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A28523	The fifth book of the authour, in three parts the first, Of the becoming man or incarnation of Jesus Christ, the Sonne of God, that is, concerning the Virgin Mary ... and how the Eternal word is become man : the second part is of Christ's suffering, dying, death, and resurrection ... : the third part is of The tree of Christian faith ... / written through the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, by Jacob Behme, the Teutonick philosopher ...; Von der Menschwerdung Jesu Christi. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1659 (1659)	Wing B3405; ESTC R21119	198,807	274

therefore as he was a Murtheter and lyer at the beginning so he is still and infecteth or poysoneth Men. 62. Being he knoweth that they are fallen to the outward Dominion of the Starres into his Magick Longing therefore he is a Continual poysoner of the Complexion and where he smelleth but a Crum that serveth his turn that he alwaies setteth before Man and if a Man Imagineth into it he will suddenly infect him 63. Therefore it is said Watch pray be sober lead a Temperare life for the Devil your Adversary goeth about as a roaring Lyon and seeketh whom he may devour 64. Seek not so after Convetousness riches Money Goods Might and honour for we are in Christ not of this world 65. For therefore Christ went to the Father viz into the Divine substance that we should with our hearts Minds thoughts and wills follow after him and so he will be with us all the dayes to the End of the World but not in the source or quality of this World 66. We should press forth out of the source or quality of this world our from the Earthly Man and give up our wills into his will and Introduce our Imagination and Longing in to him and so we in his virginity which he hath stirred up again in us become impregnated and Conceive the Word which maketh it selfe stirring in him in our virginity shut up in Death and become born in Christ in our selves 67. For as death through Adam pressed upon us all so the word of Life out of or from Christ presseth upon us all 68. For the Moving of the Deity in the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ hath continued moveable and standeth open to all M●n the failing is onely in the Entering in that Man suffereth the Devil to detein him 69. Christ need not first depart from his Place and Enter into us when we become new born in Him for the divine Substance wherein he became born or generated hath in all places and Cornors the second Principle in it and where a Man may say there is God Present there a Man may say The Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ is present also for it became opened in Mary and so qualifieth or operateth backward again even into Adam and forward even into the Lift man 70. Now saith Reason Faith alone attaineth it very right In the right Faith the Impregnation proceedeth 71. For Faith is Spirit and desireth Substance and that substance is nevertheless in all Men and that which is wanting is that it apprehend the Spirit of Faith 72. And if it be come apprehended then the fair Lilly blossometh out of it not onely a Spirit but the Virgin-like Image becometh generated or born out of Death into Life 73. The Rod of Aaron which is dry sprouteth forth out of the dry death and taketh its body out of Death the fair New virgin-like life out of the halfe dead virginity 74. And this the dry Rod of Aaron signified as also Old Zachary also Abraham with his old Sarah who according to the outward world were all as it were dead and no more fruitful 75. But the Promise in the New Regeneration must do it the Life must sprout out of Death 76. The Old Adam which became Earthly must not be Lord Nor Esau the first born to whom formerly the Inheritance had belonged if Adam had continued standing But the second Adam Christ who sprouted forth through death out of the first must remain Lord. 77. Not the Man or the Woman shall possess the Kingdom of God but the Virgin which becometh generated or born out of the Mans and Womans Death must be Queen of Heaven 78. One onely Generation or sex not two one onely Tree not Many Christ was the stock being he was the root of the New Body which sprouteth out of Death which brought forth the dead virgin again as a fair branch out of Death 79. And we all are his sprouts and stand all upon one stock which is Christ 80. Thus we are Christs Sprouts his branches his children and God is the Father of as all and also of Christ In him we live and Move and are 81. We bear Christs Flesh and bloud in us if we do but come to the New Birth for we become regenerated in Christs Spirit 82. That in Mary became a living Man in the dead humanity without the touching of a Man and that also becometh a Man in our selves in our dead virginity 83. And henceforward that which is wanting is this that we cast the Old Adam viz the Husk into Death that the Earthly lifes quality or source may depart from us and so we go forth from the Devil out of