Beast did rise is a terrible tossing working Sea where all the worldly Spirits drive their Traffick for to make Babylon pompous and great who ever loves the Earth and are admirers of the Beast who gives Riches and worldly Honours to such as serve him but oh come here and see how he must fall with his whole Hierarchy Wherefore let none trust to his Kingdom which in one day shall be made desolate through the fiery Judgments Here are two Seas at strife one against the other turn your Eyes inward you who are the Lamb's Warriors and witness bear to these two Seas meeting within the Ground of Nature The Sea of the Beast contains great abundance of Riches according to its perishable kind besides there is an overflow to the Merchants of it that are in a free Trade to uphold that worldly Kingdom wherein all Nursery of Sins-Wuchcraft is maintained But according as I was called upon to come and see how the Beast and all his rich trafficking-Sea is to be dryed up as the Lamb of God shall fill his Vials from out of this glassy Sea and pour them upon it when all its Pomp and Riches shall sink as a Mill stone never to rise again Oh? at this let all our Nations rejoyce within us as this Vision is fulfilling Now follows another great Mystery which I was called upon to look into concerning the seventh Seal wherein lies hid the Reward and rich Price which though not yet given in Possession yet the Holy One hath seen it expedient to reveal it by breathing sorth this Word in me saying Come thou apart and Sanctifie a Fast tonelling nothing of the Leaven which is found in the House of fallen Nature abstain from any other Cup but what I the Anointed shall sill unto thee from the burning Sea of Glass which will be a Lamp to give Light and perfect Knowledge in the most hidden things that everlasting Wisdom hath hitherto sealed up For to you who are come to the sixth Seal and to your burning Elements in the heat of that melting Furnace these further Secrets are disclosed for the Consolation who shall hold out in this last Battel-Race for Conquest Therefore put on your Life-Armour day by day and continue in the Fight for joy of that which is now revealed as your Reward taking all care to abstain from the Leaven of Imaginations which may stop the Sluce of Revelation in its Purity The empty Bowl with light burning Oyl began to come in and became a rising Spring which did give light to the dark Socket of my Understanding within and the first thing that was shewed me was an open Book written within and every one of the seven Seals broken and it was in the Hand of the God-head-man who said Come and read what the seven Wonders which my faithful Witness did declare of in his day of Revelation which were then to be sealed up because the Day of their fulfilling was so far off But now in this present time there hath been such a servent heat of flaming Intercession which hath made all these Seals to melt away that the Secrets contained in the Book might be opened and made known This Living Book which was presented to my view to read was the glorified Person of the Lord Jesus who did now appear to reveal what was sealed up in the seven Thunders His presence was not terrible as appearing under the Vail of pure Humanity where he hides me as in the Clifts of his own Spiritual Body whilst he talketh with me who thus said Thou art come to a deep Knowledge for here the greatest Good highest Beeing stands unsealed to the introverted Eye of thy Spirit that can enter into the Light of Eternity where the Looking-Glass of all Mysteries does stand open Now the cry of the first Thunder was this Behold how the six dayes Creation is come to its limit and Man ceaseth to be being returned into the Eternity of his own Spirit there to rest in God while the Number of the Beast is summed up and his Kingdom furnished with the Ordinances of Day and Night which take place in this changeable Element from whence the Craft and Subtilty of Reason doth arise to uphold and maintain the lapsed earthly Life All which there will be no further need of according to what the second Thunder doth utter The second Thunder uttered as follows Come and see who out of the Bed of passive stillness do now arise and come forth all new and immortalized to rule as Gods in an immutable Creation These are they who have been exercised in great Tribulation and lain as dead under the Seals but they are come to live and take the Lamb's Power to reign in Gods Omnipotency which is the only Instrument they shall play upon to subdue all inwardly and outwardly For they are now put in Commission under him who is come to judge the Quick and Dead and to remove all things wherein the Serpents Brood hath been nourished The cry of the third Thunder is this Ho! come ye whose Names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life The way is all cleared and the great River Euphrates is dryed up for to give Passage to the Holy Land where the Tree of Life shall meet you with its flowing Fruits