sure binding and a Wedlock-tye betwixt bright raised Spirits and me till the Great Day of the Visible Marriage shall be Solemnized in the Free Jerusalem Till which hold ye fast and take good heed that not one of these Links on your parts be broken if but from any one of these ye should unlink ye would fall down by the way and never to me ascend But I know that Wisdom is thy Friend who will not suffer thee to break from me She is a busie Agent still to spur thee on her Law of kindness is found to me thy Jesus in thy Heart which will give an Ascending Might that so ye may come down again in a flaming Body of Light Which is the only design of Wisdom that blessed Engineer who by these Golden Links draweth you continually nearer to her City This was further Opened in the Seven following Days by Wisdom but the Copy is here Deficient May the 1st 1676. The New Book Opened Or the Everlasting Gospel of JESUS THis Morning my Spiritual Informer came and presented to my view a Book wherein great and hidden Secrets were writ telling me here was neither Parable nor Allegory but the plain Doctrine of the Everlasting Gospel Into which it was said it is given thee to look for it is an Epistle of good-will and love to thee and thy fellow Waiter that ye may come to a right and genuine understanding of those weighty things which lay concealed under the Vail of the Letter The summ of which is the Incarnation Dying Rising Ascending and Glorifying of thy Jesus All which being finished in his own Personality I now look to see that all should be actually wrought in you to which end I have poured out of my Spirit upon you which may bring you up through all to me Read then and see in Wisdom's Glass what is contained in this Book for a further instructing of thee into a Gospel Death and Rising into Victory Many are the Deaths ye have passed over and I grant every Death hath brought forth a rising Body so that ye are come so far as to bear the very Image of the Heavenly Man in which the Life-Seed doth spring But this is not all you are to aspire unto but you are here to dye with Jesus For in all those foregoing Deaths you had not that fellowship as ye shall have with me when I am grown up in you For I the Just One died for the Unjust so I must Personate this dying again in you after a Paradisical manner sowing my own pure Grain and Seed into the Mount Sion Ground For as it is said such as the Seed and Soil is such a Body in the Resurrection it will be and such a Body it will produce And although you come thus to dye in the Lord I mean in your Lord Jesus Christ in whom your Life lies safe and inoculated there will be no danger And while you are sowing here be not as others without Hope for indeed you sow not that Body which shall be to the account of a Bare return as Spirit for Spirit or Body for Body For though it was sown a single Seed yet it shall be various and manifold though the Seed is sown contemptible yet it shall rise honourable and though sown as weak yet it will rise mighty in strength So mighty potent strong and honourable this Resurrection will be as it will bring forth the Seed sown with another manner of Body then what hath yet been known For ye shall know all Blessedness indeed by thus dying into me fear it not therefore but valiantly spill your Life and mingle it with me then shall ye know a cessation to your own busie-acting Properties For that Spirit which dyeth into me ceaseth to Sio sweetly sleeping and slumbering in Sion's Golden Dust till I my secret Trump shall sound with the Vial of Life quickening Oyl poured in which shall make the dead in you to come forth with an unchangeable habit and form of the Holy Ghost of which I speak I will after this manner raiâ—…e up at the last Day which day to thee is very near if thou canst sink and dye so totally into me who do promise to thee long here lay buried thou shalt not be This is the Connexion to the former Part. Before I the LORD will move again to the finishing of the last glorious Mystery the first that can dye thus into me shall rise as the first Fruits out of me into a Body Celestial and mighty Powerful For my Seed shall never Corruption see it shall soon rise into a Mount Sion Body Lay but the Ground-work hereunto sure and ye shall see and feel another Spirit and another Form after this passive Sleep For after it ye shall awake in that Image which shall be no more despised being all compleat and giving proof of my Resurrection and Life Oh blessed are they who can say that they were dead in me and are alive evermore to Reign with me in my Kingdom waiting for me their Lord from Heaven to bring them thither For in this new risen Body I shall not be ashamed of thee it is so Signatured into the Father's Nature of Purity that in it thou mayst freely ascend to me Where I will in the Light Airy Region meet with thee and bring thee through all the Pearly Gates O come resign and dye know me no more out of this Dying and Resurrection State Thus Death is not Metaphorically but Really the last Enemy that is to be destroyed Here Sing ye may that dwell in Sion's Golden Mold and triumphantly Cry Oh Death by this Spiritual dying I am mortally become thy Death and so swallowed up as you can nothing of it see Go go preach thou this for the Everlasting Gospel to such as have an Ear to hear it rejoyce and give Glory to God on high Now when the Hour of this Judgment shall fully come by ushering in the New Jerusalem freedom through the Streets of Nature This Gospel Ministration which is all Love Grace Mercy and Peace by those shall then be proclaimed who do partake of this Resurrection as the first Fruits They shall be honoured with this Message to all those who in this Noah's Age are asleep in their dark Prison-Houses For an Almighty Voice I in you my Sion-born Spirits will utter forth to call in more to know this Death-Liberty and Life-Resurrection and Ascension into all Fellowships and free Communions with the High Eternity and Me the chief Head of all Sion's new risen Body Whereunto being come no other Banner will I display there but that Love which casteth out all Bondage and Fear May the 6th 1676. In the Morning being the first Day pondering and considering this last Opening which shewed me the necessity of dying into my Jesus and of sowing the Seed of my Eternal Spirit as an unmixed Grain sifted from all Chaffiness or Cockle or any such thing for to twist about it Thus the Word said
