Nature 18. O Blindness that we know not our selves O thou Noble Man if thou knewest thy selfe who thou art how woulst thou rejoyce How woulst thou give the Devil his Arrant to be gone who day and night endeavoureth to make our Minde Earthly that we should not know our true Native Country out of which we are gone forth 19. O miserable Corrupted Reason if thou knewest but one little sparke of thy first Glory how wouldst thou pant after it 20. How very amiable and blessed is but the glimps of the divine substantiality How sweet is the water of the Eternal Life our of Gods Majesty 21. O! Most worthy Light draw us into thee again we are now with Adam fallen asleep into the Earthly source or quality O! come thou most worthy Word and awaken or raise us up in Christ 22 O! thou most worthy Light for thou art indeed appeared destroy and break now the Devils Power which holdeth us captive break the power and Might of the Antichrist and of Covetousness and deliver us from the Evil one 23. Awaken and raise us up O Lord for we have long slept in the Devils Net in the Earthly source or quality let us yet once see thy salvation 24. Bring forth the New Jerusalem It is Day why should we sleep in the Day 25. O! Come thou breaker through Death Thou Powerful Saviour and Conquerour and break in pieces the Devils Kingdom upon Earth Give us Poor sick Adam yet a Cordial draught out of Sion that we may refresh us and go into our true Native-Country 26. Behold all Mountains and Hills together with the Vallies are full of the glory of the Lord it springeth up as a sprout who will hinder it Hallelujah 27. Now when Adam was fallen asleep he lay in the Mystery as in Gods Wonder what it did with him that was done 28. Thus the incorporated or Imaged Name JESUS moved the Fiat again in two Forms viz in both the Tinctures of the Fire and of the Water 29. For this first Image was now fallen home to the Name JESUS in the word of Life and so now the word of Life was the Second Creator understand with the incorporated or Imaged Name JESUS which would become Man that severed the two Tinctures one from another viz the Tincture of the Fire and of the Light 30. Yet not wholly in the power but in the substantiality for i◠the Substantiality of the Tincture of the Light was the Sulphur of Venus of the Love in which Adam should and could impregnate himselfe The Fires Tincture gave soul and the Lights Tincture gave Spirit 31. Viz an Image according to the outward Image the fire-Life Imagined after the Light-life and the Light-life after the Fire-life viz after the Essential power out of which the Light shineth 32. This was in Adam but One for he was Man and Wife 33. And the word of Life took the Tincture of Venus with the heavenly and earthly Fiat from Adam also a Rib or Bone out of his Side as also the half Cross in the Head 34. Which is the Character of the Holy Trinity Marked by the word of Life viz with the Severe Name of GOD GOTTES which beareth such a Character T. 35. T signifying the Cross of Christ on which he should suffer Death and New regenerate Adam again and in the Name JESU introduce him in Ternarium Sanstum into the Holy Ternary 36. All these the Fiat took into it selfe together with all Essences of the Humane property as also the property of the souls Fire but in Venus's Tincture not according to the might and strength of the Center and Separated it into the whole form of Man 37. Thus was the Woman built with all Members of the feminine properties as they still have them For the Spirit of the great world Spiritus Majoris Mundi had now the strongest Fiat and figured the woman in such a form as it could in possibility 38. For the Angelical Form was gone the propagation must now be in A Beastiall Manner 39. And so also there was given to Adam being he was fallen home to the Earthly Magia a beastial form and shape of Masculine Members and Adams generating was given to the Fiat and that maketh a similitude of him out of him 40. If he had continued heavenly Minded then he had himself generated heavenly but now the Earthly Fiat did it and his outward body hecame a Beast he lost also the heavenly wit or understanding and the Power of the Omnipotency 41. Beloved Reader thus thou art to know that the Second Adam Christ hath not in vain suffered himselfe to be Crucified and with a Speare to be pierced in his side nor hath in vain shed his blood here lyeth the Key 42. Adam was broken in the Side by the Rib for the Woman into that very Side must Longinus's Speare with Gods fierce wrath come for it was come into Adam and out of Maries earthliness into Christs Side also 43. And the Blood of Christ must drown the fierce wrath and take it away from the First Adam for the Second Adam had also Heavenly blood that must drown the Earthly Turba that the first Adam might be whole again 44. Let this be told you ye Children of Men for it is become known in Ternario Sancto in the Holy Ternary and not in Supposition or Opinion it concerneth both Soul and Body take heed what you do 45. Thus now the humane propagation began in a beastial manner for Adam reteined the Limbus and his Eve the Matrix of Venus for the the Tinctures were divided 46. So now Each Tincture is an entire or total Magia viz a desirous longing wherein the Centre of Nature is generated and that in the Sulphur 47. Thus then in the Sulphur is again the desirous Magia together with