Commentary on Genesis (Mysterium Magnum)

21. Let us write as a creature of the properties, as of the revealed GOTT GOD: how all of this, as the ungrounded eternal understanding, reveals itself.

22. Secondly, the ungrounded and Divine understanding introduces itself into an anxious fire-will and life, so that its great love and joy, which is called GOTT GOD, may become manifest. For if everything were only One, that One would not be manifest to itself. But through revelation, the eternal Good is recognized and creates a kingdom of joy: Otherwise, if there were no anxiety, the joy itself would not be manifest to it, and there would be only a single will that would always only do one thing. But as it introduces itself into opposition, in the struggle the desire of joy becomes a longing, and its love-play, that it has something to work and to do, spoken in human terms.

23. The original state of the eternal spirit- and nature-fire happens through an eternal conjunction or joining together, of neither separately, but both at once, as the Divine fire, which is a love-burning: And secondly, the nature-fire, which is a woe and consuming torment; this is as follows:

24. The one part, as the will of the Father, or of the Unground, introduces itself into the greatest sharpness of astringency, where it is a cold fire, a cold, painful torment, and sharpens itself through the astringent, prickly anxiety; and in this same anxiety, it becomes desirous of freedom, as of the free delight or gentleness. And the other part is the free delight, which desires to be manifest; it yearns for the Father's will, which birthed it outside of nature and uses it for its play. This here desires the will again, and the will here has composed itself out of the anxiety, again to go into freedom, as into the delight.

25. Understand: that is the re-composed will, which is desirous of the free delight of GOTT GOD. Now, however, it has taken into itself the cruel, astringent, hard, prickly, anxious sharpness, and the free delight is a great gentleness against the grim nature, as a Nothing, and yet it exists. These two now go toward one another, and into one another. The sharp will is now powerfully desirous of the free delight, and the delight is desirous of the strict will; and in that they go into one another, and feel one another, a great Schrack terror/shock occurs, as a lightning bolt, in the manner in which fire or lightning ignites on the firmament.