Aurora, or the Day-Spring

58. How can you well suppose that you can change yourselves into another form? Indeed you suffer the devil thus to play the ape with you, and cheat you; and all this while you are but blind in your own skill. Though you have learned your art never so well, yet you do not know the purpose it driveth at; for the pith and heart therein is the changing or altering of the qualifying or fountain spirits, as Lucifer did, when he would needs be God. Now thou askest, How can that be? Answer. 59. Behold, when the corporeal, qualifying or fountain spirits set their will into sorcery or witchcraft, then the animated or soulish spirit, which they generate, and which in the astral elementary quality ruleth in the hidden and deepest centre, is clearly already a sorcerer or witch, and hath changed, transformed or metamorphosed itself into sorcery or witchcraft. 60. But the bestial body cannot follow so suddenly and nimbly, but must be charmed to it by characters and conjurations, and by some instruments for that purpose, whereby the animated or soulish spirit maketh the bestial body invisible, and changeth it into such a form as the will of the qualifying or fountain spirits was in, at the beginning of its purpose to a metamorphosis or transmutation. 61. The bestial flesh cannot well change itself, or put itself into another birth or geniture, but is brought into a slender and inferior base form, as of a beast, of wood, or such like thing which hath its body qualifying or boiling in the elements, as in their fountain. 62. But the astral spirits can well clothe themselves in another form or shape, but that 2continueth so long only as the birth or geniture of nature above their pole or zenith permitteth them. 63. For when it changeth itself with its wheeling and penetrating, so that another qualifying or fountain spirit becomes chief or predominant, then their art lieth down upon the ground, and their Deity in the first qualifying or fountain spirit, in which they had begun their art, hath an end. 64. Now if it be to last any longer, then it must be made again afresh according to the qualifying or fountain spirit then ruling at that present, or the devil with his animated or soulish spirit must be in the astral spirits of the body, which instantly and suddenly changeth it, or else his art is here also at an end. 65. For nature will not suffer itself to be juggled with at all times and hours, as the spirits would have it, but all must be done according to that spirit which then at that present time is lord and chief or predominant. 66. It is not that spirit of God which is lord and chief in nature, which causeth or maketh the juggling, but it is made in the fierceness of the Salitter, which lord Lucifer hath kindled with his elevation, and which is his eternal kingdom. 67. But when the power or might of that spirit is allayed, then the kindled fire can be no more useful to the juggler. 68. For the wrath­fire in nature is not, during this time of the world, the devil's own house of his power; for the love standeth hidden in the centre of the wrath­fire, and Lucifer, together with his angels, lieth imprisoned in the outward 3wrath­fire, even until the Judgment of God: Then he will have the wrath­fire separated from the love, for an eternal bath or lake, and he will wash his juggler's head and face withal, doubtless. 69. This I set thee down here for a warning, that thou mayest know what manner of ground sorcery or witchcraft hath, not in such a way as if I would write any heathenish sorcery or witchcraft, neither have I learned any; but the animated or soulish spirit beholdeth their juggling, which in the body I do not understand. 70. But seeing it runneth counter, quite contrary to the love and meekness of the birth or geniture of God, and is a contrary or opposite will in the love of God, so that he is loath to hurt man, unless pressing necessity driveth him to it, therefore will the spirit have the wrathbath or lake of nature set apart to be an eternal parching or drying place for jugglers, perverters or changers of God's ordinance or order: And therein they may practise and shew forth their new deity. Of the kindling of the Wrath­Fire. 71. Now when king Lucifer, together with all his angels, kindled himself, then the wrath­fire rose up instantly in the body, and the gracious amiable and blessed light was extinguished in the animated or soulish spirit, and became a fierce, furious, devilish spirit, all according to the kindling and will of the qualifying or fountain spirits. 72. Now this animated or soulish spirit was bound or united with the Deity, in nature, and could qualify, mix or operate in and with the same, as if it were one and the same thing; and that now darted forth out of the bodies of the