one from another to the lowermost In every external thing there are two Properties one from Time the other from Eternity the first property of Time is manifest and the other is hidden yet it setteth forth a likeness after it self in each thing 19. Whatsoever hath its beginning out of the Lubet of the Liberty standeth with the Root in an Heavenly Property and with the Body in an earthly but the Eternal standeth in Time and manifesteth it self with Time 20. Sulphur is on one part in the Internal Heavenly and as to the Body earthly yet putteth forth an Heavenly likeness according to the Eternal out of it self which is fixed and stedfast as is to be seen in Gold and is much more to be understood in the Humane Body if it were not corrupted in the Desire in Mercury for the spiritual or heavenly Man consists in Sulphur and in Mercury the Corporeal viz. the Similitude of the divine Man so also the Metalline Property in Sulphur is the noblest most excellent and highest for it is the highest Spirit 21. Understand it thus in the Heavenly Being there is also a property of a Sude when the Liberty is apprehended and enkindled in the highest Desire wherein the Joyfulness ariseth this is effected in the Heavenly Sulphur where it is made essential in the Heavenly Mercury viz. in the Eternal Word which is a spiritual Essence 22. But if the same Spirituality longeth to manifest it self in a likeness both according to the Property of the Spirit and the Essentiality too according to the Trinity of the Deity according to the Mortal and Immortal Essence then that Image is represented in the Stars and Elements and lastly it is set forth in Man who is a lively Image of the whole Essence according to the divine and outward World also the inward and outward World is represented with the Metals in a mortal Image as a Resemblance and Similitude of the living Heavenly Essentiality 23. The beginning is in Sulphur for Sul is the Lubet of the Light or the Liberty which longeth to manifestation and it cannot otherwise be effected save through Fire in Phur ariseth the Desire viz. an Austere Attraction which maketh the dark earthly Property and the Austereness of the Spirit viz. the fiery Essence In this Austereness ariseth Saturn which is the thing Impressed and Mercury is the desire of the Hunger and the Rager Raver and Breaker and Mars is the wrath in the Hunger a cause of Anger these three are the Property of Phur viz. of the free Lubets-desire 24. The free Lubets Property begetteth the Essence in the three fore-mentioned Forms viz. in Saturn Mercury and Mars for it giveth it self in to each Property and the Property in the Hunger of Mercury maketh it a Corporeal Form but if the free Lubet turneth also to an Hunger in the Austere desiring then it maketh also three Forms according to it self viz. Jupiter who is the understanding of the Lubet and Venus which is the desire of the Lubet and Luna which is the body of the Lubet and according to the Property of the Light it maketh Sol all this is Spirit but now in every Spirits Hunger there is also an Essence both according to the mortal and immortal Ens a fixt and unfixt a Figure according to the Heavenly and a Figure according to the Earthly Being or Property 25. In the Saturnine Property the desire of the free Lubet maketh according to Saturns own Property Lead and according to the watry Property in Saturn Salt and according to the mortal and earthly Property in Saturn Stones and Earth and all whatsoever is of that Sort and Semblance 26. But according to the Liberty or according to the Free Desires own property in that it yieldeth up it self to Saturn viz. to the Desire it maketh in Saturn Gold according to the desire of the Light where the Spirit and Body do sever the Spirit of its Desire is Sol and the Body is Gold understand the golden Body is in Saturn according to the property of the free Desire and not according to Saturns property his property in himself is Lead Salt and Earth but he keepeth the golden Child shut up in Himself as a black Raven not in his gray form but in a darkish glee He is a great Lord but his Dominion by reason of the golden Child which he hath in his bowels standeth not in his own Power He is not Father of the Child but Mercury is he which formeth the Child but he puts his morning Mantle upon it that he can have no joy with the golden Child but he Corporizeth the fair Child for he is its Fiat or Creator and doth hide and cover it close under his Mantle He cannot give it the Body from his own property for it understand the golden Body is the Essence of the free Desire in the highest degree of Corporality in the fix'd Death where yet there is no Death but an Enclosing and in the Similitude a Representation of the divine Heavenly Essentiality 27. Mercurius is the Master-workman of this Child which Saturn hideth when he getteth it into his Hunger he casteth off his black Cloke and rejoyceth in it but he is too malignant in his Fire-wrath he devoureth the Child and turns it wholly to his own property when he is most sharply hungry in the Fire then Sol must be given him it is his wife that his Hunger may be appeased and then when he is satisfied he laboreth in the Materia of the Child with his own Hunger or Fire and filleth up his sufficed Desire out of Sols property which he before had eaten down and nourisheth the Child till it getteth upon it all the four Elements with the Constellation and he grows exceeding pregnant with the Child and then it belongeth or is fit unto a strange Fire and yet not strange unto an Earnest Fire and then the Father giveth it the Soul viz. the Fire-spirit and its first Mother which Mercury did eat down in its Hunger which was fixt and perfect giveth the Souls-spirit viz. the Light-life even then the Death ariseth and the Child is born and becomes afterward its own and a Child of the Liberty and careth no more for its Work-master it is better then its Father but not better then its Mother in whose feed it say before the Father wrought in it it bruiseth the Head of its Fathers fiery Essence viz. of the Serpent and passeth freely through death in the Fire dost thou understand nothing here then thou art not born unto the highest knowledg of the Spargirical Science 28. Further we are to consider of the Degrees what the Liberty viz. the Eternal Lubet giveth to the Hunger of the other Forms in Sulphur in the property of the other Planets the Form of the Birth is as a Turning Wheel which Mercury causeth in the Sulphur 29. The Birth of the highest Degree
procreated heavenly Essence according to both Eternal Principles 6. But now Man was created Good and Perfect according to and out of all the three Worlds as an Image of the Deity in whom God dwelled and was even that Essence what God is according to Eternity and Time in all the three Worlds but a Creature with a beginning as to the Creature and dyed through Lubet as to the Heavenly and Divine Essence For the inward Lubet which was generated in the Center viz. in the fire wherein stood the Life in the Divine Essentiality that is that which enkindled the Essence of the divine Meekness wherein the Joyfulness or the Angelical Form consisteth that I say turned it self from the inward Lubet of the Liberty and Eternity into the Time viz. into the Extern Birth into the Planetick Property it departed out of the Pure Divine Element into the four Elements Thus the inward Divine Essentiality or inward Corporality did no longer retain any Leader or Life and this was the death for the Souls fire proceeding from the Fathers Property turned it self away from the Sons Property in which alone the Divine Life consists 7. Thus the Property of the Soul remained naked onely and alone with its Will in the outward Sulphur and the inward disappeared and continued stedfast in the Eternal Unchangeableness as in an Eternal Nothing wherein there was no more any Effecting or working Efficacy to bring to pass 8. Thus Man with his outward Body lived barely and meerly to the Time the precious Gold of the Heavenly Corporality which tinctured the outward Body was disappeared and so the outward Body stood barely and alone in the Life of Natures Desire viz. in the Souls fiery Property understand in the Form and Property of Mars viz. in the Wrath of God who is the Wrath in Sulphur viz. the Property of Gods Anger and the dark World but being the outward Body was created out of the Time therefore the Time viz. the Constellation with the four Elements presently obtained the dominion in him and the divine Property viz. the Desire of the Deity which Ruled and Tinctured Time so that there was a holy Life in the Creature out of the Time was vanished it s own peculiar Love in the divine Desire was turned to water and it became blinde and dead in the Will and Desire of God and the Soul must help it self with the Suns Light 9. But being that Time hath Beginning and End and the Will with the Desire hath given up it self to the Temporal Leader therefore the Dominion of Time destroyeth its own contrived spirit and so the Body also dyeth and passeth away and this is that which God said to Adam That he should not eat of the Tree or Plant of the Knowledg of Good and Evil of both Properties lest he dyed as it also came to pass he dyed in the Sulphur The Sul in the Kingdom of God viz. the Lubet of the divine Liberty out of which the Light of God shineth and in which the divine Love viz. the Love-fire burneth did disappear and withdraw from him 10. Now there was no remedy for him unless Gods Desire entered again into his dead Sulphur that is into his mort Sul viz. into the dead or mortified Essentiality and again enkindle it with the Love fire which came to pass in Christ and there the Heavenly Body wherein Gods Light shineth did again arise But if this must be effected then the Love-desire must again enter into the Desire of the Enkindled Anger and quench and overcome the Anger with the Love the divine water must enter again into the Souls burning fire and quench the wrathful death in the Astringent Fiat viz. in the Desire to Nature that the Love-desire which desireth God might be again enkindled in the Soul 11. For Mans Happiness consists in this that he hath in him a true Desire after God for out of the Desire springeth forth the Love that is when the Desire receiveth the Meekness of God into it self then the Desire immerseth it self in the Meckness and becomes essential and this is the Heavenly or Divine Essentiality or Corporality and therein the Souls-spirit which lay shut up in the Anger viz. in Death doth again arise in the Love of God for the Love Tinctureth the Death and Darkness that it is again capable of the divine Sunshine 12. And as this is done in Man so likewise it is in the Transmutation of Metals the Sulphur is shut up in Saturn viz. in the Death and yet there is no Death but a Vegetative Life and the outward Mercury is the Life thereof Now it the Metalline Body shall come to the Highest Perfection then it must dye unto the External Dominator viz. to the Elements and come again into such a Sulphur as it was when as yet it had not the four Elements on it but lay onely in the Element in unity 13 But now none can reduce it into such a Body save he onely which hath generated He that hath given it the four Elements He Alone can take them away and He that at first made it Corporeal He must aval it into himself and transchange it in himself into another Body and this is the Sulphur which hath Mercurius as its chief Faber in it self He must again take it out of dark Saturns bowels in the Fiat and introduce it into his own and with his own Fire separate the four Elements from it and reduce it into one as God at the last Day will in the Enkindling of his own Fire separate the Essence of the four Elements from the Pure Element that the eternal Corporality in the Pure Element may Arise and spring forth and as in the death of Man the four Elements do sever from the true Man who is the Element of God and the Heavenly Body remaineth onely in it self even so it goeth in the Transmutation of Metals Process 14. The Body lieth shut up in a disesteemed Form in Saturn not wholly in Saturns Property in a dark colour marked with Mercurius its Father and Sol its Mother clothed with Saturn and manifest with the Life of Mars but its Mother is not outwardly manifest and known on it unless its Faber be enraged with its own Iniquity which yet cannot be except an Alienate be applyed whereby its Propriate is enraged and then if his Anger be set on a fire or fury he becometh so very hungry and thirsty and yet can finde no refreshment in it self then it seizeth on its Faber who hath made it and fighteth against its Creator as the earthly wicked man against God so long till he devoureth and consumeth himself as a fiery pestilent Poyson consumeth the Body unless you remedy stay and allay its hunger yet there is none that can still this horrible Hunger but God himself who hath made him and if he assists not in due time then the Hunger in the Wrath
consumes the Body and puts it into the eternal Darkness 15. This Hunger desireth nothing but the Mercy of God that he might be freed from the Anguish of Hell but this he cannot obtain of himself for he is shut up in the Anger of God and his dear Mother which nursed him in the beginning is also shut up in Death but if God sheweth his Grace and gives him again of his Love then the Anger is dismayed at the Love and this is a Flagrat of great Joy for he again tasteth the sweetness of his dear Mother and then he knoweth full well that he hath been so vile and wicked and repenteth of his Iniquity and will turn and mortifie the old Adam and cast it away from him 16. So the Artist taketh him presently away with the old Adam from the strange Anger and layeth him in a soft bed for the old Adam is sick and will dye and then his own Faber in the old Adam is in the Love of God which destroyed the Anger and will make a young childe and rejoyceth in the childe and the old Adam grows sick and weak wholly dark and swart and dyeth and the four Elements go out from him with their colours so the Faber gives him even Leave to go and continually laboreth on the new Body which shall arise from Death and none seeth his labor for he worketh in the dark 17. But the Artist takes no care about the work but giveth the Faber his own food till he seeth that a Vegetative Life appeareth in the dark Death with a new colour out of the black and then when the new Man is ready the Artist cometh and brings the Soul and gives it the Faber at which the Faber is dismayed that another Life cometh into him and he puts the Soul into the new Body and goeth inwardly in the Anger Thus the new Man ariseth in great Power and Glory from Death and bruiseth the Head of the old Serpent in the Anger of God and passeth through the Anger and the Anger can do him no harm at all Whoe'er thou art that hereunto art born Thou hast a chosen work no way for lorn CHAP. VI. How a Water and Oyl is generated and of the difference of the Water and Oyl and of the Vegetable Life and Growth 1. ALl Life Growth and Instigation consist in two things viz. in the Lubet and then in the Desire the Lubet is a free Will and as a Nothing in comparison to Nature but the Desire is as a Hunger in the Desire ariseth the moving Spirit viz. the Natural and in the Lubet the Supernatural which yet is Natures but not out of its own property but out of or from the property of the Desire 2. The Desire is the Instigation of the Essence viz. an Hunger and the Lubet is the Hungers Essence which it taketh into it self for the Desire is only an hungry Will and it is the natural Spirit in its Forms but the Lubet is out of the Liberty for God is desire-less as concerning his own Essence in so much as he is called God for he needeth nothing All is his and he himself is All. 3. But he hath a Lubet-will and he himself is the Will to manifest himself in the Lubet yet in the free affection-less Lubet no manifestation can be effected for it is voyd of Desire it is as if 't were nothing in respect of Nature and yet it is All but not according to the Desire viz. according to Nature but according to the satisfying of Nature it is the satisfying of the hungry Desire viz. of Nature it freely and willingly gives it self into the Hunger of Nature for it is a Spirit without Essence and Desire wholly free as a Nothing but the Desire doth essentialize or materiate it in it self and that according to two Properties viz. one according to the Eternal Liberty which is free from the Source and the other according to the Desire which giveth a vegetative Life viz. a growing or a giving forth it self 4. The Free Essence is and giveth an Oyl and the Desires property giveth a Life of the Oyl the Oyl is a Light and the Desires property giveth to the Light the Essence viz. the Fiery property so that the Light shineth as is to be seen in the Fire and Light and the free Lubet remaineth yet a free Will in it self but giveth its Meekness viz. a free Resignation into the Desire that it cometh to Essence and Lustre its Will is only good it hath no other Desire save only to be good meek and pleasant there is also no other possibility therein for it is as a Nothing wherein no disturbance or Source can be but it is the Meekness it self 5. But being it cannot be a Nothing by reason that it is a Cause and Beginning of the Desire therefore it giveth it self freely as the Sun-shine freely gives it self into every property and the Desire conceiveth or taketh this free Lubet viz. the Lustre or shine of the Abyss of Eternity into it self and makes it in it self into Essence according to its property so much property as is in the Desire so much also there is of Essence and we are to consider that when the free Lubet doth give in it self into the Hunger of the Desire that the Desire then maketh out of the free Lubets property a Similitude according to the Liberty which is as if 't were nothing and yet is this is a Water and Oyl 6. But seeing the Desire that is the Hunger is filled with the free Lubet it maketh its own property in the Essence of the Liberty also to Essence its Essence is Water and the Essence of the free Lubet is an Oyl Thus a two fold Property ariseth in one only Spirit viz. a fiery Property according to the property of the Desire and a joyful or Lucid Property according to the Liberty 7. The fiery giveth in its Essence viz. in its Water a sharpness from the austere Desire which is saltish or a Salt and from the fiery Anguish a Brimstone whence in the Impression and Creation of the World are made stones earth and metals so also the Elements and Stars all according to the forms in the Desire and the oleous property giveth its Meekness viz. a Love-Lubet wherein the fiery is impressed with the Desire and maketh Corporality and the oleous giveth it self out in its Meekness and maketh the Vegetable Life viz. a springing and growing in the fiery Impression whereinto the Fire must give its Essence and Instigation viz. the vehement Compunction in the Attraction of the Desire which is the Severator in the Corporality viz. the Distinguisher Carver and Causer of the Essence and Multiplicity or Variety 8. Philosophers have called this Form Mercurius from the anxious inciting Sphere which is the Cause of all Life and Motion and a Faber in the oyly and watry Property 9. Thus we are
Souls spirit would live that is burn 22. Thus by Gods Curse or withdrawing the Heavenly Body was shut up and the Anger-Source set open and so the Heavenly Body lieth still shut up but seeing Man by the Eternal Mercury that is by the Word of Divine Power was in one part formed out of Eternity into Body and Soul none could disclose the poyson-Poyson-death and destroy the mortal Mercury and change it again into the Lights-Source viz. into the Source of the divine Joyfulness save only the very divine Mercury viz. the Power and the Word of Life it self for the Serpents poysonful earthly property was manifest and stirred up in man therefore when Gods Word did pity the Corruption of man and did again embrace him he said The Seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head and thou understand the Serpents poyson or fire shalt sting him in the Heel 23. Herein now lieth the Philosophers Stone to know how the Seed of the Woman bruiseth the Serpents Head which is done in the Spirit and Essence Temporally and Eternally the sting of the Serpent is Gods Anger-fire and the Womans Seed is Gods Love-fire which must be again awakened and illustrate the Anger and deprive the Wrath of its might and put it into the divine Joyfulness and then the dead Soul which lay avalled in Gods Curse doth arise when the poysonful Mercury which resembleth Gods Anger is Tinctured with Love then the Deaths Anguish in Mercury is changed into the highest Joyfulness and Desire of Love which doth again make a Love-essence in it self viz. an heavenly Body out of the earthly when Mercury is changed into an heavenly Source it desireth no longer or more the earthly mortal Life it desireth not the four Elements but only the One wherein the four are contained as it were avalled as the Light holdeth the Darkness avalled in it self and yet the Darkness is in it but not manifest in the Light as God dwelleth in Time and the Time comprehends him not unless it be translated and wrapt up into Eternity that the divine Light doth again shine in its Source and then the Time is manifest with its Wonders in the Eternity 24. On this wise also is the Process of the Wise men with the Precious Stone There is no nearer Consideration of the same then to consider and know how the Eternal Word viz. the heavenly divine Mercury in the divine Power is become man and slain Death and the Anger in man viz. changed the Mercury into the divine Joyfulness whereby the humane Mercury which before lay shut up in Gods Anger viz. in the Source of Death doth with its new enkindled Desire which now is called Faith in the Holy Ghost attract divine Essentiality viz. Christs Body unto it self and setteth it self in divine Power and Light above the Anger of God and the Poyson of the Serpent and bruise the head of the Anger viz. the poyson of Death with the Life of divine Joyfulness that is the Anger was Master but in the Light it became a Servant which now must be a cause of the Joyfulness as it is most plain clear and manifestly made known and shewn unto us in the Mercurial Life 25. Now observe the Process and meditate thereon ye dear Children of Wisdom and then ye shall have Enough Temporally and Eternally do not as Babel doth which tickleth and comforteth it self with the Philosophers Stone and boasteth of it but keepeth only a gross Masons-Stone shut up in Poyson and Death in stead of the precious Philosophers Stone what is it for Babel to have the Stone when as it lieth wholly shut up in Babel It is as if a Lord bestowed a Country upon me which indeed was mine but I could not take possession of it and remained still á poor man for all that and yet I boasted of the Dominion and so had the Name and not the Power Even thus it goeth with Babel about the precious Stone of the New-birth in Christ Jesus 26. In the Sweet Name Jesus Christ the whole Process is contained what and how the New-birth is out of Death into Life which is very clearly understood in the language of Nature for the Name Jesus is the property of the free Lubet of Eternity which yeelds it self into the Centre of the Pregnatress viz. into the Fathers property and figurizeth it self in the Centre in the Fathers property viz. in the Fathers Fire to a word of Eternal Power 27. Understand the Father viz. the Fathers fiery Forms do figurate shape this divine Voyce essentially in it self in the Lubet of the Liberty that is the Fathers fiery property maketh it self in the divine Essence of the eternal Love to a Mercury of Ioyfulness for the Fathers property is the Fire-source and the Sons viz. the eternal Lubets property is the Love-source and yet also there would be no Desire of Love if the Fathers Fire did not enkindle it and make it moveable viz. denrous from the Fire ariseth the Desire 28. The Father of all Essences begetteth this holy Desire through his Fire-source which is now his heart of Love which giveth in his Fire the shining Lustre and Splendor even there the Wrath in the Fires-property dyeth from Eternity to Eternity and is changed into a Love-desire 29. Thus observe it the free Lubets property is here in the Fires property called Christ which signifieth in the language of Nature a Potent Champion depriving the Wrath of its Power a Shine of the Light in the Darkness a Transmutation where the Love-Lubet ruleth over the Fire-Lubet viz. over the Wrath the Light over the Darkness Here the Seed of the Woman understand of the free Lubet in which there is no Source bruiseth the Head of the Wrath of the Eternal Nature viz. of the Eternal Desire for the Fires property is rightly called the Head for it is the Cause of the Eternal Life and the Liberty viz. the free Lubet or the Nothing is rightly called the woman for in the Nothing viz. in the Liberty of all Source consists the Birth of the Holy Trinity of the Deity 30. Now the Fire giveth Life and the free Lubet giveth Essence into the Life and in the Essence is the Birth where the Father viz. the Eternal Ground begetteth his Essence viz. his Heart out of the Abyss in Himself that is out of the Abyss in Himself into a Byss the Son is the Fathers Byss Thus the Father remaineth in Himself as touching his own property only the Byss of the Eternal Nature and the Son remaineth in the Father the Byss of the Power and Kingdom of Ioy a resemblance whereof you see in the Fire and Light And thus the Son Tinctureth the Father with the Liberty viz. with the Nothing and the Father Tinctureth the Son the Nothing that there is an Eternal Life therein and no more a Nothing but a Sound or Voyce of the Manifestation of the