his Country 84. And not alone this for the Old Adam must not be so totally cast away but the Huske onely viz the Shell wherein the Seed or Kernel lyeth 85. Out of the Old Essence must the New Man in Gods blessing sprout forth as the blade out of the Grain or Corn as Christ teacheth us 86. Therefore must the Essence be injected into Gods Anger must be persecuted afflicted plagued scorned and lye under the Cross for the New Man must sprout forth out of God anger fire he must be Tryed in the Fire 87. We were fallen home to the Anger 's Essence but the Love of God set it selfe in the Anger and quenched the Anger with the Love in the blood of the Heavenly substantiality in the Death of Christ 88. Thus the Anger reteined the Husk viz the perished corrupt Man understand the Earthly source or quality and the Love reteined the New Man 89. Therefore can no Man besides shed heavenly Bloud the Earthly Mortal Bloud onely for Christ who was conceived without Man and Woman he onely could do it for in his heavenly substantiality there was no Earthly Blood 90. But yet he did shed his heavenly bloud under or among the Earthly that he might deliver us poor Earthly Men from the fierce wrath 91. For his heavenly bloud must in its bloud shedding mix it selfe together with the Earthly that the Turba in the Earthliness in us which held us captive might be drowned and that the Anger might be quenched with the love of the Heavenly bloud 92. He gave his life for us into Death he went for us into Hell into the source or quality of the Fathers Fire and out of Hell again into God that he might break or destroy Death and drown the Anger and make way for us 93. Therefore now the whole matter depends on this that we follow afte● him he hath indeed broken and destroyed death and quenched the Anger yet if we will be conformable to his Image then we must follow him into his Death take his Cross upon us suffer persecution be scorned despised and slain 24. For the Old Husk belongeth to the Anger of God it must be purged 95. For it is not the Old Man that must live in us but the

be manifest to ●imselfe but his wisdome is from Eternity become his Ground or Byss 26. After which therefore the Eternal willing of the Abyss of the Deity hath pleased to Long from whence the divine Imagination hath existed so that the Abyssal will of the Deity hath thus from Eternity in the Imagination with the power of the Avision or Aspect or form of the Looking-Glass of Wonders impregnated it self 27. Now in this Impregnation of the Eternal Original are two Principles to be understood viz First the Eternal Darkness out of which the Eternal world Originateth it selfe and the Substantiality of the fierce wrath in the Darkness wherein we understand Gods anger and the Abyss of Nature and thus we know and acknowledge the fiery world to be the Great Life 28. And then also Secondly we understand First how out of the Fire the Light becometh generated And Secondly how between the fiery and light World Death is 29. Thirdly How the Light shineth out of Death and Fourthly How the Light-flaming World is another principle source or quality in it selfe then the fire-world and yet neither is seperated from the other neither can the one comprehend the other 30. Fi●thly we understand How the Light-world filleth the Eternal Liberty viz the first willing which is called Father 31. Sixthly Thus we understand also herein Earnestly and fundamentally how that Natural life which will dwell in the Light flaming world must go through death and must become generated or born forth out of Death 32. Seventhly Yet we understand or mean that Life which originally ariseth out of the Darkness viz out of the Essence of the dark substantiality as viz the soul of Man which had out of the fire-world turned it selfe into the Dark substantiality in Adam Eighthly Therefore then we fundamentally and Exactly understand wherefore God viz the Heart of God is become Man 33. And Ninthly wherefore he must of necessity dye and enter into Death and break his Life in Death and afterward bring it through the fiery world into the Light-flaming World And Tenthly wherefore we must thus follow him 34. And Eleventhly we understand further wherefore many souls remain and Continue in the fire-world and cannot go through Death into the light-world Twelfthly what Death is Thirteenthly also what the Soul is This is now as followeth 35. When we consider what the life is we find that it specially consisteth in Three parts viz first in the Desiring Secondly in the Mind Thirdly in the senses or thoughts 36. Now if we search further what that is which giveth or affordeth that then we find the Center viz the Essential Wheel which hath the Fire-Smith in it selfe 37. And then if we consider further whence that Essential Fire existeth we find that it taketh its original in the Desiring of the Eternal abyssal willing which with the desiring maketh to it selfe a Ground 38. For every desiring is attractive or harsh and astringent of that which the will desireth