the Devil and what propriety or part he hath in it it goeth not naked unless it be so that the Spirit of God conduct it so that it hath him for a shield or defence so that the Devils suttlety cannot press or slip into it 25. It makes no wonder unless God's Spirit awaken or stir it up it giveth God the Honour and Glory and attributeth the might power to him it doth as a humble Child and remaineth standing under the Cross and letteth the Devil bluster over it but it self sprouteth in Humility and Meekness through Death into the Eternal Life and bringeth forth much fruit in Patience 26. Thus the Devil can do nothing to that Soul it is as it were dead to him he may with his Turba in the Earthly Life with his helpers and instruments wicked and ungodly Men make a stir and racket but he hath only scorn and derision in the presence of God for it for he is a proud arrogant spirit and would fain be above God's Wonders but an Humility can bind him or subdue him 27. In such a manner may every man escape the false and wicked Magus and also the Nigromancer for no power takes hold on them where God dwelleth As Christ in his Death overcame the Devil and Death so also we in Christ for the Word that became Man dwelleth in us and in that Word we can rule over the Devil and Hell there is no hinderance 28. Thus we give you for an Answer upon this Question that the Soul in its Original is greatly powerful it is able and can do much but only in that Principle into which it looketh or standeth is its power and might for the Devil cannot rule over God Its might or power is not given to it as a King giveth Might Power Authority or Favour to any but it standeth in Natures-right therefore we are Children of the Omnipotency of God and inherit his Goods in the Omnipotency The Seventh Question Whether the Soul be Corporeal or not Corporeal 1. A Thing which is from no Beginning hath also nothing that can give it any thing and if it be something it must seek the Beginning in it self for every spirit dwelleth in the deepest Abysse of its substance but if it must make the substance to it self it can dwell in Nothing that is strange to it but in it self in its own substance 2. When God created the Soul the holy Spirit surrounded it with the Tincture for it stood therein as to one part in it self it was raw or red as the glowing of the fire is raw or red and is surrounded with the Tincture 3. As you understand that from the warmth the growing existeth that is a driving of the Tincture which driveth the Twig or Branch out from the Root viz. out of the same Fire be it cold or hot 4. For the Darkness hath a Cold Fire so long till it reach the Anguish and then it kindleth it self in the hot as is to be seen in an Herb if it come into another quality 5. Thus we give you to understand that the Tincture is the right and true Souls Body for the Soul is Fire and the Tincture goeth forth out of the Fire which the Fire draweth again to it self and meekneth or allayeth it self therewith so that the fierce wrathful source or quality extinguisheth 6. Thus the Tincture standeth in meekness and it hath no substance or might or power in it self but the Water is its might or power there cometh out of the meekness of the Tincture water to be 7. For the Fire is desirous and where there is a desiring of the Original there is also a finding of the Original thus the Fire findeth in the Tincture Water and turneth that into Sulphur according to power or vertue of all the Seven Spirits of Nature that is a Water of Life 8. For the Tincture driveth up in the Water as a sprout and the Fire in the Abyss causeth that 9. Thus is the Water in the Sulphur of the Seven Spirits changed into the Mystery and the great Areanum or Secret lyeth therein Whatsoever God and the Eternity can do Thus the Mystery containeth Two Forms viz. Fire Water and changeth it self according to Both viz. according to the Fire into Red and according to the Tincture into White so that a clear shining or glance existeth from the Fire so that the Life seeth or knoweth it self out of which Reason and Thoughts exist and the Mind is in the Wheel or Orb of the Anguish in the Fire out of which the Essences exist 10. And thus you see what the Blood is viz. a House of the Soul but the Tincture is its Body 11. The right or true Soul hath no palpable Body which is called Soul but in the Tincture groweth the Body in the Sulphur out of Sulphur that is every Spirit of the Seven Spirits of Nature desireth Substantiality which is together Sulphur 12. For Sul is power and vertue out of the Light and Phur is power and vertue out of the Four Forms of Natures Original as in the Third Book is mentioned at large 13. Thus the Phur desireth Flesh that is a Mixture out of Fire and Water and is in the Tincture conceived and generated or born 14. And the Tincture is the growing of the Body and the Fire is an Original of the Spirit through the Tincture For in the Tincture the Souls Spirit taketh its Original which viz. the right true Image figureth according to God's Image that is according to all the Three Principles for in the Fire the Soul is no Similitude of God but in the Spirit it is the Image of God 15. For the First Soul was together incorporated with the Divine Substantiality so that it had God's Body in the Virgin of Wisdom in which the Tincture standeth this is the Angels Image 16. And I give you for Answer that as to what concerns the Soul merely and purely by which we understand not the Spirit it is a Fire-Globe with a Fire-Eye and with a Light-Eye which turn back to back and one within another as the Wheel in Ezekiel that can go on all sides though Babel have made clean another understanding upon it but a blind one without Spirit 17. But as to what concerns its Tincture out of the Light which existeth out of the Fire and Light it is a Spirit where the Original of the Soul and of the Spirit in Eternity cannot separate assunder it is an Eternal BAND and when the Blood goeth away and the Body dyeth then this Band continueth in Eternity 18. The Body as to what concerns the Soul purely belongeth not to the Substance of the Soul they are Two Substances for the Body is the Souls Looking-Glass and dwelling House also its proper portion and it is also the cause that the meer pure Soul altereth or changeth the Spirit viz. according to the Pleasure or Longing of the Body or of the
Anguish into Death and sprouteth forth again into the Liberty and that is the Light together with the Fires source or quality but it now containeth or holdeth another Principle in it for the Anguish is become Love 6. And just such a manner and kind it hath in the Body for the Flesh striveth against the Spirit the outward Fleshes Life is a Looking-glass of the most inward Fire-Life viz. of the Souls Life therefore is the Souls Spirit-Life together with the Light in the Tincture the Middlemost Life and yet becometh generated out of the Soul 7. But understand us according to its precious height the Souls Spirit wherein the Divine Image standeth originateth in the Fire and is first the Will to the Fire but when the fierce Wrath to the Fire so sharpneth and kindleth or inflameth it self then the Will cometh into great Anguish like a dying and sinketh down in it self out of the fierce Wrath into the Eternal Liberty and yet it is no Dying but thus the other or second World cometh to be out of the first 8. For the Will now sprouteth into the other World as a Sharpness out of the Fire but without such Quality flowing forth in the Eternal Liberty and is a moving driving and apprehending of the Anguish Nature it hath all Essences which are become generated in the first sharp Fire-world in the Anguish but they are as one that goeth out of the Fire into the Water where the Anguish of the Fire remaineth in the Water 9. Understand us thus Concerning this Life of the Souls Spirit-Life the Soul is the Center of Nature The Spirit is the precious Noble Image which God created to his Image herein standeth the High-Kingly and precious Image of God for God is also thus and comprehended in the same Lifes quality or source 10. The Spirit is not severed from the Soul No as ye see that Fire and Shining is not severed and yet also is not one and the same it hath a twofold source or quality the Fire fierce wrathful and the Light meek and lovely and in the Light is the Life and in the Fire Δ is the Cause of the Life 11. Thus you may very easily and without much seeking find the Cause of the Contrariety of the Flesh and of the Spirit for the Inward Spirit hath God's Body out of or from the Meek Substantiality and the Outward Spirit hath the fierce wrathfull Fires-Looking-Glasses Body viz. the Souls Looking-Glasses Body which would continually awaken the fierce Wrathfulness viz. the Great Wonders which lie in the Arcanum or secresie of the Souls Sternness therefore the Inward Love-Spirit hindereth it that it should not lift up it self and kindle or inflame the Soul else it would lose its Love-habitation and Image and the Souls Fierce-wrath would destroy it 12. The Contrariety is thus the inward Spirit would be Lord for it Subdueth the outward and the outward would be Lord for it saith I have the Great Wonders and the Arcanum or Secret and thus Glorieth about the Mystery and yet is but a Looking-Glass of the Mystery 13. It is not the Substance of the Mystery but a Seeking or Searching like a palpable Looking-Glass in which the Mystery becometh seen he will needs be a Master being he hath attained one Principle and is an own Self-Life but he is to be accounted a Fool in respect of the Mystery 14. Therefore loving Brother if you would seek the Mystery seek it not in the outward Spirit for so you will be deceived and get but a Glimps of the Mystery go in even to the Cross then seek Gold you will