especially to the Human Soul are Resolved The Angelical World or a Treatise concerning the Angelical Principle with the Inhabitants thereof and God in this Principle The Dark Fire World or a Treatise concerning the Hellish Principle with the Inhabitants and Wonders and God manifeâ—…ting himself in this Principle A Treatise concerning the Incarnation of JESUS CHRIST Wherein all the Present Controversies in this Particulaâ—… are Discussed by a Lover of Truth who desires to hold the Just Ballance with the Even Weight A Discourse concerning the Spirit of Eternity in its First Being 〈◊〉 or Spiritual Discoveries Experimental Discoveries concerning 〈◊〉 of Natures of Essences of Tinctures of Bodies of Persons and of Spirits Solomon's PORCH OR THE Beautiful Gate of Wisdom's Temple A POEM Introductory to the Philadelphian Age. WHEN Sinful Man first left the Blissful Seat Outcast forlorn from all that 's Good or Great From Virgin-Purity and Virgin-Love â—…anisht and Doom'd round the curst Earth to rove â—…n Bestial Image vile the Fiend within â—…ossession took without the Beast was seen God's Temple wasted lay His Image bright Thick-veild in black Egyptian Shades of Night That Glorious Sâ—…inah which Erst did shine â—…n His clear Soul the once All-beauteous Shrine â—…he Seat and Mansion of th' Eternal Trine How is it â—…ed its finest Gold how dim â—…ts Stoâ—…es pour'd out its Precious â—…rim â—…cular no more all clouded lies â—…here Demons now their Oracles disguise â—…rom Heights of Bliss to Deeper Woes he fell â—…ll falling sinking still down tow'rds the Abyss of Hell â—…his cou'dâ—… thou not behold Almighty Love 〈◊〉 Compassions dear thy tender Bowels move â—…ty and Mercy move The Heavenly Bride 〈◊〉 torn from Her new Lover's side Her Bridegroom cou'd not thus forgo Her Eyes In Pearly Dews distilling as he Dies One parting Glance She threw Fast hold it took And stopt him sinking Caus'd him back to look Repentant Deeper then the Heavenly Ray Wing'd with Loves Fires more piercing makes its way God's Light and Love conjoyn'd e're long to dwell Within him in the blest Immanuel Till then content in Tabernacles low show And Temples made with Hands some gleams of God to They Travel hand in hand thro every Age In poor Disguise and humble Pilgrimage With only Types of Rest at every greater Stage One glorious King the Virgin did descry Enamour'd courted entertained her high She staid a while all Blessings round her fly He would have had his Deitess enshrin'd With Earth's Magnificence in one combin'd A glorious Temple structure rends the Skie The World's Amazement little in her Eye Departing yet this Favour high We deign Said She be Thine a Type of our Returning Reign This House a Draught in Miniature shall be Of an Eternal Temple Rais'd by Me. This Revolution finisht on they go Now Downwards back again to Scenes of Woo Thro' Deaths still conquering Death where e're they caâ—… Pierce deeper and take faster hold of Man Till in the Virgin meek she found abode More chast and Lodg'd in her the Infant God Here by the O're-shadowings of the Heav'nly Dove She unlocks the Centre of Eternal Love Here Light and Love but scattered in the Earth Till now unite their Beams and to a Birth Proceeding one bless Humane Offspring Crown With Godhead-Power Whose Kingdoms vast Renowâ—… Through Infamy Anguish and Death must Rise A bleeding Victor a Triumphant Sacrifice Here a true Living Temple they enjoy'd Delighted Rested in which though destroyfd In outward frame the Grave could not with-hold From rising Glorious brighter far ten Thousand-fold Hail Sion s Joy her precious Corner-stone The Heavenly Salems true Foundation The God the Man the Virgin all in One. The Builders thee refus'd but thou the Head Supream and we 're thy happy Members made Strictly compacted into one the whole One Body in thee one Heart one Life one Soul â—…re long i th' next great Revolution When the fair Virgin Pilgrims Stage is done Her Travails ended and her Garland won A Temple Glory of Living Stones to rise Whose Base shall fill the Earth whose Head the Skies Love yet can't triumph here without its Mate Till Light and Beauty too become Incorporate Thus still disguis'd to this great Stage they speed Contented still to suffer grieve and bleed Bleed in their Members dear Through all they move Up Hill to Triumphs hasting Now the Dove Assistant powerful joyns in each pure Soul Oreshadowing Christ to form Spight of