it that shall live in God For Christ said Flesh and Bloud CANNOT inherit the Kingdome of Heaven 265. What is it then For the New Creature generated out of the Dew of Heaven as you say also cannot arise for it dyeth Not Christs Life is its Life You will quite take away the first Adam what remaineth then If you are Learned tell me and play not on my Pipe you would have it that Christ hath not received or assumed Adam's Flesh then can Adam NOT rise again 266. My Friend I Exhort you in the Love of Christ be not an opposer till you understand the Center of all things or Substances together with the Three Principles For the Power or vertue of the Resurrection is performed according to the THIRD Principle there shall Nothing of ADAM passe away but only the grosse Droffinesse of the Beastiall Property and the Sinne which hath been wrought or committed according to the Anger of the First Principle 267. The Mystery viz the Quintae Essentia shall arise For Christ Flesh so farre and in whomsoever it is become Living Dyeth NO more In whomsoever the shut up heavenly part is in the power of the Word that became Man become Living that dyeth not It dyed in Adam therefore it needeth no further Resurrection 268. Also our Works follow not after us in That but in that which is a Similitude of the inward World viz in the Outward Mystery Now if Christ hath not received or assumed that to himself from US Men how then will it arise 269. I say Christ hath received or assumed the whole humanity from us on to his Heavenly but only not the BEASTIAL Property and Sinne but he hath received or assumed the Sinnes of the World on to himself As an own self-guilty Person and slaine the Death in our Souland Flesh else there were no Remedy for Man therefore must only a strong Saviour come into the Humane Property and slay Death and destroy Sinne and Introduce his Love into us 279. Now I beleeve that I shall arise in HIS and MY Flesh and Eternally Live in him his Life for mine his Spirit for mine and all whatsoever I am for his He God I Man and in him God and Man and he in me God and Man 271. This shall none teare out of my Heart I have knowne it Not I. but Christ in me therefore whosoever will may Fable and Babble about it I need no Election or Predestination to it my Saviour Christ hath Elected me IN my Soul Spirit and Flesh in himself I am therein Joyfull and Comforted let who will be a Heretick and Feigner I have with MARY Elected or Chosen the Best thing and will in the meane time sit at the Feet of my LORD JESU till all Feigners and Grace Electioners or Predestinatours have seigned and babbled Out ALL they CAN. 272. They say they cannot doe so that is their Obstinacy and Wilfulnesse I say if I cannot yet Christ in Me can And say with Jacob I will not leave thee unlesse thou blesse me and Though Body and soul should be dissolved yet I will not leave thee cast me into Heaven or into Hell yet I am in thee and thou in me thou art mine and I am thine the Enemy shall NOT part us How Mary was Eves Daughter and how Christ hath had a Humane Soul which is Eternally Immortall 273. MY Opponent hath so wonderfull a vaine discourse concerning Mary he will prove out of the Scripture that SHE hath been from Eternity and draweth a whole heape of Texts together about it which yet are all against him those very Texts speak all of the Virgin of the Divine Wisdome and then who is it that contendeth with him that Christ is become Man in that very Virginity not I I have throughout written just So but I understand also that the same Virgin was also IN the Mark or Limit of the Covenant in which God became Man 274. But Mary was from Eve else Christ had not received or assured our humane Soul as he also very strongly denyeth it that he hath assumed no Soul from us a strange thing helpeth not me in a strange thing he is not my Brother 275. Is his Soul no Creature but God himself Is he not out of or from us why then did he commend it to his Father in his Death into his hands And said On the Mount of Olives My Soul is troubled even unto Death May God also be troubled I beleeve he must now permit it to be a Humane Soul if he will stand before the Scripture and Truth that so Christ remaine to be our Brother as he said After his Resurrection Goe and tell my Brethren I ascend to my God and to your God else how should Christ say I goe to MY God if he were no Creature God needs no going without besides and beyond the Creature 276. Beloved what may indeed his Temptation in the Wildernesse have been WHAT in him became Tempted His Deity or his Soul Beloved pray tell me Did God Tempt himself Or What had he to doe with the Humanity I suppose the Man will here be Silent Read my Book of the Threefold Life therein thou wilt have the ground of all even More then any one could Ask which I here let passe 277. He writeth that Christs Soul did flow forth out of the Word and the Wisdome then is Christ Totally strange and not my Brother as he saith if they are to be Brothers then they must come out of ONE Body but Christ would not have spoken right if this Opinion should take place 278. God promised Abraham that in HIS understand in Abraham's Seed should all People become blessed but he saith no but in Abrahams promised Seed he saith not in the Seed which I promise thee or in my Seed but in thy Seed 279 O! how terrible it is that Man Dare so to pervert the Scriptures Dear Sirs where will you abide How will you stand before God Have you not the Spirit of True Knowledge from God Why then doe you make Glosses or Expositions upon the Scripture What are your conceits profitable that you Exchange Words for Words and imbitter the Scriptures let them stand unexplained if you be not called to it of God Why doe you so long make many Errours leave the Explanation to the highest Tongue in Every Man 280. Why doe you Juggle so much with the Holy Spirit are you more knowing or skilfull then HE Yes indeed ye are stately proud self honouring self-profiting wilfull stubborne Children Ye run and None hath called you suffer your selves first to be called and enlightened with Gods Light before you run 281. From such imbittering from the beginning of the World to this time nothing hath existed but strife Wars and Desolation and Babel is an unsure Leader full of Abomination and Pride to make Ostentation of it self that a Man hath studied or that a