and yet there is nothing for it that it may desire but onely it selfe that is the Great Wonder-Eye Wunder-AVge without limit and ground wherein all lyeth 39. And yet also is a Nothing unless it become in the desiring will made a somewhat which is done by Imagination wherein it becometh a substance whereas yet it is a Nothing for it is onely an overshadowing of the Free-willing 40. Which Substance over-shadoweth the Liberty viz the Thinne unsearchable willing so that two worlds come to be first One which in it selfe is incomprehensible and unconceivable an abyss and Eternal Liberty and Secondly one which comprehendeth and maketh it selfe a Darkness 41. And yet neither is sundred from the other onely this is the difference or distinction that the Darkness cannot comprehend the Liberty for it is too Thinne and dwelleth also in it self as also the Darkness dwelleth in it self The very Earnest Gate 42. Here now we understand First how the Fathers Second Will which in the Looking-Glass of wisdome he sharpeneth to his hearts Center becometh impregnated with the substantiality in the Father Imagination 43. And Secondly that the same impregnation in respect of the liberty of the first will which is called Father is a Darkness and Thirdly How in the Darkness or substantiality all powers Colours and Virtues lie in the Imagination moreover all Wonders 44. And Fourthly we understand How the powers wonders and virtues must be manifested through the Fire viz in the Principle wherein all passeth into its Essence for in the principle the Essence originally ariseth 45. And fifthly we understand very Earnestly and exactly that in the Principle ere the fire ariseth there is a dying viz the great anguish life 46. Which yet is no dying but a harsh astringent stern dying source or quality out of which the great and strong Life ariseth viz the fire-life And sixthly then out of the deadned the sight-Life with the power of the Love 47. Which Light-life with the Love dwelleth in the Eternal Liberty viz in the first willing which is called Father for that the Father in his own willing which is himselfe desireth and nothing more 48. That now understand thus ye see and know that there is no Light without Fire and there is no Fire without the Earnest source or quality which source or quality is like a Dying and the Sabstantiality out of which the Fire burneth must thus also dye and be consumed 49. Out of the Consuming consisteth two Principles of two great Lives One in the source or quality which is called Fire and one out of the vanquishedness viz out of the Death which is called Light which is Immaterial and without source or Quality and yet hath all sources or qualities in it but not the source of the fierce wrath 50. For the fierce wrath is remained in Death and the Light-life groweth out of the Dying as a fair blossome out of the Earth and is no more apprehended by the Dying 51. As then ye see how the Light dwelleth in the Fire and the fire cannot move it and besides that there is also nothing that can move the Light for it is like the Eternall Liberty and dwelleth in the Liberty 52. Here ye understand how the Sonne is another Person then the Father for he is the Light-world and yet dwelleth in the Father and the Father generateth him in his willing and he is rightly the Fathers Love also wonder Council and Power 53. For the Father generateth him in his Imagination in himselfe and bringeth him through his own fire viz through the Principle forth through Death so that the Sonne maketh and is another World viz another Principle in the Father then the fire-world in the darkness is 54. Thus you understand also How the Fathers Eternal Spirit divided it selfe into Three Worlds The First is the Exit out of the Imagination of the first willing of the Abyss Which is called Father in which with the outgoing it openeth the wisdome

thou art and remainest to be one Spirit with and in the will of God in his Love 127. Let the Evil Adam be gone there will a good and new one Sprout forth out of the Old as a fair Blossome springeth out of the stincking Dung onley have a care thou retainest the Spirit in God 128. Concerning the Evil Body which sticketh full of Evill Affections there is not much to be done if it be inclined to Evill do it the less good give it no occasion to wantonness 129. To keep it in subjection is a good Remedy to be full and frolick is at length to make the Ass perfectly to wallow in the Mirc where it defileth it selfe sufficiently like a Swine 130. To be sober and to lead a Temperate life is a Good purgation for the Evil Ass not to give it that it lusteth after to let it fast often so that it may not hinder Prayer that is good for it it is not willing but the understanding must be Lord for it beareth Gods Image 131. This Latine doth not relish well to the Rational World in the Lust of the Flesh but seeing that relisheth it not but drawes into the place thereof meer vain Earthly Voluptuousness and pleasure and swalloweth them into it selfe therefore