controul From Daemons malice or fierce Tyrants hate God's Image Light and Life they here create Still spreading Tincturing deep till all 's Divine And Christ in ev'ry â—…eature ev'ry line Appearing shall ev'n Here through Soul and Body shine In vain Hell's Obstacies and Bars oppose Each Seal the Conquerors as they pass disclose The Last Now Opening when the Spirits Day Its Powers uninterrupted shall Display See see the Virgin sends a Previous Ray. From thy dark Cell now great Bohemius rise Tutor to Sages Mad to th' Worldly wise Wisdom's first distant Phosphor to whose sight Internal Natures Ground all naked bright Unveils all Worlds appear Heavens spread their Light Early thou risest Glorious but in Clouds Thick set not sent to th' Vulgar nor the Learned Crouds Of Reasons Orb too Low none thee descry None but the well purg'd Mystick Eagle-Eye Of some few Anchorete Elected Mâ—…gi Here all past Sages veil and disappear Ev'n Mallebranch beads beneath his Weighty Character To Thee resign'd and t is but just for He Draws all from one small Rivulet of Thee Fountain of Science Art and Mystery Where Stagyrite Hermes Plato all combine De Carte in evr'y Page and Boyle in ev'ry Line And yet Alone by Eminence The Divine By whom advis'd the Firstling Flocks small Band Prepare well Trim their Lamps and ready stand ' Midst whom for pious Zeal and forward Carâ—… Great Pordage with thy Generous File appear Adventrous Worthies set i th' Forlorn Hope With Hell's outragious Malice first to Cope Furious the Dragon storms all methods tries Ev'n by false Magick dark incrept To crush the Royal Infant Spirits rise But on they charge undaunted strive and Pray Believe Watch Bleed and Travel force a way For entrance and foretast the Glorious Day As th' Dark breaks loose still the Light World 's display'd By th' Virgins Magick Wand the cursed Fiends are laid Pure Spirit breath's New Senses open flye They see and all with joynt Assent Hail Great Bohemius cry All 's True we bear thee Record Hail to thee Fountain of Science Art and Mystery At last Great Hero throw off thy undress Speak condescend familiar Now no less A Cherub-Seraph towring flaming high Is sent thy Veil to rend thy Gordian Knot to untye Commander sole of all the Graceful Charms That flow in Language Passion Harmony Attempered just In summ Second â—…o Thee The Wondrous Taylor now Revolves again Ardent Seraphick and with tenfold Fires Thunder and Fire and Love compose the Name How should it then not breath Harmonious Powers Or
Cessation of Sensible Images for all is turned into an Intellectual Sight Operation and Sensation From this Center of Light though no visible Images are impressed or raised thereupon yet here is the true Ground and Substance of all which are in an Interiour Figure portrayed in the Spirit of the Mind and brought out no further but do remain an Invisible Indea just as it is with God himself before he formeth out of the Essential Ground Shapes and Figures of Things So as these may conduce as much to the Informing and Enlightning Renewing and Comforting and even Essentializing of the Spirit into God as any of the other nay I know it to be the more Sure Ground and Concenter of the Spirit and if it should never know any of those other Figurative Visions yet keeping to the Center to drink in the pure Streams of Revelations as they arise herefrom it shall give them an Access into the Full Body and Center of the Trinity which swallows up all of Shadows and Pictures and terminates into the very Essentiality of a God-Formation into Substantial Powers acting in and from the pure Essence of Spirit in Transnewed Nature Thus Intellectual Vision thus considered is the very next Step to that Beatifical Vision or Seeing of Oâ—…d barely without any other Medium but the very express Personality of the Lord JESUS by being so consummated into the Essence of his Spirit and Light as that whatever is knowable and obvious to Him may also our Sight of Light be both here in Time and hereafter in Eternity Which is an unknown Mystery of which an account may be hereafter more fully given as it shall be entred into As to the Other Sort of Vision that is no New Ministration For it is of Old that God did thus often make out himself as a more taking and plain Way in raising Images distinct for Teachableness unto us And this proceeds from another Center than that of the Intellectual it is more Deep Some Persons may stand in this