especially to the Human Soul are Resolved The Angelical World or a Treatise concerning the Angelical Principle with the Inhabitants thereof and God in this Principle The Dark Fire World or a Treatise concerning the Hellish Principle with the Inhabitants and Wonders and God manifeâ—…ting himself in this Principle A Treatise concerning the Incarnation of JESUS CHRIST Wherein all the Present Controversies in this Particulaâ—… are Discussed by a Lover of Truth who desires to hold the Just Ballance with the Even Weight A Discourse concerning the Spirit of Eternity in its First Being 〈◊〉 or Spiritual Discoveries Experimental Discoveries concerning 〈◊〉 of Natures of Essences of Tinctures of Bodies of Persons and of Spirits Solomon's PORCH OR THE Beautiful Gate of Wisdom's Temple A POEM Introductory to the Philadelphian Age. WHEN Sinful Man first left the Blissful Seat Outcast forlorn from all that 's Good or Great From Virgin-Purity and Virgin-Love â—…anisht and Doom'd round the curst Earth to rove â—…n Bestial Image vile the Fiend within â—…ossession took without the Beast was seen God's Temple wasted lay His Image bright Thick-veild in black Egyptian Shades of Night That Glorious Sâ—…inah which Erst did shine â—…n His clear Soul the once All-beauteous Shrine â—…he Seat and Mansion of th' Eternal Trine How is it â—…ed its finest Gold how dim â—…ts Stoâ—…es pour'd out its Precious â—…rim â—…cular no more all clouded lies â—…here Demons now their Oracles disguise â—…rom Heights of Bliss to Deeper Woes he fell â—…ll falling sinking still down tow'rds the Abyss of Hell â—…his cou'dâ—… thou not behold Almighty Love 〈◊〉 Compassions dear thy tender Bowels move â—…ty and Mercy move The Heavenly Bride 〈◊〉 torn from Her new Lover's side Her Bridegroom cou'd not thus forgo Her Eyes In Pearly Dews distilling as he Dies One parting Glance She threw Fast hold it took And stopt him sinking Caus'd him back to look Repentant Deeper then the Heavenly Ray Wing'd with Loves Fires more piercing makes its way God's Light and Love conjoyn'd e're long to dwell Within him in the blest Immanuel Till then content in Tabernacles low show And Temples made with Hands some gleams of God to They Travel hand in hand thro every Age In poor Disguise and humble Pilgrimage With only Types of Rest at every greater Stage One glorious King the Virgin did descry Enamour'd courted entertained her high She staid a while all Blessings round her fly He would have had his Deitess enshrin'd With Earth's Magnificence in one combin'd A glorious Temple structure rends the Skie The World's Amazement little in her Eye Departing yet this Favour high We deign Said She be Thine a Type of our Returning Reign This House a Draught in Miniature shall be Of an Eternal Temple Rais'd by Me. This Revolution finisht on they go Now Downwards back again to Scenes of Woo Thro' Deaths still conquering Death where e're they caâ—… Pierce deeper and take faster hold of Man Till in the Virgin meek she found abode More chast and Lodg'd in her the Infant God Here by the O're-shadowings of the Heav'nly Dove She unlocks the Centre of Eternal Love Here Light and Love but scattered in the Earth Till now unite their Beams and to a Birth Proceeding one bless Humane Offspring Crown With Godhead-Power Whose Kingdoms vast Renowâ—… Through Infamy Anguish and Death must Rise A bleeding Victor a Triumphant Sacrifice Here a true Living Temple they enjoy'd Delighted Rested in which though destroyfd In outward frame the Grave could not with-hold From rising Glorious brighter far ten Thousand-fold Hail Sion s Joy her precious Corner-stone The Heavenly Salems true Foundation The God the Man the Virgin all in One. The Builders thee refus'd but thou the Head Supream and we 're thy happy Members made Strictly compacted into one the whole One Body in thee one Heart one Life one Soul â—…re long i th' next great Revolution When the fair Virgin Pilgrims Stage is done Her Travails ended and her Garland won A Temple Glory of Living Stones to rise Whose Base shall fill the Earth whose Head the Skies Love yet can't triumph here without its Mate Till Light and Beauty too become Incorporate Thus still disguis'd to this great Stage they speed Contented still to suffer grieve and bleed Bleed in their Members dear Through all they move Up Hill to Triumphs hasting Now the Dove Assistant powerful joyns in each pure Soul Oreshadowing Christ to form Spight of controul From Daemons malice or fierce Tyrants hate God's Image Light and Life they here create Still spreading Tincturing deep till all 's Divine And Christ in ev'ry â—…eature ev'ry line Appearing shall ev'n Here through Soul and Body shine In vain Hell's Obstacies and Bars oppose Each Seal the Conquerors as they pass disclose The Last Now Opening when the Spirits Day Its Powers uninterrupted shall Display See see the Virgin sends a Previous Ray. From thy dark Cell now great Bohemius rise Tutor to Sages Mad to th' Worldly wise Wisdom's first distant Phosphor to whose sight Internal Natures Ground all naked bright Unveils all Worlds appear Heavens spread their Light Early thou risest Glorious but in Clouds Thick set not sent to th' Vulgar nor the