1that did tremble because of sin ; and sin was manifested in the element of the mind, first in Adam
and Eve, and then fear and terror fell into the
essences of the soul ; for the first Principle in the
[fierce] sternness was stirred, so that [Principle]
gat (as a man may say) fuel for its source of fire.
And it is risen up in the kindling, in a contrariety
of will, in the essences, where one form hath continually opposed the other, viz. the sour tartness
and the cold, with their attracting, have awakened
the bitter stinging and tormenting in the essences
of the tincture of the blood in the spirit ; and the
bitter raging and rising hath awakened the fire.
284. And so instead of the paradisical joy and
refreshment, there hath been a mere brimstonespirit, which standeth in anguish and trembling of
corruption [or fragility], which kindleth the tincture
of the blood, wherein tearing, stinging, and tormenting is wrought ; and if the fire in the brimstone-spirit be too much kindled, then it burneth
the tincture up, and the light of life goeth out, and
then the body falleth away to be a dead carcase ;
and if the tart sourness be kindled too much by
the hard attracting and holding, then also the light
of life goeth out, and the body perisheth ; so also
of the water ; if the tincture kindleth itself in the
meekness, then it becometh x windy, gross, swelled, i pursy with
wholly dark, also infectious and 'corrupt, wherein f^M or
the flash of the life is as a pricking thorn. And so achin«-
man's life is everywhere begirt with enemies, and
406 THE THREE PRINCIPLES [Ch. 17
the poor soul is always in a close prison fettered
with many chains, and is continually in fear that
(when the body shall [die or] break) it may fall
into the kingdom of the executioner, the devil.
385. Thus in Adam and Eve in the Garden of
Eden (after the biting of the apple) there sprang
up the first fruit in the gate of the deep, where the
soul standeth before God, and qualifieth [or mixeth]
with the will of the justice of the Father, who
setteth his will before him (in the breaking of the
darkness) in the light of the meekness, and continually generateth his beloved Heart and Son (in
the virtue of the meekness of the will), viz. his
eternal Word, from eternity.
86. And so should the angelical man also set his
will in the broken gates of the darkness, through
the will of the Father, (wherewith the soul qualifieth
[or mingleth] ) in the meekness of the Heart of
God, and then the source [or quality] of the darkness, in the [fierce] wrathfulness, should not have
1 touched or x stirred him, but he should have continued a
glorious prince of paradise, in triumph over the
kingdom of hell and of this world.
2 thoughts, 87. But when he set his 2 imagination in the
or lust. ' kingdom of this world, then the bright and clear
will of his soul drew the swelled kingdom of the
out-birth to the soul into its will ; and so the pure
paradisical soul became dark, and the element of
3 the concre- the body did get the 3 Mesch or massa, which the
iu°mp.raa r will of the soul of the mind attracted into the
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