was to undergo the Combare of this Tryal when the humane Essence was to enter again with its Desire into the Deity and eat of Gods Bread that is of the divine Essentiality He went to Jordan and was baptized of John Wherewith With the Water in Jordon and with the Water in the Word of Life viz. with divine Essence which must Tincture our mortal Essence in the outward Humanity of Christ whence the divine Hunger arose in the humane Essence that he desired to eat of Gods Bread therefore the Spirit of God took him and carried him into the Wilderness and there the Fathers Property in the Wrath did oppose him through the Prince in the Wrath and there Gods Bread and also the Bread of Gods Anger according to the Deaths Desire was tendered unto him now it was tryed whether the Soul which was generated and created out of the Fathers Property would after this Tincturation of Baptism enter again into the Love-desire viz. into the Nothing out of all Source 43. What is hereby intimated unto the Magus A Mystery is hinted unto him if he will do Wonders with Christ and Tincture the Corrupt Body to the New-birth he must first be baptized and then he getteth a Hunger after Gods Bread and this Hunger hath in it the Verbum Fiat viz. the Archeus to the new Generation that is the Mercury but I do not speak here of a Priests Baptism the Artist must understand it Magically God and man must first come together ere thou baptizest as it came to pass in Christ the Deity first entered into the Humanity but the Humanity could not presently comprehend it until it was quickened through Baptism and the Hunger viz. the dead Mercury in the Humane Essence was again stirred up in the Heavenly Part. 44. And Here began again the Humane Eating viz. the Mercury received again Divine Property and Will and then the inward Mercury understand Mans Property did eat in the Taste of the Divine Word of Gods Essence and the four Elemental Properties did eat of the Nights Property so long till the Humane Mercury sublimed its Life and changed the four Elements into One and the Life Tinctured Death which was done on the Cross then the four Elements departed from him that is He dyed unto Time viz. to the Night that is to the four Elements and arose in the Pure Element and lived to Eternity 45. The Magus must keep and observe this Process also with his Alchimy Dost thou ask how I will not put it into thy mouth by reason of the wicked who is not worthy of it Observe onely the Baptism that thou baptizest the dead Mercury which lieth in the Heavenly Essentiality enclosed and shut up in Impotency with its own Baptism and mark of what Essence he is in a thing but thou must have his divine Water and also the earthly for the earthly Mercury cannot else Receive the Divine Being except the Divine Mercury receiveth of its Power whereupon it stirreth and hungereth even then the Heavenly Mercury seeketh but yet findeth not Divine Essence about it for its food Thereupon it brings its Will through the Desire of Death into it self viz. into the Verbum Fiat which hath made and produced it and setteth its Hunger upon the same whereupon the Divine Essence inclineth it self unto it and will become Joyfulness in him even then ariseth the beginning of the new Body out of the Divine Essentiality which the Desire nourisheth and bringeth up and when the new Life is born viz. the Day then the four Elements dye and then the new Body is shut up in the dark Death and on the third day it riseth again from Death for the Night is avalled in the Grave and the Morning riseth 46. If thou didst understand this then hadst thou the Pearl But my Intent and purpose is otherwise I will shew thee Christ along with it and also this Pearl therefore none shall finde it but he that Loveth Christ. 47. Thou sayst Tell me the Baptism and I have already told it thee Every Hunger is a Desire after its Property now if thou givest again the Property of Death unto the Hunger of Death then Death encreaseth but if thou givest him Heavenly Property then Death receiveth it not for Hell is against Heaven therefore thou must give Death and the Anger of God to Death and in this Anger give him Heavenly Essence viz. the Baptism and so the Baptism will Aval the Death into it self even then the Anger dyeth in the Death through the Baptism but not presently thou must first keep the Process of Christ and suffer the baptized to Preach that is appear in his divine Form and Colours exceedingly persecute and plague him and give him no rest for so the right Mercury becomes working and active and when he hath shewn all his Wonders through the old Adam even then thou must east the old and new Man into Gods great Anger and slay the old Man ventilate him and hang him naked on the Cross and again take him thence and lay him into the Putrifaction viz. into the Grave 48. And then Christ will arise from death and appear but only his own know him He walketh about in Heavenly Form and sometimes in his own Form which he had here until the Feast of Pentecost for now here is tryed in him the highest Perfection whether he will persist in the Angels-form and eat only of the divine Essence and then cometh the Holy Ghost and proceedeth with his Power out of the whole Corpus viz. out of the Body and Soul which then Tinctureth the dead and broken Being as may be seen in the day of Pentecost where Saint Peter Tinctured three thousand Souls at once with his Heavenly Mercury and delivered them out of death 49. Dear Seekers herein lieth the Pearl had you the Universal then ye could also Tincture as Saint Peter did but your covetous Death doth withhold you and shut you up for ye seek only Covetousness and Temporal Honour in the pleasure of the flesh to generate your selves in the Nights property therefore the Pearl doth hide it self from you yet the day shall again appear when the wrathful Anger of God is fulfilled satisfied and appeased in the blood of the Saints and turned unto a Love-life and the time is near Process 50. Every Creature keeps in its generation and propagation unto its own Kind the male to the female and the female unto the male Now God said to Adam and Eve after the fall The seed of the Woman shall bruise the Serpents head He said not the seed of the Man Herein lieth the Baptism of Nature the Male hath the Fire-spirit and the Female the Water-spirit to the Tincture now the Mercury is a Fire-life and maketh himself a Body according to his Hunger and Desire now the chief of the work is in the beginning to give the Fire-hunger a Love-Virgin out of its Kind for its Consort that so
his wrathful Hunger may be changed into a Love and then they sleep together in their own Marriage Bed now the Devil is an Enemy of this Wedlock who soon cometh with a strange Desire and tempteth these married people but dares not lay an hand of violence on them but only afflicts and plagues them with a false strange Desire now if they yeeld their Desire unto his Will and his Desire overcome them then they become Enemies to one another and bring forth a false Child for Christ said An evil Tree bringeth forth evil fruits and a good Tree good fruits 51. Therefore the Artist must beware and keep himself from such Anger and yet must prepare a Cross for this married couple for he is their Foe and Friend that so they both in their Marriage Bed of Love might lift up their Desire to God and so with their Desire Gods Essence may be pregnant in their Desire and then in their Copulation they shall beget such a Child which they understand the Mother viz. the Female shall nourish in their Belly until it be ripe 52. In the mean time let the Mother take heed she bear no Love to any other besides her Consort and also not Imagine after strange things else she will imprint a spot or mark on the Child she must continue simply in one Love till the Child be perfect as to its body which comes to pass in the fourth Moneth yet according as the Parents are of one property even so strife and contrary will arise in the essence in the Child when as the Child is to receive its Souls life 53. But when the Essence is in its wresting Combate the Artist must assist the Soulish viz. the fiery propeity until the Souls-spirit attains its Life even then he appeareth in the Womans Form and Lustre Now supposeth the Artist that he hath the Child that it is born but there belongeth a further time unto it till the Soul grows strong and then it appeareth and shews it self in its red and white Coat 54. But there is yet a wonderful Process behind when the Souls life is born then the new Soul casteth away the Vegetable Life of the Parents which is propagated and inherited to the body from the Parents Vegitta wherein the body of the Child congealed and grew till the time of the Soul and the Life of the four Elements dyeth and the Life in the one Element ariseth the Child is hidden in the dark Death and the Artist supposeth it to be dead but he must have patience till the Childe be born The Peculiar Process in the shaping of the Magical Child 55. The Course of Christ upon the Earth is a real Type how the new Child is nourished in the Mothers Womb after its Conception as is before mentioned and attains a Vegetable Life and groweth up to the time of its right Souls and Spirits Life and how the Child ariseth from the Parents Essence and how in the Enkindling of its Right viz. of its own Life it casts away the Parents Vegitta and Working and how a new plant viz. a new peculiar Operation doth now arise according to the new enkindled Spirits property whereby the Child is more noble then its Parents understand as to its outward Life 56. But perhaps some rude clownish Sophister might meet with this Treatise and draw a strange Understanding from it in that I write of a Soul in the Vegetative Life but let him know that we do not understand the Image of God which was formed into a likeness according to God to be in Metals Stones and Herbs but we understand the Magical Soul how the Eternity viz. the Deity doth imprint and pourtray it self in its likeness according to the Model of its Wisdom in all things and how God filleth all in all we understand the Summum Bonum the Good Treasure which lieth hidden in the outward Worlds Essence as a Paradise 57. When Christ in his childhood grew up in humane and divine Property till he was twelve years old he went with his mother Mary unto the Feast at Jerusalem and went into the Temple among the Scribes asked them and harkened unto them and gave answer unto the Questions of the Teachers but when his Parents returned home supposing him to be among the Company he remained purposely behind among the Doctors and followed not the intent of his Parents but the divine Will until they came back again and sought him and then his Mother said unto him My Son wherefore hast thou dealt so with us Lo thy Father and I have been seeking thee Sorrowing Then he said unto them How is it that you have sought me wist ye not that I must be about my Fathers business And he went home with them and was subject unto them 58. In this Figure we have the Type of the Wills of the inward and outward World how they are in one another and against one another and yet are but one Even as in Christ there were two Kingdoms manifest one wrought unto Gods Will and brake the outward Worlds Will of his Parents in that Christ tarried behind contrary to the will of his Parents at which they were troubled which the divine Will in Christ knew well enough and the other Kingdom viz. of his Parents Will brake the divine Will that he went home with them and was obedient unto then according to their will 59. This Figure sheweth the Magus that he shall find two Wills in his Purpose which he thinks to carry on one will not be obedient and subject unto him viz. the divine Will and yet if his own peculiar external Will shall rightly apply it self thereunto and only seek the dear Child Jesus with Mary with desire and earnest sorrow and not earthly pleasure of the flesh then the divine Will will be obedient to him and go home with him and be used according to his good pleasure 60. Secondly It sheweth him the two-fold Working and Will in all things and if he will be a Magus and according to his Will turn the Will and Essence of the good Property out of the inward into the outward then he must be first capable of the inward viz. of the divine Will else he cannot change the inward Will into the outward as Christ was not obedient to the external Will of his Mother until she sought him with grief and sorrow of Heart and turned her Will into Gods Will and wrestled in his Compassion with Gods Will as Jacob the whole night until the Lord blessed him and God said unto him Thou hast wrestled with God and man and hast overcome or got the Victory 61. Also let the Magus know that he need not go about to implant the right Will to perfection from without into his purpose it is already in all things only he must introduce a divine desirous Will according to the things property into that thing which he taketh in hand which wrestleth with the divine Will as
and melted yet a man shall have nothing save a contemptible matter devoyd of any form of Vertue until the Artist taketh it in hand and useth the right Process about it and then it is manifest what was therein 44. So likewise God dwelleth in all things and the thing knoweth nothing of God he likewise is not manifest to the thing and yet it receiveth Power from him but it receiveth the Power according to its property from him either from his Love or from his Wrath and from which it receiveth so it hath its Signature externally and the Good is also in it but as it were wholly shut up or hidden to the Iniquity or Evil an example whereof you have on Bushes and other thorny and pricking Bryars out of which notwithstanding a fair well smelling Blossom groweth and there lie two Properties therein viz. a pleasant and unpleasant which overcometh that shapeth formeth or marketh the fruit 45. Thus also it is with man he was created a fair Blossom and Fruit of Paradise but the Devil raised up in him his thorny property by the Serpent understand the Centre the property of the wrathful Nature which in his Paradisical Source was not manifest in him but when his Hunger entered into the thorny false property of the Serpent viz into Death then the property of Death and the false Serpent in the Devils Desire pressed into his Hunger and filled Soul and Body so that the Hunger of the false Serpent began effectually to work in him and Death awaked in him and then Paradise hid it self in him for Paradise entered into it self and the poyson of the Serpent in Deaths property dwelt also in it self here was now the Enmity then said God to him The seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpeats head and thou shalt sting the Heel with Deaths poyson 46. Understand the Paradisical Image shut up and captivated in the wrathful Death in which the Word of the Deity viz. the divine Mercury ruled and wrought did disappear as the Gold is disappeared in Saturn so that nothing is seen but a contemptible matter until the right Artist sets upon it and again awaken the Mercury in the enclosed Gold and then the dead enclosed Body of the Gold doth again revive in Saturn for Mercury is its Life who must be introduced into it again and then the dead Body of the Gold appeareth and overcometh the gross Saturn wherein it lay shut up and changeth its mean contemptible old Body into a fair glorious golden Body 47. Thus likewise it is with Man He lieth now shut up after his Fall in a gross deformed beastial dead Image He is not like an Angel much less like unto Paradise He is as the gross Oar in Saturn wherein the Gold is coucht and shut up His Paradisical Image is in him as if it were not and it is also not manifest the outward Body is a stinking Carkass while it yet liveth in the Poyson He is a bad thorny Bush whence notwithstanding fair Rose-buds may bloom forth and grow out of the Thorns and manifest that which lieth hidden and shut up in the wrathful poysonful Mercury so long till the Artist who hath made him take him in hand and bringeth the living Mercury into his Gold or Paradisical Image disappeared and shut up in Death so that the Enclosed Image which was created out of the divine Meekness and Love-essentiality may again bud and spring forth in the divine Mercury viz. in the Word of the Deity which entered into the Humanity shut up and closed in the Death and Curse 48. And then the divine Mercury changeth the wrathful Mercury into its property and Christ is born who bruiseth the Head of the Serpent viz. of the Poyson and Death in the Anger of God understand the might of wrathful Death and a new Man ariseth in Holiness and Righteousness which liveth before God and his divine Image appeareth and puts forth its Lustre as the hidden Gold out of the earthly property and hereby it is clearly signified to the Artist chosen of God how he shall seek no otherwise then as he hath sought and found himself in the property of the pure Gold and so likewise is this Process and not a whit otherwise for Man and the Earth with its Secrets lie shut up in the like or same Curse and Death and need one and the same Restitution 49. But we tell the Seeker and sincerely and faithfully warn him as he loveth his Temporal and Eternal Welfare That he do not first set upon this way to try the Earth and restore that which is shut up in Death unless he himself be afore born again through the Divine Mercury out of the Curse and Death and have the full knowledg of the Divine Regeneration else all what he doth is to no purpose no learning or studying availeth for that which he seeketh lieth shut in the Curse in Death in the Anger of God if he will make it alive and bring it into its First Life then that Life must be afore manifest in him and then he may say to the Mountain Get thee hence and be cast into the Sea and to the Fig-tree No fruit grow on thee henceforth and it shall come to pass for if the divine Mercury liveth and is manifest in the Spirit then when the Spirit of the Souls Will imagineth into any thing Mercury also goeth along with it in the Imagination and enkindleth the Mercury fast apprehended in Death viz. the Similitude of God or the Manifestation wherewith the living God hath made himself manifest 50. I know and see that the Mocker in the Devils Vizard will yet bring my writing into a misapprehension and make me more dark and doubtful because I write of the inward and outward Mercury and understand by the inward the Word of God or the Divine Voyce viz. the Manifestation of the Eternity of the Abyss and by the outward Mercury I understand the Officer in Nature viz. the Instrument which the inward living powerful Word or divine Voyce useth wherewith it formeth and worketh Now the Sophister will falsely interpret it and say That I mix them both together making no difference and hold Nature for God as Babel hath already done unto me But I bid him view my words well and learn to understand them aright for I speak sometimes from the Heavenly Mercury and see that only and then presently I name the Instrument of the Heavenly therefore let him have regard unto the sence I write not Heathenishly but Theosophically from a higher Ground then the outward Faber is and then also from the same CHAP. IX Of the Signature shewing how the Internal doth Sign the External 1. THe whole outward visible World with all its Being is a Signature or Figure of the inward spiritual World whatsoever is Internally and howsoever its operation is so likewise it hath its Character externally like as the Spirit of each Creature doth set
the Expressed Word must have a Tincturation from the outward expressed Love and Light unless the Will-spirit of the Soul doth wholly re-enter into the inward hidden Man and be again transmuted and then the Cure may be again introduced into the outward Man being the through-shining Love of God in the Light which is exceeding precious 71. But now this Herb is rarely to be found upon the Earth for men do eat only of the forbidden Tree therefore the Poyson of the Serpent doth so spring up in them in the Wrath of the eternal and external Nature so that they must also have an external Cure for their Serpents Poyson in the outward Mercury 72. It is indeed Possible for a man to live without sickness but he must bring the divine Tincturation from the inward Man through the outward which is very difficult to do in the World for the outward Man liveth amongst the thorns of Gods Wrath which gall and sting him on every side and blow up the Wrath of God so that it burneth in the outward Man and then the Tincturation of Gods Love may not continue there it is indeed there but not in the outward enkindled Abominations but it dwelleth in it self like as the Light dwelleth in the Darkness and the Darkness comprehends it not also knoweth nothing thereof but when the Light is manifest in the Darkness then is the Night changed into Day 73. Thus it is likewise with Man of what Light Man liveth of that also cometh his Cure if he liveth in the outward World then the outward Goodness and Love viz. the outward Jupiter and Venus with the Sun must be his Cure or he remaineth in the Angry Mars and in the poysonful Mercury in the earthly Moon captived in the Impression of Saturn viz. in the earthly Sulphur which however is made manifest and awakened in the outward Man by Adam for whose sake the outward Man must dye putrifie and so enter again into the Nothing viz. into the End or as I might better say and signifie it into the beginning of the Creation into the Essence out of which it went and departed with Adam CHAP. X. Of the inward and outward Cure of Man 1. LEt the Lover of God understand us aright We do not go upon an Historical Heathenish Conjecture but only and alone upon the Light of the outward Nature both Suns shine unto us Understand us aright and see how God hath Cured Man when the Poyson of the Serpent and Devil held him imprisoned in Death and how he yet still cureth the poor Soul captivated in Gods Anger the like Process also must the Physician keep in curing the outward body 2. The divine Light and Love was extinguished in Adam because he Imagined into the Serpents property viz. into Evil and Good so that the Poyson of Death began effectually to work in Mercury and the Source of Anger was inflamed in the eternal Mars and the dark Impression of the eternal Natures property took possession of him his body became Earth in the dark Impression in the Poyson of the enkindled Mercury and was an enmity against God he was utterly undone and there was no remedy for him by any Creature neither in Heaven nor in this World the wrathful Death captivated him in Soul and Body 3. Now how did God do to Cure him and Tincture him again did he take a strange thing thereunto No! He took the Likeness and cured him with that what was corrupted in him viz. with the divine Mercury and with the divine Venus and with the divine Jupiter understand in Man was the Expressed Word which I call the Eternal Mercury in Man for it the true ruling acting Life it was inspired or in-spoken into Mans Image which God created out of his Essence into an Image according to God as into a Creatural Image which was the Soul with the Property of all the Three Worlds viz. with the World of Light and Understanding which is God and with the Fire World which is the Eternal Nature of the Father of all Beings and with the Light Love-World which is Heavenly Corporality for in the Love-desire is the Essence viz. the Corporality 4. The Desire of Love is Spirit and is the Heart of God viz. the right divine Understanding In the Love-Essence Mercury is Gods Word and in the fiery Nature he is the Wrath of God the Original of all Mobility and Enmity also of Strength and Omnipotence the fiery Property maketh the Light viz. the Liberty desirous so that the Nothing is a Desire and this Desire is the Love of God which Adam did extinguish in him for he Imagined after Evil and God that is after Earthliness the Earthliness came forth into a Being both out of the Wrath and out of the Love-Being and that through Gods Motion that the Wonders of the Abyss and Byss might be made manifest that Good and Evil might be made known and manifest and this Adam being the Image of God should not do for God had created him unto his Image He should have Tinctured the Fire-World and outward World with the Word of Love that so none of them should be manifest in him like as the day holdeth the night avalled in it self 5. But by false Imagination he hath awakened and manifested the dark and poysonful Mercurial Fire-World in him so that his bodily Essence of the dark Impression is fallen unto the evil Part in the poysonful Mercurial Property and the Soul is become manifest in the Eternal Nature in the Fathers Fire-property viz. in the poysonful hateful Mercury according to which God calleth himself an angry zealous God and a consuming fire 6. Now to help and restore this again viz. the Image of God God must take the right Cure and even the same which Man was in his innocency But how did he effect it Behold O Man behold and see open thy Understanding thou art called 7. He introduced the holy Mercury in the Love-flame viz. in the fiery Love with the Desire of the divine Essentiality or after the divine Essentiality which Desire maketh divine Corporality in it self again into the Expressed Word viz. into the Mercurial Fire-Soul understand into the Souls Essence in the Womb of Mary and became again that same Image of God He Tinctured the Poyson viz. the Wrath of the Father of all Essences with the Love-fire He took only even that same Mercury which he had breathed into Adam for an Image and formed into a Creature He took only that same property yet not in the Fires property but in the burning Love He did with the Love introduce again the Light of the Eternal Sun into the humane property that he might Tincture the Wrath of the enkindled Mercury in the humane property and inflame it with Love that the humane Jupiter viz. the divine Understanding might again appear and be manifest 8. Ye Physicians if ye here understand nothing then ye are captivated in the Poyson of
