the Name JESUS is the holy divine Life viz the Divine Seed out of the word of the Deity the Womans Seed is his assumed Substance 81. And therefore HE is called the Womans Seed because he is from the woman viz from the heavenly Virginity which faded or disappeared in Adam and as to another part from the outward worlds substance in which the Name JESUS viz Gods seed destroyed or brake in peeces Death and Gods Anger 82. The womans Seed is a totall humane Seed from Soul and Body but it must be rightly understood as to THAT Seed wherein Adam might have generated Magically if his Longing or Lust had not plunged it self into vanity Evill and Good and awakened the Abomination as is before mentioned and here following in the Fourth Point 83. Now if I will in this place speak so highly of the divine Womans Seed then I must distinguish Gods and the Womans Seed and must rightly shew How Gods Seed viz the Name JESUS out of the word of the divine Sound or Life hath united it self with the womans Seed and given up it self into ONE Person which is called CHRIST 84. The Name JESUS is the anointing of the Womans Seed and in the anointing he is called CHRIST the Sonne of God the Seed of the Woman hath a given power and the Seed of the Woman is under or beneath God as the Body is beneath the Soule but the Name JESUS is the Giver 85. This Authour mixeth ALL TOGETHER and that for TWO Causes one is because himself doth not rightly understand it the other because he may advance all humane things and give forth himselfe onely for CHRIST viz for the Divine power and Omniscience and therefore he rejecteth all ART and PRAYER it self and calleth it a Forgotten thing as if it were without power or powerlesse and did not attain that which is Eternall 86. He will needs perswade us that the Womans Seed CHRIST God and Man is according to BOTH Natures totally ONE and that will HE Himself be But the humane Nature continueth indeed Eternally beneath the Diety though it is not devided for all that yet the Substance is not AS the Spirit 87. God with or by creating Man hath not created to himselfe a GOD which is of his own Substance but an Image of a Similitude according to himself viz a Manifestation of his unsearchable divine Substance in which he manifesteth himself to his own Joy of himself and Deeds of WONDER 88. And hath given to Man again to seek and to reveal or manifest the wonders of God in THIS worlds substance to his viz man 's own Joy delight and longing pleasure that God might be praised known and acknowledged in ALL works and Substances or THINGS HEre followeth The Authour Esaiah Stiefel's Fourth Point of the Fourth Text. 1. HItherto hath been Mentioned How Christ the Triune highly praised God and Man the holy Seed the living substantiall powerfull word of God hath appeared according to Measure from the beginning of the world in all the Saints his wife or woman and been manifested in the Eyes and Hearts of the Faithfull 2. Hereupon now it is rightly acknowledged by all the Called Elect truly faithfull Christians that this most holy womans Seed the Eternall Birth of God before all Creatures the Triune highly praised Sonne and living totally substantiall powerfull word of God and most holy Seed of the totall fullnesse of the Triune Deity 3. In the holy body and woman or wife of God the pure chast undefiled Virgin MARY humane Nature yet through and in the FAITH of the New-and re-generated holy pure flesh and bloud in unity hath taken to himself the pure humane Body and Soul to the undivided Eternall union and united it 4. And hath been generated and Manifested in and out of the faithfull Love and Wife or Spouse or Woman of God the Holy Virgin Mary a little infant and visible holy Creature the Sonne of God and Man in ONE Person 5. And as the greatest and least yes the totall fullnesse of the Divine Substance in the kingdome of Heaven from the least to the greatest here upon Earth in the Flesh of the least of all and most despised and unworthy generated in the Holy divine Unity such a Man and little childe which is equally in the Most high highnesse of all the great Triune GOD and LORD 6. This Perfect holy Seed and Word of God in one holy pure undefiled Person God and Man in the union of the woman Body and Soul through the Faith out of God and this his holy Seed regenerated viz the right Bridegroom which hath united and taken to himself the Bride of all faithfull good divine holy Flesh and Bloud in his holy humane Person 7. Concerning which the faithful witnesse John the Baptist and Fore-runner of Christ mentioneth this He that hath the Bride is the Bridegroome 8. In this perfect totall divine totall humane holy substance in one Person hath this Triune God and Man CHRIST JESUS