of moveability because God is the unchangeable being of Love Delight in REST in the Center of all that is good and Nature is that into which good and evil hath entered from whence its TREE hath sprung up and doth grow which the Creature who is the cause of work and labour in God hath fed on that hath brought the sence of pangs and misery into the World where is the worldly sorrow that worketh and bringeth under the power of Death and all other afflictions they meet with in their way CHAP. V. Describing the Form and Order of the WHEELS in their MOTION XXV FOR God is the cause of nothing without NATURE though in the Wheels there appeared two Motions whereby the cause of moveability was kept from centering in the ground of Corruption and Mortality under the power of which the Creature of God was thus fallen in a NATURAL Body through that which was sown in Weakness therefore in what ever the Creature was betrayed under the power of its guidance it was a CROSS to all proneness and adiction of Motion that did arise from the ground of Corruption XXVI And about the CENTER in which stood a Heart inflaming was made a Diurnal Motion in the Wheels which moved at a distance in two Rings of the inward Wheels wherein the third and inward Principle moved equally with the ground of Motion from the first CENTER and the two outward Principles of the inward World acted according to what was formed in a third Principle by which those three Principles came to manifest their CENTER in Nature XXVII But in the WHEELS there was also an Annual Motion that moved round that which stood fixed in the Center and this caused a ground without the Center as it stood manifest through the inward Motion to be corruptible and to Center under a power of Corruption though in those inward Rings of the Wheels there were kept and preserved a tincture of the first Motion XXVIII Yet having let in another Tincture from the power of Corruption under which the Worlds were labouring to Center what ever came forward under its motion must again be brought back into the sence and feeling of that which it reacheth after through DEATH to the cause of all labour and pangs wherein the Body of Nature standeth afflicted XXIX For there was neither East West North nor South from the Center in the inward Rings of the Wheels though it appeared to me in the ground whereon I lay for the beholding of the Vision that as the outward Rings in the Wheels were moved in a power of the four Winds of the Heavens the inward motion was from East to West and the Wheels went side wayes in all courses of the World XXX In which the three Rings of the outward Wheels did move and were moved according to the frame of the Worlds wherein centered the Principles of the whole but the inward Wheels moved by reflection the CENTER being unmoveable wherein two Rings only were discerned at a distance in that inward Wheel though in the Principles of each and both Worlds there were moved about three Rings in each Wheel XXXI And though in the outward Ring of the Inward Wheel in its Diurnal Motion the Heavens did move and were moved in what stood fixed toward the CENTER yet the outward Ring of the outward Wheel standeth 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 distance of years from the motion in the 〈◊〉 as doth the inward Ring of 〈◊〉 inward Wheel from the revolution of the Moon in the Annual Motion of the Wheels And in the second Ring of the outward Wheels the Heavens were moved about in their Annual Motion at the same distance from the Center as they were in the second Ring of the inward Wheel in their Diurnal Motion CHAP. VI. Describing the MYSTERY of the sounding of the seven Golden TRUMPETS and the seven THUNDERS that are for the preparing a ground in which the Judgement of God is manifest XXXII ON the Ground and Principles of a third part of the Worlds into which the DRAGON drew a third part of the Stars of Heaven after him did five of these Golden Trumpets sound forth the Judgment of God in what is loosed and unsealed from the BOOK of WONDERS in the Heavens wherein the four BEASTS were manifest each in their day calling to come and see what lay slain under the ALTAR of God in his Temple and House wherein the Sun Moon and Stars of Heaven did shine through that which was smitten in its third part XXXIII And herein is discovered the seat of the BEAST in Nature whose torment is awakened out of the bottomless Pit though as yet the number of Horsemen and Riders do multiply on the Earth through that which is awakened from the sounding of the sixth Trumpet on the great River EUPHRATES in which hath been bound the four Angels that were prepared according to the time in which standeth the Execution of their destroying Power in with-holding the Winds from blowing on the EARTH as they are seen come up exalted on the four Corners of the same holding the four Corners of those Winds XXXIV Wherein each of those four Beasts in the forms of Nature recovereth six Wings according to the six Spirits of God in which the seventh unchangeable Spirit of Rest in him is begotten into the Creature and Creation that are become his Workmanship and they cover the living Creatures who day and night are crying HOLY unto the Lord and by the lifting up and letting down of their WINGS is the whole Earth and Worlds darkned or inlightned with GLORY XXXV And the Mansions or twelve Houses of the Fathers GLORY in the Heavens have their form defended with the WALL that is raised up on its antient Foundations wherein are twelve Pearls on its twelve Gates and under it are the twelve Foundations setled in the Refining Power through which are to be brought other three parts of a new World in its Heaven Earth in the destruction of a fourth part over which the fourth BEAST hath ruled with the Face of an Eagle who is come forth on his PALE HORSE like unto Death and Death and Hell follows him XXXVI Whose Power is by Famine Pestilence and Sword with WILD Beasts of Prey in all that lives in or moves on the GROUND and PRINCIPLES over which the seven THUNDERS are awakened to Thunder from those Places wherein Life doth strive to break forth and come into the CENTER of the creaturely being where every Birth hath its SIGNIFICATOR and the twenty four Wings of the four Beasts are the Army of the HEAVENS according to what came forth first MANIFEST in the four Wings of the FOWL that was stretched forth over the LYON in what strove to come up under the four Winds of the HEAVENS wherein the Heavens contended CHAP. VII Describing the MYSTERY of the four Beasts in the seven Forms of NATURE and of the Beast himself who is the Eighth XXXVII FRom the THUNDERS in