Learned Crouds Of Reasons Orb too Low none thee descry None but the well purg'd Mystick Eagle-Eye Of some few Anchorete Elected Mâ—…gi Here all past Sages veil and disappear Ev'n Mallebranch beads beneath his Weighty Character To Thee resign'd and t is but just for He Draws all from one small Rivulet of Thee Fountain of Science Art and Mystery Where Stagyrite Hermes Plato all combine De Carte in evr'y Page and Boyle in ev'ry Line And yet Alone by Eminence The Divine By whom advis'd the Firstling Flocks small Band Prepare well Trim their Lamps and ready stand ' Midst whom for pious Zeal and forward Carâ—… Great Pordage with thy Generous File appear Adventrous Worthies set i th' Forlorn Hope With Hell's outragious Malice first to Cope Furious the Dragon storms all methods tries Ev'n by false Magick dark incrept To crush the Royal Infant Spirits rise But on they charge undaunted strive and Pray Believe Watch Bleed and Travel force a way For entrance and foretast the Glorious Day As th' Dark breaks loose still the Light World 's display'd By th' Virgins Magick Wand the cursed Fiends are laid Pure Spirit breath's New Senses open flye They see and all with joynt Assent Hail Great Bohemius cry All 's True we bear thee Record Hail to thee Fountain of Science Art and Mystery At last Great Hero throw off thy undress Speak condescend familiar Now no less A Cherub-Seraph towring flaming high Is sent thy Veil to rend thy Gordian Knot to untye Commander sole of all the Graceful Charms That flow in Language Passion Harmony Attempered just In summ Second â—…o Thee The Wondrous Taylor now Revolves again Ardent Seraphick and with tenfold Fires Thunder and Fire and Love compose the Name How should it then not breath Harmonious Powers Or
Law of Sin hath Dominion so long as he liveth So from hence the Spirit did testifie that nothing less then a Thorough Death would put me into a Capacity of this Marriage with the Lamb. For he will match himself only to a Virgin Spirit incorporating and thereby changing into his own pure Humanity and this is a Begetting into a Living Substance which springeth through the Death of the Old Which as the Grain that dissolveth in the Earth and generateth a New Body so in like manner doth the New Creature spring forth which indeed is Christ our Life whose appearance will put an end to Sin in us Now what brought in the Curse the Care the Toil and the Impotentcies which distress poor Man in this his fallen estate but a Deviation from his God And while in this state he stands as a Debtor to Sin being under the Dominion of it this maketh him obnoxious to all the Calamities which do attend those that live in Bodies Elementary But now to hear of a Possibility of a Putting off of this Body of Sin this is good Tidings indeed and verily the Prophet which is risen in me hath prophesied that such a Day is at hand And that I shall be a Witness of Jacob's Star arising and shall see for my self and not for another Then shall that saying be fulfilled Death is swallowed up in Victory even the Death of that First Husband who so long hindred my Marriage with the Lamb. Who by a New Law from Mount Sion hath set me free from the Law of Sin and Death Be astonished O ye who are Wounders and Despisers of this Grace which I now see is near to be Revealed For the Garments of the Bride are making ready and it is granted to me to see in whose hand they be O Wisdom to thee is committed only the Ordering of this Wedding Garment which of divers Colours shall be that known from all others may be the King's Daughter who under thy Teaching and Discipline is committed April the 20th 1675. The Shulamits Debate Expostulation with Wisdom OH my Mother how is it that thou hast shewed me of the Glory of thy House and of the Honour Riches and Dominion of thy Kingdom and hereby hath allured and drawn the Spirit of my Mind that I cannot turn my Eye from thee my Senses being refined and with thy Life close touched that I altogether incapable am to join to Baal or to immerse my self with the druggy polluted Life of this outward Principle which hath no consistency with that transparent state where unto thou hast called me with thee to have my Conversation as one that hath obtained Grace to be sirnamed by thee and admitted into the secret of thy Counsel in order to some peculiar Service for thee If so why is it I am yet straitned in force and power What signal mark do I bear to demonstrate my holy and consecrated Calling to wait in thy Pavilion What Commission have I from thee to shew whereby all unbelieving and gain-saying Spirits may be convinced and put to silence true it is I have had free Communications through Transportation of my Spirit but what is this without fixation and Seal of the Power which may bear Record of its own Omnipotency working forth to redress all Maladies and Grievances seeing I have taken upon me to plead suffer me yet a little to empty and unload my self to thee whom I well know to have the tender working Bowels of a Mother and numbrest all my Complaints the first Argument is from thy free choice of me calling me out of all Nations Tongues and Peoples no more to know my Fathe'rs House or the Land of my Earthly Nativity but to renounce and seperate from all attending thy Appointments only at whose Knee I have been for some time brought up to hear and learn the manner of the worship of my God which is expected in a different Living All-Powerful Ministration which to know is indeed Life but to act forth from that Life brings the Joy Peace and Glory which will be the Renown of Wisdom's Nursery among whom I have thus far found favour as to have her Friendly Salutations with Word upon Word sealing Instructions to me but this is not enough Oh the Spirit and Breath that goeth forth with all Influencing Powers to create