Weeks from the time that I beheld the prevailing of those Waters on the Earth XV. For as the Heavens were discharged of this third Man in the Forms of Nature there was a great change and revolution in the Worlds wherein the Winds came again to strive and the Storms and Tempests prevailed on the great Seas and I beheld until there arose an uncontroulable Wind called EOLUS which caused the Foundations of the House wherein I lay to shake and the Fowls of the Heavens made a groaning noise like a young Child for the place was beset with terrors of the Night but the sound of the Voice was like unto the Ringing of BELLS under my Head as I was laid down to rest And I was charged by the Angel of God not to move from the PLACE where I lay in which I was preserved from hurt until I beheld the Tempest over XVI Then I was led by the ANGEL of God to a very high Mountain on which I beheld my self riding over the Land and in the bottom thereof stood a great CITY at some distance towards which I was travelling and there came forth the Hee Goat of a year old who was driven towards the WEST in which I beheld him a scape Goat for the yearly Sacrifice and behind the form of the Man that I saw in the Heavens the RAM prevailed that was caught by his Horns in the Thickets of the Earth who became a daily Sacrifice for the Sins and Transgressions of the first Covenant which were committed in the times of Ignorance wherein God winked at them XVII And the scape Goat also grew and became mighty and strong and came forth out of the WEST pushing three wayes to wit East and North and South and he broke and stampt in pieces those two Horns of the RAM whereby the BULL was lifted up out of the dark Pit in Nature and as I was enquiring of the Angel of God how long also this should continue He replyed Until the Heifer be yoaked and hath learned to tread out the Corn that it may be known the House of Jacob is like a fire and that the House of Joseph is the flame and the House of Esau the stubble whom God will leave nor Root nor Branch for Ephraim shall learn to tread out the Corn as one that is taught to Plow and Judah shall be inlarged in him while God doth ride and is exalted but Jacob shall break the Clods in pieces XVIII And while I was beholding the Glory of the ANGEL I was dismounted from the BEAST whereon I Rode and sought to turn it down before me as I apprehended my self walking down the steep of the Hill but the Beast could not go any further either up or down and striving to turn him about he fell to the bottom of the Hill which was very steep and terrible to behold yet he came to the ground without hurt which was much more Admirable and he ran towards the CITY that I saw with great speed leaving me for a season to wander on the Mountain which was on the fourth Month of the seventh year for which the Vision was set and there did sit the form of Women weeping for TAMUZ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the Name of the month in the discharge of the Heavens but in the Earth it is called Mazah XIX But through the opening and loosing of a fifth Seal on the Book of Wonders taken out of the Hand of the Angel of God which was on the Temple or House of God which had been made the seat of the BEAST in Nature I saw and heard from the Throne of God and the LAMB a great cry and lamentation How long Lord God holy and true wilt thou suffer the Members of Christ to be joyned to an Harlot and the Temple of thy Holy Ghost to be defiled that our Blood may be avenged on the Inhabitants of the EARTH for from the Blood of Righteous ABEL until the Blood of Zacharias the Prophet who was slain between the Temple and the Altar Blood hath cryed in thine EAR to be avenged on such a wicked Generation XX. And there was also a Seal on the Sun of the Day of the Son of Man which was taken off in the opening and loosing of a sixth Seal of the Book And all that was in the Temple of God was smitten thereby until I beheld the Sun turned into Darkness and the Moon into Blood and the Stars of Heaven withdrew their Light being shaken as with a mighty Wind and they fell unto the Earth as a Fig-tree that casteth her Leaves and all dominion in the Powers of Nature was terrified by which that subdued the Government of all Authority in the Kingdoms of the Earth wherein is the signification of the Birth of Kings and Captains and mighty Men and Noble Men and Bond and Free that fled to the Rocks and Mountains of the EARTH to hide them and crept into the Clifts and Dens for shelter XXI Then saw I the first turn of the WHEELS which made a perfect division between property and property of all SPIRITS thus fallen under the Power of Corruption in the imbodied being of what standeth manifest in three Principles of Government over Nature in time and place for after I had beheld destinction of Motion in the Rings of the WHEELS and the separation of each I beheld their order in their turns over all that became imbodied in the Ground of Corruption as it came forth out of the WOMB of Nature XXII And in this sirst turn of the Wheels all that came out of the Womb of Eternity rested in the Womb of Nature though therein was a continual Motion while time and place indured whereby the VIRGIN in the Forms of Nature came under the sufferance of the Power of Death and indured the bodily pangs that were opened through the way and course of Corruption which caused the FIELD of Nature and Place of Conception to become a field of Blood through that which strove there in which state was placed the Man that was formed to be Keeper of the Vineyard that he possesses in that corruptible state so that in the second Turn of the Wheels all came forth distinguishable in that separated being of fire Air and Water that had received a tincture of Glory in each Principle XXIII Which according to those three PRINCIPLES was in the Forms of Nature wherein the Man had both Soul Spirit and Body formed under the Workings and Motion of an incorruptible and immortal Power to the renewing of all faculties of the Mind wherein Man is imbodied And as it sought to settle under a Power of Corruption I saw wherein it became a ground of all Motion though a stilness and silence was in the Original Center of all Creaturely beings whereby the four destroying Angels of God were bound down under a course of Corruption in which the Enemy prevailed to ripen and hasten the day of everlasting Tryals in the sufferance
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
WOMB of Nature though the forms in Creation remained fallen sunk under the Image of the Beast on those that have received his Mark or have his Name and number while the Woman remained cloathed with changeable rayments CV And on the tenth day of the fourth month of the fifth year I beheld a great Eclipse of the Moon also which became divided in Cancer the Breast of Nature for the burthen of struglings and strivings in the Heavens that had rested on the imbodied being of the shoulders of Nature wherein the Man took form came into the Breast of the Created being wherein he stood imbodied though driven from the face or first beauty of the Earth in that double-bodied Form against whom the flames of the Cherub turned every way to preserve the way of the Tree of Life CVI. While the Face of the RAM in Nature stood behind the Man who was created LORD in that Dominion that form in Nature became therein a House of Exaltation to the Sun of his dayes Glory and while the Vision hereof continued and that the Angel of God was thus talking with me I was pursued by those living Creatures in the form of Women and I took my flight over the Mountains the entrances of which were wide and very broad at my going forth thereon but in the conclusion they grew very narrow in the World about the circumference of which I was led CVII But the forms of those Women were dispersed and fled into dissolution as I was in a great strait of my mind through which the entrances led me in my passage and they were reduced into one in number as I came through those straits wherein I beheld the parting of the great Seas my way was so narrow that I could not pass any further but in great danger of falling CVIII For the Precipice was very steep as I looked down toward the ground which was like a WALL of Stone And being made sensible of the danger wherewith I was beset in my way and passage I was taken in great fear and trembling seized me because of the terror of the Lord on my Spirit until I came to sit down on the dust of that Hill or great Mountain in that I could not go on any further with security of life and therefore sought to ease me by mourning alone and there broke down and fell on my left HAND the form of a tottering Wall whereby I came to the sight of a Pleasant Field and therein continued for a time CHAP. X. Describing the Power of those Waters in the Vision of the Wheels CIX AND as I continued separated from the comfort and enjoyment of good in the visitation of the Angel there appeared before me a great and deep Pit which was very Green yet like unto