of a seventh Man in his Nation wherein the Bow-man was concerned for he rode in the Chariot of NATURE as a great PROPHET who continued a just year and was not for God took him to himself in the Revolution of the Heavens until the times of Restitution came for the delivering up of what had been retained in a Mystery and through the loosening of the Angels in the great River Euphrates the Bow-Man came forth manifest in the house of the Angels Exaltation to wit the ninth House of Mansions in the HEAVENS LXXXIII And the eighth Day of the eleventh Month the Woman again conceived and brought forth an Eighth Man formed in his Nation who saw the end of the old and first Worlds And after the revolution of the Second Year I beheld the Moon regaining strength and glory from the course of the Sun from which she borrowed her light And on the second day of the fifth Month of the third year the Moon was strong in her own House of Exaltation whereby the Sun suffered a third Eclipse on his coming into the Heart of Nature which is the House wherein he glorieth as his own LXXXIV And the Woman was delivered of a ninth Man in his Nation for the bringing forth of whom the first seven were destroyed in their Nations yet in him was a Seed preserved to replenish the Earth anew and into the renewed Habitation of Wonders in the Translations of the Body of Nature working among the forms of Creation the substance was taken and gathered but from the Heavens was a Voice The young Mans wound hath cured my hurt CHAP. VIII Describing the wonderful operation of the Vision in the opening of the Heavens testified through the Judgement of God against what came forth imbodied in Form in those seven Nations LXXXV THrough the striving of three Nations from the Womb of Eternity two Generations of Men continued labouring under what was degenerated into the imbodied FORM for Generations-sake And between those three was two Months for the separation of each in their Revolution wherein the Virgin in Nature suffered by the power of Death that entred the Creation of God LXXXVI On the last day of the Seventh Month of the third year died the first Man that became imbodied in FORM from the Womb of Nature as the Virgin in Nature lost her Crown and the Woman also come to suffer Death in Two Generations of Men concerned in the contest in the Heavens but the cause of such pangs and sufferings that rested on the Body of Nature was a fallen ground in the Earthly Principle which stood in and out of the WATERS as a fourth part of the Elemental Worlds and it was the last FORM under the power whereof the Life of the Creature remained suffering LXXXVII For the Seventh FORM in Nature that became imbodied in the Creaturely being was exalted on the Earth which proceeded from the FIERY Heavens from whence the Man took his dominion who was taken up unto God and was not on the last Day of the ninth Month of the third Year And the THIRD that proceeded from the Man imbodied from the Womb of Eternity and that took being amongst the Forms in Nature died in that FIRST Principle after the conclusion of the Eleventh Month and was dissolved in the Earth LXXXVIII But those Two by whom the Woman in Nature came to suffer Death who were slain by the hard labour under which the Creature and Creation of God remaineth groaning died also in the Earth in the Fourth Year The One on the Sixteenth day of the Second month The Other on the sixteenth day of the Fourth month And a Fifth Man imbodied in Form died on the Thirteenth day of the Twelfth month The Sixth on the nineteenth day of the Seventh month of the Fifth year And the Seventh on the Twenty-fourth day of the Seventh month which from the finishing of God's Work into that wonderful frame in the Generation of the Heavens was the Seventeenth day of the seventh month LXXXIX For that which came Seven dayes and seven years Forward in the motion of the WHEELS was brought under five months tryal both by WATER and by FIRE being that which came forth manifest in five Dayes and grew up under the Revolution of Seven Months as the forms of Nature were moved backward under the power of Destruction that through the dissolution of that which came into being fallen under the power of Corruption that which is Heir of Immortality might arise and come to possess a Crown of Rejoycing in God through the work of Restauration of those forms in Nature into their Eternal Existence that have a substantial being in the first forming cause of an IMAGE to the work of Creation XC And while the VISION of God was on me and the ANGEL of God was talking with me I saw the Man that was driven out of the Garden of God which is the Glory of the World in its Paradise came again onward in the way from which he went towards the rest of SELFS Annihilation that had caused the bodily form to come under the power of death who notwithstanding that he remained imbodied in Principles fallen and sunk under the power of Corruption and Destruction in the forms of Nature did yet abide in the WORLD and the World in him until Paradise that was lost and died from him and he from it began again to spring up in the place and condition wherein he was put as considered in that state XCI And from the Heavens I heard a Voice Death and Destruction I am become thy Grave and O Grave I am become thy Plague But dread and fear compassed me about as with a Garment for the miraculous workings of the Power of God in the Vision had bended me until all faculties of my mind became subject to that invisible sence from whence my Spirit received the Illuminations of that which sought to come forth though for a tryals sake to my patience the understanding of that which came up in the MOTION was oft-times sealed before me after I began to write thereof XCII For as I was amongst a number of people assembled to wait upon the Lord I was taken in a TRANCE and my knees smote together trembling because of the fear of God in my Heart and the terror of his Judgments on my Spirit But on that same night as I lay on my Bed I saw the form of a GREAT MAGISTRATE and the Honour and Respect which he had was different from all the powers of the Earth for before him went the form of DEATH as a man walking on his Feet and about him were great Attendance sounding Bells on every side and they continued thus to ring these little Bells till he ascended a place of Judicature where he had great reverence and respect XCIII And amongst the crowd that bended to his power I was acted in the like posture and being otherwise convinced in my Spirit I was smote with great dread
that shall fill it with Pangs and many shall blaspheme God because of those Pangs that are come on them that have defiled the Temple of God created to be his House of Praise though now made that over which the Great Whore hath reigned that sitteth on the Kings of the Earth and this shall be known in the time that the beloved City becometh encamped about by the great Armies of the Aliens LVIII And concerning all these things the times are coming that they are to be fulfilled and in Europe will FALL suddenly a great Prince but England be thou still in thy Dominions until GOD come to exalt and set up His TRUTH over all the Powers of Darkness for thy striving for Conquest by the Sword and to get into Dominion is but vain LIX In that the Powers of the Air must heighten their glory before it can be seen what is smitten therein under the Power of the Eagle or King of the North that hath reigned more years than the King of the South and therein remaineth the Holy Seed and let him that hath Wisdom number and count those days past and yet observe that which is to be fulfilled to make up the expiration of the time and let it not be hard to believe well of that which crosseth thy expectations that thou shouldest be filled with the distrust of GOD and his