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itself, for it kills and consumes: besides, everything living and weaving must rot and perish in the water.

18. Thus, heat and cold are a cause and origin of the water and the air, in which everything works and stands. All life and mobility stands within them, of which I will write clearly regarding the exhaustion of the stars.

Of the influences of the other qualities into the three elements: fire, air, and water.

Of the bitter quality.

19. The bitter quality is the heart in all life, just as it draws the water together in the air and also disperses it so that it becomes distinct. This is the same in all creatures, as well as in the plants of the earth: for foliage and grass have their green color from the bitter quality. Now, if the bitter quality dwells gently in a creature, it is a heart or joy in the same, for it separates all other evil influences and is a beginning or cause of joy or laughter.

20. For when it is moved, it makes a creature tremble and full of joy, and elevates the same with the whole body. For it is like a glimpse of the heavenly kingdom of joy, an elevation of the spirit, a spirit and power in all plants from the earth, a mother of life.

21. The Holy Spirit wallt wells up or moves as in a boiling state and drives mightily in this quality, for it is a piece of the heavenly kingdom of joy, as I will prove hereafter. But it also has another Species kind or aspect within itself, namely Grimmigkeit fierceness, wrath, or severity. This is truly a house of death, a consumption of everything good, a corruption and consumption of life in the flesh. For if it rises too high in a creature and ignites in the heat, it separates flesh and spirit, and the creature must die the death: for it wells up and ignites the element of fire, in which no flesh can survive in such great heat and bitterness. But if it ignites in the element of water and becomes welling within it, it brings the flesh into sickness and disease, and finally into death.

Of the sweet quality.

22. The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, lovely quality, a refreshing of the

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life, a softening of the fierceness. It makes everything lovely and friendly in all creatures. It makes the plants from the earth fragrant and tasty, with beautiful yellow, white, and reddish colors. It is a glimpse and source of Sanftmuth gentleness or meekness, a delight of the heavenly kingdom of joy, a house of the Holy Spirit, a qualificirung qualifying or interacting of love and mercy, a joy of life. Conversely, it also has a fierce source within it, a source of death and destruction. For if it is ignited in the bitter quality in the element of water, it gives birth to disease and swollen pestilence and destruction of the flesh. But if it is ignited in heat and bitterness, it infects the element of air, from which the swift, flying pestilence and sudden death are born.

Of the sour quality.

23. The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and sweet, and tempers everything. It is a refreshment and quenching when the bitter and sweet qualities rise too much. It is a desire in the taste, a pleasure of life, a welling joy in all things, a desire, yearning, and pleasure of the kingdom of joy, a quiet delight of the spirit. It tempers such things in all living and welling things. But it also has in it a source of evil and destruction. For if it rises too much, or wells up too much in a thing so that it ignites, it gives birth to sadness and melancholey melancholy. In water, it produces a stench, becomes rotted and brittle, causes a forgetting of everything good, a sadness of life, a house of death, a beginning of sadness and an end of joys.

Of the hard or salted quality.

24. The salted quality is a good temperance in the bitter, sweet, and sour, and makes everything lovely. It resists the rising of the bitter quality, as well as the sweet and sour, so that they do not ignite. It is a sharp quality, a pleasure of the taste, a source of life and joys. Conversely, it also has within it fierceness and destruction. When it is ignited in the fire, it gives birth to a hard, tearing, stony nature, a fierce source, a destruction of life. From this grows the stone in the flesh, from which the flesh suffers great Marter agony or torture. But if it is ignited in the