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A28532	The second booke, concerning the three principles of the divine essence of the eternall, dark, light, and temporary vvorld shewing what the soule, the image and the spirit of the soule are : as also what angels, heaven, and paradise are : how Adam was before the fall, in the fall, and after the fall : and what the wrath of God, sinne, death, the devils and hell are, how all things have been, now are, and how they shall be at the last / written in the German language by Jacob Behmen, aliàs Teutonicus Philosophus.; Beschreibung der drey Principien göttliches Wesens. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1648 (1648)	Wing B3417; ESTC R17042	460,920	444

88 Chapter 18. How the Angel Gabriel was sent to a poore Maid or Virgin Verse 35 Chapter 20. The care and striving the Angels have for Man Verse 78 Chapter 22. Of the Angels great Humility Verse 74 Anna. Chapter 22. Why Anna was so long unfruitfull Verse 69 Antichrist Chapter 18. Of Antichrists visitation Verse 1 Chapter 20. Whence Antichrists Kingdome taketh beginning Verse 83 Chapter 20. Antichrists Kingdome is rejected of God Verse 92 Chapter 21. A Large Description of Antichrist Verse 28. to the 38 Arts. Chapter 20. Why Arts or Trades were discovered Verse 10 Astronomer Chapter 14. The Astronomer knoweth nothing of a Childes Incarnation in the Mothers womb Verse 26 Authour Chapter 1 Why the Authour writeth of God as if he had a Beginning Verse 4 Chapter 2. How the Authour came by his knowledge Verse 6 Chapter 3. The Authour writeth how the Eternall Birth must be understood Verse 3 Chapter 3. Wherefore the Authours wirtings serve Verse 3 Chapter 4. The Authour hath no more Authority or power than another Verse 6 Chapter 4 The Authour warneth the Reader concerning his writings Verse 43 Chapter 12. The Authour writeth no News Verse 15 Chapter 14. The knowledge which the Authours soule hath Verse 39 Chapter 14. All the Author speaketh concerning God Heaven the Element and of Paradise is but as a small drop in comparison of the wisdome of God Verse 89 Chapter 15. For whom the Authour hath written Verse 65 Chapter 16. From whence the Authour hath his knowledge Verse 1 Chapter 16. From what Spirit the Authour writeth Verse 51 Chapter 20. When the Authours writings shall be serviceable Verse 2 Chapter 24. The Authour will write no lye of himselfe Verse 1 Chapter 24. The Authour counselleth us to follow him Verse 2 Chapter 24. The Authours Earnestnesse and excellent discourse Verse 3. to the 10 Chapter 24. The Authours hard Combate Verse 17. to the 20 Chapter 25. The Authour Appealeth to the Last Judgement Verse 36 Chapter 25. The Authour is not zealous out of any desire of his own Praise Verse 53 Chapter 25. The Authour Admonisheth to continue in simplicity Verse 69 Chapter 25. Why the Authour must write so deeply Verse 84 Chapter 25. Why the Authour must write as he doth Verse 107 Chapter 27. What the Authours teaching tendeth to Verse 8 Babell Chapter 18. Why Languages were confounded at Babell Verse 27 Chapter 18. Out of what Babell is sprung Verse 82 Chapter 18. Babell shall be served as the worshippers of the Calfe were Verse 71 Chapter 19. Babell hath invented the Ransoming of soules Verse 2 Chapter 19. Babell breaketh within it selfe Verse 2 Chapter 19. What Babell is Verse 3 Chapter 20. Babell and the Starres have the same Government Verse 18 Chapter 22. Babell blameth the Devill for Tempting of Christ Verse 78 Chapter 22. Babell condemneth them that search after hidden Mysteries Verse 78 Chapter 22. Of Babells punishment Verse 79 Chapter 23. Babell is on Fire and burneth Verse 2 Chapter 23. Babell shall be so talked with by the Anger that the Elements shall tremble Verse 50 Chapter 25. Babell destroyeth and devoureth it selfe Verse 82 Chapter 25. Wee must not rejoyce at her Burning Verse 96 Chapter 25. Babell is hard to be knowne shee is every where all over Verse 97 Chapter 27. Babel will bring in Epicurisme Verse 23 Band. Chapter 20. The Band of Eternity standeth free Verse 65 Baptisme Chapter 4. Why Baptisme is commanded Verse 14 15 Beast Chapter 3. The Beast shall stand naked Verse 8 Chapter 4. The Beast shall be spewed out Verse 23 Chapter 4. Why the Beasts have no sinne imputed to them Verse 38 Chapter 8. Of the Creating of the Beasts Verse 37 to 39 Chapter 11. Whence the venomors Beasts are Verse 20 Chapter 11. How the Beast is inraged Verse 28 Chapter 13. Why the Beastiall Propagation is an Abomination to God Verse 6 Chapter 15. What the Beasts or living Creatures are created for Verse 11 Chapter 16. A Beast is better than Man that dyeth without Repenting Verse 40 Chapter 17. The Beasts are not made of Lumps of Earth Verse 22 Chapter 18. The Beast is greater then the Antichrist Verse 2 Chapter 18. How the Beasts should have been Managed if Adam had continued in Pardise Verse 10 Chapter 18. God desired not that the Beastiall