Goodness and put an evil Construction upon that which answereth not thy Opinionatedness LX. And in the reading hereof the God of Life and Peace open your Understandings and bless and keep all in his Fear that those Sparks that have been raked under the Ashes of what was once enkindled in a consuming Flame may be blown up into a second Flame the Light of which I desire never more to see extinguished and put out as it keeps burning in and against Self for it is nothing else that burns up the Combustible Matter that hath been brought into the Temple of God And in this doth my SOUL continue praying to GOD Amen and Amen saith Thy Friend in all Love R. B. A TABLE Of the Contents of the CHAPTERS The First Part Describing Chap. 1. The Vision of the Wheels Chap. 2. The Diurnal Motion in the Wheels Chap. 3. The Mystery of the four large Hours in the Day and the four Watches of the Night Chap. 4. The degeneration of all Forms in Nature Chap. 5. The Government of Nature under the Power of four Beasts Chap. 6. The seven Nations of the World as they came forth imbodyed in the Forms of Nature Chap. 7. The manner how they became thus imbodyed Chap. 8. The operation of the Vision in the opening of the Heavens Chap. 9. The exercise of the Power of God over the mind wherein the Vision of these things wrought Chap. 10. The power of the Waters in the Vision of the Wheels Chap. 11. The nature of the World in its Principles Chap. 12. The manner wherein those Vessels were beheld unburdened that arrived from off those Waters separated into four Heads The Second Part. Greeting to the FOUR CHURCHES in EUROPE Describing Chap. 1. The coming forth of those four Beasts Chap. 2. The motion of the Wheels in their seven turns Chap. 3. The Forms of Nature under the renewing Power in God Chap. 4. The effect of the descending of Angels into the Forms of Nature Chap. 5. The order of those four Angels loosed out of the great River Euphrates Chap. 6. The Restauration of the Heavens in the Worlds Chap. 7. 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IN the year 5594 according to the most just and true account of the Creation of the Worlds in Adam and in the thirty-second year after the thirty-second JUBILE since the finishing of the Testimony of that great Prophet in his Body of Flesh who came forth into appearance and manifestation from the Worlds account 1664. being the year of his Incarnation who was the Glory Welbeloved of the Fathers Soul conversing with men in the substance of that Power in which all the Works of God were finished from the beginning the perfection of whose Nature had glory in what was effected in the SIX dayes work of Creation through the glorifying cause of all beings in Nature II. In the year aforesaid the REVELATION of JESUS the Son of the living God came unto me even unto me a Native of England sojourning among the scattered Nations and ungathered Families of the Captivity of Judah waiting for the Earths return to bring forth new fruit unto God throughout the four Quarters thereof which I am commanded of God to communicate to the Generations of the Worlds amongst which I am fallen III. Unto whom be Greeting and Salutation from your Brother in Tribulation and Companion in all afflictions for the Seeds sake whom Bonds have daily attended both inward and outward while for the sake of many and great Nations the travel of my Soul continueth that my groanings and labour in the Lord may procure the joy and rejoycings of as many as have a heart open to receive the benefit of what is brought forth through great conflicts IV. And from the Spirit of Jesus is my Souls enlargement to the disconsolate Babe of Hope and in the Authority of
raised up for the making known the Power of God and the Vessels fitted for destruction know that thy time is numbred to fill up the TWELVE years wherein the King was subject to K'DORLAOMER XVIII I counsel thee therefore in the Seed capable of gathering that thou come forth from among the Robbers and Spoilers of my People and let not thy horn be exalted because of the King of the North that is delivered into thy hands for a season for both your hearts have been set to do mischief and ye have spoken lies at one TABLE but that little space that is given thee to repent is to humble thee that thy Soul may live and thou not die in thy Iniquity XIX Now let him that is hungry come and let all that are thirsty come and drink a mighty draught at the Fountain of endless Mercy for this is the day of Mercy proclaimed towards a stiff-necked People a Rebellious House This is your day and hour to repent and return to God and there is not another season for Mercy or to mend that which is amiss for ye are become a wicked People but he that hath an Ear may hear though the hardned must remain in their guilt and the unclean be unclean still XX. For the spot of the LEOPARD cannot be washed off nor the skin of the Aethiopian changed and the filthy must have time to fill up their measure that it may be known that they are left without excuse who have slighted timely warning when the hour is come that they are concluded in the WILL of that which continueth filthy still The FIRST PART CHAP. I. The beginning of the REVELATION describing the Vision of the WHEEL in its Motion I. ACcording to the space of time before mentioned as I was waiting upon the Lord with my heart deeply exercised in his fear and dread the glory of what for a long season I had been visited with descended upon me in a Tempest and WHIRLWIND and I beheld until the Tempest was over yet the Whirlwind remained whilst I was taken into the Habitation of Wonders and the Glory of the Angel of God compassed me about in the form of TWO WHEELS moving one within the other as a Wheel within a Wheel II. By which means I came to the sight of TWO WORLDS standing the one in the other in the manner and form of the Wheels moving the one in the other as a World within a World And while I was thus beholding the Vision thereof the Power of the LIVING CREATURES that moved in the Wheels overcame me for the Spirit of the Living Creatures that moved in the Wheels was in the Wheels and it rested on my left Arm in form of a STAR and quivered in the Blood of my Body betwixt the skin and flesh of my left Arm for many dayes continuing thus upon me III. For in that in which the Worlds were setled and sought rest there was a continuance and abiding under subjection to such Power though faln from what it was in the first work of Gods Creation of all FORMS into being for the first FIVE dayes I thus beheld it and in every of these five dayes I saw a change and alteration in the Face of the HEAVENS which was like unto WATERS IV. Whose way and course I observed until the whole frame of the Worlds became like unto a SEA of GLASSE mingled with Fire and in the midst of these Waters broke forth a CLOUD which moved up and down like a Mans HAND and the Form of a Man was wrought up through the Cloud travelling in the Heavens with his Hands on his Loyns in whom was a sence of pangs and hard labour from whence I beheld a strugling and striving on the Face of the Waters as from the WOMB of ETERNITY of TWO NATIONS to come forth into appearance and manifestation V. And from the Heavens I heard a cry