his own Bosom before he condemneth others and passeth his judgement upon them 249. Is not Mary extracted or begotten of Joachim and Anna also Naturally conceived and borne as all the children of Adam then let him demonstrate it else his conceit will till then remaine untrue 250. But if he say if Mary were begotten of Joachim and Anna then were Christ begotten of sinfull seed as his high flowne Spirit runneth on and supposeth Then I say to him once for all that he is altogether blinde in the Divine Mystery and understandeth nothing thereof 251. He speakes indeed of the High Blessing of Mary but he draweth it to a strange Seede out of which Mary was begotten or extracted but he saith not with any ground what kinde of seede that was whether it was barely the Spirit of God or whether it was heavenly Substantiality or the Seede in the Word or was also somewhat of humane Essence 252. For the Humane Essence is to Him throughout sinfull he will not at all be born of Man but of God in like manner as if God in Christ had introduced a strange humanity and he throughout explaines it so He will only be born in Christ as the Dew of the Morning 253. But Sir Libeller hearken we will not be so evill as you are we will readily of Good Will shew you the true Ground in the Mysterie if you will not goe in that way then goe aside we have other Eyes then you have Have you Art then have we Light 254. You are not our Judge though you condemne me I am a childe of God in Christ and my seeing is proceeded from Gods seeing Therefore I will from a Good heart shew you my open Face though you are not able to apprehend how Christ is become conceived aad born of Humane Essence without sinne and you conclude throughout that I speak of Christ as if he were proceeded from sinfull seed though all indeed is very groundlesly Judged and your meaning standeth in Babell Therefore observe my Confession of Faith and acknowledgement as it followeth Exactly 255. God sayd to Adam when he stood in Paradise and lived in the Divine source or quality and substantiality What day thou eatest of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evill thou wilt dye the Death by Dying he meaneth not only the Outward Body which with the Beginning of Sinne first became Living 256. For the Outward Body fell not down instantly when Adam transgressed the Commandment and Dyed but he gat now the Great Life and became Lord before he was weak or impotent and the right Man potent or Mighty he formerly came behinde and waited on the Image of God and was a servant but when the Soul introduced Earthly source or quality then he was Lord and the Image was shut up in Death 257. The Spirit is the Life the Flesh is not the Life The heavenly Fleshes Life was Gods Spirit and the Earthly Fleshes Life was this Worlds Spirit 258. When the Earthly drew into the Heavenly and took the Dominion then the heavenly vanished or disappeared for the Spirit of the heavenly departed away out of the Earthlynesse into its Principle then stood the Image which was out of the Divine Substantiality in Death not in the fierce wrath of the Death of the Anger so that the heavenly Substantiality were become kindled in Gods Anger but as a vanished disappeared Substance without source or quality and Life 259. For that which is generated out of the Love that receiveth no fierce wrath into it self for the Lights Substantiality is water of Eternall Life the water maketh no fierce wrath but quencheth the Fires fierce wrath 260. If now the heavenly Image or Substantiality in Adam were taken out of the Heavenly Limbus then surely its Originall Mother was the Water of the Eternall Life which originateth from the Meeknesse or Desire of the Light of God as the Water in the Deepe of this world from the Meeknesse of the Sun 's Light Through Venus's Desire 261. What fierce wrath or Anger then would or could come into the heavenly Substantiality of the Holy Body in Adam Also that Substantiality was not at all the Life it self but the Spirit of God was the right Life in the holy Body 262. But when the Spirit of God departed then stood that Image as dead without Life and the Soul lived of the Earthly Fire-fewell though indeed it is not quite Earthly Essence yet that Earthly Essence is generated from the first Principle wherein also the Soul standeth 263. Therefore also the Soul lusted after that source or quality there was given to the Soul a heavenly Body of which it should Eate and Not of BOTH Body's It should set or put its Lust or longing and Imagination only into the Heavenly then would the Soul-Fire have had the Earthly Body in the Dark World only hanging to it 264. But when it would eate of Both then came the Dark Body to have power or strength and Light and ruled over the right humane Body Thus sinne began in the Soul-Fire for it became kindled with the fierce wrathfull Essence and so now the Soul Fire burnt in that very source or quality and the Divine Light of the Soul which shone in the meek heavenly Substantiality extinguished 265. For in the Beginning the right humane Essence of the Soul was the fewell to its Life's burning but afterwards the Earthly Essence was it and that is now the Sinne and the Opposite Will and the Soul hath no Image or Body which remaineth Eternally unlesse it be through Christ Regenerated out of its first Substantiality through the Death of Christ 266. Therefore it is that many kindes of Figures appeare in the Souls Image in the inward all according to what its desire is to a Substance as the Image of wilde Beasts also Serpents and Toads In whatsover Essence and Will the Souls-Fire liveth and burneth according to that Essence is also the FIAT in the Will-Spirit and it Imageth or frameth such an Image so now when the outward Body deceaseth then standeth that Image thus in such a forme and source or quality 267. In the Time of the Earthly Life it may alter its will and then also its Fiat altereth the Figure but after the Dying of the Body it hath nothing more wherein it can alter its Will as is to be seene by the Devills 268. Therefore sayd Christ To must become borne anew through Water and the Holy Spirit or ye cannot see the kingdome of God understand out of Gods Water out of the water of the first right Image wherein the Holy Spirit dwelleth in which christ is become conceived and born 269. That Water hath not taken sinne into its Essence for that cannot be for that which is out of or from Gods meeknesse becometh not kindled in the fierce wrath of God but is as an impotency or weaknesse shut up in Death viz in the stillnesse in the still nothing 270. Adam
Modest Eye of the wisdome of God and the Wisdome is the Holy Spirits Corporeity wherein he dwelleth It is his Eternall Looking-Glasse wherein he hath discovered or discerned the Great Wonders from Eternity 314. And the Holy Spirit is gone forth or proceeded from the Word viz out of the Center or Heart of God forth from the Father viz out of the Fire through the Light into the Majesty into the Essence of the Paradisicall and Angelicall World understand into that Essence or into the Pure Element viz into the Substantiality of the Heavenly Corporeity 315. This very Substantiality or Corporeity as is now mentioned was Christs heavenly Flesh and Bloud For the Noble Tincture maketh the Water out of the Majesty turne into Spirituall Bloud 316. That very Substantiality which was in the Covenant wherein the Promised Word of God stood is Entered into Maryes Substantiality viz into the in Death inclosed Substantiality and is become a Body and hath made that which was shut up living againe The divine and heavenly Paradisicall Substantiality in the Covenant and Maries Substantiality is become ONE thing the Life sprouted or grew in Death 317. Therefore is Christ become our Life and Spirit also our Flesh and Bloud and therefore he giveth us understand our Souls-Fire his heavenly Body and Bloud to eate and to drink Our Soul hath with the Divine Substantialities Entrance againe gotten heavenly flesh for its Fire-Life it burneth againe in the divine source or quality out of the Love-Substantiality 318. The Holy Tincture according to the divine Fires Property belongeth to the Soul and the Waters property viz the Lights Meeknesse belongeth to the Body the Body is alwayes under or beneath the Soul 319. For the Soul it out of the Eternall Nature-Fire it is the Principle between the Dark and Light World it hath the Center of the Fire-World in it self 320. And the Substantiality is out of the Center of the Light-world in the Divine desire it cometh to a Substance for it is the substance of the Desire the Desire is Spirit and that which is comprehended in the Desire is the Substance of the Desire 321. And what can the desire comprehend other then it self that is the Meeknesse of the Light that is a sinking downe of the Love and Meeknesse towards the Fire-Spirit that riseth up That the Fire-Spirit continually comprehendeth in its desire and consumeth it that is it bringeth it through the sharpnesse of the Father and there it goeth through death againe forth into the Liberty and maketh the source or quality of the divine World for the Spirit of God is understood therein 322. Not that there is a dying or Death therein but the Fire source or quality is accounted for a Death for the Roote of the Fire is the Dark World with its sterne formes to the Fire-Nature As in the Book of the Six Points of the Great Mysterie is expresly mentioned at Large 323. Now understand the sence aright Gods Substantiality hath been from Eternity it is unmeasurable and unsathomable it is every where all over wheresoever a Man can say here is God there is also the Divine Substantiality yet not in the Outward World in the Third Principle but in the Heavenly in the Second Principle 324. Therefore said Christ John 3. 13. None goeth to Heaven but the sonne of Man which is come from Heaven and which it in Heaven his divine Substantiality was in Heaven and yet it was come into the Humanity and the Humanity is without him dead in Adam 325. Now would any goe into Heaven they must then have his substance on them He is the Ladder that Jacob saw which with one End reached to Heaven and with the other End in the Humanity 326. A Man is to understand it thus that the Body of Christ understand the Corporeity of the divine Substantiality which hath revealed or manifested it self in the Corporized Substantiality of the Humanity in Mary is Greater then ALL. 327. The divine Substantiality is not totally gone into the Creaturely Image that cannot be for it is unmeasurable Only it hath revealed or manifested it self in the humane Substantiality in the Created Image in the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and kindled the humane and given its Life understand into Adam's Image which also was in Mary and in all Men. Question 328. Now it may be asked What kinde of Person was Mary being the Limit of Gods Covenant stood in her Or how did CHRIST get Body and Soul in Her and yet remained what he was from Eternity Answer 329. Many was First a Bodily Issue and Daughter of Eve the Mother of us all and of her right Mother Anna and of her right Father Joachim no immaculate pure virgin understand according to the outward World for the Anger of God stuck also in her and shee is redeemed or reconciled through the Bloud of Christ 330. And according to the Second Principle her Image stood also shut up in Death But the Limit or Mark stood in her understand in her Image but undiscernably and unperceivably in that way and manner as God is in all and the Thing knoweth nothing of him for God dwelleth not in the Thing he possesseth Nothing but only himself Thus was the Limit or Mark in Mary and Gods Promise in the Word of Life was in the Limit or Mark yet not dwelling in Mary but in it self 331. God had never according to his Heart moved himself from Eternity and when once he moved himself in Mary in the Limit or Mark then Mary became highly blessed and in the Blessing impregnate with the Saviour For the Life came into Death into the in Death inclosed Essence 332. Now yet the Seed of Man qualified or operated with the Body and now when the divine Life came into the Essence of the Seed of Mary then her whole Body viz the Images Body according to the Second Principle became Highly Blessed And in this new Wonderous Entrance and Moving of God was brought to Life so that her Essence became living and the Tincture of her Bloud became kindled with the Divine Tincture understand the Seeds Tincture which qualifieth or mixeth with the whole Body 333. But the outward Kingdome of this World was not at this time broken off from Mary that held her still captive SHEE must through Dying through her Sons Death enter into the Eternall Life 334. Her Body indeed did not vanish or fall away for it was in the Midst in the Blessing only the Earthly source or quality must break or corrupt in her and all Adam's Children must enter through One and the same Entrance into Life viz through the Dying of Christ when Christ quenched the Soul-Fire on the Crosse in Death then also Maryes Soul-Fire became quenched that is rightly kindled in the Light of the Majesty 335. The outward Body remained to be a Covering before it so long as it stood in the source or quality of the Stars
his charge with such evidence that even his adversaries may be convinced and reconciled to acknowledg the same truth with him The SECOND Apologie was in answer also to a Booke of Balthazar Tylckens against Jacob Behme's hints of Predestination mentioned in some of his treatises written before the yeare 1621. whereby the greate Controversies between the Lutherans and Calvinists about the will of God and of Man are kindly Reconciled but he not apprehending the Ground and depths in them which resolve those Questions did very much oppose this Author also the Tutour to his children whose name was Dr. Charles Weisner did take greate distast at him likewise as may be seen by a Letter at the End of the Epistles herewith printed but by personall Converse with J. B. he received such Satisfaction and Content that he asketh God forgiveness for his former hard Opinion of the Author But Balthazar Tylcken wrote also against the Booke of the Incarnation and Person of CHRIST and of the Virgin MARY to all which the Author hath answered particularly in this Apologie The Next Treatise is concerning the Four Complexions Compiled at the Desire of some friends upon the necessary Occasion of a Person that was very much tempted afflicted and perplexed by Satan and therein he hath very exactly deciphered the Nature of the Cholerick Sanguine Phlegmatick and Melancholy complexions with their Effects upon the Soule that inhabits them as a House in this outward Tabernacle also the Cures and Remedies to make them advantagious to the Soules progress in the way to Eternity while it is in this Life that never any treatise was written before so fully briefely and yet convincingly as far as hath been Commonly knòwn either among the bookes of Philosophy or Divinity it was formerly translated into English by a worthy Person in very Elegant language which notwithstanding was thought to be the writing of another authour by those that delighted to reade him not having the same Phrase with his other Bookes for which cause I was induced to re-translate it though not in so good a stile into that kinde of Expression which makes it known to be one of his workes The following Piece was his Considerations upon a Booke set forth by Esaias Stiefel concerning the Threefold State of Man and of the Newbirth of the River flowing out of Sion and the New Jerusalem wherein are handled distinctly that Threefold State and Condition of Man also of the Resurrection at the Last Day what that Body is IN this Corruptible Body which shall rise againe and put on Incorruption and in what Manner with more plainness as I conceive then in his other Bookes After that is here placed his THIRD Apologie in Answer to a Booke of the same Esaias Stiefel concerning Perfection shewing what the Inward and Outward Perfection is which is attainable in this Life and which way we are to demeane our selves for the avoyding of the Errours incident thereto and for the establishing and Consirming the Truth Great Perfection was attained by some mentioned in the Holy Scriptures as Enoch in his walking with God and his Translation Moses when his Face shone like the Sun when he desecended from seeing but the glory that was left after God was passed by the Clift of the Rock whereinto God himself had put him least he should be consumed before that Glory of Gods Face Eliah in his Miraculous Life and taking up alive in a Chariot of Fire into Heaven Christs Transfiguration when his Face also shone like the Sun and his Garments were Bright like lightening in the presence of Peter James and John in Mount Tabor before his Death Stevens Face shining as an Angell when they Stoned him that he dyed and all the Prophets and Holy Men in their Miraculous Conversation upon Earth All these attained High Perfection in this Life our not such as when Mortality shall be swallowd up of Life yet the least among the children of God are of a perfect Heart Other many excellent enquiries