come and I will speak with him of the Mystery else let him leave my apprehension unreproved 36. If he be a Christian let him Live in Love towards a Christian and rejoyce in the Gifts which God giveth us one among another why doth he brag and reproach so much that sheweth him to be a Proud Man let him deal Meekly and I will meet him meekly if he understand any thing according to his Gifts let him praise God and not contemne that which God giveth to another if he can not endure to read it let him leave it for those whom God hath called thereunto to whom HE will reveale or manifest it 37. Is not that a wonderfull thing that he will reprove the Three Principles and understandeth not out of what Center and understanding the Spirit speaketh he will begin the first Principle with the Fire where then remaineth the Center out of which the Fire originateth 38. Let him tell me how the Eternall Nothing introduceth it selfe from Eternity in Eternity into an Eternall Center and how the Eternall Nature from Eternity continually generateth it self whereby the Eternall Will which is called God manifesteth or revealeth it self from Eternity 39. With this his half-mute Description he will not bring me into it but in My Book of the Six Points he will well find it let him read that it is like he will become seeing if he but seek and begin aright 40. When I write of Three Principles then I understand Three Worlds as First the Center to Nature the Dark World in which the Fire or the sharpnesse of the sterne Might originateth from Eternity the Form to the Fire-Life in which property Gods fierce Wrath and Anger also the hellish Fire is understood from whence the Nature-Life Originateth which is not called God and though indeed it is Gods yet it attaineth not the Name and Divine source or quality in its own Essence as Saint John Witnesseth Chap. 1. Vers 5. Where he saith The Light shineth in the Darknesse and the Darknesse hath not comprehended it and this sheweth it self also in the Outward World how the Light shineth or giveth Light in the Darknesse 41. Now if the Fire be the First Principle as he saith then let him tell me whether the Darknesse cometh out of the Fire or whether the Fire maketh Darknesse Also what that is which Maketh Darknesse and how all this thus generateth it selfe from Eternity in Eternity 42. I suppose here my Pamphlet Maker will remain Mute he will indeed be silent concerning it unlesse he goe with Me into the School but he should first put off the Click of Pride else this Schoolmaster will not receive him he will have Children at School which look and trust upon him Not Lords 43. When I write of three Principles then I write of Three Worlds of Three Eternall Beginnings how they generate themselves 44. I understand with or by the Principles Not the Chaos the Eye of the Aether which dwelleth without Ground or Place in it self but I understand How the Eye of the Aether Manifesteth or Revealeth it self through and with the Principles and introduceth it self into Power Might Shining Glance and Glory viz with Desire and Lust or Longing Delight where in the Desire the first shutting in is effected which is a Darknesse where the Desire is the first Center to Nature which introduceth it self into the source or quality into the perceptibility and perception even into the Fire viz into the fourth Form as is sufficiently Described in our Books viz of the Three Principles also of the Threefold Life also in the Second Booke of the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ concerning Christs Suffering and Dying and yet higher in the Six Poynts to which Books I refer the Reader and so in this Part which the blind Man opposeth it is not here expressed at Large 45. Now if Gods Fire which generateth the Glance or Lustre of the Majesty be the first Principle and yet in the Darknesse the source quality or Torment and Pain and moreover the sterne Life is generated and also the Fire it self Originateth out of the Darknesse viz out of the sharpnesse with the aspect or appearance of the Liberty in the Lust or Longing out of the Chaos then tell me now my Opponent whether the Dark World be a Principle or whether He or I be blind in the Mystery 46. I know also very well that the Fire is a source or quality of Every Life but I say that the Root of the Fire is Dark and that the Dark world is not called God for it is an Enimicitious quality in it self a Cause of Nature 47. Indeed it is Gods and God who manifesteth himself through the Dark World with the Fire in the Light of the Majesty is its Lord for it becometh generated in the Desire of the Chaos out of the Abysse in the Nothing and in the Desire introduced into Darknesse but the Lust or Longing Delight of the Chaos to the Revelation taketh only thus its Sharpnesse and Fires Might to it self and yet bringeth it self againe through the Dying in the Fire wherein the Darknesse dyeth understand the Darknesses substantrality forth through the Fire into the Light and maketh another or Second Principle of another source or quality viz Joy Meeknesse and Love-Desire 48. Thus the Dark-source or quality-Spirit remaineth to be in it self an anguish and Paine and is called Gods Anger and fierce wrath and the kindled Fire in the Fourth Form at the Center is called a Consuming Fire whence God calleth himself an angry Zealous or Jealous fierce wrathfull God 49. And here understand Death and Dying as also Gods Holy Kingdome also his Anger or Kingdome of Hell viz the Darknesse is the Eternall Hell or Hole wherein Lucifer Batheth himself and into which the wicked Soul goeth and the fierce wrath to the Fire-Life is the right hellish Fire-life therein and yet there is no farre distance from God but a Principle only severeth them 50. As we see a Similitude of this in Fire and Light where the Dark Matter in the Fire Dyeth and the Light shineth out of that which dyeth and dwelleth in the Fire and the Fire comprehendeth it NOT. 51. Also the Light is not of the Fires Essence quality source or Torment for the Light giveth Meeknesse and an amiable thing or Substance viz out of that which before was a Dead Dark Substance a Water and herein lyeth Mysterium Magnum the Great Mystery My Dear Pamphlet-Maker seek and you will find knock and it will be opened unto you 52. Your Conceit is a Dead understanding as to the Mystery if you be taught of God then goe with me to the Center and then I will shew it you in all the things of this World yes in your very SELF I will have nothing excepted wherein I will not shew you the Similitude of the Three Principles Forbear your reproaching and become a Child then it will be shewen you but I
