sundred but as God dwelleth in the world and yet the World is not God a Principle severeth them and as God with his Anger dwelleth in the Creature and yet also in the hiddennesse with the Love among the Anger and yet the Anger receiveth not the Love 37. For I can say that God dwelleth with the Love in the Devil but the Devil cannot receive it the Love is his Enemy as the water is the Fires Enemy and yet the Fire dwelleth in the Originall in the water so God dwelleth in all things but the thing is not capable of his Love so also the Earthly Seed of Mary wherein Sinne was was not capable of the Deity but it hung as another Principle to the Inward Seed in which God manifested himself 38. The Inner Man which now became Christ THAT took our Sinne upon it self and hung the Body upon which he had Laid Mans Sinne on the Crosse as a Curse of God For there hung the first Adam which God cursed for the sake of Sinne on the Crosse with the curse of Sinne and dyed to Sinne on the Crosse and in his dying he shed the Bloud of the holy man in Christ into the Mystery of the Soul and of the Outward Man wherein Death was 39. For the holy Bloud was conceived in the Holy Spirit and was immortall it was conceived IN the water of the Eternall Life in the Tincture of Gods Light in his sweet Love and had resolved it self into and appropriated it self with the Bloud of the disappeared Image 40. Now when this Bloud fell together into Death then Death Trembled before this holy Eternall Life the Anger trembled before the Love and fell in its Poyson and Fierce wrath which held us captive into its dying according to the kinde of the fierce wrath 41. And yet there is no dying or ceasing to be understood but it went in the terrour of the Love up in the divine Kingdome of joy as a Light becometh shining out of an anxious hot Source or Quality where all anxiety taketh an End 42. The Fierce wrath which before was evill and angry that was now the cause of the great Fiery Love and Kingdome of Ioy for nothing must passe Away in Man he must remain as God created him in Adam but he must again be transmuted into that very Image into that very resigned will and be obedient to God 43. For the Scripture saith The Son of God Christ became obedient to the Father even to the Death on the Tree of the Crosse so wholly must also our humane will be broken in Christs death and the Anger in HIS Bloud be Transmuted into the Love 44. And that is it which David saith Thou wilt not let thy Holy ONE see Corruption or Consumption Now when he shed his holy Bloud in the true Image of God in Christ then became the Poyson of the Anger in Adams Flesh Soul and Spirit sanctified and transmuted into Love and the Devils Den of Robbery wholly destroyed 45. There enmity ceased and God became IMMANUEL Man with God and God with Man for here Adams Flesh became Tinctured prepared for the Resurrection for Death brake in the Eternall New-born Life of CHRIST out of JESU 46. And here the Gate of Death viz the Eternall Darknesse in Mans Body and Soul became broken open and the Cherubine with the Sword which did cut off the humane Life from the Light of Nature was taken away and the fountain began to flow out of Sion viz out of Christs Spring in the whole Man so that man could now henceforth drink of the Water of the Holy Element and Eat ex verbo Domini of the Word of the Lord. 47. Thus now we are to consider our Imitation of or following after him we cannot say that we can do what God in JESU did through CHRIST in breaking the way for us No WE can NOT shed heavenly Bloud and transmute the Anger of God into Love else if that were any way possible then we must also as a Curse be Nailed to the CROSSE and though that should be yet our inward Man is not exalted into the degree of Christ to be wholly like him 48 For JESUS viz the totall fullnesse of the Deity dwelleth in CHRIST without Measure and in him viz in his Mother MARY was the Limit or Mark of the Covenant which God blessed in Paradise into THAT God looked and through it Gods Imagination entered in through the Jewish Sacrifices 49. God brake death in peeces only through him but we must introduce our Imagination and desire into him that our Tinder of the faded Image in him may begin to glimmer or Glow in the Spirit and power of Christ which apprehendeth the true hunger of the right Faith wherewith Man through the glowing or glimmering Tinder which if it be sincere and earnest at length becometh a shining Light of God in JESUS can break the Power of Sinne in the Flesh and keep it in subjection as a Churlish unruly evill Dog which can NOT altogether be freed from ITS Malignity or Malice till it break wholly and altogether 50. That the Shell into which the Devil hath introduced his Imagination and had his Den of Robbery therein be altogether dissipated that there be no more life therein and then so soon as the outward Man dyeth that the Soul be freed of the Evill Beast THEN it hath the open Gate in its beloved Image in which Christ hath opened himself with the Divine Love-Fire 51. And then is the Union already there the Bride cheereth her Bridegroom viz the Noble Virgin in the Love of Christ being awakened again which taketh the Soul viz its loving Bridegroom and Man or Husband into her Arms of the Divine desire and what is there done I have no Pen to write it with It is more than humane or Natural to write that 52. What Gods Love and sweetnesse is which the converted Man if he enter into his Father again and acknowledge himself a Swineheard and bewayle his by past Sinnes and seeketh the Fathers Grace and Favour experienceth when Christ his Bridegroom sets upon him the Virgin-like Garland or Crown where the Pearl of the divine reception of Grace at first becometh sown 53. What Joy the Virgin hath when it obtaineth Life again and receiveth its Bridegroom Christ how very amiably and blessedly it presents it self towards the soul and comprehendeth the soul viz its Man or Husband in its Love at which indeed Soul and Body tremble in Joy 54. Which those only know who have been Guests in this Place and this Authour who in the Letter will be PERFECT and new-born only and meerly with a litteral skill and knowledge it is likely hath yet never experienced and scarce tasted the Supper of Christ 55. Seeing he is but a Litteral Saint and a Contender and moreover a high-minded despiser of the children of Christ in their unlike Gifts and his holiness is confined meerly within
then I may better comply with him therein 157. Seaventhly But that he saith God was not manifested or revealed in the First Adam He First manifested himself in CHRIST with the Deity in the Humane property and so casts away wholly the first Created Man in his Nature and bringeth a totall new and other Man forth out of Christ which is not at all the First which is wholly wrong and erroneous and he should demonstrate it by the Holy Scripture or else we will not grant it to this New Bride 158. For although the first Man fell wholly into Sinne as to Body and Soul yet we should Consider what Sinne Is viz this is Sinne that he departed or went out from the Order or Ordinance wherein God Created him 159. He went out of the Free Resignation in which the Name JESUS in the Divine Light was Manifested in him and manifested in the Flesh the Anger of God so that it began to qualifie or operate and took in wholly the Life in the Flesh of the three Principles For the Souls Will went forth from the Resignation from the JEHOVA or JESUS and so the Substance also disappeared wherein JEHOVA was 160. Thus the Outward Earthly body became accursed that is the through-pressing power JEHOVA which before made Paradise in the Flesh that departed from the Flesh into it self and so came the Death and dying into the Flesh 161. For the Eternall Life stood in JEHOVA viz in the Name JESU wherein man was foreseen before the time of the world that it would manifest it self again in the Humane Soul and make the disappeared Image of the Divine Substantiality living again and receive that into it self and would be the CHRIST therein Else it must follow that the sinfull Soul were become wholly rejected or cast away 162. If the Originall of the Regenerate Man were wholly strange what would become of Job's word where he saith I shall see God in this my Flesh and my Eyes and not a stranger shall see HIM 163. No strange Man it is that shall arise from the Dead but only that which God Created in Adam in his Image in which God himself took mercy and compassion on him again and for that purpose moved the Name JESUS in the humane property which assumed the Womans Seed on him and therein quenched the Anger of God in the Soul in the Fathers Property with Heavenly Bloud and became a Pestilence to the Devils Poyson in the Soulish Property and a sting of Death to Death so that Death must dye in his Death 164. For JESUS with the CHRIST brought the Life out of Death and Anger it is written He is made unto us Righteousnesse and Redemption understand the CHRIST but he which hath been from Eternity in Eternall full or Equall Omnipotency and the Creation of all things he cannot be made to be Righteousnesse for he is himself the Creator but this CHRIST is out of JESU or JEHOVA whose out-going is from Eternity become in our Flesh made to be Righteousnesse and Redemption from the Anger of God 165. Now that which is made beginneth it self in the Making indeed out of the Eternall for the Soul hath introduced it self into Time viz into self-hood but CHRIST who out of the Eternity out of the JESU became born in the Humane Property he brought it again into himselfe into the Eternity out of the Time viz forth out of the corrupt or perished Source or Quality of the Mercury 166. CHRIST was not in the Person from Eternity but in the Power in the Name JESU he was from Eternity in the