are unfolded in this Treatise about the purity and impurity of the Holy Matrimonial Propagation as when Moses sayd to the outwardly Holy Miraculous people after they were brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand and were to have the Law declared to them be sayd come not at your wives and David and his Men when he desired Bread of the High priest was asked by him if the young Men had kept themselves at least from women to whom David answered the women have been kept from us these three dayes by which a great Mystery is hinted and exactly resolved in this Treatise The FOURTH of his Apologies answereth the scandalous reproaches of Gregory Rickter Chiefe Minister of the City of Gerlitz and Primate of the Country of Lusatia in Germany under prince Electour of Saxony wherein this Authors rare temper of Spirit and his deepe decision of the Matters layd against him are evident In it Men may see as in a Looking-Glasse the great hurt any doe to their own Soules who revile and reproach another contrary to the precept and example of our blessed Lord and saviour Jesus Christ who sayd when men revile you revile not againe But Love your Enemies doe good to them that Hate you and persecute you and pray for them that DESPITEFULLY use you that you may be the Children of your Father which is in Heaven If we did know how the wrath gets the upper hand when we forbeare earnestly to exercise our selves in the sincere love to every one without partiality and by respects we would be more diligent and watchfull over our own vile Hearts that we might preserve our Crowne of rejoycing which shall be put on to us in the World to Come from being defiled here by our remisseness it is worth our watching that neither the Devill nor Man may hinder or disappoint us of it The Last treatise is the residue of his Epistles to his friends wherein are many heavenly advices and Instructions in the wayes of God and of the New Birth also they informe us somewhat of his Conversation with Greate Persons and Officers of the Emperour and of the Prince Electour of Saxony a little after his Banishment out of Gerlitz among whom he was lovingly received and his writings and discourses well approved of by the Prince Electour himselfe also by his Councillours and Learned Doctors and other at the End of all is a letter from Dr. Charles Weisner about the whole transaction of that affaire between Gregory Rickter and Jacob Behme together with the opinion of Dr. Hoe one of the Chiefe preachers to the Prince Electour which signifieth how loath they were to Judg a Man whose Gifts they understood not but it doth no were appeare they either thought the Author did not himself understand them or that they could not be understood by others as some among us do These are the totall Remainder of of all his workes Extant either in Print or Manuscript which make up the Catalogue
of it before it was completed so much did Satan hasten to make merry with it or a Bonfire of it and heaped Crosses and tribulation also Enemies enough upon me of purpose to Rob me of my Noble Pearl 37. He exceedingly also covered me with his Thorne bush by my Opponents that he might bereave me of my Jewel till after THREE Years it was sent to me Written from highly Learned People out of my writings who earnestly exhorted me to finish it Then I saw that ym writings were still Extant and wondered at it that it had so hapened to them and understood that they had had them in their hands for TWO Years before and that all along One Good Friend had given them to another to write out Copies of them 38. I understood Also that they were in the Hands of Many Men altogether unknowne to me and that Many enlightened and Honest Pious Hearts had great satisfaction therein who sought not Poyson but a right may to the Divine Life and Christian Conversation therein 39. Who doubtlesse had not such venomous Eyes that the Aspect of the Serpent so suddenly slipped into the Center of their Mind and sought to pervert it but have left it to the Spirit of God and asked Instruction which also they obtained 40. But some of them are so highly Learned and wise persons that the Libeller may not well compare himself with them but I have not heard that any of them should say that the Devill was sitting therein I firmly beleeve that he is sitting in the Libeller in Mind Eyes Heart and Thoughts and suddenly infected him and drave him on to strife 41. For he acknowledgeth himself in the Introduction that he read it over in haste and had not leisure enough surely the Serpent had very suddenly captivated him and after that left him no time to ponder it but only to make Sport with it Certainly if the Libeller had searched further he had found out the Authour 42. And if he had written to me never so little to know how I came by such Meanings and Writings I would have written to him of it very friendly and Christianly this would have become a Christian well especially an enlightened Mind 43. But S r Libeller I conceive thereby that your Artfull Mind is standing in BABEL and would thereby slay ABEL therefore you must answer it before the Judgment of God let this betold you you must know that you have opposed the A. B. C. 44. God hath bestowed so much Grace that in the Second Book which is made we have written much cleerer then in the Pirst and also then you have written in yours The sense is a little Deeper opened to US then to YOU 45. You must know that I see YOUR Writings much better then your self understand them you would flee or soare alost to shew your self and yet your writings are but a fighting with a shadow in the Mystery of God all would be well and men would be at peace if you were not found to be a Scorner as also having a proud unchristian Mind 46. Read my Three Books of the Becoming Man or Incarnation of JESUS CHRIST how we must be conceived and enter into the becoming Man or Incornation of Christ and become New-borne in Christ and how we with Christ must enter into his Death and be buryed with and in him dye with him and Continually slay the Old Man also continually rise with and in Him and Eternally live in Him 47. Also read the Book of the Threefold Life of Man and ye will find the Elernall Divine Nauture and also the Outward Nature of the Starres and Elements a little deeper and More fundamentally Described then in your Libell or Pasquill you will well see what Divine knowledge is Moreover what man is to doe and leave undone and What Faith and Blessedness or Salvation is 48. Also you will find your Crippled and altogether Misexpounded Gracious Election rightly in the Ground that will better accord with the Apostolick Faith and understanding then yours 49. Yours bringeth Men to Desperation to vanity and into meer anxiety of Spirit and not out of it again but mine brings them to the Light that they may see what the Holy Scripture understandeth by Gods Election 50. Also you find therein right knowledge of God and of the substance of all Substances whereas with you there is still a great Mist before it you boast of your knowledge yet Divine skill and knowledge standeth not in Reason but in the Light of God 51. If you will speak so highly of God you must understand and fundamentally know ALL the THREE Principles else your Speech continues to be only a fighting with a shadow and satisfieth not the Hungry Mind Read my Book of the Three Principles of the Divine Substance what will that availe you shall see whether I am a Man or no you should not seek in ME for a Devill as you have done in a very unchristian Manner towards me which ought highly to be reproved in you If you will rightly seek the Heretick whom you reproach you will find him in your own Bosome 52. For he is a HERETICK that wresteth the Scriptures falsly and you doe it not only to my meaning and with my words that are hidden to you which stand yet partly in a Magick understanding but you pervert the Scripture and draw it falsly to your Meaning of the Election of Grace and cast only a Mist before Mens Eyes driving them into Gods Anger and there let them Lye and go your way and moreover forbid any Man to search further about it 53. Yes indeed the Devill might thereby be manifested or revealed and that he would not have or likely my Book hath hit you upon the Calvinist Veine 54. I cannot remedy that if you or others will not read my Book let it alone it is not Printed who bid any write a Copy of it leave it to me I have written it only for my self it is nothing to you I have not run about with it and presented it to any body it is come forth without my will and Desire and without my knowledge as they that first came by it well know 55. But now that you lay to my Charge I have sought my same by it that is an untruth A Christian seeketh not his own honour but Gods honour and in his Love his Neighbour's CHRIST sought not his own honour but his Father 's He desired no honour from Man what should it be desired for then by me 56. The True knowledge of God is not from this World but from God why should a lodging then be sought for it here behold and Consider your self 57. I say with good ground in such a way you have no understanding of my writings you doe but fully them for me with a strange understanding as here further shall be set before your Eyes yet briefly and for the Readers sake who readeth the reproachfull
assumed a soul out of the in Death inclosed and now through Gods Motion Sprouting forth humane Essence into it self in which now Divine ability standeth for it is in the Word of the Light of Life and to that very will we must unite and give up our selves that it also may become MAN in US 78. In Adam the Ability was shut up in Death for the Divine Light Extinguished in Alams soul and in the Promise it stood before the soul for an Eye-Mark and in the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ it was brought again into the soul and shone again in the Darknesse 79. Though indeed in it self it was not Extinguished but Adams soul was entered into the spirit of this World and gone forth out of the Divine Principle it had received the spirit of this World for a Lodging thus stood the Light in it self in the Shining and was covered as to the soul 80. For the soul is another Principle then the Light as the Fire hath another source or quality then the Light so the soul is a Magick-fire introduced into Adam out of the first Principle and with the Moving of the Deity in the Divine Fiat became generated a Creature 81 For its Essence it hath been alwayes from Eternity but in the Creature in the time of the Bodies Creation became formed to the Image of God and yet it is not solely or entirely the right Image but the Essentiall fire to the Image if it attain the Divine Ligh viz the Second Principle then the Divine similitude groweth out of it in which God Dwelleth and in which Gods Will standeth which hath Divine Power Might or Strength 82. But if not and that it standeth barely in his Magick-fire and will not introduce Gods will into it self then it bringeth the Will of the Originall viz of the first Principle or of the Kingdome of this World which standeth in the Ground of the first Principle into it self the Image whereof also the Magick fire of the soul receiveth whence CHRIST called the Pharisees a Generation of Adders and brood of Serpents and Hered a Fox understand according to the Image of the inward Man which through the Imagination becometh generated and born 83. Therefore it lveth in the Imagination which when it receiveth the Divine Lightening in the aspect or Countenance of 〈◊〉 Light of God becometh impregnate of the Word of God and then is FAITH generated which then Eateth of Christs flesh and Drinketh of his Blood and taketh the Divine substantiality into it self wherein the true similitude and the Image of God standeth which then Eateth ex Verbo Domini of the Word of the Lord and of the bread of God of which Christ saith Whosoever eateth my flesh and Drinketh my bloud he continueth in me and I in him 84. Read the Book of the Threefold Life there it is explained with all Circumstances and cleered there a Man may understand what a Principle is and much more in the Three Books of the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and of or concerning his Mother MARY and also of the Eternall Mother where all is become brought forth out of the Center of Nature Also read the Three Principles there thou hast the Ground which is here too long to write neither doth the Libeller deserve it 85. Therefore I say still the true Christain Faith stands in no Conceit or Opinion much lesse in strife but in the New Birth out of the Word of Eternall Life which became Man and that must become Man in us or else we cannot see God as CHRIST saith to Nicodemus therein shineth the Light of God 86. We must give Divine sewell to our souls-fire if it be to burn in a Divine source or quality and if a Divine Light be to shine from it earthly fewell giveth an earthly source or quality and a Light according to that source or quality whatsoever a man kindleth in himself THAT burneth in him 87. But Gods kingdome standeth in Power in Love and Joy it searcheth after nothing for it hath all things beforehand only the soul searcheth it would enter into the kingdome of Rest and in the Earthly Body it sticketh in unquietnesse and therefore it searcheth after its Native Country out of which it went forth in Adam from Jerusalem to Jericho viz into it self into the originall of the first Principle and out of it self though the first Principle into the spirit of the outward World into the Multiplicity viz into the Stars and Elements into the source or torment-house where if findeth and learneth ARTS It will needs be as God and will know Evill and Good yes indeed it experienceth that It were better to be in Paradise 88. Therefore is all contention and strife concerning the kingdome of God only a fighting with a shadow a Babylonish work in the kingdome of Antichrist 89. A True Beleeving Christian ought not to strive or Contend with any about Religion let him strive only against himself against Flesh and Bloud and Endeavour for this how he may work the works of God in the Love of his Neighbour let him seek only Gods will and give himself up to that and Lead his Life in Obedience to the Will of God let him draw himself away from this World for he is not at home in this world and let him seek his brother as a Member of his own Soul and take him along with him 90. As one Member wisheth and doth all Good to the other so will also a Beleeving Soul Continually have his fellow Member with it and endeavoureth for this how it may shew his Brother any Good it alwayes sheweth him its Light and with or by its Imagination sets it before the Eyes of the soul to be looked upon and saith Come I pray hither for which things sake this Pen hath written so very much which the Pasquill or Libeller doth not understand for the Sting is in him 91. O how miserably and horribly hath he written of the Propagation of Man and Of the will of God whereas a Man whom the Devill assaulteth enough besides might Despair upon it therein sticketh Heresie that a man dares pervert the will of God who only willeth Good and make of Gods will a will of Evill or Malice 92. How very blind is he as to the knowledge of God how altogether Nothing doth he know of the Eternall Nature and of the Originall of the Will what the will to Good and to Evill is He rejecteth my A. B. C. little Book and sets the Babylonish Grammar in the 〈◊〉 of it Art 〈◊〉 doe the thing 〈…〉 Mine is bestowed upon me of Grace in the Love of God I shall well stand with mine against your it is as the Sun and the Moon to one another An honest Man fearing God who seeketh but Gods will may very well distinguish my writings and thine asunder 94. Dost thou suppose that men are satisfied by them Can they satisfie the heart and poor
