shall be free again) that it shall get a body again out of the property [and source] of its own mother, where then all its works in its mother shall appear before it.
130. For the Last Day is only to awaken again that which slept, and to break the death which is in the four elements: For the veil must be done away, and all that which is generated out of the eternal must spring up again and live.
131. But that which is generated out of the death, viz. out of the four elements, as the beasts, and every living thing of the four elements, attain no body any more; and if the spirit of it be with the four elements also, and the figure only remaineth of the elementary substance, viz. of the four out-births.
132. But that which is out of the eternal (out of the centre of the eternal life) is and remaineth for ever: even all words and works which are generated out of the eternal, remain in the substance of the figure: but they cannot remain for ever in the spirit and power, for a word of a spirit [breath] doth not proceed from the eternity, but hath its beginning in the outward Principle.
133. And therefore every spirit will have joy and sorrow in its works and words in eternity, all according as it is in its place and source, or property.
For, when the spirit shall consider with itself its source [or condition ], and why it is in the place where it is, then the source or property of its words and works ascend in it; and giveth it joy or sorrow, according to the condition or source and place that it is in, every one in [that which is] its own duly.
134. But you must know, that the sins, evil works and words of the new Regenerate in Christ, sprout out from the death of Christ (into which the children of Christ are again entered/rom their sins), and shall receive another source [or property] : and in the beholding and considering of them, the spirit shall make a hymn of thanks to the praise of God's works of wonder; as Isaiah saith, Though your sins were red as blood (if you turn), they shall be as wool, white as snow. And yet you must know, that in the life to come they shall appear in the figure, but in another source [or property] . Mark this, ye children of God, for much is herein contained.
135. From this ground we know, that Adam in his innocency before his sleep, (which signifieth death, when he had imagined into the spirit of the four elements), was in this world in paradise; and yet it might well be said, not in this world; he was indeed in this world upon the face of the earth, but in a paradisical source [or property] in the dominion of the [one pure ] element, and not in the four elements.
136. But when he entered into the four elements, he entered into death, and his body became like a beast; and the earth was cursed from the Lord, so that it bare no more paradisical fruit: For Adam was driven out, into the outward Principle: and there he must eat earthly fruit, and open [or manifest] the wonders of the outward Principle, and so he instantly became earthly.
137. For his body was from the earth, and created out of the earth, but it was not earth, [any more than gold is earth, though it groweth in the earth, and proceedeth from the earth], for it was Ex Matrix, ex Massa; [from the matrix, out of a mass] ; understand, out of the substantiality out of which the earth was originally generated and created. The pure element is also in the earth, as also paradise: and it is only the source [or property] that maketh the alteration, wherein the light of God is detained.
138. Adam would be as God in all the three principles; and the serpent also persuaded Eve to it, that if she would eat of the fruit of the earth, she should know good and evil: indeed evil enough; care, misery, and sorrows; in the death of the four elements.
139. And therefore, seeing the four elements must break, thence it is that corruption [perishableness, transitoriness] is in man's body; and the soul (which is taken out of the eternal) remaineth in the eternal: therefore there must come a heavenly body out of the pure element again, out of the substantiality [which is]
shall be free again) that it shall get a body again out of the property [and source] of its own mother, where then all its works in its mother shall appear before it.
130. For the Last Day is only to awaken again that which slept, and to break the death which is in the four elements: For the veil must be done away, and all that which is generated out of the eternal must spring up again and live.
131. But that which is generated out of the death, viz. out of the four elements, as the beasts, and every living thing of the four elements, attain no body any more; and if the spirit of it be with the four elements also, and the figure only remains of the elementary substance, viz. of the four out-births.
132. But that which is out of the eternal (out of the centre of the eternal life) is and remains for ever: even all words and works which are generated out of the eternal, remain in the substance of the figure: but they cannot remain for ever in the spirit and power, for a word of a spirit [breath] does not proceed from the eternity, but has its beginning in the outward Principle.
133. And therefore every spirit will have joy and sorrow in its works and words in eternity, all according as it is in its place and source, or property.
For, when the spirit shall consider with itself its source [or condition ], and why it is in the place where it is, then the source or property of its words and works ascend in it; and gives it joy or sorrow, according to the condition or source and place that it is in, every one in [that which is] its own duly.
134. But you must know, that the sins, evil works and words of the new Regenerate in Christ, sprout out from the death of Christ (into which the children of Christ are again entered/rom their sins), and shall receive another source [or property] : and in the beholding and considering of them, the spirit shall make a hymn of thanks to the praise of God's works of wonder; as Isaiah says, Though your sins were red as blood (if you turn), they shall be as wool, white as snow. And yet you must know, that in the life to come they shall appear in the figure, but in another source [or property] . Mark this, you children of God, for much is herein contained.
135. From this ground we know, that Adam in his innocency before his sleep, (which signifies death, when he had imagined into the spirit of the four elements), was in this world in paradise; and yet it might well be said, not in this world; he was indeed in this world upon the face of the earth, but in a paradisical source [or property] in the dominion of the [one pure ] element, and not in the four elements.
136. But when he entered into the four elements, he entered into death, and his body became like a beast; and the earth was cursed from the Lord, so that it bare no more paradisical fruit: For Adam was driven out, into the outward Principle: and there he must eat earthly fruit, and open [or manifest] the wonders of the outward Principle, and so he instantly became earthly.
137. For his body was from the earth, and created out of the earth, but it was not earth, [any more than gold is earth, though it grows in the earth, and proceeds from the earth], for it was Ex Matrix, ex Massa; [from the matrix, out of a mass] ; understand, out of the substantiality out of which the earth was originally generated and created. The pure element is also in the earth, as also paradise: and it is only the source [or property] that makes the alteration, wherein the light of God is detained.
138. Adam would be as God in all the three principles; and the serpent also persuaded Eve to it, that if she would eat of the fruit of the earth, she should know good and evil: indeed evil enough; care, misery, and sorrows; in the death of the four elements.
139. And therefore, seeing the four elements must break, thence it is that corruption [perishableness, transitoriness] is in man's body; and the soul (which is taken out of the eternal) remains in the eternal: therefore there must come a heavenly body out of the pure element again, out of the substantiality [which is]
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