its refreshment in Love then all the seven Forms do manifest themselves in this Property as came to pass in the Process of Christ in his Miracles but as yet they are not perfect in the operation of their Properties manifestation 19. The Universal is not yet there until all seven do give their Will into One and forsake their property in the Wrath and depart from it with their Will and take into them the Loves-property they must take in the Will of the Nothing that their will be a Nothing and then it can subsist in the Wrath of the Fire and there is no further Turba therein for so long as the Desire of the Wrath is in the Form it is adverse and opposite unto the second Form and enflameth the second Form with its wrathful property that is it striketh the Signature of the second and awakeneth it in the Wrath and then the voyce or sound of the second enkindleth the first Forms property in Mercury and so no Form can attain unto any perfection that it might enter into Love 20. Therefore the Artist can effect nothing unless he gives a Meat unto the Forms which they all do desire and love to eat wherein there is no Turba now the Properties cannot eat being their mouth is frozen up in the Impression of Saturn the Artist must first open their mouth and make them alive in their Zeal that all the Forms may be hungry and then if there be Manna they do all eat together thereof and so the precious grain of mustard-seed is sown 21. Now when Mercury doth thus awake from the Death of the Impression of Saturn and gets Manna into the mouth of his property of the poysonful Deaths-Source then ariseth the Flagrat of the Kingdom of Joy for it is as a Light which is enkindled in the Darkness for the Joy or Love springeth up in the midst of the Anger Now if Mercury apprehends the glimpse or aspect of the Love in Mars then the Love dismayeth the Wrath and it is as a Transmutation but it is not fixt and stedfast and as soon as this cometh to pass the Angelical Properties do appear in view and ken The Process in the Temptation 22. Jesus was led by the Spirit into the Wilderness and the Devil came unto him and tempted him When the Soul of Christ did hunger the Devil said unto Jesus Open the Centre in the Stones that is the Impressed Mercury and make thee Bread eat the Substance of the Souls property what wilt thou eat of nothing viz. of the speaking Word Eat of the expressed Word viz. of the property of Good and Evil and then thou art Lord in both this also was Adams bit wherein he did eat Death Then said Christ Jesus Man liveth not by bread alone but by every word which proceedeth from the mouth of God 23. Mark Whence had the Person of Christ the Will that he would not eat with the Souls Hunger of the Bread which could have been made of stones which he could well have performed Or how had it been if the Hunger of the humane Property had after the Unction of Baptism here eaten in the Temptation of the Mercury in the Impression of Death viz. of the Sulphur of the expressed Word in which was the Anger and from whence the Love was fled as it is so in the earthly Property 24. Observe The Will and Desire to eat of the Speaking Word came into the Souls property from the Motion of the Deity when as the same had moved it self in the Soulick Essence shut up in Death in Mary his Mother in her Essence or Seed and introduced the Aspect of the Eye of God in the Love into the dead Souls Essence and had manifested the Love in Death then one Divine Property desired the other and the Desire of the bodily Hunger to eat of Gods Bread or Essence came from the Baptism When the Water of the Body which in the Impression of the Substance was enclosed in Death did taste the Water of eternal Life in the holy Spirit viz. the holy Spirits Corporality or Essentiality in the Baptism then the Incentive of the divine Hunger of the Ardent Desire after Gods Essence did arise in the flesh as a divine Hunger a glimmering or shining Incentive of Divine Property 25. Now the Man Christ must hereupon be tempted in Body and Soul of which he would eat on one part the Expressed Word of Love and Anger was represented before Body and Soul in which the Devil would be Lord and Master and rule therein omnipotently and on the other part the Speaking Word in the Love property was only represented to the Soul and Body 26. Here now began the Combate which Adam should have undergone in Paradise for on one side Gods Love-desire which had manifested it self in the Soul did eagerly attempt the Soulick and bodily property and introduced its Desire into the Souls property that the Soul should eat thereof and give the Body Manna thereof and on the other side the Devil in Gods wrathful property did assault in the Souls property and brought his Imagination into the property of the first Principle viz. into the Centre of the dark World which is the Souls Fire-life 27. Here was the Contest about the Image of God whether it would live in Gods Love or Anger in the Fire or Light for the property of the Soul as to its Fire-life was the Fathers according to the Fire-world and being the Soul in Adam had quenched the Light-world the Light-world was again incorporated with the Name Jesus which came to pass in the Conception of Mary 28. Now it was here tryed in the Temptation of which property man would live whether of the Fathers in the Fire or of the Sons in the Light of Love Here the whole property of Christs Person was Tempted The Devil said as he had also said unto Adam Eat of the Evil and Good Hast thou not Bread then make Bread of Stones why dost thou Hunger so long in thy own Property Then said the Divine Desire Man liveth not of Bread alone but of Every Word of God 29. Thus the property of the fiery Soul resigned it self with its Desire into the Love viz. into the Speaking Words property and the fiery Desire did eat Manna in the Love-desire O ye Philosophers observe it well when this was done the Love transmuted the fiery property into its Love-property here the Father gave the Fire-Soul unto the Son understand the fiery property of the Expressed Mercury to the Speaking Mercury in the Light for Christ also said so afterwards Father the men were thine and thou hast given them me and I give unto them Eternal Life 30. Here Gods Love gave the Eternal Love-Life to the Corrupted Humanity the Love did wholly give it self in unto the Fire-wrath and transmuted the Wrath of the Soul into a Triumphant joyful Love but if the Souls and Bodies property had obeyed the Devil in Gods
four Elements but to the Eternal Fathers Nature in the walm of the pure Divine Element the life of the outward world dyed 5. Thus the true Humane Life fell forth-with again into that place whence Adam had brought it viz. into Paradise whereupon Christ said to the Thief To day thou shalt be with me in Paradise it fell into Adams death whereby he dyed unto Paradise and sprang up in Adams Death as a new creature out of the old like as the branch springeth from the Corn and this it did from the might and power of the Speaking Word which of grace was entered with living essentiality into the disappeared Heavenly Essentiality of man and had freely given it self into the Centre of the Soul-like nature and also into the wrath of the Anger and Death in the Flesh and changed the Anger into Love and tinctured the corrupt blood in the Anger with the Love 6. The Divine Tincture Tinctured the Humane the Divine Sun entered into the Humane the Divine Sun entred into Adams night viz. into Adams sleep Gods Sun with the Name Jesus entred with Adams Soul and Humanity in Christs person into death understand into Adams sleep 7. When Christ dyed then Adam dyed also to his Self-hood in Christs death the Name Jesus was in Christ the Serpent-stroyer in Adams Humanity Christ entered into the Image of the first Adam so that the first Adam in the Humanity of Christ did become the same Christ and Serpent-stroyer indeed not in the same Creature but in the same Souls and Bodies property 8. The first Adam fell into Sleep viz. into the impotence of the Divine World and dyed in the death of Death the second Adam entered into the death of Death and took the death of Death captive in Himself viz. in the Humanity of Adam He was a death to Death and brought forth the Life out of Death into the Eternal Liberty He arose in the Divine Omnipotence in the Essence of the first Adam Gods Spirit in the Speaking Eternal Word brought forth Adam out of death in Christs Humanity Adam did arise in Christs Humanity and all the Children of Adam which are partakers of Christs Kingdom do arise in Christ all in Christs Flesh and Blood Soul and Spirit but every one in his Creature which he hath had here and mortified in Christs death 9. Every one is a particular twig but there is only one Tree which is Christ in Adam and Adam in Christ only One not two only one Christ in all Christians so that I may say If I be dead in Christ unto the World I am the same Christ viz. a branch on the same Tree 10. But seeing that I in the outward man do yet live in my Self-hood therefore I must also dye with the outward man in Christs death and arise and live in him Now therefore I live with the Will of Faith in the mind in Christ and am a Christian in the Will of the Mind in the desire of Faith and receive Christ with his Humanity into my Will and cast my Will into his death and thus my inward man is also dead in Christs death and liveth no longer to Self-hood but I am resigned in him and lie buried in his death but being He is arisen in Gods Will I also live in His Resurrection in Him but my Earthliness in its Selfness liveth to the Earthly World until it also dyeth quite to Self-hood and entereth into the Resignation and Putrifaction and then Christ will awaken it through my inward man which now liveth in Him 11. Like as he is arisen from the Dead even so shall I who shall dye to the Earthliness in Him viz. in my first Father Adam in the Name Jesus as a Christian in Christ my twig withered in Sin on the Tree shall obtain strength and sap in the Name Jesus to life I shall and must spring forth afresh with my Humanity in Him as in my Stem who is become a Heart and Power in my Father Adam and bring forth fruit to the praise of God 12. My Will-spirit which now is in Christs Humanity and liveth in Christs Spirit that shall in Christs power give Sap to the dry tree that it shall again arise at the last day in the sound of the Trumpet of the Divine Breath in Christs voyce which also is my voyce in his Breath and spring afresh in the Tree Christ viz. in Paradise the Paradise shall be in me all whatsoever God hath and is shall appear in me as a Form and Image of the Divine Worlds being all colours powers and vertues of his Eternal Wisdom shall be manifest in me and on me as on his likeness I shall be the manifestation of the Spiritual Divine World and an instrument of Gods Spirit wherein he maketh melody with Himself with this Voyce which I my self am as with his Signature I shall be his Instrument and Organ of his expressed Word and voyce and not only I but all my fellow-members in the glorious Tuned Instrument of God we are all strings in his Joyful Consort the spirit of his mouth doth strike the tune and note on our strings 13. And therefore God became Man that he might again repair his glorious Instrument which he has made for his praise which perished as to him and would not sound according to the desire of his joy and Love and did introduce again the true Love-sound into the strings yea he hath introduced the voyce which soundeth in his presence again into us viz. into his Instrument he is become that I am and hath made me that which he is so that I may say that I am in my Resignation in him his Trumpet and the sound of his Instrument and Divine voyce at which now I do rejoyce in all my fellow-strings and voyces which with me are tuned and set as an Eternal work unto the praise and glory of God 14. Thus know ye now my Fellow-voyces in the praise of God that I sound with my string played upon in the Spirit upon and in your Note and thus sing I unto you that whatsoever Jesus hath done through the Christ viz. through his and my Humanity the same he doth yet to day in me and in all my fellow-members he dyed to my Self-hood in his death and I also dye to my self-hood in his death He is given up to his Resignation in God his Father and God his Father hath araised him up with the spirit of his mouth in him and set him forth for the Royal Image according to the holy Trinity through and with whom God will judg all things in the place of this World 15. Thus God also hath awakened in him my Spirit and Soul through his Spirit in the great Name Jesus in Christ so that I in my Resignation in him need not to dye for he dyed in me and for me his death in that he is arisen from death is become my Eternal life so that now I live in his
four Elements viz. into the Centre of Darkness in the Creation whence Heat and Cold ariseth 24. His Desire in the beginning was bent inclined into the Liberty of God viz. into the Element where he was Resigned in God and then Gods Love-will ruled him with the free Lubets property but he departed out of the free Lubet of God out of the Resignation into a Self-ful Will which he forged in the Centre to Nature whence the Pain and Torture doth arise viz. Heat and Cold so also astringency sowre bitterness and all the Properties of the dark Impression 25. Even there he fell into the Eternal Death viz. into the dying Source in which the Mercurial Life in the Sulphur ruleth in the Poyson where one Form in the Mercurial Sphere doth envy hate annoy and destroy the other where there is meer Anguish Aking Tormenting and Enmity for the free Lubet was quenched in him wherein the holy Element viz. the divine Body doth consist and there arose in the same pure Element the four Elements of the outward Source even there the Image of God was cursed which is nothing else but that Gods Love-will which ruled in the Image of his likeness did withdraw from man and so man fell into the Dominion of Nature and being the four Elements have a temporal beginning and end and must again enter into the End therefore also the humane Body which is now become wholly earthly in the four Elements must fall again into the four Elements and be destroyed therein and therefore now we are to consider of his Cure and Restoration how he may again be delivered from Death and he again introduced with the Body into the Pure Element and with the Spirit into the Dominion of Gods Will. 26. Now there is no other remedy save that he with the Spirit which ariseth in the Chaos and was inspired by Gods Will-spirit into the created Image doth again depart out of his self-hood viz. out of his natural Will and resign himself up fully and freely into the first Will which in the beginning formed him into an Image He must wholly dye to his self-hood in himself in the Death of the dark Impression so far as he liveth therein to his own will in the self-desire of the outward life of the four Elements and cast himself with total Resignation into Gods Will viz into Gods Mercy that he may no longer live and will to himself but unto God viz. to the first Will of God which created him in its Image whereby God did manifest himself in an Image and so he is with the first Astrum viz with the Chaos of the Soul again in the same comprehension wherein God created him unto his Image 27 But seeing the Self-hood viz. the self-ful Will doth strive against this and will in no wise dye to its Self-hood understand by Self-hood the Will of the outward World which is from the outward Stars and four Elements therefore Gods food must be given to the inward Will of the Spirit to eat of that it may live without need and Hunger as to the outward Being that it may continually mortifie and break the Will of the earthly Self-hood until the Earthliness viz. the earthly Body doth freely unloose or dissolve it self in Death and also enter again into the Mother whence it was created and forsake its self-hood that the pure Body of the Element in which the true Life in Gods Will-spirit doth again enkindle the Soul in the Resigned Will and the disappeared Body from the Pure Element may become a mansion of the Soul viz. a Paradisical Budding or bloomy Renovation in the Eternal Spring-time of Paradise 28. And that the own Will of the Soul might be able to do this viz. that it might break it self off from its self-hood and willingly enter into the Death of its self-hood and become a Nothing in its self-hood the free Will of God viz. the Eternal Lubet to the Chaos of the Soul which is the Eternal Mercury in the Power of the Majesty is again entered into the disappeared Image of God proceeded from the Pure Element viz. into the Virgin-like life and draweth the Will of the Soul to it self and giveth it again cut of Love and Grace the Heavenly Corporality of the pure Element for Food and the Water in that Element in the Tincture of the Fire and Light viz. of the Eternal Life for Drink and hath encorporated it self in the Humanity and freely tendereth it self to all Souls with full desire that Soul which dyeth to its self hood and bringeth its Hunger again into Gods Mercy may enjoy this food whereby it doth again become the first Creature in Gods Love 29. Now we are to Consider how the poor Soul captivated in Gods Anger being devoyd of the heavenly food doth live in meer anguish and distress and restless pain as the outward earthly body in its properties doth live in its Hunger in meer anguish distress and oppressing pain unless that the Soul with the Pure Element doth so over-power and keep it under that it doth not fully domineer in its own Dominion of the outward Astrum and four Elements in the poysonful Mercurial Wheel according to the dark Impression by reason of the Influence of the Element if that the Universal doth withstand it then it may stand in quiet rest but yet no longer then the inward doth Penetrate the outward body and Tincture it There is in the four Elements no perfection till the body is changed again into the Pure Element therefore it must enter again into that whence the four Elements do arise 30. Now in this time of the four Elements there is meer pain and Vexation the Soul amuseth it self on the outward Astrum which doth force into it whence its false Imagination doth arise and the body doth stir up the poysonful Mercurial Wheel whence sickness and pains befall it therefore the Soul must be cured with the Inward Perfection viz. by the Speaking Word wherein it standeth in Gods Hand which alone is able to Tincture the Soul and bring it into rest the outward Body must be tinctured and healed with the expressed Mercury and of the outward Mercury doth also stand in the Curse as a Poyson-wheel then he must be tinctured with his own light in his Mother in the Body or Womb of Sulphur Mercury his own Will and Hunger must be broken that the envious odious Hunger may become a Love-desire 31. And now to knâ—w how this may be brought to pass we must consider the generation in Sulphur whence Joy and Sorrow doth arise for the poysonfuâ— Mercury may not otherwise be resisted and also nothing can resist it save its own Mother which brings it forth in whose Womb it is couched as nothing can resist the cold but the heat only and yet the heat is the colds Son even so also the poysonful Mercury must be resisted with its own child which he himself doth generate in