not be deceived you must seek the pure Child without blemish in another World in this world you find only the Rusty or Drossy Child which is altogether imperfect and now take this right thus 15. Go from the Cross back into the Fourth Form there you have Sun and Moon one in another bring it into Anguish into Death and drive on the made or framed Magick body so far till it become again what it was before the Center in the Will and then it is Magical and hungry after Nature 16. It is a seeking in the Eternal Seeking and would fain have a Body therefore give him for a Body Sol viz. the Soul and then it will suddenly make it a Body according to the Soul for the Will sprouteth in Paradise with very fair heavenly fruit without spot or blemish 17. There you have the fair noble and precious Child you Covetous stiff-necked Person we must indeed tell you seeing it is together born and generated with the time and yet we will hereby only be understood by those that are Ours 18. For we mean not A Looking-Glass or Heaven but Gold wherewith you boast that hath so long time been your Idol That is born or generated and puts the Eyes of the blind Cow or Beetle quite out at last so that it seeth less than before but the Children shall see eat and be fat that they may praise God 19. We speak wonderfully here yet onely that which we should speak which yet none wonder at that he knoweth the Mystery who never learned it Doth not an Herb grow without your counsel or advice it enquireth not after Art so also is the Mystery grown without your Art It hath its own School like the Apostles on the day of Pentecost who spake with many Tongues and Languages without the precognita or the fore-skill of Art and so is this Simplicity 20. And it is a forerunning Message to thee Babel of thy Overthrow that thou mayest know it no fierce Wrath or Anger will avail the Star is born or generated which leadeth the Wise-men out of the East but seek them only where thou art and find thy self and cast the Turba away from thee and so thou wilt live with the Children this we speak earnestly there is no other Counsel or Remedy thy Anger is the fire which will devour thy self 21. Or dost thou suppose that we are blind If we did not see we should be silent how would a Lye be pleasing to God and so we should be found in the Turba which sifteth through the work and doings and substance of all men or do we this service for Wages is it our living why do we not hold to depend on Bread according to our outward Reason 22. If it be our day Labour we should do as the Father will have us For †we shall give an account of it in the evening this we speak dearly and earnestly with deep seriousness 23. Thus we can certainly understand the Contrariety of the Spirit and of the Flesh and apprehend very well how Two Spirits are in one another one striving against the other for the one would have God and the other would have Bread and both are profitable and good 24. But let this be said to thee O Child of Man lead thy life Circumspectly let thy Souls Spirit be Lord and then thou wilt
true Soul received that same meek Body for a Sulphur then the Soul burneth in the Love-Fire and is wholly gone away out of the first Fire-Life 12. It is now in God's Principle the first fierce wrathful fire cannot touch it in Eternity for it hath gotten another Source or Quality and is rightly and truly New born or Regenerated and knoweth no more of the first Life for it is swallowed up in the Magia 13. The Turba remaineth in the Earthly Body and becometh that again which it was before the Body was viz. a Nothing a Magia wherein all its doings matters or substances stand in Figure as in a Looking-Glass but not Corporeally but according to the Manner of the Eternity as we apprehend that all Wonders before this world stood in a Mystery as in the Virgion of Wisdom but without Substance 14. Thus now we apprehend also here that that very Mystery in its parting became so Manifested that it cannot in Eternity be extinguished but remaineth Eternally standing in the Distinction and in the Separation and is seen in the Magia in the Separation or Parting after that manner as it hath here formed it self 15. Thus it is apprehensible to us what the Separation or parting is viz. This the Turba hath found the Limit of the Substance for sickness to Death is nothing else but that the Turba hath kindled it self and will break or destroy the Substance It is at the Limit and will cast away the Introduced Medium or Middle 16. And this is also the Cause that the Body Dyeth the Turba passeth into it self into the Fire and so the Outward Life extinguisheth for the Lifes fire becometh withdrawn from it and then it goeth into its Aether and is at its Limit 17. And so now if the Souls Fire hath not in its Spirit God's Body nor in its will in its Desire then it is a Dark Fire which burneth in Anguish and in great horrour for it hath only the first four forms of Nature in the Anguish 18. And if the Will hath nothing of the Power or Vertue of Humility then there is no sinking down or into it self through Death into Life but it is like an anxious furious Wheel that would fain alwayes go upwards and yet it goeth downwards on the other side It is a kind of Fire and yet it hath no Fire burning or flaming 19. For the Turba is the very stern or strong Austereness or Astringency and Bitterness where the bitterness alwayes seeketh the Fire and would strike it up and the harsh Astringency holdeth it Captive so that it is only a horrible Anguish and goeth alwayes in it self as a Wheel and Imagineth yet it findeth nothing but it self it draweth it self in it self and impregnateth it self it devoureth it self and is its own Substance 20. It hath no other Substance but this viz. what the Souls Spirit hath made or acted in the outward Life as Covetousnesse or High-mindednesse Cursing Swearing Scorning Jeering Disgraceing or Back-biting Slandering Envy and Hatred Fierce Wrath Anger Falshood or Wickedness that is its Food and the pastime of its Exercise for the Turba taketh its Substance Matters or Doings along with it in the will its works follow after it 21. And though perhaps it hath done or acted somewhat that is good yet that is done but in a Glymps for a shew in appearance out of a vain Glorious or Hypocritical Mind and so it standeth afterwards in a continual Climing up it Elevateth it self continually it would alwayes be above the Meekness and yet apprehendeth or knoweth it not nor seeth it it is a Continual Elevation above God and yet is but an Eternal sinking down it seeketh the Ground or Foundation and there is None and this is its Life 22. And if it hath in its life-time laid hold of any thing that is pure of the Love as many that at Last convert in the End those sink down thus in themselves through the Anguish for the Humble sparkle goeth down through Death into Life where indeed the Souls Source or Quality and Pain taketh its End but it self is a little Branch or Twig Sprouting into God 23. Now what Purifying-Fire or Purgatory the Soul hath before it can enter into it self with the little Sparkle cannot sufficiently be written or expressed and how it is then detained and plagued by the Devil which the too wise and politick world will not believe it is so Cunning and yet so blind it understandeth it not and yet continually hangeth or dependeth upon the LETTER Oh that none might come into it we would willingly be silent 24. But we speak of no strange source quality or pain but only of that which is in the Turba also of no Power of the Devil over the poor Soul but only its terrour and horrible Apprehension of what is represented before it so that the Souls Imagination is sufficiently terrified therein 25. It is not by far in such a manner with the Soul as Babel teacheth saying the Devil beats and torments the Soul that is very blindly spoken the Devil is not at Odds with his Children they must all do his will the Hellish Anguish and horrour is torment enough to them every one in his own abominations Every one hath his own Hell there is nothing else that layeth hold of it but its own Venom or Poyson 26. The Four Forms of the Original of Nature is the Common or Universal source quality or Torment which every one feeleth according to his Turba one different from another as a Covetous one hath Frost an Angry one Fire an Envious one Bitterness a Proud stately one hath flying up and yet Eternal sinking down and falling into the Abysse A Blasphemer swalloweth up into himself the Turba of his belched forth Abominations A false or wicked Deceitful Heart hath the fourth Form viz. the great Anguish 27. For the Turba standeth in the Fire Circle or Globe viz. in the Heart of the Soul and false or evil speaking Lying and untruth or unfaithfulness are an horrour or abomination and Gnawing a Cursing or Anathema in it self and so on 28. A Potentate who hath oppressed the poor and Miserable and consumed his sweat or Labour in Pride he rideth in the Curse of the Miserable in the full height of the Fire for the necessities and distresses of the Miserable stick all in him 29. He hath no Rest his Pride climbeth up Continually he doth in his condition there as he did here he seeketh continually and yet wanteth all things that which he had too much of that he hath now too little of he devoureth himself continually for Substance to feed on and yet hath none for he is Magical 30. He hath lost his right true Image and hath as it were the Image of a Proud Prancing Horse or of that which he hath here been Conversant about that which he taketh with him in his will that is his Image where his Heart is there is his Treasure also and