is the Anger stirring in them that draweth them continually with Adam out of Paradise and with Lucifer into the Abyss and there thou wilt swallow and devour to the full what thou hast here willingly drawn into thy selfe 132. But thou shouldest not lay the blame on God if thou dost thou art a Lyar and an Enemy of the Truth God willeth no Evil also there is no Evil Thought in him he hath only one Source or Quality and that is Love and Joy 133. But his fierce wrath viz Nature hath many Sources or Qualities therefore let every one have a care what he doth every Man is his own God and his own Devil that source or quality which he inclineth himselfe or yeeldeth himselfe up into that leadeth and driveth him and he is the Work-master thereof 134. It is a great Misety that Man is so blind that he can not know what God is for all that he liveth in God 135. And yet there are Men that forbid such a thing that Man should not search what God is and yet will be Teachers of and for God verily such are even Teachers of and for the Devil that he may not be known The Sixt Chapter Of Adams Sleep How God made a Woman out of him and how he became quite Earthly also how God by the Curse hath withdrawn Paradise from him 1. WHen Man became weary and tired he fell into a sleep viz into the Magia it was with him as if he were not in this world for all his Senses or Thoughts ceased the wheel of the Essences passed into a Rest 2. He was as it were Essential Not Substantial he was altogether like the Magia for he knew nothing of his Body he lay as dead but was not Dead but the Spirit stood still 3. And then the Essences have their Effect and the Spirit of the soul onely seeth or discerneth and there is pourtrayed in the sydereal Spirit all whatsoever the starry heaven bringeth forth 4. And stood Magically in the Mind as a Looking-Glass on which the Spirit of this world Gazeth and conveigheth whatsoever it seeth in the Looking-Glass into the Essences and the Essences flow forth therein as if they did perform the work in the Spirit and pourtray it in the Spirit which are Dreames and Representations or Figures 5. Thus we are to know that when the Earthliness wrestled with Adam and that he Imagined thereinto he became instantly infected thereby and in his Minde became dark and stern 6. For the Earthliness began to qualifie or operate like water that beginneth to seeth by the fire the source or quality of the Starres became stirring and were now Lord of the Body 7. And now Moses saith very right God suffered a Deep sleep to fall upon him that is being his Will-spirit Imagined after Earthliness God let him fall down for he brought with the Imagination earthliness into the heavenly Substantiality and that the Spirit of God which is a Spirit of Light would not have 8. For Adams Spirit was a Creature and proceeded forth out of Gods Love-spirit therefore indeed it did not willingly leave him but the Earthliness had already captivated him 9. And when that left him then he sank down in impotency and fell home to the Third Principle viz to the Starres and the Four Elements thus he lay in the Earthly Magia and was not yet wholly Earthly 10. He lay in the Mystery between the Kingdom of God and of this world where both the Fiat's viz the divine and the Earthly were stirring in him and now the Two Kingdoms viz of God and of Hell were first in strife about Man 11. And so now if the dear Name JESUS had not been incorporated in Adam even before his Creation as in the substantiality of God wherein the Virgin of Wisdome stood wherein Adam was created he would indeed have slept still and have beene in the Earthly Death 12. And this is the cause why the Second Adam Christ must rest till the Third Day in the Earth in the first sleep of Adam and awaken or raise up the first Adam again out of the Earthliness 13. For Christ had also a soul and spirit out of Adam and the precious Dear word of the Deity together with Gods Spirit awakened and raised up again in Christs flesh the dead substantiality of the Sulphur viz the Body which in Adam was dead and put it again into the power of the Majesty of God and therewith US all 14. All those which with their Faith and Imagination in Christs flesh and blood in his Death and Rest go into the Earth they sprout all with their Spirit and will forth in the divine substantiality and are a fair Blossome in the Majesty of God 15. And God the Eternal word and power will at the last day awaken and raise up in himselfe with his spirit the dead Body which with Adam is fallen home to the Earth 16. For Christs soul and Flesh which is also our Soul and Flesh understand it right that part which Adam received out of the divine substantiality hath God through and in the Death of Christ separated from the Earthly source or quality and hath awakened and raised it up and introduced it into the divine substantiality again as it was before the Time of the World and Us in and with him 17. And we are onely wanting in our giving up our selves into it in that we suffer the Devil to with-hold us for our death is broken our sleep is become a Life and that in Christ and through Christ in God and through God in the Eternity with our Byss or Ground in the Abyss viz in the Majesty without or beyond the fiery