WATERS and as I climbed up to the top of these Waters they appeared to be a great Mountain that stood on HEAPS above the Earth though they still bore the form of WATERS whose concavity swelled under me turning its hollowness into that Mountanous shape of Waters as I came to stand upright on the top thereof CX Wherein I beheld my pass ge over all these WATERS and had nothing to support me but a Line in the Hand of the Angel by which I was born up and kept from falling and the Angel of God brought me a LADDER which he lifted up towards me while I came to see my self as on the top of a high House driven thither by the Womans fury and rage whereon I rather chused to dwell then to come down unto the Ground and possess the Pallace with the Brawling Woman yet was there a WO remaining on the World in the state wherein I beheld it overtaken with afflictions CXI But I was to come down on the Ground and the place whereon I alighted was like to a great CITY that stood beyond the Waters and in the night season as I was layed down to take my rest the form of the Woman was again awakened before me and there stood near her the appearance of a Man of fierce countenance with very long Hair whom she instigated to disquiet me from my rest because I lay not streight in the Bed and accordingly by violence I was pulled out of the Bed and was both Naked and Hungry and mourned in Spirit at the sight of her Discourtesy CXII And because she proffered to turn me out of Doors to dispossess me of a Habitation it was very irksom for me to come forth but with yearning Bowels I bemoaned the state under which I was fallen by her dis ourtesie and refused to depart WILLINGLY without leaving the sence of my wrong upon her after which I was brought forth towards the place of my ABOAD and as I came before the Posts of my Door there was inkindled a great flame a fire broke forth in the midst of which was a Brass Pan and under it was a Morsel baked with which my Body was refreshed and I had a place of accomodation suitable to my necessity CXIII Thus was the truth of the Angels Visitation confirmed to me with signs of deliverance though a secret incredulity wrought against my lifes peace and satisfaction in the conflict with the sence of which I was daily beset yet durst not any more ask a sign or tempt the LORD my GOD but I afterwards beheld a great flame towards the South and towards the East and it being at a great distance from me the Angel of God lifted me up from the ground to behold it and my Head was born up as with a Mans Hand and I had the sence given me secretly of great calamities that should come from the South And I again saw the form of a fiery Furnace in which was the Fat of fed Beasts which boiled up with a great scum and it arose over the Furnace and inkindled a great flame in the House which I expected to see consumed but it was miraculously preserved and I had no hurt therein CXIV And the day from whence I beheld the multiplying of all forms in Nature from the Heavens was a day of gloominess and darkness and thick Clouds broke forth from the awakened tempests and storms until the Earth was overwhelmed with the scourge that covered the same in the overflowing of its deluge from the Fountain of great DEEPS that were opened and the great City that I saw was overspread even unto its tenth part wherein the WORLD stood six parts under the WATERS and that sixth part was a tenth from the Heavens in which all forms in Nature became more narrow to the Creaturely sence through a palpability in the WATERS CXV In which time the Waters prevailed over the Earth sixty thousand Furlongs and they abode thereon for the term of five Months and Blood prevailed for sixteen hundred Furlongs unto the Horse-Bridles from the Wine-press of the great City For after I came to see the appearance of two Moons in the Firmament of the Heavens
Beauty which setled that which was therein finished on those seven Mountains or high Hills that became its Foundations and they had an eighth Mountain LXVII These are the Mountains on which descended the Form of what ever was first built and erected in the Heavens setled among the forms in Nature wherein the fashions of all glory in the Worlds are decaying and are ready to pass away though it seemeth to be adorned with magnificence with Towers great and strong and its situation very pleasant and beautiful while the antient breach that hath been made thereon in its ruinated state many are seeking to prop up by worldly inventions the discovery of which is become the torment of the Worldly Spirit that hath sought a Life therein LXVIII And the Angel of God shewed me the whole frame of this building and bid me tell its Towers and count its Foundations and number its Mountains and behold its Situation that it may be said in Generations to come This is she of whom we were forwarned And while the Angel of God was thus talking with me I beheld the appearance of a living Creature that weaved out of his BOWELS the form of the Heavens and it stood in the Firmament placed between Waters and Waters as between the Heavens and the Earth LXIX As to the living Creature he had eight Legs and through the Clouds of the Heavens which were over the face of the Waters he weaved out of his Bowels Coverings like unto the Spiders Web which had their course and motion according to the frame of the Worlds in their Corners and Quarters wherein his labour was in the Night in the distance of Degrees from the Sun of the Glory of the Son of Man formed in the Clouds of the Heavens which went before and came after the Sun of such Glory in which the Creation of God was first formed and brought forth who had his Star called HESPER and VESPER as Morning and Evening Stars And I beheld and hearkened until a Voice came from Heaven like unto those four Thunders which passed before me which had an interpretation among the sounds in Nature and the Voice was Over hundreds they have moved a hundred times as over ten thou movest because of Wages that have been changed ten times but over one I am once moving and the dividing of times hath discovered a time that was Mans glory to see and behold while good followed the WORLD in the state wherein it was planted though times are past in that wherein the Wheels have made a difference LXX And the fifth Thunder thundered from the New Jerusalem that descended from above out of Heaven as a BRIDE that is readily adorned for her Husband the Voice of which did reach into the great CITY that is Spiritually called Sodom and Egypt where our Lord lyeth Crucified and Slain Wherein I saw the fall of that which was setled on five of those Mountains and the sixth Foundation was also shaken that the seventh might come up and be revealed and in that seventh were the seven manifest from whence the WORLDS had bubled through the renewing of all forms in Nature which were tryed by Tempests until Gods goodness came up through that which swayed the Scepter in Israel and brought forth Judgment in the power of the Heavens LXXI For those seven Mountains had the names of seven Months in the Years in which God was manifest in the work of Creation according to the Power of his WORD in Nature by which the works of Wonder in GOD are established through that which wrought in a Mystery And they are the Months in which God discovereth the going forth of the WORLDS as they have their Foundations in the EARTH setled among the forms in Nature and the Towers which setled in that which adjoyned to the Body of that Temple as Heads of the Beast had the name of the seven dayes in the Week LXXII Wherein the beginning of Beauty and Glory revealed through the Foundation in which it setled rested its ruines on ASSYRIA through which the forms of the Towers were put forth as a Banner displayed towards ASIA and the name of that first Mountain was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereon stood a Man with both hands dipt in BLOOD and in his right Hand was a Sword but I beheld until the form of the Man vanished and there was nought left but the Head and Face of the RAM wherein was erected the form of the TOWERS and from the second Mountain which had the name of the second Month called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 proceeded splendor and brightness as the flowers of all increasing properties in the power of Nature and from the third Mountain which had the name of the third Month called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 proceeded the Vail and Covering of Green Leaves CHAP. VII Describing the form of the Temple which setled its Foundations on SEVEN MOUNTAINS of the EARTH LXXIII ON four of those MOUNTAINS rested the Body of the Temple according to its Foundations and the names of the Months by which they were called which stood in the fourth part of the WORLD with its Corners and Quarters East West North and South according to the four Winds of the Heavens that were moved from thence with their four Angels exalted on their Towers from the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES through that which prevailed in the fiery triplicity of the Heavens over the Earth and Waters in their third part LXXIV Wherein the Vernal Quarter was Manifest in a fourth Mountain from whence all Fruits of the Earth came under fiery Tryals to the scorching and consuming all that stood on that foundation in the Ground of such a Nature whence it received the name of the 4th Month called THAMUZ and on the fifth Mountain which had the name of the fifth Month called AB was manifest the Image of Jealousie from whence proceeded the fiery Zeal of that consuming power which prevailed over the Fruits of the Earth until they became reaped after which was nought found through the appearance of a sixth Mountain which had the name of the sixth month called ELVL LXXV And in the Temple there appeared the form of a WOMAN exalted in the Heavens on whose Forehead was written JEZEBEL the Mother of Harlots and I beheld until nought was remaining but the Palms of her hands which the Dogs refused to eat yet did she reign as Queen of Nations and had power over the Kings of the Earth there appeared the Scarlet coloured BEAST on which her form was exalted who was very gloriously decked and adorned with Gold and precious Stones and Pearls and Purple and delicate aray and on her forehead was a name wrote MYSTERY BABYLON the Great the Mother of all Fornication LXXVI And she was carried into the Wilderness whither I was led by the Angel who shewed me her Cities of Refuge and there was a very great City in which the sixth Thunder thundered
BEAST I beheld the pleasant Field and fruitful Garden working up the form of what indured and continued patient under those fiery Tryals until they became past over though many therein did dwell on a barren Heath who could not see when good comes whereby they perished in the Night of Obscurity and worldly sorrow that overtook them in their way wherein the power of DEATH wrought and became strong in the WORLDS CXIII And in the place of the fifth Head of the Beast in the midst of four which I had beheld Wounded as it were unto death were sprung up three other Heads And the Horns on that fifth Head which had received that deadly Wound were increased through the healing up of the Wound wherein a little Horn that sprung up between the Eyes of the Beast received Voice and began to speak great swelling words against the God of Heaven and his SAINTS that dwell on the Earth and the little Horn waxed strong towards the four Winds of the Heavens wherein the BEAST appeared with seven Heads and ten Horns which had Power in in the Beast to reign with him as Kings for their hour CXIV And whereas after I had seen the fall of five Horns on that fifth Head of the Beast I beheld remaining four Heads from whence sprung up four Horns in the dispersing abroad the Kingdom and Power of the BEAST under the four Winds of the Heavens so in the reviving of his power that which became exalted in the reducing of four to its first subjection ruled over five in which the wound was received and wherein the Beast came forth first manifest and in the discovery of both the rise and fall of the BEAST though through the great Horn of the Hee-Goat who did not touch the ground until he had accomplished his design after he had power given him in the awakened fury of the West-Wind the two Horns of the RAM from the EAST were broken and stampt in pieces that great Horn was also broken when its fury was accomplished CXV Yet was the power of the four Horns on those four Heads of the BEAST bound down in the four Heads of the great River until the time of the loosing of their four Angels that stood on the four Corners of the EARTH to hold the four Corners of the WINDS from blowing on the EARTH while the little Horn was magnified whereby the third Head which sprung up in the midst of the seven recovered four Horns from that which was dispersed under those four Winds of the Heavens and on the other six Heads were manifest six Horns CXVI Thus was the BEAST more monstrous then all those other Beasts that passed before him with Iron Teeth by which he did break and stamp in pieces And his Face was like unto a Leopard with the form of a third part of the Stars in the constellation of the HEAVENS on his Back but he had the Feet of the great Bear and discovered his power through the four Heads of the great River EUPHRATES in the loosing of those destroying Angels who came first out from the WATERS but the reviving of his strength from those deceitful healings proceeded out of the Earth through the power of the RAM in Nature CXVII And in the time of the sounding of the sixth Trumpet this BEAST came forth through the loosing of those destroying ANGELS out of the great River and through those earthquakes and shakings that were come into the WORLD wherein fell that tenth part of the great City God had returned unto himself his Tenths to be eaten as a Teyl-Tree and as an Oak whose substance was in it these were the remnant of the Holy Seed who worshipped the Lord with a pure Heart even in Spirit and in Truth and whose Garments were washed White in the Blood of the Lamb. CXVIII For they came to pass through great tribulations and Tryals in their WAY because they could not Worship the BEAST nor receive his Mark but they were preserved blameless before the Lord in that hour wherein Iniquity was not found in their HEARTS neither was there guile in their MOUTHS to be uttered with their Tongue And I beheld until the sin of MANASSEH became ripened and was filled up and the high Altars in both Courts whereon had been offered Sacrifice to IDOLS and Incense burnt to strange Gods which neither we nor our Fathers have heard of were pulled down because of the God of FORCES who was worshipped neither was the desire of Women regarded CXIX And after I came to see the WOMANS deliverance from the rage and fury of the great Red DRAGON who had cast his floods of Water after her in the time and times wherein she had been helped by the EARTH and sheltered by the Wings of the EAGLE with which she had fled into the Wilderness as the Dragon came to give up his Power to this monstrous Beast the remnant of her Seed was persecuted in the World for the space of full forty dayes And wherein the Sun had gone back ten Degrees for the prolonging of Life in the Just after he came to discover and reveal the glory in which was his safety before Babylons King who wrought by subtilty and much craft whereby fifteen dayes were added to his dying state CXX Those dayes were again doubled in the renewed Zeal wherein the Favour of God was multiplyed to the purging his House and Sanctuary according to the fifty-five dayes wherein Manasseh had caused the Israel of God to err in following after Idols And for ten days the Devil had power to cast many into Prison that they might be tryed and sifted by his cunning devices until their Garments became thus made white in the Blood of the slain Lamb of God CHAP. XI Describing the Form of the WHEELS in the VISION according to their MOTION wherein are numbred the dayes that the BEAST hath yet to reign and continue on the Earth CXXI AS to the form of the Wheels as they wrought and moved one within the other as a Wheel within a Wheel like unto the form of the Worlds which are moved the one within the other the WHEELS never rested but went streight forward towards Eternity wherewith they were tinctured and moved in the power thereof as though they crossed each other and yet there was no crossness in the Will and Wisdom of Eternity from whence they were moved in the power of him that first wrought and laboured in the motion thereof CXXII For all crossness that appeared in the motion thereof wrought in the Earthly ground wherein the World 's laboured to Center in a Glory below the power of Eternity from whence every thing first proceeded and was brought forth to a day of Tryal in the FRAME under which the Body of Nature was constituted to exercises from the Glory of the HEAVENS wherein the Will of the Creature was subjected to a change through vanity that entered the WORLD in a state of corruptible Glory which was