of pangs and hard suffering because of the labour and travel which the Body of NATURE was subjected under for such sufferings sake which was like to the sorrow of a Child-bearing-WOMAN who had brought to the Birth but had not power to bring forth until the appointed time of deliverance from the Father was come VI. But as the Womb of Eternity became eased of its suffering and hard labour the strugling and striving rested and seized on the Body of Nature wherein the Travel remained and continued until the END of TIME and PLACE For on the Face of the Waters on which the SPIRIT of God did breath while a Cloud of darkness was over and covered the face of the mighty Deeps was hidden the form of all CREATURES thus come forth VII And the Womb of NATURE was also opened in and before me in which instant was made intelligible to my understanding the working of all forms in Nature that strove to come up in the bodily Frame and Temper that stood in the ground and cause of such suffering VIII And the NAME of the FIRST DAY was called LIGHT because in it the Light and Darkness were separated and divided and in this day came forth all that stood hidden in the Womb of Eternity in the form and likeness of WATERS that were of a distinct quality and operation in the creaturely being until the Word of God had commanded them into form through the work of Creation IX For as the division and separation of such Powers-work through the WORD of God wrought up the Will of the Worker into appearance and manifestation the WATERS had their enlightning quality and property in the separated beings shining out from the Face of that which gathered together in the Heavens from the three that therein bare Record yea and in the work of the first dayes separation which was betwixt Light and Darkness in these Waters on which the Spirit of God breathed in the light-part of the Waters which was the Face of the Heavens therein there became exalted the HEAD and FACE of a Man for a season and in the darkness or dark parts which is the dark parts thereof I saw working hiddenly the form of a FIRE-DRAKE or Serpent called Satan and the Dragon the old deceiver of mankind who was got behind God in the coming forth of his Glory in his Son or Image X. And the Waters that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity out of which sunk all forms in Nature that took being in the earthly frame and form being gathered together into one PLACE became an overflowing scourge and inundation of miseries and were like unto a great SEA which was the gathering together of all that came forth out of many Fountains and Rivers of Water XI Which thus I beheld until the SECOND DAY was passed over wherein was made a separation betwixt Waters and Waters that thus came forth out of the Womb of Eternity in a Mystery And in the Womb of Nature was the MATRIX of conception brought into a working frame wherein the SPERMATIC Vessels of the
of God's Spirit and they were prepared in time that came up in the Hours of the day and dayes of the Month and months of the year into Number and Order wherein the substance of what Nature was ordained to manifest is become measurable and intelligable XXIV For herein is made manifest a Government springing up from the Head and Heart and Womb of Nature through which the Body of Nature was placed in subjection to an unchangeable and everlasting Power of renewing in God whereby I came to discern of those three in Heaven that bear Record to wit the FATHER and Creator of all Spirits and Principles of Nature into being and the WORD through which the Creature was brought into the lovely form of Sonship and the Holy Ghost which is the Power of the Word in the Creature as he is acted in the Will of the Creator and these three are one witness for God in the Heavens as a Sun of that Glory whereby the Creation of God is enlightned CHAP. III. Describing the Forms of Nature as they are wrought up in the the changings of the renewing Power in God XXV AND this was manifest in Terrestrial Bodies through the three that bear Record on EARTH to wit the Spirit of God which first breathed on the WATERS which is a power of all individual Spirits in Natural Bodies formed and the Waters themselves on which it thus breathed and the BLOOD inkindled in the fire of Life through which those Waters do ebb and flow to the Creature that hath the imbodied being of Soul and Spirit And those three also agree in one and are one Witness for God in Terrestrial Bodies wherein the MOON hath prevailed to dignifie her course that turneth Waters into the Blood of the Spirit of Life in that borrowed light wherein she hath exercised her dominion under the Power of Corruption XXVI This therefore did I observe in the Motion of the WHEELS that the ground of their Motion was everlasting whereby that which had not any beginning in the Will and Wisdom of Eternities Power of Existence took being in time and place wherein every thing that was created into Form became conceiveable and comprehensible in the imbodied being of NATURE as it stands thus fallen under the Power of Corruption wherein the Work of God hath been narrowed to the sence of the Creaturely capacity and from the CENTRE in which is an eternal stilness will every man receive his reward according to his WORKS and to what he hath sown in the Body of Nature thus fallen under the tryals of a cross to the Creaturely affection XXVII Though every thing is brought forth in its order which is again to be reduced into its Center as all Powers of Nature come to run their race in what is awakened and come forth in time and place to the judgment of Eternity against all such Powers of Darkness wherein I beheld the EARTH standing in and out of the Waters from whence the Light shined in each principle in which the separation was made between the Darkness which was expelled from the new Created Forms in Nature and driven into its Center wherein the Creation remained groaning under its NIGHT of sorrow as in the fallen Properties that proceeded out of the Womb of Nature in which Self became imbodied in the Creature of God which was and is the cause of the fall and of all degeneration in Spirits and Properties of Nature in those Principles XXVIII And out of this EARTH sprung up all that lay hid under the Power of Corruption thus formed into being in time and place which was a fourth part of the WORLDS in form as its two third parts were separated into the Waters above and under the Firmament resting under the Government of those four Beasts in the forms of Nature over which the Wheels moved their third turn separating between all Creatures that abode in the Region of Air and those that rested on the EARTH and in those Waters under the Firmament who were enlightned by the three Glories of the Father that shined from the Heavens above the Firmament wherein the Worlds stood manifest in their renewed Principles after this third turn of the Wheels XXIX For the Seal of God being on his peculiar Number of faithful Ones though little in the Eye and esteem of the World a Cloud of Darkness remained over the day in which they had glory until the seventh Seal of God was taken off from the Book of Life in which their names were written among the WONDERS of