destroyed The Eleventh Chapter Of the Benefit and what Profit the Becoming Man or Incarnation and Geniture or Birth of Jesus Christ the Sonne of God is to us poor Children of Eve The Most rich lovely Gate of all 1. WE poor Children of Eve were all Dead in Adam and though we did as it were Live yet we lived onely to this World and Death waited for us and continually devoured One after another and there were no remedy for us if God had not Generated us again out of his Substance 2. We should not in Eternity as to the Body have returned again but our Soul would have Eternally continued in Gods Anger source or quality with all Devils 3. But the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Jesus Christ is become a powerful Substance or Matter to us for for our sakes is God become Man that he might bring our humanity out of Death into himself again and redeem or release our Soule out of the fire of Gods Anger 4. For the Soul in it selfe is a Fire-source or quality and containeth in it selfe the First Principle the harsh astringency which in it self laboureth onely to the Fire 5. But if the Love and Meekness of God become withdrawn from this Souls Birth or Geniture or become infected with a total stern Matter then it continueth a source or quality in the Darkness a totall stern roughness devouring it selfe and yet also in the hunger of the will alwaies thus generating it self again 9. For a thing that hath no beginning nor Ground that hath also no End but it selfe is its Ground it generateth it Selfe 7. And yet we will not say that the Soul hath no Beginning it hath a Beginning but onely according to the Creature not according to the Essence its Essence is from Eternity 8. For the divine Fiat hath comprised it in the Center of the Eternal Nature and brought it into a substantial Substance moreover with the whole Cross with the Character of the Holy Trinity as a Similitude of the Threefold Spirit of the Deity wherein God dwelleth now whether it be done in Love or Anger that is in Light or Fire for in which of them soever it Imagineth of that it becometh impregnated for it is a Magick Spirit a source or quality in it selfe 9. Thus it is the Center of the Eternity a fire of the Deity in the Father yet not in the Fathers Liberty but in the Eternall Nature 10. It is not come before the Substance but in the Substance 11. But Gods Liberty is without or beyond the Substance but dwelleth in the Substance for in the substance God becometh Manifest 12. And there would be No God without the Substance but an Eternal stilness without source or quality 13. But in the source or quality the Fire becometh generated and out of the Fire the Light where then two Substances fever themselves and drive on a Twofold source or quality viz a fierce wrathful hungry thirsty one in the Fire and a Meek lovely yeelding giving oue in the Light 14. For the Light giveth and the Fire taketh away the Light giueth Meekness and out of the Meekness Substantiality that is the Fires food or else it were a dark fierce wrathfull hunger in it self 15. As indeed a Spirit is if it have not the substance of the Light like a loathsome poyson 16. But if it attaineth substance of Meekness then it attracteth that in it selfe and dwelleth therein and useth it for food and also for the Body for it affecteth or infecteth it selfe therewith and impregnateth it selfe for its substance is its satiating or fulfilling and thus the hunger becometh stilled 17. We are to conceive of the humane Soul thus it was taken out of the Center of Nature not out of the Looking Glass of the Eternal as viz out of the source or quality of this world but out of the Eternal Essence of the Spirit or out of the first Principle of the Fathers property as to or according to Nature 18. Not from Substance or from somewhat but the Spirit of the Deity breathed into it the Life understand the Image into Adams selfe out of all the Three Principles It hath breathed into him the Center of Nature as viz the fire source or quality to Life 19. Also the Meekness of the Love out of the substance of the Deity as the second Principle with divine heavenly Subantiality 20. As also the Spirit of this World as the Loaking-Glass or pretotype or prefiguration of Gods wisdom with the Wonders 21. But now the Spirit of this World is by the Devils kindling and poyson which he hath darted thereinto become perished for the Devil dwelleth in this world and is a continual infecter of the outward Nature and property though in the fierce wrath onely viz in the harsh astringent desire he is Mighty powerful 22. But he putteth his Imagination with his false Tincture also into the Love and poysoneth the Souls best Jewel and hath infected Adams soul with his Imagination with his Evil hunger-spirit so that Adams