new Forms of things this I know will give the express signature of a Godlikeness putting forth through Nature's contemtible Appearance Here is surely a matchless Glory to break forth the highest Mystery which was ever unveiled the best and choicest of all Wisdom's Treasury yet to be brought out for such as pursue and make it their only one Interest minding and regarding nothing else Oh my Mother while herein have I busied my self in putting and throwing off all Weights that I might come a naked Spirit unto thee How have the pernitious Necessities cryed for the out-part to have Right done it to act and work and plot in Reasons Counsel-House as the manner is of all which live in the gross Animal Body is known to thy all-viewing Eye which runneth to and fro and what my Conflicts have been and still are while I have studied to evade and make my escape through the Throng of Worldly-Wise Reasons Guard who have by order of their great Prince watched me in every going out and in when with my only Friend I would my Time secretly in all sweetness spend contrivance hath not been wanting to draw me down to wear again the dark Linsywolsey-Gown I being well aware through divine caution These are the Pirats that have lain in wait for me to take what Substance is with me embarked So that Perils on all kinds do beset but this my Ark above all Waters doth keep floating a Man of War is within which will keep this Vessel from being a Prize to the subtil Man of Sin pitched within and without by Wisdom's Skill no fear of leaking while I thy bottom am so saith the Amen Thus encountring fresh with Temptations and strong Gusts from the cold North which I feel many times blow so sharp as if they would put back the Spring from coming on upon which only my Hope is entertained which keeps up my Spirit from fainting Thus while I was pleading and pressing hard for the finishing Power to come down that might put an end to all Strife whioh is from the Root of Sin Here is a Break by the loss of the Original Therefore O Shulamite do not thou judge thy Furnace to be too hot it well becomes thee the same with thy Lord in all things to be who in thee beareth and endureth and suffereth Were it not that hadst high Conjunction with the Deity thou wouldst not stand in that Enmity universally to what from the Root of Iniquity doth spring How much better is it to be numbred with thy Jesus amongst the Transgressors and to bear the Sins of others rather then thy own that the Evil One may
chief Dowry which she makes Inquisition for and therefore of all low amorous entangling Loves we had need to be well aware to one only Mate we must for ever cleave and so bear his Name and so we are all his Royal state These Counsels still daily followed me since his deliverance out of the Snare and Pit of Death so did I believe to see all Cords would be broken for that Word came to me the 20th Instant I will arise saith thy God as in Mount Perazim that he may do his Work his strange Work and bring to pass his strange Act. This Scripture was brought to me and opened thus being much stated and presented as our Cause was parallel with David whom God highly approved for that being newly settled in his Kingdom after great Wars was again invaded by the Philistines and having brought up the Ark of God enquiring had a resolve that his Enemies should be subdued before him as he acknowledged saying That God had broken in upon them like the breaking forth of Waters therefore they called the Name of that place 1 Chroâ—… 14. 11. Baal Perazim Now this by the Prophet Isaiah is called over and made mention of Prophecying for such a Manifestation of his Rising Power yet to come when again he will set his Hand as in our Day to recover us out of the Hand of the Spoiler Being much distressed for the Work least these Inundations should stop the Life-Wheel either in them or in my self going forward this sweet Word was opened to me I will arise as in Mount Perazim your Enemies shall know ye do not go out in Battel without a God's Armory Your Ark which is rising will and shall make all in you and all without you to reâ—…l stagger and fall before you for I have yet greater and more mighty Deeds and strange Acts to appear in for my own renown in by and through those in whom I find a David's Spirit and Heart according to my own with such shall not only go forth my rushing Sounds but strong Powers to effect and bring to pass strange and mighty Acts whereby it shall be known in whom my Temple-Glory resteth I will now arise to give my signal Mark of Honour to my defied and contemned ones my Spirit shall begin to move even now at times as ye shall look and wait for it within the Tent of Nature as the forerunning Scatterings of that promised all Chostly Dominion and Power that is very ready and near to be revealed to the pure Jerusalem-Worshippers and constant Waiters upon whom my Eye will be to confer upon them this great Dowry which will not be entrusted but with most constant Attenders in the pure Temple-Body of Jesus waiting and offering upon that Altar within being determinated into a stable fixed unchangeable Mind and Spirit This is that which is expected from you both whom Wisdom hath with her Love-guile caught in with her Golden Cords that ye may to this great state of glorious dominion reach though it doth cost you so high as the death and breach to all other Lives wherein the vain empty solacements of this visible State stood in the despising of which no Repentance shall ever be but Reward upon Reward after all Tribulations out of your Mother Wisdom's Treasury shall you fetch out whatever good and profitable things you shall thereby espy to use and spend to the account any praise of my Glory March the 25th 1676. This Morning I felt mighty strong Gusts and Powers come into me which