with the Stars and Elements as an Extern Birth out of the Mother of all Essences all which proceeded out of the Eternal Beginning and took a Temporal Beginning for here we are to consider that the Eternal Pregnatress moved it self and enkindled its own Form or Similitude where then the one became Corporeal in the other but afterward God created the Earth which we are thus to consider of c. 33. The first desire to Nature impresseth it self and introduceth it self with the Impression into three Forms viz. into Sulphur Mercury and Sal and in the Impression all become rising and moving which is not in the Still Nothing and so forceth it self even into the highest Anguish even unto the Salnitral Flagrat where then is the Original of the Fire Thus the Source whirleth in it self as a boyling of water upon the fire for the Austere Desire is attractive and the fiery is expulsive which is a Sulphur and the Astringent Attraction is a wrathful Sting or Compunction viz. a Contrition and yet it is held by the Austereness that it cannot move away whereupon it is painful and causeth pain as if it were wheeling or seething which yet is only Spirit without Essence which cometh to pass in Mercury and is Mercury his own form 34. And there is the Separation of two Wills viz. one remaineth and is the very anxious Essence being it originally ariseth from the Desire the other which ariseth out of the Lubet of the Liberty retireth back again into it self into the Liberty and yet there is no parting sundering or dividing from one another but thus it goeth one with another all along through the enkindling of the fire through the Salnitral Flagrat where with the enkindling of the fire the death is effected in the wrath of the fire where the Source dyeth and yet there is no death but a likeness of death and yet the real eternal and temporal Death is in that wise even there the Liberty apprehendeth it self in it self and the Death or Flagrat falleth down into the Liberty as impotent and freely resigns it self and the Spirit viz. the Source understand the very sharp fiery anxious Source becomes material and retaineth only an essential working like to an impotent desire and in the enkindling of the fire in the Salnitral Flagrat each Property severeth it self in it self and the whole Materia is particularized viz. to metals stones and earth 35. The highest Metal as Gold ariseth from the Liberty which is comprized all along in the Flagrat in the Astringent Impressure and it is not free from the Materia of the Rest for all is comprized or enwrapt up together but being the Liberty with the Sul or Lights property is comprized or comprehended therein also thereupon Sul is expulsive to the manifestation of it self as 't is the property of the Liberty so to be Hence it comes that metals grow and not the gross hard stones which are too hard comprized in the Impression out of the wrathful Essentiality and have too little Sul in them 36. But as concerning the precious Stones with their radiant Lustre and great Vertue the same have their Original in the flash of the Fire where Life and Death Separate as when one part by reason of the dark Essentiality descends and the other by reason of the Liberty ascends and yet all is brought into Essence in the Flagrat so that the same flash or glance becomes also material in the Flagrat and therefore they are hard and of a blinking glance like an Eye for so also is the original of the Eye or Sight in the Womb when the Life enkindleth all according to the Right of Eternity 37. And therefore they are of so great Power Efficacy and Vertue in that they are so nigh to the Deity and bear the incorporated Names of the divine Power in them as also Gold is nigh unto the divine Essentiality or heavenly Corporality if man could open or disclose the dead Body and reduce it to a flying moving Spirit which only can be effected through the Divine Motion then it should be seen what it could be which no Reason beleeveth or understandeth without divine Sight or Vision 38. Further we are also to consider of the other Metals and Minerals which in like manner do thus take their Original but in the Salnitral Flagrat each property is severed as we see that the property of the Fire and Light is divers and all from the first Impression where before the Impression the Lubet and Desire of the Liberty stand mutually in each other as a Chaos a Complexion of great Wonders where all Colours Powers and Vertues are contained in this only CHAOS or Wonder-Eye which CHAOS is God himself viz. the Being of all Beings who thus manifesteth himself in Particular Beings with the Eyes of Eternity each Materia is an Essence according to the Spirit whence it was generated and if it be enkindled in the Fire it yeeldeth likewise such a Light as the Spirit is in the Essence 39. And thus also we are to consider of the Metals what kind of Spirit each of them hath such a Glance and Lustre it yeeldeth and also such a Body it hath 40. As the mind acteth and moveth the thoughts and senses from the highest to the lowest and comprehends and commands by the thoughts from the highest to the lowest even so the Eternal Mind hath manifested it self from the highest Majesty even to the lowermost meanest or outermost thing viz. unto the greatest Darkness and this World with the Sun Stars and Elements and with every Creatural Being is nothing else but a Manifestation of the Eternity of the Eternal Will and Mind and as it was in the beginning so it still standeth in its Sude and Vegetation and so it still putteth forward to Light and Darkness to Evil and Good and all things consist in these first three Forms viz. in Sulphur Mercury and Sal as one degree orderly after another for so likewise are the Quires of the Spirits also of the Stars Trees Herbs and of all kinds whatsoever have been and are so also the inward Heavenly Quires with their distinction CHAP. IV. Of the Birth of the Stars and four Elements in the Metalline and Creatural Property 1. AS is before mentioned All Things proceed out of One only Mother and sever themselves into two Essences according to the Right of Eternity viz. into a Mortal and an Immortal into Life and Death into Spirit and Body the Spirit is the Life and the Body is the Death viz. a House of the Spirit as the holy Trinity standeth in the Birth so also the extern Birth There is likewise Essence and Spirit in Heaven a figure whereof we see in this outward World where there are four Elements and yet there is but one only Element which severs it self into four Properties viz. into Fire Ayr Water and Earth as is above mentioned 2. For so
Original whereof is this That the Love is a Desire and desireth onely Light and Joy for the Materia is made out of the Desires Property But if the Love-desire shall come to be corporeal in the Impression then it must resign it self to the wrathful Fiat viz. to Mars his Desire in the fire or in the fiery Property for the Saturnine Property taketh all into its might and maketh it Corporeal 39. Therefore the Metal of Venus is so nigh allyed to gold by reason of her own Property from the Liberty but Mars makes it too wrathful and too spreud and because it separates it self out of Mars his fire it retaineth a great part of Mars his Property in it 40. Mars his Metal is Iron for he is the Wrath in Sulphur in which the fire enkindleth and ariseth his Original with the Materia is in the Austereness of the Desire Copper doth sever it self in the Generation out of Iron for it Ariseth from the Will of Venus and they differ as Body and Soul for Mars is the Fire soul of Venus and maketh Venus Corporeal else Venus as to her own Property giveth onely water in the mortification in the Salnitral Flagrat for her fire is onely a pleasant Shine Smile or Love-fire as she is alone devoyd of other mixture and therefore she cannot produce any Corporeal Essence from her own Power and Ability which is hard and tough she is onely the Mother to her childe without a creatural Soul Mars is her Soul and Saturn maketh her Body 41. The spirit of Sol may Tincture Mars and Venus and change them into the highest Metalline Perfection viz. into Gold which cannot so easily be effected in Silver unless it be reduced into the first Maetria where Saturn Mars and Mercury are together in the Sulphur and then it can be done Venus receiveth its toughness from Saturn and its redness from Mars as the fire 42. Now the Desire of Venus is onely Eager and longing after Sol as after her first Mother whence she springeth forth in her Birth in the first Original for the Love cometh forth originally from God and so it is likewise in the extern Birth in the Figure The Desire of Venus goeth into Sol into the Sun and receiveth in its Desire the Property of the Sun and shineth from Sol she hath a very Peculiar Shine and Lustre above all the Planets and Stars which she receiveth from her Mother and in her Mothers Power consists her Joy viz. the Pleasant Twinkling Smiling Aspect which she hath in her she is in her own Property as she is purely alone without the property of the other Planets a real Daughter of the Sun understand in Sulphur where all is enwrapt together therefore she standeth next under the Sun as a childe of the Sun not that the Sun did generate that Star for he is likewise created with her but in the Sulphur without the Creation meerly in the Generation it is so both in the Heavenly and Earthly Being or Principle 43. For God the Father Generateth the Love through his Heart now the Sun by way of similitude betokeneth his Heart for it is a figure in the outward World according to the Eternal Heart of God which giveth strength and vertue to every Life and Essence 44. And understand it aright As All things proceed from the Word and Heart of God which is the Divine Sulphur in the Birth of the holy Trinity and manifest themselves in and through the Proceeded or Egressed Essence which is Gods Wisdom and yet again do eagerly force and press out of the Egress in and towards his Heart and Power and vehemently long after it as Paul saith all Creatures do groan and pant with us to be delivered from Vanity 45. So also doth the outward Essence in the outward Birth of Metals Planets Stars and Creatures Each thing longeth after its Center viz. after its first Mother whence it proceeded viz. after the Sun in Sulphur for it is the Tincture of all Essences Whatsoever the first Desire with the Impression in Saturn maketh Evil in the Wrath of Mars that the Sun turns again into good As the Divine Sun Tinctureth the Anger or Wrath of God so that the wrathful Property of Gods Anger is changed into a Joyfulness so likewise the outward Sun Tinctureth the outward Sulphur viz. Saturn and Mars that there is a pleasant Temperature viz. a growth springing and blooming in all Metals and Creatures therefore the Sun is the Center which Reason will not beleeve understand in the Planetick Orb and in all Vegetables and Animals CHAP. V. Of the Sulphurean Death and how the dead Body is revived and replaced into its first Glory 1. ALl Life and Motion with Understanding Reason and Senses both in Animals and Vegetables consist originally in Sulphur viz. in Natures Desire and in the Lubets Desire of the Liberty 2. In Natures Desire ariseth the Death and Enclosing and in the Desire of the Liberty ariseth the Opening and the Life for the Liberties Desire Tinctureth the Desire of the dark Nature so that the wrathful Mother foregoeth her own Right and freely resigneth to the Liberties Desire and so the Life groweth in Death for there is no Life without Light but if the Light goeth out in the Essence of the Sulphur then it is an Eternal Death which no man can revive except God move himself in the Lubet-desire in the same Death for Death can receive no Life into it unless the first Desire viz. the free Lubets Desire doth manifest it self in the Desire to Nature wherein the Enclosing and Death is generated 3. Therefore when Man dyed in the Sulphur none could have made him alive again unless the Free Lubet viz. the Desire to the Eternal Life did again enter into his Phur viz. into the Birth of the Nature of the humane Property and moved the enclosed Death viz. the Center of Nature and give it self again into the Center viz. into the Soulike Property and into the Souls Essentiality and Corporality and this was so brought to pass 4. We know that the right Sulphur is a generation of all Spirituality and Corporality so far as concerneth its first Original where it is heavenly it is the Generation of the Essence of all Essences For all whatsoever Eternity and Time is in it self hath and is able to effect lieth in this Birth But now as to the Kingdom of this World it is earthly viz. a figure of the Eternal for in it the Time and Creature consist and all whatsoever is visible and invisible 5. Now Man and every Life also as to the Kingdom of this World was created and generated out of the outward Sulphur Man out of the inward and outward Sulphur and the outward Creature onely out of the outward for Man is an Image and likeness of God and the other Creatures are as a Similitude according to the Figuration in the internal Generation in Gods Wisdom viz. in the expressed or
property be broken by Mercury in the Oyl of Meekness then the Love of the Light doth incline it self also into the Oyl for the Original of both is from one Will but it is altered in the Impression As the Devil when he was an Angel changed himself into a poysonous devilish property and Adam out of an heavenly into an earthly property 21. Whatsoever groweth liveth and moveth in this World consisteth in Sulphur and Mercury is the Life in Sulphur and the Salt is the Corporeal Being of Mercury his Hunger albeit the Body is manifold according as the property of the Brimstone and Salt is according to the same property is also the ingrafted Oyl which springeth up all along in the Power for the Oyl maketh the Power or vertual Influence in each thing In the Oyl of the Impression viz in the Impressed Oyl is the other Oyl viz. the Spiritual which gives us Light but it hath another Principle it receiveth no other Source into it but the Lubet of Love it is divine Essentiality therefore Gods own Essence is nigh unto all things but not essentially in all things it hath another Principle and yet inclineth it self to all things so far as the thing hath any thing of the divine property in it it receiveth vertue from the divine property be it either a Vegetable or Animal for there are Herbs and Trees and also Creatures to be found in which something of the divine Power is couched wherewith in the Magical Cure the false Magick viz. the corrupt evil Oyl can be resisted and changed into a good Oyl 22. All sharpness of taste is Salt let it be whatsoever it will in this World nothing excepted and all Smell proceedeth from the Brimstone and Mercury is the Distinguisher in all motion or affection both in the smell power and taste but I understand by my Mercury the Sphere of the Birth of all Essences as is before mentioned not a dead Mercury but a living one viz. the Strongest according to the property of the dry Poyson c. 23. Now it doth behove the Artist and Physician to know these things else he cannot Cure any sickness or disease unless he hits on it by chance if he knoweth not wherewith the Oyl is poysoned in the body and what kind of Hunger Mercury hath in the sickness and after what he hungreth for if he may obtain the Salt according to the property of his Hunger after which he is desirous with such an Oyl as he fain would have then is the sickness over very presently for he turneth his Oyl again into the property of the Love of the Light whereupon the Life begins again to shine bright 24. For every disease in the body is nothing else but a corruption or poysoning of the Oyl where-from the Lifes-light burneth or shineth for when the Light of the Life shineth or burneth clear in the Oyl it doth expel and drive away all poysonful influences and operations as the day expelleth the night 25. For if the Oyl out of which the Life burneth be infected or inflamed with a poysonful Mercury or Salt let it be done either from the Constellation or Salt of Meat viz. from a contrary Source whereby a loathing or nauseous detestation ariseth in the oyl which the Oyl would always spue out whereunto Mercury doth help then Mercury doth eagerly travel and perplex it self in the Sulphrous fire more and more and continually laboureth to drive forth the Abominate but doth only inflame it self in it self in this austere Endevor and more more enkindle its inward Form whereupon the Oyl groweth more dark and poysonful until at last the Oyl becomes wholly waterish and earthly and then the Light and also the Fire extinguisheth and Mercury with the Sulphrous Spirit departs from it as when a Candle is put out Thus Mercury passeth out with the Sulphrous Spirit in Deaths baneful Steam until he also be famished for a time he may help himself in the Syderial Body which passeth along with it but when Mercury in the Spirit of the Great World hath consumed and starved its property then is the Temporal Life wholly gone for so soon as the Light of the Vital Oyl extinguisheth the Elemental Body falleth down into putrefaction viz. into the Fiat whence it came to be and then this Time endeth in the Creature which is the Death Dying or Departure and from thence there is no Deliverance or Return unless the heavenly divine Mercury doth once more move it self in him which yet cannot be except there hath bin a good property of the Oyl in him viz from the divine Essentiality in this property which is capable of the divine Essentiality the Light doth only enkindle it self again 26. For the divine Essentiality or this heavenly Mercury changeth the dead Oyl again into his and becomes its Life for the outward Mercury which hath ruled the Life returns not again it hath only been for a time a Mirror of the Eternal but he is changed into another Source for being suffocated he passeth again into the Mystery whence he at first proceeded in the Creation of the World and the body also goeth into the same Mystery 27. Thus it remaineth and belongeth yet to another motion of the Deity viz. to a Separating where the Evil wherein the Death was shall be separated from the Good and the Verbum Fiat shall restore and bring forth that which hath fallen into it in Death 28. The Physician is to know that in the strongest Mercury which is most poysonful the highest Tincture lieth but not in Mercury his own property which must be broken for his own property even from the Centre is the anxious poysonful Life but he hath another property in him viz. an Oyl from the Light whereby he is so strong and potent which is his food and preservation if this may be severed from him it becomes a Tincturing and mighty Enkindling of all obscured Lives viz. of all Diseases and Sicknesses for in this Oyl lieth the joyful Life and it is an Hunger after Life viz. that it might enkindle the weak and lift it up on high 29. In a Toad Viper or Adder or the like poysonful Beasts Worms or Insects the highest Tincture is to be found if they be reduced into an oyly Substance and the Wrath of Mercury be severed from them for all Life both external and internal consists in Poyson and Light as we understand that the Wrath and Anger-fire of God is a Cause of the divine Joyfulness The like also we are to know is externally for all Life devoyd of the poysonful Mercury is amort and an abominate and accounted as Dead 30. Now Mercury is an Enkindler of the Fire and every moving Life consists in the Fire and albeit some Creatures dwell in the Water yet Fire is their Life viz. the poyson-gall wherein Mercury manageth the Life but the Water in the Gall is a Poyson wherein an Oyl is hid
Anger nor Death can destroy it 72. It seems strange in the eyes of Reason that God hath kept such a Process with the Restoring of Man in Christ that he appeared in such a poor disesteemed form in the humane Property and was reviled mocked scorned scourged crucified and slain and that he was buried and rose again out of the Grave and walked forty days upon the Earth before he entered into his invisible Kingdom Reason is so blind that it understandeth nothing of the Eternal Birth it knows nothing of Paradise how Adam was in Paradise and how he fell and what the Curse of the Earth is if it understood this the whole Process were manifest to it as the Eternal Birth is in it self so is also the Process with the Restoration after the Fall and so likewise is the Process of the Wisemen with their Philosophers Stone there is not the least tittle of difference betwixt them for all things do Originally Arise out of the Eternal Birth and all must have one Restoration in one and the same manner 73. Therefore if the Magus will seek Paradise in the Curse of the Earth and find it then must he first walk in the Person of Christ God must be manifest in him understand in the internal Man that he may have the Magical Sight He must deal with his Purpose as the World did with Christ and then he may find Paradise wherein is no Death 74. But if he be not in this Birth of Restoration and walketh not himself in the way wherein Christ walked upon the Earth if he steps not forth into the Will and Spirit of Christ then let him give over and leave off his Seeking he findeth nothing but Death and the Curse of God I tell him plainly and faithfully for the Pearl of which I write is Paradisical which God doth not cast before Swine but giveth it to his Children for their play and delight 75. And albeit much might be mentioned here that even Reason might obtain open eyes yet it is not to be done for the wicked would grow worse and more full of pride therefore being he is not worthy of Paradise and also cannot enter thereinto no Heavenly Jewel shall be given him and therefore God doth hide it and permits him to whom he doth reveal it to speak of it no otherwise then Magically therefore none attains it unless he himself be a Magus in Christ unless Paradise be manifest in his internal Man and then he may find if he be thereto born and chosen by God CHAP. VIII Of the fiery Sulphureous Seething of the Earth and how the Growth is in the Earth also of the Separation of the several Kinds of Creatures An open Gate for the Wise Seekers 1. LEt the Reader but consider what before is written concerning the Centre of the Generation of all Essences and then he may easily proceed here All whatsoever is Corporeal let it be either Spirit or Body consisteth in a Sulphrous property the Spirit in such a spiritual Property and the Body out of the Spirit in such a Corporeal property 2. For all things are arisen from the Eternal Spirit as a likeness of the Eternal the invisible Essence which is God and the Eternity hath in its own Desire introduced it self into a visible Essence and manifested it self in a Time so that he is as a Life in the Time and the Time is in him as it were dead as a Master that maketh his work with an Instrument and the Instrument is mute to the Master and yet it is the Making the Master only guides it even so are all things confined into limit measure and weight according to the Eternal Generation and they run on in their Operation and Generation according to the right and property of Eternity 3. And God hath appointed over this great Work only one Master and Protector which can alone manage the Work which is his Officer viz. the Soul of the great World wherein all things lie and he hath appointed a Type of its likeness as the Reason over this Officer which represents unto the Officer what he is to do and make and this is the Understanding viz. Gods own Dominion wherewith he ruleth the Officer Now the Understanding sheweth unto the Officer what the property of each thing is how the Se Veration and Degrees proceed from each other for all things are contained in the Sulphurean Body and Mercury is Sulphurs Life and the Salt is the Impression that preserveth the Body from falling to ashes so that the Spirit is known in a palpable Essence 4. The Property of Mercury is in Sulphur as the boyling of a Water Sulphur is the Water wherein Mercury Seetheth and produceth continually Two Forms out of the Water viz. one Oleous living from the Liberty of the divine Powers property and one Mortal from the dissolution in the Fire in the Salnitral Flagrat 5. The Oyly is in Stones and metals herbs trees beasts and men and the Mortal property is in the Earth in the Water in the Fire and Ayr likewise the Oleous property is in these four Forms viz. in the Earth Water Fire and Ayr as a Spirit or Life and these four Properties are as a dead Body in which the Oyl is a Light or Life whence the Desire viz. the Growth ariseth as a Springing out of the dead Property which is the Vegetative Life a Springing budding and growing out of Death 6. But now the Oyly property could not be a Life if it were not in the Anguish of Death the Anguish maketh it to pullulate or move in that its Will is to fly from and press out of the Anguish and forceth it self eagerly forwards whence the growth ariseth Thus must Death be a cause of the Life that the Life may be stirring or active and therefore Mercury is the true moving Life 7. In the Mortal property he is Evil and is called the Life of Death of Hell and the Anger of God and in the Oyly property he is Good from the efficacy of the Meekness and Liberty of God and he is the Officers Faber whereby the Officer distinguisheth the Degrees in the Vegetative Life severing the living Being from the mortal the heavenly Essentiality from the dead or earthly and orders it into two Kingdoms viz. the Good in the Oleous property into a heavenly Being viz. into a Light and the Mortal part into the Darkness 8. These two Kingdoms are in continual Combate one with another and there is an uncessant wrestling in them as water boyling on the fire each boyleth in its property viz. the Oyly in Joy and Meekness and the Mortal in the Anguish of Darkness and yet one is the cause of the other the Light is the Death and deadly destruction of he Darkness viz. of the Anguish for in the Light the Anguish hath no strength but it changeth it into the exultation of Joyfulness and the cause of Joy else there would be no Joy
