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

Members they came to have entrailes in the Body and a stincking Sack of Worms full of woe and misery in anguish and Toyl as is mentioned in the Book of the Three Principles and so we see now before our eyes what manner of Paradisical Angels we are and how we must generate and nourish our selves in Anxiety care and Misery which should have been done after another manner 83. Thus we sufficiently know Adams Fall and why he could not continue in Paradise and what Paradise was which is still to this very day onely it beareth not Paradisical fruit and we have not the Paradisical source or Quality and Eyes and so we see it not 84. For God hath cursed the Earth for Mans sake so that Paradise springeth no more through the Earth for it is become a Mystery and yet it is continually there 85. And into that Mystery the souls of the Saints depart when the Earthly body separateth it selfe from the Soul 86. It is in this world and yet is out of this world for this Worlds quality or source toucheth it not 87. The whole World would have continued to be Paradise if Adam had Continued in Innocency but when God pronounced the Curse then Paradise departed 88. For Gods Cursing is fleeing It is a fleeing not departing away but a going into another Principle viz into himselfe 89. For the Spirit of God proceedeth forth from God into the Substantiality but when this Sustantiality became Earthly and that the Devil dwelt therein who was Gods Enemy then the Spirit of God passed into its own Principle viz into the Love and departed out of the Earthliness and there it standeth now presented to Man in the Light of Life 90. So that whosoever now desireth to Enter into the Love of God let him go with his will-Spirit into Paradise and then Paradise will spring up again into or in his will-Spirit and he will receive on-to his Image again the Heavenly Substantiality in which the Holy Spirit ruleth 91. Let this be a Pearl to you ye Children of Men for it is the true Ground whosoever seeketh and findeth it he hath meer Joy therein It is the Pearl which lyeth hid in the field for which one sold all his goods and bought the Pearl of which Christ speaketh 92. Thus also we may know the Cherubine which draw Adam and Eve out of Paradise viz the stern or strong Angel which signifieth the Cutter off of the Earthly life from Paradise where Body and Soul must part asunder 93. It is indeed known to Us that Adam and Eve were driven away out of the place where the Tree of Temptation stood for Paradisical fruit stood there which they should no more see nor Eat for the Heavenly belongeth not to the Earthly 94. Also the Beasts were driven out in respect of the Evil Tree for they could not eat of the Paradisical fruit but of this Tree Every beast could Eat for it was Earthly 95. Thus must they leave Paradise for God had clothed them through the Spirit of the Great World with the skins of Beasts instead of the Heavenly Clothing of clarity and brightness 96. And he had pronounced their sentence what they should doe and suffer in this World what they should thence forward Eat and how they should nourish themselves or get their living in Care and Misery till they should return altogether to the Earth from whence they were extracted as to one Part. The seventh Chapter Of the promised Seed of the Woman and Crusher of the Serpent 1. NOw then Adam and Eve standing thus as Man and Wife in Paradise and having yet the heavenly source or quality and Joy though Mixed the Devil could not endure that for his Envy was too great 2. Seeing he had overthrown Adam and brought down his Angelical form he looked now upon Eve viz the Woman out of Adam and thought she might conceive Children in Paradise and remain in Paradise thou wilt therefore seduce her that she may eat of the forbidden fruit and so she will become Earthly and then thou maist reach into her heart and bring thy Imagination into her and so shalt get her into thy Kingdom and thou shalt continue still Prince in the Third Principle upon Earth 3. Which he then also did and perswaded her to the Evil fruit so that she laid hold on the Tree and brake off an Apple and did Eat and gave also to Adam 4. Now when Adam saw that Eve did not Instantly fall down and dye he did Eat also for the Lust was in both of them 5. This is the Bitt upon which Heaven and Paradise departed where the Cherubine viz the Cutter off with the Naked Sword came and stood before the Door and suffered them no more to come into Paradise 6. His Sword was that of the destroying Angel which now cutteth Men with heart cold sicknesse necessity and Death and at last cutteth off the Earthly