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...to go out, and to dwell in itself, in the eternal freedom without quael torment.

62. How the other will is free from nature, just as the light is free from the quality of the fire, for it has no dread.

62. So we now give you to know; that the other (again-conceived will to go out from the sharpness) is free from nature (understand, from its severity): for it stands in the centro center, in itself, and retains all power and form of the first center, from all kinds of essences in itself: for it is the power of the first will, and is born in the first will; and makes (in the freedom of the first will) a center of the out-birth, ungraspable to the four forms (in the first will). And the same other born will in the first will is the heart of the first will, and is in the first will like a word that hovers in itself, and remains eternally in the birth of the first will; for it is his Son or heart: and he is therefore distinguished from the first will because he has a particular center in him.

63. Explanation of the working of the three persons.

63. Now the Father (as the first will) speaks all things out through this same Word (as out of the center of freedom): and the outgoing from the Father through the Word (which is the Spirit and the power of the Word in the Father) forms that which is spoken according to the nature of spirit, so that it appears as a spirit.

64. Still further explanation of the Father, Word and Spirit; the Angels and souls are eternal.

64. For in the harsh matrix (as in the Fiat Let it be) everything is grasped, and the spirit of the Word forms it in the center of the same essence where the Father moves himself in it, and speaks through the word, so that it thus is and remains in being. For whatever is formed out of the eternal, that same is spirit, and it is eternal, just like the Angels and souls of men.

65. The Author promises to show the other three Heavenly forms, which are born out of the first four forms.

65. Should it happen that we might be mute and incomprehensible to you in these writings (for to understand the same does not stand in the [subtle] spirit of this [external] world) we want to show you the other three Heavenly forms, how they are born, [being, with the four previously related forms, together the seven forms or spirits of nature] in which [three forms] primarily God, the Kingdom of Heaven, Paradise, and the Angelic world are understood; if the Reader's [our meaning] might be brought to mind.

66. The Godhead is subject to no change: Author speaks in part, cannot speak Angelic words.

66. You must not understand this as if the Godhead were subject to a beginning and change: no, but I write in what manner and way one shall learn to understand the Divine being. For we cannot use Angelic words: and even if we could use them, it would nevertheless appear in this world as nothing else but Creaturely, and to the earthly mind [as nothing else than] earthly. For we are also no more than a [particular or] part out of the whole, and cannot speak wholly (but stuckwijs in part or piece-wise) which the reader shall...

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...shall consider [or presume nothing else of us.]

67. The Divine mind in the heart of God is everything's perfection. And how we grasp the whole with the mind.

67. For the Divine mind in the heart of God is alone a whole [or a perfection] but otherwise there is nothing [whole], for outside of that, everything stands in the essences, and God alone is free, and nothing else: therefore we speak of the work in part [or piece-wise], and the entire [or the whole] we grasp in the mind: for to speak the same out, we have no tongue: we lead [or carry] the Reader as if on a ladder [he must climb up himself.]

68. How one shall speak rightly of God.

68. If we want to write or speak rightly of God, then we must speak of the light, and of the flame of love: for there God is rightly understood.

69. Repetition of the origin of the fire.

69. We cannot say that the quael torment of the fire is the light, we only see it shine out of the fire. Now we have instructed you on the origin of the fire, how it is born in the wheel of the essences (in the hard anxious sharpness), and takes its shine out of the eternal freedom, where the freedom is driven into nature, so that thus out of the freedom a quael torment or quality becomes, which same is fire.

70. How the wheel of essences stands in trembling: the flash the Spirit of the essences.

70. So we have also told you how the flash immediately penetrates through the wheel of the essences, and makes a cross, where then the wheel of the essences no longer goes in a turning; but it stands trembling in the sound, and all essences take their power and strength in the flash of the Cross/ for the flash penetrates straight through, and divides the essences of the wheel: and the essences press crosswise upon the flash: for the flash is their spirit, which in the harshness makes a sulfurous form.

71. How the birth stands, and of the essences and the Fire-spirit.

71. Thus the birth stands crosswise like a cross, and has the center to the birth from below, and above, the flash which drives: and thus the whole birth stands like a plant, where the fire drives over, and where the essences hasten [or run] after the Fire-spirit, as their own spirit which draws and desires them, for they are its food and maintenance, and the one is nothing without the other.

72. How death is terrified before life: from where the weight in nature comes.

72. Now understand us regarding the terror of the fire, which is terrifying, and consuming, and overcomes all forms of all kinds of essences: for as soon as the flash goes, all forms of darkness are consumed, and the dark harshness (as the severe death) is terrified before the life, and retreats, as dead and overcome, and becomes from hard, soft and thin: becomes heavy, as an impotence that itself is not its own [or subsisting]; and from that the weight in nature comes. For the harsh matrix becomes thin and light, and a water-spirit, from which the water is born.

73. Harshness is Death.

73. Now this terror of the harshness is in the dark...