or from my precious Talent that you goe out from Contention and Reade the Brotherly A. B. C. IN you for it is all Nothing and unprofitable before God that you contend about the Letter it standeth indeed in ALL Men the Plowman is as Learned and neere to the Kingdome of God as the Doctor if he Reade the Brotherly A. B. C. IN himselfe 301. No skill or knowledge maketh you blessed but that you enter into the knowledge and be and become the doer or practicer of the skill or knowledge Not a proud surly selfe-honouring Stubborne wilde withered Branch but Living in he Tree of God wherein one Branch affordeth Sap and Life to the other 302. O how the Mother complaineth over some of you that you are dry withered Branches It is told you that the dry withered Branches shall be cut off for the Tree shall renew it selfe and present its first Forme of Youth againe for the End belongeth into the Beginning 303. If you shall all despise this which is at present told you and not turne into your selves and learne to Reade your own Book then will an Ano from the Rising or East and Midnight or North Cut you off that you shall never more say I reade in strange or forreigne Books and feed my selfe in strange Pasture 304. God hath sent his Heart together with his Life INTO Vs wherein all standeth written he that readeth that Book in himselfe is Learned Enough the Other is Babel and a Fable that a Man will needs be learned in the Letter without him before he can reade his owne Book Let him first reade his own and so he will in his own finde ALL what ever the Children of God have written י חי וחי חוחי חושחי Not one JOT 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Tittle of the LAW shall passe away JOD י Jod signifies a Substantive JAH Existence JEHV He who is Existent JEHOVAH Being of Beings Or Substance of ALL Substances JHSVH 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Saviour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 JESVS 306. But you are drunken and erre and goe astray and seek the Key to the Book and Contend or dispute about the Key every one saith I have the Key and yet none will unlock his own Lifes Book every one hath the Key to God in himselfe let him but seek it in the right place but you would rather contend or dispute then seek the Key in your selves Therefore you are all of you blinde that contend or dispute you doe but goe Seeking as before a Looking Glasse why doe you not goe into the Center for with other seeking you will not finde the Key be as Learned as you will it will not availe 307. It lyeth not in Art and Reason but in an Earnest purposed resolved Will to goe out from selfe and forsake all own selfe skill and knowledge and with Repentant humble desires to cast your selfe into Gods knowing and desire only Gods knowing yet with or in this manner that he in you may know what he will thus you will put on Divine skill or knowledge and FINDE the Key about which you contend or dispute A Conclusions Also how the present so called Christians Turks Jewes and Heathens are alike And how one people shall devoure the other The Harvest is neere 308. MY deare Brother hate me not for my knowledge sake for I so farre as I am I knew not before-hand that which I have written to you I supposed I wrote it only for my selfe and it is without my knowledge so come about I tell it you in true faithfulnesse if you have not the Gift to understand it then leave it to me for I understand that well which I have written 309. If any can understand it and hath a Minde to it I willingly and readily afford it him but if not and that he doth not desire it in that he doth not understand it let him not rise up with scorning and blasphemy against God else there will follow an Earnest severity which you neither can nor will know any thing of in such a Course but afford me leave to Labour in that wherein I am set 310. But my Opponent faith without God we can think nothing that is Good also know nothing of God without him I say so too that I know nothing of God without God my knowing is in him and standeth in his might or power 311. Why then is HE my Enemy for that which God knoweth in ME that I should manifest or reveale to you the way to him I am indeed Nothing and he is Ail he that can understand it let him understand it but he that cannot should let it stand with such objecting you will not fathom nor understand my Writings 312. I see your Spirit much better then you understand what manner of Objections you make but I cannot finde that my Opponent understandeth any thing fundamentally in my apprehension or sence but it is all of a wilde surly envious property very scornfull so that I more lament his misery that he is for blinde therein then that I desire to answer him 313. I exhort you all that reade and heare this slop not your hearts look upon the time and consider it see in what time we and our fathers have lived viz in vaine Contention and Strife what is the World viz Man become the honester or better by the Strife Nothing but more hellish wicked voluptuous reproaching and more scornfull 314. He is by the Manifestation of the Gospel in his Life become the worse all the while they have contended one brother hath contemned another and persecuted and hated him what manner of fruit have you of the Gospel at present as there should be 315. Must not the Deare and precious Name of God at present be the Cover to Mans wickednesse Are not the present Christians so called as also Turkes Jewes and Heathens all alike to one another in Life What doth the Name of Christ availe you If you live but heathenishly Doe you suppose it is enough that you know that Christ dyed for Sinne That you need only to tickle and Comfort your selves with Christs Death and retaine the false or wicked Man who is only proud or stately and a Contender 316. Can you not perceive what will suddenly follow upon it viz that seeing they are all alike in Life and Will they should be accounted alike before God and so if Men seek nothing but strife and meere Contention it must come to such a mixt Confusion in the Strife that one people will devoure the other 317. For God withdraweth his hand from People while they will not suffer his Spirit to reprove them therefore hath the Wrath taken up its sword and desire and driveth on mightily in the Minds of Men so that one people destroyeth and devoureth the other What our Fathers have layd in with reproach and scorn that will their children Eate up with sword and slaughter 318. And that God
