Aurora, or the Day-Spring

124. As this hath a being or substance, form or condition in angels, so it hath also a being, substance, form or condition in man. Therefore bethink and consider yourselves, you that are proud, covetous, thievish, extorting usurers, calumniating, blasphemous, envious, and whorish or lascivious, what manner of little son or spirit you send into God. [" The soul was originally comprehended in " the eternal nature with the Word Fiat, which is " God's nature according to the first Principle " and eternal original of nature; and if it "kindleth itself in the original, then it kindleth " God's wrath in the eternal nature."] Objection. Thou wilt say, We do not send this into God, but only into our neighbour, or into his work which we like and have a mind to. [or meddle with in our minds.] Answer. 125. Now shew thou me any place, to which thou sendeth thy covetous or lustful spirit, where God is not; be it to man, beasts, garments, fields, money or anything whatsoever. From him is all, and he is in all, he himself is all, and he upholdeth and supporteth all. Objection. Then thou wilt say, But he is with his wrath in many things which are so hard and evil that they are not suitable to or capable of the Deity. Answer. 126. Yes, dear man, all this is true: The wrath of God is certainly everywhere all over, in silver, gold, stones, fields, garments, beasts and men, and all whatsoever is comprehensible and palpable; otherwise they would not be so 2hard and harsh to be felt, as they are. 127. But thou must know that the kernel of love also sticketh in all in the hidden centre, unless it be altogether too evil; and so evil a thing man hath no liking for at all. [" God possesseth all, only as to nature, he is " not the essence, he possesseth himself."] Or dost thou think thou dost well, if thou bathest or soakest thyself in God's wrath? Take heed, that it doth not kindle thy body and soul, and so thou wilt burn therein eternally, as befell Lucifer. 128. But when God shall bring forth the hidden things, at the end of this time, then you will discern in what God's love or wrath hath been. Therefore have a care, and take heed, and turn thy eyes from evil, or else thou undoest thyself, and so bringest thyself into perdition. 129. I take heaven and earth to witness, that I have performed here as God hath revealed to me, that it is his will. 130. Thus hath king Lucifer in his body turned the sweet water into a sour sharpness, intending therewith, in his haughty­mindedness, to rule in the whole Deity. 131. He hath brought it so far to pass that, in this world, with that sharpness, he reacheth into the heart of all living creatures, as also into vegetables, leaves and grass, and into all other things, as a king and prince of this world. 132. And if the divine love were not yet in the whole nature of this world, and if we poor men and creatures had not in and about us the