same co-equall Substance with God and this strange Bride shall not perswade us that God was not manifested in Adam Indeed not in CHRIST but in JESU whose Exit was from Eternity 167. The Soul went forth out of JESU into own selfe-will but God took mercy and compassion on it and promised yet once to move himselfe in Man with the Name JESU and in Man to generate the CHRIST out of Gods and Mans Substance 168. NOT out of Sinfull Flesh from the Outward world but out of the Divine Flesh which in Adam when he entred into the outward Earthly disappeared and dyed so that the outward only hung to him 169. For in the Outward Flesh was the Death in THAT should Christ break death in Peeces and New Generate in him the Whole Man as God Created him not introduce a strange one but to heal the broken Reed 170. As a Grain of Seed is sown into the Earth out of which a fair Stalk groweth with many fruits where the Essence of the Grain giveth forth that Stalk and the Shell or Husk only dyeth so also in Man the husk of Sinne only dyeth the humane Essence in the Name JESUS in the CHRIST which became manifested in Man becometh that very CHRIST not the King or the Stock but a little Twig or Branch out of that very Stock 171. Therefore this Man cannot perswade us except he demonstrate it to us that CHRIST the Expresse Image of God out of the Stock of the Love his Mother was generated from Eternity and was an Expresse Image of God 172. But in this he was the Expresse Image of God from Eternity viz in the Figure of Man in which Figure God Created Man with beginning and Creature there the Image of the similitude became known in God and even in the Name JESU which in this Looking-Glasse of the Expresse Image in the power of JESUS would become a CHRIST 173. The Life of Christ began it self with the second Moving when God moved himself according to his Heart in the Humane Property in the Eternall seen similitude of God in the JESUS and gat the Name of CHRIST as a Saviour or healer of the Sore and not from Eternity 174. For the similitude of God which was Seen in Gods wisdome from Eternity and known in the JEHOVA wherein God created Man that was before the Times of the world without Life and Substance and was only a Looking-Glasse of the Image wherein God saw himself how he might be in an Image 175. But when JEHOVA moved himself in this Image and Similitude then God manifested his Life in this Looking-Glasse in humane Property then was CHRIST conceived and generated or born for according to the Humanity he is called CHRIST not according to the Deity before all Creatures 176. According to the Deity he is called the Eternall Word of the Father for it is written The Word became Flesh Not Christ became Flesh Christ is that simple Servant of which God saith in Esaiah Who is so simple as my servant He became the Servant of God by whom God brake death in Peeces and destroyed Hell 177. This Christ is ascended up to Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God as a Prince of God and beareth the Eternall Name of God which is there called JESUS or JEHOVA 178. He is the High Priest
that offereth the Sacrifice of Righteousnesse which availeth before God but he that offereth offereth to him whom he would attone or Reconcile but if he himself be the Creator he cannot also be the Attonement or Reconciliation but he is The Mediatour between God and Man for God hath set him up to be a Throne of Grace but he that is set up is not the Throne it self but he bringeth his Gift viz the Prize or Spoil which he had gotten in the Battle of Gods Anger to the Throne 179. There say I Man was not at first Created in Christ as this Author will have it but the second time he is become generated in Christ The Name Christ was IN the Name JESUS in which Man was Created whose out-going was from Eternity 180. They are indeed one but the Authour bringeth forth strange matters under it a Man cannot admit that he should fold up all Creatures in the Name of CHRIST and will have the Redemption of ALL Creatures in the Name of Christ 181. It looks very strangely and yet a Man may well see what he meaneth thereby viz that HE would be the very ONE only Christ that men are to Hear as the Word of God whereas yet when he is at best he is scarce a little Twigg or Branch on that Tree not the Mother it selfe which hath generated and will generate I put not my trust in him but in the First Christ who in JESUS became a CHRIST whose Twig or Branch I desire to be 182. CHRIST was hidden in JESU and all powers of the wisdom lay in the hidden Christ which no Angels Tongue can expresse that revealed it self first of all when JEHOVA that is JESUS moved in the humanity there was CHRIST first Manifested In the first Adam was JEHOVA Manifested and in the second Adam CHRIST viz The Treasure of the Wisdome of God 183. The first Adam was created Perfect in JEHOVA and to Eternall Life viz in the Eternall Natural but being the Eternall Naturall would not stand then JEHOVA manifested Christ in the Naturall Life that Christ might generate and bring again the Natural into Perfection thus Christ hath with his Birth or Geniture opened the Treasures of wisdom that were in JEHOVA 184. Yet CHRIST was hidden in the Treasure of wisdom but the wisdom was in JEHOVA in the first Adam manifest but not after that manner as the Life breaketh the Anger in peeces for it was not necessary if Adam had remained standing but when he fell it was necessary that this Form should become Manifest 185. Even this Form is called CHRIST and dwelleth in the JEHOVA for out of the JEHOVA it is become Manifested Therefore being JEHOVA was manifest in Adam therefore was God manifested in him else it would follow that JEHOVA had Created Adam to Sinne that he might manifest the Treasures of wisdome in him which is Not so for God so farre as he is called God can NOT Will Evill 186. But if Adam in his Creation be wholly manifested in Christ as this Authour sets it down then with his entring into the humanity nothing New was performed the Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent was first manifested in the Body or Womb of Mary Adam needed him not before the Fall but after the Fall he needed that 187. This Crusher or Bruiser of the serpent was CHRIST and no other he was generated out of IEHOVA that is out of IESU out from Eternity but in the Humanity after the Fall from Eternity he was in Gods Word viz in Gods voyce and in no Image manifested as this * Author writeth but after the Fall he became manifested in the Flesh then he was called CHRIST as viz a breaker through of death 188. For from Eternity was no Death but only a Fire-dying in which out of the dying the holy Life originateth but with Sinne it entered into the world into the Flesh with the Curse Death began in the world with Christ the Eternall Life came again for he brake death in peeces and therefore he is called Christ and not in the Creation 189. In Christ there is Nothing Created but in his power in the speaking Word all is Created in which his Name is called IEHOVA 190. In Christ man is New born or Regenerated but not Created into the Image therefore this Author erreth where he speaketh of the Mother Love of God 191. IEHOVA is the Generator of the Love and IESUS is IEHOVA who generateth the Love and CHRIST is become generated out of the Love in the Humanity for he was no CHRIST from Eternity but only the Love in IEHOVA in IESU 192. Sinne caused IEHOVA that he gave us the CHRIST out of the Love for in the Eternity will be no CHRIST but IEHOVA all in all the whole Humane Tree in IEHOVA 193. Not that the Person of Christ will Cease to be only the Killing or Mortifying of Sinne in which IEHOVA is called CHRIST is then Ceased The Creature remaineth but CHRIST is then the Eternall High-Priest in ALL and the Creature of CHRIST a King of Men. 194. NOw may the Reader Ask what is the strife or controversie in this place It is THIS The Author saith 12. CHRIST was the Image of God and was generated out of the Woman or Wife of God viz out of the Divine Voyce and Mother of the Love from Eternity to Gods expresse Image And that God hath visibly made and Created Adam and all Heavenly and Earthly Creatures in this Christ 13. That God hath been manifested only in Christ and not in Adam that Adam was Created and Manifested IN Christ And that in Christ was only manifested the Treasure of wisdome and accordingly he hath not at all manifested himself to Adam in the first Creation That Adam had no divine knowledge but should have been obedient IN Christ which he was not but let the Serpent betray or deceive him and so he followed the Devill and perished in Sinne with Soul and Body 14. That then Christ after this Fall manifested himself in him and became a Man and new generated the Humanity in ALL whatsoever it was inwardly and outwardly and made it Wholly to be Christ and God so that this Man Christ was in all things or substances like God the Holy Trinity in power and substance 15. And that all Men who beleeve on this Christ do become all like this one only CHRIST That they instantly dye away as to Nature and they become in Soul and Body this one onely CHRIST who is indeed God and Man in ONE onely Person 16. And like the Holy Trinity in Will knowledge power or vertue and substance and in all Divine Properties Eternal Unchangeable Immortal Perfect without any ONE Sinful thought as we are to be and must be Eternally 17. And in that regard that he in Christ is wholly Perfect and immortall and is changed from Death to the Eternall Life in Christ in and to all that whatsoever Man inwardly