Center-Line naturally of Seeing and Awakening a Formation out of this Center according to the strong Impression of their Minds by various Figures If the Mind of such be Pure and ardently run into Heavenly Objects it will raise Appearances suitably and there will be an Awakening and Drawing out of various Speculations of Beauty and Glory as may forespeak what is to be accomplished in a Particular way This Way of God's Manifestation hath been frequent in Former and in This Present Time But these are Props for the Weak that they may not faint in their Way up to God's Mountain of more Perfect and Naked Vision Now of this kind of Vision I have been much visited withal but I press to get beyond it Here is no Stay the Ground from whence these open is too Shallow I am driven now to descend Deeper where the Spirit even level may be with its own Eternal Essentiality that Power therefrom it may have to Make and Form whatever it will in and from Substance that is Original Then as there is of Divine Vision that opens from the Holy and Heavenly Mind which draweth in these Presentations so there is another Sort of Vision that is from the Starry Influence and Working Power of the Elements that in conjunction are with the Common Spirit and Mind of a Person And though there be not any Eminent Work of Regeneration yet there may be Vision as Balaam was and others had that Gift and yet were not Renewed in their Spirits or brought nigh to God thereby Such notwithstanding may have Power to raise many Images that may foretell and signifie what is to come to pass For there is a Starry Magia that some may have a Natural Property to open in themselves and it doth sometimes awaken into Manifestation in the deep of Sleep and giveth Warning of Evil that is to come and Shews of Good as relating to the present Manifestation of Time And this may be and is a Common Gift But where it is in a Sanctified Vessel it is far otherwise illustrated then in those who nothing of that can give proof of So now hence we see the different Nature of Vision and of Prophetical Intelligence therefrom that we may watch to every Center opening For the Serpent's Subtilty stands ready to mingle where ever he can enter in For he is a great Magical Prince and the outward Planets are 〈◊〉 his Operators in the Constitution of the meer Natural Man Now of all these the most Safe is the Intellectual and Divine Vision that openeth from the more profound Center-Deep but yet noâ—… so as that we are to stick here even in this For there is a Center Deeper still where the Deity unmasked is of all Figures and Images known and seen in his own Simplified Being And when in Spirit caught up here we see all the various Wonders brought forth in the very Life Essen-tial Property as wrought out of God immediately and in their Living Figures as the innumerable Hosts which do replenish the Heaven of God's Habitation which is the purest and most infallible Vision that our Spirits may Eternally Concenter in with all the delightful Satisfaction that the very Angels before the Throne of God's Majesty do enjoy So we may this know as often as from all Bodily Sense we can get away For this kind of Vision highly different is from that which we call Divine or Intellectual because it doth all over sublime the Spirit Soul and Body during the time that the Munition-Flame of the Holy One doth as a Pavilion all over spread and keepeth all of Sense at the Foot of the Mount while Spirit entreth into the Tabernacle-Glory of the Holy Trinity This sort of Vision the Beloved John was in when being wholly caught up in the Spirit he saw all the Variety of the Lord's Kingdom and 〈◊〉 expresse Personality Since which we have not known any in late Ages that have been in the like Transportation in Spirit and yet alive in the Body to declare of what was seen and heard after such a Wonderful Way as he had But the Author must to the Honour of God own that something not unlike to this hath been to her manisested Such Grace and Love Our JESUS doth again afford and bringeth himself into our Knowledge by this Way of the Spirit clear and free that we may know him that is True and receive by this Highest Vision-Ministration the full extent of his Will and Mind that is that we may both see and hear as if we were out of the Body of Corporeity while yet in the Body as Supersensualized to know and behold purely through the Organical Properties of the Spirit according as every Objection in Heavenly Places in their Order do move in reference to our Cohabitation within those Circulations through the Spiritual Body Thus have I brought forth out of the deepest Deep what the present Measure of my Knowledge and Experience is in this Mystical