the Tincture and yet can not come to Life except the Tincture of Fire come into Venus's Tincture and Venus's Tincture can awaken no Life it is too weak so that life cannot be therein 48. And both the Tinctures desire also the Life and so the vehement Imagination of Man and Wife beginneth so that the one desireth to mix with the other 49. For the power of the Essences willeth to be living and the Tincture driveth on that and desireth the same 50. For the Tincture is from or out of the Eternal Life and yet is shut in with the Substantiality and in that respect it willeth to live as it hath done from Eternity 51. And therefore the Man longeth after the Matrix of the Wise and the wife after the Limbus of the Man 52. The Woman hath a Watery Tincture and the Man a fiery the Man soweth Soul and the Woman Spirit and both 〈◊〉 flesh viz Sulphur Therefore is Man and Wife but one Body 〈…〉 together a Child 53. And therefore ought to continue together if they Once Mix for they are become one Body and whosoever mixeth with another or separateth from
destroyed The Eleventh Chapter Of the Benefit and what Profit the Becoming Man or Incarnation and Geniture or Birth of Jesus Christ the Sonne of God is to us poor Children of Eve The Most rich lovely Gate of all 1. WE poor Children of Eve were all Dead in Adam and though we did as it were Live yet we lived onely to this World and Death waited for us and continually devoured One after another and there were no remedy for us if God had not Generated us again out of his Substance 2. We should not in Eternity as to the Body have returned again but our Soul would have Eternally continued in Gods Anger source or quality with all Devils 3. But the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Jesus Christ is become a powerful Substance or Matter to us for for our sakes is God become Man that he might bring our humanity out of Death into himself again and redeem or release our Soule out of the fire of Gods Anger 4. For the Soul in it selfe is a Fire-source or quality and containeth in it selfe the First Principle the harsh astringency which in it self laboureth onely to the Fire 5. But if the Love and Meekness of God become withdrawn from this Souls Birth or Geniture or become infected with a total stern Matter then it continueth a source or quality in the Darkness a totall stern roughness devouring it selfe and yet also in the hunger of the will alwaies thus generating it self again 9. For a thing that hath no beginning nor Ground that hath also no End but it selfe is its Ground it generateth it Selfe 7. And yet we will not say that the Soul hath no Beginning it hath a Beginning but onely according to the Creature not according to the Essence its Essence is from Eternity 8. For the divine Fiat hath comprised it in the Center of the Eternal Nature and brought it into a substantial Substance moreover with the whole Cross with the Character of the Holy Trinity as a Similitude of the Threefold Spirit of the Deity wherein God dwelleth now whether it be done in Love or Anger that is in Light or Fire for in which of them soever it Imagineth of that it becometh impregnated for it is a Magick Spirit a source or quality in it selfe 9. Thus it is the Center of the Eternity a fire of the Deity in the Father yet not in the Fathers Liberty but in the Eternall Nature 10. It is not come before the Substance but in the Substance 11. But Gods Liberty is without or beyond the Substance but dwelleth in the Substance for in the substance God becometh Manifest 12. And there would be No God without the Substance but an Eternal stilness without source or quality 13. But in the source or quality the Fire becometh generated and out of the Fire the Light where then two Substances fever themselves and drive on a Twofold source or quality viz a fierce wrathful hungry thirsty one in the Fire and a Meek lovely yeelding giving oue in the Light 14. For the Light giveth and the Fire taketh away the Light giueth Meekness and out of the Meekness Substantiality that is the Fires food or else it were a dark fierce wrathfull hunger in it self 15. As indeed a Spirit is if it have not the substance of the Light like a loathsome poyson 16. But if it attaineth substance of Meekness then it attracteth that in it selfe and dwelleth therein and useth it for food and also for the Body for it affecteth or infecteth it selfe therewith and impregnateth it selfe for its substance is its satiating or fulfilling and thus the hunger becometh stilled 17. We are to conceive of the humane Soul thus it was taken out of the Center of Nature not out of the Looking Glass of the Eternal as viz out of the source or quality of this world but out of the Eternal Essence of the Spirit or out of the first Principle of the Fathers property as to or according to Nature 18. Not from Substance or from somewhat but the Spirit of the Deity breathed into it the Life understand the Image into Adams selfe out of all the Three Principles It hath breathed into him the Center of Nature as viz the fire source or quality to Life 19. Also the Meekness of the Love out of the substance of the Deity as the second Principle with divine heavenly Subantiality 20. As also the Spirit of this World as the Loaking-Glass or pretotype or prefiguration of Gods wisdom with the Wonders 21. But now the Spirit of this World is by the Devils kindling and poyson