delivered his wife or woman of his Body yes faithfull Body and Soul to and in a Masculine and Feminine Person who from the beginning to the end of the World have put their FAITH and trust in him in this his holy becoming Man or Incarnation from all Sinne Death Devil Hell world and ALL worldly Lust of the Flesh and of the Eye temporal and Eternal Damnation through his holy Passion dying and bloud shedding 9. And through his Innocent Death hath rescued from the Guilty Death and sinfull will and out of the shameful Kingdome of the abominable Satan Thief Lyar and Murtherour and set us in his own kingdome of Glory with himself to the Eternall Endlesse Joy and holy peace out of the Eternal Satanical sadnesse misery anguish necessity disquietnesse hatred envy and enmity of the mischievous Devils yes set us in the Eternal rest and blessednesse or Salvation 10. Now as this Perfect Triune Seed and word of God the totall fullnesse of the Deity in visible union of the Humane yet faithfull Nature a little Infant hath been and appeared which according to the testimony of the Scripture like other faithful Children grew to visible palpable greatnesse and was received to wisdom Age and Grace or favour with God and faithfull Men. 11. Which also the most holy high divine Triune Majesty exalted in and to himself from hours dayes and years in his visible Holy Person Gloriously and also at last here upon Earth visibly through his holy innocent Suffering and Dying Joyful Resurrection and Ascention made PERFECT and himself presented for a perfect Man or Husband of his totall Bride all the faithfull Holy Flesh and Bloud of his totall Church or Congregation in holy undivided Eternall Unity 12. And as he was from the beginning of the world in all Saints his Woman or Wife and faithfull Flesh and Bloud viz a child and Sonne of God of the Faithfull Flesh and Bloud of his womans Seed
that offereth the Sacrifice of Righteousnesse which availeth before God but he that offereth offereth to him whom he would attone or Reconcile but if he himself be the Creator he cannot also be the Attonement or Reconciliation but he is The Mediatour between God and Man for God hath set him up to be a Throne of Grace but he that is set up is not the Throne it self but he bringeth his Gift viz the Prize or Spoil which he had gotten in the Battle of Gods Anger to the Throne 179. There say I Man was not at first Created in Christ as this Author will have it but the second time he is become generated in Christ The Name Christ was IN the Name JESUS in which Man was Created whose out-going was from Eternity 180. They are indeed one but the Authour bringeth forth strange matters under it a Man cannot admit that he should fold up all Creatures in the Name of CHRIST and will have the Redemption of ALL Creatures in the Name of Christ 181. It looks very strangely and yet a Man may well see what he meaneth thereby viz that HE would be the very ONE only Christ that men are to Hear as the Word of God whereas yet when he is at best he is scarce a little Twigg or Branch on that Tree not the Mother it selfe which hath generated and will generate I put not my trust in him but in the First Christ who in JESUS became a CHRIST whose Twig or Branch I desire to be 182. CHRIST was hidden in JESU and all powers of the wisdom lay in the hidden Christ which no Angels Tongue can expresse that revealed it self first of all when JEHOVA that is JESUS moved in the humanity there was CHRIST first Manifested In the first Adam was JEHOVA Manifested and in the second Adam CHRIST viz The Treasure of the Wisdome of God 183. The first Adam was created Perfect in JEHOVA and to Eternall Life viz in the Eternall Natural but being the Eternall Naturall would not stand then JEHOVA manifested Christ in the Naturall Life that Christ might generate and bring again the Natural into Perfection thus Christ hath with his Birth or Geniture opened the Treasures of wisdom that were in JEHOVA 184. Yet CHRIST was hidden in the Treasure of wisdom but the wisdom was in JEHOVA in the first Adam manifest but not after that manner as the Life breaketh the Anger in peeces for it was not necessary if Adam had remained standing but when he fell it was necessary that this Form should become Manifest 185. Even this Form is called CHRIST and dwelleth in the JEHOVA for out of the JEHOVA it is become Manifested Therefore being JEHOVA was manifest in Adam therefore was God manifested in him else it would follow that JEHOVA had Created Adam to Sinne that he might manifest the Treasures of wisdome in him which is Not so for God so farre as he is called God can NOT Will Evill 186. But if Adam in his Creation be wholly manifested in Christ as this Authour sets it down then