Glory became manifest in the WOLDS while the STUMPS thereof remained bound down in the Earth with an Iron BAND after seven times had passed over his HEAD which was wet with the Dew of the Night V. Wherefore from the time wherein the dayly Sacrifice was made to cease after the restoring of that breach on the Walls of Jerusalem to the finishing of the outward Court of the Holy City which was given into the hands of the Gentiles to tread under foot those forty two months or an hundred and forty two days being the concluding of a time times and the dividing of times which is seventeen hundred and fifty days wherein the Woman hath been nourished in the place that is there provided for her for the space of one thousand two hundred and threescore days that the two Witnesses have appointed them to finish and fulfil their PROPHECY in sackcloth in which time the Earth doth help the WOMAN It is now eighteen days since the Commandment of God came forth for the rebuilding and restoring those outward Courts of the CITY TIME on a Prophetical account wch is the Language of the holy Scripture is five hundred years according to the life of Noah before he began to build his Family in the EARTH which was saved in the Ark of God and so long is accounted the days of Shem after the Flood of Waters as the mystical Number in which is contained ten Jubiles of years under the Law VI. And after thirty one days it shall be finished then shall be a WEEK to renew the Zeal of God and expiate sin to the sealing and binding down the power of the WICKED for evermore and in the midst of that Week those Witnesses shall seal their Testimony concerning the Life of the Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth who hath been crucified and lain slain in the streets of that great City spiritually called Sodom and Egypt but after three days and a half which is the concluding of the 1290 days they shall be seen to ascend up into Heaven in the sight of all their ENEMIES VII For it is now eighteen dayes since the WOMAN hath regained a sence of her deliverance from her great Captivity in that WILDERNESS-State in which the forty two months of her travel are expired and the Birth is brought forth in the EARTH which hath been preserved and delivered from the fury and rage of the great red Dragon by the Floods of Water which he hath cast out of his BELLY after her in the one thousand four hundred and forty and four thousands that are found standing on Mount Zion with their Harps harping but until the end of two days the Judgment of God set up in ISRAEL shall quicken the sealed number of Gods chosen and holy Ones who have remained as dry Bones in the Valley of Jehosaphat where the spirit of God hath breathed on the slain that from the third day will be found to live in his sight to seal the testimony of that birth which hath thirty days more to accomplish its growth into the power by which it is anoynted to finish that great Work in that Week wherein the dead are made able to stand on their Feet by the sound of the seventh and last Trump VIII And he that hath WISDOM let him count the time and number those days from whence the number of the BEAST which is the number of a MAN is compleat DCLXVI for from that day will the four destroying Angels of God stand loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES according to the hour day month and year for which they were prepared which after a month wherein those five months will be expired will leave seven months for the Dead to bury their Dead in the concluding of the year wherein Destruction is come forth against the WICKED IX Therefore count thou from the year 1656 wherein the Devil did exercise his power for ten days by casting many into Prison since the expiration of the WOMANS Tryals and sore TRAVEL that the forty days wherein the Seed of the Woman was left to be persecuted and tried by the fury and rage of the Devourer and his Angels that great Red DRAGON will make way for the power of God to be glorified after the third day in ten thousand of his SAINTS for from the expiration of those months wherein the striving continued between two Nations the King of BABYLON who had looked into the Glory of the Temple which God hath built in Israel wherein are many goodly Vessels of Gold and Silver hath been letted from spoyling and laying utterly waste the HOUSE in which are appointed those rich Treasuries about his Sanctuary X. Yet the Daughter of the NORTH suffereth Oppression under a strange KING unto whom the QUEEN of the SOUTH is joyned to corrupt their Seed though unto them the Mystery of that which pertaineth to the KINGDOM of GOD is opened in those that run to and fro to increase in knowledge and from the extirpation of the fifteen years from whence the WORLD hath been warned one hundred and twenty days and wherein the EXECUTION of that which was detained from the Earth and WORLDS in their third part to the prolonging of Life in the Government of Nature in which ISRAEL had their choice is to be MANIFEST the substance of what standeth in the end of time and place which is near to be revealed XI Therefore for the purging forth the Sin of MANASSEH through whom the HIGH ALTARS were erected in both Courts of the City for those fifty five days wherein the number seventy was accomplished in the concluding of fifteen years which discovered the Judgement that revived and was come on the Worlds that on whom the Image of JEALOUSY came forth manifest forty five days are yet determined from the midst of the WEEK wherein the Testimony of GOD will receive its everlasting Seal and it shall be the Joy of many to understand the Mystery of what is concluded in one thousand two hundred and ninety days but blessed are those that live attain to the end of those eighty five days which are the concluding of one thousand three hundred thirty and five dayes from those ninety five days before the Sacrifice was offered up wherein the ROMANS obtained their Conquest over JUDEA and throughout ASIA in which the Jews were scattered which was sixty two days before the BABE was brought forth through whom it became accepted XII For from the Conception and Birth of the MAN-CHILD through whom the LIGHT of GOD broke forth with which the NATIONS of the EARTH and REGIONS of the WORLDS that have sat under the SHADOW of Death are ENLIGHTENED on whom is come the GLORY of GOD to the GENTILES Their number is fulfilled and compleat wherein TIME and TIMES are past and HALF A TIME is divided in those Figures 1750 and yet the EXPIRATION of those SIXTY TWO Weeks wherein the GENTILES had power to erect their GLORY in the
exalt the four destroying Angels of Strength that are loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES by which Europe hath been compassed about until the end of seven Months and five days though in the time of the sounding of those Trumpets the Winds have been suffered to blow on the Earth by those that have held their corners as four Angels standing on the four Corners of the same and the Spirit of God hath and doth yet strive with a Generation and Generations on whom the fierceness of Gods wrath in the Plagues of those Vials is to be poured forth and is come L. And the Creature Mankind imbodyed in this third Principle in which he is called the Microcosm or little World is that third part of the Macrocosm or great World as it standeth divided into its four parts or Quarters wherein the Eagle hath had Power over the North Quarter or fourth part of the Worlds where those Tryals are manifest under which the Lyon came first forth with four Wings of the Foul on his Back in which were Golden Fethers with the names of 36000. Men in each Golden Wing while the striving continued between the four Winds of the Heavens on the great Sea and from the loss of dominion therein in the plucking of the Lions Wings wherein came forth four other Beasts and took head in the Nature of that which separated the Man from the power in which he was first planted and placed the Kingdoms of the Earth and World became dispersed abroad the same LI. Until the great Bear or Leopard who hereby purchased the strength of those four Wings had them also taken away and the Man came to regain his dominion over all the Works of God's Hands as Lord in the substance of what is already communicated to his understanding and through those four first Beasts that now have taken unto them each of them the six Wings of the Cherubims every one in their order calling to come and see the Mystery of what is come forth to the Tryal of the Year Month Day and Hour over which they have Power and Dominion in their Angels the Glory of the Father is hallowed having in each Wing two thousand Fethers and names of Men which makes the Glorious Hoast of God in the Heavens Numerable in their Tribes and according to the Families of those scattered Nations over the face of the whole Earth LII Which are the dispersed Army of God and goodly company of that Mighty Hoast in the four Wings of the living Creature by which they stand figured forth 144000. of the first Body in which God hath his sealed Number of Instruments that are engaged in the Lamb's Battel as the MEMBERS of what hath continued like unto dry Bones in the Valleys And for the exalting their Angels in the Heavens their destroying power over the Earth and Worlds is loosed out of the great River over which the winds of the Heavens have striven and blowed while their destroying Power was bound LIII But now are the Winds in the Hands of the Angels to be with-held from blowing and the Spirit of God from striving any longer with the Creature Mankind by the Prophesie of the Witnesses or sounding of the Trumpets of God committed to the Angels and the whole Worlds shall be smitten with Plagues through that which is thus loosed out of the bottomless Pit wherein the Earth hath been covered with those Beasts called Locusts and they have overspread the same in its third part smitten by the sounding of the