whose savour leaves a perpetual Sweetness and such a strength of Joy as will make you know the Feast of Tabernacles it come indeed with God alone for to celebrate and keep The Walls all ranged are with Seraphims that are appointed for your Guard to usher you into an higher Sphear and more magnificent place than this which was the Seat of the first Paradisival Man where you are to make but your forty dayes stay For an higher Orb doth descend as a Cloud to take up the Elders that have their Throne-Seats prepared in the great Jerusalem City which is the settled Rest where no more removing is feared for there is an indissolvable Link all fixed in a Co-operating Power which never shuts up The fourth Thunder opened thus unto me by way of Vision I saw seven Golden Candlesticks branched out from a Suid of Gold and each Socket appeared empty and there came one in the appearance of a Jaspher-light and poured in some sparkling Liquor and there arose a shining burning which sent forth Flakes of light very numerous running up and down like Lightning so as nothing could contain them nor prevent them from going whither they would then was it cry'd in my hearing What hast thou seen but the great Wonder of the fourth Thunder disclosing the fiery Lamps that are appointed to be fixed in renewed Nature which are so impowering that on whomsoever they rest they may act and do whatsoever they will into For the Concord of these seven Spirits is of that force as they can save or destroy bind or loose they are the seven proper Powers that must make out who are God's Co-deified Ones and
THE REVELATION OF Revelations Particularly as an ESSAY Towards The Unsealing Opening and Discovering THE Seven Seals the Seven Thunders and the New-Jerusalem State The which have not hitherto so far been brought forth to light except by the Spiritual Discerner to any degree of Satisfaction as to the understanding of the grand Mystery Published by J. L. the Author of the Heavenly Cloud made mention of particularly in the Preparatory Epistle to that late Theosophick Piece Entituled Theologia Mystica A Work never Extant before Rev. 5. 9. And they sang a new Song saying Thou art worthy to take the Book and to open the Seals thereof 1 Cor. 1. 10. For God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit 's for the Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God London Printed and Sold by A. Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch Also by J. Lead at the Carpenters in Bartholomew-Close and at Book-sellers in London and Westminster 1683. H. LION To the living Stones gathered and to be gathered to Christ the Foundation Stone where-ever hid scattered and dispersed who are elected in God for the New-Jerusalem-Glory and Mount-Zion-Church all Love Grace Peace and Joy be multiplied from him who was is and is to come THe Establishment of the restored Sion-Church cannot be by Man or after Manly Wisdom but by the holy Spirit which Christ our Prince and Saviour hath sent in his own Name to build upon the Foundation of the Father and the Son a Rock indeed which remaineth steady and unshaken from Time to Eternity And indeed who else is found sufficient for the gathering and building of these holy Temple-Stones that are to be fitly compacted together to make up this glorious Church that may be presented all fair without Spot as becomes the Spouse and Bride of the Lamb which you will find the whole subject of the following Revelations tend to even to the bringing out of all that are found in Lifeless Forms into the very substantial Life and Ministration of the holy Spirit where the Increase and growing up is known into that Body in which God will move and work all for the which end all Prophecies that have been from the foundation of the World may have their fulfilling in this last Age for the which good Assurance is given from the fresh springing of the Word of Wisdom that may produce a sealed Commission not only in Letter but from the feeling fiery-breath of the true Unction which is the living Epistle by which alone I desire to be made known to you and from thence do send pure Love-greeting to them whose Ears are opened to hear and receive what the Spirit of Truth hath declared and unfolded in this little Volumn which now is presented to publick view contrary to the intent and purpose of the subordinate Author hereof who as I was waiting in my continued course and order upon the heavenly showring and to feed and be refreshed in this all-fruitful and pleasant Pasture being satisfied here to take my lengths and breadths in all free conference with the Lord the Spirit whom I did well know by his inward flaming Body which at certain times did stir and rise and then I could hear and distinctly know the Voice of his Mouth which came as a soft melting Fire-breath and said Record what since October 1679. hath been seen heard tasted and felt and shun not to declare it for it hath a peculiar service on Gods behalf to do though at present