(26) The Love, or Word, or Heart, that is, the innate or only begotten Son of the Father, who is the Light and Meekness, and the Love and Joy of the Deity; as he himself said, when he had assumed the Humanity, I am the Light of the World; he took the Place of this World by the Heart, and sate in the Midst or Center of this Space or Room, in that Place where the mighty Prince and King Lucifer did sit before his Fall, and there he was new born to be a Creature. [John 8. 12.]

(2) Invoking then Jesus, the Paternal Light, the Real, the True, "which lighteth every man coming into the world," "through Whom we have access to the Father," Source of Light, let us aspire, as far as is attainable, to the illuminations handed down by our fathers in the most sacred Oracles, and let us gaze, as we may, upon the Hierarchies of the Heavenly Minds manifested by them symbolically for our instruction. And when we have received, with immaterial and unflinching mental eyes, the gift of Light, primal and super-primal, of the supremely Divine Father, which manifests to us the most blessed Hierarchies of the Angels in types and symbols, let us then, from it, be elevated to its simple splendour. For it never loses its own unique inwardness, but multiplied and going forth, as becomes its goodness, for an elevating and unifying blending of the objects of its care, remains firmly and solitarily centred within itself in its unmoved sameness; and raises, according to their capacity, those who lawfully aspire to it, and makes them one, after the example of its own unifying Oneness. For it is not possible that the supremely Divine Ray should otherwise illuminate us, except so far as it is enveloped, for the purpose of instruction, in variegated sacred veils, and arranged naturally and appropriately, for such as we are, by paternal forethought.

(19) And the Light of the Sun is as it were a God in the Nature of this World, and by its Virtue [and Influence] it continually kindles the Stars [or Constellations] whereby the Stars [or Constellations] (which are of a very terrible and anguishing Essence) continually exult in Triumph very joyfully. For it [the Sun] is an Essence like the Light of God, which kindles and enlightens the dark Mind of the Father, from whence, by the Light, there arises the divine Joy in the Father.

(23) Adoration to thee, who arisest out of the Golden, and givest light to the earth on the day of thy birth. Thy mother bringeth thee forth upon her hands, that thou mayest give light to the whole circumference which the Solar Orb enlighteneth

(75) As Adam went out of the clear Light of God into the dark Kingdom of this World, and the Soul of Adam stood between two dark Principles (as between Death and Hell) and grew up in the Body, so also would Christ (in his growing Body) rise up from the Dead at Midnight, and make the Night in his holy Body to be a clear eternal Day, whereinto no Night ever came, but the Light of God the Father and of the Lamb shone therein.

(1) While they then said this and wept together, then, on the ninth hour of the morrow, the heavens opened, and they saw Jesus descend, shining most exceedingly, and there was no measure for his light in which he was. For he shone more [radiantly] than at the hour when he had ascended to the heavens, so that men in the world cannot describe the light which was on him; and it shot forth light-rays in great abundance, and there was no measure for its rays, and its light was not alike together, but it was of divers kind and of divers type, some [rays] being more excellent than others . . .; and the whole light consisted together.

(48) For as the Sun stands in the Midst, betwixt the Stars and the Earth, enlightening all Powers, and is the Light and Heart of all the Powers, and is all the Joy in this World; besides, all Beauty and Pleasantness standeth in the Light and Power of the Sun;

(16) The Light of God, which is the Son of God, as also the Holy Ghost, died not, but the Light, which is gone forth from or out of the Heart of God from Eternity, and has enlightened Nature, which is generated out of the seven Spirits, that is departed or gone away from the hard corrupted Nature; from whence it is, that the Nature of this World with its Comprehensibility or Palpability has remained in Death, and cannot apprehend the Light of God, but is a dark House of Devils.

The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE and MANNA. HEAR golden Titan, whose eternal eye With broad survey, illumines all the sky. Self-born, unwearied in diffusing light, And to all eyes the mirrour of delight: Lord of the seasons, with thy fiery car And leaping coursers, beaming light from far: With thy right hand the source of morning light, 7 And with thy left the father of the night. Agile and vig'rous, venerable Sun, Fiery and bright around the heav'ns you run. Foe to the wicked, but the good man's guide, O'er all his steps propitious you preside: With various founding, golden lyre, 'tis mine To fill the world with harmony divine. Father of ages, guide of prosp'rous deeds, The world's commander, borne by lucid steeds, Immortal Jove, all-searching, bearing light, 17 Source of existence, pure and fiery bright Bearer of fruit, almighty lord of years, Agil and warm, whom ev'ry pow'r reveres. Great eye of Nature and the starry skies, Doom'd with immortal flames to set and rise Dispensing justice, lover of the stream, The world's great despot, and o'er all supreme. Faithful defender, and the eye of right, Of steeds the ruler, and of life the light: With founding whip four fiery steeds you guide, When in the car of day you glorious ride. Propitious on these mystic labours shine, And bless thy suppliants with a life divine.