with his entring into the humanity nothing New was performed the Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent was first manifested in the Body or Womb of Mary Adam needed him not before the Fall but after the Fall he needed that 187. This Crusher or Bruiser of the serpent was CHRIST and no other he was generated out of IEHOVA that is out of IESU out from Eternity but in the Humanity after the Fall from Eternity he was in Gods Word viz in Gods voyce and in no Image manifested as this * Author writeth but after the Fall he became manifested in the Flesh then he was called CHRIST as viz a breaker through of death 188. For from Eternity was no Death but only a Fire-dying in which out of the dying the holy Life originateth but with Sinne it entered into the world into the Flesh with the Curse Death began in the world with Christ the Eternall Life came again for he brake death in peeces and therefore he is called Christ and not in the Creation 189. In Christ there is Nothing Created but in his power in the speaking Word all is Created in which his Name is called IEHOVA 190. In Christ man is New born or Regenerated but not Created into the Image therefore this Author erreth where he speaketh of the Mother Love of God 191. IEHOVA is the Generator of the Love and IESUS is IEHOVA who generateth the Love and CHRIST is become generated out of the Love in the Humanity for he was no CHRIST from Eternity but only the Love in IEHOVA in IESU 192. Sinne caused IEHOVA that he gave us the CHRIST out of the Love for in the Eternity will be no CHRIST but IEHOVA all in all the whole Humane Tree in IEHOVA 193. Not that the Person of Christ will Cease to be only the Killing or Mortifying of Sinne in which IEHOVA is called CHRIST is then Ceased The Creature remaineth but CHRIST is then the Eternall High-Priest in ALL and the Creature of CHRIST a King of Men. 194. NOw may the Reader Ask what is the strife or controversie in this place It is THIS The Author saith 12. CHRIST was the Image of God and was generated out of the Woman or Wife of God viz out of the Divine Voyce and Mother of the Love from Eternity to Gods expresse Image And that God hath visibly made and Created Adam and all Heavenly and Earthly Creatures in this Christ 13. That God hath been manifested only in Christ and not in Adam that Adam was Created and Manifested IN Christ And that in Christ was only manifested the Treasure of wisdome and accordingly he hath not at all manifested himself to Adam in the first Creation That Adam had no divine knowledge but should have been obedient IN Christ which he was not but let the Serpent betray or deceive him and so he followed the Devill and perished in Sinne with Soul and Body 14. That then Christ after this Fall manifested himself in him and became a Man and new generated the Humanity in ALL whatsoever it was inwardly and outwardly and made it Wholly to be Christ and God so that this Man Christ was in all things or substances like God the Holy Trinity in power and substance 15. And that all Men who beleeve on this Christ do become all like this one only CHRIST That they instantly dye away as to Nature and they become in Soul and Body this one onely CHRIST who is indeed God and Man in ONE onely Person 16. And like the Holy Trinity in Will knowledge power or vertue and substance and in all Divine Properties Eternal Unchangeable Immortal Perfect without any ONE Sinful thought as we are to be and must be Eternally 17. And in that regard that he in Christ is wholly Perfect and immortall and is changed from Death to the Eternall Life in Christ in and to all that whatsoever Man inwardly
substance 10. II. One other is called the filial substance the Sonne the Birth the Word Speech the in-and-out-speaking Substance of the Paternal Substance of the Father the Generator of the Power of the Triune Total Perfect Deity 11. III. One the Third is called the Spiritual Living Substance the Spirit the Life the Exit in and out of the Paternal Filial Substance Power Word or powerfull word of the Triune Total fulnesse of the Father and of the Sonne or in the Father and the Sonne the totall holy Spirit and Eternall Life in Power and Word Father and Sonne of the whole Triune Deity 12. And this most holy Triune Deity Power Word and Life Father Sonne and Holy Spirit are and remain from Eternity in Eternity undividably ONE before in and after the Birth one only GOD and one only LORD over all through all and in all that set their faith and trust in Divine working and dominion therein 13. And this Triune God Power Word and Life Father Sonne and Spirit in Eternal UNITY hath generated to himself the Medium of his most holy Substance from Eternity the Word to his Sonne and Glance of his