which he hath darted thereinto become perished for the Devil dwelleth in this world and is a continual infecter of the outward Nature and property though in the fierce wrath onely viz in the harsh astringent desire he is Mighty powerful 22. But he putteth his Imagination with his false Tincture also into the Love and poysoneth the Souls best Jewel and hath infected Adams soul with his Imagination with his Evil hunger-spirit so that Adams soul lusted after the Earthly source or quality from which Lust it became impregnated with the Earthly source or quality so that the Outward Kingdom became introduced into the Inward whence the Light of the first Principle Extinguished and his divine Substantiality wherein he should live Eternally became shut up in the Earthly Death 23. Thus for this Image and also Soule there was no remedy more unless then the Deity did move it self according to the second Principle viz according to the Light of Life in it and did kindle the substantiality which was shut up in Death again with the Love Glance which was done in the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ 24. And this is the Greatest Wonder that God hath wrought in that he hath moved himself with the Center of the Holy Trinity in the Womans Seed 25. For Gods Heart would not reveal or Manifest it selfe in the Fire as viz. in the Mans Tincture but in the Spirits Tincture viz in Venus in the Love of the Life that the Fire in the Mans Tincture might be apprehended with the Meekness and Love of God 26. For the Eternal Life should and must spring again out of the shut up Death For here hath the Root Jesse and the true Rod of Aaran budded and boarn fair fruit 27. For in Adam the Paradise was shut up in Death when he became Earthly but in Christ that springeth again out of Death 28. From Adam we have all inherited Death but from Christ we inherit the Eternal Life 29. Christ is that virgin-like Image which Adam should have Generated out of himselfe with both the Tinctures 30. But being he could not therefore he was divided and so it must be done through Two Bodies till Shiloh came that is the Sonne of the Virgin which became generated out of God and Man 31. He is the Breaker through of which the Prophets spake saying He shooteth up
be manifest to â—imselfe but his wisdome is from Eternity become his Ground or Byss 26. After which therefore the Eternal willing of the Abyss of the Deity hath pleased to Long from whence the divine Imagination hath existed so that the Abyssal will of the Deity hath thus from Eternity in the Imagination with the power of the Avision or Aspect or form of the Looking-Glass of Wonders impregnated it self 27. Now in this Impregnation of the Eternal Original are two Principles to be understood viz First the Eternal Darkness out of which the Eternal world Originateth it selfe and the Substantiality of the fierce wrath in the Darkness wherein we understand Gods anger and the Abyss of Nature and thus we know and acknowledge the fiery world to be the Great Life 28. And then also Secondly we understand First how out of the Fire the Light becometh generated And Secondly how between the fiery and light World Death is 29. Thirdly How the Light shineth out of Death and Fourthly How the Light-flaming World is another principle source or quality in it selfe then the fire-world and yet neither is seperated from the other neither can the one comprehend the other 30. Fiâ—thly we understand How the Light-world filleth the Eternal Liberty viz the first willing which is called Father 31. Sixthly Thus we understand also herein Earnestly and fundamentally how that Natural life which will dwell in the Light flaming world must go through death and must become generated or born forth out of Death 32. Seventhly Yet we understand or mean that Life which originally ariseth out of the Darkness viz out of the Essence of the dark substantiality as viz the soul of Man which had out of the fire-world turned it selfe into the Dark substantiality in Adam Eighthly Therefore then we fundamentally and Exactly understand wherefore God viz the Heart of God is become Man 33. And Ninthly wherefore he must of necessity dye and enter into Death and break his Life in Death and afterward bring it through the fiery world into the Light-flaming World And Tenthly wherefore we must thus follow him 34. And Eleventhly we understand further wherefore many souls remain and Continue in the fire-world and cannot go through Death into the light-world Twelfthly what Death is Thirteenthly also what the Soul is This is now as followeth 35. When we consider what the life is we find that it specially consisteth in Three parts viz first in the Desiring Secondly in the Mind Thirdly in the senses or thoughts 36. Now if we search further what that is which giveth or affordeth that then we find the Center viz the Essential Wheel which hath the Fire-Smith in it selfe 37. And then if we consider further whence that Essential Fire existeth we find that it taketh its original in the Desiring of the Eternal abyssal willing which with the desiring maketh to it selfe a Ground 38. For every desiring is attractive or harsh and astringent of that which the will desireth and yet there is nothing for it that it may desire but onely it selfe that is the Great Wonder-Eye Wunder-AVge without limit and ground wherein all lyeth 39. And yet also is a Nothing