a devil, and that he must be, and abide so eternally. ["In God he knew only the Majesty, and not the Word in the centre, which has the fan or casting shovel: He blinded himself with the astringent darkness; for he would needs in flame himself, and rule in the fire over the light, and over the meekness."]

(34) And there he stands now, between heaven and hell, in the face of the devil in his kingdom, against whom the devil warreth, fighteth and striveth continually, that he might either banish him out of his country into the earth, or make him a child of wrath in hell. And what is now his hope? Answer.

(33) After the gods his fathers had decreed for the lord his fate

(69) And now when the Heart of God departed from him, the second Principle was shut up to him, and so he lost God, the Kingdom of Heaven, and all paradisical Knowledge, Pleasure, and Joy; he also presently lost the Image of God, and the Confirmation of the Holy Ghost, because he despised the second Principle, wherein he was an Angel and Image of God. Thus all Things departed from him, and he remained in the 1 dark Valley, and could no more raise his Imagination up into God, but he continued in the four Anguishes of the Originality.

(15) When the lord acquires a body, and when he leaves it, he takes these with him and goes on his way, as the wind carries away the scents from their places.

(107) And he arose in the hands of the midwife, and opened his mouth and blessed the Lord of heaven.

(167) Thou sayest, if thy fall had not been, man would never have been thought of. Answer. O thou lying devil! Though that should be true, yet the Salitter out of which man is made (which is also from eternity, as well as that out of which thou art made), had stood in eternal joy and bright glory, and had likewise risen up in God, and had tasted of the gracious, amiable, blessed love in the seven spirits of God, and enjoyed the heavenly joy.

(36) "The evil-doer he hath not caused to go forth with him!"