formes for as the Genetrix is so is also the will-spirit out of the Genetrix 193. Thus understand also concerning Mans Soule which is also a Magick-fire-source or quality out of the Eternall Center out of the Eternall Nature for after God created the body out of the Substantiality then he introduced the Spirit out of all the Three Principles thereinto He should be a similitude and Image of God understand according to and out of all the Three Worlds viz out of the Eternall Fires Nature and out of the Lights Nature and then out of this outward worlds Nature wherein the outward Man liveth 194. For God breathed into him the Living Breath and then Man became a living soul Now what can God breath other out of himself then himself for God is the substance of all substances but all is not called or known to be God He calleth himself a GOD only according to his Heart according to the property of the Light world viz according to the Love and Meeknesse according to the second Principle 195. God breathed into the Created Image the Spirit out of all the Three Worlds viz that is to say Himself viz the Eternall beginninglesse Magick fire-source or quality out of all formes of the Eternall Nature that is the first Principle and it is the property of the Father who according to Nature calleth himself an Angry Zealous or Jealous God and a Consuming fire 196. And then the Center of the Light as a Sparkle out of his Heart out of which the Divine Will goeth forth which appropriateth or uniteth it self to God againe and Imagineth according to its Mother viz according to Gods Love and Meeknesse That is the Second Principle wherein the Angelicall world consisteth 197. And Thirdly the Spirit-Aire with the Spirit of this outward world out of the Starres and Elements viz the Third Principle Thus Man became an Entire Totall Image according to God out of all the Three Worlds An Image of God wherein God dwelleth wherein God beheld found and manifested or revealed himself 198. Now the Eternall Word was his Law of his spirituall Nature that this introduced and in-breathed spirit of Man should introduce its Imagination into no other source or quality but only into Gods Love and Meeknesse It should eate only of the Divine Substantiality and drink the water of the Eternall Life and then its Body had Continued Paradisicall 199. The Body had paradisicall fruit to Eate which grew for it IN all fruits The outward Body of this world was in the source or quality of the Light world as it were swallowed up and yet it was there As the Light swalloweth up the Darknesse and holdeth it captive in it self and yet the Darknesse remaineth but in the Light is not Manifested 200. So also should the outward 〈◊〉 of this world as also the inward source or quality of the Fire out of the first Principle stand hidden in the Paradisicall Substantiality and source or quality and Man should bring his life and will into the Paradisicall source or quality 201. He should set or put his Spirits Imagination into the Heart of God viz into the Lights Center and then had the Soul continually eaten of the Lights Substantiality understand the soulish Fire had conceived or received the divine source or quality into it self and had burned forth in the divine source or quality viz in Love and Meeknesse 202. Through that burning or Life would the divine Substance have been introduced into the outward Body viz heavenly Fesh and the Holy Body would have stood in the Tincture of the second Principle and the outward Dominion of the Outward World would have stood hidden in the Inward World and have been manifested in the Outward 203. Such a Body also was created in the Beginning viz out of the inward Substantiality of the pure Element which is manifested in Paradise and an outward Body of or from the Foure Elements which stood manifested in the outward World but the inward should leade the Dominion and hold the outward as it were swallowed up as the Light doth the Darknesse 204. Understand each Principle should stand free and barely in it self and set or put its Imagination or Desire into God and then would Gods light have filled all in All and the Earnest severe Fire-source or quality of the first Principle viz the Eternall Nature of the Dark World as also the outward Nature and source or quality of the Starres and Elements would not have been manifested 205. Man would have lived in the Divine Love source or quality and would have continued Immortall and incorruptible no sicknesse neither want necessity nor Death would have touched him 206. Therefore now if such a desire is to be in Man out of which the Will-Spirit should barely be inclined or directed into God then must Divine Substantiality needs be in the Souls Fire out of which such a Will-Spirit might exist 207. For out of no Earthly source or quality nor out of the Dark Worlds source or quality doth any divine desire exist Earthlinesse knoweth nothing of God also the Dark World hath no Divine Love or Desire in it self 208. Whereby we know that we according to the second Principle viz according to the Paradisicall Angelicall World have had flesh and bloud out of the heavenly Essence and Substantiality which was the right Body of the Soul and therein stood the Image of Heaven 209. And the Spirit 〈◊〉 the Magick-Fire of the Soul which shined in the power of the 〈◊〉 was the true similitude of God according to the Trinity of GOD the Image wherein God dwelleth and wherewith God manifesteth himselfe For that very Spirit is like all Angells in Substance and Beeing of which Christ faith Math. 22. 30. That in the Resurrection they are like the Angells of God 210. When God had created Adam he then stood in the Paradisicall World viz in the Image of God but God knowing how he with his Noble Jewell between the Inward Dark World and then also the outward Elementary World stood fast bound to BOTH therefore he gave to the Souls Nature the Law and Cormandment and said Thou shalt not eate of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evill for on what Day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the Death that is dye away from the Divine World and in THEE will the Dark World and then also the Outward world become manifested and get the Dominion in THEE 211. As also then it was so done when Adam began and set or put his Desire and Imagination into the Outward World then the souls fire did Eat of the forbidden Fruit and brought the Earthly source or quality and the substantiality of this World into his Noble Image into the Paradisicall Angelicall World 212. He brought the earthly source or quality and substance into the Pure Elementary Flesh which was created out of the Divine substantiality so his light extinguished that is he went with his will-spirit
out of the Divine substantiality into the Earthly into the Stars and four Elements 213. Thus the Image became Earthly and fell among the Murtherours who smote it and wounded it and left it lying half dead thus Adam went out of Jerusalem toward Jericho as Christ said 214. The Stars and Elements put on to the Body the fierce wrathfull earthly Cloaths or Garments of their Essence and substantiality and the Dark-world gave to the souls fire also its fierce wrathfull severe or earnest and stern source or quality and now the Souls fire burned in that fierce wrathfull property and so God and the Kingdome of Heaven was Lost for the Divine Image disappeared or vanished and the Earthly began to appear the Outward Fiat gat the predominancy 215. As soon as Adam was overcome by the Spirit of this World then he fell into sleep viz. into the outward Magia which signifieth or resembleth Death for the outward Kingdome hath beginning and End and must break off from the Inward THAT is its Death for the outward Life goeth again into its Mother out of which it is proceeded viz into the Mystery of the Stars and Elements and the Inward Life of the Soul continueth in the Dark world viz in the Eternall Nature whence it is Originated 216. Therefore the Regeneration from or out of the Heart of God is necessary for us that the Dark Souls fire shut up in the fierce Wrath and Anger might conceive or receive Divine substantiality againe that its Light might shine again 217. And THAT is it which I wrote in my BOOK That all was shut up in the Anger Till the Prince of Light out of the Heart of God came and became a Man in Nature and wrestled in the Power of the Light in the Wild Nature 218. By Nature the Author understood the Eternall Soulish Nature the Center of Nature which in the Soul after the Image became Earthly became Wilde and Strange as to the Divine World 219. And Adam and all his Children must needs have continued Eternally in the wild Nature and in the Anger and fierce wrath of God if the Prince of Light out of Gods Heart had not come and put upon the Souls Fire Divine Substantiality that is the Garment or Body of Angels again if Gods Word or Heart it selfe had not become Man Here follow the Pasquils or Libellers Suppositions 220. Now the Libeller sets it down thus and he understand the Authour will thereby make CHRIST as to his Innocent or Immaculate Holy Pure Humanity Naturall and thereby prepare an Entrance and way for his Seduction from God to Nature and Creature especially and because as a Beaten and Expert Spirit he knoweth that this Tree of Life will hence forward discover his Root out of which he is grown but hath hitherto been covered with Earth and will put an End to that his Secret Mystery whereby he may bring to the people a Root which bears Gall and Wormwood and still seduce many from Christ and catch them in his Net 221. The Scripture saith of our wild humane Nature thus That we are all by Nature the children of wrath And the Naturall Man perceiveth not that which is of the Spirit Is Christ become a Man in the wild Nature then he was by Nature vaine or corruptible as all other Men. And how then hath he revealed the Mystery of God of which the Naturall Man knoweth and understandeth Nothing could he pay our Debts and offer an acceptible sacrifice for us and reconcile us to the Father 222. With these sayings this Spirit obscureth the distinction between the heavenly pure and the Earthly perished Corrupt impure Birth and Nature Also between the Womans Seed and the Serpents Abraham's and Adam's Seed and will frame for us A Naturall Christ in whom is Good and Evill Light and Darknesse Yes and No and set our Salvation on a Gog. But the Scripture discovereth his falshood and Groundlesnesse and faith That not all Abraham's Seed are also therefore Children but in Isaac shall thy Seed be called and not in Adam Cain Ishmael and Esau The Children of the Promise are accounted for the Seed 223. He saith not through the Seeds as through many but as through One through thy Seed which is Christ out of which viz out of the Eternall incorruptible Seed the Living Word of God all Children of the Promise are born as the Dew out of the Morning 224. For as his Children are not born of Bloud nor of the Will of the Flesh nor of the Will of Man but of God So also according to his Humane Flesh he cannot be born of Adam's Naturall but of Abraham's promised Seed which he himself is nor be of less Discent and Honour then his children are seeing they all come from ONE both that which sanctifieth and they that are sanctified 225. Which Seed is not a Naturall Adamicall but a Supernaturall Heavenly Seed wherein God and Man is united God in Man and Man in God out of which Mary as a Daughter of the Promise even according to her Flesh must aforehand be born e're Christ had assumed his body in her as the Holy Apostle saith cleerly that Christ proceeded from the Father according to the Flesh to whom belonged the Filiation the Glory of the Covewant the Law the Oracles Ordinances or Worship of God and the Promise which Promise belongeth Not to Abraham's Naturall but to Abraham's Seed of Faith Hitherto the Libeller 226. Are not these high inducing Vaunting Speeches How should a simple Man be otherwise then lead blindfold by them who would say he doth the Authour wrong But hearken Libeller you will not with this Description yet by a great deal lay bare the Root of the Covered Tree as you suppose you yet understand Nothing thereof much lesse the Authour's Mind and Thoughts only you falsifie and pervert it with a strange understanding 227. Are you not a false Expositor then tell me where stands it written in my Book that Christ became a man in this Worlds wild Nature that he was begotten of proceeded from Sinful Seed as thou explainest the meaning of the Authour to be so and settest down a heap of contradictory senslesse meanings and shamefully and reproachfully cryest out upon him for a Devil very blindly contrary to his meaning and understanding 228. Art thou he that must Judge me then learn first the Authour's Mind and Sence My Text saith Till the Prince of Light came out of the Heart of God and became a man in Nature it is not in the Wilde Nature but it is And wrestled in his humane Body in the Power of the Divine Light in the Wild Nature 229. The Question is What is the Wilde Nature wherein the Prince of Light out of the Heart of God wrestled in the Humanity Is it earthly Flesh Or the source or quality of the Starres and Four Elements No For the Sake of that the Prince
in Gods representing 293. For in God that which is done and past and that which is to come is all one And therefore was the New Regeneration out of Christ reckoned or imputed to the Children of the Covenant as iif they stood already in the New Body of Christ as if Christ had already drowned the Anger with his bloud-shedding and that the Life were already become Generated out of Death againe 294. For that very Life out of the Limit or Mark stood in Gods Imagination and with the Promise in Paradise it set it self therein that very Life was Promised to Abraham that it should be awakened againe in his seed Not in a strange seed as the Libeller conceiteth but in the seed of the Noble Image which out of the Heavenly Substantiality out of the Second Principle was together given to Adam for a Body 295. And yet with the Entrance of the Soul into the Earthlynesse was become shut up in the still Death as in the Nothing and that should againe sprout out of Death and therein rise againe and be borne A New Man in holinesse innocency and Righteousnesse it should againe be put on to the Soul 296. Understand it highly and aright The Life of God in the Covenant of the Limit or Mark which in Mary assumed the humanity that very Life must from Christ enter into us understand into our disappeared Image shut up in Death That is the Graine that is sowen into the Dead disappeared Substantiality that draweth that humane Essence again to it and becometh again the Life of that Image 297. Thus the Noble Lilly Twig or Branch groweth up which first is small as a Graine of Mustard-seed as Christ saith and afterwards becometh as large as a Bay Tree That is the True New Regeneration out of Christ 298. My Libeller put you other Eyes into your Bride and look upon the Old Testament and the Covenant of Promise with or as to Adam and Abraham rightly doe not imbitter the Scripture and drag it not about by the Haire of the head in a strange understanding Your Meaning or Opinion Obscureth the Noble Lilly or Branch which now should sprout or Grow out of the Mother or Roote much more then it doth serve to the promoting of its growth 299. If you would Judge in this Mystery then must you be born againe in Christ you must see out of Christs Eyes if you would apprehend the Great Mystery Mysterium Magnum but if you were born of Christ then you would not be a Mote Judger but a loving Brother 300. Christ bids you not condemne but meekly to converse and friendly Instruct not to wrangle or scoffe or pronounce Men to be in the Jawes of the Devill My friend you are yet very blinde concerning the kingdome of Christ I will rightly shew you the Doore of the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ as it is given to me from the Grace of God in the Love of Christ 301. Not through my understanding but in my resignation in Christ from Christs Spirit From Christs Spirit have I conceived or received the knowledge the Great Mystery Mysterium Magnum I have not studied in your Schoole I have knowne nothing of that neither have I sought it in that way I sought only Gods Heart and more is come to me then I sought or understood 302. Therefore if you would be brother in Christ put your Bucks-hornes off and then we may see one another with right Eyes and a modest Mind and instruct one another in the Feare of God 303. Such Surlynesse and Scorne is Babel the Mother of Tyranny and Great spirituall whoredom whence Warres and Strise is arisen at all times your Libell is only a Bloudy provocation and a scoffing an unseemly puffed up Pride a Cainish property goe out from it if you would see the richly Amiable countenance of Christ in the Holy Ternary in Ternario Sancto if you would see the Wonder-Branch of the hidden LILLY which at present Sprouteth out of the Roote of the Tree 304 If you would grow and sprout with the Noble Lilly Branch out of the Old Tree you must bring an humble Heart and so you must stand in the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ if you would grow spring or sprout and speak out of or from God 305. For None know any thing of God but only the Spirit of Christ which is in God the Some in the Bosome of the Father searcheth out in our spirit even the Depths of the Deity Our spirit must stand in the Spirit of Christ if we we would understand the Divine Mysterie 306. It is not enough for Men to put together or collect a heap of Scripture Texts and Make an Opinion and Meaning out of them no my Friend Opinion doth it not but the Living Word where the Heart experienceth the certainty therein Consisteth Faith in the Holy Spirit 307. In Opinions there is meere Doubting whether it be right or not Out of Opinions is the Antichrist Generated If we would speak of God then we must speak from or out of the Spirit of Christ which alone knoweth what God is or else we are very Lyars 308. Christs Spirit must speak out of us of the Divine Mysterie else we speak out of the Babel of Confusion Christ is in our right humane Essence understand in Adams Essence become Man not in the Essence of the Starres and Elements but in the Essence of the One Element through which before the fall Paradise grew or sprouted in Adam 309. When the Angel Gabriel came to Mary he Saluted her and sayd Haile Graciously Amiable the Lord is with Thee Thou blessed of all Women thou shalt be impregnate in thy Body and beare a sonne whose name thou shalt call JESUS 310. Here it hath not that understanding as the Libeller Explaines it that Mary was borne out of God before-hand Ere Christ in her became Man No Christ is the first from the Dead he first kindled the Life in Death only the Limit or Mark stood in Mary that was the Blessing For in the Limit or Mark was the Living Word and the Spirit of God Surrounded and Cloathed with the Noble Virgin of the Wisdome of God in the Divine Substantiality 311. When the Angel sayd thou shalt be impregnate in thy Body And shee the Virgin Mary thereupon said Behold I am the Maid-servant of the Lord be it done unto me as thou hast said then the Life in the Limit or Mark of the Covenant viz the Heart of God moved in Maryes in Death included Essence That word was cloathed or surrounded with divine Substantiality out of the Water of Eternall Life generated out of the Meeknesse of the Light of the Majesty of God 312. And in that Substantiality was the Tincture out of the Fire and Light of God which is the Glance or Lustre and Ornament of the Substantiality 313. And in the Tincture was the Chast