five first Trumpets and that which is awakened by the sounding of the sixth Trumpet hath command in and over those four Winds of the Heavens to with-hold them from blowing as oft as they please because God will not alwayes strive with Man who is but flesh LIV. And when the Earth is quiet and still according to the silence that hath been in HEAVEN for the space of half an hour and the Worlds begin to settle in the ease and content of the flesh then remember what I say for before this day there hath come Wars and rumours of Wars and the smoake of the torment of those Men on whom Judgment hath rested under the Power of the Beast shall be seen known to be the SEAT of the Beast in a fourth part of the great World that hath yet hitherto escaped Death in what came on that third part thereof in the little World Mankind like the fume of a boyling Furnace whence hath ascended the thick Cloud of Darkness that filleth the Heavens and the Power of the DRAGON who had delivered up his Seat and Throne unto the Beast for the time he remained bound in the bottomless Pit But that now is loosed in the sounding of the three last Trumpets is a Spirit working Miracles in the Earth in the execution of the three last WOES that are come thereinto for the awakening and rising up of three therein that do bear witness for GOD of what hath been crucified and slain in the Streets of the great CITY of the Worlds LV. And into those Kings of the East that have their Power again revived and their Heads healed which is a second Beast come out of the Earth with two Horns of a Ram pushing three ways to wit West and North and South shall enter those three Unclean Spirits of the Beast Dragon and Whore like Frogs through the drying up of the Waters in the great River EUPHRATES in the Worlds Sea they shall come over the same and into the place where God hath settled his glorious City and they shall strive to defile and overcome the Holy Land between the Seas but the end shall come with an over flowing Scourge and great Flood and out of the Mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet shall great things be performed and done LVI Yea all these things have a lively Character of the Truth hereof recorded in the Heavens by the Verity of Just Measure in time and Place for God is not to be limitted to time and place in his Work or to the prescription of men but he hath a time and season for every work according to which he hath determined and decreed an order wherein they are all to be fulfilled and brought to pass according to the measure by which they are measured and weighed in their day and the times and Seasons of their fulfilling have been in the Fathers hands until the hours thereof became made known to the Son of Man who is in Heaven in that which communicateth the sence thereof unto and in the World in whose behalf he came to lay down his Life in the Body of Flesh which he took up for the reconciling of the World unto the good will and pleasure of the Father LVII And the Star that is fallen from Heaven as an Angel that hath the Key of the bottomless-Pit I have beheld and do see the returning of such torment come on those men that have the Beasts mark on his Seat
and sought ease by weeping and mourning and coming to sit down by the side of a Wall I was awakened in a sence of the Agony which was upon me after which the glory of the SUN through which I beheld the Wonders of God in the Vision came out of the HEAD of Natures Government descending towards its HEART which was like the Heart of a LYON the Glory of which SUN was exalted in the Head and Face of a RAM amongst the forms of Nature XCIV And in the night season being perfectly awakened I was brought into an inclosed ground which was very dark wherein boisterous storms and tempests were arisen for I was led somewhat out of my way in the conflict and drew towards a little Town near my way wherein I was cruelly dealt withal and though it was late in the night yet I gave up in patience and drew towards a heap of straw in the way-side whereon I lay down to rest me XCV And by the excess of Rain which began to fall I was driven to leave that place also and went into the Fields again where there brake forth before me a WHITE LIGHT in the shape of a SHEEP so far as I could discern it which being round about me in a flame did surprize me with fear whereby the form of the ANGEL vanished and before him went a noise like the crackling of the rotten Hedge which left me much in amazement so that I could not find the way out of the Field or Inclosure in two hours time till I had given up in my mind and forgiven those that thrust me out after which I found my way and came quietly to the Journeys end XCVI After which the Angel of God led me about the circumference of the Worlds to behold the surface thereof and he brought me into a green Field where I saw the frame and form of the HEAVENS and of the Natures of all Creatures in the Worlds and the WHOLE was like unto WATER And there were a THOUSAND Hills and a Thousand Springs of Water And in the same manner as I was acted under the exercise of the Vision so appeared the form of the Worlds wherein came forth a great Number of WOMEN who at last were reduced into SEVEN and each of them sought to lay hold on me but I fled in great fear and lost the sight of the Angels Glory for a time CHAP. IX Declares how I was exercised under the Power of the Vision XCVII AS I was carried by the Spirit of the Lord into a great WILDERNES the Angel of God by whom the Forms of Nature were thus awakened in me brought up the appearance of that Wilderness-state into manifestation in which the Woman continued labouring in the Heavens which Heavens did multiply all forms in Nature into their number and order in which the power of Creation in individual Bodies was separated in its being into two third parts of such forms and the seventh part of the Worlds became corruptible Earth XCVIII From which one THIRD PART thereof was dryed up on the third day wherein Nature had its operation over all Bodies brought into Form in the Work of CREATION which was the TENTH PART of that which remained under the exercise of TRYALS both by FIRE and by WATER and the two third parts of those WATERS were comprehensible in their Qualities from the fiery Heavens whence the circumference of the out-spread Firmament was filled with Airy Bodies and the Earth and Waters were replenished with living Creatures which came under the refining power of those renewing Faculties and Virtues in the forms of Nature imbodied from those WATERS XCIX But what came thus forth in seven natural dayes came under tryal in the operation of three essential days wherein the power of God was manifest for the recovering of a SENCE in the Creature of that work wherein God doth glory and is praised which is the Resurrection of the Just in the first and last power of Creation wherein Majesty is Exalted and therein was manifest A restauration to all forms in NATURE fallen in the WORLDS wherein the MAN who had caused destruction to the Body of Nature was called to account in the Tryal while suffering remained in that third PRINCIPLE in which he was imbodied C. And as the WATERS were gathered together in their Course into the seventh part of the WORLDS which had form in the Earth those two living Creatures called BEHEMOTH or HENOCH Leviathan were separated into their being because it was so ordered in Wisdoms Counsellings that they could not both live together in one place But according to the operation of the day in Nature in which they were brought forth they possessed each part of the Worlds wherein the great WHALE had dominion in the moist part thereof and the Behemoth caused the Image of Giants in the forms of Nature brought forth in Woman in the coming down of the Watchers into the Creaturely conceivance through that which possessed the Earth CI. For in the Firmament placed between Waters and Waters living Creatures were multiplied in Airy Bodies from those Fiery Heavens which Creatures possessed that third part of the Worlds in which the Waters were dryed up from the Earth sixty thousand furlongs in its circumference which is the fourth part of what remaineth measurable in the forms of Nature wherein one third part of the Waters is comprehended CII And as the way and course of what was Generated from the HEAVENS above and Earth beneath was traced in the HEIGHTS and DEPTHS of the WORLD there appeared pourtraied forth through the motion of the Wheels in the Vision a GREAT CITY built on seven Mountains which were seven Foundations on which it setled and the Mountain in the Midl of the Seven which was the Seventh stood higher then the rest on which was built and founded the tenth part of the City which I thus beheld CIII In which place it was compassed about with Fowls of the Air and wild Beasts of Prey wherein the Enemy who is the power of Destruction went about continually seeking to betray and devour but I could not conceive that those BRUIT Creatures did build and rear up the Foundation of that City therefore I concluded in my mind that some Men had been there to build its Foundation though their Houses were left unto them DESOLATE And as I was thus musing in my mind concerning these things I came to apprehend my self a wayfaring Man and a wanderer in the World groaning in Spirit to see the issue of what was thus visioned for I came again to behold the form of the Woman in the Heavens that continued in labour and travel in that Wilderness-state until the time of her deliverance was come CIV And as she had conceived the Birth of Life under the power of contrariety that wrought in the HEAVENS through two Nations on which the blessing of God began to rest the Woman prevailed in the World for their bringing forthout of the
