while on this side of the mortal death Happily some there be who in Purity and Faith having finished their terrestrial Life here after their bodily dissolution may unknown to us Inhabitants of this working restless World enter in there But no President we have of any that could ever pass but through that known universal death of the Corporeal Body For that would be a great and marvellous thing beyond ever what was yet heard of that ever any went in and out amongst us that could give an account of passing out from us into that Paradisical Sphere it being shut up ever since Adam's turning out therefore in this present time we must not look for it For this weighty matter of doubt I besought the Lord earnestly for a resolve in whether or no such a Translation might be hoped for and believed in before death was tasted of My Spirit did very watchfully wait for an Answer hereupon which after some time was thus given to me to understand and from the Word of Knowledge was uttered True it is Oh Soul that none hath entred these Gates in a mortal shape neither can any more than a Camel can pass through the Eye of a Needle unclothed ye must be of sins body the gross bulk thereof cannot pass in And though ye have been Let hitherto by this full fraughted Principle yet possibly ye may grow so wise and subtile as to pass through by the virtue of that pure leavening Name Which like Oyl of Gold will all overflame you and so turn Gross Earthly Matter into an Aetherial Spiritual Body for none but such can come to be so near the Trinity Neither is it the death of the outward Body that can fit it hereunto for if the inward body of sin be not as well put off as the outward it will avail little as to thy entrance into this Supernal City Therefore now if in the throng of all present Temptations ye can but get the conquest then this blessed change will be from a Terrestrial Glory to a Celestial What though this hath not been evidenced neither before or since the Lord 's appearing in flâ—sh let not that sink down your hearts into discouragement For there is such a Fire-stone to burn that now is kindled that will effect greater things than yet ever have been Therefore stretch out the Neck of your Faith right forward hereunto for the fearful doubtful and impure will be shut out of all hope of entring here Therefore said the Just One Faith in God will remove this laded Cart which did appear to stand in your way The fury of the Beast and Dragon also are very great against you animating such as are nearest unto you and of dearest concern to stop your way But be ye both advised by watching all opportunities through Patience Wisdom and Lowliness of Mind to keep on your way For by the creeping through is signified great Humility by which the Serpents subtilty may be supplanted Let this then now stir up all care and watchfulness for ye will be put oft-times while ye are in this process to great distress but keep the blessed issue always in your Eye and that will renew strength continually For all of this high concern must be effected through immutability pressing hard though the Wheel of this oppressive Principle threatens to grind you Yet be constant and persevere unto the end and ye will receive the Crown of Life August the 31th 1677. I saw multitudes of People this Night presented to me of several Habits and Languages all in business and traffick saving a few that were together gathered out of these Who were in a cessation from all matters of entanglement in a waiting interceding posture Of whom it was said That these few should become a strong Nation and rise up to take the Prey from the strong and mighty For if there were not some allotted only for the Sanctuary Attendance in a Consecrated Spirit of anointing to approach the immense Glory nothing of the Mind of the Most High would come to be known in their days Herefrom it was shewn me that by those Multitudes which were of all sorts and kinds in their several employes that run on in the concerns of those are petty things and satisfied with such mean atchievements as this Creation affords it hath been permitted that they should arrive to no greater than visible things and That only by continued exercise both of Minds and Hands But now by that other sort which I did see do nothing but stood waiting in a silent posture as if they had departed from the whole universe of their Fellow-creatures These united ones were to break open a fast enclosed Center where the natural freedom and commanding Power of Paradise lieth These all are by pure severation not only from the mixed Congregation of the wilder sort but from those who were as Cakes baked but of one side who were not throughly leavened with the Altar-fire themselves also to divide For the Word thus spake Such who are all of one refined mould who do seek nothing else but the plucking down of the man of sin from his great Seat which he hath gotten in the World and this must be done by sequestring from the confused noise of all what may promote hereunto For to some it will be given thus closely to set to the work Or else what can be brought to effect of the primary state for to regain the antient Liberty and sinless Innocency with higher degrees of what is now the superadded state Which will ask the whole Age of man's Life for to give attendance hereupon Which will be worth your daily setting to that hereby you may undermine the Strong Tower of him who would keep up his regency in the divided property of part good and part evil For so long as this is allowed him he will have the greatest share of this Worlds Kingdom Now then who would not set close to this more superiour Business to find out what lieth hid in the Magia Storehouse Arts of a wonderful degree present themselves here For as ye can wade through this deep Ocean great mysteries will flow out As ye may see comparatively what the spirit of a man hath attained to by external industry This hath brought forth all that is delightful to the humane sense whereby all are deluded who have looked hereinto Oh the lustrous state that now this Principle is wrought up toâ— it is become such a Golden Bait that rare it is to find any who are not biting and nibling hereupon If therefore the wisdom of that which is but Earthly hath found out and invented such an inviting variety to make this Creation so desirable What may not such reach unto who have the advantage of that Spirit of Wisdom that truly inspireth to know from the originality of all whatever is to be comprehended This Anointing is the light that makes manifest what lieth in the Abyss of Eternity And verily such as
corruptible Flesh. As first for its Probation it cometh into such Bodies to exercise and to put forth its Superiour Might for Mortifying and to correct and check all the natural Propensity which the mortal Spirit would tempt that which is Eternal to joyn with it in The which not yielding to but maintaining its own Superiority in curbing and suppressing all of the earthly part God is hereby greatly pleased and highly honoured Therefore think not much that for the present there is such incongruousness betwixt that which is Intellectual and that which is Terrestial That which is Eternal may command and subdue all what ever is Temporary Therefore be not ignorant of your own Spirits Soveraignty but call up its true Authority for the Spiritualizing of what would be clouded with Sensuality For if you yield hereunto and are overcome then your Talent lies as dead and buried And what account can any such give to their Lord when he comes who are thus slothful Therefore that Parable consider of it about the Talents improving had a very deep meaning if you should not be faithful in the first stock of Life and Spirit you must not expect that more high and full Trust and latter Crop both Ghostly Spirit Body Celestial will be given Therefore be patient hold out and do the preseâ—t work of the day and know your Reward is not far from you Then was the Vision of the Holy Element to me opened as thus The bright Airy Cloud which gathered it self into a round compass and was mixed with flame Colours so subtle and pure this was said to be the Matter of all Celestial Bodies and those innumerable Stars which were veiled under the bright Cloud were naked Spirits that did ascend out of Bodies terrestial into this pure Element and put on Figurative Bodies bright and Aetheral corresponding to the Nature of the Star-like sparkling Spirits who did appear to be fixed in this pure Element Then further as to that Majestical Eye which did appear so terribly piercing it was shewn me nay the Spirit did plainly in a still Voice eccho in me that from this pure Eye all distinct Sparks of Life did proceed and did fly into mortal Bodies according to the hour of Life and did come piercing into the fleshly Womb there to unite with a corporeal Spirit which is naturally introduced from Adam's lapsed day Then was a Secret whispered into that Ear which open stood to hear what the Spirit dictated so uear saying Hast thou not read that one Star differeth from another in Glory and one Angel is more mighty and powerful and greatly dignified then others yet all of and from that pure Eye extracted Even so further learn and receive this That in the productions of Spirits there is great difference some greater and more deeply comprehensive and intelligent and strong to encounter with the averse matter to which they are united For know this prerogative of Will which with God the Fountain of all Spirits is to be left free is not here to be called to an account by his Creatures Who gives Spirits successively to Bodies according for what he hath for them more eminent and extraordinary work to act and do in the lower Region of this World Therefore God hath left himself this Liberty to give to one five Talents and to another but two or one But if to that one any shall be faithful to improve it while he lives in this Body doubt not but it is of very dear acceptation with their Lord to enter into his Joy though somewhat different according to the Spirits degree Thus Abraham and Lot were both from a pure righteous Seed yet Abraham's Spirit of Truth did much excell And so ye may recollect innumerable Instances throughout all Ages as Enoch Moses Ioshuah Elias who had answerably great Service to do for their God though so unsuitably matched by Bodies yet such was the greatness of their Spirits as they made their very terrestial Man to keep pace with their Spirits Nay such is the power and ability of an Eternal Spirit through piercing into its original center that it may attract and cloath it self with the inward Virgin Body which is the Matter of that pure Element which thou didst see and so for Times and Seasons the gross Nature sublimated and over-powered may be as oft of this kind as was formerly according to the might and potency of the Spirit existing in Bodies As this was shewn in your Lord Jesus both before and after his Resurrection Now what doth this Vision predict but the cloathing of some great Saints with this pure Element Who do often withdraw from the Corporeal Sense Oh who can tell What is here to be enjoyed but such as do slide away from this vile earthly Climate The Seven-Star Planets will be given into their Hands the Influences of which are all of pure Ghostly Inspiration to out-set and overthrow the earthly gross Element which so long hath prevented the Heavenly Community Now then dive into your own Celestiality and see with what manner of Spirits ye are endued for in them the Powers do entirely lie for Transformation From the fore-going Revelation it was fully cleared unto me for what cause pure Spirits which did proceed from the holy Being came to exist in mortal Vehicles It was not for any Sin or Transgression which they acted or did in the times of their pre-existency in any Etheral Region as some do believe being bare abstracted Spirits without any Figurative Bodies Only Adam and Eve may be considered as the whole Universe and all included in them as the representative Heads of all successive Generations who were mortalized after their similitude For which cause Sin and Curse and Death enter'd but none for Adam's Transgressions shall be condemned for shall not the Judge of all the Earth do and pass righteous Judgment Shall any suffer for what they could no way avoid God forbid as in Sin all Men and Women were conceived and born so likewise in a Seed of Truth and Righteousness which is invisibly introduced for to destroy and overpower the Serpently Seed both growing up together which of them doth obtain the mastership doth remain in each ones Principle The most wise God having laid in a sufficiency of Spirit who in the days of Noah said My Spirit in them was tired out striving still with them so God will clear and acquit himself of all that of this Nature can be charged upon him Then further it was opened unto me from that Scripture That as Sin hath abounded Grace shall much more abound This Grace was revealed in the Gift or Infusion of the Spirit of Christ as the promised Seed of restoring Life unto Adam and Eve upon their very degeneration that they might not be as without God in that corporeal Image which they now were changed into If the Eternal Word which was from the beginning had not been their Light and Life and so likewise generative