totall divine fulnesse and begotten him to his most holy Triune Deity 's highest praise and honour 14. And presented it to the most holy Glorious Throne Glance and Expresse Image of his Total holy Divine Triune Fulnesse and invincible confirmation in the Love of the Divine Fulnesse which the Triune highly praised God hath trusted with him and his Paternal Substance in and with the Word and Spirit in Eternal Eternity for a Wife and Mother of his own Triune Substance of his Sonne and Word from Eternity in Eternity in and with himselfe 15. And united to the Eternall Genetrix and betrothed or promised to in and with this most holy Triune Divine Substance to an unity this from Eternity most holy Birth of God CHRIST JESUS The Triune highly praised God is all that himself which to the Total Deity to its highest praise and honour is ascribed and appropriated from Eternity also remaineth peculiarly so in it self to its Eternal stability 16. Viz the Eternal Substantial Eternal stedfast unalterable Love Righteousnesse Wisdome Truth Mercifulnesse Humility Patience Long-suffering Holinesse Purity Innocency and in brief all vertues of the Deity which through the Power Word and Spirit the most holy Triune God from Eternity in Eternity may or can be expressed 17. Yes all whatsoever may be called good and profitable and serviceable in Heaven and Earth and be apprehended with or by the Triune God that is this most holy birth of God self-subsistingly Substantially from Eternity in all Eternity 18. Now Thirdly what this most holy Triune Divine Births acting and working was before the Fall of Man the Holy Scripture witnesseth thereof in many places here and there that through this most holy Triune Birth of God CHRIST JESUS not only all Creatures Heaven and Earth and all that liveth and moveth therein was made and is proceeded But that this most holy Triune Birth of God is also in it self Co-Creatour Generator Bringer forth Worker yes himself in the Creating was the Will and operative substantial self-subsisting Deed yes all in all so that he was not only the Creator Eternal Father and Generator of all Creatures whatsoever they may be called but also of Angels and Men. 19. Now Fourthly what this Holy Eternall Birth and Sonne of God the whole Fullnesse of the Deity came to be after the Fall of Man and is henceforth now and to Eternal Times and remaineth to be unchangeably the Testimony of the Holy Scripture mentioneth in several places very much 20. That this Eternal Divine Triune Birth and Sonne of the Triune Deity to the Comfort of whole Mankinde to the Redemption and Renovation of the same after their horrible Fall losing of all their Glory received and inbreathed from God in his holy breath and renewing regenerating and changing out of the Dead damnable Substance of Sathan into the Holy unfadable immaculate untransitory Inheritance of the Eternall God and most holy Glorious Eternally enduring Life and Substance of Eternal Happinesse or Salvation 21. Not only of fallen Man through the Anger and just Curse of God for Sinnes sake thrown into Eternal Pain and Torment but also of all Heavenly and Earthly Creatures which are set and ordained by the Lord for the service of the Created Man in his Innocency in which respect they also after the Fall of Man for the same Mans sake by the Anger and Curse of God were come and brought into an unstedfast troublesome miserable pittifull state and changeable sorrowful perishable transitory Substance or thing 22. For the Comfort and Salvation of all these and the restoring of the losse of all the Glory and Holinesse this Sonne of God Eternally Born out of God out of meer Grace and Mercy in the Love of the Divine Voyce wherewith this Triune God loved the whole world with all its Generations or births not only hath foretold and promised to Man and the aforesaid heavenly and Earthly Creatures first for a Redeemer through this Triune Deity 23. But also hath livingly substantially operatively and actively in the Regeneration and assuming of the Humane Flesh and Bloud in the Body or womb of the Virgin MARY God and Man in one person visibly palpably and substantially here upon Earth Regenerated and presented 24. As then this Triune highly praised Sonne of God and Man in one holy Visible and palpable Person hath rescued and redeemed not only whole Mankind all truly faithfull Men wholly perfect through this his holy Incarnation or becoming Man innocent suffering and dying Resurrection and Ascention into Heaven from all sinnes and the totall Satanicall Diabolicall and Mortall Substance 25. But also all Called Elected truly Faithfull who from their hearts trust and beleeve in this Redeemer as or according to their Redemption from all sinne