(48) And in that place I saw the fountain of righteousness Which was inexhaustible: And around it were many fountains of wisdom; And all the thirsty drank of them, And were filled with wisdom, And their dwellings were with the righteous and holy and elect.

(23) For the Fountain of all Powers floweth in the Heart, as it does also in Man or to- in the Head it has its Princely Seat, where it sees all, smells all, and feels all.

(107) Wheresoever one qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power is touched or stirred, let the Place be where, or Thing what it will, except in the Devils, and all wicked damned Men, there is the Fountain of the Divine Birth or Geniture directly at Hand, and there already are all the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits of God.

(6) The water which thou seest springs not from vein Restored by vapour that the cold condenses, Like to a stream that gains or loses breath; But issues from a fountain safe and certain, Which by the will of God as much regains As it discharges, open on two sides. Upon this side with virtue it descends, Which takes away all memory of sin; On that, of every good deed done restores it. Here Lethe, as upon the other side Eunoe, it is called; and worketh not If first on either side it be not tasted. This every other savour doth transcend; And notwithstanding slaked so far may be Thy thirst, that I reveal to thee no more,

(11) Unto that mountain is given the protection of the waters, so that water streams forth from there, in the rivulet channels, to the land of the seven regions, as the source of all the sea-water in the land of the seven regions is from there.

(16) From this Fountain, and from all the Powers of the Father, goes forth the Holy Ghost, together with the Light and Power of the Son of God in and through all the said Kingdoms or Dominions; and without, beyond, and besides all the Angelical Kingdoms, which no Angel or Man is able to dive or search into.

(22) Now this Fountain-spirit takes its Original at first out of the sweet Quality of the Water. Understand this, how it is, and observe it exactly.

(97) Woe to you who drink water from every fountain, For suddenly shall ye be consumed and wither away, Because ye have forsaken the fountain of life.

(27) Therefore now he is eternally, an astringent, hard, cold, bitter, hot, and sour stinking Fountain-source: For when the sweet Quality in him was dried up, it became a sour Stink, a Valley of Misery, and a House of Perdition and Woe. Now further into the Depth.

(156) Now observe what the Fountain of the gracious, amiable, blessed, and friendly Love of God is; observe it exactly, for it is the very Pith, Marrow, or Kernel.

(24) Leaf 11. The fount is described as that from which the two Mercuries of the Philosophers are extracted. At the upper left is described the white Mercury and at the right the red Mercury. The text about the fountain declares that Saturn collects the white Mercury, which is called the Water of Earth; and the Earth collects the red Mercury, which is called the Water of Heaven. The text to the left of the frog reads: "Through Him who created the Heavens and the Earth I am the Philosopher's Stone, and in my body I carry something the wise seek. If such a charm be extracted from me, it will be a sweet refreshment for you. I am an animal having father and mother, and father and mother were created; and in my body are contained the four elements, and I am before father and mother and I am a poisonous animal." The lines at the right describe distilling and calcining processes.

(2) Now the Thrones and princely Angels, are every one of them a great Fountain; as you may perceive the Sun is, in Respect of the Stars,as also in the blossoming Earth. The great Fountain- Vein [or Well-Spring] in the Source, was in the Time of the Fiat in the dark Mind, the Prince or Throne- Angel: There out of each Fountain came forth again a Center in many thousand Thousands; for the Spirit in the Fiat manifested itself in the Nature of the Darkness, after the Manner of the eternal Wisdom. Thus the manifold various Properties that were in the whole Nature, went forth out of one only Fountain, according to the Ability of the eternal Wisdom of God; or as I may best render it to be understood by a Similitude; as if one princely Angel had generated out of himself, at one Time, many Angels; whereas yet the Prince does not generate them, but the Essences; and the Qualities go forth with the Center in every Essence, from the princely Angels, and the Spirit created them a with the Fiat, and they continue standing essentially. Therefore every bHost (which proceeded out of one [and the same] Fountain) got a Will in the same Fountain, which was their Prince, (as you see how the Stars give all their Will into the Virtue [or Power] of the Sun;) of this, much must not be said to my Master in Arts, he holds it impossible to know such Things, and yet in God ail Things are possible, and to him a thousand Years are as one Day.

(66) The Source in the Breaking-forth out of the Outward into the Inward, is the Sharpness and the Omnipotence of the Kingdom of the Heavens over the Outward; the Outward is the eternal Band, and the Inward is the eternal Virtue and Light, and cannot perish. And thus God is all in all, and yet there is nothing that comprehends or detains him, and he is included in nothing.

(38) In the Middle, or central Fountain or Well-spring, which is the Heart, where the Birth rises up, the astringent or harsh Quality rubs itself with the bitter and hot; and there the Light kindles, which is the Son, of which it is always impregnated in its Body, and that enlightens and makes it living.

(69) And through it the earth was founded upon the water, And from the secret recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters, From the creation of the world and unto eternity.

(89) And I saw again, and behold fountains were opened on the surface of that great enclosure, and that water began to swell and rise upon the surface, and I saw that enclosure till all its surface was covered with water.

(82) For in those Places where the sweet Water in the standing Wheel of God was chief or predominant, there much earthly, comprehensible, or palpable Water came to be.

(95) For as it is generated out of all Powers, and has the Fountain of all Powers, so with its shining Lustre also, it brings the Fountain of all Powers into each Power, from whence then exits the Taste and Smell, also Seeing, Feeling, and Hearing; as also Reason and Understanding.

(85) The seventh qualifying or fountain Spirit of God is the qualifying or fountain Spirit of Nature: For the other six generate the seventh; and the seventh, when it is generated, is then as it were the Mother of the seven, which encompasses the other six, and generates them again: For the corporeal and natural Being consists in the seventh. Observe here the Sense. [In the seventh Fountain Spirit of Nature.]

(51) And the bitter Quality also loves all the other Fountain-spirits. And first the Sweet. For in the sweet Water the bitter Spirit is refreshed, and therein it quenches its great Thirst; and its Bitterness is therein mitigated; also it obtains its Light-like therein: In the astringent it has its Body, wherein it triumphs, cools and mitigates itself; and in the Heat it has its Power and Strength, wherein its Joy stands. [quenches its Thirst]