hid from thee only observe and be watchful and I will certainly Follow this at the Heels And thus you may perceive under what constraint I am and by whose Commission these deep and mystical Revelations are now published who fore-sees what effects they are to have and what Souls and Spirits are to be touched and enkindled from the same burning-Ray which will surely over-shadow the believing And for the doubtful I have only this Caution and that from the holy and just One. That henceforth they cease from rash and uncircumcised Judgment which doth arise from the rational Will and Spirit and above all to put on the meek simple and child-like Spirit and so cease to be injurious to their own Souls for nothing is more prejudicial to the growing and springing Life and Light than to give way to Incredulity and an evil Suspition raised from the dark Mists of Sense and worldly Wisdom which can never reach the deep things of the Spirit Therefore if there be any force power or authority in that Word of Life that was from the beginning and is now come to bear his own living Record in our day which Word and Spirit of Truth and Wisdom let none resist but open the everlasting Doors of their Souls and Minds for to take it in and so you will of the lively Hope partake and bear the true and living Testimony with us That the Morning Star is risen for to lead us out of our selves where nothing but Darkness is and where the fallen Spirits keep their strong Hold binding and putting out the Eyes of Sampson the Nazerite the figure of the eternal Spirit which is in all the Sons of Adam against which the grand Apollyon hatcheth his treacherous Conspiracy for he hath great Indignation against us because such Love Grace and Goodness hath now abounded to us in Christ Jesus our Lord who is come to offer himself an effectual Salvation in all there is not a Door that he passeth by but that at one time or other he knocks at it and would find entrance in to redeem and fetch out his own eternal Spirit from under Bondage Death and Misery But such are the subtil Wiles of that Enemy of all Mankind that he provides a Dalilah for some to steal and draw away their Minds and to seduce their more Noble part to that which is vile base and sensual And then another more subtil Bait he casts out for those who are mortified and have escaped those worldly Charms and are come to a sober and lawful use of the things of this Creation and yet are held Captives through the Multiplicity of Mortal Cares Businesses and Concerns for the outward Man whereby they are so overcharged and weighed down in their Spirits that they cannot get up to shake off this carthly Dust to walk with God in Enoch's state not observing that counsel of the Lord Christ First to seek the Kingdom of Heaven and with all getting to get Wisdom The contrary to which is most universally practised in making sure first of the Beasts Kingdom and the perishing Mamon of Unrighteousness and then if the Kingdom of Heaven will fall in and be added to them it shall be welcome but alas this will not do Christ will not be served last Wherefore let not the Serpent beguile any who seek the Pearl of Christs Kingdom but be wise to avoid the choaking Earth and drowning Floods and trust the Lord upon his Word who will certainly make
commissioned to act in this last Seene of Wonders in the wonder-City that shall be all compacted of pure Spirits Hear and see ye shall be planted there as the great Cannons for these Powers will multiply as a great Host which can cut off this visible World at one stroke This is the great reserve to be given as a Reward to the suffering Conquerors The fifth Thunder cryed Now unseal the Tabernacle-Testimony let the eternal Gospel of Love and Peace go forth in the cloven Tongue which can only speak out what springs from the original Law of restored Nature to its primary Purity out of the Fountain of the Deity Behold these are the separated and anointed Ones who have this Gospel-Dispensation as a perpetual rising spring proceeding from the holy Spirit who can indeed absolve and pronounce Remission of Sins For Power will rest upon those who can conveigh the New-Testament-Blood to heal and deliver from the infective Root of Sin not in a painted formal Imitation but there shall go forth a Fire-breath to send this healing Gospel into the very Center-Root of the sick and sorrowful in Spirit who under the wound of Sin have laid long for Cure To which true Royalty and Priesthood some shall be more eminently ordained for the gathering in of those who lie under the Babylonish Rubbish who shall be raised through the out-going Might of the everlasting Testimony in the Blood of the Lamb's Life which is the known Character that only shall be given to them The Declaration of the sixth Thunder was thus represented to me I saw one holding forth a Saphire Signet or sealing Stone with which were to be marked all the Free-born that do belong to the New-Jerusalem for none but such as are marked can