soul lusted after the Earthly source or quality from which Lust it became impregnated with the Earthly source or quality so that the Outward Kingdom became introduced into the Inward whence the Light of the first Principle Extinguished and his divine Substantiality wherein he should live Eternally became shut up in the Earthly Death 23. Thus for this Image and also Soule there was no remedy more unless then the Deity did move it self according to the second Principle viz according to the Light of Life in it and did kindle the substantiality which was shut up in Death again with the Love Glance which was done in the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ 24. And this is the Greatest Wonder that God hath wrought in that he hath moved himself with the Center of the Holy Trinity in the Womans Seed 25. For Gods Heart would not reveal or Manifest it selfe in the Fire as viz. in the Mans Tincture but in the Spirits Tincture viz in Venus in the Love of the Life that the Fire in the Mans Tincture might be apprehended with the Meekness and Love of God 26. For the Eternal Life should and must spring again out of the shut up Death For here hath the Root Jesse and the true Rod of Aaran budded and boarn fair fruit 27. For in Adam the Paradise was shut up in Death when he became Earthly but in Christ that springeth again out of Death 28. From Adam we have all inherited Death but from Christ we inherit the Eternal Life 29. Christ is that virgin-like Image which Adam should have Generated out of himselfe with both the Tinctures 30. But being he could not therefore he was divided and so it must be done through Two Bodies till Shiloh came that is the Sonne of the Virgin which became generated out of God and Man 31. He is the Breaker through of which the Prophets spake saying He shooteth up

to Expect 49. But they that have been Snorers Grunters sluggish Lazy and Evil murmuring whining pettish Labourers in Impatience such a one hath done small service and ought well to expect moreover to have punishment from his Lord for he hath but misled other Labourers and hath been an unprofitable Labourer and hath performed meer vain false and Evil work to cheat his Lord of his wages he justly receiveth punishment for his wages CITATIO TERTIA The Third Citation The Gate in the Center of Nature 50. Question Reason saith Why doth God let it go so that here is nothing but vain toylsome weariness as also vexation and oppression one plaguing and afflicting another And though many have much and want nothing yet they have no quiet and rest they hunt onely after oppression and Unquietness and their heart is never quiet and still Answer 51. See thou Locked-up knowledge the Ground or foundation of the world is thus the Original of Life is also thus in this world it may or can not be otherwise 52. Except a Man become New born and then he is otherwise in the New-man and yet this oppression and driving cleaveth alwaies to him in the Old Man This is the strife of the Spirit against the Flesh where † the Flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh Question 53. Now saith Reason whence hath this its originall Answer 54. Answer Behold in the Center of Nature there is such a Thing Being or substance do but Mind it 55. The Eternal will which is called God that is Free for it hath in it nothing but the Light of the Majesty and dwelleth in the Eternal Nothing and therefore also Nothing can touch him 56. But his Desiring which maketh the Center of Nature that hath such a property for therein is the harsh astringency viz the first Property of Nature which alwaies attracteth to it self and receiveth where nothing is where it hath made Nothing and taketh it and twitcheth it up together 57. Yet it may not Eat it also it is not profitable to it Thus it maketh to it self anguish pain and unquietness therewith as also Covetousness in Man doth 58. The Second Form is its drawing or Sting that is its Servant or Child which there twitcheth together what the desire will that is the Labourer and signifieth the Inferiour Man who is Evil base Angry Raging and stingeth and throbbeth in the Harsh astringency 59. And that cannot the Astringent harshness endure from the servant but draweth it the more eagerly and so the servant becometh more Evil and Base more raging and stormeth the Lords house 60. Thereupon will the Lord bind and hold the servant and the servant teareth forth with Malice aloft again 61. And then seeing the Lord viz the harsh astringency cannot over-power it they struggle together in Great Anguish enmity and Opposition and begin to make a whirling-wheel to worry murther and put to death one the other 62. This is the Third Form of Nature whence ariseth Warres fighting strife destroying of Country and City envy and anxious vexatious Malice and wickedness whereas alwaies one would have the other Dead willeth to devour all and draw it into it selfe it willeth to have it alone and yet there is nothing profitable to it but hurtful 63. It doth as the fierce wrath