Nature for the Divine Mystery of the Trinity standeth above and the Mystery of Nature beneath each Circle signifieth one Person of the Deity in the first Mystery Of the O. Numb 4. and of Principle and of Fire Numb 7. 175. The O with Number 4. signifieth the Ground of the Mystery viz. the Geniture or Birth of the Heart or Word of God which the first will viz. the A in the Looking-Glass of Wisdom compriseth and holdeth it in self as a Ground of its substance For the O signifieth also the Eye of the Looking-Glass of Wisdom for in the Wisdom is the Eternal Word comprised which manifests or revealeth it self through the Principle of the Fire in the Light World Go from the O about that Circle and so thou findest beneath Principle and Fire Number 7. Of V Numb 5. and of Substance Numb 8. 176. The V with Number 5. signifieth the Spirit of the Mystery without or besides Nature viz. the first eternal profound groundless or unsearchable Will-Spirit which originateth out of the Will and in the Power or Vertue of the Word in the Great Mystery and goeth forth out of the Will and Word and its Exit maketh Substance viz. Wonders of the Power Colours and Vertue whereas yet in the Mystery of the Profundity Groundlesness or Unsearchableness without or besides Nature no colours are apprehended for they lye all in ONE and it is the twinckling of a great Wonder and that is called a Substance of the Wonder Go about from V on that Circle and thou findest beneath at Number 8 Substance signifying that all Substance is beneath the Spirit of the Number Three or Trinity and that men must alwayes distinguish Substance from the Deity 177. For in Substance originateth Nature with its seven Forms for the Number Three is only a Spirit in Substance and yet there is also no Substance without the Number Three for the Desire of the Number Three is the Eternal Magia and maketh Substance it bringeth into a ground according to the Model which the Spirit openeth in the wisdom out of her is the Creation proceeded according to the Model of the virgin-like Wisdom Further Information Concerning the First Principle and the Mystery of the Beginning in the Creation and of the Dark World how the Angle or Point of the Cross with Number 9. at the left with its upper and neather Space is understood Of FATHER Number 9. 178. Number 9. there standeth before the Angle or Point of the Cross FATHER and before that the Abysse signifying the Mystery of the Father without or besides Nature for with the Angle of the Cross Nature beginneth The first and Greatest Mystery is the Abysse where the Nothing introduceth it self into a will which is called FATHER or the Original to somewhat Out of the Mystery of the Father is the Creation through Nature originated A Man is here to understand the Eternal Nature with its Seven Forms with or by this Mystery Soul Numb 10. 179. At the Angle or Point of the line standeth Soul Number 10. signifying the Original of the Eternal Spirits viz. Angels Souls of Men the Angle or Point signifieth the Center in Nature where the Threefold Spirit revealeth or manifests it self with or by Nature signifying the Magick Fire in the Fathers Property out of which the Angels have their Original as also the Souls of Men. 180. A man should here understand the Ground and Original of an Eternal Spirit for nothing is Eternal unless it hath its orsginal out of the Eternal Magick Fire This Original is not understood to be the true or right Spirit but to be the Center viz the Cause of the Spirit Souls Will Numb 11. 181. Every true or right Spirit is understood with the understanding in the Light of Life for in the Fire there can be no right or true understanding but in the desire of the Light Therefore must the fiery Will turn it self to the Heart of God viz. to the Power or Vertue of the Light and understanding as here is to be seen where upon the line of the Cross standeth the Souls Will marked with Number 11 and there it receiveth Power and Vertue from the Heart of God and is generated or born an Understanding Spirit Will Numb 12. and Soul N umb 13. 182. For it receiveth the Power or Vertue of the Light in the Meekness and Humility and goeth with its Will-Spirit viz. with the noble or pretious Image Similitude of God through the Power or Vertue of the Heart into the second Princiciple viz. into the Light World as here at the right beyond the Heart in the other or second Circle is to be seen where standeth Will Number 12. and then Soul Number 13. signifying how the Soul out of the fires source or quality out of the Fathers Property entereth into the Sons Power or Vertue and Property and dwelleth in the Divine Power or Vertue in the Light-world HOLY SPIRIT Numb 14. 183. Without or beyond the Angle or Point of the Cross standeth HOLY SPIRIT Number 14. signifying the holy Spirit which from Eternity originateth in the Will of the Father at the left at the Angle or Point Number 9. and bringeth it self through Nature through the Heart and Divine Power or Vertue at the right without or beyond Nature also through the Angels or Souls-Spirits Power or Vertue forth and dwelleth in the Liberty in the Glance of the Power or Vertue and Majesty and is in Nature yet of Nature unapprehended but only in the Divine Power or Vertues Property Image Numb 15. 184. Beyond the word HOLY SPIRIT Number 15. standeth Image also without or beyond Nature signifying that the noble or pretious Image sprouteth forth out of the Souls Fire as a Blossome or Flower out of the Earth and hath no feeling or sense of the Pain of the fiery Property for the Fire standeth in it as it were swalowed up and yet it is there but in another source or fountain quality viz. a desire of Love a light-flaming Fire in Divine Property Abysse Numb 16. 185. Beyond Image standeth Abysse Number 16. signifying that the right true Image standeth in the Abysse without or beyond all source or pain and dwelleth in Nothing but only in it self with or through it GOD. Therefore there is Nothing that can find touch or break it but only the Divine Power or Vertue for it standeth not in Nature although indeed with the Root it proceedeth from Nature and yet it is another thing as an Apple is another thing than the Tree though it stand upon the Tree and receive power and vertue from the Tree and yet the Sun giveth it also power and vertue So also the Divine Sun viz. the Majesty giveth the Image power and vertue Of the Word Omnipotence Numb 17. and Wrath Numb 18. 186. Further at the left standeth Number 17. Omnipotence and it standeth also without or beyond the Circle signifying the Fathers
triurnphs upon the Cross but she entereth not in into the Center She wil NOT go through Death into Life 260. She saith She liveth but hath ar injurious unrighteous life yet that is her right or proper life if she would live in it alone to her self but she oppresseth borneth compelleth the Children that are born or regenerated on the Cross and treadeth them under foot 261. Therefore hath the Crossbent and drawn its Bow and will shoot away Babel from the Cross signifieth the Spirit of Wonders in the Magia The Seventh Form of Fire 262. One Magia goeth alwayes out of the other and is the others Looking-Glass and Eye where the Wonders are apprehended or known and propagated for in the Abysse is NOTHING and in the Magia is ALL Every Looking-Glass is a Center and yet of its own for the first pleasure or longing seeking and desiring generateth that it is the model of the first 263. For when I search for the Beginning of Substance then I find the Eye which is God that is a desirous Will of Eternity which entereth in into it self and seeketh the Abysse in it self 264. It is in nothing but it is the Abysses Looking-Glass and seeketh it self and findeth it self and that which is found seeketh again a model that it may seek find and see it self therein 265. And that goeth on to the Number Ten and then the last findeth the first again in it self and thus the Last is a model or looking-glass of the First and the First of the Last and is as an Eternal Band and standeth or consisteth in the Will in the desiring seeking and finding and in this Substance is the Mysterium Magnum or great Mystery contained or included 266. But now will the Middle in the Desiring have a satiating or fulfilling wherein it may rest else all would stand or be in an Anxious Source or Torment and the Desiring draweth the Middle out of all Forms wherewith it filleth or satiateth its hunger wherewith or whereby in it self it standeth in Perfection in Joy and so out of the Anguish a Love cometh to be a satiating fulfilling or easing of the Source or fountain Quality of Pain and the middle is Sulphur with that the Spirit refresheth it self in the Will For Sulphur hath two Forms in it self viz. Power or Vertue and Light 267. And that is together the Substance generated out of All Forms it is Matter Substantiality Corporeity God's Body Christ's Flesh the Heavenly and is the total or universal fulfilling or satiating of the Spirit in the O it is the Rest and Manifestation or Revelation of the Deity and standeth in the Virgin of Wisdom 268. The Cross is its limit and is the Substantiality which goeth with the sinking into Death as above mentioned where the fierce Wrath remaineth in Death and it is still quiet as a Death or a Nothing and the Life sprouteth out of it into another Principle 269. It is not the Principle only the Principle becometh generated in it in it are all Looking-Glasses of the Magia manifested or revealed moreover the Wonders of the Genetrix It containeth the Mysterium Magnum the Great Mystery and out of it the Spirit openeth the Wonders of Eternity the Spirit giveth it the Essences for that is its food for its hunger 270. It is a substance of wonders without number and end and is also of no Beginning for the Spirit in the Desiring beginneth it from Eternity and continueth in Eternity it is a Body of the Number Three which is called