that fourth part of the WORLDS wherein the whole Earth had corrupted its way before the Lord that which bound the Nature of the Heavens from striving any more with mankind gave way to the power of destruction in a Mystery to increase its swelling Tempests over a third of the Earth out of which the forms of Nature were imbodied in the divided quarter or fourth part of the Worlds XXXIII And I beheld until the seventh year past over my Head and there appeared an Angel of the Waters whose power began to be prevalent over the South Wind and seven Kings of the South fell and the KING himself under whom the South Winds wrought was subjected by the dispersing abroad of those seven Nations of the Worlds through whom the Generations of the Heavens were multiplyed but two dayes before the expiration of the seventh year the Hands of the Angel grew weak for he went backward unto the parting of the great SEAS and brought up the Vessel that stood in the midst of the six in the front of the seventy which was born about by twelve Bulls six on the one side and six on the other XXXIV And the Sun recovered the strength and glory of that which stood still in the Heavens to manifest judgment over a backward course in its Worlds according to the degrees therein by which the Enemy prevailed over the Body of Nature to move the frame thereof under the Power of Destruction And from the expiration of the seventh year was fifteen dayes that the Vessel was subjected in the strength of the Angel for after I beheld the appearance of a second Angel with the Garment of the high Priest on whose Head was a Crown and on the Crown a Cross the form of the Crown was turned about like the Moon in its second Quarter and had two Horns like unto the Letter X wherein the Leter X stood in the midst of the Crown like unto two V A or V and A and I did read it one hundred and ten as though I had read in a Book XXXV For from the beginning of the appearance of the second Angel was seventeen dayes After which I beheld raised up out of the Earth a Wall of Brass and its Foundations rested on two and twenty Pillars that had on them two and twenty names of Men and the two and twenty Letters in the Hebrew Alphabet And on that WALL were twelve Towers on which Towers were placed twelve Angels each Tower stood between two Pillars and the Wall stood four square wherein there were three Gates on each side of the WALL But the Tower on the North-side of the Wall towards the East Corner thereof whereon was exalted an Angel who sat on a Beast in the form of an EVENING WOLF had no Pillars for its Foundations for its foundations fell in the raising up the structure of the WALL and I beheld until the Foundation of the whole was removed XXXVI And an Angel came down from his Tower on the East side of the WALL towards the South Corner thereof who was exalted on the first Beast in the forms of Nature like unto a RAM and he had made a breach on the WALL against whom an Angel who was exalted on the form of a Beast like unto an ASS smote his Foot And the Glory of the Angel on the North Corner of the Wall EASTWARD who was exalted on that Beast in the form of an Ass couching down between two burdens saw that rest was good to the heavy laden and they alighted from off those Beasts whereon they were exalted CHAP. IV. The effect of the descending of ANGELS into the Forms of Nature XXXVII FRom the middle Tower on the Wall Eastward did the Angel prevail in the HEAVENS who was exalted on a BEAST in the form of a LYON until the Angel that came from the South Corner of the Wall was held in a dark place because that self-will slew a man to dig down the Wall of Separation to ISRAEL from those Nations of the Earth that were fallen into Idolatry whereby they caused their Seed to pass through the Fire to Molech and Ashtaroth and followed the invention of the HEATHEN who thus continued worshiping in the Fire XXXVIII For wherein the West-wind prevailed I beheld the form of the Cherub set up to be Worshiped in the WILDERNES whereby the TABLES were broken that were wrote therein by the FINGER of God that his Hand might more eminently appear through that which was engraven the second time for the Angel that was exalted on this Beast came off from his Tower and there appeared another Angel that came off from his Tower on the East Corner of the Wall Southward that was exalted on a little Lyon that roared towards the North and the Woman that had on her Head a Crown of twelve Stars cast it down at the Foot of the Angel that rode on the Beast in the form of a CALF and I beheld until it was put on the Head of the Lyon XXXIX And the Woman was exalted QUEEN of the South but the Virgin Daughter of the NORTH stood afflicted in her Seed sixty one weeks and three dayes while the Daughter of the SOUTH made her self great towards the four Winds And for sixty eight weeks and four dayes I beheld the four Winds striving in the behalf of the Daughters of the North and the form of the Temple that God had builded and finished in the HEAVENS descended in a Cloud into the City that I saw erected under the Power of Destruction and in seven dayes was its Foundation setled therein in which time I beheld the form of the Wolf who was got before the Lyons Face enlarging himself in the power of the Lambs suffering whose Angel prevailed therein until I beheld the form of the Beast driven into the Wilderness in which time I saw the linnen EPHOD Worshiped XL. And an eighth Angel came off from his Tower sailing towards the Land of Rest to a Haven of Ships and there was also a ninth Angel who had in his right Hand a Cup filled with goodly dainties with which those that travelled over the Deeps were refreshed after which appeared a tenth Angel exalted on a ROE-BUCK who came leaping and skiping over the Mountains with glad Tydings to them that dwelt in the Valleys for he proved a good Hind and came home betimes giving goodly words And I beheld until there stood only TWO Angels exalted on their middle Towers North and South and I looked towards the Fields of the Earth which were white unto Harvest and ripe for the gathering XLI And the Angel led me into a Garden inclosed which was the Garden of my Beloved and I beheld how the Spiknard budded and grew up and how the Vines put forth their tenders Branches and the Pomegranet and all Spices flourished as the North Wind came thereon after the South Wind had blowed and the Daughter of the South had wandred from the Garden after the
Head which was healed up again by the coming forth of the Ram from the EAST who pushed three wayes after I had beheld five Horns fallen from a fourth Head that stood in the midst of five and unto this Beast did the Dragon give up his Power and also the first Beast and the WHORE which were the three Ribs in the Mouth of the Bear in the NORTH and they became three unclean Spirits like Frogs that entred this second Beast who caused the Image of the Beast to be again revived and to be worshiped that all men might receive his Mark else were they not to buy and sell with the Nations of the Earth who received his Mark and Names and Number on their right Hand or forehead and they were angry with those that could not bow down with them LIX And this was the Spirit of Devils working Miracles in the Name of God and thereby they caused the Generations of the World to fear and dread for the Nations of the Earth repented them not of their great evil and wickedness and sorceries and thefts and murders and worshiping of Devils and bowing down unto Graven Images and of all Idolatry and Uncleanness notwithstanding those afflictions that were come into the Worlds But a second Thunder also thundred from the Throne of God and the Lamb which came into the Temple of God wherein God had placed a Government over Nature in those four forms of the Beast and all Foundations in HEAVEN and EARTH were shaken for the preparing and raising up a Ground for that immoveable Rock and Foundation of many Generations LX. And a third Thunder also thundered from the great River Euphrates out of which those four destroying Angels of God were loosed by which those afflictions came on a third part of those Men who had not on them the Seal and Mark of God and the Lamb in whom a ground was awakened and raised up which made sensible of that which