forth with its Imagination away from this Substantiality whence that Substantiality is againe become shut up in Death viz in the still Nothing 374. And it the Soul is entered with its Imagination into the Earthly Kingdome viz into the Substantiality of its Root and neverthelesse that very first Image which became shut up in Death viz in the inability without the Life yet hangeth to the Soul but without its apprehension or understanding 375. Therefore now when the Light of the Soul becometh kindled againe and the heavenly Substantiality out of Gods Majesty receiveth the Life viz the Light in the Soul then the dead Substantiality becometh Living againe in the Lights power and becometh together with the now new introduced Substantiality one Substantiality one spirituall Body for it is of one only Essence and here Death riseth up in Christ here God and the Inward Man become one Person 376. Understand it aright This new light-Light-Life is Christ He first introduced it againe into the Soul and our right humanity so that God and Man is ONE Now we must follow after God we must put our Imagination into him for he hath put his into Us and then we become impregnate with the Saviour we become new-borne in his Limit or Mark that God set in Paradise wherein he is become Man Death riseth up again in that very Limit or Mark we must be true Members of Christ if we would see God 377. When the Water or the Water-source or quality out of the Meeknesse of God cometh into the Souls-Fire so that the Light kindleth it self then is the Noble Tincture already generated out of the Water in the Fire which is the Glance or Lustre and Ornament of Heaven as a Paradisicall Delight or Pleasantnesse in which the Substantiality of God shineth or appeareth and therein the Holy Spirit and in the Spirit the Divine Center viz the Power of Heart of God and in the Heart of God the Mysterie viz the Principle or the Father viz the Fire-World and in the Fire-World the Dark World and in the Dark World this outward World together with the Starres and Elements 378. Thus ALL goeth out of ONE fountain-Spring but the Heart of God is the Center of All Substances or of Every thing it is all Magicall and in the Magick-Desire standeth the Substance according to each Worlds property and according to the desire of each of them for the Desire maketh Substance according to the Desires property therefore is the Fire the strongest and the Light the Mightiest in the Power the Fire giveth Life and the Light giveth power and understanding 379. Understand it aright The Dark World is the Center of this outward World The Dark World hath the formes to Nature viz the Great Magick Desire wherein the source or Torment and Anguish generateth it self It is the wheele to the Fire-Life with its Formes and hath in it self the strong Magia of the Desire It laboureth in its own forme till to the Fire and there its Principle shuts up it self 380. For in the Fire existeth the great Life and another source or quality and also another Principle viz the Light with the quality or source of Meeknesse whereas in the Dark World there is only Anguish and a meere hunger Desire The Light holdeth the Dark World captive In these TWO now standeth the Drawing to Good and to Evill my Sir Libeller 381. The Light or the Power of the Light is a desire and willeth to have the Noble Image according to Gods similitude for it is created to the Light World so also the Dark World viz the Desiring of the fierce Wrath willeth to have it for Man hath all the Three Worlds in himself and there is a great Strife in Man to which of these now he uniteth or giveth up himself with his Desire and Willing that getteth the Dominion in him as the Apostle saith To which you give your self in Obedience you are servant of that either of sinne unto Death or of Obedience unto Righteousnesse 382. Each world standeth hidden in the other for Each dwelleth only and barely in it self neither possesseth the other in the fource or quality thereof as you see it in Light and Darknesse how the Darknesse dwelleth in the Light and is not manifest in the shining of the Light but if the Light departeth or Extinguisheth then the Darknesse becometh manifest 383. Thus you see also the difference of the source or quality how one source or quality mixeth not with the other by the Fire and Light The Light dwelleth in the Fire and yet hath not the Fires source or quality but a meek amiable one and Herein sticketh the Great Mystery Mysterium Magnum My Sir Libeller seek it and then you will find it 384. In this Mysterie seek the TWO sort of Seeds and Wills and leave free-will to Man else you are the Dark Worlds Advocate which World soever in Man gets the upper Dominion that extracts or begets Seed out of its own Essence that beareth fruit and worketh the other stands hidden be it the Heavenly or the Hellish 385. When Adam's Soul went sorth away from the Divine World out of Paradise into the Outward World then the Soul wrought or boar fruit to Death in the Dark World But when it apprehended the Cursher of the Serpent in the Limit or Mark of the Covenant then it wrought or boare fruit to Life againe 386. But being his Noble Image without the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ could not rise up our of the still Death therefore both Dominions remained qualifying or operating in him viz the Hellish and the Heavenly and are standing the whole Time in strife one with another about the Image Each hath its Fiat in it self and many a Branch is become rent off from this Tree 387. And here seek Cain and Abel also Jacob and Esou Isaac and Ishmael here you will find them and not in the Light World in Gods Predestinate purpose Here you will finde my deep hidden Magicall Book which the Authour at that time might not make more cleere but now through Gods grace may doe it 388. Read the Forty Questions of the Soul I 'le assure you you will become seeing unlesse the Anger of God and the Devills malice hath wholly blinded you and that you are a totall Cain then you will see nothing but a Shell And though you were such a one yet then the Doore of Grace standeth Open towards you and desireth to have you and you may IN Christ become generated anew 389. The Possibility is in ALL Men but in Gods Mercy not that he would not have any that came to him HE will alwayes readily only it lyeth not in humane conceits running and own doing none can make himself the Child of God he must wholly cast himself into the Obedience of God and then God maketh him a Child he must be Dead understand with the outward Reason and then God in Christ liveth in Him
is the Seperation between Gods Name and Natures Name also between the Love-source or quality and the Naturall fierce wraths source or quality 495. In the Fire exist Two Principles viz Two Magia's Two desirous Wills viz the Lights and the Fires 496. The Light is a desire of Love Meeknesse and Substantiality and that is in the Eternity called God The Light is the Majesty the Lights desire is the Other or second Center or the Heart of God the Substantiality is Gods Substance it is the Water source or quality or the Spirit of the Eternall Joys Life 497. And the Fire maketh in the Water-source or quality the Tincture or Life so that Gods Substantiality is a Life That very Lights Substantiality is the Words or Hearts Cerporeity wherein the Great Mystery of the Will of the Abysse viz the Wisdome becometh Manifest 498. And the Fire is another Principle then the Light it hath a fierce wrathfull stinging consuming Desire climing up in Might and Pomp it willeth to consume and swallow up all into it self it is a cause of the Covetousnesse its Bitternesse is a Cause of the Envy for it is the sting of Death and Anger 499. And here goe back into the Formes to Fire and then thou wilt find the Dark World and the hellish fierce Wrath and in the Fire GODS Anger which the Light viz his Heart holdeth captive in the Love-Source or Quality and allayeth or meekeneth the Fires fierce-Wrath 500. For the Water of the Eternall Life generated or born out of the Meeknesse viz Gods Substantiality maketh out of the Divine Fire-source or quality another source or quality viz the climibing up of the Divine Joys Kingdome The Fire-source or quality must only be a cause of the Life and of the Light as also of the Spirit and of the Joys Kingdome 501. And heare the Name God severeth it self in the Trinity viz In the First Center to Nature viz the Eternall Will of the Fiat which in the Fire is a sterne severe zealous Substance and in the Light the cause of the Joys Kingdome and of the Spirit of Life That is the Father of all Substances also of his Sonnes viz of the second Centers of the Love-desires 502. And The Other or second Center of the power of the Light is his Sonne or Heart and maketh in himself and in the Father the Second Principle viz the Angelicall World that is our right Fathers or Native Country which Christ brought into US againe 503. And The Spirit going forth from the Fire in the Light is the Third Person in the Light in the Love and the Joy-source or quality He is called God the Holy Spirit understand according to the Sonnes Center and according to the Fires Center he is called The Anger-Spirit of the Father 504. In the Dark World HE is the Life of the Hellish source or quality out of all Formes to Nature In the Fire HE is the Flame of the fierce wrathfull Anger of God the Father and in the Light HE is the flame of the Great Love of God He is the right Life of God and is also the Life of all the Three Principles of all the Three Worlds in each World according to its property and is only knowne or acknowledged and rightly called God the Holy Spirit according to the Love viz according to property of the Sonne of God Else he is called the Spirit of the Nature of all things or Substances 505. Seeing we here goe so deep we will therefore shew you somewhat more out of true Love and not out of a Desire so totally to reproach you because of your unskilfulnesse or ignorance for we know you better then you do your selfe and though we are zealous over you yet it should be understood heartily as a reproofe of your high climbed stately proud Will over the Spirit of God from which I have my knowledge 506. Consider of the Principle of Fire and see how the Dead ariseth and how he dieth Behold the Fire is a great hungry desire after Substance and if it cannot have that then it extinguisheth 507. Here consider the Great desire of the Father after the Sonne viz. of the first Principle after the second how the Father thus in great desire loveth the Sonne for he is his life else were the Fathers Life a dry fainting hunger like the Devills and the Dark World for the Fire burneth not without the Substance of the Water-Spirit 508. Here consider what befell the Devill when he lost Gods Love and Meeknesse then he remained to be a dry hunger in the fierce Wrath of the Eternall Nature thus it goeth also with the Soul of Man for they originate all alike out of the Eternall Nature 509. Now see further what in the Center of the Fire is the Possibility and Substance you understand now that the fierce wrathfull Fire-source must have Substance and that the Fire-source or quality it self longeth after Substance and if the Fire get the Substance or the Substantiality of the Water-source or quality into it self then the Fire consumeth that Substantiality and then is the dying of the Substantiality for the Substantiality goeth againe into the Still Eternity without besides or beyond Nature viz into the Nothing 510. And you see rightly that yet there is no Dying but the Light goeth forth out of that very Death out of the Consumtibility forth and the Light is then first the power of the understanding and of the Thoughts or Senses Thus Death ariseth out of the fire-Fire-Life viz into another World viz into the Eternall Nothing into the Liberty without besides or beyond Nature 511. And you see now that the Light dwelleth in the Fire without Source Quality or Torment and knoweth nothing of the fierce wrath of the Fire for it is in its Essence a Love Desire Thus have I written that the Deity viz. Gods Center knew nothing of the fall of the fierce wrathfull Devills but the first Principle know it viz the Father according to the Fires Nature and according to the Desire and according to the hunger in the Dark world 512. Here consider beloved Men and brethren in Christ what the suffering and dying of CHRIST as also OUR Dying is How our Soul must in Christs Death be introduced into the Center of the Hell of Gods Anger into the Principle of Gods Fire and go quite through the source or quality of the consumptibility into the other World viz into the Liberty into the Center of the Love of God 513. For Adam's Soul had turned it self out and was Dead to the Light in the Substantiality and therefore the second Adam brought the Soul againe into the Fire viz into Gods Anger-source or quality and kindled the Light againe in Death and there the Light shone againe in the Darknesse That was Death to Death and a Pestilence to the Anger viz to Hell 514. The Soul was gone forth out of the Liberty of God into the Nature of this World viz
be preferred Number X. 600. THe Libeller hath very fleshly or carnall Eyes upon that which I have written which is that The Man Adam before his first Imagination before the Woman was made had a Powerfull Body and that he had no such Members for Propagation he will meerly have it to be an Earthly Man 601. The Libeller understandeth not that the kingdome of God Consisteth in Power and that the Image of God was Created out of heavenly Substantiality and that the bright Angellicall Image was Lord over the Outward Life that Man had not such grosse Beastiall Flesh till the Image became shut up in Death as God said The Day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye 602. He understood or meant not the Outward he dyed not to the Outward Life but to the Noble Image of Gods power the Spirit of God departed from him thus the Image out of Gods Substance came to be in the Nothing viz in the Eternall Death without source quality or operation 603. If ADAM had not Imagined according to the Earthlinesse then had not EVE been made out of him but he himself would have been able to have generated after a Magicall Manner He had the Matrix and also the Limbus he was Man and Wise before his Eve was a pure chast Masculine Virgin of God 604. Therefore must the Second Adam againe be borne or generated of a Virgin without the concurrence of any Man and be like the first Image in which the Divine Light exercised the Dominion 605. Though likely it was not manifested to Mens Eyes in Christs Time we had not heavenly Eyes yet then he was the Light of the World as himself saith Such a one also was Adam before his sleep before the Imagination into the Earthly kingdome I understand in my Book not a power-body according to the outward World but according to the Image although the outward was totally much otherwise then it is 606. My Libeller you suppose that at the Last Judgement day another Man will arise other than Adam was before the Fall Gods purpose must stand the first Image must come againe and even in †such a forme as God Created it to Eternall Life 607. Or can you not in the Light of Nature understand somewhat thereof how the Soul is ashamed of the Members of the Beastiall Birth and the Beastiall Impregnation doe you not feele it in you 608. Tell me if we were Created Beastiall in Adam whence the shame proceeds that the poor Soul is ashamed of the Bodyes desormity and of its propagation 609. Do you not say that those Members became manifested on Adam and Eve after Sinne and that they were ashamed that according to the Outward Man they were become Beasts they saw not what the Outward Fiat had made in the Sleep till the Earthly source or quality awaked then the Soul became ashamed that out of an Angel a Beast was come to be 610. While the Earthly Kingdome stood hidden so long the Soul knew it not but when it drew into the Soul then began sorrow and