be seen of all People and Nations and all Languages shall hear of the Fame thereof Therefore these Gates are set towards the Four Quarters of the Earth that whatever belongs to this Sion and had its Birth out heuee may return and give it up to it again Now as to the Gates themselves as it is said They are of One Pearl signifying their Oriental Purity without mixture as it is written My Name shall be ONE in these and they one in me as selected Ones to be at the Gate 's Entrance to whom I will give the Charge and Trust peculiarly to open and to shut out for they shall have all Power given to them The burthen of the Government shall not lie only upon your great High Priest but ye shall bear an equal share with him as so many Elders Spirited from the same Anointing Oâ—… it is a high Dignity to be chosen an Angel-Keeper and Opener of these Everlasting Gates to let in and shut out according to the Light and Law of this City Query Now why hast thou seen three Pearl Gates united as in One Answer To manifest the Trinity in Unity All concluded it is to dwell in one Pearl spiced Gate so spiced throughout as it may smell only of pure Deity that can never more admit of Putrefaction Q. But further you enquire Why are they named with several Names seeing all is one only Pearl or Body of Purity Why twelve Names answering to the twelve Tribes of Israel or to the twelve Apostles of the Lamb A. It was only so in way of Similitude for their many Names are all but one as deriving their Name from their Anointed Lord. Who was their Head Principality according to that which was written That they were baptized into that One Name by the Holy Ghost and from thence were called Christus as a Body that anew was to present this Assembly in Mount Sion the Bride of the Lamb. Who henceforth will be called by no other Name then the Lord our Righteousness which is the true Inscription that shall be written upon every one of these Gates April the 13th 1676. The Jerusalem state opened further upon me as my Spirit was caught up there to see and hear how Affairs were managed in the high Kingdom of the Love knowing that my Name was written there and a place preparing and now my Mind was no longer wavering or nalting betwixt two Kingdoms For I did see so much of the reality of this Zion Glory that all within me was poteâ—…tly provoked to make after it according to the Hand of Power which had touched me The Queen of Sheba had not more lost her Spirits in the view of what was but the shadow and type of this then I had from the time of its Manifestation upon me The Lamb and Wisdom the Bride still conferring and illustrating the Glory thereof unto me even so much as with the Shulamite Cant. 6. 4. I cryed Turn away thinâ—… Eyes from me for they have overcome me such was the wonderful bright terribleness of this Beautiful Jerusalem in its continued presentations to my Mind so as I complained of my Lovefaintings and dyings Now for this my Bride she talked with me in the Night when Sleep was upon the Elementary part but my Internal Ear Kept awake to hear new things out of this Sion Pearl Ruby Gate An out cry I heard and my self by Name called upon Arise shine for thy Jasper-stone is for thee come make ready put off mount away with me Let no Essences ever more touch thee that so my incorporated Spirit may alone give unto thee the Jerusalem free Who according to Knowledge Light Joy Peace and Love will as to thee my Dove there live to spend the full Revenue of this unknown fresh renewing Stock of all out flowing Gifts and high deified Powers which will then shew whereunto thou art come In the Morning when I came to have these Sayings repeated over to me by that Magical Spirit who inspired those things into me I did really feel all my coâ—…poreal Spirits dye and saint within me and some what to fail and melt away While it was thus with me I had this Word came to me saying This must be therefore suffer and know now a dying into a Life-rising and free liberty within this City of a God-spreading Glory Whereof the Throne-River shall be given thee to drink which is called the Water of Life as a deep rooted Tree do thou suck it in and