have right to the vast Riches which are concentred in Wisdom's Bank who to this day hath locked up the Brides Dowry and will not part with it till she can come with this Seal upon her Heart which is now brought out to put the highest impress of Saphire-Glory and Purity that may signifie that the Lamb's Bride is all thus dignified Oh! who shall henceforth detain those Riches Wealth and Honour which have been treasured up from before the Foundation of the World For all must now be given up to her command whether it be in Heaven or Earth or in the glassy Sea whether in Heights or in Depths or in any of the Eternal Sphears The sealing Name is every where the Authority that must set all open which hath been locked up hitherto because none could bring alone with them the Seal which is now freely brought down of God's own ingraving and therefore can never be counterfeited for it bears the lively Portraiture of Father Son and Spirit to whom all Riches Power and Glory are given The last Thunder comes in great Power to declare the Great Day of the Marriage-Feast of the Lamb The Fountains run now with that Spirit Wine that was in the Grape before all Time the choice and precious Fruits ripened by the Serene and Pure Elements are prepared and the Table is covered with all Replenishments that God himself can set out to express the Content and Joy he takes to see this consummating Day wherein I saac hath brought home his Rebecca into God the Father's and Jerusalem's Glory where henceforce a perpetual Feast of Joy forever is to be kept Angels now sound your Trumpet-Songs because the Harvest is reapea and God's Kingdom come The Lamb and Bride are now met to maintain a living Fame in another Creation The Redemption is finished Salvation is witnessed and the Mystery of God is unsealed The Harpers are summon'd to the Holy Quire with their Sounds and fiery Tongues that may proclaim the Lamb hath given up the Kingdom consisting of perfect Spirits that God only may be the top covering of great Majesty Strength Wisdom and Glory in and over all the Inhabitants of this Holy City which beareth this Name The Almighty creating Power â—â—â—ileth and taketh up his abode here Henceforth bless the Lord on High It s he that hath unsealed Treasures richly What can them hide from the Spirit 's Eye That pierced have into the Heart of the Deity Tribute-Offerings pay to our God and King Who hath revealed Wonderful Things Oh what Seraphick Sounds do I hear Are they not the Thunders of the Coelestial Sphear Calling for an attentive Ear Spirit to hear o're Which as the Doors be to the Golden Ore Where vast Treasures land up are in store But sound are only by Spirit 's Pore This is the state in which the Souls blest Eye May see God without Thought intellectually Though Speech and Converse away may fly The thunder of his Power abides essentially This is the Day we rejoyce to see Even the acting Power of the Deity What is it but the fiery piercing Eye That can the unsealed Book untye Wherein the perfect Number Seven lie Blessed is that Power from on High That hath struck the Crystial Rock From whence the Thunders did fly I feel the gushing in of Crystial Springs That whirleth as upon Cherubim Wings No more to look down to Earthly Things The Glass so clear through which I see Beholding glorious Objects variously That snatched away before I am awake Pass we on to the Sea of Glass Through all Worlds we make our Pass Brought we are to our own Land Where all Wonders in order stand Rewing what the Mortal cannot endure Even those Coelestials that are ever pure Blessed are those in whom the wonder Of the seven Thunders uncloaked be That feel that see that possess God in Unity Raised high into the Heart of the Deity Whereout Spring secret pleasant things That swallows up in Joy that hath no end Thus were the seven Thunders opened and interpreted to me from the springing Word upon which I closely waited and witnessed felt a sweet precious anointing and refreshing Joy to come in from every Thunder-Cry Oh! this is so great so weighty and rich and such surprizing Goodness which in this Book of Life is found which is now unsealing that no other things any more ought to be minded by us Thus the triumphant King and Conqueror who is possessed of all these Royal Powers and Dignities that are infolded in these seven Thunders hath given his Word that none of these shall fail in any one that hath the mark of the seventh Conquering-Seal broken up in themselves to whom joynt-power and authority will be given in order to the beginning of that Reign which is to be settled here on Earth according to the Prophecy in John's Revelation which presseth hard upon me from the Fiery Cloud that circles round my Spirit for a defensive Banner which will let nothing of the eclipsing dark Principle come in whilst the Center deep from the Soul 's fiery Essence opens and the bright Streamers from the Heart of the glorified Jesus who meets me in such a peaceable Love-paved-Walk