But it has its Life in its Seat, and that cannot be taken from it, but Death hangs to it in the outermost Birth or Geniture, as also the Wrath in Death; for the Wrath is the Life of Death and of the Devil; and in the Wrath stands also the corporeal Being, or the Bodies of the Devils, but the dead Birth or Geniture is their eternal Dwelling-house. The Depth in the Circle of the Birth or Geniture. Now one might ask, what Manner of Substance has it, or what is the Condition thereof, that the astral Birth of the Earth did begin its qualifying, operating, and generating one Day sooner than the astral in the Deep above the Earth; seeing the Fire in the Deep above the Earth is much sharper and easier to be kindled, than the Fire in the Earth; and seeing also that the Earth must be kindled by the Fire in the Deep above the Earth, else it can bear no Fruit? Answer.

But the Separation that is in it, is caused from the Birth's standing in great Anguish, and from its desiring the Separation in the Birth; for the Bit...