God whereby I beheld each Beast in the Forms of Nature take unto him six Wings in which were six thousand Feathers and six thousand Names of Men on each Wing and on each Beast were thirty six thousand Feathers and names of Men which became a great Army in the Heavens of one hundred forty four thousand names of Men according to the four Wings of what came forth first manifest on the Back of the LYON wherein each Wing of the Army in the Heavens was dispersed to its Quarters on the Earth And the Wheels were moved about in their fourth turn over all Principles in Nature thus come forth into form in its time of Tryal XXX Which was very miraculous to behold that through all this striving and contest in the Heavens not one Fether of those Beasts was diminished though the Wings of the Beasts in those forms of Nature were suffered to be pluckt and were taken from off the Back of those living Creatures on which they sought to rest and settle And after an Angel of the Sun came forth in the Glory of the Son of Man there stood a second Angel of God who daily ministreth at the Altar of God hath power over FIRE and he rode on a WHITE Cloud and I heard a voice from the Heavens the number of Gods chosen are Sealed and they are faithful Witnesses and Followers of the LAMB and I beheld out of the Temple of God Trumpets sounding forth Praises and Hallelujahs to him that Rules and sits on high until the four Angels of God became loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES and stood on the four Corners of the Earth and held the four Corners of the Winds from blowing XXXI But the Earth was exercised with great afflictions and the Waters also and all that lived therein and moved thereon were come under sore Tryals in one third part thereof and the cry was very grievous because of the burning Coals that were taken from the Altar of God and flung on the Earth which caused Tempests therein and from the Heavens proceeded Thunders and Lightnings and great Hail after all motion therein began to cease and that I had beheld a silence in the Heavens for the space of half an hour XXXII For as the WINDS of the Heavens were at rest wherein the Spirit of God ceased to strive any more with his Creature neither suffered the breath of its Almighty Power to blow any more on
expected to befall NATIONS in such a Case though his displeasure may be AWAKENED against a People or Nation and in his sufferance are destroying ANGELS loosed out of the great River of the WORLDS Sea and often is he stirred up to that which he delighteth not in even to appear like unto a LYON roused up before he please and as a Giant disturbed from his sleep yet will great Alterations and changes come into the World and they will happen unto the secure like Events determined from an over-ruling Power THE THIRD PART CHAP. I. Wherein is opened the Mystery of what came forth in the Worlds in the form and frame of the Heavens from whence the Vision had power to work up its discoveries I. THE principles of ETERNITY in God or God in his eternal existence is the fire of Life burning in jealousie over his own Honour and Glory that gave being to Love in which remaineth â—he Original Center of all good from whence his preheminence is mainâ—ained in and over his Creature through that which he first inkindled â—n the Ground and Center of Nature in which is both a good and an evil But Waters are the first and all Principle in NATURE through the sinking frame of the WORLDS into and under palpability wherein EARTH took form as a third Principle in Nature separated into being on the third day from whence all Creatures became imbodied in the substantial form of Palpability II. And all separated qualities remain in the ground of substantiality while time place endureth wherein the Life of the Creature centereth in that which is come forth into its individual being among the forms of Nature according to the source it possesseth and inhabiteth for these beings are formed in and from the Earthly Principles which are separated from the Heavens in what remaineth sinking under a power of Corruption wherein threâ—… do bear record for God which are the glory of Terrestrial Bodies Essentially forming Nature into being in that which continueth breathing through the out-spread Firmament of the Atry Heavens under the Waters III. As also from the fiery Heavens from whence a third part of the Waters was dryed up from the Earth in their Principle on the third day and by a third dayes work of God therein manifest the three Glories of the Father do shine through all Celestial Bodies to wit one Glory of the SUN which is a great LIGHT to rule the DAY and another of the MOON which is the lesser LIGHT to rule the NIGHT and another of the STARS according to their differing Glories in which the over-ruling Power of the Heavens subjecteth the forms of Nature in their several Constellations that gives life to the Creatures being in the Earth IV. In this respect God is considered and become the cause of all causes in ETERNITY and ground of all being in NATURE as Palpability is the ground of Corruptibility wherein he is called a consuming and everlasting FIRE and yet as substantiality is not without the Creature he is absolutely the cause of nothing as well as of all things where nothing without God is God without Nature which is a cause of both good and evil wherein the Worlds do remain unmanifest but in Nature and wherein the work of God is comprehended in the forming qualities of that which is brought forth in the effect of labour in seven Natural days V. Therefore said the ANGEL of God these WATERS that thou sawest are those on which the multitude of the WORLDS and great Nations are moved and carried to and fro according to the course of time and tide the WOMAN remained exalted on them who allured many into those Vessels that begin to swim pleasantly over the streams of Corruption singing a Requium to their Souls that they might not remember the danger in their way wherewith they are daily beset and they are called the PEOPLE and Tongues and Nations of the Kindreds of the Earth that are divided under the four WINDS of the Heavens tossed up and down through the boysterous Storms and swelling Tempests that are again gathered together in HEAPS over the main Sea and Ocean of Trouble in which is the Lake and Bottomless Pit from whence all Monstrous shapes in Creatures are come forth to cover the Earth VI. And the Vessels that thou sawest carried thereon are those which were first built and erected from the Heavens into which the Patrons of all Earthly forms were gathered in one and were again distributed through many according to the Nature of the BEAST wherein wrought the confusion of Languages in the prevailing of the MOON over Woman in the changeable wayes and course of the WORLD under which the Heavens stand thus divided VII In seven they took Head and in ten was each Horn exalted over nine which is an intricate number among the Figures in forms of Nature wherein those seven that thou sawest come forth into the Creaturely being first imbodied under the power of Corruption are the seven forms of Nature subjected under a power in which the Heavens and Earth are multiplyed in and according to their