and Christ saith The Holy Spirit shall receive of Mine and make it knowne to you within you 21. All outward Teaching doth not lay fast hold in Man unlesse Man cast his desirous will thereinto how will it then take hold in the scorner who bringeth an Envious opposition against the Spirit of Christ 22. Deare Sirs and Brethren doe but see and consider him what the poor blinde Man in his Pride and State sets before him he reproves that which he knoweth nothing of and that which he hath no apprehension of which I very much Lament that the Man runneth on thus without any Ground 23. He begins to reprove that I have written concerning the Great MYSTERY of the Eternall Nature out of which the Third Principle viz the Outward World with the Starres and Elements are become generated and Created and yet bringeth nothing to Light that Men may see that he understandeth somewhat of the Ground and Center he saith The Word and the Wisdome of CHRIST are the Mystery viz the Outpoured Glance of his Glory in which every thing is Created who is it now that striveth with him about that that all things are created by God through his Wisdome I have in all my Writings written so and it needs not his Glosse or Exposition at all 24. Only the Question is out of what God hath Created them If he will say that Evill as also Earth and Stone also all venomous or poysonous Creatures and particularly SINNE are generated out of the outpoured Glance or Lustre of his Wisdome then he speaketh as a blinde Man of Colours which he hath never seene 25. But that he brings forth such a sad and miserable meaning Men see sufficiently in that which he writes concerning the Will and Election of God and so thrusts all into Gods Predestination and drags the Scripture by the Haire of the Head to it quite contrary to the Meaning of the Scripture Oh that the Confused Man might come so farre as first to learne to understand the Center of the Eternall Nature and of all things or Substances before he speak of the Great Mystery of all things or Substances and reprove those to whom the same is revealed or manifested from God 26. If he will now put it so that all things were in the Great Mystery of God then he must distinguish the Word of Love and the Eternall Name of God from Gods Anger and fierce Wrath in which he calleth himself a Consuming Fire 27. If he will say that the Consuming Fire is Gods Wisdome and Love then he will say that Hell is Heaven and that the Heaven wherein Gods Majesty shineth is the Darknesse If he will not admit that the Center to the Fire of God is an Eternall Darknesse whereinto the Devill plunged himself when he despised Gods Meeknesse 28. If now this outward World with all things or Substances therein is become generated only out of the Word of Love out of the Holy Name of God out of the Wisdome why it is then called and is Evill and Good and moreover a vale of Misery full of anxiety and Toyle why then did God Curse it for the sake of One Sinne 29. If it be the Mysterie of the Wisdome why is it then without Divine Understanding but if it be not that as he also doth not determine then I ask what kinde of Mystery is THAT out of which it became Created that it is Good and Evill whether is it an inceptive or beginning Mystery or an Eternall one seeing the blinde Man will know Nothing of the Eternall Nature and knoweth not nor will not distinguish the Cleere Deity from the fierce Wrath of God and the Eternall Nature whereas he hath a true similitude of this in Fire and Light and in whatsoever thing out of which the Fire burneth if he did but see 30. If he will not admit that before the time of this World there hath been a Mystery in the Eternall Nature in which the Eternall Nature from Eternity in Eternity continually Originateth wherein Gods Anger and fierce Wrath from Eternity becometh generated wherein the fierce Wrathfull hard and Stern Property hath Generated Darknesse and a Mist or Cloud or Vapour and yet hath been like no Mist but the fierce wrathfull Spirit hath had such a property wherein all Evill is understood as also the sterne Earth Then let him tell me out of what THAT is proceeded and tell me further how the Life can subsist without the Fires property and whence the Fires Property Originateth 31. Let him shew me another Center then I have shewne him in the book of the Three Principles as also in the Book of the Threefold Life of Man and yet much more deeply and fundamentally in the Book of The Sin Poynts of the Great Mysterie of the Substance of all Substances concerning the Thrâ—â— Worlds how they stand one in another as ONE and how they Eternally support themselves and each is the Cause of the Other so that in the Great Mysterie there is nothing Evill nor any thing without a Cause 32. Let him first come into the Schoole and learn the A B C before he call himself Master it is not to goe upon strange Feet if one will speak of the Mysterie to furnish or adorne himself with strange Masters or Artists but to understand it himself himself to have the Spirit of understanding or else to leave the Mysterie undefiled and let those speak and write of it to whom God hath manifested or revealed it 33. His Tattle which he driveth on with his drawing the Holy Scripture to it taketh or reacheth not my sense and understanding at all The Children of God speak in their apprehension and Gifts not out of the Mouth of others but their own and I speak also not out of the Mouth of others but out of my own but out of One spirit we all speak every one out of his own Gift what doth that availe the unintelligent to whom the Mystery of God is not intrusted why doth he reprove us all before he rightly understandeth one of them 34. Learne first to understand the Center of the Eternall Nature and how to distinguish the Cleere or bright Deity from Nature and learne how the Deity revealeth or manifesteth it self through Nature and Learn what Gods Wisdome is how it is the out spoken Substance of the Deity and what the Divine-Life is and then what the Nature-Life is also what a Principle is e're he wittily subtillizeth Let him first learne beforehand what the Eternall Tincture is and what the One Element is also what Paradise and Heaven are what Evill and Good are Let him first goe into the Schoole of Pentecost that he may attaine that Spirit in which only there is understanding 35. But he must first become a Fool and then come to be Nothing as the World supposeth if he will attain the Spirit of the Mysterie that God may be his Will and Deed and then let him
