130. Astrologers appropriate or attribute the second day to Sol or the sun, but it belongeth to Jupiter, to speak astrologically; for on the second day the light brake forth out of the heart of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, through the hard quality of heaven, and caused a mitigation, or an allaying in the hard water of the heaven, and the light became shining in that meekness and allaying. 131. Then the meekness and the hard water separated themselves asunder, and the hardness remained in its hard place, as a hard death, and the meekness or softness penetrated through the hardness in the power of the light. 132. And this now is the water of life, which is generated in the light of God out of the hard death. And thus the light of God in the sweet water of heaven brake through the astringent and hard, dark death; and thus the heaven is made out of the midst or centre of the water. 133. The hard firmament is the astringent quality, and the gentle, mild or meek firmament is the water, in which the light of life riseth up, which is the clarity or bright light of the Son of God. In this manner or form also the knowledge, and the light of life, riseth up in man, and the whole light of God in this world standeth in such a form, birth, and rising up. 134. The third day is very rightly attributed to Mars, because Mars is a bitter, and a furious raging and stirring spirit. It [in?] the third revolution of the earth the bitter quality rubbed itself with the astringent. Understand this Thing rightly. 135. When the light in the sweet water did penetrate through the astringent spirit, then the fireflash, terror or crack of the light, when it kindled itself in the water, rose up in the astringent and hard, dead quality, and made all stirring: from thence existed the mobility. 136. Now I speak here not only of the heaven above the earth, but this stirring and birth or geniture was also in the earth, and everywhere. 137. But seeing the heavenly fruits, before the time of the wrath, sprang up only in this stirring of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, and vanished and passed away again by their stirring, and so changed or altered themselves, therefore on the third day of the birth or geniture of the creation they sprang up also through the stirring of the fireflash in the astringent quality of the earth. 138. Though indeed the whole Deity is in the centre of the earth, hidden, yet the earth could not, for all that, bring forth heavenly fruit, for the astringent quality had shut and barred the hard bolt of death upon it, and so the heart of the Deity, in all the births, remained hidden in its meek and light heaven. 139. For the outermost birth is nature, and that ought not to reach back into the heart of God, neither can it, but it is the body, in which the qualifying or fountain spirits generate themselves, and shew forth and manifest their birth or geniture by their fruits. 140.* Therefore on the third day the earth began to spring, just as the qualifying or fountain spirits stood in the crack of the word or fireflash. * This par. does not appear in Sparrow's translation, though it is in all the German editions.
THE TWENTYSECOND CHAPTER Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. 1. HERE now is begun the describing of the astral birth. It ought well to be observed what the first title of this book meaneth, which is thus expressed: The DaySpring or Dawning in the East, or MorningRedness in the Rising. For here will a very simple man be able to see and comprehend or apprehend the being of God. 2. The Reader should not make himself blind through his unbelief and dull apprehension; for here I bring in the whole or total nature, with all her children, for a witness and a demonstration. If thou art rational, then look round about thee, and view thyself; also consider thyself aright, and then thou wilt soon find from or out of what spirit I write. 3. For my part, I will obediently perform the command of the spirit, only, have thou a care, and suffer not thyself to be shut out by an open door; * for here the gates of knowledge stand open to thee. * " shut out by an open door." That is, the door is open, do not imagine that it is shut. 4. Though the spirit will indeed go against the current of some astrologers, that is no great matter to me, for I am bound to obey God rather than men; men are blind in or concerning the spirit, and if they will not see, then they may remain blind still.
130. Astrologers appropriate or attribute the second day to Sol or the sun, but it belongs to Jupiter, to speak astrologically; for on the second day the light brake forth out of the heart of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, through the hard quality of heaven, and caused a mitigation, or an allaying in the hard water of the heaven, and the light became shining in that meekness and allaying. 131. Then the meekness and the hard water separated themselves asunder, and the hardness remained in its hard place, as a hard death, and the meekness or softness penetrated through the hardness in the power of the light. 132. And this now is the water of life, which is generated in the light of God out of the hard death. And thus the light of God in the sweet water of heaven brake through the astringent and hard, dark death; and thus the heaven is made out of the midst or centre of the water. 133. The hard firmament is the astringent quality, and the gentle, mild or meek firmament is the water, in which the light of life rises up, which is the clarity or bright light of the Son of God. In this manner or form also the knowledge, and the light of life, rises up in man, and the whole light of God in this world stands in such a form, birth, and rising up. 134. The third day is very rightly attributed to Mars, because Mars is a bitter, and a furious raging and stirring spirit. It [in?] the third revolution of the earth the bitter quality rubbed itself with the astringent. Understand this Thing rightly. 135. When the light in the sweet water did penetrate through the astringent spirit, then the fireflash, terror or crack of the light, when it kindled itself in the water, rose up in the astringent and hard, dead quality, and made all stirring: from thence existed the mobility. 136. Now I speak here not only of the heaven above the earth, but this stirring and birth or geniture was also in the earth, and everywhere. 137. But seeing the heavenly fruits, before the time of the wrath, sprang up only in this stirring of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, and vanished and passed away again by their stirring, and so changed or altered themselves, therefore on the third day of the birth or geniture of the creation they sprang up also through the stirring of the fireflash in the astringent quality of the earth. 138. Though indeed the whole Deity is in the centre of the earth, hidden, yet the earth could not, for all that, bring forth heavenly fruit, for the astringent quality had shut and barred the hard bolt of death upon it, and so the heart of the Deity, in all the births, remained hidden in its meek and light heaven. 139. For the outermost birth is nature, and that ought not to reach back into the heart of God, neither can it, but it is the body, in which the qualifying or fountain spirits generate themselves, and show forth and manifest their birth or geniture by their fruits. 140.* Therefore on the third day the earth began to spring, just as the qualifying or fountain spirits stood in the crack of the word or fireflash. * This par. does not appear in Sparrow's translation, though it is in all the German editions.
THE TWENTYSECOND CHAPTER Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. 1. HERE now is begun the describing of the astral birth. It ought well to be observed what the first title of this book means, which is thus expressed: The DaySpring or Dawning in the East, or MorningRedness in the Rising. For here will a very simple man be able to see and comprehend or apprehend the being of God. 2. The Reader should not make himself blind through his unbelief and dull apprehension; for here I bring in the whole or total nature, with all her children, for a witness and a demonstration. If you are rational, then look round about you, and view yourself; also consider yourself aright, and then you will soon find from or out of what spirit I write. 3. For my part, I will obediently perform the command of the spirit, only, have you a care, and suffer not yourself to be shut out by an open door; * for here the gates of knowledge stand open to you. * " shut out by an open door." That is, the door is open, do not imagine that it is shut. 4. Though the spirit will indeed go against the current of some astrologers, that is no great matter to me, for I am bound to obey God rather than men; men are blind in or concerning the spirit, and if they will not see, then they may remain blind still.
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