Generations generating Nature and name to the being of each form Corporal CHAP. II. Describing the Nature of the degeneration of the WORLDS in those Principles wherein the Creature became imbodied in time and place VIII FOR answerable to the time and place wherein all Created Prinples in the forms of Nature remained sinking under a Power of Corruption working properties in the Heavens prevailed over the bodily frame to afflict it with labour according to the motion in the Wheels in which those Principles suffered and were acted and that which suffered the glory of the frame of the WORLDS to work up the gross form of Palpability in the way and course the Body of Nature became acted by a motion in the Heavens was subject to Corruption that came into time and place through the change of the frame in the Worlds IX And agreeable to the Name and Nature of those Men that were FATHERS in their Generations through whom palpability prevailed in the Waters whereby the Worlds were first overwhelmed in the deluge and overflowing scourge the glory of the World imbodied a form in Nature for the Seed of Life to work up the first Beauty of CREATION according to what was manifest in time and place wherein each day had its year multiplyed in Nature from the Heavens as each Month hath its Hour in what is divided to every particular state and condition of the Creature under which Death and Afflictions have increased their dominion over the ends of the Worlds X. And as from the Womb of Eternity the BEAST in the forms of Nature prevailed in a backward course under which the Heavens were subjected for the manifesting of each day in Nature wherein the Principles of the World were acted and wrought in a frame that discovered its revolutions so according to the years wherein the multiplicity of such forms increased the WATERS
prevailed in the months thereof until the seven Mountains could be seen on which the great CITY was erected through the decreasing of the Waters in what remained falling backward for the space of seven Months XI And the CITY that thou sawest built and setled on those Mountains and high Hills which became the Foundations of all that fell into and under the palpability of WATERS is the City HENOCH which the first born of Nations erected under the power of Corruption from the ground which he became the Tiller and tearer up of when driven Eastward from the Face of the Earth and Presence of God into that Land where he took his Wife that he might call the name of his Buildings after the name of his Son for whom it was built XII For he possessed the seven forms of NATURE the number of years according to which the year increased its dayes and hath all the properties of the Heavens through a Translation wrought on the Body of Nature in what came forth mamfest in each line of the Fathers resting in LAMECH whence two Wives prevailed over the Man five years short of a sight into the destruction which prevailed over the Worlds in the state it was first planted CHAP. III. Describing the property of Enochs Prophecies XIII THose seven forms of Nature whose Characters are Figures in Hieroglyps have the property of Prophecy among the Works of Wonder which cannot be understood in the Creaturely Capacity but through the translations of ENOCH for whom the ground of conceiveability was torn up and no less power is requisite herein than that which smiteth the World in its third part of both Earth and Waters and all that lives therein or moves thereon wherein the Beast hath had his Seat as a Temple in which hath shined the glory of Sun and Moon and Stars XIV And for the revealing the true ground from whence all those glories may come again to shine in the Principles of Nature as in the beginning consumption and darkness must come before his Face who rideth in the Chariot of Nature wherein those glories are smitten in the third part until the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about the fourth part of the WORLDS over which the EAGLE hath prevailed XV. And though as those Angels stand manifest in the Heavens they are seven in number according to the seven forms of Nature through which are sounded the Mystery of God's Works of Wonders from the seven Golden TRUMPETS yet is their destroying power bound down in the four last forms only in which the Elements of Nature have spheared into Corruption for the discovery of the Lake of Fire that is hidden in the great River EUPHRATES from what is thence loosed XVI But the Witnesses hereof are only two manifested in each three Principles of both Heavenly and Earthly being in which the AIR is commanded until FIRE and WATER is become united in its ANGEL that hath one Foot on the Earth and hath his other on the great Seas for the Angel of the Waters saith It is done but an Angel of the Fire who continueth alwayes ministring before the ALTAR hath touched my Tongue with a live Coal he hath brought from thence wherein I am made able to declare of what he hath flung on the Earth XVII And beholding the seven Mountains of the Earth on which is setled the Foundations of that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Worlds in the in kindled Fire burning under its Foundations I see terrible shakings that are yet to pass through the Worlds over all buildings therein after the tenth part of the CITY is seen become fallen in the assending up of the Witnesses unto Heaven in the sight of their Enemies wherein the ten Horns of the BEAST shall hate the Whore and burn her flesh with FIRE XVIII Then shall be seen the seven Horns of the LAMB full of Eyes which are the seven Spirits of God which do walk among the seven Golden Candlesticks and the Books shall stand open on which hath been put those seven Seals that he may be known come into the Worlds that holdeth in his right Hand a Crown of seven Stars as seven golden Lamps burning before the Throne of God and the Lamb and lighting the whole Earth with his Glory in the form of the Pleiades for the seventh Trumpet shall sound forth the Mystery of what is thus unsealed over the mighty deeps which have filled the Worlds XIX And in the finishing of this great Mystery all Nations of the Earth shall be gathered to their appointed place that the Spirit and God of the World may bear the wrath of Indignation of what is poured forth on the frame of all created Principles into form without mixture which is the second Death executed in the seven last Plagues wherewith the seven Golden Vials are filled wherein God will appear in ten thousand of his Saints CHAP. IV. Describing the ground in Nature from whence the Wheels are moved about the frame of the WORLDS XX. THe seven spirits of God are moved about the frame of the WORLDS according to what doth operate and work up the way and course he is manifest through in the Seven forms of Nature which are become the Seven heads of the BEAST and the Seven Mountains of the WORLD on which the City is built wherein the WHORE doth sit exalted and therefore is God manifest in the Spirit of Judgement in those Forms of Nature that every thing may come forth tryed undeâ— the motion of the WHEELS XXI But though the BEAST hath taken Head in these forms of Nature Nature is again returning to its firsâ— subjection in the utter