themselves externally 36 There are commonly four Colours as White Yellow Red and Green Now according to what colour the fruit as an Apple is most signed accordingly is the Taste also in the Salt as White with a clear thin skin somewhat inclining to dark giveth sweetness which is of Venus property if the sweet Taste be strong and powerful then Jupiter is potent therein but if it be weak and fulsom then the Moon is strong therein but if it be hard and of a brownish colour then Mars is strong therein but if the white colour be of a grayish Brown then Saturn is strong therein Venus maketh a White colour Mars Red and bitter in the Taste Mars maketh Venus her Colour Light Mercury giveth a mixt colour and openeth the green in Mars Jupiter inclineth to blue Saturn to black almost gray the Sun maketh the yellow colour and giveth the right sweetness in the Salt and casteth forth the pleasant smell which takes its rise from Sulphur Saturn maketh astringent sharp and sowre and each property represents it self externally as it is internally in the Dominion so also by the Form or Signature of the leaf or branches 37. Every root as it is in the Earth may be known by the signature to what it is good or profitable even such a Form also hath the Earth and it is discerned in the leaves and stalks which Planet is Lord in the Property much more in the flower for of what taste the Herb and Root is even such an Hunger is in it and such a cure lyeth therein for it hath such a salt The Physician must know what kinde of sickness is arisen in the Body and in what Salt the Loathing is Arisen in Mercury that so He may not administer a further Loathing and Nausea to his Patient for if he giveth him the Herb in whose Property Mercury hath before received a Loathing then he ministreth Poyson to him so that the poyson in the Loathing of the Body doth exceedingly inflame it self in Mercury unless that he burn that Herb to ashes and give it him then the poyson of the Loathing loseth its Might for these ashes are a Death to the poyson of the living Mercury 38. This we finde very effectually in the Magick this also the Physician must know that all Sicknesses do arise from the Lothing in the form of Nature As when one Form in the Life is Superior if then a contrary thing clean opposite to its Property be per-force introduced into it let it be either from the Stars or from the Elements or from the seven Forms of Life then it depriveth this superior or chiefest Form which is the Leader and Ruler of the Life of its strength and power in its Salt then the Mercury of this Superior Form beginneth effectually to work that is to hunger and loath and if he gets not his own peculiar Property understand the bodily Forms which is chief in the Body among the seven Properties or Forms then he enkindleth himself in his own Poyson-Source according to his vital Property and doth so forcibly strive so long till he becomes fiery and then he awaketh his own Mars and his own Saturn which Impress him and consume the flesh of the Body in the Poyson-fire and wholly consume the Oyl of Light even then the Life's Light goeth out and it is past recovery 39. But if the Form of Life wherein Mercury is inflamed in the Loathing in the Anguish and Poyson-Source may obtain that Property into its Hunger of which the Spirit and Body is chief then he obtaineth his own natural food of which he liveth and doth again rejoyce and putteth away the Nauseate and then the Nauseate dissipateth or dissolveth and is spewed out but the Physician must have a care whether or no that thing which he will minister to his Patient be in its Property strong also in the same Essence whence the Nauseate is arisen in the Body 40. As for example A jovial man receiveth a Nauseate for or Loathing from the Lunar property now if the Physician knew that he had so gotten his Nauseate and prepared him a jovial Cure according to the Hunger of his own Spirit or Mercury this now would be right but if the Moons property be strong in the Salt which he would administer for the Nauseate then he gives him a Nauseate but if the jovial Cure be free from the Moon then the jovial Mercury receiveth his own food with great Desire and quitteth the Nauseate And thus it is likewise with Diseases which arise in the Salniter viz. from fear or frighting thereto belongeth also such a Flagrat as the first was and then there is a present Cure or such an Herb wherein the Salniter lieth in such a property as it lieth in that man 41. I know and it is shewn me that the Sophister will cavil at me because I write that the divine Power is in the Fruit that Gods Power doth appropriate it self into the Generation of Nature But hear my dear Friend become seeing I ask thee How was Paradise in this World Was it also manifest in Nature Was it also in the Fruit Was it in the World or without the World Did Paradise stand in Gods Power or in the Elements Was the Power of God manifest in the World or hidden Or what is the Curse of the Earth and the putting of Adam and Eve out of Paradise Then tell me Doth not God dwell also in Time Is not God all in All It is written Am not I he who filleth all things Also Thine is the Kingdom the Power and Glory from Eternity unto Eternity 42. Here consider thy self and leave me uncensured I do not say that the Nature is God much less the fruit proceeding from the Earth but I say God giveth Power to every life be it good or bad unto each thing according to its Desire for he Himself is All and yet he is not called God according to every Being but according to the Light wherewith he dwelleth in Himself and shineth with his Power through all his Beings He giveth in his Power to all his Beings and Works and each thing receiveth his Power according to its Property one taketh Darkness the other Light each Hunger desireth its Property and yet the whole Essence or Being is all Gods be it Evil or Good for from him and through him are all things what is not of his Love that is of his Anger Paradise is yet in the World but man is not therein unless he be born again of God then as to that new Regeneration he is therein and not with the Adam of the four Elements O that we would but once learn to know our selves and even understand it by the created Essence or Being 43. Lo â— in Saturn there lieth Gold shut up in a very disesteemed and contemptible form and manner which indeed resembles no Metal and though it be cast into the fire
casteth the influence of his property into it then doth its colour by reason of the Sun incline to yellow and if Mars hindereth not then is the Universal very Soveraign in the Thing be it either a man or other creature or an Herb of the Earth This let the Magus well observe it withstandeth all malignity and false influences and assaults from the Spirits what ever they be so far as a man himself be not false and wicked and inclines his desire unto the Devil as Adam did in whom also the Universal was wholly compleat 38. With these Herbs a man may cure and heal without any art of the Artist but they are rarely and seldom found yea not one amongst many seeth them for they are nigh unto Paradise The Curse of God hides the eye-sight of the wicked that it doth not see although they should stand before his eyes yet in such a Conjunction of the Planets they are manifest and may not be hid therefore there lieth a great Secret in many an Herb and Beast if the Artist knew it and had the true skill to use it the whole Magia lieth therein but I am bidden to be silent by reason of the wicked who is not worthy of it and is justly plagued with the Plague wherewith he plagueth other honest people and tumbleth himself in the mire 39. But if Mars in his property be next Saturn and Mercury casteth an opposite Aspect and the Power of Venus be under Mars and Jupiter under the property of Venus then out of this Property all is corrupted and poysoned a poysonful Herb Tree Beast or whatsoever it be if it falleth into the corrupt humane Property then it is fitted and prone to Evil but if the Moon bringeth its powerful Influence thereinto then is the false Magia ready in the Lunar Menstruum and Witchcraft is manifest of which I must here also be silent and will only shew the Signature 40. In an Herb if the blossom be somewhat reddish and writhen or streekt and inclined to white by the red then is the power of Venus there which maketh resistance therein but if it be only reddish and of dark wriths or streeks with a rough peel or skin on the stalk branch and leaf then doth the Basilisk lodg there 41. For Mars maketh it rugged and Mercury is poysonful therein which giveth a streekt colour and Mars the red and Saturn the dark which is a Pestilence in the Lunar Menstruum but unto the Artist it is an Herb against the Pestilence if he taketh the Poyson from Mercury and giveth him Venus and Jupiter for food then Mars bringeth forth the Vegetable Soul in Sol and turneth his wrathful fire into a Love-fire which the Artist must know if he will be called a Doctor 42. This Property likewise signeth the living Creatures both in their voyce and visage it giveth a gross dull sound somewhat inclining to a shrill voyce by reason of Mars soothing flattering and very false lying commonly red pimples or streams in the eyes or blinking and rouling unsteady eyes In Herbs this Property likewise yeeldeth a taste very loathsom whence in mans life viz. in Mercury if it takes it down a stirring boyling poyson doth arise which doth darken and obscure the life 43. The Physician must have a care of the Herbs of this Property they are not to be taken into the body but they are poysonful of what Name soever they be for there often hapneth such a Conjunction of the Planets which doth sometimes so prepare an Herb which is good if it be subject to Saturn and Mars So likewise it falleth out sometimes that an Evil Herb by reason of a good Conjunction if in its beginning stands in the Menstruum may be freed from the malignity which is to be known by the Signature therefore the Physician who understands the Signature may best of all gather the Herbs himself 44. But if Mars be next Saturn and Mercury very weak and Jupiter also under Mars in the Property and Venus casteth an opposite Aspect or Dissent with its Desire then it is good for Jupiter and Venus do change the Wrath of Mars into Joy which produceth hot wholesom severain Herbs which are to be used in all hot Diseases and Hurts the Herb is rough and somewhat pricky the leaves on the branches so likewise the stalk is fine thin according to the nature of Venus but the vertue and power is of Mars and Jupiter well mixed and Tempered commonly with brownish blossoms forcing forth in the Property and that because Mars is strong therein with his Wrath but being his Wrath is changed by Jupiter and Venus into a pleasant Property the Wrath becomes a Desire of Joy 45. The Physician must not give Saturn without Mars in hot Diseases not Cold without Heat else he enkindleth Mars in the Wrath and stirreth up Mercury in the hard Impression in the property of Death Mars belongeth to the cure of every Mars-like Sickness which is of Heat and pricking pangs But let the Physician know that he must first correct and qualifie Mars which he intends to minister with Jupiter and Venus that Mars his Wrath may be changed into Joy and then he will also change the Sickness in the body into Joy Cold is quite contrary to it 46. If the Physician administreth Saturn only and alone to a martial Disease or Hurt then Mars is dismayed with Death and falleth down with his force and strength into Deaths property and now being he is the fire in the body the Lifes fire becometh thereupon deadly in the Elemental property for he soon awakeneth Mercury in the property of Cold but yet the Physician must have a care that he administreth not in an hot Disease the raw undigested hot Mars in which Mercury is wholly inflamed and burning for he enkindleth the fire more vehemently in the body he must first mollifie Mars and Mercury and put them into Joy and then it is right and good 47. The hotter an Herb is the better it is hereunto yet it s wrathful Fire must be changed into Love and then he can also change the Wrath in the Body into Joy all according as the property of the disease is that the disease be able to bear it for unto a weak fire in the body which is tyred and languished by reason of the Heat and rather inclines to Cold viz. to the poyson of Mercury where the life is in danger there belongeth a Cure with a fine subtle Heat wherein Venus is strong and Mars very tender and milde by reason of Venus her Power Jupiter need not be strong there lest he make Mars and Mercury too strong so that the weak life before it is quickened and refreshed is overwhelmed and brought into the Mercurial Poyson 48. An Herb in this aforesaid Property groweth not high it is somewhat rough in the touch the rougher it is the stronger is Mars therein it is better to be used outwardly to wounds
the Devil Behold I pray the right Cure wherewith the enkindled Mercury in Mans life is to be remedied it must be a Mercury again but first enkindled in Venus and Jupiter it must have the Suns property which it attains unto by Jupiter and Venus As God dealeth with us poor men so must the outward poysonful sick Mercury be Tinctured with such an external Cure not with the dark Impression of Saturn with Cold unless it be first sweetly appeased and qualified with Jupiter and Venus that the Sun doth again shine in Saturn but with meek Love this is his right Physick whereby the Death is changed into Life yet this is only a common manual Cure which the Vulgar may learn 9. But it behoveth the Doctor if he will be called a Doctor to study the whole Process how God hath restored the universal in Man which is fully clear and manifest in the Person of Christ from his Entrance into the Humanity even to his Ascention and Sending of the Holy Ghost 10. Let him follow this entire Process and then he may find the Universal provided he born again of God but the selfish pleasure worldly glory covetousness and pride doth lie in the way Dear Doctors I must tell you the Coals are too black ye defile your white hands therewith the true unfeighned self-denying Humility before God and man doth not relish with you Therefore ye are blind I do not tell you this but the Spirit of Wonders in its manifestation 11. But we will give Direction unto the desirous Seeker who would fain see if he knew the way fitly to attain his intent for the time is at hand where Moses is called from the Sheep to be a Shepherd of the Lord which shall shortly be manifest maugre all the raging and raving of the Devil Let not the dear and worthy Christendom think being now it doth seem as if she should go to wrack and ruine that it is utterly undone No The Spirit of the Lord of Hoasts hath out of his Love planted a new branch in the humane Property which shall root out the thorns of the Devil and make known his Child Jesus to all Nations Tongues and Speeches and that in the Morning of the Eternal Day 12. Dear Brethren behold I pray the right Cure what did God with us when we lay sick in Death did he quite cast away the created Image understand the outward Part viz. the outward Corrupt Man and make wholly another new Man No he did it not although he introduced Divine Property into Out Humanity yet he did not therefore cast away our Humanity but brought it into the way or Process to the New-birth 13. What did he He suffered the outward Humanity viz. the outward Water understand the Essentiality of Venus which was shut up in the Wrath of Death to be baptized with the Water of the Eternal Essence and with the Holy Ghost that the Incentive of the outward Essentiality shut up in Death might again glow as a fire that falleth into Tinder Afterward he withdrew his outward food from the outward Body and brought it into the Desart and let it hunger and then the Spark enkindled from the Fire of God must Imagine into God and eat Manna of divine Essentiality forty days of which Israel was a Type in the Wilderness Sinai with their Manna The Essence of Eternity must overcome the Essence of Time therefore it is called a Temptation of the Devil for the Devil as a Prince in the Wrath of God did there tempt the outward Humanity and did represent all that unto it wherein Adam fell and became disobedient unto God 14. There now it was tryed whether the Image of God would stand being internally there was Gods Love-fire and externally the Baptism of the Water of Eternal Life Here the Soul was tempted whether it would be a King and an Angelical Throne in the stead of the fallen Angel and possess the Elected Throne of God in the Royal Office from which Lucifer was taken and thrust into the Darkness viz. into the Throne of Poyson and Death but seeing he did stand in that the Soul did resign and submit its Will alone into Gods Love-fire and desired no earthly food nor the earthly Kingdom Good and Evil for outward Dominion the Process to the Universal viz. to the Restoration of all that which Adam had lost did further proceed and go on He turned Water into Wine 15. Ye Physicians observe this it concerns you in your Process you must also go the same way to work He healed the sick so you must likewise make the Form in your poysonful Mercury whole and sound by the Power of the Philosophical Baptism He made the dead alive again the dumb to speak the deaf to hear the blind to see and cleansed the Lepers all this must go before that all the Forms in Mercury may be pure sound and living which Mercury himself doth make after the Baptism and Temptation as the living speaking Mercury did this in the Person of Christ the Artist cannot do it only there must be Faith for Christ also Testifieth that he could not do many Wonders at Capernaum save heal a few diseased for the Faith of the Capernaitans would not enter into the Divine Mercury of Christ. 16. So that we see there that the Person of Christ viz. the Creature could not work the Wonders in its own Power but the Mercury viz. the living speaking Word in him for the Person did cry and call into God viz. into the speaking Word and set its Desire thereinto as we may see in the Mount of Olives where he prayed that he did sweat drops of blood and by Lazarus when he would raise him up he said Father hear me but I know that thou always bearest me yet because of those that stand by I say it that they may beleeve that thou workest by me 17. Thus the Artist must not arrogate any thing unto himself the Mercury doth it self after the Philosophical Baptism work these Wonders before it doth manifest the Universal for all the seven Forms of Nature must be Crystalized and purified if the Universal shall be revealed and each Form carrieth a peculiar Process when it is to be brought out of the property of the Wrath and entered into the pure and clear Life and transmute it self into the Crystalline Sea which standeth before the Throne of the Ancient in the Revelation and change it self into Paradise for the Universal is Paradisical and Christ also came therefore into our Humanity that he might again open or make manifest the Universal viz the Paradise again in Man the Speaking Word in Christ wrought Wonders through all the seven Properties or Forms through the Expressed Word in the Humanity before the whole Universal was manifest in the Corps of the humane Property and the Body glorified 18. Even thus it is in the Philosophical Work when the Mercury shut up in Death receiveth into it the Baptism of
he is both the Tincture of the Fire and Light must come into One viz. of the Essence which is Venus and of the Spirit which is Mars in Mercury the Fathers Love and Anger must become one thing and then this one thing is called the Kingdom of joy so long as it is separated there is in the thing only anguish and torment and meer desire but when it burneth in one Will it is a joyful proceeding forth from it self and this Egressive out-going property is called the Holy Ghost viz. the life of the Deiry 44. Therefore know that the Virgins and Young mans blood must be both shed together that the Fire-Lyon might dye which was manifest in the Humane property that the Love of the Virgin might change his wrath in her dear Love-blood into her property and obtain the Soul from the Young man for in Adam the Virgin did disappear for the Soul departed out of its Love-will out of the Resignation into its own and became disobedient unto God 45. Here the Virgin doth again take the Soul into her Self and giveth it her Crown of Pearl as unto a Noble Champion and calleth him in his own Name the white Lyon or Champion O ye children of men observe it I beseech you open the Gates of the World in your heart Open them wide that the King of glory may come in even the great Champion in Battel who hath deprived Death of its might and destroyed the Hell in Gods Anger and made of the World Paradise 46. O ye wise Seekers how doth the Lord open his windows wherefore do ye sleep in the desire of muchness in your covetousness which is multiplyed in the Wrath Do but enter only into the Divine Resignation you may partake of that which the Powers of Heaven are able to afford If you do but forsake your Selfness then the Earth shall become Heaven to you saith the Spirit of Wonders but you shall not obtain it in your wicked wayes and coverous doings 47. And when Jesus through the shedding of his Blood had given the Wrath of God in Man unto the Love that the Father had received the Love in the Humane property into the Wrath then the Kingdom of the Devil in the Wrath and the Kingdom of Love did forthwith part asunder they were divided and this Figure did hang with Christ on the Cross viz. the wicked mocker at the left hand who reviled Jesus and was not capable of his blood-shedding and the other at the right hand who was converted from his sins unto Jesus and said Lord remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom to whom Jesus answered Verily to day thou shalt be with me in Paradise 48. Thus we are rightly to consider that when the wrath of God is drowned in the blood of Christ so that it changeth its might into Love that even then Paradise is again open for when JESUS had tinctured the Humane Blood which was corrupted in Sin with the Virgins blood in the Love then the Virgin received the Man-hood viz. the Self-hood into her Virgins Love This was the Paradise and an Habitation of God with and in Man where God dwelleth in the Humanity and is All in All in it 49. Thus it falleth out also in the Philosophick Work when Mars and Mercury do dye according to the property of the dark Impression of Saturn then Venus taketh them into her Love-blood and Venus giveth her Love into the poysonful Fire-desire Shee wholly giveth her self in unto the Fire of MARS in MERCURY yea she yeeldeth her self fully to be their own but seeing Mars and Mercury become impotent as to the might of the Fire and poyson in the Love the Love and Anger do thereupon change themselves into one Essence into one desire and here when the Fire viz. the Fire desire doth give in its desire unto the Love then saith the Love To day thou shalt be with me out of thy Fire-anguish in Paradise viz. in joy that is thou shalt be changed in me and here Venus getteth the Soul in the Philosophick work so that Mars and Mercury become her Soul and the strife ceaseth for the Enmity is appeased and quelled and thus the Child subsists in the Fire immovably without any change for Mars doth not at all annoy it and so likewise Mercury and Saturn burrs it not for they are in the Child at the end of Nature where there is no Turba any more 50. Mercury is very pure in Saturn he hath no more poyson whereby to make soil or rust in the Water viz. in the Salt of Saturn and let the Philosopher and Divine also well observe this that in Paradise there is a perfect life without any shadow of change also without any false evill desire and a continual day where the Paradisical man is clear as a transparent glass in whom the Divine Sun shineth through and through as Gold that is throughly bright and pure without any spot or foulness 51. And when Jesus knew that all was finished he seeth his Mother and John his Disciple standing by under the Cross and saith unto his Mother woman lo this is thy Son and to the Disciple Behold thy Mother and forthwith the Disciple took her unto his own home 52. This is an excellent Type how Christ hath forsaken this World viz. the Humane Self-hood and is again gone unto the Father for he saw his Mother according to this World and his Disciple viz. his Unkle according to the outward Humanity from his Mothers side and yet said unto his Mother Woman hehold there is thy Son I am no more thy Son according to my outward Humanity it is changed into Gods Son and is no longer of the World but it liveth to God but seeing thou art to be yet in the World take John who is not yet changed to be thy Guardian and thou John take thy Mother and he presently took her unto himself 53. This is the Type of the Christian Church upon Earth for we the poor Children of Eve are not presently wholly changed according to the outward man but we must also pass into death and putrifie that the wrath also in the flesh may rot and putrifie and the Spirit might rest in the death of Christ until the General Resurrection and Transmutation of the outward man in which the Earth of man shall be transformed into Heaven and the Mirrour or Type of the Wonders shall appear therein 54. Thus he commanded his Disciple to take care of his Mother His Mother is the Christian Church upon Earth wherein the Children of God are begotten according to the Spirit whom he should take care for and guide and lead them untill the number of the Humanity out of the Flesh shall be accomplished and then the Spiritual body shall arise and shall be proved in Christs death in his Entrance into the Anger where he changed the Anger into Love and the Kingdom with the Source of darknesse shall be Separated from it 55.