will not cast the Pearle under your Feet know that nor under None 53. I have my knowledge and skill not from Conceit or Opinions as you have but I have a living skill or knowledge in the visibility Experience or perceptibility I need no Doctor from the Schools of this World about it for I have not learned it from them but from Gods Spirit therefore I am not afraid of your Clamour and Scorne Of a right Christian And of the Divine Wisdome the Eternall Virgin that is no Genetrix 54. DEare Sirs and Brethren in Christ I pray be Schollers of Gods Wisdome let none say of Himself I understand it we know nothing concerning God what HE is but Gods Spirit must become the knowing in US else our knowing is but Fiction a continuall Confusednesse a continuall Learning and understanding nothing in the Ground of the Center 55. What is it for me to speak much of the Wisdome out of the Scripture and could repeat the Bible without Book and understood nothing of what the Wise Men have spoken and out of what Spirit and knowledge if also I have not the same Spirit which they had HOW then shall I understand them 56. To such knowledge belongeth not Conceits and to collect together a heap or abundance of Texts to his purpose THAT no Holy Man or wise Man hath done but a living Spirit out of God can See the Mystery and converse in its own knowledge 57. Gods Spirit must be IN the Reason if Reason will see God there belongeth an humble resigned heart to it not a Scorner in Reason where Reason boasteth it self to be enlightened that is only a Sydereall or Starry Enlightening to be so sharp witted 58. If any be a Child of God then let him seek his Brother in the Love of God and then I can trust him but while he is a Scorner he hath put on the Devills Vizard and Hood and goeth about in Pride he is no Christian but a Mouth or Lip-Christian and Consufed Babel as indeed such Books of Controversie or Contention and Hypocrisie are ALL Babel 59. Let one shew another the Way of God in Love Humility and in the Fear of God as becometh the Children of God then such Contemning would not exist in the World whereby the simple Layick is seduced and totally ignorant of the Cause falleth on in reproach and Contempt against his Brother who is not of his Opinion or Sect of Religion and yet One in a Religion which without Gods Spirit and Power is but a conceit and Opinion is as blinde as the other 60. For the true Religion standeth not alone in outward Words in appearance or shew but in Living active power that one desireth from the Ground of his Heart to performe to another what he knoweth he ought to doe 61. It must come into deed else it is but a Coloured or Painted faith a Historicall Babel where Gods Spirit is not there is no Faith also no Christian but where that is there it worketh cleere works of Love he teacheth and reproveth Meekly he is not puffed up and Scornfull as my Opponent 62. He will needs write out the Ground of the divine Wisdome scorn my Explanation which I have spoken from the Center Confirm himself with the Collected Texts of Scripture despiseth that which I have Written That the Wisdom is a Virgin without Generating that she is NO Genetrix but that the Spirit of God is her Life and Generating which Revealeth or Manifesteth in her the Divine Wonder and he will set that which is better in the stead thereof 63. He saith the Wisdome suffereth and Generateth and he collecteth a heap of Texts for proof Who now is at odds with him in this Not I I say the same and he writeth but my words but understandeth not my Sense or Thoughts he is at Odds with himself 64. I speak out of the Center and he from the Substance that is Generated I understand that the Wisdome is not the Center or the Opener but Gods Spirit is that I understand thus to speak in a Similitude that as the Soul in the Body manifesteth or revealeth it self through the Essence of the Flesh and that the Flesh had not the Might or strength if there were not a living Spirit in it so also Gods Wisdome is the Out-spoken Substance where through the Power and the Spirit of God manifesteth or revealeth it self in Forms understand in Divine Forms and Shapes in the Wonders 65. It generateth or beareth indeed but it is not the Divine Principle or the Center of the Genetrix but the Mother wherein the Father Worketh 66. And therefore I call it a Virgin because it is the Modest Chastity and purity of God and carrieth no Desire backward to the Fire but its longing pleasure or Lust of Delight goeth forward with or in the Revelation or Manifestation of the Deity 67. She could generate Nothing if the Spirit of God did not work in her and therefore she is NO Genetrix but the Looking-Glasse of the Deity the Spirit of God generateth in her he is her Life she is his Chist Cabinet or Body she is the Holy Spirits Corporeity in her lye the Colours of the Vertue for she is the Out-spoken Substance which the Father comprehendeth out of the Chaos that is out of himself without besides beyond or before Nature in the Nothing and bringeth the same forth with the desire to Nature through the Eternall Nature through the first Principle through the Fire of his Might into the Second Principle in the Divine Power into the Light of the Majesty 68. It is that which the Father from Eternity in Eternity continually re-comprehendeth which the Father who is a Fire and Light introduceth into his Fire-Life to the Center of his Heart 69. She is the highest Substantiality of the Deity without her God would not be Manifested or Revealed but would be only a Will but through the Wisdome he bringeth himself into Substance so that he is Manifested or Revealed to himself 70. And therefore I call her a Virgin being she is in the Marriage with God so that she generateth without a Fire-life for in her the Light or the right Divine Life Manifesteth or Revealeth it self she is a Virgin of the Modest Chastity and purity of God and yet is in the Marriage with God 71. Thou suttle prudent School or Vniversity from the Constellation if thou didst here understand the Ground thou wouldst NEED NO Books more ALL lyeth herein the Stone of the Wise Men or Philosophers STONE lyeth in this place but first put off your rough Garment and then you will see it Of the Third Principle which is the Bride of God and how the Spirit of God is no Principle and yet is a Principle 72. NOw when I speak of the Third Principle I understand the Outward World Then saith my Opponent God hath made it through his Wisdome and proveth it by Scripture and I