horrour before the Abysse for the Soul saw its Roote which the Outward Body and Spirit understood not 611. Or do you suppose that Adam was created to Mortality O no! But to the Eternall Life in Paradise with Paradisicall source or quality and with a Body which was sit for Paradise which was like to Paradise But of this no more here In the Book of the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and in the Book of the Threesold Life also in the Three Principles it is expressed at Large read it there Number XI 612. COncerning the Last Words in the Book where it standeth written thus Though Peter or Paul had written otherwise and that I had set it down thus That Moses was not by at the Creation but wrote the Creation from his predecessours Mouths the Libeller takes on at it and braggeth stoutly with a storme against Abel he will suddenly kill him and have in Hell 613. Hearken Libeller that which is said of Peter and Paul though Poter or Paul had written otherwise is spoken in way of a Proverb it is not that Peter and Paul have written otherwise but the Cryers at Babel the Grace Electioners the Cripple Electioners at Babel Cry out thus hath Paul written thus Peter thus another and draw it to their Conceits against THOSE I set THAT though Peter or Paul had written otherwise Men should look to the HEART upon Gods Grace and his Promise and not hang or depend upon their Conceits that urge the Apostles words for them 614. It is not my entention to blame the high Apostles but the Cripple Electioners such as thou art who draw the Scripture about by the haire of the head and leave out the Love of God which willeth not the Evill thou pervertest my Minde and Thoughts therefore thou art a false wicked Evill Electioner 615. As to Moses where I say there sticketh yet much in the Mystery in Moses Writings I have NOT said that he hath written wrong it is briefly and summarily written and needeth an enlightened explanation 616. For a Philosopher resteth not unlesse he have the Cemer of a thing after such a meaning have I written of Moses that a richly spirituall explanation were necessary what have I done to the Libeller thereby he seeketh cause where he can he must be a right Contender seeing he fouldeth up all and wheeleth it about it is no otherwise with him than in an Academy where he gets cause of contention likely some other might come who would wipe his Nose for him who also had Hornes 617. He need not contend with me I have written for my self and not for the Grace-Electioners much lesse for the New Babel which Sprouteth up in the Libeller it thrusteth out the Hornes already it will soone be borne only it sticketh yet in the Margin it is now high time to prepare for the Gossips Gift 618. If the Libeller had not a Minde to reade my Book he might have throwne it away at the first Leafe what need he seek in it for so much Evill Sure he hath an Evill Minde full of fierce Wrath that thus venteth it self whereas it is not his Calling or Employment He might only have that while thought upon his Mammon or have taken care of his Soul before he had Judged and Condemned other people But Pride hath set him on Horseback to ride over-a Weak Man 619. But it cometh to passe many times that a Little one beateth a Great one let him not rely too much upon Art for it exposeth many a Man to derision wer Gott vertraut bat woll gevaut ob with vse welt thut bassen Ich trass ausf Goft Et wird mith nit berlassen Who in God trusts Builds sure not Lusts Though the vaine World do hate me I trust in God He never will forsake me If they have called
at the End of the 40. Question of the soule and here at the End of this Book so that now all his workes are printed in the English Tongue Judg not according to the appearance but read weigh examine and Judg righteous Judgment Or rather Judg not that we be not Judged which was one of the precepts of CHRIST and the Apostle Paul sayes If we would Judg our Selves we should not be Judged Judgment is the Mentall framing or denouncing of the sentence and severity of the Consuming fire of Gods wrath what in Reallity any one is capable of and will certainly receive at the Last day which to doe upon others whom we cannot know so well as we doe our selves doth awaken that fiery wrath in our selves which ought not to be for if the Eternall Fire which is in our hearts and soules be kindled against a Person that is not lyable by his Guilt if it burne not him it may and will burne Our selves but if we kindle that fire of Indignation against our selves as justly and deservedly we may it will consume Self-Love and all the Dark matter of our Sonles and so change it into Light as fire doth Iron and then the Eternall fire will have no Fewell to kindle upon in us now or at the Last Day but we shall be able to dwell with Everlasting Burnings as the Light doth in the Fire having Judged and Condemned our selves for we shall walke in righteousness and speake in uprightness we shall despise the Gaine of Deceits and shake our hands from holding of Bribes and stop our Ears from hearing of Bloud and shut our Eyes from seeing of Evill and then we shall dwell on High our Defence shall be the Munition of the Everlasting Rock of Ages For a close I offer a Similitude of the Manner how the last Judgment will be effected to be Considered of All Seeds sown will come up the same that they were sown whether Good wheate or weedes this Life time is the sowing of Thoughts words and Actions in our Spirits soules and Bodyes whatsoever is retained and Nourished growes up in our Lives and Conversations the other Dies be it the Good or the Bad and the power is fixed in the fruit of what Growes in us here and at the time of the Last Harvest the Seed will present its Fruit ready and all will appeare in the Effect what hath been suppressed what hath been cherished if good it is well with us if Bad we are fit Fewell for the Eternall Fire If our Desires which are the sprouting of our seede be infected with liking the Evill or disliking the Good when the Flower or Fruit comes to appear we shall see the Effect apparently in One Moment of what was hiddenly in the Seede from the first being of the Thought word or work in us Thus every Heart may Judg of it selfe in this Life and amend in time but however then they will be layd Open to the Eyes of our Selves and All Others as the FLOWER in one instant shewes the effect of all the vertues and powers that lay hid in the Seed though they were really there before as when we sowe it may be we Expect Rare Tulips or whatsoever flower is most excellent when it is full blown it appears either of a pale dead wan Colour or of a Dull and distorted shape or figure or else of Orient strong various exact Colours and delightful Figures which shewes it sucked in and nourished it self with barren cold juice of the Earth or drew in the Infection of the Aire and Evil influences or Else the strong fat warme Sap of a fertile Soyle and the Good Influences of the Stars of Heaven Our Soule hath in it the Seede of Gods Image planted and sown in the Inward word of the Heart it springs up in Good Thoughts which Image is righteousness and Holiness and will shine far brighter then the Sun But if we suffer vices and Evill thoughts to possess our Hearts our Image will be darke and that will forme us into ugly deformed Beasts or Devills and we shall no more appeare in the right Colours figures formes beauty and brightness but be as the Blackness of Darkness in anguish and Torment thence sorth and for Evermore As when we have a Sickness our beauty decayeth the Blood is corrupt lookes pale yellow and sometimes Black by the distemper of the Feaver which disturbes the whole constitution of a Man so that the Light of the Sun Garden Pictures Musick or any thing that delights us most in health is Irksom to us then Darkness the Night and Sleepe doth most affect us but then also the Fire of the Disease in the Corruption of our Mortall Body of Flesh troubles us within and the most pleasing Thoughts we have had doe much molest us which shewes that the inward Corruption and the wrath of God hath gotten a life in Our Bodyes so also if it get a life in our Soules it is much more grievous even to Eternity which will manifest it selfe in the Judgment when all the Good that now allayeth the Evill in us shall be separated distinct apart by it selfe and will be the life of all Misery which is the second or Never Dying Death On the otherside Health in this Life giveth alacrity beauty and pleasantness which is a true Embleme of the health in the Soule that shall make it full of Joy and blisse If the matter that is growne in it here be good and Holy we should be able to Endure the sharpest Cold as a refreshment and the Greatest heate Would be our life as Shadrach Meshach and Abednego walked in the Hot fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar and a Haire of their Head was not singed nor the smell of fire upon their Cloathes the Heavenly substance was but the more effectual and delightful to them by that Fire though heat seaven Times hotter then formerly it use to be whereas those that cast them in in whom the Love of God had not Gotten a Life were slaine by the Flame that caught hold of them by this we may collect the great power of the Inward Heavenly Substance Also of the Hellish Fire in their Effects at the Great Day But then Gods brightness in all Things will be Joyned to himself and his holy ones will enjoy it in their Measures but the Darkness and filth of Corruption will remaine with the Devill and his Angels and so the SEPERATION wil be undeniably of like to its Like when the unquenchable Fire shall swallow up the Drosse Chaffe and Weedes and the Light receive that which is pure solid sweete and good Wheate and retaine it for Evermore When I consider how long have known more then some others the inevitable danger of loving my Sinfulness together with my careless negligence in my endeavours to forsake it and in that regard how short I come of the precise Judging of my selfe and of the amendment might be
Man runs about with Reason and Art and seeketh only favour and honour thereby that the Man might have respect and repute 112. And when a Man cannot reteine that then they Cry in the Eares of the Worldly power and Authority and raise Calumnies Persecution Wars and Shedding of Bloud then the uproar-Master danceth in his heart now thou hast gotten the day and fall on to make Laws about Christian Liberty and to Establish them with worldly authority and put penalties upon Men that they must believe and doe what those uproar-Masters have carved out 113. And then when it comes into a Custome then they call him a Saint or Holy Person and Men devise and saine Continually more and more to adde to it how they may flatter and serve the uproar-Masters in the mean time not forgetting the Belly-Idoll they draw all with suttlety and Tricks and draw the SCRIPTURE of the Saints and Holy Men by the Haire of the Head to it and that with great mixture of their own with it 114. And there then is the right ANTICHRIST for he doth what himself will and not what God will he is from or out of himself born or generated out of or from the Starry-Reason and not out of or from God 115. Such Men set up for Teachers to the World and these now are meer Contenders strivers boasters and HERETICKS and stir up nothing but Wars Plagues and Vexation they Teach only reproachfull words they strive about words they dispute about the Shell and let the Kernel lye also they know nothing thereof for the kernel is a Mystery to them they Dance about the Calf as in Moses time and leave Moses alone with God in the Mount and likely slight whatsoever he shall say when he cometh from the Mount 116. They take not themselves concerned though Israel be destroyed nay rather they will help towards it and put the Sword into the Hands of violence thus the Anger of God will have it that he may but devour THOSE who are NOT Gods children and seek not God but their own honour 117. But he is a ture Christian who is Obedient to CHRIST And when those uproar-or Alarum-Masters Cry out here is the Church of Christ or there is the Church of Christ Behold he is in the Wildernesse He is in the Chamber Also in the Supper And the other saith no he is not there goe not then forth for CHRIST saith Behold I am all the dayes with you even to the End of the World as the Lightining Springs up in the East and shineth to the West so will also continually and even in Eternity be the Coming of the Sonne of Man for where a Carkasse is thither the Eagles gather together 118. CHRIST is alwayes the true Christians Carkass his Lightning is continually IN them they continually Eat his Flesh and Drink his Bloud and forsake boasting and playing the Herotick they contend with none they have no contention Christ is with them they are generated or born out of Christ and Live in him they seek only how they may doe his Will 119. Hath Christ made us free from the Law of Sinne what need we then long hunt after any other why should we despise and persecute others since we are all extracted or begotten out of ONE Soul and Body 120. In Adam we fell with thst ONE only soul into Death and Eternall Darknesse In Christ we become again New-born in that same ONE only soul And nothing More is wanting but that we all should Enter again into THAT ONE only soul of Christ and become ONE in CHRIST again and not Two 121. As the Libeller shamefully falsifies it as to Adam and hides and obscures the true Ground and in the sted thereof sets up a plea as Advocate for the Devill whereas he knoweth very well that the Authour in his Book hath rejected that thing yet he will set it up again and the Pasquill or Libeller is ready for that End and purpose if any understand the Matter Syrach saith He that throweth emong the Dogs and hits one it will be discerned well enough which he hits 122. Observe I pray his holinesse when he makes such an Introduction that he can give the Authour up to the Devill then he holdeth it forth for a great piece of Holinesse that he will not Judge the Authour but leave the judgment of him to them to whom it belongeth where likely he means the Devill or the Hangman as he all along pronounceth the Authour to be a Devill 123. O Great Babylonish holinesse Mind repentance or else thou wilt not eat of Christs Carkasse The Authour is no Devill but seeketh his Carkasse CHRIST and Destreth nothing Else 124. Christ saith How will you that are evill or wicked speak that which is Good also Can a Man gather Grapes of Thorns or sigs of Thistles If a Toad did sit under a sweet-smelling Medicinall Hearb or in an Apothecaries Shop of Precious Oyntments or did Eat nothing but Sugar and dainty Spice yet it would suck only poyson out of all and continue an evill Toad still 125. And so it is also with an Envious Man that sucks only poyson out of all that is very Good He turns all to the worst he cryeth down that thing for Evill which is better then himself for every property desireth only its like the other is contrary to it Number I. Page 5. 126. THere the Libeller begins to reprehend that which stands written in my Preface viz Till the Prince of Light came out of the Heart of God and became a Man in Nature and wrestled in his humane Body in the power of the Divine Light in the wild Nature that Kingly or Royall Branch or Twig grew up in Nature and became a Tree 127. What fine knowledge he hath concerning the Soul of Man and of the right Man is here easie to be traced he rejects this description and understandeth nothing thereof how the Author's mind and thoughts are for it is written in a Magick understanding for the Author himself who knew not of this Libeller or of any other reader He supposed he had made a Labour for himself only but God hath turned it otherwise 128. But that the Libeller perverts the Authour's meaning and Mind and Thoughts very soolishly and giveth it a strange understanding a simple Man may very well understand it though indeed the Libeller with Consutation is so blind that he knoweth not what he babbles He speaks just nothing of the meaning of the Authour but brings another sense in to it that he may have but somwhat to reprehend 129. For the Authours Text is very right but the Pasquill or Libeller understandeth nothing therein which by the foregoing Words of that Text is Demonstrated very well to him what the Authour saw if he had rightly taken in the Magick understanding else he should have let it quite alone 130. The Authour had under his