Life from the Soul 7. When this Sword was to be broken in the Death of Christ then the Earth Trembled and the Sun lost its things Light and the Rocks cleft in sunder before the strong Might of God which thus brake Death in peeces 8. Thus also the Graves of the Saints Opened and their Bodies went out from Death again for the Sword was broken and the Angel which Guarded Paradise was done away and the Bodys of the Saints went into Paradise again 9. But here when Adam and Eve did eat the Earthly fruit they fell among Murtherers who wounded them and cast them out and let them lie half dead 10. Their going forth out of Paradise is the † going from Jerusalem to Jerico for they went out of Heaven into this Evil corrupt World into the house of Sinne. 11. Where instantly in their Minds in the Centre of Nature the wheel of the Senses or Thoughts began to qualifie or Operate in the Earthly source or quality where one sense or thought was against and Contrary to the other where Envy Pride Covetousness Anger and Contrary opposite will sufficiently flowed forth upon heaps 12. For the Noble Light of Love was extinguished which maketh the fierce wrathful source or quality amiable friendly and meek in which the spirit of God worketh and the fair Virgin of Gods Wisedom resteth they went out from the fair Wisdome 13. God had created Adam in the chast Virgin of his Wisdome but he became in the presence and stead thereof an Evil Earthly Opposire Woman with which he must live in this beastial form in meer care anxiety and necessity 14. And out of his fair Garden of pleasure which he had in him there came an Opposite Thorny and Thistly Garden whence yet he somewhat sought the Virgin-like fruit 15. But it went with him as with a Theese who hath been in a fair Garden to keep it but is for his Theft cast out from it and yet would fain eat

which is more Noble then what it had devoured it giveth Spirit for substance 29. For it devoureth the Meek munificence or well doing that is the water of Eternal Life but it giveth the spirit of Eternal Life As ye see that the Wind goeth out of the fire as also the Air viz the right spirit out of the fire-life 30. Thus understand our Minde aright God the Father is in himselfe the Liberty without or beyond Nature but maketh himself manifest in Nature through the Fire the fiery Nature is his property 31. But he is in himself the Abyss wherein there is no feeling of any source quality or pain 32. But yet bringeth his desirous willing into source or quality and Createth to himself in the source or quality an other or second willing to go out of the source or quality again into the Liberty without or beyond the source or quality 33. That same second will is his Sonne which he generateth out of his own Eternal willing from Eternity 34. Which he bringeth through the breaking open of the source or quality of Death viz through the Earnest severity of his fierce wrath forth Through the fire 35. That very second will viz the Sonne of God the Father is that which breaketh or destroyeth Death viz the stern dark source or quality which kindleth the fire and goeth forth through the Fire as a thining Lustre or Glance of the fire and filleth or satiateth the first willing which is called Father 36. For the Glance is also as a thinne as a Nothing or as the will which is called Father and therefore it can dwel in the Liberty viz in the Fathers Willing and maketh the Father Light clear bright amiable friendly for it is the Fathers Herts oder Barmhertzigkcit Heart or Mercifulness 37. It is the Fathers substantiality it filleth or satiateth the Father in all places though indeed there is no place in him no beginning nor End 38. Understand us further thus The Fathers fire devoureth the Meek substance viz the water-source or quality of Eternal Life into it selfe into the fires owne Essence and meekeneth it selfe therewith 39. There must the substantiality in the fire as it were dye for the fire devoureth it into it self and Consumeth it 40. And giveth forth out of the Consumingness a living richly Joyful spirit and that is the Holy Spirit which thus goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne into the Great Wonder of the holy substantiality and openeth the same perpetually and Eternally 41. Thus the Deity is an Eternal Band which cannot cease or pass away and thus it generateth it self from Eternity and the first is continually also the last and the last again the first 42. And thus understand the Father to be the fiery world the Sonne the Light and power-world and the holy spirit to be the Life of the Deity viz to be the outgoing driving Power and yet all is but ONE God 43. As the Fire