say so to but I proceed not mutely I say out of what for God hath given me the knowledge It is Not I my self that know it but God knoweth it IN Me. 73. The Wisdome is his Bride and the Children of Christ are in Christ in the Wisdome also Gods Bride Now then if Christs Spirit dwelleth in Christs Children and if Christs Children be Branches on his Vine and one Body with him also one Spirit whose now is the knowledg is it Mine or Gods should I then not know in the Spirit of Christ out of what this World is Created if he dwelleth in me which hath created it should HE not know it 74. Therefore now I submit and will know nothing so far as I am self viz in that part from the outward World that he may know in me what he will I am not the Genetrix in the knowing but my Spirit is his Wife or 〈…〉 which he generateth the knowing according to the Measure 〈…〉 75. As the Eternaâ—â— Wisdome is the Body of God and he generateth therein what he will then now if he generateth it is not I that doe it but he in me I am as Dead in the generating of the knowledg and he is my Life and indeed I have neither sought it or learned it he inclineth himself to my Minehood and my Ihood inclineth it self up into him 76. But now I am Dead and understand Nothing but he is my understanding therefore I say I live in God and God in me and so I teach and write of him Dear Brethren and otherwise I know Nothing 77. Bear with my folly a little I pray in that which I tell you not for my own boasting but for your Learning and knowledge that you may know whom you scorne and despise when you deride me I will not hide it from you but mean it heartily 78. I have written of Three Principles which are known in Me but weakly as a Scholler which goeth to School so it hath gone with me 79 My Opponent writeth of Four Principles and calleth the Spirit of God a Principle also according to his meaning though I bring no Controversie into HIS meaning about it he may make Ten for the Wisdome hath neither Limit nor Ground but he neither understandeth my meaning nor his own 80. Let him tell me How the Holy Spirit is a Principle or what doth he understand by a Principle will he make the Cleere Bright Deity to be a Principle which is Eternall without ground and Beginning which dwelleth in the Nothing also possesseth nothing but only it self I can not speak so of the Principles but I speak of the Three Worlds in and with which the Incomprehensible Deity manifesteth or revealeth it self 81. One of them with or by the wrought power in the Desire to the Eternall Nature viz with the Spirit of the Dark source or quality through which the Will of the still Eternity sharpeneth it self and brings it self in the Fire through the Light and so the sharpnesse remaineth Eternally only in it self and yet in the still Will of the Meeknesse thus receiveth a Cause in the sharpnesse to the Kingdome of Joy and yet also remaineth not Essentially standing with the Spirit in the fierce wrathfull sharpnesse 82. But the Root is a Darknesse and the Spirit goeth forth out of the Chaos through the Root through the Fire in the Fathers Property through the Second Center of the Love and Kingdome of Joy into the Light 83. Now therefore that very SPIRIT which is the Life of all in every Substance or Thing according to its property is NO Principle but according to the Eternall Nature of the fierce wrathfulnesse it is a Principle 84. Thus also the Second Principle subsists with or by the Divine World viz where the Divine Power with 〈◊〉 of the Majesty is poured forth which is justly accounted 〈…〉 THREE Persons 85. But the Principle in the Fire is to 〈…〉 where the Dying is and out of the Dying another Life 〈◊〉 viz out of the Fire a Light and yet there is no dying but a consuming source quality or Torment and out of the Source Quality or Torment the high triumphing Spirit existeth where then Gods Love-Will and Anger-Will severeth it self into two Worlds viz into Light and Darknesse and he is called God according to the Light and according to the poured-out vertue or power of his Wisdome 86. But the Eternall Divine Originall is not in the Eternall Nature the Will to Nature is sooner and THAT Will is the Chaos wherein all lyeth and the Spirit existeth out of that and Manifesteth or revealeth it self with or by Light and Darknesse Therefore I call not the Spirit of God a Principle for it is without or besides all Beginnings yet with the Eternall Beginnings manifested or revealed with God in Trinity though the Ternary also is in the Chaos as is expressed in the Book of the Six Poynts Wherefore the Outward World is a Principle of its own its Model is Eternall 87. NOw when I Write of the Third Principle then I also say that God hath created all things through his Wisdome but out of the Spirit which is called God this World is NOT Created for it is called Evill and Good and a Murthering Den of the Devill 88. Also it is not generated out of the Divine Wisdome but by or through the Wisdome the Wisdome is Not the Matter of this World else I must call a Stone Gods Wisdome and Sinne also but it is generated out of the two Eternall Principles of both Worlds Substantiality viz out of the desires of BOTH 89. God the Father who is ALL hath moved himselfe with the Creation of this World that is in the Formes of both Worlds of both Natures and hath created Angells understand out of the Spirit of the Eternall Natures 90. For if a Spirit be to subsist in the