God and a Body of Angels so that the Spirit standeth or is in an Image else it would NOT be apprehended or known 271. Thus it knoweth it self in the Image it self and seeketh the best Magia and what it seeketh that it findeth and eateth it and therewith or thereby giveth to the Body of God its will so that there is an unity in the holy Principle 272. For in the Will of the corporeal Spirit rise up the Wonders those the Spirit of Eternity viz. the holy Spirit receiveth or apprehendeth and so there is a ringing and song out of the eternal Wonders for the corporeal Spirits will is therein 273. And in these seven Forms the Joy of the Deity becometh multiplied and perfect for it is a fulfilling of the eternal Desiring and is the Eternal Food 274. But seeing all things or every Substance originateth from the Fire we will clearly set before you the Mysterum Magnum the Great Mystery and plainly shew you Paradise if any will be blind to him it is told and discovered let him go away with Babel 275. Ye know that in Fire 🜂 and Water 🜄 all Life standeth or consisteth and the Substantiality is its Body and the Body is or existeth out of the Power or Vertue of the Spirit for it is the Spirits Food and the Spirit is again the Bodies Food and the highest greatest Nutriment is in it self for the outward would not hold or retain it if the right or true Life were not in it self 276. Therefore now the Fire is the first cause of the Life and the Light thereof is the second cause and the Spirit the third cause and yet is but one substance or thing which closeth it self into a Body and manifesteth and so with seeking findeth 277. And every Substance is or consisteth in two Substances viz. in an outward and inward the one seeketh and findeth the other the outward is Nature the inward is Spirit above Nature and yet there is no schism or rending asunder but only in that which is included in a time therein the time severeth the limit so that the End findeth the Beginning 278. Thus ye see also how out of the Light the right or true Substantiality exists for it is a fulfilling or satiating of the Will The Water existeth out of the Meekness of the fight for the desiring layeth hold of the Meekness and retaineth it for it is a good relish thus is the Meekness Substantial and a Substance of the Fire a fulfilling of the desirous fierce Wrath an allaying of the fierce Wrath and a corporeity of the Time for when the Body falleth away then is its Spirit in the Beginning in that which hath given it forth in that looking-glass it is 279. So then seeing the Source or fountain Quality is twofold therefore is the Water also twofold viz. an outward and an inward the one belongeth to the Spirit the other to the outward Life the outward is accompted a Death the inward is its Life the outward standeth between the fierce Wrath and Paradise in the in-sunk down Death and the inward is the Paradise it self for the Spirit sprouteth therein out of the Eternity 280. And you may see that this is true thus Consider Winter and Summer also Cold and Heat and you will soon perceive it if you be born or generated internally and not externally only but with the first Magick Will or Desire to find God for
Spirit of this World 19. By which then the Image in the Spirit becometh attered all according to what is contained in the Will which the Soul hath framed or contrived or brought forth out of the Center also out of the Fierce Wrath into the Light viz. according to the Imagination 20. And we give you to understand that the Spirit can alter it self in this Time of the Body which is done without its knowledge or apprehension through the Imagination viz. through the seeking Lust or Longing Pleasure and Delight where the desiring figureth such a Form in the Souls Will as the lust or longing Pleasure is to Evil or Good 21. And we say that the pure Soul is not corporeal but there groweth a Body in the Tincture either heavenly or hellish and yet it is no palpable body according to the outward but a Power-Body God's Body Christ's Heavenly Body heavenly Flesh which Christ giveth us to eat in his Testament 22. It is a Body which the Turba cannot touch or apprehend it is immortal unfadable comprised in Nothing but only in the noble or pretious Tincture which is without substance and this body is to the outward Flesh incomprehensible 23. But the Outward Spirit if the Soul do not hinder it but letteth it in bringeth its Imagination thereinto and covereth vaileth or obscureth it so that another strange Image cometh to be in the Spirit in the Tincture according to the contents or condition of the longing Pleasure or lust viz. a Covetous of a Wolf an Envious of a Dog a Proud of a Horse Peacok or other Beast or living Creature also of Toads Adders Vipers Serpents other Worms or creeping things which Image God's Spirit so long as it standeth or continueth so doth not receive or accept 24. And therefore Christ saith You must be born anew of Water and the Spirit if you would see the Kingdom of God and therefore God became Man and brought the divine Image again into the Souls Tincture being it was perished in Adam so that now we must be born anew in Christ if we will see God 25. And this is done through the Imagination or Faith or Believing for believing is eating of God's Body and every Body groweth by eating 26. And the New-Birth is not in such a Manner as Babel teacheth her Matters are only a Looking-Glass of the right and true way into God which Looking-Glass must be broken For Moses his cover or vail is done away we should see further with clear Paradisical Eyes understand thus much ye Children of God The Eighth Question In what Manner the Soul cometh into Man or into the Body 1. THis Question I understand of the Souls Propagation For how it came into Adam Moses telleth you and it is mentioned above but because you ask concerning its Propagation how it cometh into a Child in the Mothers Womb we must put on another Habit or Garment 2. In our Third Part it is written very exactly and at large with many Circumstances concerning its Propagation how Adam was created in an Image He was Man and Woman before his Eve he had the fires and waters Tincture that is Soul and Spirit and should have generated his like an Image of himself out of himself through his Imagination and own Love and this he could have done without disrupture 3. For as it is above mentioned that the Soul hath such might or ability to change the Body into another Form so it hath also had ability to generate a Branch out of it self according to its Property if Adam had stood out the tryal or Proba 4. But being he imagined after or desired the Omnipotence and let the Spirit of this World into the Soul into the Tincture and the Serpent and gazed on the Earthly Fruit longing to eat of Evil and Good then also his Tincture conceived such an Image viz. a Monster which was half earthly thereinto also instantly the Turba insinuated it self and sought the Limit 5. Thus the noble or pretious Image was found in the Earthly where then Fragility Corruption and Death Began and Adam could not then generate for his Omnipotency was lost 6. And would indeed for ever have been lost if the Heart of God had not suddenly with the Word of Promise turned in it self into Adams Soul which so preserved it that so Adams Image must break and the Soul with the heavenly Body sink down through Death into the New-Life where its Spirit became renewed again 7. Thus Adam fell into inability into sleep and the other or second Creation began for God took the Waters Tincture as in a Twig or Branch out of Adams Soul and a Rib out of Adam and the Half Cross in Adam and framed a Woman out of it 8. As ye know that the Woman hath the one half Cross in her Head and the Man the other for in the Head in the Brain dwelleth the Souls Spirit out of which God hath taken a Branch viz. a Child out of Adams Souls Spirit and given it to the Woman that she should not generate or bring forth Devils 9. And the Man hath the Fires Tincture viz. the right true Original of the Life 10. And therefore hath the Woman gotten the Matrix viz. Venus's Tincture and the Man the Fires-Tincture understand the Woman hath the Lights-Tincture which can awaken no Life the Life standeth in the Fires-Tincture 11. But now being it could not be otherwise they must propagate in a Beastial Manner in Two Seeds the Man soweth Soul and the Woman Spirit and is being it is sown in an Earthly Soyl or Field conceived or hatched after the kind and man-of all Beasts 12. And yet nevertheless all the Three Principles are in the Seed but the Inward is not knowable or apprehensible to the Outward for in the Seed there is no living Soul but when the Two Tinctures come together then it is wholly in Substance for the Soul is in the Seed Essential and in the Conception or Hatching it becometh Substantial 13. For so soon as the Fire is struck up by Vulcan then is the Soul in the Substance wholly perfect and presently the Spirit goeth out of the Soul in the Tincture forth and draweth the outward Dominion viz. the Stars with or by the Air. 14. And thus is an Eternal Child and and hath also the frail or corruptible Spirit with the Turba hanging to it which Adam through his Imagination took in 15. And there the Turba instantly seeth the Limit in the Spirit of this World and will enter into the limit then is the Body old enough as soon as the Soul hath its Life to dye also many a Soul perisheth in the Essence while it is a Seed in the Sulphur 16. But you are to observe this that the Man hath the Fires Tincture and the Woman the Lights Tincture in the Water viz. Venus's Tincture as is to be understood by both their vehement Imagination one towards another for