Substance and Beeing we cannot perceive or think upon it better in a similitude then in Fire and Light that is a direct or Exact similitude 151. The Fire signifieth the Eternall Nature which ariseth originally in the Desire in the Eternall Will continually from Eternity in Eternity where the Eternall Will-spirit out of the Eternall Nothing viz. out of the Liberty of the Deity manifesteth or revealeth it self by or with its going forth into the Desire of Nature and divideth it self into two worlds or Principles viz. Darkness and Light 152. Where each World hath its Center to the source or quality in it self and yet neither departed away from the other but ONE world is in the OTHER the Light holdeth the darkness captive but the darkness is a cause of the fire and the fire is a cause of the Light For in the Harsh or astringent and stern darkness arise the Essences or the source or quality of fire and Nature 153. Now we see plainly in the fire and Light a twofold source or quality and desire and we see also how the fire burneth out of a Dark Substance which signifieth the Dark world dwelling in it self 154. The Fire signifieth the Eternall Nature in the Fathers Will in the Desire to Manifestation or Revelation the Light signifieth the Eternall Liberty without besides or beyond Nature which manifesteth Nature in Substance 155. The Fire hath in it self the dark worlds fierce wrathfull Essence and the Light hath in it self the Eternall Liberty viz. a meek soft quiet still Habitation or delight 156. But now the Liberty and Meekness without the fire would not be manifested or revealed but would be a still Nothing and the fire also would have no Glance or Lustre without the Liberty and so the fire and Light would be Nothing without the Desire that is the Center to the Genetrix and holdeth or containeth in it self the FIAT of the word 157. And in the Desire becometh Generated the Eternall Word or the understanding also the wisdome as also the Anger-Looking-Glasse out of the Root of the dark Center 158. And we see further how the Fire dwelleth in the Light and the Light in the Fire and one comprehendeth not the other the Light becometh generated in the fire viz. out of the dying or Consumptibility it shineth out of the Death and sincketh downe to the Death in it self and maketh in it self another source or quality then the fire is another Principle where another Life goeth forth viz. Meekness and amiable delight whereas in the fire there is only anguish and paine 159. For we see that the Light is as it were a Nothing in respect of the Fire and its Root for it is incomprehensible and it signifieth to us the Eternall Liberty without besides or beyond Nature viz. the Divine Substance and the Angelicall world and yet it is All for it is all power of all Essences out of the Fire and out of Nature in the Light and is a Life of the understanding also of Reason and Sensibility or Thoughts whereas in fire is nothing but an opposite or Coutrary will to be understood 160. For the formes of the fire Nature are themselves at Enmity one with another the Harshness Bitterness and Anguish are one against another which are the fires Root where in the Desire standeth the harshness and in the harshness the drawing where the Nothing becometh brought into Somwhat and the will overshaddoweth it self with that which is drawn in 161. Whence in the Desire a darkness and Overshadowing exists and then also out of the first desire the other or second Will to go out from the Darkness and yet there is no flying away from one another but the other or second Will entereth into it self into the Liberty without besides or beyond the Desire in the Darkness and so bringeth the property of Nature along with it 162. That fiery property is the Liberties viz the Nothings Revelation or Manifestation for thus existeth the Glance or Lustre and shineing For in the Liberty is the property which is brought along with the other or second will put into the still meek delightfull habitation and out of that very property a Love-desire cometh to be 163. Thus the Fire and the Light in a sunilitude signifieth to us the divine Substance also the Soul and its Image The MATTER out of which the Fire burneth signifieth the Forms to the Eternall Nature and the Dark world and the FIRE signifieth the property of the Father 164. The GLANCE or Lustre of the Fire signifieth the Liberty without besides or beyond Nature The shining or the LIGHT signifieth the other or second world viz another or second Principle which becometh generated out of the first viz out of the Fathers property and the Sonne of God out of the Father 165. The POWER or vertue of the shining of the Light signifieth the Heart of God viz the Divine Center as also the understanding ' Ingenium or Wit and Wisdome for in the power of the Light standeth the Right Life 166. The twofold Spirit which originateth in the Fire with a twofold source or quality viz Heate and Aire signifieth to us in a similitude the Spirit of God the HEATE signifieth the Anger and fierce wrath of God according to the Eternall Nature of the dark world according to the property of the fierce wrath And the Meek AIREY signifieth the property of Meek Light in the Love-desire out of the source or quality of the Light 169. The MEEKNESSE of the Light signifieth to us in a similitude the Divine Substantiality or the water of the Eternall Life wherein Paradise is understood and in the fiery property Heaven 168. Now we see how all Fire draweth the Aire again to it self and burneth in the power of the Aire for where Fire can have no Aire there it extinguisheth for the Aire bloweth up the Fire and bringeth the Substantiality of the Light into the Fire again viz the Meeknesse of the Light understand the Watery Matter whence the Glance in the Fire Originateth 169. For the Meeknesse originateth from the Liberty without besides or beyond the Fires Nature viz in the Nothing and they ever pant the one after the other The Fires or the Natures fierce wrath panteth after the Meeknesse and the Liberty or the Nothing panteth after the Manifestation or Revelation which in Nature becometh Manifested or Revealed 170. Now we see that the Light affordeth a very friendly richly Joyfull Spirit out of the source or quality of the Fire that friendly and richly amiable aspect or Spirit originateth out of the indrunk waters source or quality of Meeknesse viz out of the Liberty 171. And in that the Fire draweth the Lights meek Substantiality into it self thereby it giveth forth that indrunk meek Spirit through the fierce wrath of Death through the Consumptibility into the Light again and bringeth the Nature-property along with it as we may apprehend by the Aire that it is a power of Every Life and
out of the heart of God came not But it was the Soul out of the eternall Fathers Nature which had through its Imagination and Lust introduced Death and Earthlinesse into it self and awakened the Dark worlds fierce wrathfulnesse in the Anger of God and there was no Remedy neither in Heaven nor in this world unlesse the Prince of the Love of God came and wrestled with the fierce wrathfull Anger of God and quenched the same in the Humane Soul 230. And therefore the Prince of the Love of God viz Gods own Heart became A MAN in the humane Nature in humane Essence not in a strange One as the Libeller wonderfully brings it in here also not in the Wilde of the Starres and Elements not in Beastiall Flesh of the Corrupt or perished out-birth of the Four Elements it is not in that Essence that the Deity is united it is not the Wild Adamicall Flesh which Christ assumed to himself as the Libeller explaineth it who yet hath no understanding at all of the Essence wherein God is become MAN 231. Adam's Soul had not an outward four Elementary Body on it for it stood in Gods Love in Paradise Paradise is not Four-Elementary it standeth not in FOUR Elements but in ONE It is the Divine delight or Habitation 232. God dwelleth not in the Out birth of the Four Elements but in Heaven in the pure Element that is his Spirits Corporeall Substantiality and that Substantiality Adam had also for a Body and stood in the outward Body as the Gold hidden in the Course or drossie Stone 233. The Inward Body keepeth the outward body hidden as the Light doth the Darknesse and the Spirit of God dwelleth in the Inward body for it containeth in it self the Second Principle viz the Kingdome of Heaven an Image of the Divine Substantiality the Soul hath its Meeknesse therein it did Eate of that very Body wherein God dwelt Its Fire became allayed or Meekened therefrom for it received therein Gods Love and Meeknesse 234. But as soon as the Souls Fire began and Imagined according to the Earthlinesse and would Eat of the four Elements and Starres then the outward Kingdome viz the Third Principle drew-in the first Principle into the Souls Fire and also into the heavenly Body and obscured the Noble Image so that it fell into inability into Sleep Then it was in inability as it were captivated in Death for the Earthly Source or Quality dwelt now therein whence the Souls Fire became fierce wrathfull stinging and Murtherous for it must now eate Evill and Good and the Noble Image of the Similitude of God Disappeared 235. Now when God saw that the Noble Image was disappeared or vanished and that the outward kingdome became Lord in it His Mercy Pittied it and promised it the Womans Seed and crusher of the Serpent and sayd * The seede of the Woman shall Crush or Bruise the Head of the Servent which hath brought thee to Fall He sayd the Seed of the Woman should doe this 236. Understand in the right humane and heavenly Substantiality which in Adam was shut up in Death would God become Man Not in the Earthly introduced into the Noble Image and Soul into the right humane Nature of the second Principle in which God dwelt before Adams fall into that very Essence shut up in Death is Gods Word Entered THAT is the Seede of the Woman and the Word is Gods Seede 237. God was the Man or husband of it who sowed his Word or Heart into the Womans humane Essence understand in the Essence of the Soul and of the Flesh is God become Man Christ was One of the Persons of the Holy Trinity and is become Adam understand the second Adam out of and in the First and yet remaines to be what he was 238. He is not Strange to us but is our Brother as he sayd after his Resurrection Goe tell my Brethren I ascend to my God and to your God 239. If Christ had assumed on himself a strange Seede such as I am not and which in Adam I was not what would that help me where would my poor Soul remaine How could he then be the Womans seede or my Brother 240. He promised to Abraham not a strange Seede of the Woman but sayd In thy seede shall all People become blessed that is in Thine understand in the heavenly Substantiality in Adam shut up in Death shall the Messiah destroy Death And thy seede that is in which thou in Adam wert put to Death shall in Christ in Gods Blessing Live againe Christ shall live in THEE in thy Image and thou in HIM thou and Christ shall become one he the Body thou his Member 241. It concerned God not only as to a Sacrifice whereby his Anger should be appeased that he let his Heart become Man and let his Sonne be Crucisied that so his will might be reconciled No But it concerned him as to his substance that in Adam was become shut up in Death that was it his Sonne should make living againe 242. For we belive a Resurrection of our Bodyes which we had here it is Not the Earthly Body that is the Image which shall live eternally but the Heavenly which the Earthly Body HERE holdeth captive in Deaath 243. But if Christ become born therein then it is no more in Death but liveth in Christ and is only covered with the Earthly Body and therefore must Christ when he dyed on the Crosse enter into Death into the Anger of God 244. The Love of God in Christ went in the humane Soul into the first Principle viz into the source or quality of the Anger in the Fathers Nature and kindled the fierce wrathfull Anger-source or Quality in the Soul with Gods Love and Meeknesse whence the Divine Light burnt forth again That was Poyson to Death and a Pestilence to Hell for Love and Anger are Contraries 245. Now if Christ had not assumed Adams and Abrahams Naturall seede as the Libeller saith how then is he the Sonne of Man Is he only a Seede come from Heaven and hath assumed nothing from Man but a humane covering to himself so that he only dwelt in Man without any property of the humane Essence what would that availe my perished Soul 246. Hath he not assumed the humane Nature to himself then he it Not the Sonne of Man or My Brother as he calleth himself every where the Sonne of Man 247. The Libeller saith I will make Christ Naturall Is he not become Naturall then can he not be the Sonne of Man also not the Seede of Woman much lesse Abrahams Seede 248. But that the suttle Libeller will make the Virgin MARY supernaturall and saith shee was begotten or Extracted out of the Seede of God e're Christ became conceived in her and will thereby bring a strange seede thereinto which is not humane that is very Hereticall and Antichristian and he should doe well to smell into
lost the Life understand the right Divine Life of his Noble Image and that hath Christ brought again he hath generated that Image out of Death againe the living Word out of Gods Heart is entered into the Image shut up in Death and hath assumed or taken THAT Essence to himself and become a true Man such a Man to whom the outward Body only hung which stood swallowed up in the right Image but in the outward World manifest 271. He hath also therewith put on again to the Soul the holy Body viz the Innocent or Immaculate and into that holy Body hath taken a humane Soul out of Mary's Souls Essence-seede therefore must Christ afterwards be Tempted and want the outward food for Forty Dayes 272. For the Soul must be tempted to try whether now in that holy Body it would Eate of Gods Substance and satiate it self and therefore it was permitted to the Devill to Tempt the Soul 273. Seeing he Excused himself that he could not stand because the Matrix of the fierce wrathfull Nature had drawen him too hard therefore now he should tempt and try it with THIS Man as he had also tempted and tryed it with Adam and overcame him 274. Therefore God sent another or second Adam and set him upon the Kingly Throne which he had there he should tempt or try with him whether he could also give him a Fall He now set before him the Glory of this outward World viz the outward Eating or foode 275. And though indeed that was not at hand therefore that he should with his Noble Image and Divine strength goe into the outward and command Stones to become bread to try whether he could bring it to that that the Noble Image might yet become captivated and shut up in Death 276. And then he set before him the Great power and authority he had he should with the Divine Omnipotency in the outward kingdome flie from the Temple to try whether he might introduce him into the outward Lust so that Gods Love Spirit might depart from this Image whereas the Deity was only humble and Lowly he would introduce him into Pride 277. Thirdly he set before him the Dominion of the Outward world he should be a Lord in the Third Principle that he would let him only be a Lord in the Inward should fall downe and pray unto him or worship him 273. For the Devill had to doe about the Kingly Seate that this Man was to possesse Therefore it was permitted to him viz to the Devill to Tempt HIM so that if he stood the Devill should remaine a Lyer and his Judgement be upon his own Lying Mouth or Tongue The Conception and Becoming Man or Incarnation of Jesus Christ is with its Circumstances as followeth 279. WHen the Divine Image in Adam was vanished or disappeared Then God pittied it and would that this Image might be helped againe and Promised to Adam and Eve the Crusher of the Serpent viz the Word and Power of the Deity that should take the Womans seede understand the disappeared Image Essence into it self and therewith destroy the sting of the Devill and the Anger of God in the Soul 280. That very Promised Word stood neverthelesse presented to the Noble Image now shut up in Death and desired its former dwelling house of its similitude for a Delightfull habitation 281. But by or with the Promise it hath set it self before the Soul againe in the Light of the Life of the Soul and set a Limit or Mark thereto whereby it would againe enter into the in Death inclosed right humane Essence and awaken the Life from Death 282. That Limit or Mark was set in Mary the Virgin and became blessed in the Word of Promise in Paradise and stood as a Center or Limit of the Humanity 283. Gods Heart had promised and espoused or united it self in that Limit or Mark That Limit or Mark became adorned with the highly precious Virgin of the wisdome of God viz with the Looking Glasse or Eye of the Holy Spirit indeed not with any strange thing but with the first Life understand the Divine of the Noble Image in Adam from which Adams Soul went forth into the Spirit of this outward world viz into the source or quality of the Starres and Elements whose Center is the Abysse of the first Principle 284. This blessed Limit or Mark was promised to the Fathers viz to Adam Abraham David and others O how have the Prophets delighted and rejoyced at this Limit or Mark the sacrifices of the Jewes were a Type of this Limit or Mark. 285. For when Adam had lost the pure and faire Image understand the power of the Heart of God which stood in his body of the Heavenly Substantiality as a Center of the Deity then stood the Soul barely in the Fathers Property understand the Eternall Nature which without the Light of God is a fierce wrathfull and Consuming fire 286. For the Soul is out of that Center viz out of the Eternall Nature of the Father and therefore was that Soul in Israel lead so long a while even unto the Limit or Mark in the Father Nature 287. The Law on Mount Sinai was given in Fire and Thunder in the Fathers Nature and Moses was also called in the Bush by the Fire-flame in the Fathers Nature 288. And Christ also sayd thus when he came in the Flesh Father the Men were thine and thou hast given them to ME and I give them Eternall Life 289. That highly blessed Limit or Mark stood in the Grace Covenant of the Sacrifices with or in Israel The Sacrifices were a Signe or Type of the Limit which God set before them and Israel became in the Sacrifices through the Limit or Mark ransomed from sinne 290. Israel offered Sacrifice with the bloud of Beasts that Gods Imagination looked upon through the Limit or Mark of his Covenant since Man was become Earthly therefore God set the Limit or Mark before himself for a Covenant of Grace that his Imagination might not enter into the Earthly source or quality and that his anger Fire might not be awakened with Mans Earthlinesse and Sinne and so he devoure them as was done by Eliah 291. The Circumcision of the Jewes was also this that Israel must shed its Bloud and that Gods Imagination looked on through the Limit or Mark of his Covenant For Christ should destroy Death with the shedding of his bloud It should fall into the Anger of God viz into the Souls Fire and quench the kindled Fire of God 292. Therefore now God Imaged or represented to himself in the Covenant the bloud-shedding of Christ and quenched with this Imagination the fierce wrath in the Soul and through THAT became Israel saved such as with earnest sincerity have set or put their Will and Imagination into the Covenant they have received or conceived the power of the Limit or Mark in the Covenant viz
