Dawn rising

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12. ...Godhead, so the Holy Spirit wells up and works within The original term "qualificiret" refers to the way different qualities or forces interact and manifest their nature within a person. him; but if he lets his spirit sink into this world, into the lust of evil, then the devil and the hellish sap well up and rule within him.

13. Just as the apple on the tree becomes maggoty and worm-eaten when frost, heat, and mildew fall upon it, and it easily falls off and rots: so also is man, when he lets the devil with his poison rule within him.

14. Now, just as good and evil well up, rule, and exist in nature, so it is also in man: but man is God’s child, whom He made from the best core of nature, to rule in the good and to overcome the evil. Even though the evil clings to him, just as in nature the evil clings to the good, he can nevertheless overcome the evil; if he raises his spirit into God, the Holy Spirit wells up in him and helps him to be victorious.

15. Just as the good quality in nature is powerful enough to triumph over the evil, because it is and comes from God, and the Holy Spirit is the ruler within it: so also the wrathful quality wrathful quality; original: "grimme Qualität," referring to the harsh, dark, or destructive force in Böhme's cosmology is powerful enough to triumph in malicious souls, for the devil is a powerful ruler in wrathfulness, and is an eternal prince of the same.

16. But man has thrown himself into wrathfulness through the fall of Adam and Eve original: "Hevå", so that evil clings to him; otherwise his wellspring and impulse would be in the good alone. But now it is in both, and is now as Saint Paul says: Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves in obedience, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? original: Romans 6, verse 16.

17. Because man has the impulse in both, he may reach for whichever he wants, for he lives in this world between both, and both qualities, evil and good, are in him; whichever one man surges original: "wallet," suggesting a boiling or active movement into, with that he is clothed, whether in holy or hellish power.

18. For Christ says: My Father will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him for it, original: Luke 11, verse 13. Also, God has commanded man to do good and forbidden the evil, and still daily allows preaching, calling, and crying out, to admonish man toward the good.