kingdome of Joy then it must have the Center in it selfe out of which the Joy Originateth viz the Center to the Dark World which is the sharp might else it would be a stillnesse without Moving 91. Therefore when Lucifer contemned the Light he remained in that part of the Darknesse for his Will went out from the Light and would domineere in the Fires Might whereby he angred God according to the Fires property that is in the Principle in the Fires property 92. Thus I say the Outward World is a Principle that it hath a Life of its own generated out-of both the inward Spirituall Worlds viz a Revelation or Manifestation of the First and Second Principle a Model or Similitude of the Eternall Nature comprized in the desire of the Eternall Nature and Manifested with a Beginning and included in a Time which with the End goeth againe into the Eternity 93. This Model or Time hath stood in Gods Wisdome which the Wisdome hath manifested through TWO Spirituall WORLDS with the Moving of the Eternall Father and that which is Revealed or Manifested goeth out of both
suffers to be because Men only use his holy Name to Cursing and Swearing and so misuse it and in the knowledge of his Name and Will are only selfe-willed and use his Name only for a Reproach so that one brother despiseth another only for the sake of the knowledge of his Name though he should seek him in his knowledge in Love and goe before him with a holy Life 319. What now are the Christians so called better than Turks and Heathens if they live Turkish'y and more then Turkishly or Heathenishly Where is the Christian and Evangelicall Fruit 320. Every one faith It will be good when this Evill is past and gone but I tell you in true knowledge that it will not be good but worse and worse unlesse you Convert every one in himselfe and turne his Heart and Minde to Love and condescension else one people will devoure another and the Countreys will Consume Wast and Destroy Themselves and there will be such a vaine Evill World that they will not be worthy to be called Men. 321. And this they will doe themselves one among another and there will be a Generall Mixture and Confusion of People in the Strife no one part better than another till the Anger of God Satiate its sierce Wrath and the people introduce themselves into the highest perdition and misery and then thou wilt see and learne to know thy selfe what thou hast been in thy Pride when thou art Naked and wilt Seek the Lord in thy Misery and see what Evill thou hast done to thy SELFE 322. Therefore my deare Brethren Seek but the Pearle all you that entend to avoyd the Anger of God look not one upon the Life of another but upon his OWN For it is no more Disputing but either Convert or perish 323. The Time of Disputation and Babling is out you will get no further with Disputation but with the Regeneration in the Spirit of Christ you will reach and obtaine the Pearle so that you need never to Dispute More 324. Let every one be in Sincere Earnest and seek himselfe in himselfe and see what he is and Consider how to Seek his brother in Love let him but goe out from Covetousnesse and Pride and Content himselfe with food and Rayment and put his trust in God who giveth Raine and blessing 325. Indeed we take nothing along with us from this World why then doe we then contend about that which is vaine and thereby squander and loose that which is untransitory it must come to the Limit or Mark or else it will be still worse and that People which will not enter into this Limit or Mark must be quite devoured and Consumed saith the Spirit of Wonders 326. This I would not have concealed from you Deare Sirs and Brethren in Christ who reade my Writings and make use of them in consideration of my Opponent and I exhort you brotherly as also my Opponent that you would lay the Holy Scriptures upon my Writings but in the Scripture seek nothing else then the Paternall Love-Heart of JESUS CHRIST and then you will well FINDE from what Spirit I have written 327. But he that hath no minde to doe this let him leave my Writings at rest for I have written Nothing for him I have written them for my selfe without any thought how it would goe with them neither doe I know how it cometh to passe that they run so abroad for I have not run after any body with them and I wonder as much as you what the Most High doth about them 328. Yet Observe it and become seeing for the Day breaketh or dawneth if you will learne rightly to understand my Writings then you will be freed from all Contention and Strife and learne to know your selves yet indeed the Letter cannot doe it but only the Living Spirit of Christ the way is faithfully shewne you 329. Now doe what thou wilt the Harvest is neere that every one will partake of what he hath gathered into his Barne I speake from my whole Heart very Earnestly in my knowledge given Me of God and Commend my selfe into your brotherly Love into the Deare and Precious Name of JESUS CHRIST Dated the 3. July 1621. 330. Rejoyce in the LORD all Countreys and Praise him all People For his Name goeth over all Mountaines and Hills HE shooteth forth like a Sprout and goeth on in Great Wonders who will hinder it HALLELV-JAH A Postscript of the Translatour into Nether-Dutch out of the Three High-Dutch Copies and this English Translation out of a High-Dutch Copy was Compared with it Who writes thus THis Treatise was Written in Answer to Balthasar Tylcken concerning some Poynts in the Book of the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Jesus Christ This Balthasar Tylcken first wrote a reproachfull Book against Jacob Behme Concerning some Poynts in the AVRORA which Jacob Behme hath Answered in the First Apology to Balthasar Tylcken afterwards Tylcken opposed some Poynts in the Book of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ and added some Sheets as an Appendix to that Book which were sent over to Jacob Behme upon which his Answer was as is to be found in this Second Apology of His. Here follow the CONTENTS Of the SECTIONS As they were Devided by the Translatour into the Nether-Dutch I. Part. Apo to Tylcken II. Of Predestination A Letter or Preface concerning Verses 15. I. An Introduction to the Answer an Exhortation and marning from vers 1. to 18. II. What the first Principle or Dark World is How the Fire is not the first