Equall Concordance as God created the First Soul they stand in the Elevation in the Multiplicity of the Wills and not in One Will in the Multiplicity of the Wills is the Turba for one Will is the Enmity of the other and they cannot be broken for their originall is out of the Eternity from the Center of Nature 75. Vnlesse Gods Light kindle it self in them then they become in the Light transmated into One Will and then the Enmity and contrary will in the Center of the Life of the soul ceaseth also then the outward-outward-Life in the Child is together inthe Flesh of perdition and is subject to Death 76. For as the Properties in the Souls Life are in strife and Contrariety so also are the Properties of the outward Life for in Adam all went forth out of the equall concordance and now one kindleth the other and the strife between heat and cold also Evill and Good continueth so long as the OUTWARD Life continueth 77. Therefore it is a wrong Exposition of the Author where he saith Holy Faithfull Parents generate altogether CHRIST yes that Christ himself is the work of Humane Propagation which a Cow would almost laugh at to see its like in the outward Man so that he doth more foolishly than a Beast Christ dwelleth in Heaven in his own Principle and the outward Man upon Earth in his own Principle 78. The holy good wise or woman whereof he speaketh much without sufficient understanding generateth not the outward Beastial Man of the Four Elements but the Inward of the pure Element God driveth not on the work of humane propagation HE hath given it to MAN into his own will in Christ God drave it on but without humane Concurrence out of his own Predestinate purpose 79 Now if this Authour can generate children without Man then we will beleeve him that God hath begotten a Christ-Child out of him or out of his Wife if without Man she is impregnate from Gods word 80. But he will fail in that Adam hath squandered this power as we have expressed concerning it at large in the Book of the Three Principles also in the Book of the Threefold Life as also in the first Part of the Incarnation of Christ 81. The Conjunction of the Seeds is cleerly in strife and contrary Will and in the strife and contrary Will is the Life in the Childe manifest and not in the Slime but in the Anguish in the choaked Bloud The beginning of Life in a Childe is a DYING of the Masculine and Feminine Tincture of the Seed and out of this dying goeth a new own Life up 82. As the Light shineth from the Candle so we are to conceive in like manner that the Man and Wife only sowe the BODY of the Lifes Candle out of which the Life in the dying viz in the anguish-Fire in the choaking of the first Bloud wherein the Childe becometh Man is generated not as a dying of Consumption but in the anguish of the dying Source or Quality the First Principle viz the true Fire-Soul in its Principle becometh manifest 83. It is not conceiting will do it but understanding the Center of Nature how a Life originateth not only to say Christ and God doth a thing but to know WHAT God Christ and Man is each in IT self 84. Man must understand the Principles and not with Historicall conceit with Literall knowledge and confound one thing in another such a Master as this Authour will needs be viz a God that is Omniscient he should before-hand know very well and not so sottishly with such loud cry come and draw up without Ground and understanding 85. Men know also well that the Holy Woman or Wife viz the Virginity is from God but it hath not the might of Generating It is in Adam with the Wife Eve squandered it cannot generate more unlesse the Generatour viz CHRIST were before-hand generated in it and then it generateth the Soul its Bridegroom otherwise in the WILL that is it transmuteth it into ITS Love and setteth Christs Garland or Crown of victory upon it NOw followeth The Second Point of the Fourth Text The Explainers own Words 1. BUt how and in what measure manner and kind She from her God and Man CHRIST JESU goeth cometh is Created or Made and prepared hence now the Triune God and Lord signifieth in the Testimony of Holy Scripture for the better and cleerer knowledge of the holy Marriage-state and wonderful divine Union of Man and Wife in one Flesh for a Type and Looking-Glasse giveth therein through the Divine knowledge and wisdom to acknowledge and consider 2. How and in what measure manner and kind the holy woman or wife and faithfull humane visible Flesh and Bloud under the Masculine and Feminine Sex from CHRIST the Triune highly praised God her Man or Husband proceeded was made and prepared 3. And as true Christian honest faithful marryed people whom God joyneth together for here I speak not of those marryed people who highly esteem outward bravery riches honourable familyes and outward Name whom the Lust of the Flesh and of the Eye in this world bringeth together and causeth to marry yes truly faithful Christian Marryed people who many times never saw one another with their eyes 4. As all truly faithful Christian People will to the highest praise of God in their hearts with God the Triune Eternal Truth and Seal give Testimony with me that oftentimes very wonderfully and strangely their whole person altogether unknowing are brought together and joyned by the Triune God JESUS CHRIST 5. In that the LORD giveth and incorporateth in the Masculine heart his holy Love towards the Feminine Image which before as it often cometh to passe he never saw much lesse found any desire after such a One at any time which in her presenteth the holy divine Love and voyce with all manner of friendly richly amiable words and works towards the feminine Image accordingly 6. And by all manner of outward Modesty and Chast Service or Ministry and Conversation without ceasing in care day and night is diligent in and doth not give over till through the divine good power and working it presseth into the midst and Center of the feminine heart and with its powerful burning operation it Imageth to it self the Masculine person and bindeth with it self the very divine Good Holy Chaste Love 7. In both which Christian hearts this Triune divine fire-burning Love in the holy Divine working reception and growing doth not cease till it bring both these Masculine and Feminine Persons into one 8. So that they through this powerfull working in the Love are one Heart one Soul one Body one Flesh and Bloud as indeed in the Love of the Divine voyce each calleth or nameth the other his own heart Soul and undivided own propriety 9. And then in this Chast Divine richly amiable working through the divine power in holy and not unchast fleshly mixture and
then all was done concerning the faire Paradise of Man his heavenly Image of the divine Substantiality faded and was no more known 74. Which in a Similitude is understood to be no otherwise then as when look upon LEAD which before had been GOLD and had through MERCURY turned it selfe into LEAD wherein the poysonous Mercury is manifested which before in GOLD stood in great brightnesse and Perfection 75. And as now in the Lead there is yet a possibility to be Gold but it was not manifested in the Mercury the Mercury could not turn it self again into Gold unlesse the Artist came and brake to pieces the Lead Totally and turned it into the first matter out of which it was Created then might out of that matter fair Gold come to be as it was at first 76. Or else if the power of Sol did move it self in this Mercury of the Lead which yet is a Saturn but yet hath the Impression viz the first Ground to Gold in it selfe and generate in its power Gold again in the Lead so that I see Lead and Gold in ONE Substance and yet it is not manifested but the Lead holdeth the Gold as it were half Swallowed up and covered 77. Thus we are to understand in like manner concerning Adam and Eve their faire Golden Body in divine power and Substance became a Dark obscure Lead spoken by way of Similitude The Golden Mercury awaked in the vanity of the poyson then faded and vanished the Gold viz the holy Body in the Abomination and now it was totally Earthly and must to Earth again 78. But the voyce of God which called them again espoused it self again with the promise of the Serpent Crusher or Bruiser in Venus'es Matrix viz in the Second Principle in the part of the Heavenly Substantiality in which before the Word of the Divine sound had been manifested But when the Souls desire went out from it it faded and vanished in it selfe 79. Thus in this espousall in the Lead there was Gold and Lead one in another but the Gold was not manifested till Gods Mercury in the word of Promise manifested it self in the Lead viz in the Flesh then became the Lead in Christs humanity again changed into Gold and the processe was held as the Transmutation of Mettals is performed which becometh changed into Gold as in our Book of the Signature or Seal of things is very largely and expressely written of 80. And we are hereby to understand that the Limit of the Covenant viz the promised new Golden Life is become propagated in Venus'es Tincture as a Possibility of the Divine Regeneration which God through the Center of his Heart through that very moving Manifested in Christ 81. And manifested the CHRIST viz the Anointed out of JESUS and out of his deepest humility and Love and changed the poysonous Mercury in dark Lead into bright Gold 82. Whereby we are cleerly to understand that in all men the VANITY viz the awakened Lifes forms in their self-hood and strife are again become propagated and will still continually be propagated till in the breaking or Corruption of the Earthly Body for so long as Man findeth Heat and Cold or sicknesse and opposite will in his Spirit and Body so long the Abomination is in FULL Life 83. Concerning the Saints of God which as Prophets in the Spirit of JESUS have prophesied of the CHRIST to Come they have all spoken out of the Limit of the Covenant out of the promised Word which would move it self again in the Flesh none of them was totally new born again in the Flesh 