to their future Posterity they had been in the same condemnation with the fallen Angels but the Eternal Word did even then incarnate himself for their help and recovery and to save them from sinking into that horrible Lake which the Serpent had prepared for them Thus did the Eternal Love immediately move towards them to free them out of the Dragon's Power whose design was to make them of their own Hierarchy in their Princely power of Darkness out from which the Lamb of God did redeem them Who from the Foundation of the World was the Salvation of God so still going on to the Ends of the Earth But while this new thing sprang in my understanding which seemed to differ from what I had formerly received as Truth I besought the Lord my Teacher to answer this Objection that was raised thereupon That if so immediately upon Adam's Fall the Eternal Word who is the new Birth-Seed did incorporate with Eve whereby power and ability were given to bring forth wholly after the Spirit how was it then that she should and did bring forth after the fleshly Image as appeared by the first Man which she brought forth in the wrathful Property first awakened In Answer to this I found Light at hand to resolve me As thus it did not seem good to the Wise Creator to obliterate and so presently to wipe off the Stain with which they by the act of Disobedience had blemished themselves Some marks of Displeasure the most Holy did still include them under as a Terrestial Body and to bring forth in Travel and Sorrow what should have been by Magical Power and Joy 〈◊〉 Celestial Angelical Forms but now as the effects of disregarding the Command of God they brought forth a mean and despicable Image according to their own Likeness But then I further queried but this Corporeity might have been Sinless 〈◊〉 Original Righteousness was also infused by the immortal Spark of Life entring in to incorporate with the outward Elementary Birth That Spirit which had so pure an Existency and was in free Liberty should come into a necessitated thraldom as in Cain was manifested As to this I also obtained Satisfaction that Cain had the Eternal Light of Life with him that did fore-warn him and convince him of the end and danger of Sin and that he was under Probation and that the Serpent had liberty still to â—â—â—mpt a new sutably to the Condition he wâ—s fallen into Who had an absolute Liberty of Will and Sufficiency of Power to stand his Ground as God said to him by way of Reproof If thou dost well shalt not thou be accepted but if not Sin lieth at thy own Door Which plainly doth declare that Cain should not have yielded himself Sins Captive So that in all Temptations you may know whither to fly even to that eternal Word within you who is mighty to Save who Is and Was from the Beginning the First and the Last Visible and Invisible Deity in Humanity and Deity out of Humanity all making and tending to the fullfilling and Manifestation of the Mystery which hath been hid in the Trinity Which Arcanum will be daily revealing in this latter Age. Then arose a further Query to be answered If Christ as a Seed of Life was infused into every individual Birth throughout the Line of Terrestial Propagation whereby a Sufficiency was found to bear down and overcome what the Serpent had introduced of this Venome and Sting of Sin add Death What further need was there of Christ to assume a Body and to be proclaimed in the World as a Personal Saviour by and through the offering up himself a Propitiatory Sacrifice for Sin If it could have been expiated by the Production of Internal Light and Life thus originally Springing according to that Scripture Christ the Light of every one that cometh into the World As this is a weighty and considerable Question so resolved it shall be from That which seeth into the first Ground of what cometh to be manifested in time Now then for these Reasons it was expedient for him who was nominated the Second Person in the Trinity to be exhibited in a corporal Form upon this Account First To declare the possibility of bringing in and acting forth an everlasting Righteousness in â—rail humane Nature which every way was beset and assaulted with Temptations from all dark Powers which from their evil Center did conspire to overturn Truth and Fidelity in this Immaculate Lamb for had the Dragon prevailed upon him here Mount Sion and the Heavenly Ierusalem should never have been revealed Secondly Then again for this Cause Christ was to be manifested in Flesh in God-like Power as very needful to become that great High-Priest to attone and make expiation for the Sins and Defectiveness under the first Covenant which was given in Paradise all since having sinned after the similitude of Adam's Transgression The holy Seed in them being weak through the Body which is included and falling under the gross Element which hath and doth in some much more then others choak and smother the Life and doth greatly cloud and darken universally this pure Light whereby the good part doth rarely get the Victory in any till they attain to a good degree of Illumination and Purification For this Spring of Light doth get through but by degrees for tho in it self its of great Potency yet need enough there is for Sins committed in the times of Ignorance and Minority before the Spirit comes to make the Soul understand it self from whence it is relapsed I say for the Remission of these Sins past through the forbearance of God not less then such a Sacrifice was your Jesus for you to become In the Third Place Then as Christ fulfilled all Righteousness in his Humanity for an Example to his fellow Breathren so they might come to the unity of the same perfect Life by the same perfect Spirit which was in him through the dying Life For thereby your Lord Jesus obtained a super-additional force and power of Spirit to give and shed abroad into you for the working out a full Liberty and Salvation For seeing his pure Life-Seed was under oppression he also came into a Body of Flesh to relieve and free it from the Bondage of Sin and Evil and also the very Mortality antecedent thereunto according as it is written delivering them who through fear of Death were all their Life-time subject to bondage Which no way could be effected but by Death destroying Death First in the humane Figure of your Lord Jesus who hereby shewed you the way to do mystically that so thereby you might escape the Second Death through the Resurrection which is said to quicken Mortal Bodies Fourth Place Now then further consider that thâ—s was the very great and primary end of Christ coming into a Body of Flesh to transfigure and to shew the way of Immortalizing of it as he did his own after his Resurrection when he ascended into
Priests to reign upon the Earth Although it was necessary at the first conversion and work of regeneration that I should be known to you by my Name Jesus for conformity to my death There is an appointed time for this also concerning which ye have witnessed for if my Suffering Dying and Bleeding Name had not first past through you to cleanse you from sin and thereby to obliterate the first Adam's Name ye could never have been capable of this new Name Therefore I your Lord am not ashamed to say I am he that was once dead dyingâ— out of that corporeal weakness that thereby I might recover my own ancient Name which I had with the Father before the World was Even so know that it was expedient that you should know me as in Union with me in this Name though in Death Dishonour and Contempt yet not still here are you to abide For I am come to appear to you in that rising glorified Name that was from everlasting which death could not cut off from me It was only shut up in the immense Deity till the Death for sins cause was finished Which verily being victoriously overcome behold I have put on that wonderful Name That Secret hath been hid ever since the Creation in its lapsed state but henceforth I will manifest and open this mighty Name unto them who have been incorporated into my dying Name as a foregoing preparation thereunto To such I will proclaim my Name Alpha and Omega wherein is Love Grace Kindness Goodness Peace and Joy from first to last Then again they shall know further Strength Power Victory Salvation and Dominion through being baptized into this Name which will be the effectual sprinkling with Life-power from the dead August the 22th 1677. Then was figured out the Morning following somewhat that looked clear as Glass or Water coagulated like Ice which was of a dissolving matter yet formed as into a square stone with Letters of Gold upon it and it was held out by a Hand breaking through a white Cloud And this word came with it Take eat this down ye who have been made to drink into the Lamb's dying Name Whose right it is to take hereof that it may mightly operate in you Then said I ah Lord who can eat down what is so hard congealed this seems improper to be This was answered from that Scripture of Iohn's taking the Book out of the Angels hand Rev. 10. and was commanded to eat it down Then was that Scripture repeated also Iohn 6. Except ye eat my Flesh and drink my Blood ye cannot have Life by me then was I convinced of the necessity thereof For it was said that this was the very White Stone that had that New Name which was Alpha and Omega engraven upon it The Properties of which was not sufficient to be only revealed and proclaimed to the understanding for it would slide away therefrom again Neither is it enough for to taste only by one transient Vision hereof but let it be thy daily meat For this Stone though it appeared rocky and clear yet to the Heart-mouth it will be all candy and sweet dissolving it self as it emptieth it self Oh then this did further arise from the anointed Name which had poured in of its virtue in which I did feel afresh at the present time of writing hereof that I might hereunto set my Seal of the rich effusion which did come hereout Who can best describe the Properties of this Name but such who feelingly feel the Virtue of it who according to the measures that it hath opened it self so may they declare thereof As Iohn and Peter when examined by the Rulers by what Power they had made the Lame-man to walk It was boldly affirmed by Peter that it was by this Name Jesus which is changed now into the Name of Soveraignty and Power by which they acted forth Had not this Name been poured in and they filled with it then none of these worthy deeds could have been done by the Apostles But it was evident that this Name of Strength and All-healing Power was with them and their very Adversaries were confounded at it So verily this mighty Name is rising again for very much of it did open it self as to the preparative quality which preceeds Miraculous Workings visibly upon others For this word was given to me saying This my Name shall burn as an Oven within till there be no more matter for the Evil One to work upon that so the Proverb may cease Physitian heal thy self Or pluck out the Mote or Beam out of thy own Eye first before thou undertakest for another For now consider that to act and work and to do all in my Name uncontrollably according to power and might it is very necessary that so ye by a celestial tie of a powerful Engine may absolutely turn the whole course of the active Nature which is so prone to promote and give all its force to strengthen the man of sin and his Kingdom Now here the effects of my Name shed in will first be seen you shall know it not only by taste but witness it running through in every Intellectual Part as burning Gold healing and purifying This will be the first wonderful projection of this White Stone within Then further it will proceed ye need not make any doubt take only this my Councel and follow what hath been revealed to thee Let not thy hand slack herefrom though there should be none to bear them up but the Alpha and Omega who is without shadow of change and he is alive to bring the Kingdom yet about Verily there is nothing which the Prince of this World doth so much dread and fear as to lose his Seat and Place so that he can have no more inrodes within by awakening any evil essence there my Name as Moulten Gold burning him out of the internal part as often By my Spirit said the Holy One this Principal thing has been pressed in divers ways of Openings and set before you variously in Similitudes All which is to provoke you to follow on jointly that so this my Name might be as one in you gathered thereinto without giving way to what may be suggested from the Serpent for scattering still to keep off that great blessing which you may obtain in praying from this sweet Name Jesus now changed into Alpha and Omega whereby the Kingdom will come into you iâ— Power through this glorified Name running as Golden Oyntment in you and through you Then know that the Kingdoms of this World are become his who hath proclaimed this mighty Name and hath poured of it into you By virtue of which they verily shall become yours and thereby ye will despoil the great prerogatives of the now present Reign of the Serpent and the Beast in this visible World August the 23th 1677. I heard this Word this Morning Blessed and praise worthy indeed shall such be who make the first battery upon his strong Holds and
A FOUNTAIN OF Gardens Vol. II. Being a Continuation of the Process of a Life according to Faith of the Divinely Magical Knowledge and of the New Creation IN Mutual ENTERTAINMENTS BETWIXT The Essential Wisdom and the Soul in her Progress through Paradise to Mount Sion and to the New Ierusalem By I. LEAD Isa. LVIII 11. Thou shalt be like a Watered GARDEN and like a Spring of Water whose Waters fail not London Printed and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1697. THE EDITOR TO THE READER IN this Second Volume of the Diary which is here Presented there are many Things very Considerable relating to the several Progresses of a Life of Faith with various Manuductions to this Mystick and Supersensual State recorded within the Space but of One Year wherein this Author was most plentifully Visited of God There are many Informations given concerning the Paradisiacal the Angelical and the Divine Life in the Gradual Augmentation and Operation of the Holy Seed of Faith within the Soul Many things concerning the Bank of Wisdom with her Laws of Merchandize which besides an Interiour do carry also with them an Exteriour Sense that will be made good to her Children many things respecting the Establishment of a Royal Order of the Melchizedeck Priesthood upon the Earth with the Return of Prophecy and Miracles in a more Extraordinary and Fixed Manner than ever hitherto They are all Great and Momentous Matters which are here deliver'd Concerning both the Church of Christ in general and each Member thereof in particular neither are they such as are at a distance but such as are near at hand and at the very Door they beginning already to be accomplished in some Persons in divers Countries even almost of all Ranks Constitutions and Manners of Living Whereof much could be said And if they be not only Great but also Uncommon and Strange though it cannot be expected that they should easily be Receiv'd yet it may that they should at least be admitted to a fair Hearing and candid Examination as to the Pretences which are made Whatever also the Method of Delivering them down may be and how liable soever to the Exceptions of the Eloquent and the Learned this will not be a Prejudicate strong enough to make the Wise and Prudent in Heart throw away a rich Treasure that may be put into their hands because of the many Coverings that may be put upon it And if the Matters be of the greatest Consequence though they be couched for the most part under certain Parables Similitudes and Visional Ideas it is not at all doubted but that Many will be found who may hereby be stirred up to dive into and comprehend what others will slight and despise as seeing nothing more in it than an Enthusiastick Jargon of Words But let the Thoughts of these be never so mean it is certain to me that Wisdom will be justified of her children and that her Children are Children indeed Children in the Eyes of the World in their own Eyes and in the Eyes of God No wonder then it is that the World despises them laughs at their weakness and with a sort of Disdain pities their Folly It has been so from the days of Christ and of his holy Apostles and it is no new thing for the Mystick Wisdom of God to be accounted Foolishness and those that are led by an higher Spirit than that of this World to be termed Mad or even possess'd with a Devil But if the World know them not a Greater than the World doth know them Hear then Oye Little Ones and rejoice Hear also O ve Despisers and mourn For a glorious Kingdom and a beautiful Crown even the Crown of Philadelphia is now set before you both Take heed that ye neglect not so great an Offer and deride not those who do Believe and consequently Accept it If so the Evil Day of Temptation that is to try the whole Earth will overtake you suddenly and then will ye be constrain'd to confess How are these whom we counted Mad numbred among the Children of God and how is their Lot fallen among the Redeemed out of the Earth who stand upon the Mount of Sion with Crowns and Palms in their Hands following the Lamb The Ascending Steps to which Mount you will find Here so described as could be by none but such as have went up by them in conformity with that process of the Regeneration and the Transformation which hath been expressed by the Ascension-Ladder sent down that was in the year 1681. set forth by the Author and in the Year 1694. Translated into High Dutch and soon after that into Low Dutch Wherein it is at large declared how the Actions and Passages of our Blessed Lord in the Way to Glorification are not only Representative and Imputative as to their Meritoriousness or Efficacy but are also Operative of the same in the Members of his Mystical Body Who must also pass through Death and the Resurrection before they can Ascend and be glorified with him in the Kingdom of Mount Sion or of the New Ierusalem Let us then as many as Love the Lord JESUS and his Appearance behold the Cloud now breaking wherein he will Descend into Us in like manner as he Ascended and having carry'd us through the Cross will lead us back into Paradise whence we came out by restoring again the bright and pure Image of God through his all-virtual Resurrection and from thence conduct us still higher and higher as we shall be herewith by him Adorned into those Superiour States of Glorification in the Heavens above Paradise where he sits as at the right Hand of the Father in the Fulness of Majesty and Glory From whence he will Personally also descend to Judge the World according to Righteousness and Truth or Equity when he shall have thus prepared a Body of Saints made like unto him in the midst of whom he may pitch his Glorious Tabernacle Out of which his Edicts will be sent as on the Wings of the Lightning to the utmost ends of the Earth by Flying Angels who have liv'd in Bodies of Mortality but shall have then receiv'd the Immortal Crown and the Incorruptible Name O Blessed yea thrice Blessed are all those who through that Faith which in these Sheets is Discrib'd are made partakers of this First Resurrection and of the high Immunities and Prerogatives of the First-born But who is sufficient for these things And it may now again be said Alas Who hath believed our Report We are accounted as Liars all the day long for they sake O God of Truth Alas who will believe that thou hast remembred thy Promises of Old which all thy Holy Prophets have repeated from thy Mouth O Lord most Holy O Lord most True Or that thou hast spoken unto us out of the Cloudy Pillar and communed with us in the Silence of our Hearts How hast thou made us to bear thy Reproach O God and to be in