Principle He that will attaine the Spirit of the Principle must first become a Foole to the World From v. 19. to 53. III. Of a right Christian and of the Eternall Wisdome which is no Genetrixs From v. 54. to 71. IV. Of the Third Principle What the Bride of God is and how the Spirit of God is no Principle and yet is One. From vers 72 to 86. V. Why the Outward World is a Principle of its own Out of what the Angels are out of what joy Existeth The Model of this World is Eternall From vers 87. to 94. VI. How the Soul is proceeded out of all the Three Worlds Of the Might or Strength and of the Free Will of the Soul Of the drawing of the Father And what it is to beleeve above all Reason From vers 95. to 117. VII Of the grosse errour of Balthasar Tylcken concerning the Seed of Adam upon which he buildeth his Election From 118. to 126. VIII Why God hated Cain and Esau and loved Abel and Jacob and who are the lost Sinners for whose sake Christ came From 127. to 133. IX What the hardening is how the Love of God warneth Sinners Also how the Love of God is as Almighty to preserve as his Anger is to destroy From vers 134. to 143. X. What God is How without the Darknesse all would be Nothing And in what Manner man hath ability to goe out of Evill
into Good and out of Good into Evill From 144. to 153. XI How Balthasar Tylcken is the Devills Advocate How the Devill doth not assault any with Doubting more then the Children of God And of the firme Confidence of the Faithfull From 154 to 168. XII How Nothing is impossible for Faith what the drawing of God is Why the Wicked are not drawn what a right Christian is and who become hardened from God From 169. to 186. XIII The abominable Doctrine of Balthasar Tylcken an Exhortation not to doubt of Election and an Exhortation and warning to Balthasar Tylcken From vers 187 to 202. XIV Of the Eternall Purpose or Predestination and Election of God The Beginning and End whereof is one and the same alwayes From 203. to 229. II. Part. Of the Person of Christ Apol. to Tylck II. XV. How Christ became Man out of no strange Seed but out of the Seed of Mary and yet not in Eves Earthly Essence the Holy Spirit was the Husband From 230. to 242. XVI What manner of Essence the Word assumed in which God and Man became One Person How Christ is a Creature and how no Creature From 243. to 251. Of the Person of the Virgin Mary XVII How Mary was no strange Virgin but the Daughter of Joaohim and Anna Whence the Authour hath his Knowledge and what is Christs Descention into Hell From 252. to 262. XVIII Question How the New Birth is performed in us Also what of us shall arise Also of Impossibility and Possibility From vers 263. to 272. XIX How Mary was Eves Daughter how Christ had a humane Soul which Eternally is Immortal From 273. to 291. XX. Of the vaine Contention about Knowledge When we read in our selves we read in Gods Book No Knowledge maketh us Blessed a Warning and an Exhortation From vers 292. to 307. XXI A Conclusion How the present so called Christians Turks Jewes and Hoathens are all alike How one people shall devour the other and how the Harvest-is near at hand From 308. to 330. FINIS * Math. 18. 11. †Rev. 10. 7. * Rev. 14. 4. †The Book of Predestination written 1623. * Joh. 6. 45. †Jer. 31. 34. Heb. 8. 11. * Joel 2. 8. Acts 2. 17. * NOTE †The first Apologie to Balthasar Tylcken about the Aurora * 1 Tim 4. 10. Heb. 11. 26. †Eph. 6. 24. * 2 Cor. 5. 1. 4. †Rom. 3. 15. * 2 Thes 3. 2. †Joh 13. 35. * 1 Cor. 5. 12. †Phil. 3. 20. * Math. 6. 10. Luk. 11. 2. †Math. 18. 11. Luk 19. 10. * Note †Joh 6. 45 Isa 54. 13. Jer 31. 34. * Joh 16. 15. †Joh 1. 3. Col 1. 16. * Deut 4 24. Chap 9. 3. Heb. 12. 29. †Gen 3. 17. * 1 Cor. 3. 18. * Wesen * 2 Tim. 3. 7. †Or know the Bible outwardly inwardly were better * NOTE †Joh 1. 5 * Rom 6. 16. 18. 26. vsagen â—… 14. 12. â—… 22. 21. â—…k 11. 13. †Math 9. 13. * Math 11. 28. †Joh 6. 44. * Rom. 9. 16. 18. †Note Note * Joh 3. 3. †Math 11. 12. * Joh 6. 37. †Joh 10. 27 28 29. * NOTE †Ezek 1. 3. Mal 3. 7. * Math 7. 7. to the 11. Luk 11. 9. to the 14. †Note †Note * Gen 32. 26. †Psal 30. 5. * Note †Luk 5. 31. Math 18. 11. * Acts 20. 28. †Math 11. 28. * Joh 1. 5. †Note when it was that the Darknesse Comprehended the Light in Adam * Note Note * Mal. 1. 2 3 Rom 9. 13. †Gen 4. 4 5. * Gen 4. 6. 7. †NOTE * Math 23. 37. Luk 13. 34. †Micah 7. 1. * Col 2 14 15. †1 Cor. 15. 55 57. * Rom. 9. 18. †Rev. 19. 6. Math. 20. 15. * Isa 50. 8. †NOTE * Rom. 11. 36. 1 Cor. 8. 6. †The great Six Poynts * Note Note †Note Note * Or pregnant or satisfieth it †Math. 13. 12. Luk. 8. 18 * Note Note †Joh. 17. 6. 24. * Joh. 10. 28. †NOTE * Note †Psal 54. * Ezek. 33. 11. †Rom. 3. 4. †NOTE * Math. 15. 22 26 27. †1 Tim. 2. 4. * 1 Tim. 1. 15. †Rom. 8. 38 39. * Note †Or Accuser * B. T. * Note of the Potter c. See Chap. 9. in the Book of Predestination And Rom. 9. 21. †Numb 17. 8. * Joh. 3. 27. †Note * Note * Vix Of Gods Anger * Joh 20. 25. †Joh 5. 17. * Joh 15. 5. †Rom. 11. 22. * Rom 9. 18. †Note Note †Rom 6. 16. * Psal 95. 7 8. Heb 3 7. 8. 4. 7. †Phil 2. 1â— * Math 25. 41. c. †NOTE * Gen 2. 17. * 2 Kings I. 10 11. Numb 26. 10. * Note Note †Note Note Jer 18. 7 8. * Jon 3. 2. 10. †1 Cor. 14. 32. * NOTE †Eph 1. 4. * Note †Note * 1 Tim 2. 4. †Note * Joh 12. 40. * Note †NOTE * Gen 2. 17. * Numb 17. 8. Heb 9. 4. †Gen 3. 15. * Or Avrora †Gen. 2. 18. c. * Gal. 2. 20. * Note the dry Rod of Aaron grew not through the Four Elementary Water and Fire †Gen. 5. 5. * Luke 1. 35. †The Eternall Love-fire and the Water of tbe One Element * Luke 1. 41. * Note * Gal. 4. 6. †NOTE Christs Descending into Hell * Note Rom. 3. 17. †Math. 11. 17. Luke 7. 32. * NOTE †1 Cor. 15. 50. * Joh. 1. 29. 1 Joh. 2. 2. †Luke 10. 42. * Gen. 32. 26. * Joh 13. 15. * Luk. 23. 46. †Math. 26. 38. Joh 12. 27. * Joh. 20. 17. * Balthâ—sar Tylcken †God * Note ye Expositors of the Scripture †Note * Or Language of the Holy Spirit †Jer. 23 21. * Note †Luke 1. 46. * Luke 2. 35. †Luk. 1. 42. †Luk 2. 41 42 48. * Note * Note About the Resurrection * 1 Cor 15. 28. * NOTE †True brotherly Love Alles Bey Christo All. By. Christ * Note †Restitutio Renovatio Reditus Reparatio Regeneratio Revolutio OMNIUM Matt 5. 18. * The Holy Spirit dwelling in Gods Word in Every ones Heart * Note †Note * See the first Epistle to Paulus Keym. verse 30. †Note * Sustenance and preservation †Signifieth