84. For the Word stood in the inward faded Image and opened it self with the voyce through the outward Mercury and shewed the outward Man what would yet happen and be done to him when the word of Promise should he manifested in the Mercury of the Flesh and therein break to pieces the abomination and death of the Strife in the Lifes forms 85. But after CHRIST out of JESUS became manifested in the Flesh then that very Flesh became anointed and therefore he was called the Anointed of the LORD and if we introduce our Souls desire into this Manifested Word in the Flesh of Christ then will also that very promised word which is together propagated in ALL men in the Limit of the Covenant be manifested in our Souls-desire in the faded Image of the Divine Substantiality and in Venus'es Matrix viz in the Second Principle wherein God is viz in his right Heaven which is in MAN cometh to Life 86. That is the faded Image getteth the Divine sound in the Souls desire Christ becometh Man in the faded Image and crusheth or bruiseth Death viz the Abomination of the vanity in the outward Leaden Flesh viz the poysonous Mercury in the Lifes forms the Head of the false or wicked will and bringeth forth the Souls will in it self into GOD. 87. Now understand us further concerning the Propagation between Man and Wife both in the Holy Children and in the wicked How and in what manner it is with the Conjunction of the Masculine and Feminine desire and How in NO Man holy children without Sinne CAN be begotten as this Authour paints it forth to us without sufficient understanding 88. The Conjunction of the Desire towards Wife or Woman and Husband or Man cometh from both the Mothers viz from the dividing of Adam from both the Tinctures of Fire and Light which are in themselves not much nobler and purer than the Flesh or the Mercury in the Sulphur of the Flesh they are done with and have not the true Life in them but they are the fiery desire to the true Life 89. But if they come together into ONE into Substance then they awaken the true Life in the Mercury their vehement desire is after Life they would again be that which they were in the Image of God when Adam was Husband and Wife or Man and Woman out of which existeth now the vehement Imagination in the Sulphur and Mercury in the Flesh 90. The Fires Tincture longeth in the Flesh thus vehemently after the Lights Tincture and the Lights after the Fires The Man or Limbus or Limus Terrae et Coeli the extract of Earth and of Heaven longeth after Venus'es Matrix viz after the Joyous Conjunction of the Love-Life viz of the Love-relish which relish in Adam was one in another wherein he loved himselfe and the Perfection consisted therein 91. For the Flesh knoweth not what it doth it is indeed a substance of that desire for in the desire of the Tinctures the Seed is Generated wherein again the Tincture lyeth and so vehemently driveth on that it also might come to Life for all Life or every Substance and thing presseth after its Center out of which it is generated 92. Now it is to be known what is there sowen The Tinctures which Imagine so vehemently are in the Seed of Man and Woman and the Seed becometh in the Impression of
the Holy Trinity hath been hidden to all Creatures and yet is through the second moving of the Deity as a holy sweet Love-Sun become manifested 15. I must not say that in the Person CHRIST viz in the Man according to his humanity according to that part which he hath on him from us Men from our Body and Soul that is on to the Deity on to the Divine Substantiality or Heavenly Corporeity taken on to him That the Creature is ceased and taken up or that the Creature Soul and Body from us Men is unmeasurable 16. No for such a One is not our Eternall High Priest which I could never more see in the Form of Man for the Men when he went to Heaven said Ye shall SEE this JESUS come again as he is Ascended 17. Only the Deity in him and the Christ understand the divine property together with the Heavenly divine substantiality wherewith he saith John 3. 13. He was come from Heaven THIS is uncreaturely and yet IN every Man as an own Sun yet only in one point which shineth forth out of the fountain of this Sun indeed from no place or space but the place of this holy revelation or Manifestation is in ALL Men the Center of the Originall 18. This SUN is in all Men but this Sun is not revealed or manifested in all Men but only in the Desire to the Point which is CHRIST which point is JESUS out of JEHOVA 19. But concerning the Holy woman or wife which this Authour mentioneth which is holy and PERFECT wherein the Man CHRIST becometh generated needeth also a farre other Explanation 20. And though he sets down the Holy Christianity to be the woman or wife which I blame not yet a Man must not speak that concerning the outward Earthly Man for the Earthly Man is not Christs Spouse or Wife but the inward Spiritual which faded or disappeared in Adam the Heavenly which Christ as viz the Holy SUN vivifieth 21. But this Authours writing is altogether Contradictory and runnes counter against it selfe for here in this Point he writeth of this Spouse or Woman and Body thus which he NOT outwardly prepareth createth and maketh new but in the Inward Center and middle of the Heart from the beginning of the world instantly after the Fall in Grace Love and Mercy yes in the Faith espouseth betrotheth and uniteth to himself and prepareth it for his Eternall Rest In like manner also this holy Man CHRIST JESUS the Innocent Lamb of God yes the Triune highly praised Sonne of God God himself which was slain from the beginning of the world IN all Faithfull and Saints according to the Testimony of the Scripture 22. Before this Authour hath set down in another place that if CHRIST became manifest or revealed in Man then Nature falleth Totally away Now he sets it down that CHRIST in the Inward Center and middle of the Heart hath from the beginning of the world espoused and united himself with the Saints in the Faith which indeed were true if he did not speak it concerning the Man CHRIST but concerning the Promised CHRIST in the Covenant which first in Time fulfilled the Covenant 23. For Not CHRIST the Man who in the Time in the Limit of the Covenant manifested or revealed himselfe was slain in the Holy Patriarchs but the Children of Faith in whom the Covenant became manifested 24. CHRIST hath once given and offered up his holy Life in the sweet Love to his Father into his Anger which was manifested in the Humane Property and with the Love broken the Anger to pieces He hath not dyed in ALL the Saints from Adam to this time and suffered himself to be slain and put to death Only the Children of the Faith of the Covenant have suffered themselves to be put to death according to the MAN of SINNE that the word of Life in the Covenant in them might put on the new promised Life which would manifest it self in the Covenant with the future Sun of the New Life in the Spirit of the Covenant 25. So that when Christ would manifest himself in the Covenant in the Flesh he also in that Covenant which had manifested it selfe in them would be manifested in them with the divine Substantiality viz with Christs heavenly Flesh 26. For even after the Resurrection of Christ when he had assumed the Humanity and slain death it was not CHRIST that dyed any more in his Members in the Christians or was slain but Adam in Christs Death that Christs Spirit in the Soul and the holy Man might Live When Christ becometh born then should the Man of Sinne continually Dye till at last when the Outward body departeth it WHOLLY ceaseth 27. But if Christ the Lamb of God were become slain in the Old Patriarchs then the reconciliation was performed IN them and then it cometh not solely and onely from the Sonne of MARY 28. Abel was NOT the Lamb of God which was slain for Sinne Christ dyed not in Abel but in the BODY which he received from MARY 29. Abel and all the Martyrs dyed as to their own Bodies for the sake of the Covenant which opened it self in them they were slain and dyed as to their sinfull Adamicall Body and not as to the Holy Body which was shut up in the Covenant which Christ when he would manifest himself in the Covenant would manifest it to be an Eternall Life and holy Flesh in which he would dwell and be the power and Life thereof 30. When the Holy Scripture saith CHRIST was slain in the Saints then it understandeth then Members of the Body of CHRIST according to Christs humanity which HE the Christ assumed It understandeth not the Triune God that should suffer it selfe to be slain from the beginning of the world for doubtlesse God cannot dye That which dyeth is only the Body of Christs Members according to the humane Creature and not according to the Spirit of Christ 31. The Spirit of Christ hath therefore manifested it self in the Humanity and slain Death in his assumed Body that the Gates of Life in us should be opened for if I be murthered for the sake of Christs Name and the Testimony thereof then doth not Christ dye in me but Adam dyeth in Christs death and Christ in my dying becometh first rightly manifested 32. My dying is Christs Resurrection in ME for I dye away to the sinfull self-hood or Nothingnesse and live to the Resignation in the Spirit of Christ 33. Therefore this is a voyd and groundlesse thing that this Authour writeth that the Man Christ the Innocent Lamb of God God himself which from the beginning of the world according to the Testimony of the Scripture was slain in all the Saints and faithfull c. 34. The Triune God is not from the beginning of the world slain in his Saints the Scripture saith not so but the Faithfull Men were slain for Christs sake and NOT the Triune Christ IN them