unrighteousnesse Death Devill and Hell and the treacherous World the Lust of the Eyes and of the flesh and with their whole Person yes with every true Beleever especially among Men and Women Kind wholly Espoused with himself his totall most Holy Perfect divine substance in the Unity of the Humane Body and Soul 26. Hath united and betrothed himself and bound himself to an unseperable UNION in Eternity in the Love so that this whole truly faithfull Mankind in Generall and every Man and Woman kind in Particular in speciall he himself calleth his own Divine Substance and full or entire Love which before in Vnbeleef was not his of Substance and his Love 27. So that now this Elect truly faithfull holy Church together and also every person in particular in with and through this most holy espousall and uniting with Christ the Triune highly praised God are NOT two severall Persons two Substances and two Loves 28. But through with and in the most holy Union ONE good holy Divine unblameable Eternall stedfast Substance one Divine one Christian one
He mentioneth that MARY was totally sanctified and Perfect before CHRIST was conceived Now if the Faith could have attained and have discovered the Perfection and Totally have new Generated Man that he had been united with and in God in Body and Soul in Totall perfect holinesse then Christ had come in vain 7. And his suffering and Death had not been profitable to us if the FAITH could have broken the Anger of God also Death and Hell and have appeased the Angry Father and have quite taken away the abomination in the vanity of the Flesh 8. Also if CHRIST viz the Word of God had totally inwardly and outwardly taken to himself a holy and perfect Body and Soul upon Earth wherein had he broken Death And in WHAT Body had he taken on himselfe the SINNES of All Men And in what Body then hath he dyed to Sinne WHAT Body became a Curse on the Crosse 9. If it had been only the holy Perfect Body then would Gods holinesse have made it selfe a Curse and our Restitution had been only a Sacrifice which might well have been done in the Faith or through the Judaicall Sacrifice O it must needs be an Evill God who will not suffer himself to be appeased unlesse he revenge himself upon his Perfect holy Substance 10. Else why should he lay all SINNE upon one holy perfect Man and cause his fierce wrath to be shewn upon him and so Revenge himself such an understanding this giveth if we say Mary was in the Faith in flesh and bloud in body and soul totally perfect and totally united with the Holy Divine Substance 11. But seeing the Omniscient Authour here spoiles his breath therefore we will here in part a little blow up our sparkle and unfold the Mystery better 12. King David said In Sin was I born and in Sin did my Mother conceive me and this David it is out of whom MARY was born viz out of the Seed of David of the Seed of Joachim her father and Anna her Mother 13. Now if MARY had attained in the Faith the highest Perfection why not also David and the Patriarchs in whom was the Holy Ghost as well as in MARY 14. And though this Authour indeed determines that they were totally Holy and Perfect yet their Sinne and Mortallity moreover their Infirme life in Sicknesse Care perplexity and necessity will not permit that in which they all lived in the Curse and abomination in the vanity of the Earthly Flesh which abomination in their dying was first broken and ceased as to them 15. In the Abomination of the vanity there is not by far any totall perfection but Sinne and Death as David witnesseth of himselfe as also all the Patriarchs 16. But concerning MARY and CHRIST this is the true understanding MARY was the Limit of the Covenant of God in Paradise instituted after the Fall That Covenant stood in the true Image which faded or disappeared in Adam when he manifested or revealed the vanity in his outward Flesh 17. Concerning which God said The day that thou shalt eat of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evill viz of the vanity thou shalt dye the Death which also instantly came to passe he dyed to the divine world and awakened to the Earthly world in the vanity 18. For the Soul viz the true Life of the heavenly substantiality entered with its Desire into the Abomination then the Divine Light departed from the Image of the heavenly Substantiality and now it stood in Death as a Nothing and this true Image it is which God from Eternity hath beheld with his holy Spirit in the wisdome but without Substance which he created into Substance that is brought Substance into this Image from the Three Principles 19. But when the Spirit of the Three Principles viz the true Soul went from its Eternall Image of the purity into the Abomination of vanity viz