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The wonders of God's creation manifested, in the variety of eight vvorlds as they were made known experimentally to the author J. Lead.
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Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.
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near approaching in the which the Earth should cast forth the Dead that have been buried in the Body of Sin For this end a terrible Blow and Stroke upon the Nations of the Earth will fuddenly come God saith he is wearied out with the Sinful Abomination of this World to which he purposeth shortly to put an end For it hath accordingly been sounded in my inward Ear that the Ends of all Sinful Worlds are by the great Creator of them now determined Upon which saying I queried in Spirit with my LORD in what other Worlds besides this Visible and known World the Evil of Sin did yet remain Whereupon it was replied that such as go out of this World in their gross and unmortified Earthly Life without Clarification obtained through the Water of Regeneration and the Blood of Christ shed in them and so Attoning for Sin and Trespasses which not being entirely done away before they go out of this Life will still abide with them in their nature and quality after Death do pass into such Worlds Stations or Centres which are most agreeable and natural to them and do accordingly bear great varieties and sundry degrees of Punishments proportioned to the Impurity that is left in them For as much as Sin dieth not totally with the Body except while in it there hath been a Dying to it by the Spirit of Righteousness spreading over it So that from hence a Cry doth go forth to all Nations Peoples and Languages to Purge out the corrupt Leaven of Sin that it may not go with them into that World or Worlds where their Lot may be § 3. For it hath been revealed unto me that there are several Regions or Worlds that do receive the Souls of all Degrees and Ranks to the Number Eight The First of these is this Mortal Visible World The Second is the Astral or Aerial World The Third is the Waterish Elementary World And the Fourth is the Fiery Dark World These are all the Worlds where Sinful Lustings may be with Punishments answerable till Sin shall expire therein through the Meditorship and Propitiatian of CHRIST the Almighty Redeemer For into the next Four Worlds nothing of Evil or Sin can enter or in the Inhabitants of them dwell The First of these is the Paradisical World being all Coelestial and a very pleasant State where there is a growing up to higher degrees of Perfection to compleat us for the Kingdom of Mount Sion Where Christ's the Lord's Kingdom is in great Magnificence with all the Angelical Principalities under him and with the Elders as Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles The Third Heavenly World is the Royal and Principal Seat of God the Father with the Eternal Virgin Wisdom and the Seven Spirits This bears the Title of the Great City called the New Jerusalem where the Glassy Sea doth encompass about Then above this is that World called the Still Eternity Out of which were generated all of these Worlds above-mentioned Of all which I must give an account according as I have had them shewed and opened from the deep Centre and Original Being of them I did not know when I published my two last Treatises that of the Enochian Life and the other of the Paradisical Laws that my God would ever have had made use of me any more in this kind the Day of my Life being so far spent and growing to its evening Rest. But my LORD doth still follow me with fresh Revelations and Inkindlings from his own immense Deep which run as a Fiery Stream through me so that I find there is no resisting this all-driving Power by which hidden and unknown Worlds must be made manifest in this last Age of Times § 4. But before I go upon this large and copious Matter it will be proper to Answer a grand Objection that is expected to be cast in upon the Reading hereof Namely Since the Holy Scripture maketh no mention of such Variety of Worlds how shall we give credit hereunto In Answer to this it is given from him who Was and Is and Will be the true Inspirer to open new Volumes of his Mind which are not to be less reputed and credited than the foregoing Scriptures The Old Testament having been appropriated to the Ministration of the Father the New to the Son now the Third Day is come in which the Holy Ghost will have His which will Excel all before it to Unseal and Reveal what yet never was known or understood that will be communicated to and by such as are in an extraordinary manner sanctified and set a part for this holy Function For from this Spirits Day must go forth a New Spring of things yet to be revealed both as to the Present and Future State that hath lain hid within these mentioned Worlds The Account of which I am more particularly to give according as it hath been shown to me from the Spirit of Inspiration For I write here from no other Ground than what the Spirit of CHRIST in the Glass of Wisdom hath presented to mine Inward Eye which pierceth into the Deep of God's Mind And which is no longer to be concealed for the Holy Unction is given for this end to drop his golden Oil which will dissolve all those Seals that have stood so long for an hiding and shutting up of those Mysterious Truths that a Commission is now given to bring forth in order to their being proclaimed and inscribed upon the Pillars and Temple of God's House Whether believed or not it must stand as the Engraving of God's Hand § 5. The First in Order is this Corporeal Visible World in which we now live Where good and evil Births have been produced from Adam and so still shall go on to be procreated till the Numbers shall be finished and filled up that are indeed as to us numberless but numbred by God Here is laid a Foundation for his manifold Wisdom in a wonderful way and manner to be made manifest from this first ground of Natural Generation Which Births after a limited time must pass through the Death of the Elementary Body to such Regions as their Lot will fall to § 6. As for such Ranks of Souls that do dye Unregenerated these having no part in CHRIST and having lived ignorant and as without God in this present World do go to their own direful Place within the Circumference of the Evil Worlds where they will be proved and tried till the general Restitution of all Lapsed Worlds by the Mighty God and Saviour shall come to be effected But of this we will not further now insist having elsewhere more largely declared it § 7. Now therefore beginning from below I proceed to make known to the true Simplified Inquirers what the First and Lowest of these Worlds or Elements is This is entitled the Dark Hellish World and by the only Supream Creator and Judge is allotted a Receptacle for Lucifer and the rest of the Apostatized Angels of that Hierarchy It may be also