Constellation the Elements and if it be not a mymmick Ape suffereth it self to be captivated then it is powerful enough over the outward and the outward must suffer it self to be subdued if the Soul sinketh it self down into God and cometh upon the Chariot of the Bride again into the outward that it hath the holy Spirit for an assistant 7. Then no hinderance from the Devil availeth any thing it destroyeth his nest and driveth him out he must stand in scorn and derision 8. And this is our Instruction and Answer to this Question that it is not so to be understood that when a mans Head is cut off and the Blood runneth out and the outward Life breaketh that it hitteth and killeth the Soul 9. No it loseth indeed one Principle but not the Substance of that Principle that followeth after the Soul in the Tincture in the Spirit as a Shadow for the outward Substance reacheth not the inward in the Soul but only through the Imagination 10. Else there is nothing in this World that can touch or kill the Soul no Fire nor Sword but only the Imagination that is its Poyson for it is Originally proceeded out of the Imagination and continueth Eternally THEREIN The Twelft Question How the Souls enlightening is 1. VVE are to consider that if the Sun were taken away out of this World then all things would be in Darkness and then outward Reason might say we are in Dark Death and in the fierce wrathfulness of the Cold and it were so indeed 2. Now behold O beloved Mind consider when thy Body perisheth then thy Spirit also loseth the Sun and then how thou wilt be in the Light and by what means thou wilt see I offer to you in simplicity for your mind to consider of 3. A thing that is in the Eternal Liberty if it continually entereth into the Eternal Liberty hath no Darkness for it dwelleth in nothing which affordeth that it is free as the Eye of God which seeth into it self by or through the Substance 4. When it imagineth in or according to the Lust Pleasure or longing after any thing then the Will goeth into that thing which the desirous Pleasure or longing it self maketh that very thing receiveth or taketh in the will into it self and overshadoweth it so that it dwelleth in the Darkness and can have no Light unless it go out again into the Liberty 5. Thus we give you earnestly to understand that in all our matters and doings we have no Light if we enter with the will into that which is done or acted if we set our Heart and Will upon the Work of our Hands viz. upon Covetousness Then we are in our Souls totally blind and have no Light in us but only the outward Light of the Sun which giveth light to the outward Body if that breaketh or perisheth then is the Soul captivated with that thing 6. Understand here The Souls Spirit and Will for the stock or stem of the Soul is a dark valley it hath no Light and if perhaps it lift up kindle it self yet it is but a fierce wrathful Fire-Flash and is like the Devil and cannot attain the Divine Light in it self 7. The Cause is it hath introduced Abomination into its Will and Spirit which darkneth the Spirit and holdeth it captive with the Turba for God's Light goeth not back again but forward into the Eternity 8. And therefore is God's Eye twofold or in two parts and standeth back to back as is shewed above in the Figure One part goeth forward into the still Eternity into the Eternal Nothing viz. into the Liberty 9. The other goeth back again into the Desiring and maketh darkness in the Desiring and therein the Center of Nature and driveth on to the great Anguish and Sharpness 10. Where then the Will sinketh down again out of the Anguish through the Darkness into the still or quiet Liberty and so bringeth along with it out of the Anguish the fierce wrath of the Mobility and the earnest severe Sharpness 11. In which Sharpness the Liberty when the will bringeth the sharpness thereinto becometh a high Triumphant majestick Light which is called God's Light which giveth light Eternally and can be barred in by nothing for it giveth Light in the Eternal Liberty and desireth nothing more 12. And now if thou earthly Man shouldst think that God would receive thy Spirit into his majestick Light whilst thou introducest Abominations viz. Covetousness which hath pride and state which is the Fire-Life of Covetousness into thy will then thou wouldst thereby darken God's Majesty and thy will and spirit would stick still only in thy Covetousness and would burn with the fire-source or quality of the Soul in the glance of a looking-glass viz. in pride or state and couldst not reach or attain God's Majesty 13. And if thou didst sit in the Cross of the holy Number Three and wert surrounded with all the holy Angels yet thou didst but sit in the darkness and thy spirit would give Light only into the Looking-Glass of that substance or thing which thou thy self hast introduced into the Spirit 14. Therefore now if the Soul with its Spirit in its Image will behold God and see into God's Majesty and Eternal Light then must it in this world go two wayes and then it will retain the Eternal Body viz. God's Image as also the outward Life together with the Earthly Body and will introduce the Wonders for which God hath created it in the outward life which it shall awaken in the outward life even ALL of them into the inward life and eternally rejoyce it self therein and have them as a Looking-Glass and the right and true way is as followeth The highly pretions Gate of the Morning Redness or Aurora 15. Behold thou beloved Soul if thou wilt have God's Light and see with God's Eye and wilt also have the Light of this world and nourish thy Body and seek the Wonders of God then do it as God himself doth it 16. Thou hast in thy Soul Two Eyes which are set back to back one of another one seeth into the Eternity and the other back into Nature and goeth alwayes on forth and seeketh in the Desiring and maketh one looking-glass after another let it be so it should be so God would have it so 17. But the other Eye turn not that back into the seeking but with the right Eye alwayes draw the left backwards to thee and let the Eye together with the will of the wonders not go from thee from the Eye which is in-turned into the Liberty draw it s opened made or acted wonders to thee 18. Let that very Eye seek food for the earthly Life but let it not go into the food viz. into covetousness but draw it hard and close to the seeing Eye and let it not go 19. But let the hands work and make or procure food and let the Eye draw the Wonders to it
lye shut up in both sexes in the Man and in the Wife then clearly the Turba stirreth it self in that the Essence of the Seeds drive up to a false or wicked Imagination to a false or wicked desire 2. And though indeed the Spirit doth subdue the Body yet it imagineth and that the Turba causeth in the Seeds and no Man can well deny but that to many that very Imagination it self is offensive and they wish it banished from them where there is a right sincere Spirit therefore ye are to apprehend that the Souls Spirit sticketh in a miserable Pinch and cannot be freed or loosed till the Turba taketh the Body 3. There is no full union or agreement between the outward and the new-born or regenerate Man the outward would continually devour the Regenerate for they stand in one another but yet each hath its own Principle so that the outward cannot over-power the inward if the Spirit do but continue in strife 4. And they can thus well cleave one to another for they all three stand or serve to God's Wonders if they stand in their right and due order or subordination each standing or continuing in its own Principle 5. For the Soul hath the Fire-Dominion and is the cause of the life of all three Principles and the Spirit hath the Lights Dominion in which the noble or pretious Image standeth together with God's Love and the outward Spirit hath the earthly Lifes dominion which should seek and open the Wonders and the inward Spirit should give it wisdom wit understanding to do it and the Soul should manifest or reveal to it the Abyss viz. the great Secresy 6. The Soul is the Jewel and the Souls Spirit is the inventor or finder of the Jewel the earthly Spirit is the seeker and the earthly Body is the Mystery wherein lyeth the Arcanum of the great hidden Secresy for the Deity hath manifested or revealed it self with or by the Earthliness as in a comprehensible Substance therefore now THREE Seekers belong to the Soul 7. And you should not look upon it so as if we undervalued the outward Life for it is the most profitable for us of all as to the great Wonders of God there is nothing more profitable to the whole Man then that he stand still in his Threefold Dominion and not go back with the outward into the inward but go with the inward into the outward 8. For the outward is a Beast and belongeth not to the inward but its Wonders which are generated forth out of the inward and have opened or discovered themselves in a comprehensible Substance they belong with their Figures not with their Substance to the inward those should the inward Spirit receive and take in viz. God's Deeds of Wonder for they will in Eternity be its JOY 9. But we say that the Soul can very well be retained or held in the New Man if its Tincture Spirit do but hinder the seeking and Imagination and though the outward Spirit be Beastial yet the inward understanding Spirit can hold the outward and subdue it for that is its Lord but he that letteth the Beastial Spirit be Lord he is a Beast and hath also a Beastial Image in the inward Figure in the Tincture 10. And he that letteth the Fire-Spirit viz. the Turba be Lord he is a substantial Devil in the inward Image and then it is necessary for the outward Spirit to pour water into the Fire that it may hold the stern Spirit captive whereas whiles it will not be God's Image it is a Beast according to the Inward Image 