an immediate dictate which thus far I obtained Oh Soul true it is no one President there hath been that hath so wrought out the very Originality of all Impurity as to assume a Body of that Celestial Clarity as therein to walk up and down among Mortals yet that makes not against the possibility hereof for there is that to come that yet never was in existency Which still will steal upon the World by degrees as in the successive Ages some one miraculous thing or other will be produced which was not before For this very Unbelief hath sealed up the mighty Birth-working Power which still cries How can such Transmutations be as to come forth another Spirit actuating it self in a suitable Body Ah what Doubtings and Debates have been here about it So that Age upon Age hath nothing seen of the Resurrection-state because afraid to destroy the Body of Sin Which is the first Alteration that must be made before the outward Body can be translated And know this further whoever doth attain to the one hath Power and All-sufficiency for the other as they shall see it expedient to Metamorphose their gross Corporeity And though your Jesus did not alter his Humane Shape into any visible Body of Glory it was not through any deficiency that he could not do it but it was his pleasure that he would not do it Who knew his Times and Seasons when and for what Ends such Transfigurations were needful He coming into this World upon Suffering account that thereby Concuering he might have all Power to convey such a Spirit as might form to it self such a proportionable Body for all such as do give themselves to be made like unto him as he is now in a glorified state But your further Objection is that if possibly you should attain hereunto this World would be no fit Principle for such transparent Spirits and Bodies for to live in The Inhabitants here could neither bear your Transparency nor you their gross Corporeity attended traditionally with all Evil of Sin in some more refined in others visibly lascivious running into all Excess from which the true Eagle-Body will mount away But this understand that while ye have a Work and Service of God to do here in this Principle you will not want the Fence of a Spiritual Body to go in and out to meet the Sacred Trinity in the serene Principle And as Moses did when he did talk immediately with God was then put into a shining Body that was not known or understood which was laid aside as a Garment for that purpose that so he might speak with the Most Holy but as soon as he did come out from that Holy Place and Heavenly Parley he then put on that Form in which he might be known of the lower Orb. Think it not incredible that this and much more is again to be done as your Jesus did often change his Body though it was not known to the vulgar Eye Doubt not but such wonderful sufficiency will display it self from the pure contaction of the Sapphire Body Therefore proceed to keep among the Immaculate and Just Ones according to that present transferring Power which comply'd withal will produce a change internally till a Body be assumed invisibly as shall rend the outward Temple-Vail Then the Ark of the Living Testimony shall be known read and understood yet of none but the Disciplehood As your Lord did only appear unto his own in his risen Body so shall it be when you so risen are as to descend from the Heavenly Sphere Ianuary the 13th 1676 7. AFter this Conference and satisfying Resolve as to the matter of my doubt This Word was further spoke unto me through the Holy Oracle that all those Ceremonial Ornaments which the Priests were 〈…〉 were to illustrate and 〈…〉 glorious Transfiguration 〈…〉 required in that near approach and ministring Service in all the Tabernacle-Worship wherein we come to bow our selves before the Most High Therefore it was asked me how I did think it was possible for to see the glorified Person of my Jesus till I had put on the Priestly Robe of a New Body he being now ascended into the most Holy Waiting there till the whole Priesthood called and anointed to be of the same Order with himself do enter upon the same terms having offered up in Sacrifice the vile reproachful Body of the Flesh through the same Eternal Spirit by which your Jesus offered up his Body visibly as by a violent Death so yours by a voluntary mystical Transformation working invisibly Then what a most holy Melchizedeck-Spirit will ye pass into the Heavenly Place withal to effect in the true and eternal Tabernacle where the unchangeable Priestood is known in all the Celestial Orders for the accomplishing those Superiour Services required in that most Holy Place In which the pure Offerings celebrated will be no more grievous nor tedious because a Priestly Body is prepared to hallow and sanctifie incessantly the great Name of Iehovah and to proclaim in mighty Trumpet-sounds to the Ends of the Earth that the Kingly Priesthood is come with all the Tabernacle-Furniture revealed Which hath been concealed in Mount Sion only â—â—therto Types and Shadows of it have been manifested but now the real Thing it self shall be brought to pass in them who can hold out the Sanctuary Profession without turning aside or waving observing still their Nazaritical dedication Then the new Covenant will be confirmed upon you that their will need no more offering for Sin for a New Heart with the Law of the Spirit-written in the Heart as there will be no more a departing from the Mind of the Anointing For by this Fiery Law proceeding the Law of Sin within the Members where ever stirring will hereby be consumed For it is no more a weak literal Precept that now is given forth but the very Law-giver writes and engraves himself as an Endless Power of Life to obliterate and make void the Law of Sin and Death which to no other would ever have given place This is the Foundation-Work which the Spirit of your Jesus do first set about to pull down and demolish that which would be so great an impedimeâ—t and check to all this designed Reformation Now then let it be your Joy when you feel the Spirit of Burning is dispoiling all of Sin for that will perfect all the most holy Priesthood Ianuary the 14th 1676 7. UPon the Opening of the high Order of the Melchizedeck-Priesthood wherein I perceived such a deep Mystery lay hid as the Apostle himself had not fathomed But it was shewed to me that it was of great use to know and understand who this Melchizedeck was because thereto we had great reference For he had not only the denomination of a Priest to pronounce Blessings but a King to whom Tribute was paid for Abraham presented of the Spoil that he had taken and there Tiâ—led him the great King of Salem thus far the Scriptures give an
Act of your own Wills into a slumbering Trance that so ye shall gradually dye away as all sensitive Operations shall be wonderfully suspended which must be done actually through the disposing and yielding up the Life of the corruptible Body That Life must dye because of the habitual course of Sin After that way of dying of which it is written I am dead and crucified yet I live through that Life which swallows up Mortality Even so likewise the Time shall come when ye shall reckon your selves dead and freed from the Body of Sin when you shall lie passive and still in the sweet and pleasant Trance as fled away from out of this Principle no more to be known or seen but as in the Heavenly Form of a Powerful Body to work the mighty Works of God your Father in It is true what Eye hath yet seen this the Ear hath only heard hereof but who hath come to believe the possibility of such a Transformation Oh but Faith gives a mighty heave hereunto now as it hath been your Cry Who and how shall ye be delivered from the Body of Sin and Death and get a thorough Pass from Death unto such a fluent Vehicle whereby ye may be able to say neither Heights nor Depths Light or Darkness neither Earth or Air shall be able to seperate you from the Love nor yet from those immediate accesses into the Heavenly Places as belonging to that Royal Priesthood Truly it is your Father's pleasure for to bring you hereunto not only in the flight of your Spirits without a Body adjoyning consonant thereunto because a naked Spirit cannot produce and effect such Effects and Acts as a Body adhearing thereunto Therefore see and believe it of necessity for to be turned into a sublime Body in which only you can be with your Jesus in Glory and thereof take and bring thereby to declare which whom you have been Come ye who are the blessed of the Lord that have united with one accord fall on hard and close this Work Continually give up your selves and lo I will break for you all the Bands of Sin and Death that so the pure Spirit which even was at work in you may assume its own Body of Spiritual ability to pass and enter where nothing of Corporeity can be admitted Your Priestly portion is for such a time reserved whenas you shall come into the most holy of all for then you will have Boldness to make all your own Demands Ianuary the 23d 1676 7. In the sobriety of a wise and understanding Spirit that shall be your Advocate to plead in the shining Face of a transmuted Body In which the Majesty of Glory will very well know you and hear all you have to offer by way of request because you bear no more the Image Mark or Name of what is accursed from the Mountain of Holiness The Situation of the Great King is seen of none till they have put on the high Priestly Garment upon which is written the New Name that is given in the Baptizing Water of the Holy Ghost who hath sprinkled us from all Consciousness of Sin Now then slack not but drive forward for this Verily is the Mark I your Death-conqueror do set before you For it would be my Crown of Rejoycing to meet you as translated out of this gross and Elemenâ—â—â—y state which while ye are ranging and pudling in I cannot be so clearly seen nor afford to give out those more eminent and choice things because you are not yet saperated from the vile Body that so ye may be redeemed from all that is of a hurtful Conversation For indeed I would wholly appropriate you for my self who being in a glorified state must of necessity glorifie you before I can shew my self in such a familiarity as is so desirable For when I was in the World for the accomplishing of the State of Humiliation then the human Figure was proper for to unfold suitably the Mystery of the Most High and to relate it as Bearable in that Age. But now as a Prince and Shepherd of a glorified Fold I set in Heavenly Places to call my own by Name to pass away out of their dark Cloudy Bodies and not to stay till they fade away and fall down as Houses of Câ—â—y as it hath been hitherto universally Because this superiour Change hath not been believed in nor the Foundation by a thorough Death been understood in order hereunto or surely laid whereupon the Rising Body that is to swallow up Mortality hath not been manifested but now observe those Deaths and Life-Rules which have been set so evidently before you and you may possibly be changed into such a vigorous Spirit and Body as to pass through that Glassy Sea which is so brickle which whoever can stand upon it are probationed indeed to enter into farther Degrees of Glory all in Light the God of Light to see without any other Medium Ah Lord even so let it be Ianuary the 25th 1676 7. Oh from hence I did see with what Bodies we must enter withal into the Mystery that is on the other side of the Glassy Sea for there the Thrones were shewed me that were placed for the Conquerors Who could be able to say with their Jesus I was dead and slain but now Life is rising evermore then also will follow the Keys of Death and Life to open and shut Heaven and Hell as the Hand of the Spirit will Thus having great and manifold Discoveries of what was to be possessed after Death we came easily henceforth to be reconciled to all the deep Demensions thereto beloning For the Lord had dealt with us and carried it much after the manner as he did with Moses who upon the Mount of Vision had shewn unto us the New Heavens with all their Privileges and Glories also with the New Ierusalem and King thereof and though Moses was prohibited entring into that which was but a Shadow of what he really passed into by Death's Transmutation yet God did him no wrong by all that thereby to translate him out of the Mortal Principle into that of Duration which he had often Sights Gusts and Tasts of while he was in the Corporeal Figure and he enjoyed the Image of good things to come as he passed through the Worldly Sanctuary Ianuary the 26th 1676 7. This Word came this Morning fresh unto me saying Now I have shewn you what Rewards the Death-Conqueroâ—s will have will you not desire and most freely obey as my Servant Moses did to go up and dye on Mount Nebo That is take leave of this Earthly Congregation and go apart from all that still would invite you to abide with them For if you do not withdraw out of their sight you will never be able voluntarily to dye while they do see any strength vigour or force to be in your natural Ability as the beloved Moses had They will be crying What need is there of such a dying as no more