Man should be Verse 10 Chapter 20. The Beast shall stand naked and bare Verse 20 Chapter 20. A Lamentation because the Beast hath made the Garden of Roses a Denne of Murtherers and Theeves Verse 37 38 Chapter 20. The Beast will be squeezed forth by the presse in Babell Verse 38 Bloud Chapter 16. How Bloud cometh to be Verse 11 Chapter 16. The Bloud wherein the soule stirreth is very sweet Verse 11 Chapter 16. Why Bloud is forbidden Verse 11 Body Chapter 4. Of what the Body is Created Verse 19 Chapter 21. The Body cannot be destroyed before the appointed time Verse 62 Chapter 22. Of the Body which wee lost Verse 64 Chapter 23. What is the food of the New Body Verse 45 Chapter 25. The Body of Christ can be withheld by nothing in the Resurrection Verse 79 Chapter 25. How the Body of Christ shineth in the Heaven Verse 79 Chapter 25. The Body of Christ is infinite Verse 79. to the 81 Chapter 25. How the Body of Christ is received Verse 83 Chapter 25. How the Body of Christ is after the Resurrection Verse 90 91 Booke Bookes Chapter 8. A field full of flowers is the most Glorious Booke Verse 11 Chapter 3. The Bookes of Theologists are meere Histories Verse 5 Bridegroom Bride Chapter 3. The coming of the Bridegroom Verse 8 Chapter 17. The Bridegroomes coming Verse 115 Chapter 20. The Bride of the Beast hath three things to expect Verse 115. to 117 Chapter 24. Where the Bridegroom embraceth his Bride Verse 31 Caine. Chapter 20. Why Cains hatred was against Abell Verse 44 Chapter 20. Why Caine became a Murtherer Verse 45 Chapter 20. Caine was not rejected in the womb of his Mother Verse 63 Chapter 20. The Description of the Cainish Church Verse 77. to the 118 Chapter 20. Why Caine grutched his brother any thing Verse 82 Chapter 20. How Caine was stirred up to the Murther Verse 84 Chapter 20. Cains false Faith was manifested Verse 91 Chapter 20. Caines amazement and feare Verse 97 Chapter 20. Caines expulsion beyond Eden into the Land of Nod. Verse 98 Chapter 20. Caine is a Looking Glasse for Mens own Conceits Verse 99 Chapter 20. How Caine was Comforted againe Verse 101 Chapter 20. Whence Caines Anger against Abell proceeded Verse 104 Chapter 21. Caine was not wholly Rejected Verse 2 Chapter 21. Caine was chearly againe Verse 4 Chapter 21. Who was Caines accuser Verse 5 Chapter 21. Caine sought out Arts and depended upon his inventions Verse 6 7 Chapter 21. Caines Church and Christs Church dwell together Verse 45 46 Called Chapter 16. How and when it is that wee are called Verse 50 Centre

61 Chapter 25. How God the Father is Reconciled Verse 44 Faith Chapter 17. The Authour sets downe eight Articles of Faith Verse 116 Chapter 18. What Faith is able to doe Verse 76 Feare Chapter 23. Why wee ought not to feare or be afraid Verse 25 Feast Chapter 25. What is a Good Feast Verse 86 Figures Chapter 20. The Figures of all things remaine Eternally Verse 9 Fire Chapter 5. How the Fire is in the water Verse 20 Chapter 7. The Originall of the Fire Aire Water and Earth Verse 12 Chapter 8. The Fire Aire Water Earth have every one their Creatures according to their Quality Verse 31 32 Chapter 10. What the Fire in this world and in Hell is Verse 45. 47 Chapter 14. The Blossome of the Fire moveth above the Heart Verse 22 Chapter 15. How the Fire is kindled in the Heart Verse 50 Chapter 27. Of the Fire by which the world shall perish Verse 9. 13 Fox Chapter 19. How some have the Fox hanging to their Coate when they Dye Verse 39 Gall. Chapter 14. The Gall kindleth the warmth in the Heart Verse 20 Chapter 14. How the Gall cometh to be in the Incarnation Verse 15 Chapter 14. How the Gall Heart Liver and Lungs are set in order Verse 18 Garment Chapter 19. He that will be heard of God must put off the Garment of abomination Verse 48 Ghosts Chapter 19. Concerning Ghosts of Deceased people that walke Verse 22 God Chapter 1. What God is The Essence of all Essences is generated out of him Verse 1 2. Chapter 1. How he is called an Angry God Verse 6 Chapter 1. God is not called God according to the first Principle Verse 8 Chapter 2. The Eternall working or Generation of God Verse 8 Chapter 4. Where wee must seeke God Verse 8. 44 Chapter 4. God is sought by Antichrist above the Starres Verse 23 Chapter 4. Without God there would be Nothing Verse 31 Chapter 4. God knoweth neither beginning nor End in himselfe Verse 54 Chapter 7. Where we must seek God Verse 15. to 19 Chapter 7. Why God is called God Verse 19 Chapter 10. How God it neere to us Verse 48 Chapter 14. Where God dweleth Verse 80 Chapter 15. Whom God desireth to have Verse 26 Chapter 16. We should want our boasting in God Verse 1 Chapter 17. God was not so wrathfull at the meere biting of the Apple Verse 1 Chapter 17. How God is King of the Land Verse 67 Chapter 19. God is neerer us than the Saints Departed Verse 31 Chapter 20. God hath no pleasure in Judgement Verse 20. to the 26 Chapter 20. God is not at odds with himself