11. And when we consider our selves in or as to the union the outward Spirit is very profitable to us for many a soul would perish when the Beast-spirit acteth which yet holdeth the Fire captive and setteth the earthly beastial Labour and Joy before the Fire-Spirit wherein it can delight it self till it can through the Wonders somewhat discover its noble or pretious Image in the Imagination again so that it seeketh it self again 12. You my beloved Children who are generated in God to you it is said that it is not done without cause that God hath breathed the outward Spirit into Adam viz. the outward Life into his Nostrils 13. It was dangerous for this Image God knew how it went with Lucifer and what the great eternal Magia can do Adam also might have become a Devil but the outward Looking-Glass hindered that for where water is it quencheth the Fire 14. And many a Soul in its malice and wickedness would in a little while become a Devil if the outward Life did not hinder it so that the Soul cannot quite and totally kindle and enflame it self 15. How evil wicked and venomous is many a one that he would murther and commit abominable evil and wickedness but that his Fire hath Water else it would be done and committed as is to be seen in the Gall which is a fire poyson or venome but is mixed with water so that the pomp and fury of the Fire is allayed 16. Thus it is also with the inward Substance the Spirit of this World hath insinuated it self in the Abyss into the Soul and hath in its Source or Quality mortal Water wherewith it often moisteneth the Soul when it would spit fire 17. Also the outward Spirit could not without the Fire have a Life and though it hath Fire in all Creatures yet the Fire is onely the fierce Wrath of the inward Fire 18. The Inward Fire consumeth Earth and Stone also Body and Blood as also the Noble and precious Image if it becometh kindled or inflamed in the Will and there the Water is a Medicine for it which layeth the pomp or fury of going forth aloft over the Meekness of God as Lucifer did The Seventeenth Question Whence and wherefore there is Contrariety of the Flesh and the Spirit 1. YOu know beloved Brother very well that Fire and Water is at Enmity for the Fire is Life and the Water is its Death which you see very well when Water is poured into the Fire then is the source or quality of the Fire out and the Fire is in Death 2. But in Man it is not so totally in Death in respect of the Light which continually causeth the Fire yet there is an Enmity as between God and Hell there is Enmity and yet Hell or Anger-Fire is Gods 3. And God's Majesty would not be if his Anger were not which sharpneth the Divine obscure hiddenness of the Eternity by the fierce wrath of Nature so that it becometh turned into Fire out of which the high Light in the free Liberty becometh generated which in the meek source or quality maketh Majesty 4. And yet the Fire is the only Cause that in the Light in the Meekness there is a Springing for the Light existeth from the Glance of the Fire and hath in it the source or quality of the Fire 5. But as afore-mentioned the Will sinketh in the
and Favour of the Giver or Donor why is the Servant in the House Angry and Discontented at it that the Lord is so Good and Gracious and giveth a stranger the Dominion 12. We were Strangers and the Work was in the Family but the Lord hath given us the Promise in Paradise he would bestow upon us again his Kingdom out of Grace he left Cains Offering but to Abel he gave the Kingdom of Grace for Abel sought it in the Spirit and Cain in the Work 13. Thus understand how God's Kingdom is Magical for the first Will attaineth it and the Will in the Substance or Work NOT for it remaineth in the Substance or Work but he that goeth free findeth the Eternity and the Kingdom of Grace therein and the Promise with the Substance or Work together and then the Work dwelleth in the Will and is the Wills Houshold Servant 14. Thus ye understand if ye be seeing the whole Old Testament this is the Only Ground but comprised briefly and if we come to write upon Moses you shall find it wholly and thus we have shewen you the right and true Ground of the Bosom of Abraham and of the true Christian Religion 15. Whosoever teacheth otherwise is of Babel beware of him he hath not Christs Spirit but he is Ishmael and seeketh or gropeth in his own conceit 16. O thou VVorthy and Pretious Christendom be yet seeing else it will no more shine so clearly to thee go yet to Lazarus into Abrahams Bosom The Six and Twentieth Question Whether the Souls of the Deceased take care about Men their Children Friends and Goods and know see like or dislike their Purposes and Undertakings 1. MY beloved Friend this Question is above all humane Reason and knowledge according to Outward Reason but being we are Abrahams Children therefore we have Abrahams Spirit in Christ And as Abraham looked backward upon the Promise in Paradise and forward upon the fulfilling of the Promise so that he saw in the whole Body of Christ what was to be in the Middle and saw Christ afar off so also we 2. And being you so vehemently long after the Great Mysteries and desire them with earnest seeking giving God the Glory and accounting your self in your high knowledge very unworthy of it and so humbling your self before God therefore God also giveth it you though by so slight and mean an Instrument who accounts himself much more unworthy yet doth not desire to resist his Will thus you are the finding in this Hand and the Cause of attaining it 3. For this Hand knew nothing of the Mystery it sought only Abrahams Faith but Abrahams understanding was also given to it which you have caused by your seeking 4. Now see that you attain also Abrahams Spirit which hath written in the Knowledge and Apprehension of this Hand we will set you it down in a Brotherly manner for we are not your Lord in the Mystery but your Servant 5. Apprehend us aright we are Lazarus and you are in respect of us to be accounted Abraham you have laboured much more then we but we are fallen into your Harvest not of Merit but of the Grace of the Giver that no Tongue might boast before God and say this hath my Vnderstanding done 6. You ask a high Question I understand it not for if I should apprehend it then must I be in the Departed Soul and must be in that Souls Spirit apprehension 7. Nevertheless being we are in Christ one Body have also Christs Spirit therefore we see all in Christ out of one Spirit and have its apprehension for he is in us become Man and all Holy Souls are our fellow Members ALL begotten from or out of ONE and we have all one Will in Christ and the right and true Bosom of Abraham 8. And so now we have gotten Might and Power to Manifest or Reveal unto you that Hidden thing in Christ for our Soul seeth in their Souls not that they press and come to us but we press and go to them for they are in Perfection and we but in Part. 9. And Now we can Answer you not from Reason of the outward World but from or out of the Image of Christ and out of his and our Spirit 10. You ask whether the Souls Departed take care about Humane Matters or Doings and see like or dislike them Now this is to be understood in Three several wayes as to Three sorts of Souls as indeed there are Three distinct kinds of them 11. First I. concerning the Souls that have not yet attained Heaven which-stick in the source quality or pain in the Principle in the Birth these have still humane Matters with the works on them and they search diligently after the Cause of their Detention 12. And therefore many of them come again with the Starry Spirit and walk about in Houses and other Places and appear in Humane Shape and Form and desire this and that and often take care about their Wills and Testaments supposing thereby to get the Blessing of Holy People for their Rest and Quiet 13. And if their Earthly business and Employment stick in them and Cleave to them still then indeed they take care about their Children and Friends and this continueth so long till they sink down into their Rest so that their Starry Spirit be consumed then all is gone as to all care and perplexity and they have no more feeling knowledge thereof but meerly that they see it in the Wonders in the Magia 14. But they touch not the Turba nor seek what is in this World for they are once sunk down from the Turba through Death they desire that no more neither do they take any more care for in care the Turba is stirring for the Souls Will must enter with its Spirit into Earthly things which it would fain forsake for it hardly got rid away from them before it would not cumber it self to let in the Earthly Spirit again 15. This is an Information concerning that one part or sort of Souls and we speak freely and certainly that this Part or sort do no more after they are come to Grace purposely take care about Humane Earthly Matters but about Heavenly Matters which come to them through Mans Spirit they see them and have their Joy therein 16. But there remains this still to be said that a Living Man hath such Power and Authority that he can with his Spirit reach into Heaven to the Souls departed and stir them up often in a Question or a hearty Desire but it must be Earnest there belongeth Faith to the breaking open of a Principle 17. Such a thing we see in Samuel the Prophet whom the King of Israel raised up that he might manifest his Will to him though some look upon it otherwise of whom we say they are blind without apprehension or knowledge and speak their School-Conceits and make meanings and Opinions about that they have no knowledge of in the Spirit and
