(131) The word which conceiveth itself at the upper gums, and which qualifieth or uniteth with the astringent and bitter spirit, signifieth the seven spirits of nature, or the astral birth or geniture, in which the devil ruleth, and the Holy Ghost opposeth him therein, and overcometh the devil.

(76) In this quality stands hell and eternal perdition, as also the eternal enmity and murderous den, and such a creature the devil is come to be.

(24) The cause of this association is the darkness of unwisdom.

(1) In those who have led an evil life, and in those of unsound nerves, the above state endureth only so long as would take to snap a finger. Again, in some, it endureth as long as the time taken for the eating of a meal.

(72) And when the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.

(98) But when the spirit conceiveth the word, that shuts the mouth, and conceiveth it at the hinder gums upon the tongue in the hole or hollowness, in the bitter and astringent quality.

(57) As the tongue breaketh off or divideth the word or syllable, and keeps it half without and half within, so the heart of God would not wholly reject the kindled Salitter, but the malignity, malice and impulse of the devil; and the other part should be reedified or built again after this time.

(108) But when the word breaketh through, then the mouth within openeth wide, and the word conceiveth itself once more with its sound behind the astringent and the bitter qualities, and rouseth them up, as if they were lazy sleepers in the darkness, and goeth forth suddenly out at the mouth.

(36) For the light of their heart, which qualified, mixed or united with the heart of God, they themselves have extinguished, and instead thereof have generated a fierce, hot, astringent, bitter, hard and stinking devilish spirit.

(76) The word (Erden) is thrust forth from the heart, and is conceived on the hinder part upon the tongue, at the hinder gums, and trembleth; the tongue is used about the first syllable (Er), yet not steadily, but the tongue recoils [or staggers] inwards at the nether gums, and croucheth as it were before an enemy, trembling.

(134) The word (Nacht) conceiveth itself first at the heart, and the spirit grunteth with or in the astringent quality, yet not wholly comprehensible to the astringent quality; afterwards it conceiveth itself upon the tongue: But all the while it grunteth at the heart the tongue shuts the mouth, till the spirit cometh and conceiveth itself upon the tongue, and then it openeth the mouth quickly, and lets the spirit go forth.

(106) Of the Day. (Tag) The word (Tag) conceiveth itself at the heart, and goeth forth at the mouth through the way or passage of the astringent and the bitter qualities, and does not awaken or rouse up the astringent and the bitter qualities, but goeth forth directly through their place, which is at the hinder gums upon the tongue, very softly or gently, and incomprehensibly as to the astringent and the bitter qualities.

(126) Now seeing the outermost birth or geniture in nature is twofold, that is, both evil and good, therefore it is that there is a perpetual tormenting, squeezing, lamenting and howling; and the creatures in this life are subject to torments and afflictions, so that this evil world is justly called a murderous den of the devil.

(24) The evil spirit first created Mîtôkht ('falsehood'), and then Akôman ('evil thought').

(78) The word or syllable (Er) signifieth the kindled astringent and bitter quality, the earnest severe wrath of God, which trembleth at the hinder part of the gums, before which the tongue is as it were afraid, and croucheth at the nether gums, and flies as it were from an enemy.

(4) The darkness of unwisdom is the field of the others. These hindrances may be dormant, or worn thin, or suspended, or expanded.

(3) Therefore it is that I say, and have said, that evermore when the devil taketh any body, he figureth in some quality of his body what his servants be in spirit. For he enflameth so the imagination of his contemplatives with the fire of hell, that suddenly without discretion they shoot out their curious conceits, and without any advisement they will take upon them to blame other men’s defaults over soon: and this is because they have but one nostril ghostly. For that division that is in a man’s nose bodily, and the which departeth the one nostril from the tother, betokeneth that a man should have discretion ghostly; and can dissever the good from the evil, and the evil from the worse, and the good from the better, ere that he gave any full doom of anything that he heard or saw done or spoken about him. And by a man’s brain is ghostly understood imagination; for by nature it dwelleth and worketh in the head.

(97) The word (Sprach) conceiveth itself between the teeth, for they bite or join close together, and the spirit hisseth forth through the teeth, and the tongue boweth or bendeth in the middle, and setteth its forepoint, as if it did listen after the hissing, and was afraid.

(105) And this Word should enlighten the Soul, and at the Departure of the Body be the Light of the Soul, and bring the Soul through the Gate of the Darkness into Paradise, before the bright Countenance of God, into the second Principle, into Element, where there is no Pain.

(17) Now all such things the adversary prepares beautifully and spreads out before the body, wishing to make the mind of the soul incline her toward one of them and overwhelm her, like a hook, drawing her by force in ignorance, deceiving her until she conceives evil, and bears fruit of matter, and conducts herself in uncleanness, pursuing many desires, covetousnesses, while fleshly pleasure draws her in ignorance.