The Salitter, out of which the earth is come to be, was from eternity, and stood in the seventh qualifying or fountain spirit, which is the nature spirit, and the other six have generated the seventh continually, and are encompassed or surrounded therewith, or lie captivated or enclosed therein, as in their mother, and are the power and life of the seventh, just as is the astral birth in the flesh.

In such wise than, as I have said, the generation of these seven came to pass. Earth was as woman, her Water filled with longing; ripeness she took...