understand our own Eternal being we cannot know God the Being of all Being For as we are the inbreathed Soul from God we live in his Effence Which is the Glass through which we may see and know the invisible Deity and thereby also know our selves as we consist of the higher Principles and Worlds above as likewise of those Below For they all Qualify with the Immortal and also with the Elementary Part in us for most wise and wonderful Ends. O how great is the Mysterious Greatness of the Soul that lieth vailed covered and unknown to it self The Body of out ward sensibility thuts it up from understanding its own Power as it is an Essence derived from God and an out-flowing Breath from the Most High Majesty The Earthy Life bindeth it down in all Men until Christ in Spirit do enter in to make it free in his own Liberty by quickening the Dead Effence of these Principles of Light Love and Power And by this the Soul is restored to its pre-existing and true Nativity in God which is apt to be forgotten if not continually revived in the Mind In which being exercised it will put a check and awe upon it from the consideration of what it is and to whom it must return as to its Eternal Centre Being come to the Conclusion of this Subject I must be permitted what I am in Commission for from the High and Heavenly Court to leave this word of Caution and Exhortation to all them who would full Redemption see and would be glad to be set free from all fears doubts and concerns upon that account Watch against all Cavils and Commotions that are apt to arise in the mind by way of opposition to the pure Inspiration of the Holy Spirit O! grieve it not either in your selves or in any other remembring that you have it for a Counsellor and Comforter and for a Key to open the Heavenly Worlds unto you and to give you an inheritance in them The assurance whereof will be perfect Joy Peace and Glory as some do truly witness and do give it forth their experience who do therefore advise and exhort all to whomsoever this Treatise may come whether in this Nation or in any more remote Places where God is pleased to have it Published that they seriously Study and soberly Ponder upon what by the Wisdom of God hath here been unvailed and declared For it is a Seal broken up that doth belong to this present Age wherein knowledge is to increase in order to prepare for the Great Day that hath been Prophesied of concerning the Daughter of Sion's Kingly Dominion O come forth be no longer hid ye precious Stones of Sion whithersoever scattered and dispersed Whether near or far off at Home or beyond the Seas where-ever ye lye hid come forth To you the Golden Bells from the four Eternal Worlds do Sound out their Alarum to draw you into them where as to your own People and Native Countrey ye may to the Feasts of Tabernacles come sitting down together in Joy and evermore celebrating this Marriage Feast in the Unity of Love where the Author of this Treatise would in the Spirit meet and so never cease to congratulate you as fellow Citizens and there to eat with you the Feast of Love A Further MANIFESTATION Concerning the Four HEAVENLY VVORLDS ACCORDING To the Experimental Process that some have passed through I. OF PARADISE § 1 INTO Paradise my Spirit-doth first take its Flight where all things are in good Order and the same flowing State as before Adam had lost his Virgin Mate Paradise is now stock'd again with such as have waded through the floating Sea of Sin and Mortality in order to the putting on that Image of purity which is to the Children of the Resurrection given by JESUS For not the least Guile or Fault may be found in any of the Inhabitants of this place My Spirit doth see here all in wonderful Harmony And this Word was heard from the High and Lofty one saying With the Risen from the Dead I will dwell though this Principle of Paradise be allotted to them for a certain time to be a separated Mansion until all be gathered up into the superiour Kingdom of Mount Sion and of the New Jerusalem Thus did I hear the good news that all is Rich and flourishing within the Paradisical Kingdom Nor is there any decay since Adam's Day but Increase and Augmentation is daily through the Resurrection of the Spiritual Man § 2. After this the Spirit of Wisdom said to me These things whereof an account hath been given to you may be declared of the Local Place of Paradise Whereinto Spirits separated by Natural Death putting off their Mortal Earthly Bodies do enter and there put on their Virgin Body Which doth prepare them to meet the Bridegroom who from thence fetcheth them up to Mount Sion These are such who in this very time have fought the good Fight of Faith and had very near overcome this World What is lacking to make them fully Perfect is to be done in this Paradisical place where they are appointed to stay till all their Bridal Trimming be finished and they find that they can pass the Way to the Tree of Life through the Flaming Cherub who remaineth still a Guard upon that Figurative Tree In this place Holy Angels do also wait by their Course to Minister unto those who do come here as the Designed Heirs of that more Glorious State which is revealed in Sion This is some part of those good things which doth belong to your Eternal Father but now I shall open to thee a further Mystery which is what may be entred upon in this very Life Time For there is a Mystical Paradise as well as a Local which Springs Metaphorically opening from a pure Magical Centre This will amount to thy present Peace and Joy Wait I say to feel that now that thy Spirit may give a Seal with me that thou hast receiv'd the Anointing and that thou dost walk with thy Spiritual Man in this Paradise where thou often dost hear the Eccho of thy Bridegroom's Voice calling thee still to hast the getting on all that which will make thee look Sweet and Amiable in his Eyes and the obtaining of the fragrant Sweets that may perfume and scent thee that so all thy Garments may smell of these Beds of Spices upon which thou mayest stretch thy self Here a while confined be to dwell after the manner of a Spirit in a Spiritual Body till thou shalt all of this Visible Orb overcome and much excel all Creatures in it as having the Tree of Life to live upon Which is that which will airify and put upon thee a most Transparent Body for they who do daily feed upon it shall be in good deed transmuted by it Behold to thee this Gate of Paradise doth stand open and whatsoever of the things of God is there thou hast a right not only to know but them as