Verse 60 Chapter 20. God hardeneth none Verse 62 Chapter 20. God did not will there should be any Devill Verse 64 Chapter 20. God knoweth what will come to passe Verse 64 Chapter 20. Gods foreseeing Verse 66 Chapter 20. Whom God draweth Verse 67 Chapter 20. God did not consent to Caines Murther of his brother Verse 93 Chapter 21. God cometh to help all things Verse 2 Chapter 21. All things in this world are of God Verse 1 Chapter 22. God and Paradise it Incomprehensible and stand in all things Verse 32 Chapter 22. From what the Name of God hath its Originall Verse 35 Chapter 22. VVhy God became Man Verse 43 Chapter 22. God and the Pure Element is become one Verse 63 Chapter 23. Both Good and Bad Men must manifest the wonders of God Verse 26 Chapter 24. God armeth the soule against the Divills treachery Verse 13 Chapter 25. Why God must come into the soule Verse 9 Chapter 25. Wherefore God must enter into Death Verse 10 Chapter 25. God mocked Adam when he said He is as one of us Verse 40 Chapter 25. God Man b●ng on the Crosse Verse 41 Chapter 25. The grace of God is for All Men. Verse 64 Chapter 25. The Anger of God is neither Good nor Evill Verse 70 Chapter 27. What God is Verse 7 Chapter 27. God giveth the seed to be sowen Verse 27 Chapter 27. God will not cast all away Verse 28 Good Chapter 17. Why God said it is not Good Verse 27 Ground Chapter 27. What the Ground is wherein the Heaven soweth seede Verse 27 Gutts Chapter 14. How the Gutts are made Verse 21 Chapter 14. Wherfore the stomack Guts are Verse 27 Chapter 14. Wherefore the Gutts are long and folded Verse 28 Hand Hands Chapter 25. What the Hand of God is Verse 107 Chapter 14. VVhat Hands are in the Incarnation Verse 27 Hearing Chapter 15 VVhat the Hearing is Verse 67 Heart Chapter 9. Out of what the Heart of God is Generated Verse 43 Chapter 10. The Heart of God is unchangeable Verse 41 Chapter 12. VVhat the Heart of God is Verse 3 Chapter 15. Nothing is Created out of the Heart of God Verse 63 Chapter 19. VVhy the Heart of God became a Human soule Verse 6 Chapter 23. The Eternall Birth of the Heart of God Heaven Verse 10 Chapter 6. VVhy Heaven is so called Verse 17 Chapter 7. VVhat the Heaven i● wherein God dwelleth Verse 14 Chapter 17. Of the Heaven wherein God dwelleth Verse 77 78 Chapter 19. Heaven and Hell is every where all over Verse 62 Chapter 19. The Kingdome of Heaven is in all things Verse 64 Chapter 20. Heaven and Hell strive about the children of Eve Verse 47 Chapter 21. VVhat Heaven is Verse 19 Chapter 22. VVhat Heaven Himmel signifieth in the Language of Nature Verse 74 Chapter 24. VVhat the Joy of Heaven is Verse 26 Chapter 27. The Heaven will new make another Age. Verse 21 Chapter 27. Heaven is the sower of the seede that God giveth Verse 27 Hell Chapter 9. VVhat Hell shall be Verse 22 Chapter 19. The Kingdome of Hell is in all things Verse 64 Chapter 9. VVhat Hell-fire is Verse 30 Chapter 17. VVhat the Paradisicall Sugar of Hell is Verse 93 Chapter 18. The source or Torment of Hell is the Joy of Heaven Verse 16 Humanity Chapter 22. Of Christs Humanity what Man dyed and what Man dyed not in Christs Death Verse 46 Chapter 23. David Prophesieth of the Eternall Humanity of Christ Verse 15 Jesus Chapter 22. VVhat Jesus signifieth in the Language of Nature Verse 76 Chapter 25. How wee put on Jesus Christ Verse 48 Jehosaphat Chapter 9. Christ cometh with the faire Lilly in the vally of Jehosaphat Verse 17 Chapter 13. In the valley of Jehosaphat the Angel of the Great Counsell cometh with a Golden Charter Verse 11 Jewes Chapter 25. How the Jewes shall eate with the Lamb. Verse 50 Chapter 25. Jewes Turkes and other Nations are admonished Verse 95 Jezabell Chapter 25. The throwing out of Jezabell is coming Immanuel Verse 95 Chapter 22. The fairest Gate of this Booke is Immanuel Verse 24 Chapter 22. VVhat Immanuel signifieth in the Language of Nature Verse 73 Image Chapter 10. VVhat the Image of God is Verse 9 Chapter 14. Wherein the Image of God consisteth Verse 55 Chapter 17. VVhence the

Men in the Time viz. in the end of three Moneths not out of the holy Ternary but our soule yet not our body wherein the Kingdome of this world and sinne did stick 66. 'T is true indeed he took our body on him but not mingled with the holy Ternary for Death stuck in our body and the Ternarius sanctus was i Or its death The death of the death of our body Death and Victory and in the holy Ternary was his Deity and that Man is come from Heaven and hath put on the Earthly Man and brought to passe the Redemption between the Earthly and the Heavenly whereby the soule was k Or freed severed from the Anger and Wrath. 