But in this life-time albeit the Spirit be changed in the Divine power and the Spirit be baptized with the Virgins baptism and putteth on the Image of Christ internally viz. Venus's body in the Love yet Adam is not capable of it until he also entreth into the Transmutation of Christ which comes to pass in death or in the dying unto this mortal life 56. But in the mean while Jubn as the Teacher of Christ in Christs stead must provide for the outward Mother according to the outward man and feed and teach the Lambs of Christ with Christs Spirit and it doth exactly shew us how the outward Man is not Gods Mother for Christ doth separate himself from his outward Mother and gives her unto John he hath put on the Eternal Mother viz. the Father of the Eternal Birth and therefore they do very ill that honour and worship the outward Mother of Christ for Gods Mother 57. The whole true Christendom is Christs Mother which beareth Christ in her And John viz. the Servants and Ministers of Christ are her Nurses which take care for the Mother of Christ as John did he presently received the Mother of Christ and provided for her as her Son and not as her Lord for Christ said also unto him Behold she is thy Mother even so should all the Disciples and Teachers of Christ do and take care of the poor Christendom as Sons with great Humility towards the Mother provide for and cherish her with diligence and circumspection and serve her with all discreet modesty courtesie and humility feed and comfort her with the Spirit of Christ not as the Priests in Babel do who ride over her as wealthy rich domineering Masters and will be Lords over the Mother and only seek Honours and to fatten their Bellies in pleasure and live in Strife and Contention these one with the other of what Name or Title soever they be are not all Johannites but they are the poysonful Mercurial Pharisees in whom there is nothing but meer anguish vexation pain and torment where one property doth continually torment envy and hate the other and holds it out for false and yet they are all only out of one root and have all only one will save that one colour doth not glister as the other 58. For Saturn is not as Jupiter Jupiter is not as Mars Mars viz. the Fire spirit is not as the light of the Sun and the Sun is not as Venus with her meek water-Source and Venus is not as Mercury with his Sound for she is meek and still and Mercury soundeth and setteth up his note and Mercury also is not as Luna which as a simple body doth give body to all the rest for manifestation the one is far otherwise then another and have not one property and will and yet they are in the Centre of the Essence viz. in Luna and Saturn in the property of the Soul and Body all of them one and the same batch Thus the partial Sectarian Mercurialites and Baals Servants are divided in these properties they are the Pharisees which judg and condemn Jesus in his Members 59. They wrangle and contend only about the Church and yet none will take care of the poor forsaken Mother of Christ they are mad in their Martial and Mercurial Contest and are not Johannites they enter not in Christs Spirit at the door of Christ into the Sheep fold They are Wolves Lyons and Bears yea Foxes and fearful Hares who fly from and forsake the Mother their Rise and Original is out of Babel where they continually contend wrangle grin and bite one another for the Letter Every one will be Lord and Master over the Letter and transpose and place it as he pleaseth only for the Honour Applause and Pleasure of this World They consider not that the Mother is a Widow and that Christ hath left and ordained them that they should be such Curates for her as John 60. O thou dear Mother of Christendom let these Wolves Bears and Lyons go and shelter themselves where they please regard no longer these evil Beasts take the John the Disciple of Christ who teacheth the Love and Humility 61. O thou dear and worthy Mother art thou not only One Wherefore dost thou suffer the Lyons to rent and teer thee in pieces Christ is thy Husband all these are Strangers and Hirelings unless they walk in thy filial Love and humble themselves towards the Mother and provide for her as Ministers else they be all Wolves Bears and teering Lyons although there were many thousand of them yet one is not at all better then another unless he comes forth in the line of Iohn and take care of Christs Mother and provide for the Mother with earnestness in Christs Spirit which if he hath not he is not then called of Christ to be a Guardian or Curate to the Mother but he is a Mercurialite a Pharisee such as Christ called the Seed of Serpents and Generation of Vipers who crucifie Jesus in his Members 62. And thus the Philosopher must consider of well observe Christs Mother whom he recommended unto Iohn to take care for he must likewise be a Iohn and know that his business is about the Mother and that his work in this world is not wholly Heavenly he will not so manifest Paradise that God will appear and be manifest face to face in his Work no he remaineth in the Mother yet he obtaineth the Universall in the Mother for the Mother of Christ obtained it also for it was said unto her Thou art the blessed among all women 63. So likewise the Philosopher reacheth unto the Blessing in this valley of misery that he is able to bless his corrupt body that is Tincture it and free it from sickness even to the limit of his highest Constellation according to Saturn and therefore let him take heed of Covetousness for so he introduceth the Turba 64. By the Type of Iohn and the Mother of Christ he is to know that the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of this World are two in his Work and that Gods Kingdom lyeth shut up in the Mother viz. in his work of which he must take care be a Minister thereunto and not a Lord of the Mother but an Alms-giver and not a gatherer of Treasure and Wealth not a covetous Muck-worm also none shall attain unto it or understand our meaning that wil not be a Guardian of the Mother the most High hath laid a bar before the foolish understanding that it is blind until it be weary with secking I speak in the ground of truth 65. And when Iesus had commended his Mother unto Iohn he again turned his desire into the Mother of the Humane property and said I thirst he thirsted after the Members of Humane property and desired the Salvation of Mankind viz. the health of his Members understand of his Children which should be begotten in Him and the Iews
gave his Humanity Gall and Vineger to drink and when he tasted it he would not drink it 66. Here is again the outward Type shewing how it went inwardly The name Iesus viz. the Love of God which was entered into the Humanity and had espoused it self thereunto did thirst in the Love-desire after the corrupt Humanity and would fain tast the pure water of the Humanity in it self but the wrathful Anger of God which was enkindled in the Humane property did give it self in with the Humane property unto the thirst of the Love desire and when the Love-desire tasted of it it would not drink it but sank down into it as wholly resigned or freely yeelded and did unite and very essentially incline it self into the Anger of God as a full and perfect obedience and fully and freely given over as a peculiar propriety thereinto 67. This was now the Flagrat of the wrath that the Love should so come into it whereupon the Earth trembled and the Rocks clove asunder for so the Death was dismayed at the Life and here the Awakened Wraths property did SeVer it self into the Centre viz. into the First Principle into the Fireâ—root and now from the Centre there proceeded forth the hunger to the New-birth in the Humane property of the hunger unto Death was made an hunger unto Life for the Love tinctured the Anger that the Fireâ—desire to the dark Impression became a desire of Life 68. Understand it here aright God the Father who gave his dear Heart into the Humanity to help mankind did now thirst after the Humanity viz. after his heart or word of Power and the Deity in the Humanity viz. the heart of the Father did thirst after the Father and the Love or the Essence of the Light did thirst after the Fires Essence for the Fires or Souls Essence in Adam was departed out of the Love-essentiality wherein the Paradise did consist into a Selfness and was become disobedient unto God and thereupon the Essence life and being of the Light and Love did dye in its Growing that is it did wither as to the Vegetative life or Heavenly growth blooming and Sense of the Paradissal Source and did awake and arise to the Earthly World 69. Here the Father brought the Soul which was entered into his Wrath and had manifested its self in his Anger again into the Love viz. into the disappeared Paradisical Image and here the dark World was dismayed in Deaths Flagrat at the Fire-Flagrat which arose up in Love in the Death as a joyful Flagrat which Joy-Flagrat entred into the dead Bodies of the Hopers of Israel who did hope upon the Messiah as a sound of the power of God and did awaken them from death 70. This Flagrat rent in twain the Vail in the Temple viz. the Vail of Moses which hung before the clear face of God so that man could not see God and therefore he must serve him with an Offering and Type of this Final Discovery in which God did manifest himself again in the Humanity This Flagrat broke the Type in the Offerings and Sacrifices and manifested the clear face of God and united the Humane Time with Eternity 71. All whatsoever the Jews did outwardly unto Christ the same was a Type of the inward viz. how it went between God and the Humanity viz. between the Eternity and Time the Jews gave Jesus Gall and Vineger in his Thirst both these properties are a Mercury in the Sulphur of Saturn viz. in the Impression this is even the Type and full resemblance of the Souls property as it is in it self alone devoid of the other Love-properties 72. God gave this property of the Soul again into his Love the Death into the Life the disappeared Love-essence which the Word of God had assumed to it self in the Essence and Seed of Mary and quickned to life he gave into the Anger 's property into the Souls essence viz. into the Centre of the Fire and dark World whereupon the Soul-like Fire and dark world became an exceeding Triumphant joyful Paradisical life and here the Champion upbraided Death and Hell viz. the dark World in the Soul and said Death where is thy Sting now in man Hell where is now thy victory in the Wrath of the poyson-Source in the expressed Word or Mercury all is now dead O Death I am to thee a Death Hell I am to thee a Conquerour thou must serve me for the Kingdom of joy Thou shalt be my Servant and Minister to the Kingdom of joy thou shalt enkindle the flames of Love with thy Wrath and be a Cause of the Spring in Paradise 73. Thus we give the Philosopher to understand our sence and deep ground in Nature who desireth to seek and open the disappeared Essence of the Earth which lyeth shut up in Death viz. in the Curse of God the Vail of Moses hangeth also before him and a very right earnestness is requisite for to rend the Vail in twain that he may be able to see the face of Nature otherwise he is not fitted thereunto 74. And as it went in the Humanity of Christ betwixt Gods Love and Anger and both were transformed into One so likewise it is in his Work of Nature the poysonful Mercury in the Sulphur of Mars and Saturn giveth its Lunar Menstruum viz. the greatest poyson of the dark Source into Venus's property when Venus thirsteth after the Fire of Love then Mercury giveth his poyson into the thirst of Venus and Venus's thirst giveth it self wholly unto the poyson as if it dyed it wholly yeeldeth up its desiring life whereupon ariseth the great darkness in the Philosophick Work for the Materia becometh as black as a Raven for Venus hath resigned its life whence the glance or splendor doth arise as it is to be seen by Christ that the Sun lost its light and there was a great darkness contrary to the common Course of Nature 75. For when the inward Sun gave in it self unto the Anger viz. into the darkness of God then the outward Sun which receiveth its power and lustre from the inward as a glass or resemblance of the inward could not shine for its root from whence it shineth was entered into the darkness in the place of this World and would turn the darkness in the Curse of God into light viz. it would make the place of this world again Paradise 76. Thus likewise the Sun of the outward World which is a Figure of the inward all essential Sun must stand still with its Splendor in the darkness from the sixth hour unto the ninth which is even the time of Adams sleep when he entered with the desire into the Centre of the Eternal Nature viz. into the Birth where the Love and Anger do part themselves into two Centres and would prove the cold and hot Fire which took him and did powerfully work in him Here are three hours according to the Ternary and in the Grave three days
according to the time viz. according to the Humanity 77. When Adam was in the Image of God and was neither Man nor Woman but both He stood forty days in Paradise without wavering and when he fell he stood even untill the third day viz. forty hours in the Sleep even till God did make or build the Woman out of him Thus Israel must be tempted forty days on Mount Sinai whether it would live in the obedience of God under the Wonders and mighty Acts and when as it could not be God gave them the Law of His Covenant as a Looking-glass of that which was promised in the Covenant therefore the temptation of the body was upon them forty years that the body must eat Manna to try whether Man could be remedied when as the body or outward person could not stand then Joshuah brought them through the water with the Covenant of the Type where Israel must serve with Sacrifices in the Covenant in the Type of the Final accomplishment until the time of Restitution came in and then the Valiant Champion in Battel stood 40. days in the Wilderness of the temptation and stood out the first Tryal of Adam in Paradise and the three hours of darkness on the Cross are the three hours of the Temptation of Christ when the Devil tempted him And again the forty hours of Christ in the Grave are the forty days of Adam in Paradise and the forty days of Moses upon the Mount and the forty years in the Wilderness and the forty days after the Resurrection before the Ascention are even one and the same and now when the Champion had stood out Adams Tryal the Soul was tempted forty days in the Humane property whether it would eat of Gods Word and live in full Resigned obedience in the Will of God and be a true Image Likeness and Similitude of the Divine Power in the Unsearchable Eternity according to the Trinity of the Deity 78. In the like manner let the Philosopher observe us that the essence of time doth also stand in such a property for man was created out of the Essence of time into an Image as an extract of all essences a compleat Image and likeness according to Time and Eternity ruling and standing in the Time and in the Eternity as an Instrument of the great infinite God with whom by and with his Spirit he would make and do what he pleased 79. Now man is the Instrument of God with or by whom he doth manifest his hiddenness both in his own Humane property viz. in the Essence and Image of God and then also through man as with the Instrument in the Mother of all Beings as in the Grand Mystery viz. in the Soul of the great world 80. Man hath power so far as he goeth as an instrument of God in Divine obedience as his Spirit doth guide and lead him that he can introduce the Earth which standeth in the Curse of God into the Benediction and make of Deaths-anguish the highest triumphant joy in the outward Pregnant Mother but he himself doth it not only his will doth labour with the understanding therein and doth conjoyn the Compacta which belong together as Life and Death which stand opposite to one another these he must joyn together and bring them into one by such an art as Time and Eternity are united by and in the man Christ and by him all those which give their will thereinto 81. He will see in his work all whatsoever God did in the Humanity when he brought it again into the Universal viz. into Paradise He will see how the Wrath devours and swallows up the fair Venus into his pricking thorny essence and how Venus doth fully yeeld in her self and how the Wrath also dyeth away in Venus and becometh wholly dark and black as a Coal for death and life do lie together both in the Death viz. in the obedience of God they both hold still unto him and suffer the Spirit of God to make of and with them what it pleaseth who introduceth them again into the Eternal will of God whereto he at first created them and thus the Essence standeth again in the beginning in the Order as God created it It must only stand in its Impression in the Verbum Fiat viz. in the Divine making until the day of Gods Separation when God will change the Time again into the Eternity 82. And when Jesus had drunk the cup and tasted the Vinegar mixed with Gall in the outward man and inwardly in the Love-property viz. in the Virgin the wrathful Anger of God then said the whole man Christ My God my God wherefore hast thou forsaken me For Gods Speaking Word stood still now in the Humane property and the new-born essentiality which was dead in Adam and was again quickned in Christ did cry with the same My God my God wherefore hast thou forsaken me For the Anger of God was by the Souls property entred into the Image of the Divine Essentiality and had devoured the Image of God 83. Here now the Image in the Creature of the Soul cryed My God my God wherefore hast thou for saken me for the Humane Image which disappeared in Adam and was again revived in Christs Incarnation should bruise the head of Gods Anger in the Fire-soul and change its Fire-might into Sol and now the Speaking Word of God did here forsake it and it fell into its souls wrath where it felt Gods Anger for the Speaking Word did so bring it through the Anger into Death and out of the Death again into the Solar life understand into the Eternal Sun 84. Like as the Candle dyeth in the Fire and out of that death the light power proceedeth viz. the great painless life so out of Christs dying and death the eternal Divine Sun should and must arise in the Humane property but the Selfness of the Humane property viz. the Souls own Self will to live in the Fires might must here dye and be drowned in the Image of Love and the Image of Love must also resign and give it self in unto the Wrath of Death that so all might fall down into death and arise in Gods will and mercy through death in the Paradissal Source in the Resignation that Gods Spirit might be all in all Hells eye must see through the Love as the light shineth out of the Fire and the Fire from the Darkness and the Darkness taketh its Original from the Eternal desire 85. And as Adam changed the likeness of God into the dark Deaths form so God did again change the likeness through his Fire-wrath out of Death into the Light he drew forth the likeness again out of death as a blossome groweth from the harsh Earth 86. Thus it goeth likewise in the Philosophick work Venus is forsaken when she receives the three wrathful properties into her self in wrath their wrath viz. the death doth devour her life whereupon she loseth