unless it become in the desiring will made a somewhat which is done by Imagination wherein it becometh a substance whereas yet it is a Nothing for it is onely an overshadowing of the Free-willing 40. Which Substance over-shadoweth the Liberty viz the Thinne unsearchable willing so that two worlds come to be first One which in it selfe is incomprehensible and unconceivable an abyss and Eternal Liberty and Secondly one which comprehendeth and maketh it selfe a Darkness 41. And yet neither is sundred from the other onely this is the difference or distinction that the Darkness cannot comprehend the Liberty for it is too Thinne and dwelleth also in it self as also the Darkness dwelleth in it self The very Earnest Gate 42. Here now we understand First how the Fathers Second Will which in the Looking-Glass of wisdome he sharpeneth to his hearts Center becometh impregnated with the substantiality in the Father Imagination 43. And Secondly that the same impregnation in respect of the liberty of the first will which is called Father is a Darkness and Thirdly How in the Darkness or substantiality all powers Colours and Virtues lie in the Imagination moreover all Wonders 44. And Fourthly we understand How the powers wonders and virtues must be manifested through the Fire viz in the Principle wherein all passeth into its Essence for in the principle the Essence originally ariseth 45. And fifthly we understand very Earnestly and exactly that in the Principle ere the fire ariseth there is a dying viz the great anguish life 46. Which yet is no dying but a harsh astringent stern dying source or quality out of which the great and strong Life ariseth viz the fire-life And sixthly then out of the deadned the sight-Life with the power of the Love 47. Which Light-life with the Love dwelleth in the Eternal Liberty viz in the first willing which is called Father for that the Father in his own willing which is himselfe desireth and nothing more 48. That now understand thus ye see and know that there is no Light without Fire and there is no Fire without the Earnest source or quality which source or quality is like a Dying and the Sabstantiality out of which the Fire burneth must thus also dye and be consumed 49. Out of the Consuming consisteth two Principles of two great Lives One in the source or quality which is called Fire and one out of the vanquishedness viz out of the Death which is called Light which is Immaterial and without source or Quality and yet hath all sources or qualities in it but not the source of the fierce wrath 50. For the fierce wrath is remained in Death and the Light-life groweth out of the Dying as a fair blossome out of the Earth and is no more apprehended by the Dying 51. As then ye see how the Light dwelleth in the Fire and the fire cannot move it and besides that there is also nothing that can move the Light for it is like the Eternall Liberty and dwelleth in the Liberty 52. Here ye understand how the Sonne is another Person then the Father for he is the Light-world and yet dwelleth in the Father and the Father generateth him in his willing and he is rightly the Fathers Love also wonder Council and Power 53. For the Father generateth him in his Imagination in himselfe and bringeth him through his own fire viz through the Principle forth through Death so that the Sonne maketh and is another World viz another Principle in the Father then the fire-world in the darkness is 54. Thus you understand also How the Fathers Eternal Spirit divided it selfe into Three Worlds The First is the Exit out of the Imagination of the first willing of the Abyss Which is called Father in which with the outgoing it openeth the wisdome
Longing Malady The Gate of the New-Man 43. This is now to be understood thus God is become Man and hath introduced our humane soul into the divine substantiality again in Christ that eateth again of the divine substantiality viz of the love and meekness and drinketh of the water-spirit of Eternal Life out of the Eternal wisdome which is the fountaine of divine substantiality 44. That same soul of Christ hath gotten divine heavenly flesh and Bloud on it together with the word which is the Center of the Light-world which therein Imagineth or longeth after the poor Captive Souls that very Word dwelleth in the divine substantiality and in the virgin of Wisdom 45. But came into Mary and took our own Flesh and Bloud into the divine substantiality and brake and destroyed the power which held us captive in the anger of Death and of the fierce wrath on the Cross viz in the Center of Nature of the Original in the Fathers Eternal willing to Nature out of which our soul was taken 46. And kindled in that same Essence viz in the souls dark fire the burning Light fire again and brought the other or second willing of the soul through the fire of God viz quite forth out of the Original into the burning white clear bright Light 47. And when Nature in the soul found this it became richly full of Joy it brake Death in pieces and sprouted with Gods power forth into the Light world and made out of the fire a Love-desire so that in Eternity no fire more is perceived or known but a great and strong will in the Love after its sprouts and branches viz after our souls 48. And this is that which we say God thirsteth after our souls He is become our stock we are his sprouts and branches 49. As a stock