(72) For it is the only and sole natural Light of this World, and besides it, there is no more any true Light in the House of Death; and though it seems as if the other Stars did shine bright and give Light also, yet it is not so, but they take all their Luster and shining Light from the Sun; as hereafter presented follows. The true Birth, or Geniture and Descent of the Sun and of the other Planets, is just thus as follows.

(13) First behold the Sun; it is the Heart or King of all Stars, and gives Light to all Stars from the East to the West; it enlightens and warms all, all lives and grows by its Power; besides, the Joy of all Creatures stands in its Power.

(103) though this great Work in Man has remained hidden till this very Day, yet God be praised, it will now once be Day, for the Day-spring or Morning-redness breaks forth. The Breaker-through, or Opener of the innermost Birth shows and presents itself with its red, green, and white Flag, in the outermost Birth upon the Rainbow. Observe, Now thou objectest: How then could there be Day and Night, and not also Morning and Evening? Answer.

(43) For so long, and not an Hour longer, the new born King and grand Prince of this World, JESUS CHRIST, rested in Death, and has born or generated the first three Days of the Creation of Nature, and that very Time, in Death to Light again, that this Time might be one Time with the eternal Time, and that no Day of Death might be between; and that the external Love, and the new-born or regenerated Love out of the new Body of Nature, might be one eternal Love; and that there might be no Difference between the Love, and the new-born or regenerated Love, but that the new-born Love might reach into the Being or Substance which was from Eternity, and itself also be in Eternity.

(25) But the Splendor and the Power of the Son of God, or Heart of God, which is the Light or Source and Fountain of Joy, takes up his fairest and most joyful Original, in the Center or Midst of the Kingdoms, and shines into and through all the angelical Gates.

(41) For the sun changes oft for a blessing or a curse, And the course of the path of the moon is light to the righteous And darkness to the sinners in the name of the Lord, Who made a separation between the light and the darkness, And divided the spirits of men, And strengthened the spirits of the righteous, In the name of His righteousness.

(2) As it is mentioned above, so the Life in the Anguish, with the Kindling of the Light, takes its Beginning from the Glance of the Sunshine, from the Spirit of the Stars and Elements in the great Anguish, where Death and Life wrestle one with the other. For when Man departed from Paradise into another Birth (viz. into the Spirit of this World, into the Quality of the Sun, Stars, and Elements) then the paradisical [Vision or] Seeing ceased, [or was extinguished,] where Man sees from the divine Virtue, without [Need of] the Sun and Stars; where the Springing up of the Life is in the Holy Ghost, and the Light of God is the Glance of the Spirit, from whence he sees; which went out; for the Spirit of the Soul went into the Principle of this World.

(57) Now you may well perceive that the Birth of the Sun takes its Original in the Fire, and attains his Personality and Name in the Kindling of the soft, white, and clear Light, which is Himself; and Himself makes the pleasant Smell, Taste, and Satisfaction [or Reconciliation and Well-pleasing] in the Father, and is rightly the Father's Heart, and another Person; for he opens and produces the second Principle in the Father; and his own Essence is the Power or Virtue and the Light; and therefore his is rightly called the Power or Virtue of the Father.

(4) On the fourth Day the Light rose up, and made its Seat in the House of Death, and yet Death could not, nor cannot comprehend it. As little as the austere Birth of God, which stands in the innermost Kernel from whence Life exists, can apprehend the Meekness, and the Light of the Meekness together with the Spirit in the Meekness, so little also can the dead Darkness of this World comprehend the Light of Nature; no more can the Devils neither.

(126) But when the Dawning or Morning Redness shall shine from the East to the West, or from the Rising to the Setting, then already Time will be no more; but the SUN of the Heart of God rises or springs forth, and, *RA. RA. R. P. will be pressed in the Wine-press without the City, and therewith to R. P. [See the Collection of his Letters. Letter 23. v. 12.]