67. You must not say that whole Christ with body and soule came from Heaven He brought no soule out of the holy Ternary the Heavenly virgin was the soule in the holy Ternary and that he brought with him for a Bride to our soule as this whole Booke doth treate of it For what would it help mee if he had brought a strange soule with him Nothing at all But that he hath brought my soule into the holy Ternary I rejoyce at that and thus I can say that Christs soule is my Brother and his body is the food of my soule as he saith in the fixt Chapter of John My flesh is meate indeed and my bloud is drink indeed 68. Come hither yee contentions l Pastours Priests Presbyters or Ministers Shepheards of Babell open your eyes and consider what his Testaments of the Baptisme and his Last Supper are I shall shew you well enough if you be but worthy how ever wee write for the children of the Lilly therefore let every one see where he harboureth it is in earnest Wee slight not the understanding of the Ancients It may be it was purely generated in the beginning but wee finde how Antichrist hath set up himselfe upon it and made Gods of the Creature 69. Yet Men cannot say that Mary was borne out of a barren womb although the body of Anna was unfruitfull which was from the Counsell of God in that they were honest vertuous people fearing God that their Tincture might not be defiled because they were to generate that which the Lord would highly blesse God knew how to open It in due time and that in old age when the wanton lust of this world from the Elements was extinguished as in Sarab Abrahams wife 70. For if the soule standeth in the feare of God then the Tincture also in which the soule springeth up is purer although that be not free from the Originall or inherited sinne Thus Mary is indeed truly generated of Joachim and Christ hath his naturall soule from the Tincture of Mary yet but halfe for the Limbus of God was the Man or Masculine seede and therein was the chast virgin of God in the holy Ternary and in the holy Ternary the Trinity the whole fulnesse of the Deity and the Holy Ghost was the Work-Master 71. Here wee cleerly finde what Christ said to his Father concerning us Men Behold the Men were thine and thou hast given them to mee and I will that they he with mee where I am that thy may see my Glory When the Word or Heart of God went into the holy Ternary there it was the Sonne of the Father and also his servant as Esayah saith and as it is in the Psalmes for he had united or espoused himselfe m In or into to the Element and had the forme of a servant but the Word which went into the pure Element was his Sonne and thus he took our soule upon him not onely as a Brother for the Limbus of God in the heavenly Tincture was the Man and that was our Lord for the whole world standeth in the Might thereof and that Might shall sweepe the threshing floare of this world And thus wee are his servants and also his Brethren in respect of his Mother but in respect of his Father wee are his servants and before the Fall wee were the Fathers also till his humanity or becoming Man though in the Word of the Promise it was in which the faithfull entred into God 72. Thus he is a King over the house of David Eternally and his Kingdome hath no end and he hath the Throne of his father David for this world is become his he is entred into this world and hath taken possession of it he standeth in the holy Ternary and in the Trinity and also in this world he hath the n Or Fanne Casting shovell in his hand as John the Baptist saith the Judgement is his at which the Devils doe tremble He hath the Throne of David from the Counsell of God for David was a Type of him and had the Promise and God set him upon the Throne in the Promise for the Scepter of his Kingdome was the Scepter of the faithfull who looked upon God who was the King and so also indeed the outward Kingdome was his Thus also Christ was a King in the holy Ternary and this world also was his owne Of the deare Name Immanuel 73. And thus wee can truly say Immanuel God with us God in us In the Language of Nature it soundeth right but our Tongue wee have from this world doth but stammer it and o The outward Tongue cannot expresse the secret of this Name cannot name it according to our understanding For Im is the Heart of God in the holy Ternary for it is conceived or comprehended as thou mayst understand it in the conception or comprehending or expressing of the Word Ma is his entring into the Humanity in the soule for that word or syllable presseth one from the Heart and wee understand that he conceived or comprehended the Heart viz. the vertue of the Father in the soule and goeth with the word or syllable nu aloft which signifieth his ascension into Heaven as to his soule El is the name of the great Angel which with the soule triumpheth above the Heaven not onely in the Heaven but in the Trinitie 74. For the word Himmel Heaven hath another meaning in the Language of Nature The syllable Him goeth out from the Heart viz. out of the vertue of the Father or out of the Essences of the soule and pntteth forth upwards into the holy Ternary and then it compresseth it with both the Lips and bringeth the Angels name downwards viz. the syllable Mel which signifieth the Humility of the Angels that they dee not exalt their heart in pride flying into the Triniry but as Isaiah sayth that they cover their faces in humility before the holy God with their wings and continually cry Holy holy holy is the Lord p Zeharth of Hosts 75. So now you understand that this Angel is greater than any Angel in Heaven for the hath a heavenly humane body and hath a humane soule and hath the eternall heavenly Bride the virgin of wisdome and hath the holy Trinity