ascended out in Prayers that the Sign might follow to give the demonstration of our particular Election and Calling as it did upon the first Gospel Professors that we might have Power to cast out unclean Spirits So to co-work and mingle with the Meek and Eternal Life-Essences of the Lamb as that we may be able to send forth such vertual Rays of Powers and Sweetnesses for our own and others Safety Guard and Relief For I heard this Word Go not out without your Shepherd's Bag and his Staff for out of an Invisible Store ye must spend and bring out from your own Heavenly Country and Father's House as unknown and Strangers in this Land where your outward Feet do stand who will not trust or credit further to you give then they shall see that ye have got with you Great Cesar's Decree and Superscription upon your Coyn written round about with that Name I am the Alpha and Omega This will O my Dove Spirits with you every where pass and all your Enemies and all that are alieâ—…ated and Strangers to you now shall seek to make a Covenant League and Peace for why they will cry the Name of God wherein all the believing doth lie upon the Foreheads of these is written most visibly This is the Strange Work that I am for you bringing to pass if ye still will guided be by Wisdom's Counsel and her bright Eye ye shall to this most high Degree arise and thereby Honour you Spiritual Parentage Henceforth forbear to sort your selves with what is not of the same most inward Fold with whom your great Shepherd doth walk and can only with new risen Spirits talk and be open and free as lodging in one Heart of Purity together for mutual Joys and Embracings highly Magical whereby you will draw out most mighty Force and Strength to aid and back whatever in my Work and Service ye are intent upon as thou hast witnessed already a good Confession of me so still maintain Truth 's liberty stand up in the Christ-like Might and in him thou wilt tread down strength and nothing shall be too hard for thee Thy defence and security shall be from the flowing Oyl running through the Unicorn that mighty is to push and batter down all exalted Towers which now will be raised against those who my appointed Standard-bearers are to proclaim my Flag of defiance in the view and sight of such as live in great despight decrying down my Paradisical Laws Liberties and Kingly Rights March the 26th 1676. The Lord's Day we met together by our selves a Word was spoken for the Measuring-Line to compare and measure our selves by the perfect Love which casteth out all other Fears and Loves but that which is Above and of the Virgin-Purity where the danger was shewn of Treachery to forestall this chaste Love from our Love for our Jesus Much in power was sounded forth to this purpose and whom it did hit it was a good Word to such March the 27th 1676. This Morning great Emanations flowed in upon me from out of the Vital Center as the springing Flowers from the Rivers of Joy Out of the Sanctuary this Word of Comfort opened that though Balack had called out Balaam to curse you that are my choice Seed yet I Wisdom as your good Guardian-Angel have stood to resist him and have frustrated all the Tokens of the Diviners The depths of Satan began mystically to work calling the furious Might as
Spirit is ascended into the Father's Bosom From whence may be expected thy return to bring down that Spirit which will raise that Body thro which that Signal Sign shall be manifested that can assume Authority to release what hath been in Captivity And ye shall go forth with the Scepter dominion Ye have but this one thing to effect to shew out your selves risen from the Dead Then you will find that every Breath which proceeds from you is of such force as to command the whole Heavenly Host. November the 9th 1676. As I was this Morning cast into some perplexity about the instability which I found my self incident unto that I could not keep afloat upon the broad River still to swim in the full Stream of the Spirit But some entervenings would happen to stop my pace and prevent if it might be the arrival to that most sweet and blessed Port which hath been designed for us I for this called in the High Throne-Councel to know what shall be done for us who are sensible of these petty sinkings When the Lord hath given the Word to come after him though it be upon a boisterous Sea could we steer our Course upon Faith's Boat the floating tossing Sâ—…a would soon come to be Calm But oh my staggering Spirit is not to such a steadiness come as with my Jesus all like a Spirit there to talk with him who may yet now again be seen to walk in the deep Ocean These things being the matter of my Meditation and Consultation with that Word which was to me very nigh it suddainly cryed within me thus What stability can ye come unto till the four Winds are with-held which awaken the old condemned Life in all its Essences Then was presented a Hand from under a Wing which knit up these blasting Winds that they might not hurt the new replenished Field out of which are expected the Seven Years Plenty Then hereby I saw it was only this strong Eagle-Hand which could the rough East-Wind stay that caused those swarming Flies to bâ—…z and make a noise sucking away those Honey-Dews so soon as they do fall It was also further noted to me that these Winds were of that evil consequence as to put to wreck the Sailing Ship of Faith whereby all the out-ventured stock of Life is to be brought in These four Winds were also named to me as 1 st Wormwood 2 dly War 3 dly Anguish 4 thly Destruction These being let loose did blow up the Natural Senses breathing fresh Life every moment into them So maintaining the Spiritual War For so long as the carnal low Sense liveth and is hereby revived it will be active after many a deadly stroke to