transparent form of God having no more Shadow of Mutation to prevent those higher Degrees of Glorification which but by the ascended cannot be known or felt Hereupon I called all in me to account to be judged by the Superiour Will and Spirit of Light which gave me to see what was in Bondage and what was free that would not now be any longer in Bondage to the Condemnation of Sin Having that Word brought to me to search and find out that Salt Stone that would make all perfectly sound and savoury which the Corrupter had most subtlely defiled For I saw for every Sacrifice to be salted with this Stone of Fire was absolutely necessary for in it lay hid all Perfuming Sweets Therefore an express Charge came down to re-assume it to our selves as the choice Altar-Stone where the unknown Superscription should be written Oh then said the Spirit of Truth ye cannot ask any thing fruitlessly as ye have done do but will and it shall be done Oh that the Most High could have such as were so fixed in Body Soul and Spirit to this all-seasoning Stone of Wisdom as to trust them with this Jewel of Superiority so as to leave all Matters whether great or small with them in whom his Heart might rest That all and every Circumstance of things might be managed for those Ends and Services which might agree with the In-written Name that as a Fountain of Oyl doth run into those Vessels which are seasoned by this Salt Stone of Fire For know in Verity the most Holy hath no pleasure to see his own in this World to live and walk up and down in so mean a Capacity unskilful to set a Foot or Hand to what lieth in the Divine Magia Root Which you may lawfully stir up since for you Christ the Lord hath made the Way by ascending on High for to subdue all things under him that so of the same Power he might subordinately pass away from himself unto you Who calleth you to draw out the Purchase of his Death by like dying and by like immortal Living according to the penetrating quality Which by stirring up may effect thereby great and mighty things answerably to the Wisdom and Soveraignty of Holiness which all as in Inclosure doth lie about this holy thing for you You little know what a Principality is nigh to you but your Superiour Will hath yet somewhat that doth clog its Wheel which is designed for to be the running Chariot whereunto the Spirit of Infinite Might must joyn Now then by all means seek the unthralling of your Will for could nothing mingle therewithal but what did fall from the pure Deity how would you find God all-active in and through you But herein lieth the great Nicety to keep the Will-Spirit untouched that nothing from the Bryery Root doth twist about it if this is kept spotless and free what may you not find Power to do with the Most Holy Observe and keep this great Secret it is from great and high Love that I have given an insight to thee that so all Offences may be removed who would you should come to Reign over all of the Earthly Further of this I besought the Lord might be revealed For the great Depravation was in the matter of the Will for it was shewn me it was unequally yoked and had married strange Flesh from which there must be a Separation by Death Had not the Royal Will yielded to the tempting Eve but had kept its Priority how great and mighty a Lord might Man have been in and over the whole Creation of God having absolute Power in himself But hearkening to the Dalilah that is still acted by the Serpent-like Spirit to this day it becometh successively despoiled of this Lock of Strength and Power and so hereby the Shame of our Nakedness doth appear as to what Cloathing we might have been made known in Had not Adam thus lost his Dignity and so hereby brought forth Fruit unto Death running through all his Posterity in and after the Similitude of his Sin Which hath brought Impotency deflowring us of all that Spiritual Might of this we need no other Proof then what we do each one carry about with us But the great Thing is Oh thou who art promised as the mighty Restorer of this Breach What must we do who are so unavoidably overtaken with the same Thral and come bound with the same twisting Cords which hath altogether weakened the force of our Wills To this great Query as I humbly pursued so I had my desire resolved February the 7th 1676 7. This know and well consider that your Original is from high extracted Matter which is so Eternal that it cannot dye but it stands at the pleasure of the Will what way it will drive forth it self into For now it is a distinct Essence and had it not been corrupted from that simplified Being of Purity you could never have fallen into such an dishonourable state wherein the Royalty of your Power is so withdrawn as ye have no defence nor can make against those numerous Circumstances of Evils that do conspire where they may find degenerated ground for to work upon Now then yet for a more clear and perfect Information what further on your behalf is to be done that the choice faculty of the Will may come to regain its Primary Liberty that so it may have all powerful success as before it was enthral'd by the tempting Eve No other way there is but for the Will to be born again that thereby it may recover its Virgins Might and Force then every right Essence will move and open from pure Nature's Center This Birth is not according to the Will of Man but God Who out and from an infinite Pity and Love is come by Water Blood and Spirit to recover and lift up your relasped Wills that so they may stand upon their true native Prerogative being also set free from the flattering Dalilah which includes the whole variety of all attractive Delights from this Principle that as with Cords hath bound the Will down Oh now then as beloved of your God for ever drink in this Word of Counsel and herein joyn and work with the Spirit of your Lord Jesus who is come to perswade and allure you to fuffer joyfully the breaking up of your whole Earthly Family Which only consisteth of what is indged but lawful and expedient by the false Seers who are Babylon's Merchants But to you I have other things revealed and do incite you to be at variance with whatever will not consist with the new-born Will Who is to be matched with her who is the real Bride and Heir to whom a great Retinue doth belong of which Family you are to bear the Name only Therefore let it not seem grievous to rend and divide from what is of this evil World for verily hereby as God is true ye shall sustain no loss For your Superiour Will will hereby be so free chast pure
crazy Building you may take the Word of your Lord Jesus who by his Spirit is now come to tell you the material Matter of this House which you are to enter upon the Matter and Form of which is God himself Who hath had the Denomination of Old to be the Dwelling-place of his People and the Saints Pavilion throughout all Generations This Building is all of Saphire Stone having perfect measures of Length Breadth and Heights according to the Figure de-declared by Ezekiel who obscurely pourtraied out this high and wonderful Palace for the most holy Priests to enter in and to perform their daily Worship God is not a naked unfurnished House you will find it already provided to your Hand without any care or toil in first second and third Story with suitable Furniture to every place So that you will cry Oh how amiable are the Courts of Holiness Here you will desire to dwell for ever in him who doth so splendorously dilate himself to your Internal Senses that all may have a satisfying Content Now the next thing to be considered is to know what is here included in the Promise Ans. Here is included the whole Number of Divine and Celestial Relations promised upon a new Score of which Iob was a true Similitude who lost all in this very same kind and had all again restored as a Figure of this new replenished state All the Comfort that may be expected further from hence is Marriage-Union From whence Encrease may come without this the other will not altogether perfect the Joy Therefore be assured that Care is taken for this also there is a numerous Off-spring out of this Holy Habitation to be Born Your Father hath already made the Match before Hand before you do come thither All things while you are in this Principle are determined upon Oh! here you will know the unutterable Pleasure of a Bridegroom who will be so intimately tender over you that you shall say Never was such kind of Love known or fathomed when you shall know no more any Interposing Lover but can appropriate each other in all Purity A blessed exchange here will then be understood But yet there are higher Degrees of Joy when you shall bring forth after your own Heavenly perfect Likeness The great Blessing that is promised upon this Conjunction with the Virgin-Bride is Fruitfulness Ye shall also see of the travel of your Spiritual Bodies and therewith be satisfied Wisdom as a fruitful Vine upon the sides of this Eternal House and Building will spread forth her self Consider that of Isaiah which Prophecy is yet to be fulfilled Isa. 49. 20 21. In this time the Children which thou shalt have after thou hast lost the other shall say the Place is too strait meaning this earthly Principle they cannot thereto be confined they may look into it and pass through it as Strangers to shew themselves as Jesus did after his Resurrection but no continued Habitation for them is here v. 22. But thou shalt say in thy Heart who hath begotten these seeing I had lost my Children and was left alone This represents your dead and deplorable state once and the suddain and unexpected Restoration In that clause Where have they been So that a Nation and Kingdom of Priests seems to be born in one Day This is marvellous indeed when ye shall see your Spiritual Offspring as Olive-Plants about your Table set This must needs heighten your Peace and Joy in him who is your Tabernacle framer who hath such durable and pleasant Comforts provided in this Mountain of Holiness Besides there are also Brethren and Sâ—sters which are born with you from one and the same Eternal Spirit whose Loves are pure and immutable as God's Love is rejoycing Not envying at each others Degrees of Glory No grudgings there is though a Benjamin's Portion be doubled Among these nothing known is but an high sweet refreshing Harmony A blessed Family thus compact It may well make you groan to put off this Earthly House that so this Royal Society may be made known to you And as ye have been long herefrom kept as Exiles so let this true and faithful account which now is given by that Spirit who doth bear a true Witness hereof provoke you this Translation to seek and that withal your Might For the Emphasis lieth in that Word of your Jesus his Promise if you well observe which runs Now in this Time or in this very time signifying all Here to be made good Which will awaken great Persecutions as it is said strange Uproars within and without you Which the Prince of this World will raise when he seeth that any one shall in great earnest resolve to put off all that he can challenge right unto It is the earthly Sinful Body that he disputes for leave it him for after this manner he contended for Moses Body which God had hid Be ye henceforth Exiles here but real Inhabitants with God your appointed dwelling Place Leave this Principle and all what is its own care not but render up what you had from it For when you have quitted all doubt not but the hundredfold will come upon you according as hath been revealed Be you the first Adventurers here for it and ye shall be undoubtedly highly blessed The same Day I had this Word spake in me thy Soul is among tearing Lyons but a Daniel guard is about thee They shall make no Prey whilst thou dost fly to thy Rock for shelter thou shalt see their Mouthes sealed up forcibly February the 18th 1676 7. Arguments to plead with the Lord were given to me this Night Which I found was from the Spirit of Prayer that urged strongly and potently in me for our remove out of this Tent of vile Humanity into what I did in Spirit see Upon which I had this Word spoke to me Be patient in Hope stedfast in Faith ardent in Love and ye will move the Trinity to send forth Decrees for your enlargement Then again was given into me an Idea as the Dr. and I did mutually joyn in Prayer in and for the same thing that our Condition was like to Ionah swallowed up in the Belly of the Whale shut up in the House of Death enclosed in the Body of Sin round which the Seas and Floods did beat upon and the Deeps did roar and boil as a Pot of Ointment All which presented this World with the mutinous Spirits that are as the restless Waves that would as the Belly of Hell devour us if not bounded It was thus shewed to me that the true Prophetical Ionah was in us who was cast into this boisterous Sea which would drown the Prophetical Life but that the wise preventing Love of God hath provided for Ionah's safety in the very Belly of Death Out of this Grave the Lord our God doth hear our Voice though the Earth with her Bars are about us yet said the Living Word out from Corruption your Lives shall be brought Thus
Stone yet in the Earth again Who will open in some such first that in a seperated Mind and Spirit do wait herein as Virgins not as with a double Eye to look forward and backward up and then down no such unsteady Spirit will ever be taken in Therefore the Spirit of Jesus doth give you this seriously to weigh as a seasonable Caution who would that this Prophecy might be fulfilled on you Oh pray for Stability and constancy continually March the 8th 1676. A Vision which I saw I with another Person was walking and conferring about the things of God in a by-place where no resort of Creatures use to be nor any did we see But suddenly lifting up my Eyes upon a lofty Tree I saw an Eagle's Nest they bâ—ing fledged did all present themselves to view The old one was flown from them to bring Provision to them At which sight of these young Eagles we who walked together consulted how to take them and to bring them away as a Prize While thus considering how to climb the Tree we were on a suddain carried level with the Nest and did not know how we got so high But one Eagle I did see had fluttered out and hung by the Twig of a Tree all martyred the Legs and the Neck all Bloody and broke The rest suffered themselves to be taken though they were so strong and fledged as they might have flown from us But that other Person took the Number of them which were Six and I did receive them into my Apron and so as strangely we were let down from this high Place as we were drawn up to it After this I set the Eagles down and they did very tamely eat Bread which I did provide for them I did remember nothing further hereof March the 9th 1676. But when I came to call over this Vision with all the Circumstances of it much from the Lord was opened to me from it Whose Spirit did immediately open this as he did the Parable to his Disciples as when he appeared in Person upon the Earth For this Word did through me pass Thy Jesus is at hand in Spirit to give the meaning of these presented Similies that so a Teaching by and through all ye may obtain for the perfecting of what doth remain behind that so ye may be gathered up among the Eagle train with that mighty Throne Eagle to Reign The Interpretation of the Vision Then was the Vision which I saw thus Interpreted The lofty Tree which thou didst see in that desert Walk presents that living Tree whereto none can reach but such who be of an Eagle birth whose Eye is fixed steddily on high where that mighty she Eagle hath fixed her Nest as in the munition of Rocks there to hatch her Number Seven Who then is this that favour hath found and that leave should be given to build upon this Tree of Life where of the holy one hath given such charge to the watching Cherub In plainness of Speech then it is Eve her self that hath lain long as dead under the Tree of Good and Evil whose time of raising is very nigh But with what Body will she now be raised up