from hence spring in the Love-Unity from the Father and the Jerusalem Bride which generate their Fruit Monthly I do this Tree not only to thee but to him who a Mourner is for his lovely yet once grieved Bride recommend To you both I do it present not only to view and the Beauty hereof to admire but for encouragement hereunto that of the same Fruit ye may bring forth within these high Walled Gates Where the Nations that are to be saved shall partake of these healing Leaves and more perfect Cures then ever shall be done herefrom These Trees therefore which I now shew thee thou art made to behold through their various Operations how they remain still together United which though signified in Number Three yet all but One are in their rich and high Extracted Quality Out from which now see your selves shoot forth as incorporated Branches having living Food in your own Root which encircled round with Sion's broad River which turned is into a Golden Nature as of transparent Amber For such as the Soil is whereout this Tree doth grow so answerably doth it give forth its Fruit for Substance and Quality for Virtue and Tast. O great and unknown Mystery Which lieth here to be both the Tree and the Feeder thereupon as knowing here no Curse is ever to be seared because nothing but the pure good sappy Life moveth here which will so perfectly Naturalize you into it self as will transform you by constant feeding upon it in your self into a solid Body as weighty as Gold and so by Degrees it will be known to grow hereunto This will the whole Course of your unsteady and Sin-obnoxious state change into flaming Pillars for fixation The Spring-Tides of this Healing River will grow so high that it will be unpassable no more coming out is from within these Cherubin-Walls but growing up as Trees of Righteousness from the Seed and Water-Fountain of Life Which by and through the Measuring Compass of the Spirit makes heights depths lengths and breadths all proportionable to lie square and to move here in one Equality permitting nothing out of order Still the Golden Line measureth to the highest Perfection in every degree any one who comes to inhabit within this Jerusalem Whose Streets being all of Gold most clear sure Footing there is for Fire-Stones to walk up and down without fear of sinking for all their Goings are here established and made prosperons For no Warfaring Spirit can err out of his Way Light doth
sure binding and a Wedlock-tye betwixt bright raised Spirits and me till the Great Day of the Visible Marriage shall be Solemnized in the Free Jerusalem Till which hold ye fast and take good heed that not one of these Links on your parts be broken if but from any one of these ye should unlink ye would fall down by the way and never to me ascend But I know that Wisdom is thy Friend who will not suffer thee to break from me She is a busie Agent still to spur thee on her Law of kindness is found to me thy Jesus in thy Heart which will give an Ascending Might that so ye may come down again in a flaming Body of Light Which is the only design of Wisdom that blessed Engineer who by these Golden Links draweth you continually nearer to her City This was further Opened in the Seven following Days by Wisdom but the Copy is here Deficient May the 1st 1676. The New Book Opened Or the Everlasting Gospel of JESUS THis Morning my Spiritual Informer came and presented to my view a Book wherein great and hidden Secrets were writ telling me here was neither Parable nor Allegory but the plain Doctrine of the Everlasting Gospel Into which it was said it is given thee to look for it is an Epistle of good-will and love to thee and thy fellow Waiter that ye may come to a right and genuine understanding of those weighty things which lay concealed under the Vail of the Letter The summ of which is the Incarnation Dying Rising Ascending and Glorifying of thy Jesus All which being finished in his own Personality I now look to see that all should be actually wrought in you to which end I have poured out of my Spirit upon you which may bring you up through all to me Read then and see in Wisdom's Glass what is contained in this Book for a further instructing of thee into a Gospel Death and Rising into Victory Many are the Deaths ye have passed over and I grant every Death hath brought forth a rising Body so that ye are come so far as to bear the very Image of the Heavenly Man in which the Life-Seed