Concerning the Three Principles of the Divine Essence
68. So also it is with the damned [soul], when the body breaketh the soul needeth no flying forth, or departing far away ; it remaineth in that which is outermost l without the four elements, in the 1 beyond, darkness, and in the 2 anguishing source ; its source 2 Or aching is [that which cometh] after the light, and its rising [or springing-up] is enmity against itself, and so climbeth continually aloft over the thrones of the Deity, and findeth them not, to eternity ; but it rideth in its pride aloft over the thrones, in their own game, with the strong might of the grimness ; of which you shall find at large, about the description of the Last Judgment.
THE TWENTIETH CHAPTER
Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World.
And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church.
1. "I FERE we shall not be acceptable to the J — L Antichrist, much less to his stout horse [or stately beast]. But seeing it thus appeareth to us (in the wonder), we will describe it for a Memorial to ourselves, and behold how the beginning and end of everything is, that we also (in our combat)
1 Or in the may labour in the 1 gate of the deep ; although it Mysteries. be plain that we have nothing else to expect, in this world, for this revelation [or manifestation], from Antichrist and his beast, but scorn [contempt], disgrace, and danger of our temporal life, yet we comfort ourselves with the eternal conquest in our Saviour Christ, wherein we have to expect our great recompense, the glimpse of which appeareth
2 Or in great to us here, 2 in the great wonder ; for which cause we will proceed, and not look upon this world, but esteem that which is to come greater than all. 2. Our writing also will serve in its due time,p. 502Ch. 20] ADAM AND EVE'S GOING OUT OF PARADISE 503 when the 1 lily-rose shall blossom ; for in these l the blossom of the sweet
[writings] there is many a noble rose-bud, which at smelling present (because of the great darkness in Babel) cannot be known ; but there is a time, wherein it shall 2 stand according to its spirit. 2 Or be
. , . •• known.
3. Now if we here discover the Antichrist, the devil (8in his beast) will mightily resist us, and3 Or by. cry out upon us, as if we would stir up [sedition] tumults and uproars ; but that is not true. Do but earnestly consider what a Christian is; it belongeth not to him to make uproars, for he is a sheep, in the midst among wolves, .and must be in the form and mind of a sheep, and not of a wolf.
4. Though indeed the spirit of God (in zeal and in the great might of the Father) armeth many in the fierceness [or wrath], as may be seen by Elias ; where sometimes the sword of the wrath of God is given to the angel, for the slaying of Baal's priests in Babel by Elias. Also, where Moses brake the tables, and employed the sword against the sin of the worshippers of the calf ; which neither Moses doth, nor Elias ; but the fire of the wrath of God, by Elias, on the mount.
5. Now when God the Lord had pronounced Adam and Eve's sentence, about their earthly misery, labour, cares, and hard burthen, which they must bear, and [that he had confirmed them] husband and wife, and also bound them in the oath of wedlock, to keep together as one [only] body, and to love and help one another, as the membersp. 20 of one [and the same] body, they were then wholly naked, they stood and were ashamed of their earthly image, and especially of the members of their
1 Or privities. l shame ; also [they were ashamed] of the 2 excredung< ment of the earthly food of their bodies, for they saw that they had a bestial condition, according to the outward body with all its substance ; also heat and cold fell upon them, and the chaste image of
8 Or lost. God was 3 extinct; and now they must propagate after a bestial manner.
68. So also it is with the damned [soul], when the body breaks the soul needs no flying forth, or departing far away ; it remains in that which is outermost l without the four elements, in the 1 beyond, darkness, and in the 2 anguishing source ; its source 2 Or aching is [that which comes] after the light, and its rising [or springing-up] is enmity against itself, and so climbs continually aloft over the thrones of the Deity, and finds them not, to eternity ; but it rids in its pride aloft over the thrones, in their own game, with the strong might of the grimness ; of which you shall find at large, about the description of the Last Judgment.
THE TWENTIETH CHAPTER
Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World.
And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church.
1. "I FERE we shall not be acceptable to the J — L Antichrist, much less to his stout horse [or stately beast]. But seeing it thus appears to us (in the wonder), we will describe it for a Memorial to ourselves, and behold how the beginning and end of everything is, that we also (in our combat)
1 Or in the may labour in the 1 gate of the deep ; although it Mysteries. be plain that we have nothing else to expect, in this world, for this revelation [or manifestation], from Antichrist and his beast, but scorn [contempt], disgrace, and danger of our temporal life, yet we comfort ourselves with the eternal conquest in our Saviour Christ, wherein we have to expect our great recompense, the glimpse of which appears
2 Or in great to us here, 2 in the great wonder ; for which cause we will proceed, and not look upon this world, but esteem that which is to come greater than all. 2. Our writing also will serve in its due time,
p. 502
Ch. 20] ADAM AND EVE'S GOING OUT OF PARADISE 503 when the 1 lily-rose shall blossom ; for in these l the blossom of the sweet
[writings] there is many a noble rose-bud, which at smelling present (because of the great darkness in Babel) cannot be known ; but there is a time, wherein it shall 2 stand according to its spirit. 2 Or be
. , . •• known.
3. Now if we here discover the Antichrist, the devil (8in his beast) will mightily resist us, and3 Or by. cry out upon us, as if we would stir up [sedition] tumults and uproars ; but that is not true. Do but earnestly consider what a Christian is; it belongs not to him to make uproars, for he is a sheep, in the midst among wolves, .and must be in the form and mind of a sheep, and not of a wolf.
4. Though indeed the spirit of God (in zeal and in the great might of the Father) arms many in the fierceness [or wrath], as may be seen by Elias ; where sometimes the sword of the wrath of God is given to the angel, for the slaying of Baal's priests in Babel by Elias. Also, where Moses brake the tables, and employed the sword against the sin of the worshippers of the calf ; which neither Moses does, nor Elias ; but the fire of the wrath of God, by Elias, on the mount.
5. Now when God the Lord had pronounced Adam and Eve's sentence, about their earthly misery, labour, cares, and hard burthen, which they must bear, and [that he had confirmed them] husband and wife, and also bound them in the oath of wedlock, to keep together as one [only] body, and to love and help one another, as the membersp. 20 of one [and the same] body, they were then wholly naked, they stood and were ashamed of their earthly image, and especially of the members of their
1 Or privities. l shame ; also [they were ashamed] of the 2 excredung< ment of the earthly food of their bodies, for they saw that they had a bestial condition, according to the outward body with all its substance ; also heat and cold fell upon them, and the chaste image of
8 Or lost. God was 3 extinct; and now they must propagate after a bestial manner.