Look and see what is Prophecied of her Then I was pointed to the 6th of the Canticles ver 8. Who is she that looketh forth in the Morning fair as the Moon clear as the Sun terrible as an Army with Banners Then again ver 13. which was opened to me to be the Resurrection Call to lâ—psed Eve Return return O Shulâ—mite return return Thuâ— the lapsed Soul of the inward eternal Man is this fallen Eve here she is called to return to her Restoration State that we may again see her as bringing forth another more happy Generation a true Eagle Off-spring indeed But how and after what manner shall this be My Spirit was in deep Query as also when it should appear Then it was thus said Know ye not that Eve lost her Virgin Eagle Body and so hath long been sown into a slumbring Death in Folly Weakness and Dishonour But now the Life-Tree hath so fluently conveyed it self in this long Vacation as to raise Eves dead Body in the Strength and Honour of the Eternal Virgin Wisdom of God So as old Eve will now come forth as a mighty strong terrible Eagle And henceforth will more wisely build her Nest than at first she did through the Lord's permission For now she will be dignified with the Spirit of Virgin Wisdom to outvie the Serpents Subtilty according as it is written She now will build her House or Nest more sure to wit upon seven Silver Pillars Which do present the seven Eagle Birds which were seen in Vision they Wisdoms fiâ—st Brood shall be through Eves Wombs Restoration who will bring forth a most glorious Church in the Earth without Spot or Wrinkle Wisdom hath made choice of Eve for to be her Mate that is the lapsed Soul of the inward Man whose Hand must help to build this Nest for her Thus choice Eagle Spirits will be raised up out of old Eves Dust for this use and service to be Members of this perfect Church on Earth You may evidently see with an Eagle Eye that thus and after this sort a new Virgin Body must be raised up by Virgin Wisdom in this World for the Spouse and Church of Christ and so for every Member of that Body and so consequently for every lapsed eternal Soul to be cloathed upon with its new Virgin Body Oh! who then will strive first to mount and fly up in Spirit liberty hereunto being granted from the Power of the risen Body to prepare the First Matter for this Nest Because this Tree of Life is so pure that nothing but what is of its own must come upon it Which are the young sprouting Twigs and golden Leaves whereof the matter is to be which are no other then as in the Mystery Hereby they signifie a pure solid weighty Off-spring of holy Cogitations Words and Actions Which do ye skilfully unite for this purpose bâ—inging nothing out of the low â—â—ruâ—â—y Principle to enclose here Then your defence will be mighty and sure and your Bread and Waters will be serene The true Eagle Bird need not fly far the Tree of Life so nigh here are still fresh Fruits upon the Branches from it by no means start aside but keep close upon the Nest. You cannot yet be able to conceive what here by abiding close may be brought forth from this vertual Eagle Body to wit Throne Eagle Powers mighty to ascend to the number seven But if any shall look again downward into this Principle to descend before it is fully Feather'd great damage and hurt will necessarily accrue as in the Similitude I did see Therefore cauâ—ion take and let none trust themselves that would be of this Number to wander out before their time Ye had need to be strong as Eagles to encounter with what aversness you may meet withal from this
lower Orb. Therefore abide till full â—â—edged in Wing ye shall be able to fly and mount away when any creeping thing or hurtful Beast shall set upon you from this low World then fly to your munition Rock This is allotted for your more constant place of Dwelling for to be which so near bordering is upon the Heavens of Heavens where the immense Deity is Resident Who may appear while we keep oft to his Eagle Off-spring For when you come hither to Paradise there is still another Principle that must be passed through which will be very easy when ye shall bear this risen Eagle Body on you How suddenly will the ghostly Dove bring you into the very third Heavens there to see your Jesus with your Eagle Eye as Iohn Personally did when he upon the Wing of the Spirit was risen high Possibly somewhat of these Glories may be seen before ye actually enter in For blessed will they be called who are flying Angels that can declare what they have heard or seen in these higher Worlds These are they who shall bring down glad Tidings to the elect Number When any of these begin to sound the Tabernacle of God will out of the Heavens descend Oh what of Flesh shall live When the mighty Eagle shall call her own away to behold what she doth unfold within the third Principle The fight of the Eye and the hearing of the Ear in that eternal Sphere will so fill all with the Melody and Joy of the holy Ghost as nothing of the earthly Sence of things shall or can enter into this Eagle Brood Now hereby try your selves For the understanding of the foregoing Mystery you must then know every one of us have within our selves an inward eternal Man and an outward Man Now the inward eternal Man hath within himself his own eternal Adam and his own eternal Eve His eternal Adam is his own eternal Spirit within himself and his own eternal Eveâ— it is his own eternal Soul within himself This eternal Adam and Eve in themselves are now to be considered in their fallen and lapsed State as both being separated from their first true original Mate to wit from the eternal Virgin Wisdom of God who was united to both these in Paradise For they both sinned in Paradise then lost the Life of the Virgin Wisdom of God and their Virgin Purity in Paradise And therefore their true Mate being lost out of themselves in Paradise they were driven out of Paradise For when as before the eternal Spirit in Union with the eternal Soul both being united to their true Mate the Virgin Wisdom of God could and might have brought forth a holy Generation in their own Image and Similitude like unto themselves in Holiness and Righteousness and in Perfection But after that the eternal Spirit and Soul had sinned in Paradise that is after the eternal Adam and the eternal Eve belonging to the inward eternal Man had transgressed in Paradise and were ejected out then they lost their fructifying Power and then they could not bring forth a holy Off-spring Now this eternal Eve which is the eternal Soul belonging to the inward Man is called to return to her Restoration State and to return again to her first State in Paradise and to reunite her self again to her lost Mate to wit to the eternal Virgin Wisdom of God and then her Womb should be fruitful again and she shall bring forth none but Eagle Birds none but a holy Off-spring to make up a perfect Church on Earth without Spot or Wrinckle Here is now a Prophesie a Prediction that now the time is come that this eternal Eve which is no other but the inward eternal Soul in its lapsed State whose Womb hath been hitherto barren and unfruitful but now the eternal Virgin Wisdom of God will sow her Virgin Seed into her Womb and she shall be fruitfull and shall bear Twins and bring forth a perfect Eagle Off-spring and they shall make a perfect Church on Earth And now the Soul in her Restoration shall again be fruitful in Child-bearing in bringing forth Children to inherit perfect Justification and perfect Sanctification and Salvation but then this Eve must continue in Faith and Charity and Holiness with Sobriety as the Apostle mentioneth 1 Tim. 2. 15. The restored Soul by its Union with her true Guide and Mate the Virgin Wisdom of God shall bring forth a Royal Off-spring presented to be the strong Eagle Brood and this is the Work that Wisdom is about to do to reunite her self to the eternal Soul which is the eternal Eve as her true Mate and Guide and to sow her Virgin Seed into the Womb of Eve to break the Head of the Serpent then Eve shall be no more deceived but now shall become the Mother of Celestial and Heavenly Children all her Children shall possess Mount Sion and the new Ierusalem State of Glory This is the eternal Eve the eternal Soul which now shall be the Mother of all Living that is all her Posterity shall now feed upon the Tree of Life and thereby become all eternal immortal and incorruptible And all this shall be brought about by Wisdom's Art and Contrivance to wit by reuniting her self to the Soul and thereby becoming again the Souls true Mate and Guide This is the State of Restoration and this is that State that Wisdom is bringing forth upon the Earth and in this Figure of the Eagle birth Wisdom Prophesieth and Predicteth what is near at hand to be fulfilled and brought to pass to egg us forward in the belief of it to be done within our own eternal Man in the work of Regeneration But now there is belonging to the outward Man the mortal Man the immediate Product of the Fall a mortal Adaâ—â— and a mortal Eve The mortal Adam is the mortal Spirit of the outward Man and the mortal Eve is the mortal Soul of the mortal Man She is in her fallen State the Mother of all Living that is of all living mortal Spirits with mortal Souls and with mortal Bodies Her Womb in this state of Apostacy hath been very Fruitful She hath ever since brought forth in all Ages a mortal Off-spring subject to the death of Mortality who have only fed upon the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. She hath brought forth a fleshly Off-spring in her likeness and similitude and hath had a long Day in the World Now the Prophesie and Prediction is not concerning this mortal Eve belonging to the outward Man in relation to her Restoration but it is to be understood of the eternal Soul that eternal Eve that hath been so long barren in her lapsed state But now Sophia will once more espouse her self unto her and she shall bring forth a holy Issue a birth of Divine eternal Eagles to make up a perfect Church on Earth whereof Christ will be the Head and King to reign over This is only wrought for explanation sake that you might not
toiling Day into which all are fallen but can bear the Burthen as if it were indeed a Paradisical Sphere so lightly hath the whole Creation yet cared for its relasped state How choice and few are those that do seek herefrom to be released being of that Perswasion that the Earthly with the Heavenly must unseparably grow together as Twins Which is not so determined by the great God and Creator but he doth still expect that through the many depressions both in Spirit and Body some one or other are this long-run out time would be so weary of the Body of toil sorrow and Sin as to violate upon the Love Pity and Power of God the Father who cannot resist to send forth saving Succour to ransom such as still do fill his Ears with Cries and Groans for Redemption out of that which is the external Original matter of all and every kind of thraldom Hearken now and hear the Glad-tydings which is sent from your Father to you who hath taken notice of your travelling Sorrows while yoked with that Man upon whom Sentence is past that he might live by care and labour yet to you I say he shall not always and for ever be your clog There is a Birth of Strength upon the rising that will easily throw off this depressing Weight Yet a little while and the Iron-rod shall rule the Man of Sin so as to divide him from thee Many ways have been tryed to make him dye but all have been too short for he hath been a Warriour from his Original Sin-Conception and will keep the Field of this out-birth as he hath done from Adam's Day What hopes then say you that out of us he shall be thrown out for here I did object in Love Fear and Faith that many worthy Ones had striven hard to conquer by Death some of whom did go very far but scarce in any did this Death-Arrow so hit as to obliterate Sin altogether in its Root Then was it replyedâ— It is sufficient that one was perfect and just without Sin in a humane Figure then was that Scripture spoken in me Rom. 5. 19. As by one mans disobedience so by the obedience of one many shall be made righteous The Words were thus opened by the Spirit who said God revealed to Paul in his Day that nothing less was designed than a full and clear Acquitment from that first Man which did so naturally work in toyl and labour bringing only forth Fruit unto Death And who but that Man called the Branch shall answer to that defectiveness in abolishing the very Sperm of Sin that as nothing thereof could be found in himself so likewise in those who are elected for to be in joynt Heir-ship in the Kingdom of Mount Sion with him Whereunto he translates none till the old Adamical Life is laid in an everlasting Sleep of Death no more to awake for Contempt and Shame As often now it doth which hath stopped the New Ierusalem from descending down because once hath been perfect ready to meet this heavenly City Therefore saith the most Holy and True another manner of Church must be gathered from among Men who out of the Womb of that first Morning Star that is now upon breaking out a Star-like Off-spring is to proceed that shall go forth with the iron Rod of Power and dash in pieces every one of the Dragons Heads till this Church be born upon the Earth Who all are of Angelical Natures till then expect no Power over the Dragons and Beasts to reign To you who Numbred are to bear the Lambs Trophies stand to your Virgin Call fly not from her innocent White Colours whatever shall be here said against her If ye shall be the first born Star who shall shine upon Wisdoms Crown the Loves eternal Testimony for this end hath opened the clear Body of the Heavens that ye might understand what may be looked for in this Age. Therefore do you stand as mighty and immoveable Pillars for the Lamb and the Brides Church and great Indignation have against those that would it down decry Fear not those pushing Horns that war here against her she will make the glittering Sword of Power to be your defence against all your Enemies Be not troubled at the fewness of your Number for out of one or two that shall be perfect in their Generation a strange Generation may proceed who all mighty Warriours shall be for God and the Lamb to follow him in trampling down all earthly Powers Keep but up to your Leaders and ye need to fear no ill for invisible Seraphims shall still pitch a mighty Pavilion round about you March the 20th 1666 7. Thus ended this Revelation from the Vision I had seen which left a sweet perfumed Sence of Love Peace and Joy to feed upon Another Idea was presented to me from the History of Ahashuerus and Vashti his first espoused Queen Who by her act of Disobedience to her Royal Consort was banished his Throne This Word with great Power did through me sound A Virgin Queen among the Captives shall be found that shall be crown'd in the room of Vashti Then saw I one in the similitude of a Woman cloathed with Scarlet which was said This is one of Wisdom's Houshold who but she for the King of the New Ierusalem whose Garment is of an unstainable Dye From hence the Spirit made use of the whole literal Discourse Ahashuerus Vashti and Esther The most high Majesty hereby Figuring out himself having created and made for the Excellency and Glory of his Kingdom according to the state of so wise and infinite a Being That so he might take Pleasure in all the Glory and Riches of his Kingdom or Creation being all made perfect and good and high Princely Angels and Powers for Attendance As also Creating one more Noble Image as Male and Female who was in Election to be advanced to very high Dignity no ways inferiour to any Princely Spirit in the Angelical Figure But now the Sovereignty of the most High resolved to try this his new formed Creature with a Law of Restriction as from the Lord their Maker and Husband who might well expect a ready and punctual Obedience Who Vashti like was disobedient to the great King's Command and so thereby was turned into an earthly Eve and immediately banished out from the high Throne Presence For else it would have been an ill President if God should not thus have done the heavenly Hierarchy might have questioned God's immutability and thereby have taken advantage to deviate from those known Angelical Laws which the great Creatour had to them perfixed Thus much was opened of this Original Eve from whence the contradicting and slighting Vashti Spirit doth proceed The true Virgins Life which the first formed Man was once in is now as to him and all of his Posterity carried away as a Captive and sold for nought For this Virgin Nature was wholly taken away upon this act of Disobedience Who