body Sulphur is first generated wherein the life becometh stirring and the n Beginning of the life Tincture generateth againe the Sulphur and the water wherein afterwards the bloud in the Tincture cometh to be And thus now as the beginning of the life is so much also the o Or Ordinance Order in the Regeneration be that the poore soule first receive the water of Eternall Life and be Baptized therein and then God giveth it the Graine of Mustard-seed of the Pearle that so if it receive the same it may become a new fruit in God 29. And therefore he sent his p Or Messenger Angel hither before him that he should baptize with the water of the Eternall Life for so q Come or began can the Eternall Body into which the soule must enter and in its Tincture in its bloud be new-borne againe be translated into the body of Christ to describe which a great space is requisite But I will finish here briefly and mention it more in another Booke and now wee will handle the matter of the use or Celebration for it is very hard to be apprehended by the simple And therefore wee will deale with him after a childish manner to try whether he may come to see and finde the Pearle for all shall not finde what wee in the Love of God have found though indeed wee could earnestly wish that all might have it yet there is a great matter between it viz. the r The vapouring foure-Elementary Life in the Learned swelled puft up Kingdome of this world and the Devill will set themselves against it as raging Dog but the smell of the Lilly will make ſ The Devill him faint and so now wee will speake as a childe 30. The t Or servant of Christ Minister in a Brotherly Christian office of the Covenant and Testament of Christ taketh water and upon the Commandement of Christ in his Covenant and Testament sprinkleth or powreth it upon the Head of he In●●t in the name of the Covenant and in the name of the Holy Trinity of the Father of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost this was the Command of Christ and therewith he hath set up his Covenant with us and it is a Testament which he afterwards confirmed with his Death and wee must doe it also and not leave it undone it is not in the u Arbitrium or free-will liberty of a Christians will to doe it or leave it undone but if he will be a Christian he must doe it or else he contemneth his Testament and will not come to him 31. For the Testatour standeth in the Covenant and saith Come and whosoever doth not desire to Come goeth not in to him Therefore it lyeth not in our high knowledge for he standeth in his Covenant and the childe that is newly Borne is as acceptable to him as an old finfull Man that repenteth and steppeth into his Covenant For it lay not in us that he became Man and received us into his Love but it lay in his Love in his x Barmhertzigkeit Mercifulnesse Mercy for wee knew nothing of him nor did we know whether wee could be helped or no but he alone chose us and came to us out of Grace y Or into in our Humanity and took pitty on us and so also the Covenant of his Promise was a Covenant of Grace and not out of our foreknowing or merit And therefore whosoever teacheth otherwise is in Babell and confoundeth the Covenant of Christ 32. For Christ said also Let little Children come to mee for to such belongeth the Kingdome of God Say not What doth Baptisme availe a childe which understandeth it not The matter lyeth not in our understanding wee are altogether ignorant concerning the Kingdome of God If the childe be a bud growen in thy Tree and that thou standest in the Covenant wherefore bringest thou not also thy bud z Or in into the Covenant Thy Faith is its Faith and thy confidence towards God in the Covenant is its confidence It is indeed thy a Or Children are thy Branches Essences and generated from thy soule And thou art to know according to its exceeding worth if thou art a true Christian in the Covenant of Jesus Christ that thy childe also in the kindling of its life p●sseth into the Covenant of Christ and though it should die in the Mothers womb ir would be found in the Covenant of Christ For the Deity stan●●eth in the Centre of the Light of Life and so now if the Tree stand in the Covenant then the Branch may well doe so 33 But thou must not o●mt Baptisme for all that for when the childe is borne into the world then it is severed from its Tree and is in this world and then it selfe must p●sse into the Covenant and thou