in JEHOVA but with the Will of JEHOVA viz with the Voyce of the Word in the Impression of Nature which in the Eternity is only a Spirit but with the Moving of God in the beginning of the Creation of this World is in the Spirit become a Substance viz an own self Principle 215. Man is not become Created and Manifested in CHRIST without the Divine Manifestation in him CHRIST was yet in JEHOVA viz hidden in JESU in the out-speaking Word as a Power of the Deity 216. JEHOVA that is God hath moved himself in the JESU viz in the Lust or Longing of the eternall Desire viz with Gods Heart and generated and Manifested CHRIST in the Humanity as a Treasure of Divine Power and Wisdome 217. For Mary said to the Angel Gabriel to the Prince of Gods Wonders when he brought her the Message that she should be impregnate or conceive with Child How should that come to passe for I have known no Man The Angel said the Holy Spirit will come upon thee and the Power of the Most High will overshadow thee thou shalt be impregnate with Child and generate or beare a Sonne whose Name thou shalt call JESVS he will be great and be called the Sonne of the Most High whose out-going hath been from Eternity 218. This was the Originall of CHRIST in the eternall Word in the Power of the Most High of all which hath moved it self and out of and in the JESU viz in the desire of the Divine Love generated the CHRIST viz the Champion in the Battle between Gods Love and Anger Not so as that the power of CHRIST was not from eternity in the Word It was indeed but not manifested in such a property as a Breaker of Death in pieces 219. God generated to himself the breaker of Death in peeces out of the Fountain of HIS Self hood For in the Creation there was no Death so there was also no breaker of Death in peeces With Sinne came Death into the World and through the Breaker in pieces of Death it came out of the World again 220. In Adam was JEHOVA the great All being All-substantiall God manifested but not in the Forme of the breaker of Death but in the Power of his Spirit according to Love and Anger according to the property of the Fiat viz through the glimps of the Tincture of the Fire and Light as an expresse Image of God 221. Adam was not God himself he was not Created in the Trinity in JEHOVA as a Self-subsisting God as this without writeth he was made an expresse Image of God in CHRIST visible and Manifest but without Divine Knowledge and that God first Manifested the Treasure of this Wisdome in Adam when Christ became Man 222. No! God Created Adam to the Eternall Life in Paradise with Paradisicall source or quality and Perfection he forbade him to eate of the source or quality Evill and Good he Created a Perfect expresse Image in the Looking-Glasse of the Eternall seen Image without Substance The Power JEHOVA viz Gods the Fathers Love throughly enlightened him as the Sun through-enlighteneth the whole World 223. The Divine Sun shone through and through Adam in his heavenly substantiality viz in the pure Element and outwardly the Outward Sun enlightened him neither Heat nor Cold touched him for he stood in equall Harmony or accord in them the Pure Element held the Four Elements swallowed up and Captive in it self as the Day the Night and this Man shall not perswade me that God was not manifested in Adam he is indeed manifested in all things but according to every things Property 224. In the Property as Adam was Created God was manifested in him but when he Manifested the Center of the Anger in him then God put enmity against the Evill and manifested the Serpent Crusher or Bruiser in Man which before without Sinne was hidden in Gods Power and was in the Divine Vnity in the Love of God in JESU Thus this Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent became set as a Mark or Limit to Man into which he should turn in his Desire 225. Not that Man should become the JESUS or a God but that we should carry our Faith into him and in our Desire receive into us the CHRIST who hath broken Death in pieces that he may make our Soul and the faded Image in Adam living the Divine Life in himself 226. For in JESU the Eternall Sun shineth forth through the CHRIST JESUS is JEHOVA that is God and Christ is the Mediatour between Gods Love and Anger 227. To CHRIST is all Power given from JEHOVA or JESUS JESUS hath given the divine power to CHRIST not that CHRIST should bear the Power or Authority to or for himself but GOD who is a Spirit he useth the Christ for an Instrument whereby he takes away the Power and Authority from the Anger JESUS is the Power or vertue of CHRIST which giveth the CHRIST the power or authority For in own self authority CHRIST did Nothing upon Earth for he said at the Crosse when the Jewes Hung him upon it Father forgive them for they know not what they do 228. And when he raised Lazarus up he said Father hear me yet I know that thou hearest me alwayes And David said in Spirit He hath set the Lord before him therefore shall Irest secure there he meaneth CHRIST that he had set before him the JESUS or JEHOVA wherein CHRIST resteth 229. Now Christ is a Regeneratour or Restorer of that which is Lost he is not come for the sake of the Earthly Man that he should keep THAT in its Dominion but that he might regenerate that in Adam which when he awakened to sinne disappeared and dyed concerning which God saith That Day thou wilt eate of the Tree of Good and Evill thou shalt dye the Death he dyed to the Divine World and awakened to the Outward-World viz to the Sinne-House full of Misery and Ever dying source or quality 230. He would not generate the Sinne-Life anew for he dyed away in his Body of OUR Sinnes-Life which in the Regiment or Dominion of the Four Elements was existed with the Sinne in Adam and brought our true Life of the pure Element aloft again his death was our Life The Four Elements held us Captive in the Anger but he brought our Life of the Four Elements through Death forth in the Element again and made for us in the humane Life a path or Way to heaven again 231. Now we must follow after him and also dye away from the Life of the Four Elements aforehand yet first of all receive Christ in us who introduceth us through the Death of our Dying into his Way or Path through Death into the pure Element 232. This outward Visible Body cannot inherite the Element of God unlesse he break that in pieces aforehand but if we have put on CHRIST in the Faiths Desire he introduceth our Lifes Essence into
Principle or the Second Person in the Deity 15. When the fair Harmony in Adam became poysoned by the Devill so that the Souls Will-Spirit which should have been wholly resigned into Gods Love-voyce went forth out of GODS Harmony and Tang into the Harmony of the DEVIL and all Evill or Malice then the true Divine Lute-player departed from him For Adams Spirit went out from him 16. Now if Adam had been created and brought forth wholly in Christs Image and had been standing in the Harmony of Christ then were the Image of Eternity which God as this Authour conceiteth Generated in his Love-Mother from Eternity in him destroyed and had suffered it self to be overpowered by the Devill and then were the Devill stronger than God seeing he had destroyed Christs Image 17 O how were it possible that any thing should perish that were brought forth onely and solely out of the Image and will of the Love of God then must GOD perish 18. And though he would say the Body over-loaded or overswayed the Soul yet the Soul was breathed into Man out of the Mouth of God out of the Holy Spirit also it were much that God would Introduce an Earthly Man into the Image of the holinesse of God viz into CHRIST who was generated in the voyce of the Mother of the Love from Eternity out of God as he saith So he would indeed have had Divine holy Substance which the Debill had not been able to Sift 19. I beleeve we shall here leave the Author to his Conceit and must Say That God hath Created Man IN his own Image known of God without Substance into a Substance and Image according to Gods out-spoken and Created Substance as Moses saith To be Lord over all Creatures upon the Earth we shall not dare to set him into the Seat of the Deity 20. The Omniscience of MAN was never at all nor in Eternity ever will be for indeed no Throne Angell is Omniscient but all is indeed under God and a work of his Hands 21. When God manifested himself in and with the Serpent Crusher or Bruiser he said Iohn 3. None goeth to Heaven but the Son of Man who is come from Heaven and who is in Heaven It is an empty or void Point which the Authour mentioneth that Christ hath manifested himselfe in a totall pure Virgin immaculate or without blemish and Sinne. 22. He said he was come from HEAVEN and NOT out of his Image which perished as this Authour conceiteth and yet became Man in Maryes right humane Essence 23. Of which this Authour as is to be observed in his Omniscience and Deity knoweth nothing at all O that he would learn before-hand the Theosophick A. B. C. in the School of the Holy Spirit e're he give himself forth or professeth himself to be holy and Omniscient and were a while under Gods Harmony e're he would himself be Gods Lutenist There is for certain a Luciferian Pride under it 24. Observe loving Brother he cometh in Christs Name and wholly in his person try him Christ is gone to Heaven this is but a confused Man MARY was the daughter of Joachim and Anna according to Flesh Soul and Spirit shut up under the Law of Sinne and under the Fall of Adam and Eve 25. But in HER was the Limit or Mark of the Covenant which God had promised in Paradise understand in the faded Image of the heavenly substantiality in which Adam dyed to the Kingdom of Heaven that can receive NO Sinne for the Heaven of God is subjected under no Sinne. 