and the Light together with the Aire are but one onely Substance but yet divideth it self into Three parts and none can subsist without the other for the fire is not the Light also not the wind which goeth forth out of the Fire 44. Each hath its office and Each hath its own Substance in it self and yet each is the others life and a cause of the others life 45. For the Wo●●●●loweth the fire up else it would be stifled in its fierce wrath 〈◊〉 would fall into the dark death even as the stifling is the true 〈◊〉 wherein the fire of Nature extinguisheth and no more draw ●●●bstance into it 46. Of all thi●● have a good similitude in the outward World in all Creatures she● 〈◊〉 every Life viz the Essential Fire-life draweth substance to 〈◊〉 ●hat is its food to Ear. 47. And the fire of its life consumeth the substance and giveth forth the Spirit of the power out of that which is consumed and that is the life of the Creature 48. And you see doubtless very rightly how the Life ariseth out of Death it becometh no Life unless it break that out of which the Life should go fort● it must also go into the Anguish Chamber into the Center and must reach to attain the fire-flash in the Anguish else there is no Kindling 49. Although the Fire be manifold and so also the Life yet out of the greatest Anguish existeth also the greatest Life as out of a right Fire 50. Thus dear children of God in Christ we give you our knowledge and entent to ponder of We mentioned in the beginning that we would shew you concerning the Death of Christ First wherefore Christ must have dyed and secondly wherefore we must dye also and Thirdly rise again in Christ 51. This you see now in this description very clearly and understand our Great Misery that it hath been necessary for us that the word or Life of the Holy Light-world is become a Man and hath generated us anew in himselfe whosoever understandeth nothing here he is not generated or born of God 52. Do but see into what Lodging Adam hath introduced us He was an extract of all the Three Principles a total similitude according to all the Three-worlds and had in his Mind and Spirit the Angelical property in him 53. He was introduced into the holy power and substantiality viz into Paradise that is the divine substantiality he should have eaten of divine substantiality and have drunk the water of Eternal Life after an Angelical Manner as in the Book of the Threefold Life hath been mentioned at large 54. But he lost the divine substantiality and the Angelical property and Imagined into the out-birth viz into the Kingdom of the Earthly source or quality which the Devil had kindled in his Fall He turned his Eyes out from God into the Earthly God out from the divine Light into the light of this world 55. Thus he became captivated and remained in the Earthly source or quality and so he fell into the Earthly Corruptible source or quality which ruleth in him and filleth him it putteth a body on to him and breaketh or destroyeth it again and swalloweth it up into its own Essence into its Essential Fire 56. But being the soul was breathed in out of the Spirit of God viz out of the Eternal into Man so that the soul is an Angel therefore hath God assumed the same to himself again 57. And the power of the holy Light-world viz the Heart of God is entered into the humane Essence which lay shut up in death into the anguish Chamber of our Misery 58. He hath gotten into himself a soul out of our Essence he hath taken our Mortal Life into himselfe and introduced the soul through death through the Earnest severe fire of God the Father into the Light-world hath broken or destroyed death which held us captive and unshut the life 59. Now it may not nor cannot be otherwise w●osoever will possess the Light-world

Nature 18. O Blindness that we know not our selves O thou Noble Man if thou knewest thy selfe who thou art how woulst thou rejoyce How woulst thou give the Devil his Arrant to be gone who day and night endeavoureth to make our Minde Earthly that we should not know our true Native Country out of which we are gone forth 19. O miserable Corrupted Reason if thou knewest but one little sparke of thy first Glory how wouldst thou pant after it 20. How very amiable and blessed is but the glimps of the divine substantiality How sweet is the water of the Eternal Life our of Gods Majesty 21. O! Most worthy Light draw us into thee again we are now with Adam fallen asleep into the Earthly source or quality O! come thou most worthy Word and awaken or raise us up in Christ 22 O! thou most worthy Light for thou art indeed appeared destroy and break now the Devils Power which holdeth us captive break the power