nullifie that supersensual Life of Revelation that cannot take its place till these Life-breathing Winds be bound up Then was shewed me an Engraving like a Seal with the Emblem of an Olive-Tree with three branches and it was said to me When ye are Sealed with this living Print you then shall know a fixed Life These Winds can no more hurt if once they may but stop till ye are feelingly impressed with this Olive-Tree This is another manner of Life then what is subject unto Mutability For what is greater then for the Life of the Holy Trinity to be appropriated penetratingly by way of Sealing Now for this great preparation thereto is required the one pure unleavened Lump all passive without Life to receive the Impression Which accordingly was performed by the overshadowing of the Dove that gave the living Witness of being Baptize into the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost By which the Contrary Winds were restrained that they could not blow up the dark Mists and Fogs any more So from hence feeling in me a pure Serene Calmness the Powers of the Eternal World did let fall sweet pleasant Dews from which the Fruitful Sharon did spring to entertain the Trinity within the circumference of this holy Ground which is now so strongly enclosed and fortified that nothing common or unclean can pass hereunto for the pure Winds from the Heavenly Element gave forth a new fresh Air all clear and bright so that in the Light thereof liberty was given for Holy Walks as in a Supercelestial Region there to take up the Souls true Central Rest. Even so sweet Jesus never let me venture out lest those perilous Winds should me overtake to unfix me out of the even Temperature wherein all stability will the Mind most safely and securely Fix November the 12th 1676. Now upon this Sealing opened and enlarged the great Mystery of the three Heavenly Witnesses which gives light to the Understanding and makes it capable of knowing and comprehending the Souls true Originality as to what it was what it is and what it is to be what it was in its first pure State then how it fell and lastly what it is to be and after what manner to be restored In which three Particulars these Witnesses do unfold themselves and bear Record but the chief and principal of these is the Third or the Restoration whereby God raiseth the Fallen Tabernacle going forth in a new Creation and Formation to produce a suitable Habitation for himself wherein the Father doth in the first place record his own Name which is demonstrated in opening a Flood-gate of Love expressed in the Gift of his Son not only to be born for us but be born in us bearing witness that we are hereby passed from the Misery Death Curse and the Wrath of God into the Liberty and Similitude of the Deity it self wherein the Righteous and Immaculate Nature of Jesus doth spring as the Lily in the Valley For it is not a bare Record or Report of these Witnesse but it is an essential Body All-Deiform which is a Record that can never be obliterated for that the Holy Ghost is the sure Pledge hereof which doth keep alive this Impression by his continued Motives and Operations So that what is Invisible in the Heavens is made Visibâ—… to the Dove Eye through which thy Soul hath its Seeing By which Seeing it is marvellously enflamed and affected with those Objects that so beautiful excellent and enamouring are that do wonderfully take the Mind off from these low Animal and Natural Things the Super-celestial Life being raised and employed altogether upon what is so ineffably Joyous and Glorious For thus the higher Heavens are brought down by this Trinity of Witnesses into the habitable part of Man's Earth November the 20th 1676. The Ternary of Witnesses upon the Earth answering to the Impression from the three Branches of the True Olive-Tree were now heard to give in severally their Testimony agreeably with that which is given in the Heavenly Places in order to the bringing about the greatest and highest of all Ministrations which is that of the Holy Ghost and to the compleating and defending of the Kingly Birth from the Virgin Woman which the Dragon ever watcheth against to destroy it And hence was
it given me to understand the several Offices and Business belonging to each one of these to make ready for the Birth-Day and to protect this High-born One from the raging Floods the tempstuous Winds of the Adversary The Spirit 's Work is to reprove convince exhort counsel caution and comfort in order to the carring on this great Affair The work of the Water is another witness as you find it in you as a bubling Pool cleansing every part within that so not the least defect may be found in the Matrix whereout the Birth must open Then the Blood is a great Testimonial Witness and Evidence as in a mystical manner conveyed tasted and drunk down by them that do carry the matter of this Birth for it doth produce a vigorous Life that will be known and felt to refresh both Mother and Babe So keeping all these in their several acting-Properties they will be the clear evidence unto thee that the Ghostly Birth is working out it self Therefore with these three let thy Will-Spirit agree hereunto to throw out every misconceived thought For now all things must be new again by the Father Word and Spirit through this new Birth wrought That ye may come to a mighty Record among the New Jerusalem Stones where all are waiting this rising day to see because it will fix in thee an unknown Liberty both in Spirit and Body November the 21st 1676. It was also further expresly opened unto me that we were at present brought thus far as to witness these three as Spirit Water and Blood being Witnesses in our Earth which did fore-run the Ministration of the Holy Ghost For they must go before as the Ministration of Jesus who came by