80. This motion is in itself like a turning wheel ; not that there is such a turning and winding, but it is so in the properties; for the desire attracts into itself, and the motion thrusts forwards out of itself, and so the will , being in this anguish, can neither get inwards nor outwards, and yet is drawn both out of itself and into itself; and so it remains in such a [1] posture as would go into itself and out of itself, that is, over itself and under itself, and yet can go no whither, but is an anguish, and the true foundation of hell, and of God's anger; for this anguish stands in the dark sharp motion.
[1] form, manner, or condition
81. In the creation of the world the sulphur spirit, with the matter of the sulphureous [1] nature was produced out of this ground; which sulphur spirit is the natural life of the earthly and elementary creatures.
[1] or property
82. The wise heathen have in some measure understood this ground, for they say, that in [1] Sulphur, [2] Mercury, and [3] Sal, all things in this world consist; wherein they have not looked upon the matter only, but upon the spirit, from which such matter proceeds: for the ground of it consists not in salt, quicksilver, and brimstone, they mean not so, but they mean the spirit of such properties; in that, everything indeed consists, whatsoever lives and grows and has being in this world, whether it be spiritual or material.
[1] Spiritual corporeality [2] the Word or speaking [3] the gross palpable corporeality. [1] Sulphur, [2] Mercury, and [3] Sal
83. For they understand by Salt, the sharp magnetical desire of nature; and by Mercury, they mean the motion and separation of nature, by which everything is [1] figured with its own signature; and by Sulphur, they mean the perceiving [sensible] [2] willing and growing life.
[1] or marked with its own image or shape [2] desiring vegetable life
84. For in the sulphur-spirit, wherein the fiery life burns, the oil lies; and the quintessence lies in the oil, viz. the fiery Mercury, which is the true life of nature, and which is an effluence from the word of the divine power and motion, wherein the ground of heaven is understood; and in the quintessence there lies the tincture, viz. the paradisical ground, the outflown word of the divine power and virtue, wherein the properties lie in [1] equality.
[1] temperature or harmony
85. Thus, by the Third property of nature, which is the anguish, we mean the sharpness and painfulness of the fire, viz. the burning and consuming; for when the will is put into such a sharpness it will always consume the cause of that sharpness; for it always [1] strives to get to the Unity of God again, which is the rest; and the Unity thrusts itself with its effluence to this motion and sharpness; and so there is a continual conjoining for the manifestation of the divine will , as we always find in these three, viz. in salt, brimstone, and oil, a heavenly in the earthly; and whosoever does but truly understand it, and considers the spirit, shall find it so.
[1] or throngs after, presses
86. For the soul of a thing lies in the sharpness, and the true life of the sensual nature and property lies in the motion, and the powerful spirit which arises from the tincture lies in the oil of the Sulphur: Thus a heavenly always lies hidden in the earthly, for the invisible [1] spiritual world came forth with and in the creation.
[1] viz. the light and dark world; God's love and wrath
The Fourth Property ( The Sun )
87. The Fourth property of the eternal nature is the spiritual fire, wherein the light, that is, the Unity, is made manifest; for the [1] glance of the fire arises and proceeds from the outflown Unity, which has incorporated and united itself with the natural desire; and the burning property of fire, viz. the heat proceeds from the sharp devouringness of the first three properties; which comes to be so as follows.
[1] shining, luster, or brightness
80. This motion is in itself like a turning wheel ; not that there is such a turning and winding, but it is so in the properties; for the desire attracts into itself, and the motion thrusts forwards out of itself, and so the will , being in this anguish, can neither get inwards nor outwards, and yet is drawn both out of itself and into itself; and so it remains in such a [1] posture as would go into itself and out of itself, that is, over itself and under itself, and yet can go no whither, but is an anguish, and the true foundation of hell, and of God's anger; for this anguish stands in the dark sharp motion.
[1] form, manner, or condition
81. In the creation of the world the sulphur spirit, with the matter of the sulphureous [1] nature was produced out of this ground; which sulphur spirit is the natural life of the earthly and elementary creatures.
[1] or property
82. The wise heathen have in some measure understood this ground, for they say, that in [1] Sulphur, [2] Mercury, and [3] Sal, all things in this world consist; wherein they have not looked upon the matter only, but upon the spirit, from which such matter proceeds: for the ground of it consists not in salt, quicksilver, and brimstone, they mean not so, but they mean the spirit of such properties; in that, everything indeed consists, whatsoever lives and grows and has being in this world, whether it be spiritual or material.
[1] Spiritual corporeality [2] the Word or speaking [3] the gross palpable corporeality. [1] Sulphur, [2] Mercury, and [3] Sal
83. For they understand by Salt, the sharp magnetical desire of nature; and by Mercury, they mean the motion and separation of nature, by which everything is [1] figured with its own signature; and by Sulphur, they mean the perceiving [sensible] [2] willing and growing life.
[1] or marked with its own image or shape [2] desiring vegetable life
84. For in the sulphur-spirit, wherein the fiery life burns, the oil lies; and the quintessence lies in the oil, viz. the fiery Mercury, which is the true life of nature, and which is an effluence from the word of the divine power and motion, wherein the ground of heaven is understood; and in the quintessence there lies the tincture, viz. the paradisical ground, the outflown word of the divine power and virtue, wherein the properties lie in [1] equality.
[1] temperature or harmony
85. Thus, by the Third property of nature, which is the anguish, we mean the sharpness and painfulness of the fire, viz. the burning and consuming; for when the will is put into such a sharpness it will always consume the cause of that sharpness; for it always [1] strives to get to the Unity of God again, which is the rest; and the Unity thrusts itself with its effluence to this motion and sharpness; and so there is a continual conjoining for the manifestation of the divine will , as we always find in these three, viz. in salt, brimstone, and oil, a heavenly in the earthly; and whosoever does but truly understand it, and considers the spirit, shall find it so.
[1] or throngs after, presses
86. For the soul of a thing lies in the sharpness, and the true life of the sensual nature and property lies in the motion, and the powerful spirit which arises from the tincture lies in the oil of the Sulphur: Thus a heavenly always lies hidden in the earthly, for the invisible [1] spiritual world came forth with and in the creation.
[1] viz. the light and dark world; God's love and wrath
The Fourth Property ( The Sun )
87. The Fourth property of the eternal nature is the spiritual fire, wherein the light, that is, the Unity, is made manifest; for the [1] glance of the fire arises and proceeds from the outflown Unity, which has incorporated and united itself with the natural desire; and the burning property of fire, viz. the heat proceeds from the sharp devouringness of the first three properties; which comes to be so as follows.
[1] shining, luster, or brightness