3. Come on ye jugglers and sorcerers or witches, you that go a wooing and a whoring after the devil: Come to my school: I will shew you how, with your necromancy or art, you are carried into hell. 4. You rejoice [maliciously] with this; that the devil is in subjection to you, and ye suppose that ye are gods: Here I will describe the original and ground of necromancy, for I am become also a searcher into nature [natural philosopher], but not after your way and manner, but to discover your shame by a divine revelation, for an advertisement to this last world, and for a sentence of condemnation upon their skill and knowledge; for the judgment followeth upon knowledge. 5. Seeing the bow of fierceness is already bent, let every one look to himself, lest he be found within the limit of the mark. For the time is at hand to awake from sleep. 6. Now the seventh form, or the seventh spirit in the divine power, is nature, or the issue or exit from the other six. For the astringent quality attracteth the Salitter together, or the fabric or product of all the six spirits, even as a magnet or loadstone attracteth to itself the Salitter of the iron; and when it is attracted together, then it is a comprehensibility, in which the six spirits of God qualify, act or operate in an incomprehensible way or manner. 7. This seventh spirit hath a colour and condition or kind of its own, as all the other spirits have; for it is the body of all the spirits, wherein they generate themselves as in a body: Also out of this spirit all figures, shapes and forms are imaged or fashioned; moreover, the angels also are created out of it, and all naturality standeth therein. 8. And this spirit is always generated from the six, and subsisteth always continually, and is never missing or wanting, nor doth ever pass away, and it again continually generateth the six; for the other six are in this seventh as in a mother, enclosed or encompassed; and they receive their nourishment, power and strength always in their mother's body or womb. 9. For the seventh spirit is the body, and the other six are the life, and in the middle centre is the heart of light, which the seven spirits continually generate as a light of life; and that light is their son; and the welling out or penetration through all the spirits expandeth itself aloft * in the heart, in the exit or rising up of the light. * " expandeth itself aloft" — empöret (gebäret) sich. See Ch. 3, par. 67. 10. And this is the spirit of all the seven spirits, that goeth forth out of the heart of God, which there, in the seventh spirit, formeth and frameth all, and wherein the qualifying or fountain spirits, with their lovewrestling, shew themselves endlessly. 11. For the Deity is like a wheel, which with its fellies and spokes, and with all the naves, turneth about, and is fellied together, as seven wheels, so that it can go any way, forward, backward, downward, upward and crossways, without turning back. 12. Whereas yet always the form of all the seven wheels, and the one only nave in the centre of all the wheels, is fully in sight, and so it is not understood how the wheel is made; but the wheel always appears more and more wonderful and marvellous, with its rising up, and yet abideth also in its own place. 13. In such a manner the Deity is continually generated, and never passeth away, or ceaseth or vanisheth out of sight; and in this manner also is the life in angels and men continually generated. 14. According to the moving of the seven spirits of God the figures and creatures of the transitoriness are formed, but not thus generated; though indeed the birth or geniture of all the seven spirits sheweth itself therein, yet their quality standeth only in the seventh naturespirit, which the other six spirits do form, figure, frame, alter and change, according to their wrestling and rising up. 15. Therefore also the figures, and transitory forms and creatures, are changed according to the condition of the seventh naturespirit, in which they rise up. 16. The angels are not alone imaged or framed out of the seventh naturespirit, as the transitory creatures are, but when the Deity moved itself to the creating of angels, then in every circle, wherein each angel was incorporated or compacted together, there the Deity, with its whole substance and being, was incorporated or compacted together, [" Understand, the two eternal " Principles, viz. the fire and the light, and yet " not the quality or source of the fire, but the " essence of it,"] and became a body, and yet the Deity continued in its seat, as before. Understand this well: 17. The angel's body, or the comprehensibility, is from or out of the seventh spirit, and the birth or geniture in that body is the six qualifying
3. Come on you jugglers and sorcerers or witches, you that go a wooing and a whoring after the devil: Come to my school: I will show you how, with your necromancy or art, you are carried into hell. 4. You rejoice [maliciously] with this; that the devil is in subjection to you, and you suppose that you are gods: Here I will describe the original and ground of necromancy, for I am become also a searcher into nature [natural philosopher], but not after your way and manner, but to discover your shame by a divine revelation, for an advertisement to this last world, and for a sentence of condemnation upon their skill and knowledge; for the judgment follows upon knowledge. 5. Seeing the bow of fierceness is already bent, let every one look to himself, lest he be found within the limit of the mark. For the time is at hand to awake from sleep. 6. Now the seventh form, or the seventh spirit in the divine power, is nature, or the issue or exit from the other six. For the astringent quality attracts the Salitter together, or the fabric or product of all the six spirits, even as a magnet or loadstone attracts to itself the Salitter of the iron; and when it is attracted together, then it is a comprehensibility, in which the six spirits of God qualify, act or operate in an incomprehensible way or manner. 7. This seventh spirit has a colour and condition or kind of its own, as all the other spirits have; for it is the body of all the spirits, wherein they generate themselves as in a body: Also out of this spirit all figures, shapes and forms are imaged or fashioned; moreover, the angels also are created out of it, and all naturality stands therein. 8. And this spirit is always generated from the six, and subsists always continually, and is never missing or wanting, nor does ever pass away, and it again continually generats the six; for the other six are in this seventh as in a mother, enclosed or encompassed; and they receive their nourishment, power and strength always in their mother's body or womb. 9. For the seventh spirit is the body, and the other six are the life, and in the middle centre is the heart of light, which the seven spirits continually generate as a light of life; and that light is their son; and the welling out or penetration through all the spirits expands itself aloft * in the heart, in the exit or rising up of the light. * " expands itself aloft" — empöret (gebäret) sich. See Ch. 3, par. 67. 10. And this is the spirit of all the seven spirits, that goes forth out of the heart of God, which there, in the seventh spirit, forms and frams all, and wherein the qualifying or fountain spirits, with their lovewrestling, show themselves endlessly. 11. For the Deity is like a wheel, which with its fellies and spokes, and with all the naves, turns about, and is fellied together, as seven wheels, so that it can go any way, forward, backward, downward, upward and crossways, without turning back. 12. Whereas yet always the form of all the seven wheels, and the one only nave in the centre of all the wheels, is fully in sight, and so it is not understood how the wheel is made; but the wheel always appears more and more wonderful and marvellous, with its rising up, and yet abides also in its own place. 13. In such a manner the Deity is continually generated, and never passes away, or ceases or vanishes out of sight; and in this manner also is the life in angels and men continually generated. 14. According to the moving of the seven spirits of God the figures and creatures of the transitoriness are formed, but not thus generated; though indeed the birth or geniture of all the seven spirits shows itself therein, yet their quality stands only in the seventh naturespirit, which the other six spirits do form, figure, frame, alter and change, according to their wrestling and rising up. 15. Therefore also the figures, and transitory forms and creatures, are changed according to the condition of the seventh naturespirit, in which they rise up. 16. The angels are not alone imaged or framed out of the seventh naturespirit, as the transitory creatures are, but when the Deity moved itself to the creating of angels, then in every circle, wherein each angel was incorporated or compacted together, there the Deity, with its whole substance and being, was incorporated or compacted together, [" Understand, the two eternal " Principles, viz. the fire and the light, and yet " not the quality or source of the fire, but the " essence of it,"] and became a body, and yet the Deity continued in its seat, as before. Understand this well: 17. The angel's body, or the comprehensibility, is from or out of the seventh spirit, and the birth or geniture in that body is the six qualifying
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