Water Blood and Spirit that is Death Life and Resurrection from which he passed and so must we As he did bear our Record in Heaven which will be a different thing though agreeing to one and the same end as thus the three first make way as the Water-Baptism into the Death the Blood into the Life the Spirit quickneth and giveth a Body of the Resurrection So the Ministration of Jesus hath its twofold Use upon us in order to the second thus which are to bear Record as the Father Word and Holy Ghost in our Heavens So here is to be understood the rising Degree or changing from Jesus in Spirit to that degree of Unity of Father Word and Holy Ghost all which agree to enter into a Virgin Mind thus prepared and in it after a high Mystical mauner themselves conceive so as to include them as one only Being contracting the Virgin-Will and Spirit with it self hereby becoming one inbred with it as that Heir who was darkly prophesyed of in Micah's day who said the glory of Israel was to come unto the Adullam the very pure Tabernacle of the Virgin-Nature born again of Water Blood and Spirit so made indeed a meet reception for this holy thing to be sealed up as in an unknown Pavilion or hiding Place of Strength which must be till it hath attained every measure and part to the growing big and filling up the Birth 's place with Breasts full of Milk the Spring Word of the Spirit diffusing into them the natural course of the Bloody Issue of Sin also stopping all which will be evident Signs unto you that are still apt to be questioning whether this Ghostly Birth is in you forming Therefore be still and wait for that great travelling hour that is to come upon ye before which sometimes ye will be in Pains and Heaviness because ye may meet with many a throw of Temptation all which will work the Birth forward therefore be not dismayed Oh Daughter of my Zion so long as thou walkest steadily not going out of Sion Court where you are to wait at my Council-Board to enquire what shall fore-run and be in that travelling Hour which will make great Spoil of the Mortal Shell which must break away at this great Birth-day Therefore look and expect this will make a mighty alteration for the Heavens will rend that the Throne-Spirits and Powers may descend as helps and Guardian defence and Witness-bearers to this Sion-Birth For which great Provision is aforehand to be made to answer to the greatness of the Sion state all of the rich concealed Furniture and Golden Cups Pots and Vessels at such a time as this will be brought out with all the rich Robes for those to wear who do attend upon this Birth Great and mighty Preparations thou dost see are hereunto expedient for to be Because this World is so blind ignorant and unbelieving that it will be no less needful to rebuke by all high and Spiritual Magnificency in the very height of Sion Glory and to outvye hereby not only vain pompous Glory but those Abominations and false exalted Lighâ—… set up in Temple-Worships as no better then false Births Coverings which will not be removed till this mighty Standard of this Holy Ghost come to be lifted up and set upon the top of Sion-Hill in Visibility November the 22d 1676. I saw as a Preludium of this rising Birth of the Holy Ghost a bright Firmament opne and all dignified with splendorous Stars some much more blazing then others And one Star encreased so great as it became like the Body of the Sun Which Vision was thus opened unto me after some days being called over in me by a fresh vivification of Spirit that shewed me that the one Star which I saw so suddenly encrease to that largeness as the very Body of the Sun it was the Virgin-Woman that was all to be encompassed with the Birth Light of the Holy Ghost which would arise out of that Orb at which the rest of the Stars that did encompass it should shout for Joy and be Witnesses â—…hereof at the opening of this greater Day-Star which should enlighten the whole Earth Oh this left great Amazement in me provoking to some travelling Sorrows for to see this mighty Wonder â—…rought forth as in Vision so existently in that Star who is hereunto by the Omnipotency elected A further Confirmation hereunto was the Idea of an Ark that was shut up floating up and down not upon muddy troublesome Waters which once covered all Mountains and Hills whenas the Deluge was upon the Old World but these Waters were pure and healing like the Waters under the Threshold of the Sanctuary that where-ever they came quickned unto Life And it was said to me Behold the Dove is in the Ark and will be this place of broad Waters that shall cover the Earth no more to kill or destroy but to save alive according to the New Covenant that all shall know God from the least to the greatest When out of this Ark the Dove shall flye with the Everlasting Gospel as the Olive-Branch which carrieth in it that oily Property we will kindle a sweet Fire that can mix with these pure Waters and not bâ—… quenched but still maintain servent heaâ—…