and Might of the Antichrist and of Covetousness and deliver us from the Evil one 23. Awaken and raise us up O Lord for we have long slept in the Devils Net in the Earthly source or quality let us yet once see thy salvation 24. Bring forth the New Jerusalem It is Day why should we sleep in the Day 25. O! Come thou breaker through Death Thou Powerful Saviour and Conquerour and break in pieces the Devils Kingdom upon Earth Give us Poor sick Adam yet a Cordial draught out of Sion that we may refresh us and go into our true Native-Country 26. Behold all Mountains and Hills together with the Vallies are full of the glory of the Lord it springeth up as a sprout who will hinder it Hallelujah 27. Now when Adam was fallen asleep he lay in the Mystery as in Gods Wonder what it did with him that was done 28. Thus the incorporated or Imaged Name JESUS moved the Fiat again in two Forms viz in both the Tinctures of the Fire and of the Water 29. For this first Image was now fallen home to the Name JESUS in the word of Life and so now the word of Life was the Second Creator understand with the incorporated or Imaged Name JESUS which would become Man that severed the two Tinctures one from another viz the Tincture of the Fire and of the Light 30. Yet not wholly in the power but in the substantiality for i● the Substantiality of the Tincture of the Light was the Sulphur of Venus of the Love in which Adam should and could impregnate himselfe The Fires Tincture gave soul and the Lights Tincture gave Spirit 31. Viz an Image according to the outward Image the fire-Life Imagined after the Light-life and the Light-life after the Fire-life viz after the Essential power out of which the Light shineth 32. This was in Adam but One for he was Man and Wife 33. And the word of Life took the Tincture of Venus with the heavenly and earthly Fiat from Adam also a Rib or Bone out of his Side as also the half Cross in the Head 34. Which is the Character of the Holy Trinity Marked by the word of Life viz with the Severe Name of GOD GOTTES which beareth such a Character T. 35. T signifying the Cross of Christ on which he should suffer Death and New regenerate Adam again and in the Name JESU introduce him in Ternarium Sanstum into the Holy Ternary 36. All these the Fiat took into it selfe together with all Essences of the Humane property as also the property of the souls Fire but in Venus's Tincture not according to the might and strength of the Center and Separated it into the whole form of Man 37. Thus was the Woman built with all Members of the feminine properties as they still have them For the Spirit of the great world Spiritus Majoris Mundi had now the strongest Fiat and figured the woman in such a form as it could in possibility 38. For the Angelical Form was gone the propagation must now be in A Beastiall Manner 39. And so also there was given to Adam being he was fallen home to the Earthly Magia a beastial form and shape of Masculine Members and Adams generating was given to the Fiat and that maketh a similitude of him out of him 40. If he had continued heavenly Minded then he had himself generated heavenly but now the Earthly Fiat did it and his outward body hecame a Beast he lost also the heavenly wit or understanding and the Power of the Omnipotency 41. Beloved Reader thus thou art to know that the Second Adam Christ hath not in vain suffered himselfe to be Crucified and with a Speare to be pierced in his side nor hath in vain shed his blood here lyeth the Key 42. Adam was broken in the Side by the Rib for the Woman into that very Side must Longinus's Speare with Gods fierce wrath come for it was come into Adam and out of Maries earthliness into Christs Side also 43. And the Blood of Christ must drown the fierce wrath and take it away from the First Adam for the Second Adam had also Heavenly blood that must drown the Earthly Turba that the first Adam might be whole again 44. Let this be told you ye Children of Men for it is become known in Ternario Sancto in the Holy Ternary and not in Supposition or Opinion it concerneth both Soul and Body take heed what you do 45. Thus now the humane propagation began in a beastial manner for Adam reteined the Limbus and his Eve the Matrix of Venus for the the Tinctures were divided 46. So now Each Tincture is an entire or total Magia viz a desirous longing wherein the Centre of Nature is generated and that in the Sulphur 47. Thus then in the Sulphur is again the desirous Magia together with the Tincture and yet can not come to Life except the Tincture of Fire come into Venus's Tincture and Venus's Tincture can awaken no Life it is too weak so that life cannot be therein 48. And