must with thy Faith present it and with thy Prayer give it to God in his Covenant there needeth no b Bravery sump uousnesse or solem●●y pomp about it thar doth dishonour the Covenant c A●● not a sh●w or sceae to be acted it is an earnest thing 34. Thee are three Witnesses to this Covenant the one is called God the Father the other God the Sonne and the third is God the Holy Ghost these are the work masters who doe the office they Baptise or Administer Baptisme But if thou filthy trimmed whore now comest thus stately and bringest the poore soule to the Covnant of Christ and doest but stand there in pomp and bravery and understandest very nothing of the Baptisme and doest not put up the least Prayer to God what thinkest thou how doest thou stand in this Covenant before the Holy Trinity even like a swine before a looking Glasse 35. Or shall I be silent I must speake for I see it doe what thou wilt this is the Truth thou carriest a new washed soule from the Baptisme but thou are a filthy swine even in the Kingdome of all the Devils But the d Or Bath Laver of Regeneration if thou are a Beast and farre from the Kingdome of God lieth not in thee but it lieth in the Covenant of Christ 36. But this I say according to my knowledge and not out of any command that if the Parents be wicked and indeed in the Kingdome of the Devill and that they have thus begotten their fruit out of their false or evill Essences in which Parents there is no Faith but onely a false hypocrifie and yet will e Moch Christ and yet be accounted Christians in an Apish mockery see counted Christians and as the Devill oftentimes changeth himselfe into the likenesse of an Angel so they also send their children with the like trimmed false Angels before the Covenant of Christ such doings is very dangerous which also instantly sheweth it selfe in the growing of the Tree indeed the Covenant continueth still but there must be earnestnesse in avoyding of the Devill It may be that very

first small and afterwards groweth to be like a great Tree so far or so long as the minde persevereth in the will but the noble virgin stayeth not continually for her Birth is of a higher descent and therefore shee dwelleth not in earthly vessels but shee sometimes visiteth her Bridegroom at a time when he is desirous of her although shee alwaies with observancy preventeth and calleth him before he calleth her which is onely understood in the Lilly this the Spirit speaketh in a high and worthy seriousnesse therefore observe it ye children of God the Angel of the great Councell cometh in the valley of Jehosaphat with a Golden Charter which he selleth for Oyle without Money whosoever cometh shall have it 12. Now when the Tincture was become thus earthy and feeble by the overcoming of the Spirit of the great world then it could not generate in a heavenly manner and was also possessed with inability and then the Counsell of God stood there and said Seeing he is become earthly and is not able to propagate wee will make a help for him and the Fiat stood in the Centre and severed the Matrix from the Limbus and the Fiat took a rib in the midst of Adam out of his right side and created a Woman out of it 13. But you must cleerly understand or conceive that when the Fiat to the creating of the woman was in Adam in his sleepe his body had not then such hard grissles and bones O no that came to passe first when Mother ●ve did bite the Apple and also gave to Adam onely the infection and the earthly death with the fainting and mortall sicknesse stuck in them the bones and ribs were yet strength and vertue from which the ribs should come to be 14. But you must highly and worthily understand and consider how it was taken out of his side not as a spirit but wholly in substance thus it may be said that Adam did get a rent and the Woman beareth Adams spirit flesh and bones yet there is some difference in the Spirit for the Woman beareth the Matrix and Adam the Limbus or Man and they two are one flesh undivided in nature for now they two together must generate one man againe which one alone could doe before A Pleasant Gate 15. Wee being here in describing the corruptibility of Adam the Spirit frameth in our thoughts a heavenly mystery concerning Adams rib which the Fiat took from him and made a Woman of it which Rib Adam afterwards must want for the Text in Moses rightly saith God closed up the place with flesh 16. But now the k The malice or fierce rage wrath of the Serpent hath so brought it to passe that Adam is fallen in the lust and yet the purpose of God must stand for l Mankinde Adam must rise againe at the day of the Resurrection wholly and unbroken in the first Image as he was created So likewise the Serpent and the Devill hath brought it about that so terrible a Rent is made in him wherefore the Spirit sheweth us that as little as the Worme or Spirit of the soule could be helped except that the virgin came and did goe into Death