[117. " Not that they apprehend and behold it, " but they have a kind of knowledge thereof in "the Centre."] 118. Here is lamentation and woe, yelling and crying, and no deliverance; it is with them as if it did continually thunder and lighten tempestuously. 119. For the kindled spirits of God generate themselves thus: I. The hardness generateth a hard, raw, rough, cold and astringent quality. II. The sweetness is grown faint, and gaspeth, like a glowing coal splits when there is no more sap in the wood, and there is no refreshment for it. III. The bitterness teareth like a hot plague, and is as bitter as gall. IV. The fire burneth as a fierce wrathful Sulphur. V. Love is an enmity here. VI. The sound is a mere beating, rumbling or cracking,* like the noise of a fire breaking forth out of a hollow place, as if it were great claps of thunder. * " a mere beating, rumbling or cracking." In this, and in several similar sentences where Sparrow has used such terms as the above, the original is "Pochen," a word difficult to render in English, but highly suggestive. It describes above all else a pulsation; it might be the throbbing of an engine, or the beating of the human heart; it might be the hammering of a poundingmachine, or the ticking of the "deathwatch" insect; but in every case it denotes a regular, continuous motion and alternating sound, and this both as a technical term and as a figurative. VII. The circuit, region, court or residence of the body of the seven is a house of mourning. 120. Their food is abomination, and groweth from the fierceness of all qualities: Lamentation and woe, and that for ever without end; there is no time there; another king sitteth on their throne, which keepeth or holdeth a judgment for ever; they are only his footstool. 121. O beauty, pleasure and voluptuousness of this world! O riches and proud stateliness! O might and power! Thy unrighteous judgment and great pomp, with all thy pleasure and voluptuousness, lie all together on a heap, and are become a hellish fire! 122. Now eat and drink, now trim and dress thyself * therewith, and domineer therein, thou fair goddess, how art thou become a whore, and thy shame and reproach continue for ever! * " trim and dress thyself" (schmincke dich), "paint thy face."
THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER VII. Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. 1. THE Seventh spirit of God in the divine power is the corpus or body, which is generated out of the other six spirits, wherein all heavenly figures subsist, and wherein all things image and form themselves, and wherein all beauty and joy rise up. 2. This is the very spirit of nature, yea nature itself, wherein apprehensibility or comprehensibility consisteth, and wherein all creatures are formed in heaven and on earth. Yea heaven itself is therein formed; and all naturality in the whole God consisteth in this spirit. 3. If it were not for this spirit there would be neither angel nor man, and God would be an unsearchable being, subsisting only in an unsearchable power. Question. 4. Now the question is: How is this form? Or in what manner is this so? Answer. If thou art a rational mercurial spirit, which presseth through all the seven spirits of God, and beholdeth, proveth and examineth them, how they are, then thou wilt, by the explanation of this seventh spirit, conceive and understand the operation and the being of the whole Deity, and apprehend it in thy sense or mind. 5. But if thou understandest nothing by this spirit, then let this book alone, and judge neither of the cold nor of the warmth therein: For thou
[117. " Not that they apprehend and behold it, " but they have a kind of knowledge thereof in "the Centre."] 118. Here is lamentation and woe, yelling and crying, and no deliverance; it is with them as if it did continually thunder and lighten tempestuously. 119. For the kindled spirits of God generate themselves thus: I. The hardness generats a hard, raw, rough, cold and astringent quality. II. The sweetness is grown faint, and gasps, like a glowing coal splits when there is no more sap in the wood, and there is no refreshment for it. III. The bitterness tears like a hot plague, and is as bitter as gall. IV. The fire burns as a fierce wrathful Sulphur. V. Love is an enmity here. VI. The sound is a mere beating, rumbling or cracking,* like the noise of a fire breaking forth out of a hollow place, as if it were great claps of thunder. * " a mere beating, rumbling or cracking." In this, and in several similar sentences where Sparrow has used such terms as the above, the original is "Pochen," a word difficult to render in English, but highly suggestive. It describes above all else a pulsation; it might be the throbbing of an engine, or the beating of the human heart; it might be the hammering of a poundingmachine, or the ticking of the "deathwatch" insect; but in every case it denotes a regular, continuous motion and alternating sound, and this both as a technical term and as a figurative. VII. The circuit, region, court or residence of the body of the seven is a house of mourning. 120. Their food is abomination, and grows from the fierceness of all qualities: Lamentation and woe, and that for ever without end; there is no time there; another king sitts on their throne, which keeps or holds a judgment for ever; they are only his footstool. 121. O beauty, pleasure and voluptuousness of this world! O riches and proud stateliness! O might and power! Your unrighteous judgment and great pomp, with all your pleasure and voluptuousness, lie all together on a heap, and are become a hellish fire! 122. Now eat and drink, now trim and dress yourself * therewith, and domineer therein, you fair goddess, how art you become a whore, and your shame and reproach continue for ever! * " trim and dress yourself" (schmincke dich), "paint your face."
THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER VII. Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. 1. THE Seventh spirit of God in the divine power is the corpus or body, which is generated out of the other six spirits, wherein all heavenly figures subsist, and wherein all things image and form themselves, and wherein all beauty and joy rise up. 2. This is the very spirit of nature, yea nature itself, wherein apprehensibility or comprehensibility consists, and wherein all creatures are formed in heaven and on earth. Yea heaven itself is therein formed; and all naturality in the whole God consists in this spirit. 3. If it were not for this spirit there would be neither angel nor man, and God would be an unsearchable being, subsisting only in an unsearchable power. Question. 4. Now the question is: How is this form? Or in what manner is this so? Answer. If you are a rational mercurial spirit, which presses through all the seven spirits of God, and beholds, proves and examines them, how they are, then you will, by the explanation of this seventh spirit, conceive and understand the operation and the being of the whole Deity, and apprehend it in your sense or mind. 5. But if you understandest nothing by this spirit, then let this book alone, and judge neither of the cold nor of the warmth therein: For you
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