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(74) But here thou must know, that this Quality penetrates very gently and pleasantly with its Touching or Stirring, through all the Spirits, in such a Way and Manner, as when a pleasant and meek Fire of Joy rises up in the Heart of a Man, in which Fire of Joy, the animated or soulish Spirit triumphs as if it were in Heaven.

(58) For the Spirit rises up in the Heat; and all the Spirits rejoice therein, and so there is a hearty Love between them.

(3) Now this highly triumphing and joyous Spirit is very fitly and excellently, in the divine Salitter, used to the imaging or forming; because it chiefly moves in the Tone or Tune, and in the Love, and is nearest to the Heart of God in the Birth, and bound or united therewith in Joy, which indeed is itself also the Spring and Source of Joy, or the Rising up in the Heart of God.

(31) The Holy Ghost moves and drives vehemently in this Quality, for it is a Part of the heavenly Joyfulness, as I shall demonstrate afterwards.

(29) Now if the bitter Quality dwells meekly and gently in any Creature, then is it the Heart or Joy therein; for it dissipates all other evil Influences, and is the Beginning or Cause of Joy or of Laughing.

(20) So now a Spirit is nothing else but a Springing Will, and in the Will there is the Anguish to the Birth, and in the Anguish the Fire generates itself, and in the Fire the Light, and from the Light the Will becomes friendly, pleasant, mild, and sweet, and in the sweet Will the Kingdom and the Glory generates itself. Thus the Light keeps the Might [or Power;] and if that be put out, then the Virtue [or Power] and Glory ceases, and the Kingdom also.

(63) On the other hand, again it is highly to be rejoiced at, that Man's Spirit, in his Necessity becomes enlightened and kindled by the Holy Ghost: As the Sun kindles the cold Heat, in a Tree or Herb, whereby the cold chilled Heat becomes living. Now observe, [enlightened]

(52) In this the Tone should rise up, and sound, with singing and ringing forth, in praising and jubilating: Also all the Qualities should rejoice therein, and every Spirit should exercise or practise its divine Work or Labour, as God the Father himself does.

(119) For the Light of Nature, which is the Spirit of Life, shines more in them than in the lean: For in that Light in the sweet Quality stands the Triumphing or the Joy, for the astringent, or harsh, and bitter Quality triumph therein, for they rejoice that they are refreshed, fed, given to drink, and enlightened from the sweet and light Quality.

(45) Seeing then that the Shriek of the Joy in the Virtue of God (which breaks the Doors of the deep Darkness) thus springs up in the Heart, and flies with its Glimpse [or Sparkling] into the Head, then the Virtue of the Joy sets itself above, as being the strongest, and the Flash [or Glance] beneath, as being the weakest; and so when the Flash [or Glance] comes into the Head into its Seat, then it makes itself two open Gates. For it has broken the Doors of the deep Darkness, and therefore it continues no more in the Darkness, but it must be free as a victorious Prince [or Conqueror,] and will not be held captive. And this signifies to us the Resurrection of Christ from the dead, who is now free, and will not be held [therein,] which in its due Place shall be very deeply described. And those Gates which the Glance holds open, they are the Eyes, and the Spirit of Joy is their Root, which [Spirit] springs up at first in the Kindling of the Life.

(20) If you come so far, as to apprehend the Spirit and Sense of the Author, then you will need no Admonition, but will rejoice and be glad in this Light, and thy Soul will laugh and triumph therein.

(98) For it must be a middle or mild Fire, to keep the Spirit in the Heart from rising, it must be gently Simpering, then it gets a very sweet and meek ringing Sound, and continually rejoices, as if it should now be kindled again in the Light of God.

(35) So also when the gracious, amiable, blessed, and joyful Light of the Son of God shines on the loving Angels, and casts its Beams into their Heart, then all the Powers in their Body are kindled, and there rises up such a joyful Love-fire, that for great Joy they sing and sound forth Praises, and that which neither I nor any other Creature is able to express.

(39) But if a Man here on Earth is enlightened with the Holy Ghost from the Fountain of JESUS CHRIST, so that the Spirits of Nature, which signify the Father, are kindled in him, then there rises such a Joy in his Heart, and it goes forth into all his Veins, so that the whole Body trembles, and the Soulfish animal Spirit triumphs, as if it were fitting in the holy Trinity, which is understood only by those that have been Guests in that Place. And

(124) Art thou a rational Man, then observe this; the Spirit which moves on high aloft from the Heat, takes its Exit, rising, and shining, in the sweet Quality; therefore the sweet Quality is its friendly or kind Will, and reigns in Meekness; and Meekness and Humility are its proper House or Habitation. [* The Mother Tongue explained according to the Language of Nature.] And

(8) Yet this first Will in the Mind ought not to stay behind in the Abyss of the sour Fierceness, (in which the fierce Malice is,) but ought to go forward in the Center of the Breaking forth out of the Darkness into the Light, for in the Light there is mere Meekness, Lowliness, Humility, Good- Will, and friendly Desires, that it might with its re-conceived Will go out of itself, and to Or earnest Will. open itself in its precious Treasury. For in the re-conceived Will to the Birth of the Light, there is no Source of Anxiety, but only mere friendly Desires; for the Glimpse rises up out of the Darkness in itself, and desires the Light; and the Desiring draws the Light into itself, and there the Anguish becomes an exulting Joy in itself, an humble Chearfulness, a pleasant Habitation. For the re-conceived Will in the Light is impregnated, and its Fruit in the Body is Virtue [or Power,] which the Will desires to generate, and to live therein; and this Desiring brings the Fruit out of the impregnated Will, [and presents it] before the Will, and the Will discovers itself [glimmers or shines] in the Fruit in an infinite pleasant Number; and there goes forth, in the pleasant Number, in the discovered [or manifested] Will, the high Benediction [or Blessing,] Favour, loving Kindness, pleasant Inclination [or yielding Pliableness,] the Taste of Joy, the Well-doing of Meekness [or Affability,] and [further] what my Pen cannot express. The Mind would much rather be freed from Vanity, and live therein without Molestation or Disturbance.

(35) It is a Glimpse and Source of Meekness, of Pleasure, of heavenly Joyfulness, a House or Mansion of the Holy Ghost, a Qualification of Love and Mercy, a Joy of Life.

(68) such a Source has Joy, and from the same Substance as the Wrath. That is, when the Gall in the Loving or Sweet Quality is inflamed, in that which Man is in love withal, then the whole Body trembles for the Joy, in which many Times the Astral Spirits are affected also, when the Gall is overflown, and is kindled in the Sweet Quality.

(101) And in this Motion it grows unctuous or fat, and luscious or luxuriant; it increases and spreads itself, and the highest Depth generates itself very joyfully out of or from the Heart of the Spirit, just as if it would begin an angelical Triumph, and present or show forth itself infinitely in divine Power and Form, according to the Right of the Deity: And thereby the Body gets its greatest Strength and Power, and the Body colours, or tinctures itself with the highest Degree, and gets its true Beauty, Excellence, and Virtue.

(52) But, like a beautiful flower, full of colour and full of scent, are the fine and fruitful words of him who acts accordingly.