Birth being extraordinary and marvelous so soon as it was but noised abroad Councel was taken for to destroy him nay he had much ado to live out his determined time but as he preserved himself by his inward virtual Body upon every storm and assault The world that lieth in the evil of darkness could not bear such a Light to live amongst them whose life was that which did reprove them Therefore it is no needless question to ask of the most high Wisdom how in this Age such a Birth may be succoured and sustained till it hath got a body of might and fortitude which no weapon can destroy or hurt The resolve must be fetched up from the deepest of all centers as it is a matter of the most primary consequence to them who have such a Birth in such a dangerous Principle for to bring up a Birth which is from the power of the overshadowing hand Hence then for satisfaction to this Query saith the all knowing Spirit be it given you to understand That every Birth of what kind soever brings along with it through the wise Provision in Nature it s own nutriment That which is of corruptible seed hath what answers to it of its own perishing Quality What feeds on flesh either as to its fleshly mind or body shall suffer loss to purpose though all the care be to prop and nourish it to make it a well favoured piece of mortality Which to the most holy is a strange Similitude which he hath no delight to see or know his own any longer in Therefore he inciteth and calleth to look after another Birth that may be all of Quintessential matter of the very Nature of the Deity such a pure thing may have corporal humanity a while for its visible case As your Immanuel had assumed as the garment of Sackloath in which he humbled himself for the sins of the world and for that end sacrificed it Who though he took it up again it was for the manifestation of greater wonders by it through various changes which it was made the subject of For in that sometimes he was known and then again in such a figure unknowable to them who were daily conversant with him Who after that the pleasure and design of the Father was in that body finished then the power of the inward spiritual body was manifested to anatomise the visible humanity for that was not to pass into the Heavens From all which learn we to discern where the Christ like birth with his spiritual body is though clouded with a corporeal figure And that ye may not be mistaken take these special signs to know where it is truly fixed or impressed First then know this overshadowing hand through which this birth doth spring incompasseth only what is Paradisical ground there it drops in its golden seed This ground in its true native Virgin pureness must be separated from the common cursed matter of what produceth the earthly birth These two different soyles are to be found in the first Adam's generative off-spring but it is so mingled and overrun with the dark muddy element that great care labour and painful industry is used for its recovery out by the wise and learned Spirit in the heavenly Chymistry rightly to prepare for this holy Birth Which will be easily known from the course and rudimental that is in the image of the earthly For first here is a pure conception as from the high and pure radical infusive Spirit that quickens the Virgin soil and so cooperates it into a spiritual Body that it may be all of one and the same pure clear undefiled subtile matter with the quickning Spirit that you may know what that is which contributes to the Christ-like Births wherewith it will be one and the same that it may degenerate in nothing from the first perfection and pattern of his Life But only this heavenly man may be excused from that personal suffering in the tragical part as an outward death Which will not be required upon the same account having finished the mystery of the mystical death through this Birth taking place and bearing dominion over the outward But now to resolve that Question What this Birth that is from above which is coagulated into one unmixed matter must live upon in the house of humanity Which for a time it must be brought up in as Christ himself was and tempted with the evil fruits that will be daily proffered from the market of this world but yet in no danger though in minority For it is left under the guardian Spirit who warns it what to abstain from whose nature and composition is of such heavenly essentiality that it inclines naturally to obey the Paradisical laws Which is the second character of this New Creature Then again in the third place while but in its Infancy it will suck of no other but its Eternal Virgin Mother lay it to any other and it will be sick to Death And if at any time contrary Food is forced upon it it doth presently Vomit it up Then when grown to a further degree of strength not only the pure Milk of Wisdom its Mother those living Precepts of her Word but the very Body of the Deity which is the spiritual Flesh Christ spoke of and the Blood the Milk of the Word But when come to that Age as to be able to take and feed upon that Body that is extracted out of the very Being of all Eternal Spirits of what kind must this be brought forth but even such a Celestial Body as Christ told them could never taste of Death For as he did live by the Father by feeding upon the very power of the God-head So likewise that Birth which was of this extraction should live eternally by feeding it self upon his divine Flesh. Your Fathers saith he did eat Manna and are dead but I the Bread of Life will sustain you and thereby immortalize you if ye henceforth do feed upon no other but me the Tree of Life It was further revealed to me That the Mould and Paradisical Matter was found in us and brought out of all dispersions into one holy lump formed and quickned by that pure azure stream or breath which did present it self by way of Vision And this in process of time might come to be no less than God manifested in our fleshly forms of Corporeities therefore let us be careful and watchful over it and to hide it under the sheltering hand of the everlasting power forasmuch as it is enclosed with a terrestrial form as its house where the light of the Sun Moon and Stars of this Visible Region did break in and thereby would assume a government over it which might bind and keep it under as upon the outward elementary Spirit This was my fear and jeoperdy Concerning which the everlasting Comforter did satisfie me declaring This was a free birth not subject in any respect to the rudiments of this world because that nothing of
these essences did therewith mix Nâ— depravity in the Nature of sin was here infused Therefore this Birth may stand upon its royal freedom for to be born free from sin is a great and mighty thing Therefore know your New Birth-prerogative and come not under the power of what this holy inspiring breath is come to set at liberty from For the true Heir is a Son of Liberty in bondage to nothing when once he comes to know himself he will then assume that Sovereignty which shall make the corporeal life bow unto him Nay as this encreaseth and grows up to its princely greatness this Land will be too strait For out of Egypt God will call this his Heir through all terrestial Walls and Gates to come up unto that free City where the Trinity in Majesty will give out their sealed Commissions for what this Birth of might and excellency hath further for them to do in this low Region For that which hath been as the high builded wall of Perdition betwixt these Principles and the Mountain upon which the New Ierusalem stands by such strong Angels as these you shall see broken down without tool or weapon and passage made which the Eagle Eye of this Birth will spy and will be so skilfull as to know its way through the cloudy Air to mount Sion Hill the mystery of God in both Principles to fulfill April the 27th 1677. In the Morning after the Doctor had prayed I awaked and sunk down into the center of Life And there appeared unto me a pure azure blue streamâ— which was said in me was that Spirit and Breath of Life that must put the grosser Element to flight Then it was further opened to me that from this perfect thing would go forth an enriching Mist that should renew the face of all things in such whose inward ground was measured out by the Golden Reed of the Spirit Then was further shewed me the twofold nature and property of this Breath That as it could quicken and be a seed of Life in matter meetly prepared for it So likewise this Breath would extinguish that Life which worketh in contrariety against it According as it is written Oh Death I will be thy Death When all conclusions be tried for the expiation of the earthly birth there is no other that can so eternally anatomize it as the Body of Sin may be said to cease and not to be but by the Spirit of the Lord blowing upon the fleshly form of it which seemeth to be so goodly Verily this Life hath been too hard for all other weapons that have been tried upon it since the full outward death could not conquer this Life of Sin As Christ told the Iews if they did not believe on him as the resurrection of another Life they should die in their sins So as the mortal death cannot quit from that second death which follows that corrupt Birth-seed which was not in this Life demolished But then from hence this doubt will arise Who is it that hath left this Testimony behind them of all past Generations that before the mortal death did overtake them they had first cleared themselves of that vile and corruptible birth of sin Sure saith the objective Spirit if this be strictly examined how few or scarce any will be found but did mortally die before the inward body of sin was totally expired If so how then could they immediately pass where nothing that ever was of the polluted Nature of Sin could come in As to this obscure and deep Query of which I my self with others have been universally ignorant as not finding out the several reservatories that Spirits did pass into The letter of the Scripture not opening so positively what relateth hereunto as plainly to determine this doubtful matter But it hath been kept dark in the foresight of the most holy wise God Who hath left himself free to give the key of the knowledge hereof in what Age and to such in that Age as shall be worthy of such secret My Spirit hath been often solicitous with the Lord for this thing as in case my Body mightâ— break from my superior Spirit and the Mortal part die before the evil essences which are called Sinn be extinguished as to their very originality then into what Orb shall such a Spirit enter that may be almost but yet not quite got free from every relick of sin The Key of this unknown Door was hereupon put into the hand of my Guardian Spirit the mystery hereof to unlock that this great secret might be revealed and that hereby the Elect might be undeceived Who have nothing less believed but that though they should not come to see and feel sin finished through everlasting Righteousness coming in as a Conqueror Yet wheâ— got loose from this temporary life they should strait ascend into that principal City of the great King Which was once my belief according to that tradional manuduction that I was under But since of meer great and unparalled Love another deep is discovered from out of which a sure and pure word of Revealation hath sprung both as to this and other Obscure things And that the opening of this Truth might not go forth only in the authority of a private Revelation when indeed there is need enough for all Spirits to be tried that do take this Covering For this cause a Scripture foundation was given to confirm and ratifie what was so freely inspired into the mind As first that word was given to me to consider of as in the 14th of Iohn 2d verse In my Fathers house are many Mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and when I have done that I will come and receive you to my self From which words it was given me thus to understand that by House the Spirit doth signifie the Locality of God's invisible Kingdom that hath various Regions for dwelling places as it is said there are many Mansions in which are degrees of Glory Solomon in the mirror of Wisdom had an account thereof when he had built that Magnificent House and Temple for the Most High Which made him as in a Spiritual Extasy cry out The Heavens of Heavens cannot contain thee So it is said of our Lord Jesus that he ascended up above ALL Heavens By all which we may conclude that there are degrees of Heavens and yet all within the Celestial Sphere For Adam before he had awakened the sinful essence was an inhabitant in one of the Heavens which had the Title of A Paradise because of its serene and fruitful soyl But yet God's local Habitation was not here but he sent forth his influencing mist and here did with Adam and Eve frequently commune while they were undefiled but they being once found in the depravation of this purity this Heaven could not bear their corruptible Image for the worm of mortality could not here live Upon which God said Let them out
