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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49873	The wonders of God's creation manifested, in the variety of eight vvorlds as they were made known experimentally to the author J. Lead.	Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.	1695 (1695)	Wing L792; ESTC R216656	27,087	97

thy own to Enjoy But this word of Caution to thee is given that thou take heed unto the Laws of Paradise which have been in particular given to thee for this end Observe them and thy JESUS will here frequently talk with thee and shew himself according to the Loves Betrothment that is made afresh with thee in this Paradise This is what many Years ago was to me Communicated and Recommended by the Spirit of Truth § 3. As I was upon the Seventeenth of October in this present Year 1695. watching upon a Deceased Friends account after some time I found she had passed through the Elementary Regions Then Paradise being open'd I search'd for her and after about two Hours I found her in the Third Degree of this Heavenly World who appeared to me of a most Lively and Angelical Countenance As soon as I had met her I congratulated her and said I have been a long while seeking to find you To which she Answer'd very well you might for I have been so taken up with the Variety of the Pleasures of this Place that I had forgot all my Mortal Friends Then she added after a short pause O my Friend the Death which I feared and that kept me in Bondage all my Life long has been my Friend to set me free and its Seing that I dreaded became nothing less than a Living Balsam by which now in Trumph I can say Mortality is swallow'd up in Joy and Glory To which I Replied Did not I often tell you this and that I would venture my own Soul for yours as to the Security of it Upon which she smiling said Now I find it so to be And so seeming to be unwilling to entertain any further Discourse with me as if thereby she was held from a better Enjoyment she left me § 4. Upon which I was exercised in some Meditation and it was thus concluded That Persons who did live very circumspectly and watchfully in all Piety in their Life-time as this Person had done though void of all sensible Assurance and Comfort of God's Favour while they live as if they did not live but are estranged from this Elementary Body while they are in it do when they pass out of it obtain a swift passage through the Elements which are not able to cleave to or detain them long but are swallow'd up and chang'd into the Paradisical Body Which is a good Motive to incite all Persons to live above the Earthly Life that so nothing may stick to them when they go out of this World II. MOUNT SION § 1. Now from hence the Spiritual Man must make another Remove to see what doth lye for him beyond this Region or Principle among the Precious Things that do flow from that Rich Ocean which is betwixt Paradise Mount Sion and the New Jerusalem This is that Glassy Sea that is spoken of by the Beloved John upon which the Conquerors are seen Singing their Songs of Triumph and it doth Compass round the City where is the Residence of the Great King the Throne of the Lamb and the Seven Sealing Powers or Fountain-Spirits of God that do go forth from the most Holy One. Now this burning Sea is for Probation there being none able to pass it but they who have gotten a full perfect and thorough Conquest over this Beast and over his Image so as they no thing more of this Mark do bear They and they only can stand here because they are Signatured from this flaming Glassy Sphere that will make Bodies clear and shining as terrible Chrystal § 2. This Kingdom of Moun Sion where is an Innumerable Company of Angels with the Church of the First-Born and in which are contained all the Originals and living Patterns of what was Copied out by Moses who had a sight of them must open it self and be Established before the Kingdom of the New Jerusalem can come down either Invisibly or Visibly There is a necessity for the Mediatorial and Priestly Kingdom to go before and make way for that § 3. Yet there is such a near intimate Correspondency between these two that they may in some sort bear the Name of One Kingdom For that the Supream Majesty doth often come down hither and the whole Grand Assembly which is here do at certain seasons ascend up into the New Jerusalem so that from the strict Union that is betwixt them it is not to be wondred at if sometimes the Name of the one be applied to the other III. The NEW JERUSALEM § 1. It was further declared to a Spirit caught up here That in the Time of the Accomplishment of the New Jerusalem Glory Below there should be appointed certain Keepers of the Everlasting Gates into it most highly Spirited to let in and shut out according to the Laws of this Kingdom and that every such Angel of these Gates should sound forth his Trumpet For the Holy Breath out of this City shall make them to Proclaim and Sound forth to all parts of the Earth the Glory and the Mighty Name of JEHOVAH SHAMMAH which is the Name of the City that is to be written upon all those who are to be admitted into it Therefore Arise Arise ye Virgin Daughters and draw near having this Name inscribed upon you with the Finger of your God and having your Twelve Foundations according to the number of the Precious Stones of the Holy Oracle made clear and sure in you being all that which is to make up the Honour of your Jerusalem Glory Draw near now ye Virgin Daughters of Sion that lye hid and bring your Glory to this City At which all Gates shall open to you fly As soon as you can here with this come nigh § 2. The Apostolical Name of the Lamb is here written upon every Gate for the surviving Number of Apostolical Spirits to obtain admittance by None can enter through the Gates but these Virgin Spirits who have before stood upon Mount Sion and passed through the Sea of Glass being the Living Jasper Stones that are all covered upon with the flaming of Colours the Covenant-Rainbow Such therefore must ye be Oye Jerusalem-waiters and Children of Wisdom And by her Stone within you ye must come to be touched and changed rhat ye may be joyned to all these Flaming Stones Be of good chear for this Ruby Stone is as a Cherub at work in the Heavenly Spheres of some that are known by Name in order to this great and mighty Transmutation Wherefore it is given me to advise you that you give way to this Live Goal within you that so it may burn away all the Dross and Tin so as nothing but the Golden Matter for Coagulation with the Deity may remain upon this Almighty and most Sublime Thing that is concealed in your Inward Furnace Do ye still wait upon Ministring Fuel to it that your Fire may never go out Do ye still take out from the Pool of Golden Oyl which will then make you