in the Worme in the abysse of the Spirit of the soule which in its own abysse reacheth the Gate of Hell and the fierce anger of God and regenerate m Adam him anew and make him a new Creature in the first Image which is done in the sonne of the virgin in Christ 17. So little also could Adams Rib and his hollow-side where it stood be helped healed or brought to perfection except that the second Adam Christ suffer himselfe in the virgin to be wounded pierced or cut in the same place that his precious bloud might come to helpe the first Adam and repaire his broken side againe this of high and precious worth wee speake according to our knowledge which when we shall write of the suffering and death of Christ the Sonne of the virgin wee will so cleere it that thou O thirsty soule shalt finde a living fountaine which shall be little beneficiall to the Devill Further concerning the Woman 18. Reason asketh Is Eve meerely created out of the Rib taken out of Adam then shee should be far inferiour to Adam No beloved Reason it is not so the Fiat being a sharp attracting tooke from Adam of all essences and properties of every vertue but it took from him no more members in substance for the Image should be a man after a masculine kinde in the Limbus yet not at all with this deformity Understand it rightly in the ground he should be and he was also a man and he had a virgin-like heart wholly chaste in the Matrix 19. Therefore Eve was for certaine created out of all Adams Essences and so Adam thereupon had a great Rent and so likewise the Woman might come to her perfection to be the Image of God and this againe sheweth a great mystery wherehy the virgin very preciously witnesseth againe that the sonne of the virgin hath not onely suffered his side to be pierced through and shed his bloud out of the hole of his side but he hath also suffered his hands and feete to be struck through and a Crowne of thornes to be pressed upon his head so that the bloud gushed out from thence and in his body he endured to be whipped so that his bloud run down all over So very lowly hath the Sonne of the virgin debased-himselfe to n To heale help the sick and broken Adam and his weak and imperfect Eve to repaire them and bring them againe into the first Glory 20. Therefore you must know for certain that Eve was created out of all Adams Essences but there were no more ribs nor members broken from Adam which appeareth by the feeblenesse and weaknesse of the Woman and also by the Command of God who said Thy will shall be in subjection under thy Man or husband and he shall be thy Lord or Ruler because the Man is whole and perfect except a Rib therefore the Woman is a help for him and must help him to doe his work in humility and subjection and the Man must know that shee is very weak being out of his Essences he must help her in her weaknesse and love her as his own Essences in like manner the Woman must put her Essences and will into the Essences and will of the Man and be friendly towards her Man or husband that the Man may take delight in his own Essences in the Woman and that they two might be but one only will For they are one flesh one bone one heart and generate children in one onely will which are neither the Mans nor the Womans alone but of both together as if they were from one onely body And therefore the severe commandement of God is set before the children that they should with earnestnesse and subjection honour their father and mother upon paine of

temporary and eternall punishment o Note The Author lived not so lang to performe his purpose upon the Book of Exodus of which I will write concerning the Tables of Moses Concerning the Propagating of the soule The Noble Gate 21. The minde hath from the beginning of the world had so very much to doe about this gate and hath continually so searched therein that I cannot reckon the wearisome heap of writers about it but in the time of the Lilly this Gate shall flourish as a Bay-tree or Lawrell tree for its branches will get sap from the virgin and therefore will be greener than p Klee Trifolium Grasse and whiter than the whitest Roses and the virgin will beare the pleasant smell thereof upon her Pearly-Garland and it will reach into the Paradise of God 22. Seeing then the mystery presenteth it selfe to us therefore we will open the blossome of the Sprout yet wee would not have our Labour given to the Wolves Dogges or Swine which roote in our Garden of delight like wilde Boares but to those that seek that the sick Adam may be comforted 23. Now if wee will search after the Tincture what it is in its highest degree wee shall finde the q Spiritum Spirit for wee cannot say that the fire is the Tincture nor the aire neither For the fire is wholly contrary to the Tincture and the aire doth stifle it it is a very pleasant r Or habitation refreshment its roote out of which it is generated is indeed the fire but if I may rightly mention the seate