you may understand it well enough in all the other Questions what is to be done and it is explained enough 5. We dare not answer concerning future things otherwise then after a Magical Manner and the Cause is this the Future VVonders are all seen in the Turba and if the Spirit seeth them then it speaketh clearly out how the Turba is loaded with Evil or Good 6. But it seeth that all is mixed for God is become Man and setteth forth his Mercy every where in the Anger and hindereth the Perdition and therefore must the Prophet now speak Magically and not with plain VVords for it cometh to pass many times that a thing that is Evil in the Substance yet there groweth suddenly a small Twig or Branch out of it which breaketh the Turba and so there cometh a Conversion into it 7. Therefore God causeth you to be admonished that you should subdue and resist the Heaven of the Firmament and then often the Evil which the Firmamental Heaven sheddeth abroad becometh turned into that which is Better 8. Else if all must needs come to pass which the Firmamental Heaven hath Men would need no Teaching but it would all be a certain stedfast and Eternal Calender 9. You know very well what Daniel Ezekiel as also David Mentioneth in his Prophecies especially the Revelation of Jesus Christ there ye have all lying in them whatsoever is to be done they have spoken Magically of things to come 10. But in our Writings ye have them clearer for the time is now nearer the End and the Beginning hath sound the End therefore it appeareth clearer what shall be done at the End 11. And I would have you directed to the other Questions where you shall find enough concerning it for the Evil VVorld is not worthy of a round clear explanation for alwayes the Great Mystery is touched thereby which belongeth only to the Children of God for God would not have men cast Pearls before Swine but to give Food to the Children 12. Thus do you also it lyeth not in this that the Mystery should stand under a Worldly Protection or Patronage that is a Folly and God would thereby be rejected as if he were not able enough to Protect it 13. You ought not to seek the Mystery among those in power or rely upon them above others for there cometh a Turba suddenly thereinto viz. by a Law and then is God's Spirit as it were bound or tyed up and that thing becometh an Antichrist 14. Look upon Israel when they rejected Samuel and their Judges and supposed when their Teaching stood under a worldly Arm and Power and that they had a King then they would keep their Law as it came to pass that their King introduced the Turba thereinto and made Calves for the Service and VVorship of God and compelled the Congregation or People to Honour and VVorship those Idols this we say from a good meaning 15. And we give you no Answer to this Question particularly by it self you will find enough of it in the other Questions for we ought to do no otherwise The Nine and Thirtieth Question What and where Paradise is with its Inhabitants 1. THis hath been explained to you in the Enochian Life that it is in this World but in the Mystery as it were swallowed up whereas yet in it self it is not altered It is only withdrawn from our Eyes from our source or quality else if our Eyes were open we should see it 2. Nay God in his Number Three is with us how then should Paradise be lost indeed we have lost the quality or source and fruit of it in the outward Life as the Devil lost God when he with his own self will went forth as a proud arrogant Spirit and would be Lord so it hath gone with us 3. When Adam would have Eaten of the Earthly Fruit Evil and Good then he gat also an Earthly Life Evil and good and became thrust out of the fair delightful Garden of Paradise where Heavenly Fruit grew into the outward Life 4. Many have written wonderfully of Paradise but their blindness appears now in the Day Light whom yet we shall not contemn for they have been seekers every Age hath had its seekers who have sought the Mystery but it hath been a long time very dark in Babel 5. Now within two hundred years it hath begun to open it self again wherein Antichrists Fall hath been discovered where Men have begun to storm Babel on One side but the strong Fort in Babel standeth firm still Men have revealed or manifested the Whore indeed but her Beast is but the more grown 6. Therefore there is yet a Wonderful time at hand which shall change all Many high Mountains and Hills shall be made a plain Field and a Fountain shall flow out of Sion wherein the Miserable shall drink and be refreshed 7. And they shall be led to Pasture with a staff and the Shepherd will rejoyce with his Sheep that God is so Gracious 8. For Silver and Gold is as common as in Solomons time and his Wisdom Ruleth over the Face of the Earth this is a Wonder The Fortieth Question Whether Paradise is Alterable and what shall be afterwards 1. AS little as God is alterable so little also is Paradise alterable for it is a part of the Deity when the outward Dominion shall pass away then will in the Place where this world now standeth be meer Paradise For there will be an Earth of Heavenly Substantiality which we may be able to dwell in Through and through 2. At the Last Judgement Day we shall not fly away from the Place of this World but continue so in our Native Countrey and go home into another World into another Principle of another source or quality 3. For there will be no Frost nor heat also no Night and we shall be able to go through the Heavenly Earth through and through without dividing or disturbing any thing 4. This Earth will be Like a Cristalline Sea wherein all the Wonders of the World will be seen all very Transparently and God's Glance Lustre or brightness will be the Light therein and the Holy Jerusalem the Great City of God where Men shall offer to God the Calves of their Lips there will be Paradise And the Tabernacle of God with Men For it is Written Behold I make all things New a New Heaven and a New Earth so that Men shall not regard the Old any more in that will the fair bright City of God with the Wonders and Wisdom stand and the Temple of God the New Jerusalem will stand upon the New Earth which is prepared and made ready out of God's Power and Wonders 5. ALL whatsoever the Prophets have written will there be fulfilled for God's Word and Wonders will spring and grow as Grass upon the New Earth 6. There is no more Death also no fear or sorrow or sadness No sickness No Superiour
maketh astringent austere or harsh from the attracting in the Will and the attracting is stinging and the suffering is bitter which the Will willeth not and thereupon in it self goeth forth from the sting and maketh a Principle of its own in which the Majesty appeareth 82. Thus existeth in the bitter suffering the great Anguish whereas yet nothing is there that suffereth but it is in it self thus and it is its own Life and if this were not the Glance of the Majesty would not be neither the one is the cause of the other for in the Darkness is the flash of Lightning and in the Liberty the Light with the Majesty 83. And this now is the parting that the Liberty is a still nothing which Liberty receiveth the Light and maketh the Darkness Material whereas yet there is no substance of palpability but dark spirit and power a filling of the Liberty in it self understand in the Desiring not without for without is the Liberty 84. Therefore is God the most secret and also the most revealed and that is Mysterium magnum the great Mystery Thus the Abysse is also secret and yet revealed as the Darkness is before our eyes but the source or pain is unsearchable or unperceptible till the will diveth thereinto then it becometh felt and found when the will loseth the Light and herein lyeth the ground of right beleeving or true Faith Let this be told you ye Teachers in Babel 85. Since then there is an Abysse which is called the Ground in respect of the comprehension of the Darkness where the source or pain is as a cause of the Life within for the fierce wrathfull slash of Lightening is the awakening of the Life whereas there is nothing there but in it self therefore it is also a Desiring and the Desiring is a Seeking and yet can find nothing but a Looking-glass and a similitude of the dark fierce wrathful source or pain wherein nothing is 86. For it is a figure of the earnest severe fierce wrathful flash of Lightning and of the sharp and strong Might which is God's according to which he calleth himself a Consuming Fire and an Angry Zealous or Jealous God 87. This Looking-glass is also without Ground without Beginning and End and yet hath an Eternal Beginning and End and is the Eternal Only Cause that the Abysse is Blew Dusky and Fiery It is the Cause of the Stars and Elements for the Firmament is the other or second Looking-glass generated out of this 88. Since then there is in all things a Threefold Source one whereof is the others Looking-glass Generating and Cause nor thing excepted All standeth according to the Substance or Working of the Number Three 89. Now seeing there is a Looking-glass in the Abysse wherein the source or quality beholdeth it self therefore that also is a figure and image of the source or quality which standeth before the source or quality and acteth or generateth nothing but is a Virgin of the source quality or pain wherein the fierce Wrath of the flash of Lightning discovers it self in infinity without Number and continually openeth its wonders therein with the bitter spirit of the stirring Essences which in the flash of Lightening hath its Life so that it goeth swifter than a Thought 90. Though indeed the THOUGHTS of the Creatures stand and move herein and the Spirits of all living Creatures are with their Root standing herein every Life according to its Principle 91. And in this Spirit of the fire-flash standeth the Great Omnipotent Life for it is consuming as the flash of Lightning consumeth the Darkness and that Fire all things and yet