consumption and destruction of the power of the Dragon Beast and False Prophet ouâ— of those forms in Nature for now are the Wheels moving over the greaâ— River Euphrates on which the trumpet of God hath sounded and thence are loosed his destroying Angels which cause thunders and lightning in the Heavens XXII And the Clouds of Heaven are already tinctured with that which Ascendeth upward to prepare its motion in the Air whence his appearance is expected who judgeth the Prince thereof and casteth down the Accuser of the Just from those Airy Heavens wherein he hath been exalted though the Seven Forms of Nature which are moved about the heavens of the Worlds attend the first mover wherein the Work of God is manifest in the Seven Spirits of Nature XXIII For this center of the Inward WORLD which was thus unmovable had a power in and over all that was movable and changeable which became a cause in the motion of the WHEELS that was over-ruled by the wisdom and power of the first mover wherein all Glories of the FATHER shined in the Firmament of his POWER in which he remained unalterable and unchangeable the same without any shadow of turning or variation XXIV Yet is it only in Nature that God is become thus a cause
I beheld the Worlds moved two wayes for the bringing forth of those two Nations for which the Woman was in Labour in Her two dayes Travel and there were two dayes difference between them as they thus came forth in that which brought all forms in Nature under a power of Corruption and Destruction CXVI Of the One she was delivered on the tenth day of that fourth Month and of the Other on the twelfth day of the same Month which through a backward drawing in the Worlds did cause the Month to be divided in the account of dayes for he that came first forth drew the power of the Heavens Northward whereby the second who came under the power of the Awakened South wind and whose Face was Southward drew the Worlds under the power of the Waters through which that second Man was exercised in his Dominion by the Increase and Decrease of the Waters for the full term of a Year which I beheld in the accomplishment of that sixth Year CXVII And in a Month and twelve dayes did they increase to their height though they continued prevailing on the Earth for five Months and for seven Months did they fall backward the conflict of which Year I beheld in which time I saw the form of the two Men in their Nations awakened in the Worlds and wandering in that Wilderness both under the Denomination of VAGABONDS for they appeared like Wanderers and Wayfaring Men in the Earth and there was a third Man in form that came forth in the condition of a Wanderer or Vagabond CXVIII The one of them I beheld flying from those Wild Beasts of PREY that possessed that desolate Place and that which he fled from was the danger of pernicious wayes under the Beasts power who made hast to flee out of Babylon lest he should partake of her Plagues and thus flying he sought another and better Countrey and City but the other by means of a discontent with the pleasure and delight in the state of the glory in which that City and Countrey was first Planted hunted after another and better state then that in which was the first blessing of God and so wandred from and lost its first Habitation which was defaced under the Enemies power and become fallen under the workings of corruption and darkness and thus by conforming to and complying with the Enemies Power he became really a VAGABOND from the Lord and from the Glory of his City and Habitation though in the World he may have a Habitation very Glorious and be Lord of a City in the Earth CXIX But the third that I saw bore the AFFLICTIONS and abode in the CAUSE thereof until he became hardned under the Enemies Power and suffered the sting of that which overtook him in the Wilderness which rested in the GROUND of DESTRUCTION to the first Beauty and Glory of God in the Work of Creation for having neglected his own VINEYARD whereby his BROTHER was SLAIN who was made keeper of his VIRGIN and his Garden being thereby overgrown with WEEDS and Nettles and Bryers the Thorns of Corruption he was made Keeper of the VINEYARD of his BROTHER and the Keeper of the Living LAMB of GOD and SHEEP of that everlasting sold having his Life made a Sacrifice unto GOD as Inquisition came to be made for Blood when the Voice came Where is thy Brother and he replyed Am I my Brothers Keeper CXX And so came the Man that was thus made a Steward over that which was his Brothers right as his Birth-right therein was lost and forsited over which Vineyard he was appointed as a Keeper and Dresser as a Servant in the Minority of the Heir and owner thereof in the Resurrection of that which was first and is last the Elder Brother of all that believe in the Spirit of the JUST to Challenge a SELF-INTEREST PROPRIETY therein and refused to give the Owner Due and Right but did beat the SERVANTS that were sent for the Last Fruits thereof and sent them empty away and in the end slew the Lamb and Son himself and scattered his Sheep from the Flock and Fold of Everlasting Rest which became a daily Sacrifice unto God in the suffering State and Principle to reconcile the WORLD unto himself through the destruction of the evil therein in that Nature that saith SECRETLY Come let us kill the Heir that the Inheritance may be ours CHAP. XI Describing the Nature of the World in its faln Principles through the Bondage of the Power of Corruption CXXI FOR while I beheld both these Wayfaring Men in that WANDERING conditon the WATERS did MULTIPLY in abundance and became a GREAT SEA and the Angel of God shewed me a VESSEL that was erected and built in the Heavens in four Months in which was the Pattern of that Heavenly Form which through the Government of God was manifest in the Heavens of an Angelical World in that all forms in Nature fell under the Power of Corruption and Destruction while I beheld Gods and Lords many concerned in the dominion of those THREE PRINCIPLES in Nature because of dishonorable USES in which their LORD imployed them though the whole three were comprehended in that which was built and erected in the HEAVENS CXXII And the Lord-like Mind and Spirit that could not suffer any thing to be equal with it or to ballance that self-conceit through which he sought to subject all to his own Will was betrayed and is the Betrayer from the lovely TENT of the Plain Man whereby he weighed and measured in that selfish-will what was proper to his state that would rule alone and purchase an Authority and Dominion that was absolute that he might be chief in the WORLDS though for preheminence sake he ventured the destruction of Glory in that state under the workings of which the FIRST PRINCIPLE in Nature led the Man that was first brought forth under a suffering condition CXXIII For the MAN who was become PLANTER of a Vineyard under the Power of Corruption grew slothful therein and as he was surfeited with the Fruit thereof I beheld his nakedness in the TENT wherein he was placed though self was exalted and rejoyced because of what was brought forth from the Ground of CORRUPTION that was thus tilled and torn up under the power of the Enemy for Materials wherewith the CITY was built thus pourtraied forth in the Vision therefore was that CITY called by his Name HENOCH or the Son of Man in those fallen Principles who was become a discoverer of the nakedness of that and of himself therein which was by Nature his FATHER and a Revealer of the SECRETS thereof in the Forms of Creation possessing a REGION in the Seventh Part of the WORLD that is separated from the MOYST CXXIV And this Third Principle in Man and Third Man in those three Principles who were in the cause of Destruction to the GLORY of the CITY which I saw through whom notwithstanding it became Built under that POWER of