death as one dying and yet there is no more any death in him but thus I dye to my Self and Sin in him seeing that my desire and will presseth forth from my Self hood into it so that I dye dayly to my self until once I shall obtain the limit of my Self-hood and my Self-hood with the earthly Will and Desire doth wholly dye unto its Selfness even then shall my Self-hood and all whatsoever is in me which seeketh and loveth it self fall into the Death of Christ viz. into the first Mother whence God created me and my Self-hood shall become a Nothing and even then my Self-hood lieth in Christs Death in the Resignation as an Instrument of God who then will make it his Instrument as he pleaseth 16 But seeing now my Soul and Spirit doth live in his Resurrection and his Voyce Ayr or Breath is in me according to the Resignation in him as S. Paul saith Our Conversation is in Heaven whence we do wait for the Saviour Jesus Christ Therefore also his Voyce which is in me in that I am or live no longer to my Self-hood but he alone is and liveth in me shall raise up my dead body which I resign to him and bring it into his first Image whereto he created it 17. Thus now I live in God and my Self-hood doth not know it for it liveth not in God but in it self God is indeed in it but it doth not apprehend him and hideth the Pearl which I am in Christ not I but he in his Humanity in my Creature in Himself and thus I speak and write of the great Mystery of all Beings not that I have apprehended it in my self-hood but he striketh my Signature in my Desire which presleth into him as he pleaseth 18. I am known to my self but not in my self-hood but in his Mirror which of Grace he hath put into me thereby to allure my self-hood unto him viz. into the Resignation and so likewise dear Brethren it shall again be represented unto you out of his Glass which he hath set forth through my Capacity in him as his Instrument 19. Thus it goeth also in the Philosophick Work Sulphur Mercury and Sal are entered by the Curse of God into their Self-hood viz. into a Self working and living all doth now work in the Curse and Anger of God according to the property of the first Principle if God had not placed the Sun as a Nature god of the outward visible World therein which tinctureth every working life even every thing which groweth and moveth all would be in the dark Deaths Impression viz. in the Abyss of Hell 20. Now if any thing shall be freed from this Self-hood viz. from the wrathful Death and be again brought into the Universal viz. into the highest Perfection then it must dye wholly to its Self-hood and enter into the Stilness viz. into the Death of the Resignation at Natures End Mars must wholly lose the might of the Fire and Wrath and Mercury also his Poyson-life Saturn must be a Death to himself in so much that the Artist seeth nothing but the great Darkness and even then the Light appeareth in the Resignation for Saint John saith The Light shineth in the Darkness and the Darkness apprehended it not that is in its Self-hood viz. in its own Will and Working it cannot apprehend it but in the Resignation the Nothing viz. the Liberty of God doth shine in it 21. For the Nothing doth manifest it self in its Lubet out of the Liberty in the Darkness of Death for the Nothing will not be a Nothing and also cannot be a Nothing and likewise it cannot otherwise manifest it self save according to the property of the free Lubet which is now fixt or stedfast and in it also as a Nothing for there is no Turba therein the Self-will and Hunger is dead and in the Nothing and the Lubet of the Eternal Liberty is its Life Now seeing that the Highest Being hath once moved it self and come into a visible comprehensible Essence it doth again Figurize or form that same Essence which departeth from its Self-hood and entereth into the Nothing into such a Being or Essence as it was before the times of the World but seeing that the Verbum Fiat standeth yet to this day a Creating of the Corporal Essence it doth again make a sixt perfect Essence as the like is brought to pass in the Philosophick Work where a new Life ariseth out of Death as God doth raise us up in Himself in Christ if we dye to Self-hood and wholly resign up our selves into him 22. And thus when the expressed Mercury in the Sulphur of Saturn resigneth its Self-hood into Venus then the Verbum Fiat changeth it again into such an Essence according to the Lubet of the Liberty the Death ariseth in a new Body out of the Darkness of Death in a white fair Colour but as an hidden Lustre wherein the Colour is not rightly and distinctly known until it doth dissolve it self and the Materia becomes desiring then the Sun ariseth in the Centre Saturn in the Property of Jupiter and Venus in all the Seven Forms that is in the Verbum Fiat as a New Creation and the Desire of all the Seven Forms do tend unto Sols Lustre viz. unto the white and red Colour from the Fire and Light which is the Majestatical Colour Lustre or Glory 23. And as CHRIST after His Resurrection walked forty Days in the Mystery of all the Three Principles at once in the property of the first Adam after his Creation before his sleep and before his Eve and appeared to his Disciples in his property which he had here from the outward world and did eat with them and shewed them his assumed Humanity and that he had in no wise wholly put off the same 24 Even so let the Artist understand us that in the Philosophick Work the first matter doth not wholly pass away or vanish but it entreth into the death of the life of its wrathful property and dyeth in the Curse of God but ariseth again in its former being which it had before the Curse of God the Curse only is destroyed therein and the first life doth again rise up therein and therefore it is fixt and subsists in the Fire for it is dead to the dominion of the four Elements and liveth in the fifth essence not that it hath that same life but it standeth still therein yet the spirit of the new-born Essence is a vegetative life with its growing therein its Lustre doth stand therein it sheweth the first Adam in innocency who stood likewise in such perfection 25. And as Christ tinctured our corrupt Humanity in which Mercury was turned to poyson with the Heavenly blood of the Eternal Divine Virginity and Essentiality whereby the Humane Self-hood dyed in the poyson and the Resigned life did again arise Even so the poysonful Mereurial Martial and Saturnine Will and desire
do dye in the blood of Venus in the Philosophick work and do both enter together into Death and arise both together in one Love in one Will. 26. Therefore let the Artist observe the Tincture it is more noble and precious for mans use in this valley of misery then the body which ariseth in the Tincture for the Spirit is the life the body is only a Figure of the Life and the blood is a mansion of the Spirit 27. The Artist must well observe this in the blood of the young man when his Pearl giveth it self to the three Murtherers that it also sheddeth its blood in and with the young mans then the Champion standeth in Hell and disclaimeth the Humane Self-hood then the white Lyon appeareth upon his Crimson-coloured Beast even there lyeth the Cure of sickness and the death of death 28. The body is dissolved in the blood of Love in the Death out of the Earthly into an Heavenly property The Tincture gives it self into the new body and afterwards when the body ariseth in Sols splendor it doth also forsake its will it resigneth it self wholly into the bodies essence and becomes its beauty splendor and colour which the Artist can never separate for they are together in the fifth Essence viz. in the mystery of the Verbum Fiat and do belong to Gods motion of the final day of Separation in this time unto his own manifestation unto his honour and deeds of wonder but after this time to the crystalline world in the glassie Sea before the ancient in the Apocalyps A brief Summary of the Philosophick WORK 29. Our meaning might seem very difficult unto the Reader in that we go so far about and shew Christ all along therein at which let no man wonder we do not seek gold or any Temporal goods thereby and drive man into vain curiosities we speak only with the Children whom God hath chosen thereunto for the Time is born where that which is lost shall be again found yea not only the Universal for the body of this World but also for the Soul 30. The Process is very short in both and it is only of one property which is thus the Tree understand the Life is divided into seven Forms now the curse of God is come into the seven Forms so that they are in strife and enmity and one Form doth annoy the other and can never agree unless they all seven enter into Death and dye unto the Self-will Now this cannot be except a Death comes into them which breaks all their will and be a death unto them as the Deity in Christ was a death to the Humane Self-hood and the seven Forms in the Humane Life thus is it here also the Humane Will was changed in Christ into the Eternal Sun viz. into the Resignation in God even so must all the Forms in the Philosophick Work be changed into one viz. into Sol Seven must become one and yet remain in Seven but in one desire where each Form desireth the other in love and then there is no more any strife and contest 31. Therefore let the Artist but consider how he may give death to the death with the pure life and how he may awaken the dead and disappeared life which is Heavenly and lyeth hidden and captivated in the Curse so that it may again receive the Fire-soul and if he doth but bring it so far it worketh of it self 32. When the Virgin doth again receive her Bridegroom who hath been faithless then he is prepared and fitted to the work otherwise he is no way at all fitted but all is in vain and to no purpose which he attempteth there is not any possibility for the Heavenly Image according to Gods likeness in man to be otherwise helped and restored after that the Fire-soul had entred into its self-hood unless the Spirit of God did introduce it self into the disappeared Image viz. into the Heavenly Essentiality and give it self in with the same Image awakened in it into the Souls Fire viz. into the wrath of Death and be a death to Death viz. to the wrathful anger of God that it might be drowned in the Love in the blood of the Heavenly Essentiality and although there could be no parting nor dying yet there was a dying of the Wrath so that the Wrath was changed into a joy and Love 33. Even thus the Artists Work is exactly and throughout no otherwise For Man was created out of all Beings out of the Heaven and Earth but when he became wholly earthly and the Curse seized on him the Curse also came over the earthly Being whence Man was made Thus the Heaven was shut up from man and the Heaven also was shut up in the Earth in Metals Trees and Hearbs in the food of Man and whatsoever belonged to his Ornament and Delight 34. The soul of the Earth viz. the property of the Fire of the first Principle is entered into its self-hood viz. into Gods anger now the Heaven is hidden in it therefore the Artist must in his Work reduce the Soul in the Curse and the Heaven again into One He must introduce the Soul again into Heaven or else there is no possibility now he cannot bring the Soul in its iniquity into Heaven for it will not and therefore he must bring the Heaven into the Soul and wholly give in the Heaven to the Soul that the Soul may eat of Heaven will she or nill she the Heaven must be as Death in the Soul so that the Soul cannot get rid of it how angry soever she be and vehemently rage against it until she be overcome in her wrath and entereth with the Desire into Heaven viz. into the disappeared Essence and willeth to murther it as the Jews Christ and if she so entreth into the Heavenly Essence then the Image of the Heavenly Essence falleth into the jaws of the Murtherer 35. Thus when the Heavenly Essence giveth its desire unto the Murtherer the Murther is dismayed at the Dear Love-life and ariseth in the Flagrat in the dismayment in the Heavenly Essentiality thus the disappeared Essence doth again receive the Fire Flagrat into it self and wholly uniteth it self with the Fire-life and so the Fire must burn in the Love and Meekness and forego its right in the Centre as the Light which shineth from the Fire thus and no otherwise the Heavenly Essence obtaineth its life and as a Fire doth through-heat an iron that it appeareth as if it were meer Fire and it is so but the iron doth still retain its substance even so the disappeared Essence viz. the Heaven is manifest in the poysonful Mercurial and Martial Fire-soul and maketh of Seven Wills only one and yet Seven remain but the Enmity ceaseth 36. This is a Universal which also changeth the Enmity or Malignity of all Diseases in the Humane body into one Will into unity So that the raging and raving viz. the seven
his Mothers womb out of heat and cold out of himself 32. As the Love proceeding from the heart of the Father which is his Son doth withstand the Anger of the Father whereby the Father is merciful Even so likewise it is in the expressed Word oâ— Mercury 33. Now understand it thus I do not-mean that the cold poyson of Mercury should be or could be resisted with the enkindled heat no but if the cold poyson be enkindled then the Remedy must be from the same likenss but it must be first freed from the coldness viz. From the enflamed cold wrath and brought into meekness and then it doth also still and appease the hunger of the colds desire in the disease of the Body For if enkindled heat be administred to the enkindled cold then the cold is dismayed or Flagratized at the Heat and falleth into a Swound viz. into Deaths property and so the Heat becomes in this Deaths property a poyson life viz. an anxious Sting and the Mercurial wheel runneth into Sadness viz. into Sickness or a crasie dotage wherein all jâ—y is forgotten 34. For if the life shall subsist in its own Right then the Heat and Cold must stand in Equality that so they may accord one with another and no enmity or disaffection be at all in any of them the one must not exceed or over top the other but they must stand in one Will for the enkindled Cold desireth no Heat but only likeness Every hunger desireth only likeness for its food but if the hunger be too strongly enkindled in the cold such a Cure is not to be given it which is so enkindled indeed it must be in as high a degree in the cold but the violent force must be first taken away from it so that it may be only as the Mother which generates it not according to the enkindled poyson-source but according to the Mothers Joy and so the sickness viz. the Poyson in the Anguish will be likewise changed into such a Joy and so the Life doth receive again its first property 35. The raw opposite Body doth not belong unto the Cure but its Oyl which must be mollified with its own Love understand with a meek Essence which also belongeth unto the same property for the seven Forms of Nature are only one in the Centre therefore that Oyl must be brought so far in the Wheel till it entreth into its highest Love-desire and then it is rightly fit for Cure for there is nothing so evil but it hath a good in it and that very good doth resist its evilness or poysonful malignity 36. Thus also in the same sickness it may withstand the enkindled Wrath in the body for if the cold Poyson be enkindled in the body then its good falleth into faintness and if it cannot obtain the likeness of its Essence for its help it remaineth in faintness and then the enkindled Wrath also doth forthwith consume it self and falleth also into faintness and so the natural death is in both and the moving life in the body ceaseth but if it doth attain the likeness then it gathers strength again and the enkindled Hunger of the Disease must cease 37. In like manner also we are to consider of the Heat which needs no cold property but the Likeness yet it must be first freed from the Wrath of the same Likeness and brought into its own highest Joy and Good so that this Likeness doth not effectually operate either in Heat or Cold but in its own Love desire viz. in its Best Relish and so it will bring the Heat in the body into such a Desire All corruptions in the body proceed from the Cold if the Brimstone be too vehemently enkindled by the Heat then the Right and Property of the Cold dyeth and entreth into Sorrow 38. Mercury is the moving Life in all and his Mother is Sulphur now the Life and Death lie in Sulphur viz. in the wrestling Mercurial Wheel In the Sulphur there is Fire Light and Darkness the Impression causeth Darkness Coldness and Hardness and also great Anguishment and from the Impression of the Attraction Mercury doth take his rise and he is the Sting of the Attraction viz. the motion or disquietness and ariseth in the great Anguish of the Impression where Coldness viz. a dark cold fire by reason of the Hardness doth arise in the Impression and in the Sting of Anguish viz. in the Disquietness an hot fire doth arise 39. Now Mercury is the Wheel of Motion and a stirring up of the Cold and Heat and in this place it is only a painful aking Source in Heat and Cold viz. a cold and hot fiery Poyson-anguishment and forceth forward as a Wheel and yet it is a cause of Joy and all life and motion but if it shall be freed from the Anguish and introduced into the Joy then it must be brought forth through Death 40. Now every sickness and malady is a Deaths property for Mercury hath too much enkindled and enflamed himself either in Heat or Cold whereby the Essence or Flesh which he hath attracted to himself in his Desire viz. in his Mother in the Sulphur is burnt whereby the Earthliness ariseth both in the Water and Flesh Even as the matter of the Earth and Stones viz. the Grossness of the same is nothing else but a burnt Sulphur and Water in Mercury his property where the Salniter in the Flagrat of the Mercurial Wheel whence the manifold Salts do arise is burnt or too vehemently enflamed whence cometh the Stink and evil Taste 41. Otherwise if the Mercury did so effectually operate therein in the Oyl of Sulphur that he might be brought through the Death of the Impression from the Heat and Cold then the Earth would be again in Paradise and the Joy-desire would again spring or bloom afresh through the Anguish of the Colds Impression and this is the Cause that God layd the Curse upon the Earth for the Mercurial Wheel was deprived of its Good viz. the Love-desire which ariseth in the Eternal Liberty and manifesteth it self with this Mercurial Wheel through Cold and Heat and proceedeth forth through the fire and maketh a Shine of the light and the Curse was brought thereinto which is a withdrawing of the Love-desire 42. Now this Mercury being a Life in the Sulphur of its Mother doth stand in the Curse viz. in the Anguish of the Heat and Cold and maketh in his Flagrat or Salnitral Walm continually Salts according to such property as he is in each place and as he is enkindled in each Body these Salts are only the Taste in the seven Properties 43. Now if the Mercury be too vehemently enkindled in the Cold then he maketh in the Salnitral Flagrat in his Mother in the Sulphur a cold hard Impressive Salt whence Melancholy Darkness and Sadness do arise in the Life of Sulphur for look what Salt is in each thing even such a lustre of
introduce the Eternal Nature through the Mortification into Desire and thereby doth bring it self forth higher viz. in Power and Majesty the like is to be considered in all things for all things arise out of one only Being the same is a Mystery of all Beings and a manifestation of the Abyss in Byss 75. All things are generated out of the Grand Mystery and proceed out of one degree into another now whatsoever goeth forwards in its degree the same receiveth no Abominate let it be either in Vegetables or Animals but whatsoever entereth in it Self into its Self-hood viz. into its own Lubet the same receiveth in passing through the Degrees the Abominate for each Form of Nature out of the Mystery receiveth of its property in its Hunger and therein it is not annoyed or molested for it is of their property 76. But if the Will entereth back again into the Birth of the other Properties then it receiveth the Lust and the Lust maketh an Hunger and the Hunger receiveth strange Essence into it self Here now is the Abominate and Turba born for this Will is entered contrary to the course of Nature into a strange Essence which is not of its property this strange Essence domineereth now in the Strange Will and overcometh the Will now the Will must either cast it out or else it will it self be cast out by the Strange Essence and seeing this also cannot be thereupon ariseth Anger and Enmity 77. For the Properties run to their Centre of their first Impression and Seek the Strength and Might of the Fire whence ariseth the Heat and Cold in the Body and they are in one another as Enemies whereby the first Mother is stirred up in her most wrathful Malice and Malignity according to the austere Impression and then beginneth the Contest for the Conquest and that Property which maintaineth and keepeth its Power and Prevalency casteth the other into Deaths property viz. into the Devoration into the House of Misery CHAP. XV. Concerning the Will of the Great Mystery in Good and Evil shewing whence a good and an evil Will ariseth and how one doth introduce it self into the other 1. EVery Property taketh its Original from the first viz. from the first Impression or Desire to Nature viz. out of the Grand Mystery and bringeth forth it self out of it self as the Ayr proceedeth out of the Fire and all whatsoever proceedeth forward in one Will is uncontroulable for it giveth it self to no Property it dwelleth even from the first Original only in it self and goeth forth in one Will and this is the true way of Eternity wherein there is no Corruptibility if a thing remaineth in its own peculiar property for the Great Mystery is from Eternity Now if the Form of the same proceedeth forth and manifesteth it self out of it self then this Form standeth with the Root in the Mystery of Eternity but if the Form bringeth it self forth into another Lust so that two Properties must dwell in one then from thence ariseth the Enmity and Abominate for there hath been from Eternity only the one Element in Motion and the free Lubet of Eternity which proceeded forth with its Motion from the Great Mystery of Eternity as a Spirit which Spirit is Gods 2. But when the Great Mystery did once move it self and introduce the free Lubet into the Desire of the Essence then in the Desire the Strife began for there arose in the Desire out of the Element which beareth only one Will four Elements viz. manifold Desires and Wills which rule in one only Body where now there is Contrariety and Strife as Heat against Cold Fire against Water Ayr against Earth each is the Death and Destruction of the other so that the Creature which standeth in this Dominion is nothing else but a continual Dying and a Strife it is an Enmity and contrary Will in it self and cannot be remedied unless it entereth again into one Will which also cannot be brought to pass unless the multiplicity of the Wills be destroyed and wholly dye to the Desire whence the four Elements Arise so that the Will doth again become that which it was from Eternity Herein we men do know what we are in the Dominion of the four Elements nothing else but a Strife and a contrary Will a self-envying a Desire of the Abominate a Lust of Death 3. For the Lust which ariseth out of the Desire must dye if the Will which proceeded out of the great Mystery of Eternity which the Spirit of God breathed into the Image of Man viz. into the Likeness will be freed from the Abominate and Contrary Will then the Desire of the four Elements must dye and the Will must enter again into the one only Element it must again receive the Right of Eternity and act and go forth in one Element in manner also as God created him whom he himself hath opposed and brought himself into the Dominion of the four Elements in which he hath inherited Death and also the Strife in the Forms of Life whence ariseth his Sickness Loathing and Enmity for all whatsoever liveth in Gods Will that is not arisen in the Self-will or if it be arisen therein it is again dead to the own or self-ful Desire 4. Every Will which entereth into its Self-hood and seeketh the ground of its Lifes Form the same breaketh it self off from the Great Mystery and entereth into a Self-fulness it will be its own or of its own self-ful Jurisdiction and so it is Contrary to the first Mystery for the Same is alone All and this Child is accounted evil for it striveth in disobedience against its own Mother which hath brought it forth but if the Child doth again introduce its Will and Desire into that whence it is generated and arisen originally then it is wholly one with the same and cannot be annoyed by any thing for it entereth into the Nothing viz. into the Essence whence it proceeded 5. Thus O Man understand what thou art to do behold thy self in thy Self what thou art whether or no thou standest in the Resignation of thy Mother whereout thou were generated and created in the beginning whether thou art inclined with the same Will if not then know that thou art a rebellious stubborn disobedient Child and hast made thy self thine own enemy in that thou art entered into Self-desire and Will and hast made thy self thy own self ful possession so that thou canst not dwell in the first Mother but in thy Self for thy Will is entered into Self-hood and all that doth vex plague and annoy thee is only thy Self-hood thou makest thy self thy own Enemy and bringest thy self into Self-destruction or Death 6. Now if thou wilt get again out of Death then thou must wholly forsake thy own Self-desire which hath introduced it self into Strange Essence and become in Self-hood and the self-ful Desire as a Nothing so that thou dost no longer will or