where it sitteth I cannot say otherwise but that it is between the three Principles viz. between the Kingdome of God the Kingdome of Hell and the Kingdome of this world in the midst and it hath none of the three for its own and yet it is generated from all three and it hath as it were a severall Principle which yet is no Principle but a bright pleasant habitation neither is it selfe the Spirit but the Spirit dwelleth in it and it so reneweth the Spirit that ſ The Spirit it becometh cleere and visible its true name is wonderfull and none can name that Name but he to whom it is given he nameth it onely in himselfe and not without or outwardly it hath no place of its rest in the substance and yet resteth continually in it selfe and giveth vertue and beauty to all things as the t Or Sunshine Glance of the Sunne giveth light vertue and beauty to all things in this world and it is not the thing it selfe though indeed it worketh in the thing and maketh the thing grow and blossome and yet it is found really to be in all things and it is the life and heart of all things but it is not the Spirit which is generated out of the Essences 24. The Tincture is the pleasant sweetnesse and softnesse in a fragrant hearb and flower and the Spirit thereof is bitter and harsh and if the Tincture were not the hearb would get neither blossom nor smell it giveth to all Essences vertue to grow It is also in metalls and stones it maketh that the Silver and Gold doe grow and without it the Tincture there is nothing in this world could grow among all the children in Nature it onely is a virgin and hath never generated any thing out of it selfe neither can it generate and yet it maketh that all things impregnate it is the most hidden thing and also the most manifest it is a u Amica Dei Friendesse or shee-friend of God friend of God and a play-fellow of vertue it suffereth it selfe to he deteined by nothing and yet it is in all things but if any thing be done to it against the right of Nature then it flyeth away and that very easily it standeth not fast and yet it continueth immovable it continueth in no kinde of decayi●● of any thing all the while that it standeth in the roote of Natu●● not altered nor destroyed so long it continueth it layeth no burthen upon any thing but it easeth the burthen in all things it maketh that all things rejoyce and yet it generateth no x Laughter or out-cry shouting noyse but the voyce cometh out of the Essences and becometh loud in the Spirit 25. The way to it is very neere whosoever findeth that way dareth not to reveale it neither can he for there is no language that can expresse it and although any seek long after y The Tincture it if the Tincture will not he cannot finde it neverthelesse it meeteth them that seek after it aright in its own way or manner as its nature is with a virgin-like minde not being prone to covetousnesse and wantonnesse or voluptuousnesse it suffereth it selfe to be imprinted represented or imagined in a thing where it was not before by z Or Beliefe Faith if it be right in a virgin-like manner it is powerfull and yet doth nothing when it goeth out of a thing it cometh not into it againe but it stayeth in its a Aire or receptacle Ether it never breaketh or corrupteth more and yet doth grow 26. Now you will say this must be God! No it is not God but it is Gods b Shee-friend friend Christ said My Father worketh and I work also but it worketh not it is in a thing imperceptably and yet it may well be overpowred and used especially in Metalls there it can if it selfe be pure make pure Gold of Iron and of Copper it can make a little grow to be a great deale and yet it puts forth nothing It s way is as subtile as the thoughts of a Man and the thoughts do even arise from thence 27. And therefore when a man sleepeth so that the Tincture resteth then there are no thoughts in the spirit but the Constellation rumbleth in the Elements and beateth into the braines what shall through their operation come to passe which yet is often broken againe by another c Aspect of the Planets Conjunction so that it cometh not to effect besides it can shew nothing exactly except it come by a Conjunction of Planets and fixed Starres and that onely goeth forward but it representeth all in an earthly manner according to the spirit of this world so that where the d Or starry Spirit Sydereall Spirit should speake of Men it often speaketh of Beasts and continually represents the contrary as the earthly spirit fancieth from the starry spirit so he dreameth 28. Seeing now wee have spoken of the Tincture as of the house of the soule so wee will speake also of the soule what it is and how it can be propagated wherein wee can the better bring the Tincture to e Or to be understood light The soule is not so subtile as the Tincture but it is powerfull and hath great might or ability It can by the Tincture if it ride upon the virgins f That is upon true resignation