26. When Lucifer perished in his Creature the Heaven spewed him out from it self The true Soul of Adam was the Life in the Heavenly Substantiality but when the Souls Will entred into the Earthly Substance viz into Evill and Good into Heat and Cold viz into the Center of Nature after sutlety and cunning then faded his heavenly substance wherein Gods Light shone and Gods Light remained standing in its selfe in its Principle 27. This Gods Love-Will Lamented that its similitude perished and promised Adam the Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent out of the Seed of the Woman which had with the Limit or Mark of the Covenant here stuck or set it selfe in MARY 28. Not in the sinfull Flesh of Mary but in the faded Image which JESUS by his entrance would move and move himself in the Limit or Mark of the Covenant and open the CHRIST viz a New Life out of himself and out of this Limit or Mark of the Covenant of Promise in the faded Seed of Mary 29. So that the faded Substance in the power of the moving of JESUS in that this JESUS with his moving moved the divine wisdome and hidden power in it and gave this hidden Seed for a Life might become manifest and in Christ living again who was God and MAN in ONE Person to whom the outward Kingdome of our Flesh in the seed of MARY hung 30. WHEREIN he took upon him our Sins and Infirmities upon his Shoulders and querched them with the bloud of the now present New-borne heavenly Substantiality with the true Womans Seed and drowned the fierce wrath which became manifested in the center of Nature in the Soulish Property together with the disobedient Will and introduced it again into Gods Will. 31. And in this that God moved himselfe in the Seed of Mary in the shut up hiddennesse of the Humanity and manifested himself with his Love and conceived CHRIST in the Faded or disappeared Seed viz the Eternall Life in the still death Therefore is Mary become the blessed of all women 32. For that happened to None that God had moved himself in their right Seed that dyed and disappeared in Adam For here came the first Image again which Adam was in the Creation and God now gave to this Image which could not stand but dyed in Adam this Serpent Crusher or Bruiser out of JESUS or JEHOVA for an assistant that should Help the Soul to over-power the Anger of God and the Devill 33. JESUS hath with this CHRIST which he manifested out of his moving in the Seed of Mary and gave Life to the Seed not received the outward sinfull Seed of Mary into the Deity so that God is become manifested in the outward Seed of Mary 34. This proves it self in Christs Person that he on Earth in form or Shape condition and Outward Conversation and Flesh was like VS for the outward Flesh was mortall wherein he also slew death He took only the Inward Seed viz the disappeared which dyed in Adam wherein Gods Light shined 35. And in the JESU viz in Gods Love and wisdome he manifested the divine power and strength wherewith he would overcome the Anger of the Father and transmute or change IT into the divine Kingdome of Joy 36. But the Soulish and outward Fleshly Seed of Mary Wherein Sinne was hung to the inward disappeared Seed These mix not themselves also they are not
and of the Anger according to the Principles 31. The Life stood in a Conjunction of continuall inward joyfull desire of one in another the Fire loved the Light viz its meekning and beneficence and the Light loved the Fire viz its Life and Father as God the Father loveth his Sonne and the Sonne the Father in such a Manner or Property 32. And in such Love-Desire viz according to Fire and Light in which desire also the dark impression with its hunger hath intermixed it self God hath generated Substance The impression in the Desire is his Fiat which he leadeth with the voyce of his Fire and Light viz his making or working 33. Thus also in his Image Man was the Fire Mitrix and the Lights desire in great richly Joyfull Eternall Conjunction or as I may somewhat explaine it when TWO desires meet together as a great richly amiable relish and the Impression viz the Fiat maketh this Conjunction hard or loud sounding as the Tone of a word wherein the cleer founding richly joyfull Life standeth in the Feeling Tasting Smelling Seeing and Hearing as an amiable manifestation of the Eternall stillnesse 34. And as this is to be known concerning the Spirit-Life so also in the Flesh-Life for what the Spirit in the Three Principles is in it self In Word and Power that the Flesh in it self is in the Substance thereof 35. The Flesh hath the Tincture of the Fire and Light in it self to such a Glorious Conjunction and relish and the Fiat viz the Impression is also the Middle or Means of the desire in the Flesh and maketh the relish substantial whence vegetation or growing existeth 36. Yet now Adam was but ONE and standing in such great Glory as a totall Similitude according to God in Operation Life and generating as God had generated all things out of his UNITY 37. And in the FLAT which was in all things he had created to himself his Image according to the Property that is nothing else but in the impression of the Fiat in that Conjunction he manifested that very Lust or Longing delight with the Impression Now if Adams Soul in its self hood had entred with its Spirit into the word of the Holy power of God and had not awakened the self hood in the Fiat and had strengthned it self in Gods holy power in the desire viz in the Impression 38. THEN had the Impression viz the Fiat again formed a Similitude in Spirit and Substance in it selfe THEN might Adam have generated magically after a divine manner as God generated the Creature and set it forth VISIBLY 39. For the Matrix of the possibility was in him but when the Souls will viz the out-going Spirit brake it selfe off from Gods power and went into the Fiat into its Center into own Lust to tast evill and good and went out of the Resignation into self-hood then went also the Conjunction in the flesh into such a desire and hungred after the Mother out of which it was created and the hunger was just in such a Propertie as it was in the Spirit 40. And with this hunger of the Spirit and of the Flesh was the vanity in the Center manifested through the FIAT For the Fiat impressed the desire so that the vanity in the substance of the Flesh came and was manifested then all was done concerning the fair Image for the vanity loved it selfe it would not enter into Gods Love viz into the Holy power also it could not for God receiveth NOT that for a Childe 41. Now when this was done God saw the Fall as indeed he had known it before and in that regard he saw and fore-saw Man in the Center of his Heart in the Love Desire determining to move himself in the Center of his Love in the Humane Image and to set the CHRIST in JESUS or out of JESUS viz the greatest humility out of God in this Middle between God and the Creature 42. Then said God in himself as Moses saith It is not good that this man should be alone for he had cleerly lost the divine Might to generate Magically out of himself through ONE We will make a fellow Companion or Help to be about him 43. He Adam could now not generate Magically for he was cleerly passed into the Lust of self-hood had he kept GOD for a Help then he had been able but seeing he could not therefore said God It is not good in the beginning it was good indeed but in the Lust it was not good 44. For in God alone standeth the ability out of which Adam was gone with the lust into self-hood for the Fathers Anger turned it self together in the Fiat aloft and would be Creaturely whence the Lust after Evill and good existed viz after darknesse Fire and Light and the substance of all these 45. And now when the Verbum Fiat the Word Fiat stood in Adam in the desire and impressed the Property in the Lust into a substance of its Similitude then appeared the Magicall Image viz the Similitude according to Adam in the Spirit but the ability of the Creature was gone for it stood in the self hood then sunk the self-hood down in unability 46. Now then said Moses And God suffered a deep sleep to fall upon him seeing he was gone from God into the self-hood therefore God let him fall into unability viz into sleep he let it be done that he fell into unability for in the self-hood he was in the Fires-might even become a Devill and so was not able but he slept and this Sleep is CHRISTS Rest in the Grave 47. Dear Brethren observe it well it is become highly known not in Conjecture and Conceit but in Terrario sancto in the Holy Ternary according to Gods Counsell and Will 48. The Sleep signifieth Death viz a destruction of this outward Dominion for as the outward World in its self-hood and Dominion cannot stand Eternally but must go again into the beginning into the Eternall divine Dominion and totally break to pieces in its self-hood and be purged and tried through Gods Fire 49. So must also the Outward Mystery of Man in the self-hood break to peeces and enter again into the Magick Image into Gods Willing Working and Living 50. And understand us here right The Woman viz Venus'es Matrix from the Light Aire and Water out of Adams Essence became in Adams Sleep viz in the unability impressed in the Fiat as a Mother to the Propagation wherein the Fire in the Property of the Love-Desire viz in the Center of the Transmutation of the Fire into Light became comprehended in the Fiat 51. But the awakened vanity in the desire of the Fiat in the own self-hood of the Souls will was cleerly stirring and manifested in the Lust the Magick Birth was lost therefore God through the Fiat took a Rib in Adams side according to the Impression of the power of Adams Soul and Spirit in the Sulphur Mercury and