was come into those parts of the Worlds And a fourth Thunder thundered also from the Wilderness in which the Woman had remained travelling in sorrow for the forty two Months wherein the Holy CITY was given into the Gentiles hands to be troden under foot wherein the great DRAGON stood before her ready to devour that for which she was in Travel which was a Man-Child who was to Rule the Nations of the Earth in a Rod of Iron whom he sought to destroy CHAP. VI. Describing the Nature of the WORLDS in their raised and renewed state through a Restauration of the Heavens c. LXI AS I came to behold the daughter of the NORTH returning from the Wilderness in which was her travel and hard labour I saw TWINS of which she was delivered therein and the Children were nourished for the space of forty dayes by the WOLF who had fled thereinto wherein they became great And the Queen of the SOUTH who was come out of her own Land wherein she had been fruitful and was exalted in the Bulls Eye being delivered of a FEMALE Child her Seed was dispersed into the North and over the four Quarters in the World wherein the Waters had prevailed over the Earth LXII And as she came to settle her self in the pleasure and ease of the Flesh and to delight her self in the Worldly Spirit wherein she sought satisfaction she overlaid and slew the Fruit of her Womb in the Seed of Life through a drousiness and carelesness that came over her Spirit whereby she became dead while she lived and there appeared the form of two Children sporting themselves in the Field of the World for they vvere scattered from the House of NATURE vvhom the EAGLE beheld from his Nest and the one of them vvas caught by the Eagle who envied the Eye of the Child and by his Bill vvhich vvas renevved he pierced the sight of the BABE and made it blind but he vvas frighted avvay vvhile there vvas yet life in the Child LXIII And the Women met in the Wilderness vvherein the Queen of the South sought to compass a Man in the Seed of Life under the Povver of the North Wind because of the Brass Belly in vvhich the ETHIOPIAN vvas separated that had cured the Wound of those that had looked upon it the Remnant of vvhose SEED vvere multiplyed over the Quarters of the World that had escaped the sting of the Serpent in that WILDERNESS vvherein Generations had perished and the Face of God vvas tovvards his Israel to gather and deliver them from the Hand of the ASSYRIAN the second time LXIV For as those Women were sound striving about the living Child who had escaped the fury of the EAGLE though it grew blind under the same there arose the wisdom of a King in Israel to decide the matter through sound JUDGMENT that divided things aright for the distinguishing of the true Mother whose Bowels yearned in tenderness over the Birth in the time it stood under the censure of Separation wherein the HARLOT manifested her cruelty And the venom rested in the Eye of the Eagle like unto the poyson of Asps though therein he grew sharp and quick-sighted while his Wings overspread the Body of Nature in the Heavens from whence I beheld him exalted in the Air with two Heads in which the Seed of the North prevailed though the Daughter of the South enlarged the dominion of what proceeded from the Female Child and she was established Queen in that strange Land LXV And I beheld how the Image that had fallen in the Earth grew secretly invisible under the power of Corruption which increased its strength in the changeable wayes and courses of the WORLD wherein the Head of the RAM stood exalted in the fiery triplicity of the Aerial Heavens compassed about under the Waters that suffered the Power of Corruption over which the Heavens were moved while from the Neck downward the Body of the Earth strove to reign in dominion over its Head and in the Heart of the Earth was inkindled a flame from the Fiery Heavens as it stood moved about in the midst of the Body of Nature which had the lower parts of the BEAST downward but the Legs of a Man which stood at a distance in the form of the Letter A as from the Shoulders upward there did reach toward the Heavens the form of the Arms of a Man and both Arms and Legs were partly Iron and partly Clay LXVI And among the forms of all buildings which I had seen erected from the Heavens and standing in the Nature of the WORLD I beheld until the Temple that in its first appearance was very glorious was defiled with the Nature and Spirit of the WORLD and it became the seat of the Beasts which inlarged its power in that which overspread the Foundation of the Earth wherein the great City that I had seen had begun to rest and settle its first glory in which the Worlds were planted and the weight thereof was the structure of the Temples
from the power of all Motion in the WHEELS which came on the ground of all Principles formed in Terrestrial Bodies and beings wherein all powers of Nature were shaken and moved about in the Wheels which carried every thing about swiftly to its appointed place And there was a great Earthquake through which the foundation of the City was shaken and a tenth part of the City fell wherein were slain the names of seven thousand Men that those who escaped might give glory to God on high LXXVII And on the seventh Mountain which had on it the name of the seventh month called ATNIM was manifest the Angel of strength over new Wines that were in the Cluster And I beheld until the EAGLE had given up his power which were the seven last Plagues to come on the Earth and the power which that fourth Beast gave up rested in the Angel of strength wherein there came forth TWO WITNESSES of God which are the two Olive Branches and two Candlesticks who prophesied before the Kings of the Earth cloathed in Sackcloath for the space of one thousand two hundred and threescore dayes and their power was to open and shut Heaven until the dayes of their Prophecy were finished LXXVIII Whereby the way of God was prepared into the HOLIEST of all and the Witnesses were cloathed in White signifying that God was come into his TEMPLE and all sorrow was fled away yea the times of mourning were come to an end and all Tears were wiped away from their Eyes neither was sighing to be heard in that land but there was a separation made between the Courts thereof where was both inward and outward glory according to its course wherein the Witnesses had prophesied for the time that it was given into the Gentiles Hands to tread under foot accomplished in those forty two months LXXIX And as the Towers were shaken in which the dayes of the week were multiplyed into number and order there was manifest the substance of time wherein was the Week in which the Witnesses thus fulfilled and gave up their Testimony to the Father and in the midst of the Week they came to seal their finished Testimony and ascended to Heaven in the sight of their Enemies and great fear came on all flesh but from those Mountains in which a third part of the Earth was separated in the tryal by fire there sprung Flowers of Virginity from the bowels of TERAH in that created form in which the WORLDS were planted whence the frame of the WORLDS were overspread in those seven Nations that were multiplyed from the Heavens in that vvhich escaped the rage and fury of the WATERS as they came to prevail over the Earth until a barren Wildernesse was become again a fruitful Field unto God and a fruitful Field suffered barrenness in such that savv not the danger in their vvay vvherein they vvere overtaken LXXX For vvhere I had seen the Angel of God vvith a Golden CUP in his hand filled vvith goodly dainties he suffered the WOMAN that vvas gloriously decked on the Scarlet-coloured Beast in Nature to take from him the CUP vvhich she took into her Hand and filled vvith Fornications all abominations of filthiness with vvhich she made her self drunk and there vvas mixed with her Sorcerers the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of God vvho vvere slain for the Word of God and Testimony that they held and the Angel of God said Come up hither I will shew thee the judgement of this great Whore who sitteth on many Waters with whom the Kings of the Earth have committed Fornication and with the Wine of her silthiness have made themselves drunken from the Golden Cup which she reacheth to their Head LXXXI And there came a Voice from the HEAVENS unto the Mountains on which the Whore sat exalted Arise and stand on your feet and they appeared like unto a MAN standing on the great River EUPHRATES and from thence moving about the form and frame of the Heavens in the Worlds and the seven Angels of God came out of the Temple and took the seven last Plagues which were the seven Vials filled with the wrath of God c. and they poured them forth on the whole frame of the Worlds and there was a great noise in the Heavens which became divided into three parts and she came into the remembrance of God and the Whore that was exalted in the midst of her was discovered and her skirts seen LXXXII And there was joy and rejoycing in the Heavens