(31) Now thus the Love qualifies [or mixes] with the inward [one] Element, and the Element with the Paradise, and the Paradise is before [or in the Presence of] God. And the outward Seed has its Essences, which qualify first with the outward Elements, and the outward Elements qualify with the outward Stars, and the outward Stars qualify with the outward Sternness, [Grimness, Fierceness, Frowardness,] Wrath and Malice, and the Wrath and Malice in the Fierceness, [Severity, or Austereness,] qualifies with the Original of the first Fierceness of the Abyss of Hell; and the Abyss qualifies with the Devils.

(29) Thus now in the Essence of all Essences, there are three several distinct Properties, which yet are not parted asunder, with one Source [or Property] far from the other; but they are in one another as one only Essence, and yet the one does not comprehend the other. As these three Elements, Fire, Air, Water, are all three in one another, and neither of them comprehends the other; and as one Element generates another, and yet is not of the Essence nor Source [or Property] thereof; so the three Principles are in one another, and one generates the other, and yet no one of them all comprehends the other, and none of them is the Essence [or Substance] of the other. The Depth in the Center [or Ground.]

(10) This Birth [or active Property] with the indissoluble Band, is generated in every Soul; and there is no Soul before the Kindling of the Light in the Child in the Mother's Body. For with the Kindling, the eternal Band is knit [or tied,] so that it stands eternally, and this Worm of the three Essences does not die, nor separate itself; for it is not possible, [because] they are all three generated out of one [only] Fountain, and have three Qualities, and yet are but one Being [or Substance;] as the Holy Trinity is but in one only Essence [or Substance;] and yet they have three Originalities in one Mother, and they are one [only] Being [or Substance] in one another. Thus also (and not a whit less) is the Soul of Man, but only one Degree in the first Going forth; for it is generated out of the Father's eternal Will (and not out of the Heart of God) yet the Heart of God is the nearest to it of all.

(3) Now when God was to create the World, and all things therein, he had no other a Matter to make it of, but his own which has neither Beginning nor End, and his Greatness and Depth is all. Yet a Spirit does nothing but ascend, flow, move, and continually generate itself, and in itself has chiefly a threefold Manner of Form in its Generating or Birth, vis. Bitterness, Harshness, and cHeat, and these three Manner of Forms are neither of them the first, second, nor third; for all these three are but one, and each of them generates the second and third. For between Harshness and Bitterness, Fire is generated: and the Wrath of the Fire is the Bitterness or Sting itself, and the Harshness is the Stock or Father of both these, and yet is generated of them both; for a Spirit is like a Will, Sense, [or Thought,] which rises up, and in its Rising beholds,perfects, and generates itself.

(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.

(53) And there begins the unfathomable [or unsearchable] Multiplication; for the flowing and springing Spirit, that proceeds from the first and second Principle, confirms, fixes and establishes all; and in the whole Birth it is as a Growing or Multiplying uin one Will; and the Birth attains here the seventh Form, vis. the Multiplication into an Essence of Love. And in this Form consists Paradise, or the Kingdom of God, or the numberless divine Birth, out of one only Essence xinto all Essences.