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34. This same princely and royal branch grew up within nature and became a tree in nature; it spread its boughs from the East original: "Orient" to the West original: "Occident" and encompassed all of nature. It struggled and fought against the fierce wrathGerman: "Grimmigkeit." In Böhme's philosophy, this represents the harsh, bitter, and destructive quality in nature and the human soul that must be overcome by divine love. that was in nature, and against its princes, until it triumphed as a King of nature. He took the Prince of Wrath captive in his own house, as noted in Psalm 68 original: "Psalm 68." Likely referencing Psalm 68:18: "Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive.".

35. When this occurred, many thousands of legions of precious, sweet little branches grew out of that royal tree which had grown in nature, and they all possessed the scent and taste of that precious tree. And even though rain, snow, hail, and tempests fell upon them, such that many a little branch was torn and struck down from the tree, other little branches always grew in their place. For the fierce wrath in nature and its prince stirred up great storms with hail, thunder, lightning, and rain, so that many magnificent little branches were indeed often torn from the sweet and good tree. But these same branches tasted so lovely, sweet, and full of joy that no tongue of man or angel can express it; for they held great power and virtue within them, serving for the healing of the wild Gentilesnon-believers or those living in their "wild" natural state. Whichever Gentile ate from the little branches of this tree was delivered from the wild nature into which he was born, and became a sweet branch in the precious tree; he flourished within the tree and bore precious fruit, just like the royal tree.

36. Therefore, many Gentiles ran to the precious tree where the precious branches lay—those which the Prince of Darkness had torn away with his stormy winds—and whichever Gentile caught the scent of these torn-off branches was healed from the wild fierce wrath that was born into him from his mother.

37. But when the Prince of Darkness saw that the Gentiles were scrambling for the branches and not for the tree itself, and saw his own great loss and damage, he ceased his storming from the East and the South original: "Aufgang und Mittag," literally "Rising and Midday" and placed a merchant under the tree. This merchant gathered up the little branches that had fallen from the precious tree.

38. And then, when the Gentiles came and asked for the good and powerful branches, the merchant offered the—