the Fiat viz in the hunger of the desire Material and originateth out of the power of the Flesh and of the Spirit both of the Man and of the Woman 93. In the Man the Spirit is fiery that soweth the Fiery Tincture in the Woman the Spirit is watery according to the Light that soweth the Spirits Tincture in the Inward Kingdome the Image of the faded Substantiality and in the outward the Aires property out of the abomination of the Earthlinesse 94. Her seed is in the outward totally Cagastrish or drossy but if She be Holy then it is in the Inward according to the saded Image Iliastrish that is halfe Paradisicall for it beareth the Rose-Garden wherein God became Man it beareth according to the second Principle the house of PARADISE but in the Outward Principle it beareth the Childe of the existed abomination out of Adams Lust and in the Third Principle viz in the Earthlinesse it beareth the Dying viz the Death and Earthlinesse 95. The Man beareth in his Seed in the first Principle the Fire-world viz the Fathers Property out of which the Father manifesteth his Sonne viz his Love viz Venus'es Matrix that is the second Principles Property in him but in his Seed not manifested but only as a Glimmering Tinder or Mother so far as he is holy and in the Third Principle he beareth in the Sulphur and Mercury in his Seed the awakened Anger of God in which the abomination against God existed and became Manifested in Venus'es Matrix viz in the Womans Property 96. These Properties become with the Seeds of Man and Woman in the Conjunction brought into ONE there the TWO Tinctures receive one another in great Joyfulnesse as it is found by experience when the Seed goeth forth How the Tincture lifteth up it self in Joy whence mans Life is moved as a Joyfull aspect enough understood by those that are OURS 97. And the Two Tinctures espouse themselves thus instantly in the Sulphur of the Seed into One and awaken the Mercury viz the Work-master of the Life so that he laboureth in the Seed and awakeneth the Lifes forms in the Sulphur 98. And if the Mercury be not potent enough then it draweth the Mothers Menstruum to it self and bringeth it into the Seed of the Conjunction then it maketh the Seed in Menstruo to be FLESH in which yet there is a materiall poyson and the great abomination against the holynesse and purity as is sufficiently understood by all Lovers of Mysteries what kind of poyson lyeth in the Menstruum which desttoyeth and poysoneth any tender plant of the Earth as is undenyable 99. Now in this Menstruum and poyson is the Seed come to be Flesh and both the Tinctures are therein and have their nourishment from their Substance and the true Life in Soul and Spirit existeth out of THAT 100. Where now in this is the totall holinesse without blemish according to this Authour Let him shew it me here and then I will esteem him for the Bride of Christ as he will needs be so in his outward Flesh 101. The Scripture saith Man is sown in dishonour but riseth up in power Here is understood the second Principle in which the Word of Life standeth together in that Espousall but not in the Evill sinfull Flesh which is full of kindled affections and false or wicked desires 102. But if the Seed be of wicked Parents then is the Mother Tinder in the second Principle not stirring but if the Parents be Holy then is the Seed manifested in the Threefold Life viz in the Threefold Essence but if not then is the Divine Mother or Tinder not Manifested according to the Love-power but onely according to the Anger and according to the outward world 103. And though it be so that honest marryed people beget children and joyn themselves together with Love-desire yet it hath NOT this meaning or understanding That the Imagination or Desire of Man and Wife is holy and that Christs Spirit driveth on the Imagination as this Author supposeth Indeed the Noble Soul is ashamed of it 104. The Imagination ariseth out of the Tinctures which kindle the Mercury with their Lust and the Mercury kindleth the Spirit of the Life and now existeth the Lust and Will in the Heart viz a vehement desire the tenderer the Complexion is the Nobler also is the Tincture in its sweet desire 105. But if also it be shot with a fiery Dart in Venus'es desire then is the Life kindled so that it is as it were more than halfe Mad with Love Thoughts and yet knoweth not what is happened to it 106. Must all this now be holy then would the Secret WHOREDOMES where oftentimes one vehemently and fierily loveth anothers Wife and in like manner one Woman anothers husband and so is shot with this Dart be also Holy also when two young persons look upon one another whence instantly Venus shooteth with her fiery Dart then must that also be Holy whereas indeed the Dart often goeth forth in false or wicked Lust 107. And though it be at the best yet it is a thing that is in all Beasts it is Naturall Men find some Beasts that are even ashamed of it wherein it appeareth that Nature it self is ashamed of it and when men will give it the best and rightest name then it is called an abomination before Gods holinesse being a thing existed out of Sinne through Adams-Fall which indeed is boarn with all under divine patience seeing it cannot be otherwise of which we could take many Examples in the Holy Scripture 108. Look upon the people Israel when God would give them the Law at Mount Sinai and manifest or reveal himself with his voyce then he commanded the Young People which were loaden with such burning Lust to abstain from their WIVES and that pointed not only at the Marriage work but also at the * Imagination 109. When David came to Nob to the Priest Abimelech and there was no Bread but the Holy Bread the Priest said to David if the young Men had abstained from Women then would he give to them and David said the Women were left these Three dayes 110. Herein Men have a very cleer example that even the People of David ought not to eat of the holy Bread if they had touched Women then were they unclean and David had shut up the Women therefore from the Young Men that they should not be Made unclean with the Women through burning and Lust for they were in the warres that they should not be an abomination before God and so God suffer them to fall in Battell 111. And Saint Paul saith 1 Corinth 7. 5. concerning Marryed persons That they should not depart one from another unlesse it be with both their consent that they may apply themselves unto Prayer Saint Paul meaneth that Men should FORBEAR the Marriage work when they will Repent viz enter into true sorrow with Prayer before God It is just
35. Man in his self-hood and I-hood is not Christ himself but Christ dwelleth in him he is the shining Lustre of his holy Life as himself saith John 8. 12. I am the Light of the World This he speaketh according to the Name CHRIST out of JESUS and not according to our Humanity which Dyed on the Crosse concerning which Isaiah calleth him a simple Servant in that he saith who is so simple as my servant 36. This Servant of God is not the Holy Trinity but the revelation or Manifestation and habitation of the holy Trinity the servant is become slain as a Lamb and not the holy Trinity Men should alwayes make a difference between God and the Humanity else if God were dead in his Trinity then were Death stronger than God who must thus have given himself up to Death 37. Christ is indeed God and Man in ONE Person but the Deity viz the Divine Property is not the Person the Man but the Homo or humanity is the Man and the Lamb of God which was slain and is called Christ from the Anointing so that God hath anointed this humanity of CHRIST with his Spirit without measure for the JESUS is the Anointing viz the Deep Love in the Deity 38. Therefore now the Lamb of God according to the humanity viz IN the Members thereof wherein the promised Covenant was out of which Covenant the Anointing would manifest or reveal it self was slain not Christ the Anointed of God which in the Covenant was hidden in them 39. Abel was not anointed with Christ but indeed with the promised word in the Covenant in which the Christ manifested himself and when Christ manifested himself in the Covenant in the Humane property THEN Abel put on Christ in the Flesh before Christs humanity Abel had put on the Covenant in the promised Word and WHEN Christ arose from the Dead then Abel also arose in Christs anointing in Christs humanity out of Christs Death and lived in the Anointing of Christ 40. The Man Christ is the First that arose from the Dead in the Anointing and is also the First who in the Anointing dyed to the Humane I-hood He is only and alone the Lamb of God in whom God brake his wrath to pieces Abel and all Martyrs are his Members upon whom the breaking death in pieces pressed or penetrated out of this Lamb Christ 41. Abel received an imputed Righteousnesse not a self wrought one of his own Abel before the humanity of Christ was not the Lamb of God but he was a Member in the Lamb of God Christ hath in all things the preheminence and none of them hath been able to call himself a Christian much lesse the Lamb of God that is hath been Slain for or instead of Christ 42. They have all of them only been put to death in the spirit of Faith upon Christs future coming they have put on Christ in the Covenant of Promise in the Spirit of Faith Not as a Lamb or Man but in Power not in the Flesh but in the Spirit so that Christ is the First who in the Flesh should be called The Lamb of God 43. This Authour mentioneth in this Manner But also this holy divine Substantial womans seed hath in and to the Saints appeared and been manifest in many kinds and wayes as in Adam and Eve after the Fall If this be so that the divine substantiall womans Seed was manifest in Adam and Eve then they have put on Christ viz the true womans Seed in Substance 44. And then they need not expect further about any other womans seed why did Eve then say when she bare Cain I have the Man the LORD if she had before the substantiall womans seed manifested