(9) For as in the paradisical Principle the Holy Ghost in the Trinity of the Deity continually goes forth, and flows very softly, immoveably and imperceptibly as to the Creature, and yet forms and fashions all in the paradisical Matrix, so also does the third Principle. After that the Matrix became visible and material, every Virtue in the Matrix has had a great attractive Longing towards one another, a continual springing, blossoming, and fading again like a Bud, or some boiling seething Matter, wherein the Sourness, Coldness, and [eager fierce] Strongness, attract without ceasing; and this attracting Prickle [or Sting] stirs always without ceasing, and strives [or resists] so, that the sour Matrix (because of the inward hellish, or most original Matrix) stands continually in Anguish, with a great Desire of the Light, which it espies in the Root of the Fire, and is continually affrighted at it, and becomes mild, soft, and material; whereby the elementary Water is continually generated.