1outward elements, (viz. that which went forth from
the element), will have the element, and mix itself
therewith ; and then cometh the outward fierceness
Or by. of the stars, and draweth it together * with the
outward Fiat, and setteth itself [in the rule or
dominion], whereby the inward will in the love
together with the element and the paradise becometh darkened ; and the love in the paradise
goetih into its ether, and is extinguished in the
tincture of the seed ; and the heavenly centre
goeth under, for it passeth into its Princip e.
37. And then cometh the woman with her
stopped [or congealed] blood, with the stars and
elements, and setteth herself in [the dominion].
And here is the paradisical death, where Adam in
the living body died ; that is, he died [as] to
paradise and the element, and lived to the sun,
stars, and the outward elements ; concerning which,
God said to him, That day thou eatest of good
and evil, thou shalt die the death ; and this is the
gate of the first death in the paradise, in which
now man liveth in the elementary woman of this
world in the corruptibility.
38. And it highly concerneth us to know and
apprehend, that when the seed is sown in the
matrix, and that it is drawn together by the Fiat
(when the stars and the outward elements set
themselves in [the dominion], and that the love
and meekness is extinguished ; for there cometh
to be a fierce substance in the stopping [or congealCh. 15] KNOWLEDGE OF THE ETERNITY 321
2ing] of the tincture) that before the kindling of the
light of life, in the child, there is no heavenly
creature. And although l it be figured [or shaped] 1 the creature.
with all the forms [or parts] of the body, yet for
all that the heavenly image is not therein, but the
bestial. And if that body perish [corrupt, or
break] before the kindling of the spirit of the
soul in the springing up of the life, then nothing
of this figure appeareth before God on the day of
the restitution, but its shadow and shape ; for it
hath yet had no spirit.
39. This figure doth not (as many judge) go into
the 2 abyss, but as the parents were, so is also their 2 Or hell.
figure ; for this figure is the parents', till the
kindling of its life, and then it is no more the
parents', but its own. The mother affordeth but
a lodging, and the nutriment ; and therefore if
she destroyeth it willingly in her body, she is a
murderess, and the divine law judgeth her to the
temporal death.
40. Thus now the stars and the elements (after
the withdrawing of the love in the tincture) take
the house into possession, and fill it in the first
3 month. And in the second, they sever the 30r moon,
members [or parts] by the sour Fiat, as is mentioned before. And in the third, the strife
beginneth about the regions of the stars and
elements, where then they separate, and every
element maketh its own house and region for
itself; viz. the heart, liver, lungs, bladder, and
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1 a dwelling stomach ; as also the head to be the l house
for the senses . i i • •
and thoughts, of the stars, where they have their region [or
dominion], and their princely throne, as it
followeth further :
41. And now after that the stars and elements
(as is mentioned before) have gotten their region
and the house to dwell in, then beginneth the
mighty strife in great anxiety about the king of
the life. For the chamber of the building [or
fabric] standeth in very great anguish, and
[here] we must consider the original of the essence
of all essences, the eternal birth and the root
of all things ; as that there is in the house of
the anguish, first one only essence [or being],
2 being. and that 2 essence is the mixing of all 8 essences,
» or beings. and ft ^th first a will to 4 generate the
forth. light, and that will is attractive [astringent
or sour].
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.