in her why did she then hope for another 45. And God said also to Abraham In thy seed shall all Nations be blessed this was spoken concerning the future womans seed which would manifest himself in Abrahams seed Substantially with divine Heavenly Substantiality 46. If it were spoken as to the present then God had not commanded him the Circumcasion and after that the Sacrifice The Substantiall womans seed was not in the Sacrifice but the word of Promise in the Covenant 47. The substantiall seed of which God said therein all Nations should become blessed that lay shut up in Abraham unlesse the opening of the Name JESUS should open it the Promise to Abraham went on as to the Limit 48. That very substantiality wherein God would become Man was saded or disappeared in Adam when he dyed to the Kingdome of Heaven and Paradise This saded or disappeared Seed become in its Principle co-propagated 49. And in this Seed stood the limit of the Covenant out of which the Spirit of God in the Saints manifested it self and not through the faded or disappeared substance but with Christs becoming Man or Incarnation the Substantiall revelation or Manifestation proceeded where God dwelleth within in the substance viz as a Life of the Substance 50. Also this Authour writeth further And after that through Christ the Triune highly praised God himselfe the promise of the Perfect womans seed of the Messiah was pronounced and promised to them The strong Hope Faith and Confidence in this womans Seed caused it self openly to sound forth from them 51. Now if Christ dwelt substantially in Adam and Eve what need he then promise another substance to them I verily think Christ would not be manifested or revealed in Adam much lesse hath Christ promised Adam to become Man in his seed but God promised the Christ to Adam viz to awaken the Anointed of God in his seed viz in the womans seed and not in the Mans seed As in the Fourth Point shall be expressed at large 52. Christ stood in Adam and Eve in the Limit of the Covenant in the Name JESU in JEHOVAH in divine hiddennesse or secresie in the seed of Adam and Eve without humane substance and unmoveably in the promised seed till the End of the Limit there he moved himself in the womans seed 53. This High hitherto much repeated Speech concerning the Triune Womans Seed before Christs Humanity is much more a Confusion than an Explanation the CHRIST in the womans seed was manifested in No Saint before Christs Birth but only in the Spirit of the Deity in a Prophetick manner and not in a Humane Manner 54. By the womans Seed is alwayes understood the Paradise which faded or disappeared in Adam viz the Heavenly corporeity from the pure Element and NOT the FOUR Elements this was manifest neither in Adam nor Abel till the Saviour CHRIST became manifest in this Seed 55. This Authour so wonderfully blends one in another that it hath no sufficient understanding one while he speaks of Faith that the Saints have had the womans seed manifested in the Faith then suddenly he speaks of the substance whereas in the Substance there was no manifestation or revelation in THEM but only in
in the united substance he united his coming substance with the Humane substance understand with the heavenly humane substance 29. For when God Created his Image Adam wherein he dwell and manifest or reveale himselfe then could his holiness be manifested in NO other substance THEN in the Heavenly holy in the pure Element and Paradise 30. This he received againe in Marys Seede into his holy living substance and in that substance was Christ in the Faith of Mary become conceived by the Holy spirit for the Faith which demerseth it selfe into Gods will that demerseth also the seede in the Covenant into the holy Living substance 31. Here againe was the living holy conjunction with or betweene the Substance of Mary and of God and in this united substance Sprouted the Rod of Aaron forth that was the deepest Love of God in the Center of the Holy Trinity whose Name is called JESUS 32. Now observe further in this Seed of Mary which disappeared in it selfe and was not manifested to the Soul lay in in the soulish property but according to the feminine property in Venus'es Matrix according to the first Principle according to the Fathers property Manifested viz a living Essence in the seede of Mary 33. Which Essence otherwise in the Masculine Conjunction with the Springing up of the life in the Exit of the Fourth Month affordeth a living Creaturely Soul This soulish seede hath also received to its selfe the Divine Word but in its owne in the soulish seedes Principle 34. For the soulish seede hath alwayes the First Principle according to the Fathers property according to the Fire-world and the Second Principle hath the Sonnes property according to the Light-world 35. Yet now the Father is another Person then the Sonne And so it is here also to be known or acknowledged the soulish property hath its originall from Adam out of the Eternall Nature out of the First Principle it hath the Center to the inward and outward Nature and it is it selfe that in it selfe in its lifes Formes for a Fire and Light 36. This soulish property hath the Name JESUS receiv'd to it selfe after a Creaturely kinde and manner as an Eternall Espousall but NOT so to understand that the holy power JESU and the soules Naturall substance and ONE in the Essence 37. As little as fire and light are one though indeed they stand in One Birth yet they have a twofold source or quality Thus truly in JESU the source or quality is totally Holy and God himselfe but in the soules property lay the Worme of the Kindled Anger of God which God with this his holy Love out of JESU would quench and put to death 38. And in this soulish property was the Abomination existed whereinto the Devills Imagination had woven it selfe This soulish property was tempted in the wilderness to try whether it would totally give it selfe up into JESUS viz. into Gods love and eate of Gods Holiness 39. And in this Abomination of the soule in which the lifes forms were Elevated and gone forth out of the equall agreement every Forme into its proper owne out of which the Enmity and opposite will existed hath CHRIST shed his holy Blood of the Image of the holy heavenly substantiality and introduced it thereinto with the sweete love JESUS whence the fierce wrath in 〈◊〉 lifes Formes of the soule in the Angry Fathers property became drowned 40. For when the altogether sweete Love in the Holy Blood gave it self up into the fierce wrathfull anger of the soule then the fierce wrath trembled or shook before this great Holiness Sweetness and Love so that its owne right brake in the Trembling Crack to peeces and became transmuted into the Kingdome of Joy 41. So that the Anger became transmuted into another Will and all properties of the self-hood of the Eternall Nature in the self-hood became all ONE in this sweete Love for the Love fulfilled or satisfied them all 42. And then the abomination and the Enmity against Gods holiness Ceased for the abomination had dyed in the Crack or terror of Death which rose up into the Joyfulness and now the soules Will was called LORD GOD Thee will we praise 43. Now understand us Further With the receiving of the soulish property JESUS also hath received or assumed the outward humane Fleshly substance in the seede of Mary viz. the outward Humanity the Third Principle 44. But not into the Image or into the seede of the holiness in JESU but after the Manner as God is in the World and yet the World is not God but they hang in ONE substance one to another and yet they sever themselves in themselves in TWO Principles 45. The soule hangeth to the outward World to the Flesh the neerest for the Soule hath 〈◊〉 THREE Principles if it be Holy if not then it hath only â—WO manifest to it and the Holy is hidden to it 46. And in the outward fleshly seede lay the Death and the abomination before Gods holiness THAT became as a Curse banged to the Crosse and the death of Sinne in this abomination became drowned with the holy Blood and the Outward Mystery of the outward Body and Life Redeemed from the abomination and Curse and totally Sanctified and changed into Gods unblemished Image 47. In this outward Flesh lay the Evill childe which Adam generated when he dyed as to God here the evill childe became taken in againe into Gods Love for Isaiah sayth Hee tooke ALL Our sinnes UPON himselfe not into himselfe not into the JESUS or CHRIST whâ— was manifested in the holy Image but UPON himself in the perished or corrupt Adam 48. The accursed Adam HUNG to the Crosse as a Curse and THAT Jesus Christ REDEEMED with his Innocent suffering and with the shedding of his Blood Adams Body dyed on the Crosse and CHRIST borne out of IESU in the Womans sanctified seede Tinctured it and sprinkled it with his precious Love bloud 49. At which the Curse in the EARTH trembled or quaked because this Judgement came upon it And the SUN did hide or withdraw its shining at or for this Judgement of this Holiness at or before this NEW shining Sun From the Sixt Houre to the Ninth which is and signifieth Adams sleepe when he slept in the Sixt Houre and in the Ninth Houre that is on the THIRD Day of the outward World awakened or arose with his now prepared WIFE or woman 50. Now in the Ninth Houre the outward SUN with its shining Sprung forth or arose againe and in the Death of Christ the Paradisicall SUN arose or sprung forth which Adam in Christs Resurrection discovered or beheld againe 51. Now observe us Further concerning Marys BLESSING For the Angell sayd to her Thou blessed among all Women the LORD is with thee 52. In this Mary stood the highly blessed limit of the Covenant of God through which all the Holy Patriarchs and Prophets have spoken viz. through Gods voyce which causeth