both the Tinctures desire also the Life and so the vehement Imagination of Man and Wife beginneth so that the one desireth to mix with the other 49. For the power of the Essences willeth to be living and the Tincture driveth on that and desireth the same 50. For the Tincture is from or out of the Eternal Life and yet is shut in with the Substantiality and in that respect it willeth to live as it hath done from Eternity 51. And therefore the Man longeth after the Matrix of the Wise and the wife after the Limbus of the Man 52. The Woman hath a Watery Tincture and the Man a fiery the Man soweth Soul and the Woman Spirit and both 〈◊〉 flesh viz Sulphur Therefore is Man and Wife but one Body 〈…〉 together a Child 53. And therefore ought to continue together if they Once Mix for they are become one Body and whosoever mixeth with another or separateth from

flow up in it self but would remain in one souce or quality 27. Even as the Deity bringeth its Life but into ONE onely source or quality viz into the Light into the Holy Spirit and yet carrieth on his Dominion over all the Three Principles 28. Also we are to understand concerning Christs becoming Man or Incarnation that when Gods Spirit awakened again the Virgin-like Life in Mary which in the Earthly Essence lay shut up in Dea●h and fierce wrath then that Life hence-forward turned it self onely into the ONE onely will viz into Gods Love and gave it selfe up to the Spirit of God 29. Thus that Life became impregnated of a right virgin-like Image which should have been with Adam but was not done 30. For the one Imagination received the other Gods Imagination received the Imagination in Death and brought it to Life again that Life Imagined again into God and became Impregnated with God and became out of the Deity and Humanity ONE Person 31. The Deity hung to the heavenly Substantiality which hath ever been from Eternity with the Kingdom Power and Glory viz the Kingdom of Paradise and the Angelical World viz the Spirit and the Seaven forms in the Center of Nature as in the Third Part or Book of the Threefold Life is mentioned with all Circumstances 32. And the Humanity hung to the Kingdom of this world but when the will of the humanity gave it selfe up into the Deity then this virgin-like Image in Christ Jesus came to be onely a Guest in this world and his Deity was a Lord over this World 33. For thus it was to be in Adam also that the lesser and impotent should be subject to the greater and Omnipotent 34. But Adams will went into the less and impotent end therefore he became altogether impotent and fell downe into sleep and home again to the Creator 35. But with Christ this Image remained standing in the Divine Wisdome and the Earthly source or quality hung to it in the Office and Manner of a Servant but now no more as a Lord as it was over Adam and Mary his Mother before the high blessing opening of the Deity but as a Servant for this Image became now in Gods Spirit and Might a Lord over the Third Principle of this World Qustion 36. Now saith Reason How is it come to pass in this becoming Man or Incarnation Was then the Life so suddenly with the Point of Conception become stirring above the Naturall Course so that that Part of Mary viz the Womans seed instantly lived Answer 37. No for it was an Essential seed and became in its Natural Time stirring with Soul and Spirit as all Adams Children 38. But that part of the Deity environed with divine Substantiallty and wisdome liveth from Eternity to Eternity 39. The Deity went not to nor fro what it was that it remained to be and what it was not that it came to be 40. It gave it selfe with divine Substantiality into the Essence and Substantiality of Mary and Maries Essence and Gods Essence became one Sonne 41. But Maries Essences were Mortal but Gods Essences were Immortal 42. Therefore must Maries Essences dye on the Cross and go through Death into Life to which Gods Essences did help else it had been impossible 43. Thus Gods Essence helped us and still always helpeth us through Christ into Gods Essence and Life again 44. Thus we konw the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ to be natural as of all the Children of Men for the heavenly divine Subsstantiality hath given it selfe with its Life into the Earthly halfe dead subtantiality 45. The Lord gave himselfe to be under the Servant that the Servant might become living and is in like manner in Nine Moneths become a perfect Man and also continueth a True God and is also after the Manner and way of all Adams Children become born into this World through that very way and passage as all Men are 46. And that therefore Not that he needed it