into the Substantiality of this World and there the Divine Light shineth not 515. And then it had nothing in this Worlds Substance wherewith it could kindle the Eternall Fire source or quality but only the Earthly Substance wherewith the Soul kindled its Fire-source so now also there shone a Sun-and Starre-Light according to the Principle of this World in the Soul and Extinguished the Light of God it gat a Sun-Light instead of the Eternall Light wherein it had been an Angel 516. But as to what belonged to its Center or Originall it was in the Dark World that was its Ground and according to the outward Light it was in this world and so now when the Body decaseth then the Sun-Light is destroyed and the Soul standeth Naked in the Dark World 517. Therefore God brought Divine Substantiality into the faded disappeared Image of Man and brought it into the Anger viz into the Fire of the Fathers Nature and kindled againe the faded disappeared Substantiality of the Image so that the Soul could againe eat of the Divine substantiality and allay or meeken its Fire whence the Noble Image riseth againe out of Death into another World viz into the Liberty without besides or beyond Nature into the Light of the Majesty 518. As the Power viz the Second Center ariseth up out of the Death of the Fire of the Father into another World viz into it self so also doth the Noble Image of Man It is all but one and the same Entrance into the Divine Life 519. And this letteth the Great Mysterie Mysterum Magum befound by you through Gods Grace this letteth the Root of the Tree stand open to you if you be seeing and Not blinde not through conceits of Stories but through a kindled Spirit out of Gods Grace through seeing and not by conjecture whether it be true or no. 520. I need no wrested forced strange cited Scriptures to demonstrate it I can demonstrate it in all things I have all the THREE Worlds together with all Creatures for a witnesse and yet I am Dumb or Mute to the unenlightened I see and am NOT seen my self 521. My Sir Libeller Whence will you then take the Originall of the Devill you will not allow the Devill to be a Great part of the Deity according to the Fathers Nature whereas yet Lucisor is by Christ himself called a Great Prince Now if you will not allow that then shew me another Nature out of which the Devill was Created than out of the Divine 522. You must necessarily allow that the Devills were Angells now then Angells are children of God out of Gods Substance they are Creatures and a Creature must needs be out of or from Nature now if they be Eternall Creatures then they are also proceeded out of the Eternall Nature and that is God the Fathers in the First Principle 523. For you indeed know that the Devills have the properties of Gods Anger and of the Dark World and so also have all wicked Souls of Men From whence else will they have their properties than from their Mother which hath generated them if here you will not understand then God help you 524. The wicked Soul goeth certainly out of this World into the Dark World into the Eternall Nature into its Mother out of which it is gone forth and proceeded and wherein it standeth Naturally why should God else be willing to cast the Soul into Hell-Fire into that source or quality if it were not proceeded out of that source 525. The Soul of the wicked goeth together with the Devills againe into that place out of which it went forth in the beginning of its Creation viz into the Center to Nature and the Righteous go through the Death of the Fire through Christs Love-Fire into the Eternall Life into the Liberty without besides or beyond Nature in the Light 526. When God Created the Angells then the Father moved himself according to the Eternall Nature his desire comprised the Essence out of his Substance wherein stood the Wisdome of all Wonders Thus out of Nature are Creatures come to be according to the Property of every Essence 527. In the Essence have the Angells and Devills and also Souls been from Eternity and have been seen in the Wisdome but they went into Creatures in the beginning of the Moving of God the Father 528. What have I now done to the Libeller in that I have written it was God against God Do you not understand that The Devill was a Great Prince of the Place of this World Created in the Moving of the Fathers Nature he Imagined according to his Mother He should have set his Imagination in the Light in the Love and Meeknesse of God And then he would have continued Gods child and an Angel 529. But he let the fierce Wrath draw him and looked back into his Mother and Imagined into the Fires property and would be a Lord of the Light World he would be above God thus with his Elevation he kindled the Substantiality of his Throne of the place or space of this World out of which Earth and Stones are come to be which God with the Moving in the Fiat afterwards Created 530. Wilt thou know this in very plain termes in brief then observe it When the Substance of all Substances had once moved it self then all Formes would be Creaturely for out of the One only Will which hath been from Eternity hath in the Substance of all Substances gone forth the Wills Forme according to Every Property in the Wrestling Wheele of Nature 531. But Luciser had the Light if he had not now gazed Back into the Center of Nature he had been one of the Brightest Princes for where there is Great Fire there is also great Light 532. Enough concerning Him we shall be enough understood by those that are OURS but for the proud self-conceited Spirits we have set a fast Lock and Seale before it that they cannot apprehend our sence or thoughts also we shall herein mention no more to the Wanton in pleasure and voluptuousnesse but let it remaine for the Lilly 533. The Libeller Blames me very much He saith I have written that the Devill is like God if he did set that down with Truth it is when he was an Angel for then he was indeed like God for God had through and in him made himself Creaturely but when he became a Devill then he lost the Divine Principle and became like Gods Wrath. 534. Now therefore the Strife was effected only in Gods Anger For with the first Imagination he lost the Love and could no more reach the Heart of God What should God now doe to the false or wicked apostate or revolted Will He gave him Hellish-Fire which he desired to devoure instead of the Love since he would not have the one he must have the other they were indeed both his what he chose that he had 535. But that it is said God could not withstand the Malicious
and Elements Through Dying the outward Substance of the source or quality becometh broken off and then the Image of God appeareth or shineth 336. Understand it right Christ had in Mary assumed all the Three Principles on to himself but in Divine Order or Ordinance not mixed as Adam did who introduced the outward Kingdome through the Imagination into the Inward into the Soul Fire whence the Light extinguished 337. He had on himself that is on to the Limit or Mark of the Living Covenant assumed on to the Living Substantiality the Souls Essence viz the first Principle and then the Essence of the Image of the Second Principle and then the outward Kingdome the Third Principle for he should be Lord of All. 338. He became after the End of Four Months a living Soul which now stood in the Image but the Deity was in the Image the Center which neither receives Addition or Diminution the Divine Substantiality also receives neither Addition nor Diminution it becometh neither lesse nor bigger only it hath manifested or revealed it self in the Humane Image and generated it to Life 339. Thus in Maryes Conception in her Seed a Living Essence arose no more shut up in Death not a sinfull One for where Gods Light shineth forth there is no sin within Sin originateth in that place where Gods Light shineth Not but where it shineth there is meer Love and Mecknesse 340. The Heart of God was the Ceâ—â—â— in the Person of Christ the Essences were with the Moving of the â—â—ity sanctified and Enlightened understand according to the Second Principle for the Divine and humane Essence became Flesh and Bloud and became a Man One only Person 341. The outward Kingdome hung to the inward but the inward had now in this Person the Dominion the outward was Servant therefore saith the Scripture he took upon him the Forme of a Servant that he might release us from Servitude or Bondage 342. Thus I say What Christ is according to our humane Image and according to the Soul therein he is a Creature like us assumed from us but what he is according to the Deity and according to the Divine Substantiality with that he is above Nature and higher then the Heaven and is as to that no Creature but GOD himself 343. But his Divine Substance is IN his Creature viz in the Humanity manifest he is according to the Humanity such a person as Adam was before his Imagination and Fall he is the second Adam 344. The First Adam should possesse the Kingly Seate but seeing he stood not therefore God generated to himself another or second Adam out of the First Now if he had not been Naturall then he had been unlike the first Image also he had not been the Sonne of Man as the Libeller supposeth 345. Had he not had a Naturall Soul then he had not in the Person had all the Three Principles What should he then have committed into the Hands of his Father at that present when he dyed on the Crosse or what had suffered on the Tree of the Crosse if he had not been Naturall 346. When he was risen from the Dead he shewed himself to his Disciples and said Behold me a Spirit hath not Flesh and Bones as yo see me have Why then doth the Libeller say that it is I that would make Christ according to his holy immaculate humanity Naturall I am not the first that make him Naturall He is my Brother and the sonne of Man therefore he must needs be Naturall yes the very Angells are Naturall 347. But That he saith I have written that he became a Man in the Wilde viz in the Outward Birth that is NOT true The Text in my writing saith thus and he wrestled in his humane Body in the Power of the Light in the wilde Nature Hath he not in Hell and on the Tree of the Crosse wrestled with Gods Anger Hath he not Dyed and taken away from our Wilde Nature the sting of Death 348. The Libeller saith Christ is not from Adam's Naturall Seed if that were true then he is not the sonne of Man then hath not God assumed the humanity Naturally the Word is indeed become Flesh and is it not become Flesh in the Humanity Then let the Libeller Tell me how Christ came to be the sonne of Man or where remaines our Salvation or Redemption the Resurrection of our Flesh 349. Is Christ not in our Flesh then he will not awaken or raiseus up What doth his Wounds help me if they are in stronge Flesh Hath not the blinde Libeller seen that in my whole Book I have distinguished the Earthly and the Heavenly Man What need he mix himself in the Magick understanding and find fault with that of which he hath no knowledge understanding or Ground let him read my Book of the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ he would find more then he can fathom 350. But that he will say that Christ is become Man in the promised Seed and Not in Adam's and Abraham's What is that Seed You see that very Promised Seed hath breathed it self into the Humanity and God and Man is become ONE Person 351. He saith Christ viz the Eternall Word hath assumed the Seed of the pure holy Virgin Elected to it from Eternity which dyed away from Nature and was totally blessed in God viz the fore-mentioned Seed of Abraham Tell me Libeller Who is that Virgin that hath dyed away from Nature then she must be a Monster without a Soul without Flesh and Bloud and No Man-kind 352. What need God assume to himself heavenly Seed into his Substance was not his Substance for certain on him from Eternity What doth that help us But that he is Entered into our humanity and awakened or raised up our in Death inclosed Seed and make it Living againe that I rejoyce at that I may truly say that my Flesh suteth at the Right hand in the Power of God 353. If Christ hath assumed to himself any other Seed then my Inward Man is how then can my inward Man Eat his Flesh and Drink his Bloud 354. Sir Libeller Erre not God will not suffer himself nor his children to be mocked we suppose easily that you are altogether blind still in the Mystery of God you know nothing of the inward Man much lesse of the New Regeneration learne first rightly to understand the Principles and the Center of Nature before you Judge you will needs be one taught of God or Learned in God and yet know not one Letter in THAT Schoole 355. By Nature you understand only the outward Kingdome what kinde of Nature then hath the Soul I suppose here your Art will know nothing of it you know Nothing of the inward Man which is the similitude of God and yet will Judge you understand not what God is and yet you will Judge Gods Children you are justly to be condemned in this 356. You bring places of Scripture and