continueth a Life in it self but it is an Hunger and Thirst and must have Substantiality else it continueth a Dark Hunger-fire a will of devouring and having Nothing a will to rage prick and find nothing but it self out of which cause the Substantiality viz. the Water as also Sulphur is generated and generateth it self from Eternity to Eternity 92. Here seek the first Root of the Soul viz. in the Fire-Life and the second in the Light-Life in the Majesty and then you will find God's Image and similitude and the greatest Mystery of the Deity lying therein 93. Since then there is such an Eye of the fierce Wrath wherein the earnest severe stern fire-life originateth yet is not at all sundred from the Fire-Life it is One and the same Life and hath Two Principles for it burneth in a twofold source or quality one within another and is One Spirit in Two distinctions with two Wills the one dwelling in the Fire the other in the Light 94. And know for certain assuredly that the Dark Fire-Life is the the Abysse of Hell for it is the stern severe Anger of God 95. And seek it not so as Babel the great City of Confusion upon earth hath sought which yet we blame for nothing else but her negligence and inconsiderateness seeking self-honour and power and so hath captivated her self in the fierce wrathful Anger of God which hath had her a long time under its Wonders and drawn many souls into its source or quality Consider well of it 96. In the Third Part of our Writings it is largely described for that is somewhat easier to reach than this but this is the deepest Ground of Eternity as much as a Spirit can be capable of for more it CANNOT bear yet it may be expressed much more at large but not more deeply for it is comprized in the Abysse in both Principles as indeed a Soul originateth in the Abysse in both Principles and in the spiritual Will in the Eternity 97. And therefore if it be not circumspect the Devil may easily ride upon its Chariot viz. upon its Will but if it be circumspect and casteth it self into the Will of the Majesty of God then the holy Spirit of God rideth upon its will and it is his Chariot 98. Herein you may clearly discern Heaven and Hell Angels and Devils Evil and Good Life and Death if you but search after it as we shall further mention to you The Sixth Form of Fire 99. Thus then seeing Two Principles stand in One Substance as none with reason can speak against it for every Life standeth in Poyson and Light every one in its own Principle according as it hath the Source or Fountain Quality so hath it also its Light Thus it may be discerned concerning the Sustenance of the Life what that is which sustains or preserves the Life that it starve or famish not and what driveth forth its Source or fountain Quality that it may subsist Eternally 100. Now this also is in Two distinctions for the Light-Life hath its source or fountain quality and driving forth and the Fire-Life also its source or fountain quality and driving forth each in it self but the Fire-Life is a Cause of the Light-Life and the Light-Life is a Lord of the Fire-Life and herein lyeth the Mysterium magnum the
great Mystery 101. For if there were no Fire there would also be no Light and also no Spirit and if there were no Spirit that did blow up the Fire then the Fire would smother and extinguish and would be a Darkness and so one without the other would not be thus they belong both to one another and yet they sever one from the other but without flying away and yet there is a flying of the Spirit 102. To be understood thus look upon a glowing red hot Fire First There is the Matter out of which it burneth and that is the astringent austere source attracted bitter Substance which standeth in an anguish Source or Quality whether it be wood or whatsoever else which is a dark Body 103. Now when that is kindled then a Man sees three Principles 1. The Wood in the Darkness with the outward Source or fountain Quality of this World 2. Which also hath its life else it would not take fire 104. Now the Fire hath a fierce wrathful astringent or sour strong or stern bitter thirsty desirous Source or Quality a devouring Consuming and the Great Bitterness is its right Life a rager and a wakener that hath all Essences of Life in it and is also the power of the Life and of the Driving forth else there would be no Burning 105. And that maketh the great Anguish-seeking after the Liberty and in the Fire it attaineth the Liberty for it consumeth in the fierce wrath the Darkness and also the Matter of the Fire from which the Fire burneth 106. And here we apprehend the One only Spirit which parteth it self into Two Principles into Two Spirits yet not assunder but one flying from the other and yet the one comprehendeth not the other and one is the Life and Cause of the other 107. And therefore it is Two Principles since it giveth or affordeth a twofold Source or fountain Quality and Life and is but one Root which affordeth that the one giveth Life the other giveth food to the Life and this is a wonder and yet Not a wonder for there is nothing that it self can wonder at for it is it self all things in One Substance 108. Now behold the Fire is first the seeking to draw into it self that is the Substantiality the Phur for the Seeking maketh that in the Desiring in respect of its drawing else Nothing would be and the Drawing is the bitter sting a Breaker which cannot endure the Substantiality nor will not endure it and that not willing to endure is an anguish in the will to over-power the Substantiality with the bitter Sting and the Anguish penitrateth or presseth into it self and reacheth after the Liberty and the Liberty is esteemed a Light in respect of the Darkness 109. Now the Anguish is a horrible Sharpness and thus is the Liberty captivated and sharpned so that it is a Fire-flash of Lightning and the Anguish Will in the sharpness of the bitter Flash of Lightning consumeth the Substantiality be it wood or any thing else 110. And when it hath consumed it then is the Anguish again a Darkness and the Flash of Lightning remaineth hidden in it self again and is an extinguishing and the Anguish is in the Darkness viz. before the flash of fire and standeth now in a terrible Source or fountain Quality where the Bitterness in respect of the rough attracting becometh continually generated the more terrible 111. Now observe this is thus according to the outward Principle of this World as is undeniable before our eyes and so then there is in the Eternity such a continual subsisting Substance which we demonstrate to you thus Observe and consider the Depth and read here diligently 112. The sinking down of the Anguish in the eternal Darkness is an eternal Hunger and Thirst and an eternal Desiring and the Darkness in it self attaineth in the Eternity Nothing that it can have out of the Eternity for its satiating or fulfilling therefore it is rightly the very Hunger and Thirst of the Abysse of Hell and of the Anger of God 113. But the will in the Anguish being it can reach or find nothing it maketh to it self a figure and a similitude in the Desiring with the stern strong drawing and the strong astringent bitter dark Substance is the material Similitude it self it devoureth it self and is it self the Matter of the Fire that so the Eternal Flash continueth perpetually and the fierce Wrath is continually eternally ever burning and burneth eternally out of the Darkness and hath its own Life it it self viz. the bitter Sting of the Anguish which raveth and rageth and is the stirring and original of the Life and that is a Principle 114. And understand herein the Eternal desirous seeking an Eternal Covetousness and yet having Nothing but it self an Eternal Envious Enmity a seeking of the Essences wherein then the innumerable and unsearchable Multiplicity in the Will is continually generated and an eternal craftiness or subtilty a continual climing up in the Hunger and an eternal finding in the Will as namely of the Similitude of its desiring the Similitude of the Essences and in the Flash that is revealed or manifested for the Flash raiseth up it self Eternally above the Darkness and in the Flash are the Essences and are continually brought into the Will 115. Thus is the Fire-will a seeking of the rising Pride a contemning of the Darkness it contemneth its own Root it is a covetous one and willeth to devour more then it hath or then is its right It hath all Lust for the desirous Essences become revealed or manifested in the fire and thence it comes that in every will of every Essence there is again a Center of a whole Substance 116. And that is the Cause of the Creation of this World in that the Model hath thus appeared in A Looking-Glass from Eternity and hath stood in the Eternal Essences in the Figure as in a Vigin without generating and hath been seen in the Light of God And thence originateth the Matter of the Earth of the Stars and Elements also all Art Wit or Ingenuity Craft or Subtilty Deceit Falshood Covetousness and high-mindedness in the Creatures of this World 117. For this World is a material seeking out of the Eternal and is in the Creation viz. in verbo Fiat in the word Fiat through the Water-Heaven become material and palpable as is to be seen in Earth and Stones And the Firmament with the Elements is still the seeking and seeketh the Earthly for it cannot reach back into the Eternal 118. For every substance or thing goes forward so long till the End findeth the Beginning then the Beginning swalloweth up the End again and is as it eternally was except this that the Model remaineth for the Model is out of the Eternal out of which the Creation went forth into a Substance like the Wonder-Eye of God 119. Also it is mentioned to you that the Spirit-Air thus originateth out of the bitter eternal