d to it in his
own image and likeness. And so the Soul began to rule on earth in a
bestial manner, and did all things according to the Will of the Devil,
living in mere Pride, Covetousness, Envy, and Anger, having no longer
any true love towards God. But there arose in the stead thereof an evil
bestial love of Wantonness and Vanity, and there was no purity left in
the heart, for the Soul had forsaken Paradise, and taken the Earth into
its possession. Its mind was wholly bent upon cunning knowledge,
subtility, and getting together a multitude of earthly things. No
righteousness nor virtue remained in it at all; but whatsoever evil and
wrong it committed, it covered all cunningly under the cloak of its
power and authority by law, and called it by the name of Right and
Justice, and accounted it good.

THE DEVIL CAME TO THE SOUL

Upon this the Devil drew near the Soul, and brought it on from one vice
to another, for he had taken it captive in his Essence, and set joy and
pleasure before it, therein, saying thus to it: Behold now thou art
powerful, mighty, and noble, endeavour to be greater, richer, and more
powerful still. Display thy knowledge, wit and subtlety, that every one
may fear thee, and stand in awe of thee, and that thou mayst be
respected, and get a great name in the World.

THE SOUL DID SO

The Soul did as the Devil counselled it, and yet knew not that its
counsellor was the Devil; but thought it was guided by its own
knowledge, wit, and understanding, and that it did very well and right
all the while.

JESUS CHRIST MET WITH THE SOUL

The Soul going on in this course of life, our dear and loving Lord Jesus
Christ, Who was come into this World with the Love and Wrath of God, to
destroy the works of the Devil, and to execute judgment upon all ungodly
deeds, on a time met with it, and spake by a strong power, viz., by his
passion and death into it, and destroyed the works of the Devil in it,
and discovered to it the way to his Grace, and shone upon it with his
mercy, calling it to return and repent, and promising that he would then
deliver it from that monstrous deformed shape and image which it had
gotten, and bring it into Paradise again.

HOW CHRIST BROUGHT IN THE SOUL

Now when the Spark of the Love of God, or the Divine Light, was
accordingly manifested in the Soul, it presently saw itself with its
will and works to be in Hell, in the Wrath of God, and found it was an
ugly, misshapen monster in the