understand them not and besides you expound my sence and Mind altogether falsly Who hath called you that you should explaine my obscure deep hidden Writing I had written as a young child in the Mystery of God when I was first come into that Schoole and hung still to the A. B. C come you or any other to this Dance and you will well see whether you can be instantly a Doctor or no. 357. Such a foolish understanding as you impute to me I would scarce look for in a Cow have a care and consider how you will be able to answer it in the presence of God If your Fiction should prevaile then instantly would another Antichrist be generated or born 358. You come marching on with a twofold Seed in Adam one must be Christs Seed and the other Adams Naturall Seed and found the Election of God upon it but you look upon this Mystery as a Cow looketh upon a New Barne Door you understand nothing of it you can not explaine and set it downe with any ground what the Seed of the Noble Image is and yet you will Judge 359. Indeed thou layest a snare before Mens Souls especially the dejected sad sorrowfull Tempted Souls so that many a one thinketh thus with himself saying who knowes whether I be begotten or extracted out of a right Seed out of Christ especially when he feeleth the Assaults of Temptation then he should seek comfort in this Libell 360. You say the Gracious Election is a great Comfort to the children of Christ when they feele Gods Grace in them viz the Womans Seed but where shall he rest that is Assaulted and Tempted by the Devill he may well in your writings despaire he would think continually he were out of or from Adam's Seed and that God will none of him 361. If you will speak so of the Grace-Election then you must not leave out the Love of God which willeth not the Evill you should joyne with it that which Christ saith Father the Men were thine and thou hast given them to Me and I give them the Eternall Life Also Father I will that those whom thou hast given Me be where I am Also I am come to call the sinners to repentance and not the Righteous there is in Heaven among the Angells of God more Joy at one sinner that Repenteth then at Ninety-nine righteous that need Repentance And As true as I live saith the Lord I will not the Death of a sinner but that he turne and live 362. If you will prove any thing with Cain and Abel with Issac and Ishmael also with Esau and Jacob then learne first to understand the Three Principles what the drawing to Good and to Evill is reject not Nature learne first to distinguish the Eternall Nature from the beginning inceptive Nature else you will but lay a snare upon the Bodyes and Souls of your Disciples or Schollers and will but tumble or Grope in the Dark in meere doubting 363. You will build high and yet a Man can find no sufficient ground in all your writing It is as to the Mystery but a fighting with a shaddow Tell me if you be a Master and have an enlightened Mind and Thoughts as you suppose What are the Two Seeds in Adam out of one of which Cain out of the other Abel is generated or borne Is that the Predestinate Purpose of God as you conceit it then demonstrate it 364. You must understand the Birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity if you will Judge thereof also the understanding of the Dark World also of the fierce Wrath and of the Love of God what God is in Love and Anger what a Devill or an Angel is and how he came to be a Devill 365. Also you must understand the Mysterie of the Divine wisdome Especially you must understand how the Deare Name of God Originateth from Eternity How the Nothing becometh introduced into Nature so that out of the Nothing a source or quality cometh to be If you understand not THESE things then stay with your conceits at home read my Book of the Threefold Life of Man and you will see with other Eyes 366. Christ saith You must be borne anew through Water and the Holy Spirit else you cannot see the Kingdome of God He saith YOU not a stranger YOUR SELF 367. There doth not come another strange Creature into us when we become born out of Christ but when we put our whole desire into God into the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ into his suffering and Dying and become sorry for our sinnes and desire Gods Mercy in Christ then our Souls Will-Spirit goeth forth from sinne and Evill or Malice and entereth into the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ viz into the Heavenly Substantiality which is greater then all and there the Will-Spirit cometh before the Center viz before the Heart of God 368. That Heart of God is desirous of the Humanity and that graspeth with its desire into the Will-Spirit after the Humanity and thus the Will-Spirit receiveth the Power of the Center viz a Sparkle of the Divine Power 369. And that Sparkle hath on it self the Divine Substantiality viz the Water of the Eternall Life out of the Majesty of God and therein the Wisdome with the Heavenly Tincture this the Will-Spirit which is become generated out of the Soul bringeth againe with great Joy into the Souls-Fire 370. And when the Soul-Fire tasteth the sweet Love and Meeknesse in it self in its own Essence then the Essence is so very vehemently terrified that it appeareth overcome as it were dead and loseth its Fiery right and the Fiery Essence falleth into the Meeknesse of the Love viz into the Liberty of God without besides or beyond Nature and yeeldeth it self captive to the Meeknesse viz to the Lights property and is as if it were of the Fiery property and yet were not of it this is a terrour of Great Joy and the Aspect of God in the Divine Power whence Body and Soul doe tremble for Joy 371. For thus the Soulish Fire becometh put out of the Earnest severe paine of the fierce wrath of God of the Eternall Fires Essence and property into another source or quality viz into a Love-Desire for the Light of God kindleth it self in the Souls-Fire for when the Meeknesse and Love Desire cometh into the Magick Souls-Fire then the Love and Meeknesse feeleth the Great Life out of the Fathers Nature 372. For the Meeknesse is a Sinking downe it is the Water-Spirit and without the Great Life is as it were dead in comparison of the Fire but when it cometh into the Fire it becometh as vehemently terrified as the Fire in it and the terrour is the kindling of its Life and of the Light 373. Seeing then the Soul in the beginning of its Creation was cloathed and adorned with this Heavenly Substantiality and it was the Souls right inward Body and that the Soul in Adam is gone
Soul viz in the Fathers Principle in the sound for it hath by its entrance into the Anger set the Looking Glasse of his Covenant viz the Virgin of the Divine Wisdome before the Soul that it should behold it self therein 555. The Wisdome saith continually Come then saith the Devill behinde it also Come now to which so Ever it goeth thereby it becometh Elected for a Childe 556. God letteth no Soul which hath Light to Extinguish its Light out of his predestinate purpose The Free-Will Extinguisheth it The Devill set himself in the forme of an Angel before the Soul that it might Imagine in Evill and Good thus then its Imagination eateth of Evill and Good and so the Soul becometh blinde and captivated in its Imagination 557. Else if God did harden any out of his predestinate purpose and did let his Light Extinguish out of his predestinate purpose then would not that be true which David saith in the 5. Psalme Thou art not a God that willest Evill indeed he permitteth it to come to passe that an honest vertuous Man becometh Evill when the Will inclineth into Evill then he letteth his Light Extinguish 558. But not out of his predestinate purpose so that he would not saine have that very Man surely he receiveth him if he cometh againe so long as a Man liveth in this Tabernacle he hath power to become the Childe of God for the Apostle saith also thus He hath given us power to become the Children of God 559. Understand not out of or from the Will of the Flesh viz of the outward World that belongeth not to Gods Kingdome but out of or from the Will of the Souls Spirit which becometh Generated or born in God For Gods predesfinate purpose is that the right Divine Will should alwayes become Generated out of the Soul which is done when the Soul entereth into the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ in that it becometh Generated or born againe to be Gods childe 560. For the Souls-Fire becometh introduced into Christs Death and Sprouteth againe with a New faire blossome out of the Death of Christ forth into the Divine Liberty into the Angelicall World 561. That very Blossome or Spirituall Will is Gods Will and in that very Will-Spirit the Soul is an Angel for it possesseth the Second Principle viz Gods Majesty it continually introduceth Divine Substantiality viz Christs Flesh which filleth the Heaven so that the Soul eareth of Christs Flesh and drinketh his Bloud John 6. out of the Water of the Meeknesse of the Eternall Life 562. Therefore I say with good Ground It is not Gods predestinate purposed Will that any one Man becometh Lost but it is from the Will of his fierce Wrath and Anger and of the Dark World and of the Devill 563. Therefore he is a false or wicked Judger and an Advocate of Gods Anger who will Judge and blame God and knoweth not the difference of what God is in Love and Anger and knoweth not whence an Evill and Good Will Originateth and yet will be a Judger he cryeth continually God God it is that doth a thing 564. The Prophets and Apostles have often called the Totall God according to Love and Anger as also according to all the Three Principles by ONE WORD but yet a Man should use a right understanding and make a distinction between Gods Love-Will and his Anger-Will 565. We see very plainly in Man that he willeth Evill and Good he would alwayes saine be an Angel and would also faine have the Pride in Covetousnesse and the Power of this World Men should search whence every Will taketh its Originall and not alwayes say God God God willeth it 566. He willeth only that which is like himself his Love viz the Right Name of God willeth only that we should Love God and our Neighbour and Continue in his desire and will HE willeth nothing else but that all Men should turne to him and goe out from fierce Wrath into the Love For the Love of God and of our Neighbour is the whole Law and the Prophets 567. On the Contrary his fierce Wrath and Anger which is the Roote of the outward World willeth its like to have sewell or wood for its Fire 568. Now being Gods Love hath set before Man the Looking-Glasse of his Wisdome in the becoming Man or Incarnation of himself why then doth he goe into the Anger Looking-Glasse and letteth the Devill sway him God indeed sendeth Prophets and Teachers out of his predestinate purpose who reveale and signifie to the World his Anger why doth Man follow Sinne 569. That must needs be a wonderfull thing that God should cause any to be called to come to HIM and yet would harden him out of his predestinate purpose that he Could not then God would be unrighteous Indeed the Lust of the Flesh and of the Devill hardeneth the Soul and holdeth it Captive 570. If God had willed the Evill or the Fall of Man then he would not have forbidden Adam the Tree of Good and of Evill viz the Lust or Pleasure of this World But if he hath forbidden him and hath also hardened him that he could not doe Gods Will who would now be righteous God or Man 571. As the Libeller supposeth that it is out of Gods predestinate purpose that two unlike sonnes were generated out of Adam an Evill and a Good and will make thereof two sorts of Seed hearken make two sorts of Souls and then it may be 572. When Adam became Earthly then he became drawne of the Spirit of this World and Gods Anger became Stirring in him then did the Soul give way that the Devill through the Spirit of the Outward World thrust in Evill Seed into the Soulish Essence for propagation which the Constellation of the Configuration hath increased so that a fratricide or brother Murtherour became generated but was that Gods predestinate purpose 573. Had not Adam made himself Earthly then would not Gods fierce wrath have become Manifest or revealed in him also then would the Constellation have had no power over the Soulish Seed 474. For the outward Kingdome should not have possessed and governed Man in the inward Image it should have been as an impotency or weaknesse in Man He was Paradisicall 575. But that it standeth written the Outward Man was Created to a Naturall Life thereby it is understood that Nature is a Ruler or Manifester of the Wisdome of God and then in the Mortall fall Eve is understood to be a Woman and not a Virgin of this World 576. Whereas it could not be otherwise and that Adam stood not in the Proba or Tryall he let him fall into the sleep of the Eternall Life and made a Naturall fleshly Woman out of him out of his Matrix and Rib. 577. For the spirit of the outward World had captivated Adam and introduced its substantiality into his Imagination whence he is such a Naked sfinking hard palpable cold bitter and hot Man
like a Beast and is not the Noble Image which is saded and disappeared in Death which is created out of heavenly substantiality 578. But that thou wilt not allow me this that in Man understand in the Third Principle a humane Image according to the Angelicall World out of the Heavenly substantiality hath stood in the Inward yet I say that Gods Spirit that in the Second Principle goeth forth out of the First viz out of the Souls Fire of the Father into the Second out of the Love and Light Fire into the Sonne was never at all without substance for it is the Driver forth of the Divine power and substantiality 579. Hath now the Light and Spirit of God been in Man viz in Adam then also hath Gods substantiality been therein For no Fire burneth in Gods Love unlesse it have DIVINE substantiality 580. Therefore saith Christ Whosoever eateth NOT the Flesh of the Son of Man he hath no part in HIM He understandeth the Corporeity of his unmeasurable Eternall Divine Substantiality in the Water of the Eternall Life and in the Tincture of the Power out of the Fire and Light in the Glance or Lustre of the Divine Wisdome out of the Words Body 581. Now if Adam hath been a totall sumilitude according to God then he must not only have had Earthly Substance for his Body if the Soul had had only Earthly source or quality to Eat then it had not had the prohibition but it had also the Corporeity of the Second Principle out of the Heavenly Substantiality that was the right Angelicall Image which became created in the Fiat of the Word 582. But the Outward Fiat according to the Outward Principle Created the Outward Man and God the Holy Spirit breathed himself thereinto according to the source or quality and property of all the Three Principles into the outward Image according to its outward Property viz the Spirit of the Great World Majoris Mundi of the outward World and the Angelicall Divine World according to the Love of Gods Heart and according to the Eternall Nature viz according to the Fire-World viz according to the Fathers Property the right Soulish viz the Center of the whole Man 583. In Brief what is it that Men should make many words Man was a Totall similitude according to God according to all the Three Worlds and their Properties and that he must be againe or must be a hunger-Spirit in the Dark World 584. What he maketh of himself that he is He standeth here in the Field or Soyle either there groweth out of him an Herb on Gods Table or an Herb in Gods fierce Wrath what kind of Essence so ever he will bring in the growing according to the relish of that it will also get a Mouth for it will eat either of the Love or of the Anger 585. The matter is not about the high knowledge only but about the tast or relish that any becometh the Bread of God which God Eateth It lyeth little in the knowing but all in the DOING it must be DOING the Evill Branches must be Cut off that good Wine may grow 586. We should not judge and condemn one another for the knowledge sake The Plow-Man knoweth lesse then the Doctor but he goeth many times before the Doctor into the kingdome of Heaven let us fall upon DOING that we may get Divine Essence into our Sprout let us reach after the LOVE and then we have ALL. 587. MY high Knowledge maketh me not happy or saved for I know not my self it is not Mine but Gods Spirit knoweth it self in ME he allures Me therewith to himself when he departeth or withdraweth then I know Nothing 588. I have not my knowledge at all from Man why should I then long contend with Man about it no Man can either give it me or take it away from me 589. I deal foolishly in that I Strive with thee for thou canst take nothing from me but it is done for the sake of other people which through thy Mouth abuse my knowledge else I would for thy Cursings and Judgings not lift up a Finger 590. Thou shoudst Converse in Love as a Christian if thou wouldst be Gods childe but if thou Judgest thy brother into Hell-Fire for the sake of his Gift what will become of thee how doest thou know what is befallen him that he runneth on thus How dost thou know upon what Branch or Roote God hath ingrasted him Thou wert not at all by when he did sow the Spirit of his Wisdome 591. You say it is from the Devill and there was Joy in Heaven in Ternario Sancto in the Holy Ternary especially in the Fathers Nature when this Seed was sowne I would NOT give the little Graine that was sowen into me for all this worlds good It is more deare to me than Heaven and Earth and thou treadest it underfoote do but see what manner of Angel thou art 592. Thou writest much and if thou shouldst goe with thy writings to the Center there would be no body at home thou gatherest many Texts of Scripture together which in themselves are GOOD that thou mightst settle a framed Opinion concerning that thou knowest no Ground for 593. Thou canst not bring the Opinion into the Center and then bring it out againe there is no Spirit of Depth in thee but collected Matter from others Mouthes and thy own Mouth understandeth it not 594. But I write what I my self understand and what I can bring into the Ground of the Center 595. Art thou a Master then shew thy self one give me a writing concerning the Center of the Eternall and also of the outward Nature let it be seen what thou canst do prove it in the Light of Nature and not from a strange Mouth Speak from your own knowledge and then I will Answer thee 566. Let thy contemining alone and do thou direct it to the honour of God and make if serve the profit and salvation of Man that it may be a Sprour upon Gods Table and I will Answer thee that thou wilt Wonder and if thou meanest piously wilt highly rejoyce thou wouldst neither seek nor find any Devill in Me. 597. There is a great earnestnesse in me to seek my Eternall kingdome in God God hath not promised me a Scorpion instead of an Egge he would not give me to the Devill when I prayed so earnestly to him for his Holy Spirit 598. The Devill sets not upon a Man a spirituall high Triumphant Crowne or Garland of Victory in Ternario Sancto in the Holy Ternary when a Man Fights against him He hath none of THAT which hath been done to this Spirit which thou callest a Devill and whence its knowledge proceeded 599. I write not for my own Fame which is in God but to Teach Men what they may expect from God if they will but come to the Ring or Lists of this Earnest Fight unlesse the outward voluptuousnesse in soft pleasure of the Flesh