it is very rare that any Souls do come up to be with CHRIST the Lord immediately upon the departing from the Body Though I do not say but some may reach to such a perfect degree of Christ likeness as that when they Die this Angelical World may stand open to receive them and so being admitted into that high Glorification may from Glory to Glory still be ascending till at length they arrive to the New Jerusalem State And beyond this there remains no more to pass into but the inmost Place of Purity which bears the Title of the Still Eternity for that nothing but Everlasting Rest Stilness and Silence is to be perceived here Of each of which Worlds there are some Particulars to be at this time declared from the Faithful Witness that it may be discerned who they are that are made meet to inhabit them § 11. It ought then to be known how that those Souls that are Born of God and so Renewed in every part the whole Man being changed into a Deified Nature must needs enjoy and know beforehand the Joys and Pleasures of these Worlds to which they do belong according to that degree which any in this Life-time do reach to Such as are allotted for the Paradisical World when they Decease will have it at some time or other open while in the Body For the Spiritual Property will qualifie most interiourly so as the true Mystical Paradise puts forth its flowing Glory in the inward ground of a Renewed Mind So that this outward Principle and evil World preventeth not in the Holy and Heaven-born Souls those pleasant Golden Springs from running to Circle and Water every Plant which by the Spirit of CHRIST hath been renewed Therefore the Holy Trinity do delight often to manifest themselves in the Souls Paradisical Heart and Mind as well Now as Hereafter § 12. From hence it was given me to understand that as the Mystical Paradise so also the Mystical Sion doth therewith also stand open in the ground of this pure Heart gradually shooting forth and revealing it self in it And concerning this more than Glorious World the Kingdom of Christ in which he with his Perfected Saints doth Reign it is shewn me how the same Light and Pure Principle doth open it self in those Souls where the Paradisical or Angelical Life doth spring Spiritually For every World or Principle doth attract to it self its own which belongeth unto it And the Powers and Influences of each are sensibly felt according to the Constellations that any one is under The vile and wicked sort are pulled and drawn by the Magick of the Dark World But the Heaven-born Souls are inspired and qualified by these Upper Worlds as by some is well known so that Paradise and the Mount Sion World are manifested in their own Original Light in the Centre of the Soul From which I do give a Description of these Invisible Worlds as they were first opened within from whence Love Power Joy and Peace do spring which maketh Heaven to be the Souls present dwelling with Christ and all the Angelical Train though not visibly seen yet essentially enjoyed But this is only to be known by Spirits that are deeply introverted and carried out and beyond a Creaturely Life And when any worthy ones in this Light Principle shall be fixed then expect we may that the Eternal Powers will move and work through such to whom the Dominion of Christ's Kingdom here below will be intrusted For which we have many Scripture Prophesies as in Isaiah the Revelations and Daniel that do abundantly declare how it must and will be given to the Saints of the Most High to possess the Kingdom of which there is also a Confirmation by a Renewed Spirit of Prophesie that doth assure us that this Day is very nigh and that it will be upon the World before they are aware of it For as the Man of the Earth hath had his Ruling Day Universally so shall the Lord from Heaven descend in such a manner into his own prepared Vessels here Below in his Kingly and Priestly Power as shall overturn and bear down all Earthly Powers but of this we shall speak farther in the next Advance or Remove up to the Third Court or Principality of God the Father's Majesty That is § 13. The Jerusalem City which is more Glorious and Magnificent than what hath yet been made mention of far surpassing the Glories of the Two lower Blessed Worlds As to the Walls and Foundations of it with the Gates that open into it they are all so Diaphonous and full of Splendorous Light that it is altogether impossible to make it out even in any degree according as it hath been exhibited and seen in the Spirit in the Metaphorical Figure of it which yet represents it very much short of the Spiritual Substantiality of this City which is God himself dilating an● spreading forth his Godhead in suc● Amazing Varieties This is a Principle and World which none bu● CHRIST in his Glorified Human●●ty with such high Saints as ar● Glorified with his Glory can hav● any access to Of which unconceivable abundance of Glory these d● with Him continually participat● Ascending and Descending as cau●● requireth No pass there is int● this City but through the Gla●● Sea which Sea none do tread an● stand upon but such Spirits tha● are qualified and cloathed up●● with the self-same Matter whic● is all Chrystalline Water and transparent Fire O how am I lost ou● of my self while this Globe Ligh● and all the Wonders therein do open For in this interim it wa● said to me Behold all the Weights of Glory have I prepared not only for Pleasure to my self but for such as do love and put on their Lord CHRIST in Deiformity and so as Conquerors pass through the Glassy Sea to enter through the Gates having this City written upon their Foreheads § 14. Now it remains to open the more Mystical Sense of the Invisible Eternity of this Mother City the New Jerusalem that from the Father in Union with his Virgin Wisdom doth multiply and so fill up that Principle with Virgin Spirits that are most perfectly Pure and Immaculate whence it is that nothing beyond this can any of the Redeemed ever arrive unto Mount Sion Kingdom is most Great and Glorious but yet inferior to this because that is in the Mediatorship of Christ but in this World all is compleated and finished So that when this New Jerusalem shall descend it will soon put this old sinful and impure World to an end But being able to give no more than a short and finite Description of this Infinite Eternal and All-glorious World I am led on further to open the Mystery of it so far as it relateth to this present Age and to the Saints who are to make up this City and to bring their Glory to shine in it § 15. Here now it may be questioned Whether any Spirit or Person in this Mortal World can