of Nature doth that swalloweth it self up into it self and Consumeth and breaketh it self and yet it generateth it self also thus 64. Whence all Evil cometh the Devill together with all Evil things or substances cometh from hence thus they have their Original as Nature in the Center doth understand without the Light 65. Thus doth the Devil also who hath not the Light as also Evil Men and Beasts also hearbs and Grass and all whatsoever is odious or Enemicitious 66. For it is the poyson-wheel whence the Life ariseth Originally that whirleth it selfe thus in great anguish in stinging raging and breaking till it Createth another will in it selfe to go out of the Anguish and sincketh it self down into Death and giveth it self free therein into Liberty 67. So it destroyeth the stinging and breaking in death and falleth into the Liberty of the first willing which kindleth the Anguish of Death-with the still Liberty whence the Anguish is terrified Death breaketh and out of the Anguish goeth forth a Life of Joy 68. Thus it goeth also with Man when he is in the Anguish and Enmity that the sting of Death and of Anger rageth in him so that he is anxious Covetous Envious Angry and Enemicitious 69. Then he should not continue in this Evil Substance Condition or Doings else he is in the Forms of Death Anger fi●rce wrath and Hellish Fire and if the water-source or quality were not in him together with Flesh and Bloud then he would instanly be a kindled Devil and nothing else 70. But he should consider himself and Create another will in his Evil Anguish and go out from the Covetous Malice into the liberty of God where there is continually Rest enough 71. He should in Death sinck down into Patience and willingly give up himself into the Anxious wheel and Cr●●● a Thirst after Gods quickening which is the Liberty and so 〈◊〉 ●cketh down quite through the anxious Death and falleth into the Liberty 72. And so when its Anguish tasteth the Liberty that it is such a still meek source or Quality then the Anguish becometh terrified and in the Terrour breaketh the Enimicitious harsh Death for it is a Crack or Terrour of Great Joy and a Kindling of the Life of God 73. Thus the Pearl-Branch or sprout becometh Generated that now standeth in the trembling of Joy but in great danger for the Death and the Anguish source or quality is its Root 74. And is environed therewith as a fair green Slip or Branch groweth out of a stincking dunhil out of the strong source and attaineth another Essence smell substance and source or quality then its mother hath out of which it became generated 75. As then also the source or quality in Nature hath such a property so that out of the Evil viz out of the Anguish the Great Life becometh Generated 76. And as we further know that Nature in the Crack or Terrour divideth it selfe into two Kingdoms the First into the Kingdom of Joy The Second into a sincking of Death into a Darkness so also Man when the Lilly branch to the Kingdom of Joy thus becometh Generated then its Nature divideth it self into Two Wills 77. As First the one riseth up in the Lilly and groweth in Gods Kingdom Secondly the other sincketh down in the Dark Death and panteth or longeth after the Earth after its Mother which striveth alwaies against the Lilly and the Lilly flieth before or from the roughness 78. As a sprout groweth out of the Earth and the Essence fleeth before or from the Earth and is drawn up by the sun till it becometh a stalk or Tree so

put his willing-spirit into the outward Life viz into outward Principle into the false seeking or wicked longing Lust and Imagined according to or longed after the Earthly Life 86. And so he went out of Paradise which sprouteth forth through death into the Second Principle forth into the outward and wen● thus into Death and so must dye and thus his Image became de●stroyed 87. This we have inherited from Adam but from the second Adam●Christ the Regeneration 88. Where we must enter into Christs Becoming Man or Incarnation and with him into his Death and out of Death with him sprout forth into the Paradise-world into the Eternal substantiality of the Liberty of God The Sixth Chapter What Lust can do How we are fallen in Adam and helped again in Christ and how it is no Easie Matter to become a right true Christian 1. THus we understand that it lyeth in Lust that destruction or perdition is come out of the Lust and yet still Cometh from thence continually 2. For Lust is an Imagining where the Imagination windeth or insinuateth it self into all Forms of Nature so that they all become impregnated with the Thing out of which the Lust existeth 3. As then we understand that the outward spirit of Man which is a fimilitude of the Inward hath lusted after the fair Image and in that regard set its Imagination into the Inward whence the inward is become infected 4. And being it did not instantly feel the death therefore did it give the space and room to the outward in its willing-Spirit and so the outward is drawn into the Inward