he could have been born Magically but he would not nor should not for he was to heal our impure Birth or Geniture and Entrance into this Life 47. He should enter into our Entrance into this World and introduce us out of this World into Gods Entrance and bring us out of the Earthly source or quality 48. For if he had been generated or born Magically after a divine Manner then he had not been Naturally in this World for the heavenly Substantiality must have swallowed up the Earthly source or quality and then he had not been like us 49. How then would he have suffered Death have entred into Death and destroyed it but therefore it was not so 50. He is truely and really the Womans Seed and is entered into this World the Natural way like all Men but yet also is gone forth through death the divine way of the divine Might and Substantiality 51. He is a divine living Substantiality which subsisted in Death and destroyed and despised death and brought the halfe dead humanity through Death into Eternal Life 52. For the Earthly part which he took to himselfe out of his Mother Mary that is to or upon the divine Substance dyed away on the Cross from the Earthly source or quality 53. Thus was the Soul in the Subantiality of God and as a victorious Conquering Prince went into the Hell of Devils that is into Gods Anger and quenched it with Gods love and Meekness of the divine Love-suhstantiality 54. For the Love-fire came into the Anger-Fire and drowned the Anger wherein the Devill would be God 55. Thus was the Devil taken captive with the darkness and lost his Dominion for the sting and the Sword of the Cherubine the staying Angel was here destroyed 56. And this was the Cause that God became Man viz that he might introduce us out of Death into the Eternal Life and quench the Anger which burned in Us with the Love 57. For you must understand us aright how Gods Anger became quenched not with the Mortal Bloud of Christ which he shed upon which the Jews despised him 58. But with the Bloud of the Eternall Life out of Gods substance which was immortal which had in it the fountain of the Water of Eternall Life that became shed upon the Crosse with and under the outward Bloud and when the outward fell to the Earth then fell the Heavenly with it but yet it was immortal 59. Thus the Earth received Christs Bloud whence it Trembled and Quaked for the fierce wrath of God in it became now overcome and the living Bloud came into it which was come out of Gods Substantiality from Heaven 60. That Opened the Graves of the Saints and Opened Death and made a Path through Death so that Death was made a shew of in Tiumph 61. For when Christs Body arose from Death then he bare Death as a Spectacle or shew on his Body for its Might was broken or

outward Center viz from the transitory Life and introduce it into the free willing of God 33. And to that Now belongeth not a History onely or knowledge for one to say I Believe that is I know it or desire it and yet abide with the willing in the outward Principle viz stand in the outward seeking or Longing No! 34. The thing is this Ye must become born anew through the water and Holy Spirit Else ye will not see the Kingdom of God 35. It must be sincere or Earnest the Reasons willing must become broken it must be a living motion of the willing which breaketh quite through Reason and which striveth or fighteth against Reason 36. And though that indeed be not possible for the soul since it is become so very perished or Corrupted yet there is no better Council or remedy for it then that it should make it selfe with all its reason and thoughts as it were dead and incline and unite it selfe meerly and only into Gods Mercy and give it selfe up thereinto that there be no other Room left for Reason but that it must be compelled and Subdued 37. And if the willing do thus strike down Reason then it is as it were dead and yet there liveth but it becometh the right willings servant and yet there without that will be Lord. 38. For Gods willing must become Lord over Reason if Reason would make or do any thing vertuous which subsisteth before God 39. For nothing subsisteth before God unless it be generated in Gods willing 40. But if the willing turneth it self into God then the willings spirit becometh Gods child 41. Then also do subsist before God the Wonders which have been made or wrought by or with the Reason-spirit for they have been made in Gods willing and have become put out of the inceptive and set in the Eternal 42. And though indeed we cannot say that our work or Doings or that which we have made abideth Eternally yet the shadow or Image of the same abideth and though they truly and really