doth spring But this is not all you are to aspire unto but you are here to dye with Jesus For in all those foregoing Deaths you had not that fellowship as ye shall have with me when I am grown up in you For I the Just One died for the Unjust so I must Personate this dying again in you after a Paradisical manner sowing my own pure Grain and Seed into the Mount Sion Ground For as it is said such as the Seed and Soil is such a Body in the Resurrection it will be and such a Body it will produce And although you come thus to dye in the Lord I mean in your Lord Jesus Christ in whom your Life lies safe and inoculated there will be no danger And while you are sowing here be not as others without Hope for indeed you sow not that Body which shall be to the account of a Bare return as Spirit for Spirit or Body for Body For though it was sown a single Seed yet it shall be various and manifold though the Seed is sown contemptible yet it shall rise honourable and though sown as weak yet it will rise mighty in strength So mighty potent strong and honourable this Resurrection will be as it will bring forth the Seed sown with another manner of Body then what hath yet been known For ye shall know all Blessedness indeed by thus dying into me fear it not therefore but valiantly spill your Life and mingle it with me then shall ye know a cessation to your own busie-acting Properties For that Spirit which dyeth into me ceaseth to Sio sweetly sleeping and slumbering in Sion's Golden Dust till I my secret Trump shall sound with the Vial of Life quickening Oyl poured in which shall make the dead in you to come forth with an unchangeable habit and form of the Holy Ghost of which I speak I will after this manner raiâ—…e up at the last Day which day to thee is very near if thou canst sink and dye so totally into me who do promise to thee long here lay buried thou shalt not be This is the Connexion to the former Part. Before I the LORD will move again to the finishing of the last glorious Mystery the first that can dye thus into me shall rise as the first Fruits out of me into a Body Celestial and mighty Powerful For my Seed shall never Corruption see it shall soon rise into a Mount Sion Body Lay but the Ground-work hereunto sure and ye shall see and feel another Spirit and another Form after this passive Sleep For after it ye shall awake in that Image which shall be no more despised being all compleat and giving proof of my Resurrection and Life Oh blessed are they who can say that they were dead in me and are alive evermore to Reign with me in my Kingdom waiting for me their Lord from Heaven to bring them thither For in this new risen Body I shall not be ashamed of thee it is so Signatured into the Father's Nature of Purity that in it thou mayst freely ascend to me Where I will in the Light Airy Region meet with thee and bring thee through all the Pearly Gates O come resign and dye know me no more out of this Dying and Resurrection State Thus Death is not Metaphorically but Really the last Enemy that is to be destroyed Here Sing ye may that dwell in Sion's Golden Mold and triumphantly Cry Oh Death by this Spiritual dying I am mortally become thy Death and so swallowed up as you can nothing of it see Go go preach thou this for the Everlasting Gospel to such as have an Ear to hear it rejoyce and give Glory to God on high Now when the Hour of this Judgment shall fully come by ushering in the New Jerusalem freedom through the Streets of Nature This Gospel Ministration which is all Love Grace Mercy and Peace by those shall then be proclaimed who do partake of this Resurrection as the first Fruits They shall be honoured with this Message to all those who in this Noah's Age are asleep in their dark Prison-Houses For an Almighty Voice I in you my Sion-born Spirits will utter forth to call in more to know this Death-Liberty and Life-Resurrection and Ascension into all Fellowships and free Communions with the High Eternity and Me the chief Head of all Sion's new risen Body Whereunto being come no other Banner will I display there but that Love which casteth out all Bondage and Fear May the 6th 1676. In the Morning being the first Day pondering and considering this last Opening which shewed me the necessity of dying into my Jesus and of sowing the Seed of my Eternal Spirit as an unmixed Grain sifted from all Chaffiness or Cockle or any such thing for to twist about it Thus the Word said