be introduced into the Root of his Likeness for every Hunger receiveth its like into it self now the whole manifestation of Eternity with this Time is nothing else but an Hunger and Generation as the Hunger is so is also the Essence of its Satiating for with the Hunger the Creature took its beginning and with the Hunger it entereth into its eternal Being 46. In the Hunger the Spirit with the Body is generated and in the same Hunger it goeth into its eternal Being unless that it breaks its first Hunger and brings it self into another by Mortification else all is at its end so soon as it is born but Death is the only means whereby the Spirit may enter into another Source and Form if it dyeth to its Self-hood and breaketh its Will in Death then a new Twig springeth forth out of the same but not according to the first Will but according to the Eternal Will for if a thing entereth into its Nothing then it falleth again to the Creator who maketh that thing as it was known in the eternal Will before it was created to a Creature there it is in the right Aym or Limit of Eternity and hath no Turba for it is in Natures End 47. Whatsoever runneth on in Nature tormenteth it self but that which attains Natures End the same is in Rest without Source and yet worketh yet only in one Desire All whatsoever maketh Anguish and strife in Nature that maketh meer Joy in God for the whole Hoast of Heaven is Set and Tuned into one Harmony each Angelical Kingdom into a peculiar Instrument but all mutually composed together into one Musick viz. into the only Love-voyce of God Every string of this Melody exalteth and rejoyceth the other and it is only a meer ravishing Lovely and delightful Hearing Tasting Feeling Smelling and Seeing Whatsoever God is in himself that the Creature is also in its Desire in him a God-Angel and a God-man God All in All and without him nothing else As it was before the Times of this World in his Eternal Harmony or Voyce so also it continueth in the Creatural Voyce in him in his Eternity and this is the Beginning and the End of all Things CHAP. XVI Concerning the Eternal Signature and Heavenly Ioy wherefore all things were brought into Evil and Good 1. THe Creation of the whole Creation is nothing else but a Manifestation of the All-essential unsearchable God all whatsoever he is in his eternal un-inchoative Generation and Dominion of that is also the Creation but not in the Omnipotence and Power but like an Apple which groweth upon the Tree which is not the Tree it self but groweth from the Power of the Tree Even so all things are sprung forth out of the divine Desire and created into an Essence where in the beginning there was no such Essence present but only that same Mystery of the Eternal Generation in which there hath been an Eternal Perfection 2. For God hath not brought forth the Creation that he should be thereby Perfect but for his own Manifestation viz. for the Great Joy and Glory not that this Joy first began with the Creation no for it was from Eternity in the Great Mystery yet only as a spiritual Melody and Sport in it self 3. The Creation is the same Sport out of himself viz. a Platform or Instrument of the Eternal Spirit with which he melodizeth and it is even as a Great Harmony of manifold Instruments which are all tuned into one Harmony for the Eternal Word or divine Sound or Voyce which is a Spirit hath introduced it self with the Generation of the Great Mystery into Formings viz. into an Expressed Word or Sound And as the joyful Melody is in it self in the Spirit of the Eternal Generation so likewise is the Instrument viz. the Expressed Form in it self which the living eternal Voyce guideth and striketh with his own eternal Will-spirit that it soundeth and melodizeth as an Organ of divers and various Sounds or Notes is moved with one only Ayr so that each Note yea every Pipe hath its peculiar Tune and yet there is but one manner of Ayr or Breath in all Notes which soundeth in each Note or Pipe according as the Instrument or Organ is made 4. Thus in the Eternity there is only one Spirit in the whole Work of the divine Manifestation which is the Manifestator in the Expressed Voyce and also in the Speaking Voyce of God which is the Life of the Grand Mystery and of all which is generated from thence He is the Manifestator of all the Works of God 5. All the Angelical Kingdoms are as a prepared Work viz. a Manifestation of the Eternal Sound of the Voyce of God and are as a Particularity out of the Great Mystery and yet are only one in the divine eternal speaking Word Sound or Voyce of God for one only Spirit ruleth them each Angelical Prince is a Property out of the Voyce of God and beareth the great Name of God as we have a Type and Figure of it in the Stars of the Firmament and in the Kingdoms and Dominions upon the Earth among all Generations where every Lord beareth his High Title respective Name and Office So likewise do the Stars in the Firmament which are altogether one only Dominion and have their Princely Dominion in Power under them where the Great Stars bear the Name and the Office of the Forms in the Mystery of the seven Properties and the other after them as a Particularity of Houses or Divisions where every one is a peculiar Harmony or Operation like a Kingdom and yet all proceedeth in one Harmony like a Clock-work which is entirely composed in it self and all the peeces work mutually together in one and yet the great fixed Stars do keep their peculiar property in the Essence of Operation especially the seven Planets according to the seven Properties of Nature as an under-Pregnatress of the Eternal Mystery or as an Instrument of the Spirit out of the Eternal Mystery 6. This Birth of the Astrum doth beget in the four Elements viz. in its Body or Essence Joy and Sorrow and all is very good in it self only the Alteration of the Creature proceedeth from the lustful Imagination whereby the Creature elevates the Wrath of the Fire in the Properties and brings them forth out of the likeness of their Accord Nothing is Evil which remaineth in the Equal Accord for that which the Worst doth cause and make with its coming forth out of the Accord that likewise the Best maketh in the Equal Accord that which there maketh Sorrow that maketh also in the Likeness Joy therefore no Creature can blame its Creator as if he made it evil all was very exceeding good but with its own elevation and departure out of the Likeness it becomes Evil and brings it self out of the Form or Property of the Love and Joy into a painful tormenting Form and Property 7. King Lucifer stood in the beginning of
Type are these two Brothers 81. In what Grace was the first World saved without the Law what was their Justification 82. Was Cain condemned for his sins what was his doubt or despair of Grace 83. Why did God make a mark on Cain and said He that slayeth Cain His blood shall be avenged seven-fold 84. VVherefore said Lamech Cains Successor to his VVives Zilla and Ada Lamech shall be avenged seventy and seven-fold what doth this mean and signifie 85. VVhat was the greatest Sin of the first world 86. VVhat is the Henochian life what is become of Henoch so also of Moses and Elias 87. VVhat doth Noah's Flood Typyfie and point out 88. VVhat doth Noah's Drunkenness signifie by reason whereof he cursed his Son Ham 89. VVhat is the Tower of Babel and wherefore were the Speeches there altered 90. VVhat was the Covenant with Abraham concerning the Blessing and also the Circumcision 91. VVhat Figure is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha how was it effected 92. VVherefore was Lot's wife turned to a pillar of Salt how is it to be understood 93. VVherefore did the Daughters of Lot lie with their Father and first made him drunk that they might be with child by their Father whence arose two potent Nations what doth this Figure signifie 94. What doth the Figure of Moses signifie that he must be drawn out of the River and be preserved to such a Great Office 95. Why did the Lord appear to Moses in a fire-flaming bush when he chose him 96. From what power did Moses do his wonders before Pharaoh 97. What Figure is the departure of the children of Israel out of Aegypt 98. VVherefore must Moses remain forty days upon the Mount Sinai when God gave him the Law 99. VVhat is the Law in one Sum 100. VVhat were the offerings of Moses How was Sin blotted out and appeased through these offerings 101. What is the Ground of the Prophetical prophecyings By what knowledg and Spirit did the Prophets in the Old Testament prophecy 102. VVhat is Christ of whom the Prophets prophecyed in the Old Testament 103. VVhat was John Baptist Christ's fore-runner 104. What kind of Virgin was Mary in whom God became Man before she conceived 105. Why must Mary be first espoused to Joseph before she conceived of the Holy Ghost 106. How was God viz. the word made Flesh what did he assume from man 107. Why would God become Man could not he forgive man his sins without being incarnate 108. How was the Union of the Deity and Humanity brought to pass in this Incarnation 109. How was Christ born of Mary unto this World without the breach of her Virginity how could Mary after the Birth be a Virgin 110. Wherefore did Christ walk forty years upon the Earth before he took his Office wherefore did he encrease in Age and favour with God and Man when as he was himself God and needed no Growing or Encreasing 111. Wherefore did Christ suffer himself to be baptized of Iohn with water when as he himself was the baptisme and the Baptizer who should baptize with the Holy Ghost 112. Wherefore must Christ be tempted forty days after his baptisme in the Wilderness what doth it mean that a God-man should be tempted and wherefore must the Devil tempt him before he began his works of Wonder 113. How was Christ in Heaven and upon the Earth at once 114. Why did Christ Teach before the People of the Kingdom of Heaven in Parables 115. Wherefore did not Christ himself set down his Gospel in writing but only Taught it and left it to his Apostles afterward to write down 116. Wherefore must even the High Priests and Scribes who taught the People gainsay and oppose Christ being always bent to reproach and slay him why must not the worldly Magistrate do it or the common Crue 117. Why was there such a process of Revilings Mockings and Scourging kept with Christ before his Suffering wherefore did God so suffer it to be done 118. Wherefore must even the Teachers of the Law bring Christ to be condemned and yet he must be killed by the Heathenish Magistracy 119. Wherefore must Christ suffer and dye Did God require such an Avengement for to be reconciled and could not he otherwise forgive Sin 120. What is the Figure of the two Murtherers which were hanged with Christ upon the Cross and wherefore must Christ dye upon a wooden Cross and no otherwise 121. How did Christ with his dying flay Death upon the Cross how was that brought to pass 122. Wherefore must Christ be nailed to the Cross and wherefore was Christ's side opened with the Spear from whence ran forth water and blood what doth this signifie in the Figure 123. Wherefore must Christ be reviled upon the Cross 124. Was the Divine Power also in that Blood which he shed forth upon the Earth 125. Wherefore did the Earth tremble when Christ hung upon the Cross 126. What doth the Darkness signifie which at that time came above the ordinary course of Nature 127. Wherefore did Christ in his death commend his Soul into his Fathers hands what is that hand of the Father 128. Wherefore did some convert themselves and Return when they saw those things which were done at the death of Christ and not the High Priests wherefore must they remain blind and hardned as to that work 129. What is the Descending of Christ into Hell where he overcame Death and the Devil 130. How did Christ preach to the Spirits which believed not in the days of Noah 131. What doth Christs Rest in the Grave signifie that he must lie forty hours in the Grave 132. Wherefore must Christ's Grave be guarded with Watchmen what doth it Typifie that the High Priests would withstand and oppose Gods Might and keep Christ in the Grave 133. Wherefore doth the Evangelist say That the Angel rouled away the Great stone from the door of the Sepulchre could not Christ otherwise have risen out of the Grave 134. What is the Power of Christ's Resurrection through death How hath he triumphed over Death in his body what hath he thereby done 135. What Gate hath Christ opened through Death in our Humanity into the Anger and Righteousness of God through which we may enter into God How is this effected 136. What doth the journey or Pilgrimage of the two Disciples from Jerusalem to Emaus signifie where they did bemoan themselves and lament in Great Anguish for their Master and yet Christ walked with them asked them questions and taught them and yet they knew him not 137. Wherefore did Christ first appear after his Resurrection to a Woman and not to the Disciples 138. Wherefore did Christ after his Resurrection eat with his Disciples of the broyled Fish and went in unto them through a shut door and taught them 139. Wherefore did not Christ after his Resurrection shew himself to Every one but only to some 140. Wherefore did Christ after his
Jacob and blesseth the Will introduced to Gods Will that the divine Will yeelds it self freely into the Hunger or incline it self to the Desire and maketh the imperfect Will which earnestly presseth into his Compassion Perfect and then is it rightly said Thou hast wrestled with God and hast overcome then thy Purpose obtaineth a transformed Body which is Heavenly and Earthly 62. Observe it It is the first beginning to Baptism and so you are fit and prepared to the Baptism and not otherwise else you baptize only with the water of the outward World but the true Magus baptizeth with the outward and inward Water if he hath a right divine Desire in him then Gods Will in his Baptism is the first glimmering Tinder in Mercury so that the Life enkindleth Death viz. the Mercury shut up in Death and he getteth divine Desire even then Mercury beginneth to Hunger after divine Essence and doth his first Miracle and turneth the water into wine as Christ did after his Baptism This is the first Tincturation in the dead Corpus in the Power of Baptism that the Vegitta or working energetical Life obtaineth another Property viz. an Hunger of Love wherewith she embraceth her Bridegroom viz. the Fire-Source that he is enkindled in her Love and changeth his cold deadly Wrath and Will into a fiery Love-will then the mortal Water turneth into Wine a sharpness of a fire and water-taste out of which at last cometh an Oyl to another Baptism after the manner and disposition of the Artist viz. according as he intendeth and beginneth after the Magus hath joyned the Virgin and young man together then Christ viz. the Bridegroom is lead with his Bride into the Desart and tempted of the Devil 63. Here is the Tryal whereby the Artist is proved by God what he seeketh with his Baptism for here is the proof in Paradise to try whether the Bridegroom be not too bad for the Virgin casteth her Love upon him and inviteth him if he receiveth it with desire and giveth his Will thereinto then she giveth him her heart and will wholly This is the Heavenly Tincture which giveth it self into the enkindled Anger of God viz. into the Curse of the Earth when God cursed it that is into the Mercury enclosed in Death which is the Bridegroom for the Seed of the Woman viz. the Heavenly Tincture must bruise the Head of the Serpent viz. the poysonful Mercury in the property of Death and change his Poyson into Wine and then the Virgin receiveth the Seed of the Bridegroom and not before 64. The Desart is the earthly outward Body where Mercury is Tempted when the Devil appeareth unto Mercury and plagueth him and assaulteth him in his fiery Essence then must the Virgin come to help him and give him her Love now if the Mercury eateth of the Virgin-like Love that is of Gods Bread then he may stand before the Devil and at last the Angels come to him and serve him the illuminated Magus will well understand what is meant by the Devil 65. Hereby let the Magus in the Temptation seeing the whole Marriage standeth in the Devils Temptation have a careful eye upon his purpose and if the Angels do not appear in forty days space then is his purpose in vain therefore let him look that he suffer not too fierce a Devil to tempt and also not too weak lest Mercury become Light and desire to continue in his own poysonful Deaths property and devour the Baptism as a Wolf and the old one remain 66. So soon as he doth espy the forms of Angels let him bring Christ out of the Desart and let the Bridegroom eat again his own food and dismiss the Devil that he may no longer plague him and then Christ will do many Wonders and Signs at which the Artist will marvel and rejoyce even then he hath nothing to do the Bride is in the Bridegroom they are already married he need only make their Bed ready they will warm it well enough themselves the Bridegroom embraceth the Bride and the Bride the Bridegroom and this is their food and pastime until they beget a Child 67. But if the Artist will needs be so diligent as to warm the married Couples Bed then let him have a care that he do not anger and enrage them in their Love what he beginneth he must go on with only the Bridegroom is wonderful He hath continually two Wills viz. an earthly Hunger after Gods Anger and an Hunger after his Bride therefore he must always have his own earthly Food given him but not into his Belly but Magically that so he may satisfie only his Wills-Hunger His Food is his Mother that begetteth him as is before mentioned 68. In brief the whole Work which men do speak so wonderful much of consists in two things in an Heavenly and in an Earthly the Heavenly must make the Earthly in it to an Heavenly the Eternity must make Time in it to Eternity the Artist seeketh Paradise if he finds it he hath the great Treasure upon the Earth but one dead man doth not raise another the Artist must be living if he will say to the Mountain Arise and cast thy self into the Sea 69. When the Incarnation of the Child beginneth then first of all Saturn takes it and then it is dark and disesteemed and is contemned and derided that such a Mystery should lie hid in such a mean form there Christ walketh in a poor simple form upon the Earth as a Pilgrim and hath not so much room and propriety in Saturn as to lay his Head He goeth as a stranger as if he were not there at home 70. After this the Moon takes it and then the heavenly and earthly Properties are mixed and the Vegetative Life ariseth and then the Artist rejoyceth but he is yet in danger 71. After the Moon Jupiter takes it who maketh an understanding in Mercury viz. a pleasant Habitation and gives him its good will and in Jupiter his Enclosed Life viz. Mercury is quickened who taketh it with its Orb and forceth it into the highest Anguish and then Mars apprehends it and giveth the Fire-Soul to Mercury and in the Flagrat of Mars the highest Life doth enkindle it self and Severs it self into two Essences viz. out of the Love into a Body and out of the Fire into a Spirit then the Life of Love in the fiery Flagrat sinketh downwards and appeareth beautiful but it is Venus a Woman then the Artist supposeth that he hath the Treasure but the Hungry Mercury devoureth Venus and the Child turns to a black Raven then Mars Afflicts Mercury in himself until he grow faint and yeelds himself to Death then the four Elements Depart from him and the Sun receives the Child into its Property and sets it forth in a Virgin-like Body in the Pure Element for in the property of Mars the Light is enkindled and the right Life is born and standeth in the Pure Element no