abide in the substance yet but in the Mystery viz in the Divine Magia before the wisdome of God 43. Where onely the outward principle thereof breaketh or Corrupteth viz the outward Dominion in the four Elements 44. And there yet the Four will become set again into the One where then all Colours and forms or varieties of the four will become known with ALL WHATSOEUER is become generated therein 45. Therefore then a final day of separation is appointed by God wherein all shall be proved or Tryed through the Fire what is generated in the willing of God or not where Each Principle will reap its own 46. And there Much of Many Mens works will abide in the fire because they were not become generated in Gods willing for Nothing impure goeth into God 47. But whatsoever is generated out of another Magia that is not Pure of which we have the Earth for an Example which is perished 48. Doest thou ask Why Answer The Devil with his Legions sate in his Creation where really he was Created an Angel in the Sulphur or in the CENTER of Nature out of which the Earth afterwards became Created he hath awakened or stirred up the fierce wrath in Nature 49 So that the Earth hath an Evil impure seeking or Longing although it is become shut up in Death and reserved for Putrifaction 50. Where it shall be proved in the Eternall Fire and come again into whatsoever it was before the Creation viz into the Eternal Magia of the Eternal Nature The Fourth Chapter How a Man must Live that he may attain the Liberty of God and how the Image of God becometh destroyed Also of the state of the wicked after the Dying of the Body 1. NOw then seeing all is included and shut up in Gods willing whatsoever is become generated in Nature therefore thus we understand that Nothing can enter into Gods willing unless it became generated or Made in Gods willing and so we understand Clearly that it is necessary for us that we with all our Reason and Thoughts give up our selves into Gods willing 2. And so labour with the Hands in the world and seek and make food for the Belly and yet not at all set our willing thereinto so as to accompt any earthly thing our Treasure 3. For where our willing and Heart is there is also our Treasure Is our willing in Gods willing then we have the Great Mystery of God out of which this world as a similitude hath been generated and so have both viz the Eternal and the Corruptible and yet more we bring the wonders of our works into the Eternal Mystery for they hang or cleave to the willing-spirit 4. But if we turn away our willing from the Eternal into the Earthly Mystery and accompt Money our Treasure and the Beauty of the Body for our Lustre and honour or authority and power of our Best Jewel then our willing is captivated in the same and so now hangeth onely to the Looking-Glass and attaineth not th● liberty of God 5. For the Looking-Glass viz the outward Kingdom shall be tryed through Fire and the fierce wrath shall be severed from the Pure where then the fierce wrath will be an Eternal Burning 6. Now if Reason introduceth the soulish Minde with the willing spirit of the soul in which the Image of God and the right true Man standeth into the outward Looking-Glass viz into an Hypocritical seeking or Longing then indeed is the Image and right true Man captivated therewith and infected with the outward Magia viz with the seeking or longing thereof 7. Where then the Image putteth on the outward substantiality not onely as a Garment but it is an infection and totall mixture 8. Though indeed the soulish-fire mixeth not it self with the outward Kingdom yet the souls willing-spirit which is Magical mixeth it selfe and so the Image of God becometh destroyed and altered into an Earthly where then the souls fire-life remaineth rough and hath in the willing-spirit an Earthly Image 9. So now if the body breaketh and dyeth then the soul reteineth its Image viz its willing-Spirit and now is departed away from the Bodies Image for in the dying is a Severing asunder and then the Image appeareth with and in those things which it hath received into it self wherewith it is become infected and that source or quality it hath in it self 10. What it hath loved here that hath been its Treasure whereinto the willing-Spirit hath entered and according to that also the soulish Image figureth it self 11. Hath any turned his heart and Mind into Pride state and Courtliness in the time of his life then that very source or quality continually springeth in the souls fire into the Image and flyeth forth over the Love and Meekness viz forth over Gods liberty and can not possess nor apprehend the liberty 12. But it floweth up thus in it self in