exercised Authority over you and thereby you shall know the first formation into the clear and pure Airy Body which will carry you though obscurely as Christ your Lord did that shall hereout appear in another form as he did when risen from the Dead who did only to a few appear discending from his Paradisical Sphear Even so by the same quickning Spirit pass over with your Jesus till you arrive beyond Paradise and come to assume that third Birth Degree which alone is appropiated to the all-Ghostly-Trinity which as in one shall swallow up every lower Degree that now must go forward in you in order to this superiour Birth Which only can be born out of these who are ascended to Mount Sion as the proper Region for the pure Virgin to travail with this Birth in Oh it is so high great and principal that out of this holy Climate it cannot be manifested therefore consider what holy separated and sequestred Spirits the hopes of this third degree of the Spirit 's Birth do call you for to give up your selves unto Faint not but stick close unto that which as a munition of Rocks will be to you for Strength Light and Counsel till to this last degree of glory you shall be brought and therein your Jesus will appear Therefore do you set forward be as those that are dead and yet alive Be Ye not any longer but let the second Degree of the Spirit 's Birth live in this very time of your attained process having so far obtained the potent Power of the free willing Spirit as this to effect by the Birth-Spirit which is already born in you which will so far perfect the Death as to bring forth that Body of the Resurrection Which gradually proceeds from the Root of that Eternal Spirit which raised Christ from the Dead this shall also be that generating Life-quickning Spirit in you to bring forth the last and principal Birth-degree which growing will be till the compleat Death and Resurrection are passed through Thâ—…n may ye expect the breaking forth of this high and great Manifestation of God the Holy Ghost who will Reign indeed Omnipotently over all that hath lain under the Fall No Song of full Redemption can be sung till this Kingdom of the Lamb and Bride mutually do meet The counsel of the Spirit is to you who have this pure Unction Matter in you that you give it all scope and liberty for its further driving forth in you For ye may be as many who have gone forth in this generating Birth but have stopped the Life-Vein before it could come to breath in a risen Body all of pure Air. Therefore double your Watch and be heedful for it is no light or trivial work that you must herein set upon for wâ—…re you to begin your whole Life again days few enough they would be to clear and acquit all to make room for this rising Bâ—…rth forth to go But to such as shall hereunto set themselves with a perfect Heâ—… Hezekiah-like I will saith the Sâ—…irit add unto their days some degrees of the Sun of their outward Life which shall not go down till you have finished that Faith which will give the power to open the fiâ—…st Seal where doth lie under the Saphire Stone Obey and flee to your appointed Wilderness that this fore-running Life of Faith may have all supremacy over your sensitive part to work down and bury in the Death-Grave all which would this Birâ—…h Lily with its Rose-Mate oppose These things in charge the Spirit of Jesus doth mutually leave with you the terms and conditions are faithfully revealed to you you may either win or lose this great Pâ—…ze as to the Manifâ—…station hereof in this Principle But be ye wise December the 23d 1676. It was this Morning further manifested to me that those three who so appeared unto me were the same which appeared to Abraham bringing the good News that the Isaac-Birth was near Only they were in humane Shapes these were all in a pure Mist and formed into Airy Bodies only for Spirits to behold But this was the Secret that was opened to me from hence according as was cryed in me which was this as the Word opened Understand now and kâ—…ow oh ye Intellectual Spirits for what end did these appear to thee What less but to advertise that the great and last Birth-Day of the Spirit is drawing near The barren Sarah shall again bear from the Youthful Nature of the Virgin which hath its time for to flower in Nature's Ground for the Trinity to consummate all by this one passing act of transfused Spiritual Generation This is that which must do the Cure upon the Mortal Sore as this whole Birth-Trinity is born in each one Births there have been from the Fathers and Sons property as that of Isaac and of Jesus in the Flesh being figuratives which have had their Mystery fulfilled And here hath been the stop being baptized into the Father and the Son but not knowing that last and Celestial Baptism of the Holy Ghost Who beareth no other similitude but what answereth and is consonant to that eternal Element from whence this Ghostly Body is contracted Which is all Breath of Power a Flame of Purity clarified Earth through which Golden Streams do run through every Vein to make up a transparent Body which may well become the Holy Trinity for to dwell in Here is the Birth that is not yet come into the World there hath wanted the Woman-Virgin cloathed with the Sun for to bring it forth Who must be drawn aside from all and kept up only for this mighty travelling Work who hath an appointed daily Portion from the high Father of this Birth sent in for the nourishing of this which is so highly compacted of the threefold Seed of the Deity That so nothing of defect shortness of power and disability may be which have been complained of hitherto But when this Trine do agree as one to pass through the Virgin-Mind then shall such walk as full Victors over the Sea of Glass having Bodies sutably framed unto those Spirits which ye receive in the second Birth-Ministration Which for want of such a Ghostly Body through a Christ-like Spirit yet remaineth weak till the whole Mystery of Father Son and Spirit comes and shall appear to Move and open in the eternal Birth-center evermore December the 26th 1676. It was further noted unto me from that Vision of the three Spiritual Bodies That all Discovery and Revelation of the Will and Mind of the Dâ—…y would now be from these three bearing Witnesses for themselves in our pure eternal part Who there will never cease to be a Speaking Oracle for Manifestation if we stick closely to observe and obey what daily proceedeth herefrom For it was said to me Turn and dive deep in for the Living Word is become a bubbling Spring that shall work out all mâ—…d things that would corrupt and make void the Law of my Spirit which