into the Earthly Substance and awakened the same in the Forms of Nature and manifested it in the Flesh then the fair Image disappeared and stood again in the hiddennesse at its Eternall Limit without knowledge and perception of the Earthly Adam in Abomination 20. But seeing Gods purpose was that this fair Similitude of God should stand Eternally before him in Substance as a beloved Scene of his Joy and a Similitude of the Eternall Substance and Spirit therefore he promised to move himselfe yet once and with his highest Love and Humility viz in the Center of the sweet Love in the word of his Sound to manifest the Image in Substance again 21. Now in MARY lay the disappeared Substance in the Covenant this was the dry Rod of Aaron which grew again in One Night and bare Almonds as is to be read in Moses 22. Now when the Angel came to MARY and brought her the Message that she should be impregnate with Child and generate or bear the Saviour of the World though indeed she wondered how it should come to passe yet she said Behold I am the Maid-servant of the Lord let it be done as thou hast sayd that is she gave up her will and desire into Gods will he should doe what he would 23. And in this Point hath the Center of the voyce of God according to the deepest Love of the hiddenness of God in the Image of the disappeared substance with the Introduction of the divine heavenly substance of the Paradise and Element and all whatsoever the Deity in the Holiness containeth manifested it selfe in the Natural seede of MARY 24. Understand in the seede of MARY of her spirit and Flesh wherein lay the soules and bodyes Essence viz in Venus'es Matrix in the womans seede as it was promised in Paradise also to Abraham and to David 25. Now understand us aright what the cleere Deity hath received to it selfe not Marys sinfull Seede in which death became broken on the Crosse indeede it had received it to it selfe but in another Principle 26. The pure Holy Deity was alwayes from Eternity in Eternity surrounded with the substance of the Heaven in the inward viz. with the Holy substance that very holy substance hath the voyce of the holy Deity with the Moving of the Word introduced into Marys disappeared Substance understand into the Seede of Mary and united it selfe with Maryes substance in the Covenant of God 27. For John the 3. he sayth None goeth to Heaven but the sonne of Man who is come from Heaven also I am gone forth and Come out from God into this world Now the cleere Deity needes no coming for it is in all places before hand it needeth only to Manifest it selfe to or in the â—â—ace and all whatsoever cometh that is substance but God in his Trinity is a spirit without substance as to what he is solely in the Deity 28. Therefore when God would move and Manifest himself in his Covenant in Maryes heavenly disappeared substance then came he with the substance and manifested himself
disappeared Substance the Father of all Things or Substances striketh up the sparkle of his divine power and if it be so that the Soul also in the drawing of the Father hungreth after it the sparkle beginneth to glimmer 54. And is first small as a grain of Mustard-seed as Christ saith and if the Soul persevereth and introduceth ITS Will and hunger continually into THAT Glimmering Tinder then he bloweth the Holy Fire up in its desire so that it glimmereth very much whence the soul getteth great hunger 55. Now if it be so that the Soul casteth away its self-hood and desireth totally to cast away the fals-hood or wickednesse of the Devill and in earnest strife with earnest Prayer and giving up it self enter into the Love-Fire then the Love-fire apprehendeth the Souls Desire and one Fire becometh kindled in the other for the Soul is the Fathers Fire and the sown Love-Fire is the Sonnes-Fire 56. And now cometh the lost Sonne viz the soul again into the Fathers Love and the Great Joy in Heaven beginneth so that the Angels rejoyce more than at Ninety Nine righteous that need no Repentance 57. And at this Place in this conjunction the Noble Virgin viz the Good Wife or Woman taketh its Bridegroom the Soul again into the Triumph of the Divine Kingdome of Joy and giveth its Bridegroom the Garland of Pearles 58. Not totally for its own propriety of its substance No there are Two Principles God remaineth God in himselfe but the Divine Light bringeth the Virgins-Spirit out of the Love-fire into the Souls-Fire and kindleth the Souls-Fire also so that the Virgins-Light shineth IN its Bridegroom viz the SOULS Light 59. And here is Christ in the Wifes or Womans seed become Man viz in the second Principle out of Gods Light-and-Love-world and what is here done and what kind of Joy is at this Espousall and Wedding we