their course to renew your strength through the mutual concurrence of your wills Which to me I your Lord do own you have given in Therefore my Spirit I am moving upon the Face of your inward Deep till the whole mystery of the Celestial Figure shall again be restored Therefore I am calling the Eye of your Minds inward that so ye may take knowledge how many steps you have gone up to this Throne and so be encouraged to pass forward You are arrived to the third measure which is the Spirit of Prophecy and Revelation here is a pleasant standing because you have prospects of the unknown Scenes of Gâ—ory great advantage is from hence because you do live in the divine Idea's of what is contained in the invisible Sphear Yet far be it from thee to â—ake up rest here or like Moses for to die in journying to the Land where the New Ierusalem doth stand Yet four 〈◊〉 higher there are which have been seen in the Mount of Vision Who then now as high descended Spirits will in mighty Faith attempt them and renounce what ariseth of fear and doubt As Faith and Love are the Wheels that do hither bring so fearfulness and unbelief do the Wings of the Mind bind down Oh how flow of heart have you been to believe what of these Ministrations hath been so frequently prophesied by my Spirit Come forward on and put forth that little grain of Power which you have already in your selves and see what you can make hereof The more you act it forth the more it will encrease For as the Ministration of Immediate Revelation doth more clearly immerse you into the knowledge of what is unknown So the Mystery of the highest degree of Faith must necessarily therefrom begin to work and that in such a way as may be a sealing to what is revealed for manifestation For a let into invisible Species of things cannot but quicken up Faith and make it strong in God by which it may easily yea most naturally act and go forth in mirâ—culous Deeds for confirmation to others of what by a bare Testimony will not be believed in a residue of Spirit For this is also surely reserved which is the sixth step to Sions Glory But before this can be perfected in any one that do look Here for it they must be of a through grown experience in the Life of Revelation These Gifts will not come down by sudden rushing showers as it was in the Apostles times But henceforth they will be Consequents which will follow those who do gradually grow up from the very Birth-day of the Spirit into all the sublime perfections of Holiness as their constitution into a Christ-like Nature For it is the Root of that Heavenly Matter from whence Gifts of this kind do proceed and will in such pure and sanctified Vessels be inherent For they only stand in the Light Councel and Will of the Trinity ready to obey and execute his Will here on Earth as the Angels of the Presence who truly and faithfully do go forth in the Light Power and Force of the seven Spirits whose fortitude it is to secure from all the wrathful conspiracies which are in this evil World Iuly the 20th 1677. This day upon a foregoing Word which opened it self in me as we were met together to breath the Life to each other a superaddition thereof was given me The word was from that of Jesus crying in the great day of the Feast If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink then out of their Bellies shall flow Rivers of Living Waters speaking of the Spirit The Jews Feast being the Feast of Tabernacles was highly at that day solemnised from which the Lord did take an occasion to invite to another manner of Feast presenting himself as the principal Dish to feed upon and Well of Life to draw the Waters of Salvation from It was again revived to me in this word You are come to the festival day of the Spirit Set by it esteem it spare not to take your fill Tell me Oh ye that beloved are what from this Heavenly Table where all variety of Spirit is what is most relishable to your Heavenly Palate Had not I known you to have been in the vehement hunger and thirst after that Food which is all Spirit and Life you should never have drawn near to my Table For to others this kind of Fare has been little understood or tasted of and therefore not desired It is the pure Birth of the Spirit that can only live upon that which is Spirit as none can know the things of God but the Spirit so none can taste God but what is born of God What else did your Lord Jesus live upon during the time of his abiding in the humanity but the Essential Power of the Deity He still drew it in as the Invisible Bread of Life which he had to eat that the World knew not of Now said the Spirit unto me It will be to you according to what you believe or thirst for or after whether for the Milk or the strong Meat of the Spirit For this is called the Feast of the Spirit because it multiplies it self into Corn Wine Oyl Milk Hony Marrow and Fatness There is nothing that can be named for refreshing and strengthning which the Spirit of Jesus doth not afford to the strong in Faith Then again a further Information was given concerning the Ministration of Revelation that though this Mount of Divine Vision was not to be for ever the fixed Rest of such who are under such a dispensation which must be owned as a high and rich Prerogative Yet warning I had this day hereupon still to wait For the Spirit did expresly speak that we were come but to the shallows of that unmeasurable Deep our Feet did but yet stand upon the Golden-sea brim and that we must yet abide a while upou this Chrystalline Stone till launched into the deep ocean of all Manifestation and Knowledge of what is within the Vail Where all things of the Temple Glory are to be seen not as in Metaphors or Figures but in their own express Beings as the heavenly things themselves Then through the Oracle-ear this word did sound to me Ye have not yet known what it is to be wholly contracted into the Spirit that is as if you were without a Body of animal sense and changed into an unmixed Body of Spirit For thus it was with Iohn when he saw and talked with the Alpha and Omega Then the word of Jesus was made good to him as one of them who did not see death till he had seen the Son of Man in Majesty coming in the New Ierusalem Glory But this he could never have beheld if he had not been changed for the time being into a Spirit Which had so penetrated through his gross material Body as that he knew himself only in a Body of Light Therefore he called it the Lord's Day such a
or Iron with Gold The Spirit of this Heart is most subtle penetrating bubling and still flying upward above all low things As its Birth is from the Heart of the Deity so there again it will live Truly at the consideration that there is such a Heart to be given my Spirit is in an astonishment Therefore I call all ye Throne-Angels and Seraphims to be with me in wonderment that such a Heart shall come in any one to be fixed substantially For what less will this come to but the making good of that saying of the Lycaonians who said to Paulâ— The God's are come down in the likeness of Men. For as the Heart is so is the Man a Godlike Heart overturns the whole Course of Nature and changes all into another Scheme answerable to the first moving Cause Which sends forth Life and heat into all parts as naturally so spiritually for the existency of the divine Nature And further it was given me to know that it was a renewed act Creation A drop let fallen from the Heart-blood of God for Life inkindling into such in whom the Virgin Crystal Mold is formed that here for hath been making way in preparation through many Washings and Cleansings and Heart-relinquishings For this Word came closely unto me from the Lord and home to me Suffer and endure ye must who are looking for the gift of this New heart Such a breaking up of the Old as a dying man when his heart-strings are loosening This is the true mystical Death this is to be a dead man indeed which many have sought but could never find Because they did not strike at the heart-root for so long as there is life remaining it will Send forth it sin-reviving Effectâ— For what if thou shouldest cut off this that member yet life may be at heart still and then what avails hewings and hackings and suppressing the root of the evil life being still there The work is never done because the life of sin is still sending forth one bitter â—ume or other to pain and afflict what would be at ease and rest Now what remedy can for this be considered said the Holy One but the plucking up and breaking the very heart-strings that its Life may be a Sacrifice to divine Justice for so it must be both a passive and an active Offering for the Sin that hath been commited in the body of the flesh Which mystery hath not been understood but know it for an everlasting Truth Let not the Sentence of this Death be grevious because it will certainly usher in some what that will be Equivalent to the deep springing heart of the Deity whereout issues of Life Love Joy and Peace will flow They thou shalt know no more strife sorrow or pain because the root of all this is by death taken away Therefore Repent not that ye are entring into the very way Fear not to fail the old heart melting for when that faileth another heart and Spirit will be given Which is of that strength courage and perfection as that ye shall be spirited for the great and primary business and for the work of trust for God and the Lamb. So all may see what the effect of this New Heart will visibly produce in you November the 23d 1677. This Morning I was in a very deep and secret consultation with the holy inspiring Word concerning this great Change For this is but yet known in us how that every motion and thought springs from the mixed heart But now great searching thoughts were how we if possible by any means might attain to this perfect Heart which was all clean within For it was made equivalent that hereby would be the whole overturning of the old Creation making way for the new in each one in working a through demolishment For which this Word of advice was given Let it not seem incredible unto you that the old Heart shall fall away though it is as thy Life-Essence where that Law is engraven which hath brought all into perdition At the release of which a wonder working Heart shall be planted in its place in great renown Therefore watch daily hereupon for believe affuredly that this Covenant will be made good as ye have Faith to believe that the old stony Heart shall be rolled away which only hath kept and would still prevent this Heart rising far Where new Laws according to the new frame of things shall be understood by such a chosen Priesthood as all of Spirit shall be compacted and by Gods own Heart-strings of Love stand everlastingly together tied as Christ's perfect Spouse and Bride Now then hoist up your Sails of Faith and keep upon the broad Waters of Love's deep that spring from the silent Desart till all full Treasures of Joys and Peace shall upon you meet November the 24th 1677. This Morning after much sweet Communion had in a Contemplative way with him who is invisible I saw of a suddain a Rock fashioned out like an Arch whereinto a way was made to pass and it was pretty spacious At the first it seemed to be somewhat dark which made me fear to enter in but presently a Table was there upon which was a blazing Light and it then became all shining and exceeding lustrous to invite into it But about the Light there did appear a company of dark coloured Flyes which flâ—ttered so about it as that they would have obscured the Light but as they came up to it they were consumed by it So considering these divine Idea's the Word came saying Enter ye hereinto whom the sacred Vow of Separation is upon For here is a Munition-Rock for your Security Oh that here you may be hid and hope and quietly wait for the Birth of the pure and perfect Heart In which ye shall see the Face of God whose Voice may be frequently heard in this secret place therefore Love here to abide for here is the Heavenly stillness November the 26th 1677. The whole employ and exercise of my Mind was now to have the old Heart transmitted into a new one according as it is meet 〈◊〉 because therefrom the perfect New Creature is formed with all new and fresh Organical Senses and Affections proper for Communion with the highest purity and goodness As it was shewn me that the Heart and Spirit that movâ—th and acteth the old Creature is capable to comprehend nothing higher then what lieth within the circumference of its own Sphere and low Birth of Life that only reacheth to things that are seen and knowable by the highest graduated Life of Reason which is altogether to seek in matters Celestial and Eternal Now that we might come to know the Invisible only wise and everlasting God our Father it must be through the medium of such a Spirit as may be the very conceptive part of the New Heart From which springs a clear Light that giveth understanding in the mystery of God and in what relates to the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Which
Prove me herein if I do not answer to that Conjugal Marriage-state after which you do make I will be yours as you are mine and free from all others No cause of jealousie shall be ministred on my part for as a sealing witness you may daily read me as ye are fixed with the pure ointment for to dip your finger in and therewith annoint your Eyes that so ye may have a right and clear sight of me and of all that is of a Celestial Nature and that is set out for your more pleasant and full rejoycing as you shall take up your living in me Oh here I do invite you as my Bride to make your abode Let all know who have their habitation in this World of distress and confusion that ye have found out a rest which is far more excelling being lodged in the Bosom of the Triune Soveraignty that can command all great and good things to satisfie you as ye remain in constancy Therefore over all this Worlds Temptations maintain victory that ye may inherit with your Bridegroom revenues of Crowns Princedomes Principalities over all universally in the Marriage Knot of Unity August the 27th 1677. Then there was presented unto me a fine piece of Wrought Work that was given one to take out and one said they could never learn it without going to some skilful one to teach them therein Then heard I a grave wise Person say No find it out of thy self Stir up the Gift which is within thee that is sufficient hereunto and thou wilt have the glory of it rest upon thee August the 28th 1677. An Interpretation was given to me of this Vision and thus it was interpreted That this Vision alluded to and did present the Workmanship of God renewed in Christ Jesus and so successively in those who are created again in him Now the draught without is Christ the Lord in all his holy and perfect Deportment as he lived without sin in this World in that he is become our example that according as it is written we might be as he was in this World Now this Pattern of Perfection was given to us but the curiosity and difficulty thereof put us to whom it was offered to a plunge not knowing how to take it out without a Guide And so likely we might spend and run out our whole time before we had attained half thereof always learning and yet not perfected Therefore while I was in this demur a word came to me This skill must spring from that New Birth within Yet it is in vain for any by imitation ever to attempt the Christ-like Life till they be born again As that grows up to the degree of Divine Capacity so it will be all perceiving and will aptly find out the Mystery of a God's likeness though incarnate in this terrestrial State Where Precepts and Patterns of Evil are continually inviting so that ye are in danger of taking a wrong Pattern out But this pure Birth in you will prevent that for it scents all what is of this Principle as a putrefactious life and therefore flies from it to its own express incorruptibility For which will proceed Gifts and Powers answerably to what your Head Pattern here acted marvelously Look to it for the Root of this Matter must rise from within your own inward holy ground Call up the Ghostly Power of Might that lieth hidden there and then ye may be able to produce the same wonderful working piece according to the form of the New Creation which must bear down and outdo all which came in by the fall Then was it further given me to know that there would be a trial and probation made of what ever was wrought it must be brought to the view of the Impartial Judge whose rejoycing it will be to pass the Sentence of Justification found in the imitation both of the Death and Life from the Birth Spirit which was in Jesus and is now entred into us to bring forth the same express Workmanship in all glorious variety as in the dying so in the rising conquering reigning Life Which is not to be manifested barely by Words but by mighty Deeds and Works from the Alpha and Omega Whose day of Love Light Peace and Joy is already working known and felt in the New Born August the 29th 