Corruption was acted in and under the POWER of both Good and Evil while the World continued in that State wherein was Winter and Summer and Seed-time and Harvest But in the State under which the Worlds were FALN and under which all Principles in Nature were subjected in the Dominion of the BEAST over mankind thus degenerated from the Image in which he was planted there remained a Second WO on the Creature who being found flying away fled on and from the Sabbath Day and Rest of God through that which sought to avoid afflictions and shunned to keep in the Way wherein a sence of sufferings grew on that which was come on the Body of Nature CXXV And a THIRD WOE remained on the WOMAN that was with Child and upon her that was giving SUCK though the time had been wherein the SHEPHERD carried his Lambs in his Arms and gently drove those that were with young until he became SMITTEN for the sake of his Flock from whom he durst not fly in the Winter or because of the WOLF and through the Life which he laid down for his SHEEP prevailed with the Father against that which had hindred the Creature from its entring into the REST of God whereby a DART was struck through his SOUL that every Man might be driven to his OWN and that the thoughts and secrets of many HEARTS might be REVEALED for he could not draw back in a time of DANGER but indured the contradiction of sinners CXXVI And as I came to behold a strong ANGEL of God with a Sealed Book in his Hand he placed one Foot on the Earth and the other on the Waters and stood on both between the Banks of HIDDEKEL and the great River EUPHRATES and he lifted up the little Book unto the Heavens and went backward to the parting of the great SEAS where were two great PROPHETS cloathed in Sackcloth whose Prophecy was one thousand two hundred and threescore dayes a TESTIMONY of what remained under suffering to the preparing the way of the JUST that the Son of Man might come to inherit the Glory of his Temple and unseal the Mysteries of the Lambs Power in opening the Book of Wonders written in the Heavens while I beheld the prevailing of the Waters until a third part of the EARTH was covered thereby CXXVII In which time the WATERS were decreased from off the Earth and the Angel of God gave me a Reed of a measuring Line to measure the Waters and the Earth over which they prevailed in the World and I measured the Waters at the highest ten Cubits over the Earth and five Cubits under the Earth in the circumference of which a Man might Swim as in a great RIVER And from the Heavens as all forms in Nature were multiplyed I beheld on the great Seas until there appeared the number of seventy Vessels sayling over the same in the front they were seven and in each row ten and in the midst of the six stood that seventh Vessel which was the first into which was gathered the Patterns of all forms in the Heavens where the Creation of God did multiply CXXVIII And the VESSELS that I saw were born up above the rage and fury of the WATERS from whence the out-spread Firmament was inlarged in the Air seven Cubits upward and ten Cubits from the Waters downwards to the Earth on which it centered which was sventeen Cubits to the Head of the Image which I beheld that stood before the seventh Vessel which was in the midst of the six in the front of the seventy And behind the Vessel was the form of a DOVE with golden Wings stretched abroad in the Airy Firmament and the Image glistered like the Sun and had the tincture of fine Gold where the property of the Heavens beautified the Feathers that took form in Nature on the living Creature CXXIX And from the face of the Waters as they prevailed over the Earth was fifteen Cubits to the Center of the Earth in its sinking state and it was two and twenty Cubits in the circumference of the height wherein the WATERS prevailed for the space of these five months that they covered the Face of the EARTH after which I beheld them divided into four HEADS as they came to be dispersed by an East-Wind which compasseth about the whole EARTH in its divided QUARTERS CXXX And as the Vessels thereon became eased and delivered of their Burthen in that which fell under the Power of Corruption in the contrariety of all Elemental Properties imbodied in the Forms of Creation wherein I beheld the perishing of the first WORLDS glory in natural MAN through that faln state the Heavens also were discharged of Labour and Travel under which the BODY of NATURE suffered in those forms wherein that which caused the Sun to go back ten Degrees became manifest among those forms in Nature through the corruptible Ground CXXXI And in the separation of the WORLDS over which the Waters that were driven in HEAPS Westward prevailed for the space of their five months the falling back of those WATERS driven by an EAST WIND was North and South wherein the VESSELS arrived in their order place and number but every thing that the Enemy had power over in that Corruptible state perished in the WATERS yet was a SEED preserved through all those Storms and Tempests the strength of which continued a Month and twelve Dayes to replenish the Earth in its renewed state which was five dayes backward to the Months Nones and seven dayes forward in its IDES from the seventeenth day of that seventh month to the twenty fourth day of the Month. CXXXII For from the New of the MOON in that seventh month wherein the Waters brake first forth to the new of the MOON in the eighth month was twenty nine dayes which month called BUL or a BUBLING because of what again sprung up in the WORLD after the falling back of the WATERS under the Power of Corruption through which the Fruits of the EARTH perished was the Month from whence the Heavens began to manifest the multiplyed Forms in Nature under a corruptible State which is MARCHESHUAM in the falling away but in the bubling up of all forms of Nature in the New-created-Being and renewed State of the WORLDS in that same place it is the springs of the WORLD that are refreshing and restorative through the open Fountain of an everlasting good CHAP. XII Describes the manner how those Vessels were discharged of their burden among the created Forms in Nature as also the Four Heads of the River in the dividing of the Waters CXXXIII FRom the Tempests and Storms that I beheld in the increase and prevailing of those WATERS whereby the World was overspread and overwhelmed in its old corruptible State the Heavens were darkned and all forms in Nature remained under a Cloud until each month in the year had finished its COURSE in the Bodily frame through the Revolution and change that is wrought up in