and thence proceeded Thunders and Lightnings and Earthquakes and great Hail the weight whereof slew those on whom it rested and such an Earthquake was not since the World began to the moving and removing of all Foundations And the appearance of the Angels that came out of the Temple was sparkling like the fiery Heavens and they were cloathed as with fire and their Rayment shined like unto fine Gold and on their Heads were Crowns and their Paps were girded as with golden Girdles LXXXIII But the seventh Thunder sounded through the AIR the efect of which descended on that great CITY in which Babylon was erected wherein the seven Angels of God that had sounded the seven Golden TRUMPETS and who had power over the Worlds came forth from the holy Place cloathed with Heavenly Glory for an Angel of the Sun who was manifest in the fiery TRIPLICITY of the Heavens together with all the glories of the Father until the Clouds of HEAVEN became dispersed in that which was manifest in three Principles of the WORLD wherein the glory of the Womans return from her travel through the WILDERNES was revaled among the WONDERS of Heaven to be the Coelestial beauty of a third Principle in which she was cloathed with the Sun and had the Moon under her Feet and on her Head was the Crown of Twelve Stars that are moved about in the ZODIACK of the Heavens of an Inward World LXXXIV For TWO WOES are past in the diveing of the Worlds in their six Principles into two third parts wherein five are comprehended in one third part of that which is past and they are fallen for the revealing of the SAMARITAN in that which is come forth against ASIRIA the second time in which the Woman continued joyned to one that had buried five yet was he not the HUSBAND to the five wise VIRGINS but he remained married unto her in that foolish state wherein the Law had dominion over the MAN as long as he lived in whom the foolish Virgins are concerned to reveal a sixth that is past and seventh that is come for the bringing forth of whom the Creature suffereth death all the day long CHAP. VIII Describing the Power of God manifested in the execution of the seven last Plagues to come upon the Earth LXXXV THE BEAST himself who is the Eighth and who is the Son of Perdition is now revealed in her that shall bury SEVEN wherein the Harlot hath lurked unto whom the Man
hath remained joyned in one Spirit of the Beast while the Temple of God hath been defiled in such worship and bowing down to the Spirit of defilement and the glorying therein is become an incestuous BED that procureth torment because of the Resurrection in which none can remain joyned to that Spirit and possess the Glory in God's Temple who is come to destroy the defiler thereof LXXXVI For the three Angels of God that have power over that which came on the Worlds in their third part through the sounding of the seven Trumpets of God that awaken the execution of Justice from the Heavens are now manifest in the three remaining Principles that have a fourth part in their Quarter reserved to those fiery Tryals effected in that which manifesteth the end of all gloryings in the dominion of the fourth Beast in Nature LXXXVII Wherein the fiery Triplicity in the Heavens through which those Angels are revealed hath been covered as with a Cloud until the Son of Man came to be revealed riding on the White Clouds of the Heavens and cloathed with incomparable Beauty before whom three Angels have been found flying through the Heavens proclaiming the everlasting Gospel of Peace and glad tydings and the destruction of Babylon in her great CITIES which were come up before the remembrance of God warning the Inhabitants of the Earth to come forth from her and flee out of her glory lest partaking therewith they came to partake with her in those Plagues that were upon the Earth LXXXVIII These three are the Witnesses of God in Heaven filling the Heaven of Heavens with Glory in one power that comprehends all Principles in Nature which are swallowed up in its immensness Greater testimony of God hath none for since God hath a Witness on Earth how much greater is that in and from the Heavens wherein an Angel hath come forth out of the Temple in which the first Witness of God finished his Testimony and beholding the Fruits of the Earth that they are ready for gathering and that the Harvest is White he hath said unto the Angel that sitteth on the WHITE CLOUD Thrust in thy sharp Sicle because of the Harvest of the Earth which is ripe and the Earth hath been reaped until nought can be found but that which hath remained for a second Harvest and Tryal LXXXIX But he that hath lain slain in the streets of that great City in which the Inhabitants of the Earth have made merry over the crucified Life of the Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth is now come forth raised and exalted on that White Cloud from whence the Earth is reaped And a second Angel of God is come forth out of the Temple with his sharp Sicle in his Hand and an Angel of the Altar under which the Souls of the Righteous lie groaning saith unto that second Witness or Angel that is come forth out of the Temple Thrust in thy sharp Sicle also and reap the fruits of the Vine the Clusters of the Vine Grapes and spare not the Olive Yards XC This is he that daily ministreth before the Lord and attendeth the Altar of God with the Prayers of Saints which are daily offered up with sweet Incense put into his Golden Censer and his power is over fire by which all untimely Fruits are scorched and consumed in their third part by the bright rayes of the breaking forth of the Summer in the Sun of Righteousness which is arisen with healing in its Wings though in the passing away of the Winter and in the dispelling of Clouds of Darkness which were over and had covered the Face of the Earth the Summer is broke forth wherein many remaine unsaved from the wrath thereof to come upon the ungodly World XCI For in that which descended through the Clouds of the Air the first beauty and glory of the Temple in that which was built in the Heavens is discovered to be moveable though therein God was worshiped as in the Ark of his Testimony in the Covenant of Promise which was carried about from place to place while the Temple remained under a Cloud in which are the more lively things themselves then that in which the forms of Nature were gathered as patterns of what remained under a Cloud until the time of the restitution of all in the Heavens was come wherein hath wrought the Power and Spirit of Preparation in the Spirit of Creatures to the perfecting the Work of God and bringing into the unity of the Spirits of just Men made perfect in God until all becometh compleat in him that holdeth the HEAD unto which the Body is knit in several Joynts and Members XCII Yet in this time of ISRAELS sojourning through the Wilderness the Power of God hath been manifest to those strangers in the Earth in that strange Countrey through which they have their passage and therein have pitched their moveable TENTS though Beauty and Glory hath shined through such Vessels in the time of their preparation from transgression that came under the Judgment of the great Day of God in the ground wherein God first chose a People to himself and to be called by his Name until the Glory of the Earth is become laid wast the third and last WO is come into the World discovered in the pouring forth of those seven Vials to the utter consumption of the Spirit and Power of Darkness ruling and reigning in the God of the World wherein Death and Hell are conquered in their full strength the Enemy of all Souls vanquished and overcome in that which is come to destroy the ground of Destruction by utter dissolution XCIII And the sence of these things was manifest in the World in that which came on the Earth and great SEAS and all Rivers and Fountains of WATER and all that lived therein or moved thereon and on Sun and Moon and Stars and the seat of the Beast and great River EUPHRATES and on the Air wherein the Fruits of the Earth withered and were destroyed and the Waters became like unto the Blood of the dead and on Men fell a noysom Plague-sore and Headly Wound because of the infection of the Air wherein was Hail â—ike unto Fire mingled with Blood each being of great weight and at the appearance of God there was wrought up through the EARTH a burning Mountain under which fell the Powers of Nature in Earthly Forms XCIV And all the WATERS were dryed up in the great River Euphrates wherein the way of the Kings of the EAST was prepared who gathered themselves together into a place called GOLGOTHA in the Hebrew Tongue which is a place of dry Bones and dead Mens Sculs on whom the Spirit of God had breathed and they did live in his sight and stand on their Feet like Men and it was the Valley of Megiddon and of Hadadrimmon even the Valley of Jehoshaphat or the Valley of Slaughter where RACHEL sat weeping for her Children because they weâ—â— not and she would
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