have no words to write but I wish the Lover of Christ may experiment it For the outward Naturall Man beleeveth US not unlesse himself hath been at this wedding which is kept both in Heaven and on Earth sufficiently to be understood by those that are OURS 60. But know this As Fire blazeth through Iron whence the Iron is a meer Fire-Source or of a fiery Quality and yet remaineth in it selfe in its Substance Iron as well at one time as at another and is never Fire in its own self-property and yet is Fire But the Fires Might standeth not in the Iron but it giveth only its Nature to it as an Instrument or a Body wherein the Fire blazeth 61. Thus understand us also as to GOD and the CREATURE The Fire when it blazeth in the Iron signifieth the Soul when it is kindled in Gods Light and the Light and the Shining of the Fire signifieth the Holy Fire and the Virgin the Power of the Light is the Pearly-Garland whereof I write in my writings THAT the Virgin giveth not to the Fire-Soul viz to the Originall of the Fire to be ITS own 62. But it sets the same upon it and presseth the same into its heart but it cannot comprehend it as its proper owne as the Fire cannot comprehend the Light and yet the Light shineth out of the Fire the Fire hath another Source or Quality then the Light the Fire is Father and the Light is Sonne and yet they make two Principles one IN another 63. Thus know That the Creature is not God it remaineth Eternally under God but God blazeth through it with his desire of the Love-Fire viz with his Light and shining and that very Light the Soul viz the Man reteineth so long for its own as the Will remaineth in Gods Light 64. But if it enter again in its own propriety viz in the Center of its originall in its own Might out of the Resignation into selfhood then the Virgin taketh away this Pearly-Garland from the Soul for the Soul viz its Bride-groom is run away from its Spouse Christ viz from its Love-fire and become perjured 65. Then goeth the Soul in the outward Flesh into the Devils Net in the dark restraint and seeketh its own Place and rest but findeth nothing but the Beastiall Pleasure of the Flesh with which it Pampereth it self 66. But the Noble Virgin calleth it continually to return again if it come again then it is well and readily received but the first wedding is not kept again there is indeed a glorious welcome but not like the first Espousall we speak as we know 67. But if the Bridegroom viz the Soul cometh not again then Christ taketh its Garland which he gave the Virgin for a Life again from it then it remaineth in ITS Nothing without Source or Quality as disappeared or faded and Eternally not perceptible nor visible to the Soul 68. And the Soul remaineth in its anxiety if the Soare be in it at the End of the outward Body in that regard it standeth in Eternall shame and scorn that it hath lost ITS Kingly Crown and is driven out from the Kingdom of God as an Evill doer or as a perjured Person from its most beloved Bride and Virgin 69. Further also know this that Gods Light suffereth NOT it self to be sowen forth abroad into the Flesh the Mother or Tinder to the Light is indeed sown but standing within IN its Principle the outward world is not God nor will it in Eternity be called God but only a Substance wherein God manifesteth himself viz a †Similitude of the Holy Divine Heavenly Substance in which God worketh 70. When a Woman is impregnate from a Man and generateth a Childe THAT although likely it cometh from holy Parents is not Wholly CHRIST from within and without as this Authour conceiteth without ground of Truth out of his obscurity 71. CHRIST viz the WORD is indeed a glimmering Mother or Tinder according to the Property of the true Image which is propagated in all Men as a possibility but NOT in the outward Flesh in this worlds Substance but in the second Principle and the Soulish Property is in the first Principle each dwelling in it selfe 72. Therefore hath Christ instituted the Baptisme and Espoused himself with the Mother or Tinder to Souls with this Covenant that though the Mother or Tinder did not come to a burning Light and that the Child should dye even in its Mothers Body or Womb yet neverthelesse the Soul would be in Christs Arms in which he would kindle HIS Light 73. And though holy Parents beget Children if I did look upon them I would not say here standeth or goeth in this Child Christ it is wholly Christ HE is indeed IN the Childe but in his own Principle and in the Childs Property as a Glimmering Mother or Tinder on the Band of Christ but the Soul of the Childe is also on the Band of the Fathers anger in the property wherein Adams Soul hath broken it self off from God 74. The Properties of the Soul stand not in