for a Lodging and is at length become the Host in the house and hath obscured or dimmed the inward so that the fair Image is disappeared 5. There the Image fell among the Murderers viz among the stern or severe Spirits of Nature and of the Life 's original these held the Image Captive and drew off from it the Paradise Garment and committed murther within it and left it lying half dead 6. And now the Samaritan Christ was needful and that is the Cause that God became Man 7. If the wound or hurt could have been healed by a word speaking or word forgiveness God would not have become Man 8. But God and Paradise were lost as also the Noble Image became destroyed and made desolate and must be New-Regenerated or born out of God again 9. And therefore came God with his word which is the Center in the Light-life * and became Flesh so that the Soul gat a divine Paradisical habitation again thus to be understood 10. That as Adams Soul had opened the Door of the Fires Essences and had let in the Earthly Essences whose source or quality had wound it self into the Paradise-Image and made the Image Earthly 11. So Gods Heart did set open the Doors of the Lights Essences and encompassed the soul with heavenly Flesh and so the Holy Fleshes Essences Imagined after the Image after the souls Essences 12. Thus now the soul became impregnated again so that it went with its willing-spirit through the Death into the Paradise-life 13. And thence came the Temptation of Christ that he became Tempted to try whether the Soul would Eat of the Word of the Lord whether it could enter through Death into Gods Life 14. Which in the End became fulfilled on the Stock or Tree of the Cross where Christs Soul went through the fire of the fierce wrath through the stern source through Death and sprouted forth again into the Holy Paradise-world in which Adam was Created 15. Thus are we Men become helped again and it is necessary for us that we draw away our willing Thoughts and Mind from all Earthly things and turn them into Christs Suffering Dying Death and Resurrection 16. So that we continually Crucifie the Old Adam with Christs Death and continually dye from Sinne in the Death and Dying of Christ and continually rise again with him out of the Anguish of Death into a New Man and sprout into the life of God else there is no Remedy 17. We must dye away to the Earthly willing in our willing and must continually become regenerated to the New world in Faith in the Flesh and Bloud of Christ we must be generated or Born out of Christs Flesh if we will see Gods Kingdom 18. It is not so sleight a thing to be a right true Christian it is the very hardest thing of all the willing must be a Champion and fight against the perished corrupt willing 19. It must sinck it selfe down out of the Earthly Reason into the Death of Christ into Gods anger and as a worthy Champion breake the power of the Earthly willing 20. And with so hardy and bold a courage that it will set and hazard the Earthly life upon it and not give over till it have broken the Earthly willing which indeed hath been a strong Battel with me where two Principles strive and fight one with the other for victory 21. It is no slight matter it must be earnest to fight for the victorious Crown and Garland for none get that unless he Overcome he must break the Might of the Earthly willing which yet of his own Might he can not do 22. But if he sincketh himself down out of the Earthly Reason into Christs Death with his inward willing then he sinketh down through Christs death through Gods fierce wrath and through all the holding Cords of the Devil into the Paradise-world into the Life of Christ 23. He must make his wil as it were dead and so he liveth to God and sincketh down into Gods Love though there he liveth in the outward Kingdom or Dominion 24. Yet I speak of the victorious Crown or Garland which he getteth in the Paradise-world if he once presseth in for there the Noble seed becometh ●●wn and he getteth the Highly precious pledge or Earnest of the Holy Spirit which afterwards leadeth and directeth him 25. And though he must in this world travail or wander in a dark Valley wherein the Devil and the worlds wickedness continually Rusheth and Roareth tumultuously upon him and often casteth the outward Man into abominations and so Covereth the Noble Grain of Mustard seed yet it will not suffer it self to be kept back 26. But thence sprouteth forth and a Tree Groweth out of it in Gods Kingdom against all the raving and Raging of the Devil and his followers and dependents 27. And the More the Noble Pearl-Tree is sought the more swiftly and strongly it groweth suffereth not it self to be suppressed though it costeth the outward life 28. Thus my Dear Minde search aright after the Tree of Christian Faith it standeth not in this world 29. Indeed it must be in thee but thou must with the Tree be with Christ in God so that the world doth but hang to thee even as it hung also to Christ 30. Not so to understand it as if this World were