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1. THe fift Forme or Property, is the Love-desire; viz. the holy life; or the displayed light-fire; which is awakened or raised up in the wrathfull Consuming fire: that is; it receiveth its lustre, and shine from the fire; a similitude whereof we have in all outward fires: where we see that the light ariseth in the fire; but yet hath far nother Source then the fire: for the fire is painfull, but the
light is meeke, pleasant, Lovely, and yeeldeth Essence.
2. The Fire causeth light, and aire; and out of the aire cometh the water by reason of the meekness of the light; for the Lubet to the fire is mortified in the fire-blaze: and so, that which is mortified in the fire is a meeke Essence, yet its only a Spirit: but when it proceedeth from the fire in the light, it Coagulateth, and is the death of the fire: where∣by the fire goeth out: but if it be of a spirituall nature it is the food, and refreshment of the fire: and we see plainely, that every burning fire putteth forth an aire, and out of the aire a water: which aire and watry Spirit the fire draweth againe into it selfe, for its owne life and lustre: else if it cannot have it; it is soone extinct, and goeth out: that is; it smothers: for the aire is its life; and yet it begetteth the aire.
3. Thus likewise we are to consider of the divine Beeing: how the Eternall Understanding of the Abysse introduceth it selfe into the Bysse and Essence: viz. into an Eternall Generation and Devoration, wherein the manifestation of the Abysse consists; and is an Eternall Love-play; that the Abysse doth so wrestle sport and play with it selfe in its owne conceived [or amassed] Bysse: it gives it selfe into the something; and againe takes the something into it selfe: and thence brings or gives forth another thing: it introduceth it selfe into a Lu∣bet, and desire; moreover into Power Strength, and Vertue, and mu∣tually produceth one degree from the other, and through the other, that so it might be an Eternall Play, and Melody in it selfe.
4. And this we are to consider of in the fifth Forme of Nature: when the Powers of the Eternall Word or understanding, are made manifest through the Eternall spirituall fire, in the Eternall light of the Majesty, (that each Power or property is manifest in it self, and entreth into a Feel∣ing, Tasting, Smelling, Hearing, Seeing Essence; which is effected through the fire, where all things become Spritfull, quick and full of life:) even then one Property entreth mutually into another▪ for they are all proceeded out of one: viz. out of the free Lubet: therefore also this free Lubet is yet in all, and they all joyntly desire to enter again into this free Lubet; viz. into the One; and there, when one tasteth smelleth feel∣eth heareth and seeth the other in the Essence, they doe embrace each other in their holy Conjunction: wherein then the reall divine Kin∣dome of joy consisteth; so likewise the growing and flourishing life of this world: as may be understood by way of Similitude in the Se∣ven Properties, and the light and power of the Sun.
5. The divine Kingdome of joy in the Heaven of God (viz. in God manifested in his Expressed or Spirated Essence, as I might speake it to the understanding) consisteth in the Love-desire: viz. in the Power which hath manifested it selfe through the fire in the light: for the fire giveth unto the meeke free Lubet Essence and Source; that it is Severized, and moved, and becomes a Kingdome of joy.
6. And thus we are to consider of the darknesse; whatsoever is a de∣siring Love in the light, wherein all things rejoyce and melodize in Love: that in the darknesse is an enmity: for the fire is cold and burn∣ing
hot in the darknesse: moreover bitter astringent Compunctive; the Properties are wholly rigorous and full of enmity and oppositi∣on: they seeke not the One: but onely the advancement of their own might: and the greater their Elevation, and inflammation is; the Greater is the o joy in the light.
7. That which is good and holy in the p powerfull light that in the darknesse is anxious and adverse; the darknesse is the greatest enmity of the light and yet it is the cause that the light is manifest: for if there were no Black, then white could not be manifest to it selfe: and if there were no Sorrow, then joy were also not manifest to it selfe.
8. Thus the joy doth triumph in it selfe, that it is not as the Sor∣row: and the Sorrow triumpheth in it selfe, that it is a Might and strength of the fire, and light: hence arise Pride, and Selfe-will; be∣cause the darke fires Might giveth the Essence and motive Source to the light: which did so affect, and move King Lucifer, that he exalt∣ed himselfe in the roote of the fire, to rule and domineere over the fire, and light, and therefore was cast out of the light into darknesse: and the light withdrew from him.
9. Therefore understand us well heere, what Hell and the darke world or the Anger of God, is: of which the holy Scripture speaketh plainly that there is an hell, that is, a Gulfe of Desperation, or pitt devoid of the hope of God and all good: now we are not to under∣stand it to be any locall Place apart, but it is the first ground to the Eternall Nature: the place is between the Kingdome of God and this world, and maketh a peculiar Principle, dwelling in it selfe, and hath neither place, nor locall abode, and is every where, but inhabiting it selfe onely, and yet it giveth Essence to the light-and outward-world; that is, it is the Cause to the Source, viz. the Fire: and is the whole Beeing of all Gods Beeings.
10. In the darknesse he is an Angry zealous God, and in the fire-Spirit a Consuming fire: and in the light he is a mercifull Loving God: and in the Power of the light, he is especially, above all other Pro∣perties, called God: and yet 'tis all but God manifested; who mani∣festeth himselfe through the Eternall Nature in ingredient Properties: else, if I would say what God is in his Depth: then I must say: that he is wholly without Nature, and Properties: being an understand∣ing, and Originall, of all Beeings; the Beeings are his manifestation, and thereof we have onely Ability to write; and not of the unmanifested God, who also were not known to himselfe without his manife∣station.
The King∣dome of joy.
Or light of power.