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CHAP. IX. Of the Principle or Original of that evil one, and of the Angels. (Book 9)

BEfore this Elementary world was Created of God, the Angels, and the Angelical world, and Para∣dise, which were above the upper waters, were first, and that so certain, as the nature was first before the Elements, and God before all things. Therefore al∣ways out of the upper things, things beneath were gotten, and the upper is always before that which is below, even as the Spirit is first before the Soul and Body,

Now the Angels God hath called through his word out of the same light, wherein God dwelleth after their spirit, for that end, that they should serve him, and hath presented them in the fiery flame, after the Soul, and as a wind, after their body.

Now the Angels being out of the light, wherein God dwelleth, therefore they can know on, in, and out of the same, what Gods command is, and this light is the face of God in Heaven, a spiritual food of the Angels, which light the Angel of the Children may behold, whereas on the contrary the Angels of sinful men may not behold it, until the sinner doth true re∣pentance,

then his Angel may appear again before that light, and before the face of the Lord, of which there is great joy among the other Angels: But as long as the sinner doth not repent; so long appeareth the Devil before God, and accuseth the sinner day and night before him.

Now amongst God' Angels▪ ••ucifer was the chief; for he carryed the 〈…〉〈…〉 clear morning Star, which was and is the son of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 but he was not con∣tent with that great Honour and Dignity; but would fain have been Lord and God himself, and no more a servant. This coveting was in Lucifer gotten by an ill look and eye toward God, inflamed within him∣self, in the same fiery flame, out of which the Angels, after their Soul are, and that so much and heavy, that the light did depart in his Spirit from Lucifer, and in∣stead thereof an unspeakable great darkness came out of the fire, which Lucifer himself had kindled; and so instead of Heaven, a Hell it self.

So the fiery flame unknown to Lucifer, undiscover∣ed and hid, was blown up by himself out of envy and grudgings, so that it turned to an essential anger, yea to a consuming fire, wherein at first did rest the life▪ but was afterwards turned into a living death, which never dyeth, and a deadly eternal life made manifest, as a soul to Satan. At last through Lucifers pride a strange wind was gotten in Lucifer, as a body unto him, and Satan hath quite lost the Angelical Principle, and self-subsistance, and became a strange Bird, and a wild Fly.

Lucifer did try whether he could not be a God, or like unto God, which yet he was in his portion and measure, therefore he is called a Tempter and Satan▪ and he was become such an one, namely, both a God and a Creator, and a Creature of his own, and lost all

all Gods Testimony wholly, as also the Testimony of good Angels. He is a Knave or Lyer from the begin∣ning through sin, which hath begotten him, and he hath begotten sin, he is sins father, and sin is his mo∣ther; that hath begotten him, and he her through covetousness in the leering eye of self-love and imagi∣nation.

Now as sin is that evil, and found out in its Princi∣ple by Lucifer, so it hath turn'd him into an evil one, and one is the Principle of the other; and so he can be excused by no means. So Lucifer hath murdered himself, and hath lost the Angelical Printiple, and is, and remaineth a forlorn Child, and son of Perdition the right Antichrist for ever.

Thus is sin gotten through coveting, and coveting through looking upon, and looking upon through imagination, and that through self-love, and that through an arrogant liberty, this through security, and that through wantonness, where there is no fear; for as fear is the beginning of wisdom, so is wanton∣ness the beginning of folly and sin. He that is fearful will not easily hazard upon sinning.

Lucifer was Created of God a good Angel; and that so, that he might easily have been kept from sin∣ing: So also might Man if he would himself; but self-will brought him to that sin, yea his own wanton∣ness; but now he could not be so perfect Created, that he could not fall into sin at all. The reason is, because his weight, measure and number could not en∣dure it; because he was not born of God, but had his Principles besides God, although through God; but what is born of God and of his seed, that cannot sin, because it is born of God, to whom it is impossible to commit sin.

Thus is made clear and manifest the mighty abun∣dant difference in the Creation, which was very good at the Renovation, which was done in and on the old Creature, by means and help of the spirit of God, and among the new births from above of God, which is it alone to make Children and Heirs of God, and Co-heirs of Christ, unknown to the world, and their wise Children.

Now the Angels consisting out of Wind, Fire and Light, and the fall of Lucifer standing before them as a warning; therefore they cover their feet and faces before God with fear and trembling, and are ra∣ther ashamed of themselves, that they may find grace before the Lord God.

Now they are a fiery flame for a protection of the godly, and a perdition and death to the wicked: God also is a consuming fire in his Angels, not on, or in him∣self, and will come also with his Angels, and his Power, and with fiery flames to judgment.