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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49865	The Enochian walks with God found out by a spiritual-traveller, whose face towards Mount-Sion above was set ... : with an experimental account of what was known, seen, and met withal there, as to an essay to a further revelation of an immense and infinite latitude of God's love ... / written by Jane Lead, in this year 1694.	Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.; Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812.	1694 (1694)	Wing L783; ESTC R41367	40,105	47

Celestial Globe of Eternity while its outward body remains in time This is known to some For as there was an outward personal going up to the visible Jerusalem to eat the Feast of the Passover which was a Type of That great Day of the Feast which is now kept the in New-Jerusalem above where the Lord Christ in his Spiritual Humanity doth appear keeping up the solemnity of That Spiritual Feast with the body of his Saints There and sometimes doth admit of pure Spirits that yet in the body of visible Flesh are to come up for to view the stately Order and Government of That Feast and to taste thereof This is the true eating of the Supper of the Lamb and drinking the Royal Wine of the New-Testament with Christ in his Kingdom which puts an end to all Symbolical Ceremonies Blessing Joy and Glory we may pronounce to all which Called and Invited to come up to feed upon This Pascal Lamb. They will never care nor desire to go out here to take up in lower Administrations for This is the Sum and Substance of all to feed upon the Quintessential Body and pure Blood of the Grape that as often as it presseth it self out it filleth again for a continual emptying forth so that none that is come up here may Thirst any more This is the True Feast of Tabernacles which I have here described to you for no one can go up here without putting on their Tabernacle-Body which is the flaming Heart of the Holy-Ghost But now methinks I hear some say at the Reading of This Oh! You have mentioned a high and lofty State which is as a new thing that hath not been declared as that in this present Life there should be found any to ascend to the New-Jerusalem to feast and worship GOD There This you will say belongs to the Enochian Life but That Age of the World is not yet come so as to know a Translated State We grant it that it is not common only peculiar to some that in Enoch's Spirit are raised to walk with GOD and so are taken up in the Spirit wholly But we may hope This day of the Spirit is coming on whereby it shall be known more universally in the which Angelical Spirits shall ascend and That Divine Princicple shall open that now hath been so long shut up Then you will know a New-state of Living that you never knew before for it will turn the Love of all mortal Things out of the Hearts-door This will in very deed be known Seeing we have thus far proceeded in opening This Divine Mystery we shall not stop here but go on to reveal and communicate to such as desire to be Fellow-Travellers with me to This Holy City the New-Jerusalem the Track having been shewed unto me not by Vision only as in past times In my printed Book of Divine Revelation There you may see what I had by way of Vision Printed in 1683 but now the Spirit hath moved it self in another degree to bring forth Vision into an Essential Fruition which ratifieth That Scripture Psal. 84. Verse 7 They shall go from strength to strength each one appearing before GOD in Sion Now This I find is to be taken in a two-fold Sense as to That part which is to appear before GOD in Sion The first is while yet in the body of Corporiety The second is when stept out of it so as no more to return again to it Now hence I yet not I but the Spirit of my JESUS shall lead you on to the first part knowing well the way and have taken the measures thereof by the Measuring-Line in the Hand of an Angel unaccountable to any but the Travellers thereto Some heads and propositions I shall lay down in order hereunto that our Fellow-Travellers may not fail to find sure footing The First is what Preparation or Qualification will be requisite for such intended Travellers Secondly What kind or manner of way Thirdly The several Stages or Rests by the way Fourthly Their arrival to This City of GOD. And Fifthly The Welcome and Entertainment the Travellers meets with There from all the Great Assembly of Mount Sion the Court of GOD. First then it is to be considered what this Traveller must be Not a Gross tangible Body but a Spirit that must thus take up Enoch's Walks separated and translated from a Terrestial Life to a Celestial This is our Spiritual-traveller's first alteration an Earthly Creature turn'd into a Spiritual And now we come to enter upon the way which looketh at first onset as the Valley of Baca that openeth the Floodgate of Teers and being now so environed with the Light of the Spirit that hath discovered to it an inward and outward Deformity degraded of its Angelical Image by the root of Sin in nature springing so that this Mourning and Sorrow not to be repented of And while in this first beginning-way the Soul will have many Enemies to encounter withal and Temptations from within and without and the more assaults will come because it is to rend away and leave the Walks of This Evil World and to betake it self to This New and Living-way But let not our fellow travellers be discouraged but guird up and go forward this days Journey will have its end though it may go heavily on this first day the second will be more lightsome and refreshing if it do but hold out this Probation and wrestle it out as Iacob did Then the Angels of GOD will meet the weary Traveller and accompany it throughout its way There are seven Angels or they may be called seven Spirits that are appointed to be the Guard of the travelling Soul whilst in this dangerous way I shall name them as I my self have found them a Fortitude of Strength in all my Journey on to this very Day So it may be to the Undertakers that will precisely keep to this Perfect-way The first of these Seven qualifying Spirits and Powers for a Guard is Holy Passive-Patience This is an absolute necessary Companion in this way No holding out without the Indowment of a Patient Mind that may hold out against all Contradictions and what will make offer to pull down from this High and Heavenly Walk The second is Deep or Meek Humility keeping low and humble for That secures the Traveller For GOD hath great Respect for a Soul that walketh softly and steadily The third Qualification is a Lively Hope which is as an Eye within the Soul carrying a Prospect of the Heavenly Sion That mightily strengthens it and bears it up Fourthly a Super-Celestial Wisdom that directs manages and governs the Soul as to the fittest times and seasons for Journeying on that is when to stop and when to remove on forward as the matter shall require The fifth is the Spirit of Faith This is a most Excellent Companion that carrieth through all Difficulties because it is the Evidence of Objects of things in the Heavens not visibly seen It is Wings