1677. This Night I saw my self making hard towards a place wherein I was assured of all desirable good as relating to Company and Place And as I was striving to reach thereto there came a stubborn prancing Horse in a Cart and there was one went by to guide him but the Horse was so headstrong that he would no way be governed but would run in a hostile way towards the Gate that gave entrance into this secure place Seeing which I ran with all might and hast lest I should be stopped and just as I was entring in at the passage he came furiously upon me to grind me with the Wheels So that I was put to it hard but I passed through to great admiration as if I only had a Spirit without a Body so swift was my escape out of this danger For I saw it a perfect design to have prevented my going in then took I care of the well minded Person that would have otherwise ruled this head-strong Beast if he could have managed him but such was his inkindled rage that he would stand cross the Gate to hinder him that was to be his Governour from following after me But he wisely crept upon his Knees under the Cart and so got in and shut the Gate upon this tyrannical Beast This Vision had a considerable speaking in it unto us when we cannot but understand there is a foreseeing watchful Eye that does warn us of all evil occurrences that may ensue while yet we are but in our travelling way True it is we are running hard to enter within the everlasting Gate but much lumber and stuff there is which hath loaded the Cart of the Mind which is drawn by the prancing Horse of the Will that doth drive furiously and will not be under check or controul by that which doth see its danger This Principle with all its cares businesses and employs are dangerous to step in as a grinding Wheel to prevent our passing into that pleasant place Where not any of those Inhabitants are found in any working dress For they lived there by a Creating Breath that renews all fresh supplies There needed neither Building nor Planting nor Vine-dressing nor Seed-sowers for it was uttered by voice to me that passed through me This is the place of Iehovah's rest Who so can get through hereinto shall have cessation from all their works considered as they relate either to the Mind interiour taking thought or concern about its Salvation or to the Body exteriour for Food and Raiment Health or whatever else makes the Life worth living in it is to be here But then my Spirit objected Ah my Lord who ever could pass in here
through a mighty flux of Rheum this exercised my Faith and proved my Patience internally for some days together and gave me to see I was under a mortal influence as well as all others To which in humility I bowed using yet some means to free my self from the present malady and grief that was upon me After which not being answered in the effect but my distemper still abiding I was convinced that I should have only applied my self to that Sovereign Name wherein my healing was to be found Upon which I prayed to the Divine Omnipotency owning my neglect herein in that I had not looked only for cure therefrom to bring down help For which cause I did believe that I suffered under the Starry Constellations with which the Grand Adversary did conjoyn and concur and send out his evil influences rejoycing to see any who thought themselves above his poysonous raies should fall under and be subjected thereunto with others universally The sense of which I deeply took in and found in my self a disquietment thereat uttering to my God many Complaints Upon which this word came to me saying When thou hast tried all ways and means know for a surety it is the touch of the Deity alone that must thee ease Hadst thou here first fixed thy Faith thou mightest have been released from thy mortal grief Therefore now get up upon the Legs of thy Faith and stand without staggering and thereby saving health may flow in This was a mighty word of support but much more ado I had to rally up my Faith to eye no other but this Invisible Power for ever September the 12th 1677. The next day I had a sweet respite from the raging force of that predominant humour which had so afflicted my exteriour part And in the Night I saw my self taken into a place of which it was said the Night shall not be known from the Day For though it was in the Dead of the Night yet for brightness it was as the Noon Day which light seemed to me to descend out of a quite different Orb than this visible Element And I felt presently therefrom a warm Beam sent from the pure Deity which did me exceedingly lighten so that for the present time I was as one out of the Body of ponderosity dreading again therein to be found For who can do less than despise their corruptible Image that is so subject to these outward elementary diseases of all kinds when once they come to know and feel in any measure and degree that one Element of which Celestial Bodies are framed which can know neither sorrow nor pain Oh how may we come to be constituted hereinto so durably as no more to see the vile nature of siâ— or putrefaction Is it lawful to have an expectation hereof before we lay these Bodies in the Grave Yea assuredly such a day there is to be which will swallow up the night of mortality that all of the one clear matter of that invisible Element shall be in such changeable Raiment as that it will us give to see the face of God in Clarity For this word was given into me that those who could hold out in a steady strong Faith might know in verity such a transformation so as to pass out of Corporality into an Aethereal Glory putting on that which can pass into the everlasting burning-day which no shadow of the night or mortality of death can approach But it was further said The putting off what should be in order hereunto would be very hard yet sufficiency will be given to some who are concurring in mighty Faith Therefore go ye on believingly such a change yet possibly to see September the 13th 1677. In the Night I had a Vision of the Doctor whom I did see in great concern about building a foursquare Room all of clear Glass neither Timber nor Stone was in any part to be added thereto And I viewed it from first to last till I saw it finished by his own hand Who with great alaâ—rity said to me Here we will wait in all reservedness till the Glory of the Son of God appear But I answered This will be hardly secure for we shall be seen through this Glass and envious Spirits will break in and so disturb our attending here No said the Doctor we shall here learn the Art of the Divine Magia whereby we shall keep all Invaders out Or else that indeed would not be a sufficient Fence for us in regard found there is none who are resolved to enter in there with us but we both will abide there till others of the same Spirit shall come into us September the 14th 1677. The Opening and Interpretation of this Vision Was given to me That this denoted the Doctors care and diligence in making provision for that which was of greatest consequence in his Eye by methodising first all things outwardly for this free and quiet assignment Though according to the present conjuncture of things this seemed then much to contradict and to prevent the same which was objected to me But it was answered again by the all-knowing Spirit That there was that so deeply inlaid that would thrust out whatever would detard from setting upon this more Principal Building to which all must give way This Glassy Room doth represent a pure and clarified Mind in the which we jointly wait together as in one Room being of one Mind and the same Belief upon the great Work minding one Calling and Election hereunto and not giving herein any account to any one that hath not Faith For I had advice that it would little signifie to make any publication hereof otherwise than Noah did to wit by an actual building for convincement that we are of those who are forewarned to withdraw from all of this tempting Region For a deluge upon the World is foreseen that will strip her naked of all her pompous appearances for all of this shall be once again desolate Therefore the Word pronounced a Blessedness indeed upon those who were found enclosed within this Glassy Ark. For it was testified that Noah 's Spirit would yet return again to condemn this present World and that it would be demonstrable in some one or other In whom a Spirit of Faith would stir as from the Light and Knowledge of what the Spirit of Wisdom dictates to them and so it will be given to One to proceed from It was also signified to me that such Preachers of Righteousness would rise near upon the third and last Ministration who will internally prepare the Transparent Court for the Holy Ghost by disappearing and winding off from that first Building Which is so thick dark and gross as through that no sight into matters of Celestiality could ever be attainable Therefore a Chrystalline Body is to be built up by the Tool of Faith to be an Eternal House for the Spirit to dwell and act in As of Enoch it was said he was translated by Faith so as he did
not see death Enoch 's day is coming verily the seventh thousand year from Adam is now approaching and will certainly be shortned Wherein the World that now is that consisteth of Inhabitants made up of gross elementary matter shall suffer a dissolution by that pure burning Element that will break out from the Glassy Sea in each ones fiery property inkindling the breath of the Almighty Oh then a Creation of another kind than what now is visible shall be in pure and perfect existency For the Most High and Holy One doth in Wisdom see meet to make a transmutation among Mortals For neither the World before or since the Flood hath any way been pleasing unto God Therefore expect now daily the mystery of the Incarnation will begin to work in some hereunto elected Who of a Noah like Spirit raised will be first to embody themselves in that Ark which is pitched within and without with the Oily Spikenard of the Spirit that is the Invironing Power that will keep off all Batteries that shall be made against this Transparent Ark. Thus upon this Vision it was revealed unto me seeing that after this manner the third World is to succeed it would begin after this Method here described by the Figure But Oh my Lord Who shall be this second Noah who may assume such a Transfigured Body Whereby an answerable Off-spring may be all of clarified Spirits and Bodies to replenish the New Creation in which God may be well pleased It was answered That Elias would come and take up his Mantle again and do the Mighty Deeds which shall make good all Prophecies But it would only be known in its day who should personate this Faithful Noah only this know Where you see Faith begin to work in any one so high as to over-run all sensibility such a one shall surely lay God's Foundation for a New World Now then give way unto that transmuting TREE which doth yield altogether the Fruits of Faith The root thereof is to be found within your selves This is its springing day therefore let not its season pass away from you as it hath done from others It is not enough to know it springing in your inward ground but the constant feeding is that which by degrees will bring Redemption For by keeping to this fixedly you will famish the Life of Sensibility which hath done all the injury in confining you still within the shell of sinful mortality From which there is no other way to be freed but as you can move in the very body of all-mighty acting Faith This kind of Faith hath had a long sleep but the great Arch-Angel is now come to awaken it with his Spirit in them who are laid in the Lord's Death-tomb that will first hear this Trump and be raised in meet bodies and clear for the Bride Who may ascend into the New Ierusalem with a blessed off-spring of new-born Spirits from this Principle and so bring down him who is King of the New Creation to reign in the Earth September the 15th 1677. This Morning I was considering this change that eating on Faiths Tree would produce Which was nought else but the Power of Omnipotence which would beget to an unchangeable Life if the right kind of this Faith could be attained For by way of similitude a Tree with Branches of several Fruits of Faith was presented to me and every sort of Faith had its proper use But not to mention those common Fruits that grow very frequently in the internal ground of those who are looking after renovation Those Fruits as it was said in another case our Fathers ever since Adam have eaten and are found mortal and so are deceased But this Principal Fruit in which is to be tasted the strong Spirit of the Life-Essence of the Deity will be of another effect to wit Eternal Life will be sucked in verily by that But who can give us of this right Fruit of Faith to eat on seeing it is out of all mortal reach We long have fed upon the Fruits of the lower Branches of this Tree as others have but hereby no mighty thing hath been done nor any translation out of this death-vally hath been seen Ah my Lord what a great thing is this that now thou art putting us upon Surely thou dost not permit us to aspire after that which is not at our hands required but to become such who are to walk with thee in the New Ierusalem Glory and to be like pure Nazarites all white in Bright Bodies and Seraphick Flames in pure Spirits But Oh this Choice Fruit which the Flaming Sword doth keep must come by gift As it was shewn to me in and by a representation of a Pearl which in way of Vision I did see was brought from an unknown Land and tendred unto me as free out of a Persons Hand which was unknown to me having other sparkling Stones which were all tendred to me but the Pearl was of great Eminency much outvying the rest September the 16th 1677. The Interpretation of the Vision of the Pearl seen in the foregoing Paragraph I coming to consider of the Pearl it was by word given unto me saying This figures out the pretious Pearl of Faith that shall again be given to the Saints for to work miraculously by Who in long Patience and Hope have waited for the Manifestation of such Powers and Gifts as become the Glory of the New Creation to shine forth in This is that goodly Pearl that is the Stock and Merchandise that Wisdom doth be queath to such who have sought to be Traffickers on those Substantials as are to be found in the other side of the Glassy Sea For nothing that can be gathered up here out of all this Worldy State we can make any Heavenly Merchandise of Therefore our Lord doth oft commend unto us this pretious Pearl of Faith as well knowing this is a Gift worth seeking and looking after It is such prizable Jewel if once in our possession that we may have any exchange for it do but send it out from whence it came and it will turn to treble advantage But when I considered that this Pearl had not made of late years upon any one such rich return hereupon I questioned whether to any it should be given in these latter Ages So it was given forth to me from a true and certain record That though this supereminent and all transmuting Faith was the meer Gift of God yet there was required those inferiour Acts of depending Faith to be put forth by way of persuance of this which crowns all the lower degrees that must be as the ascending Steps to this Throne-dominion which is called Faiths Victory So that the lower degree of Faith in us must reach after the highest by a restless seeking and improving the present Faith attained For that Scripture was repeated by a secret Eccho of the Spirit Faith is the substance of things hoped for The Faith in God will forcibly draw into