far admitted into Thy Presence and Liberty to ssk a Boon of The for Thou knowest well what occasion I may have Thereof being yet in the Region of time where obvious I am to Assaults and Temptations manifold All be it illuminated in a good degree of Light in Thee yet subject to drawings down by Spirits from this World and the Astral Kingdom that may pervert by mingling with the Super-Celestial Part of the Heart Knowing and observing in my day what Miscarriages among great Inlightned Saints have been who as bright Stars hath shined and then again under a Cloud have been Therefore O my Lord premising these things I in Fear and Humility am and dare not trust my Self at any time lest that a Slip out of the Right-Way should be Therefore This is my principal Request to Thee that Thy Spirit may be my constant Overseer Guide and Teacher as Imediate from the Father and Fountain of Wisdom Flowing from Thee then no Errings from the Truth can be This is the one absolute needful Request for we stand all upon a nice Point and if the Petition of Solomon was so grateful to God in His-day then I in no wise do doubt Oh my Lord to ask of Thee the Spirit of Truth which promised by Thee may never cease to be the Oracle fixed in me and all that do desire to be led Rightly for it is already by Thee given as a Caution to beware of transformed Lights that do pretend to the Right yet Thou only art the True Light springing from within Essentially And as Thou hast this Record been in me Oh multiply of This Spirit of Wisdom and true Revelation yet more fully so that what remains yet of Thy Councel and Mind to be further declared and known may still as an Enlightning-Beam pass through me and with them also who mutually shall in Enoch's Walks be found with their faces towards Sion the Court of Thy All filling Majesty Oh! Evermore find Room and Place for me and all of Thine that love thy Appearance To see Thee as Thou art will surely change us into the same Similitude of likeness unto Thee for so it becometh each one that still would keep their way open and free for Conversation with all the Priviledges that to the dilating of the Kingdom which shall be given forth with the Holy-Ghost as the sure Pledge of all those Perfections that may agree with Oneness of Life and Spirit with Thee my Lord. Thus I have offered my Requests and do commit my self to Thy Disposing in all Terrene matters and Things Here follows the Kind and Courteous Reply of the Souls Immanuel ALL Hail with Love Peace and Good will to the Virgin Spouse who is in Spirit come up here to make Request for That which so much is in congruity with the Father's Heart and mine This answer therefore receive that This Thy Petition shall be fulfilled on my Spirits part who shall not fail to open in thee what hath lien under Seals of Secrecy Do thou but attend Him and He will attend thee and whoever shall watch in their hearts His movings for He is the bright Mornning-Star who is to be the Conduct and Leader of my little Flock now in my personal absence from this lower World where the Evil-tempting Tree doth in all Souls spring Therefore great need they have I know of This my Anointed Shield that may be a defence upon every Onset of perverting Spirits of which in danger all are while in this Body Elementary Therefore I have provided This Spirit of Truth to be with thee for Councel and Comfort also to Guard thee up to me where thou mayest know and see by this Glass of the Spirit what I am a doing and making ready for the present and future Day when uncloathed of the Garment of Mortality also But for the present come and see and taste of the Heavenly-Fare and Powers and Joys of my Kingdom The Spring of Life and Love shall rise so high as to drink thy Spirit up Thus with me thou shalt feast and sup and never empty away to go which shall be such an Encouraging motive as will make thee to bend all thy Force still in Spirit to be with me Thy Lover in my secret Pavilion where thou mayest have liberty of discourse with me in those weighty Affairs that do pertain unto the New-Jerusalem-State So then Oh Spouse of mine if This thy Entertainment is thou wilt fly as a Spark of Light to the Body that is the Body and Fulness of all Light These are the Sweet-Meats I shall leave with my Espoused ones to feed upon for a refreshing support till a further day shall break though through the shadow of Death which shall consummated the Everlasting Marriage-Feast with me thy Christ and Living-head with all the Royal Society and with Myriads of Angels that shall their Trumpets of Joy sound at the Lamb and Brides-Nuptial-Day and Marriage-Feast So Ends these Hony-Drops from the Mouth of our dear Immanuel Now by all this which hath been declared you may see the Blessed Issue of an unwearied and Faithful Traveller to the City of our God which may Invite and Allure such as have not yet set their foot in This way and for them which have to make the same progress which will requite a thosand times over the Loss and pains here sustained in the way Oh ye that are Friends and Lovers of this way and would arrive to be Fellow-Citizens in the Court above with God and Christ and the numerous Company of Spirits Pure and Glorious There give me leave before I conclude to commend these following Motives for Incouragement to set forward and go swiftly on in this Path of Life The First Motive is a full assurance of all Love-Acceptance with Dear Embraces and most free Communications all Veils and Bars taken away thy Lord Christ upon this Mount will shew Himself and talk with thee as God did with Moses Only thou must put off thy Shoes because it is holy Ground you will walk upon as much as to say come Here all Bare Pure and Clear leave all at the foot of the Mount that would contract of the worlds Earthly Dust then shall you know hear and see That which is so ravishing for the feeding of all your divine Senses that you will say It is good to Tabernacle Here and so it may be permitted for so long time as you can abide cloathed with the Transfigured Robe of the Spirit of Christ but That will be but at certain times and seasons but it will be enough to know such a thing as This is and yet in the Body of Corporiety Now then the second Motive is that Hereby It is made acquainted with This Heavenly Country before it quite leaveth its Mortality in this low World it is an high and extraordinary Priviledge to see and know its place and company beforehand for our Lord Christ is very free to shew unto the spiritual-minded the