alwaies giveth its sap to the Branches so that they live and bear fruit to the Glory of the whole Tree so doth also to us our stock the Lord JESUS CHRIST in the Light world which hath manifested himself in our souls he will have our souls viz his Branches 50. He is entered into Adams place or sted who hath destroyed us he is become Adam in the Regeneration 51. Adam brought our souls into this world into the Death of the fierce wrathfulness and he brought our soul out of Death through the Fire of God and kindled it in the Fire again so that it attained the shining Light again whereas else it had continued in the Dark Death in the Anguish source or quality 52. And now at present it lyeth onely in our selves Entering in that we onely follow after in the same way which he hath made 53. We need onely to cast our Imagination and Total willing into Him which is Called Glauben Believing or Faith and to oppose the Old Earthly willing and so we conceive or receive the Spirit of Christ out of the Regeneration which draweth heavenly substance into our soules viz Christs heavenly flesh and Bloud 54. When the Soul tasteth that then it breaketh through the dark Death in it self and kindleth the Fire of Eternity in it selfe out of which the shining Light of the Meekness burneth 55. That same very Meekness draweth the Soul again into it selfe viz the souls Fire and swalloweth the same up into it selfe and giveth forth out of the Death the Life and Spirit of Christ 56. Thus that same Spirit which goeth forth out of the Eternal fire dwelleth in the Light world with God and is the right Image of the Holy Trinity 57. It dwelleth not in this world the body apprehendeth it not but the Noble Minde wherein the soul is a Fire that apprehendeth it yet not palpably 58. Indeed the Noble Image dwelleth in the souls fire of the Minde but it hovereth therein as the light in the Fire 59. For while the Earthly Man liveth the soul is continually in hazard or Danger for the Devil hath Enmity with it who continually casteth forth his streames with false and wicked Imaginations into the starry and Elementary spirit and reacheth or graspeth therewith after the souls Fire and willeth continually to infect the same with Earthly devils longing and Malady 60. There must the Noble Image defend it self against the Souls fire and there it costeth striving and fighting for the Angels Garland there riseth up often in the Old Adam Anguish doubting and unbelief when the Devil sets upon the soul 61. O thou Cross of Christ how heavy art thou ofentimes how doth the heaven hide it selfe but so the Noble Grain is sown when that is sprung up then it bringeth forth much faire fruit in Patience Thus every little sprout groweth in the soule out of the divine wisedom 62. It must all press forth out of the Anguish Chamber as a sprout out of the root of the Tree it is all generated in the anguish 63. if a Man will have divine knowledge he must very many times go into the anguish-Chamber into the Center for Every sparckle of the Divine Ingenium wit skil or understanding out of Gods wisedom must become generated out of the Center of Nature else it is not permanent or Eternal 64. It must out of the Eternal Ground stand upon the Eternal Root and so it is a Sprout in Gods Kingdome out of Christs Tree 65. Thus we understand the Dying what it is and wherefore Christ must have dyed and why we must all dye in Christs Death if we will possess his Glory 66. The Old Adam cannot do that he must again into that out of which he is gone forth he shall be tryed through the fire of God and give up the wonders again which he hath swallowed up 67 They must come again to Man and appear to Man according to his will so far as he hath here made them in Gods willing but so for as to Gods dishonour so they belong to the Devil in the Abyss 68. Therefore let every one look to it what they here doe and make with what Minde and Conscience he speaketh doth and â—â—nye seth it shall all be tryed through the Fire 69. And what is capable of the Fire that it shall devour and give it to the Abyss in the Anguish of that a man shall have loss and hurt and shall want it in the other world 70 Instead of having Joy that he was a Labourer in the Vineyard of God he will be found to be a sluggish servant 71. Therefore will also the power Might clarity and brightnesse in the wonders of the divine wisdome in the other world be very unlike and different 72. Many is here a wiched King but in the other world to come a swine-heard shall be preferred before him in the Clarity brightnesse and Wisdome the Cause is his wonders wil be given to the Abyss being they were Evil. 73. Behold ye dear Men I shew ye a similitude of the Angelicaâ— world behold the flowery blossoming
Inability that is Being or Substance 16. For the Spirit ariseth in the Fire but it severeth it selfe into two Sources or Qualities as one into the Fire and one in the sincking down into the Liberty into the Light 17. This is called God for it is Meek and Lovely and hath in it self the Kingdom of Joy and the Angelical world is understood in the sunk down Liberty of the Substantiality 18. Therefore when we were gone out from the Liberty of the Angelical Substantiality into the Dark source or quality whose Abysse was the Fire then there was no Remedy unless the Lights power and Word as a word of Divine Life became a Man and brought us out of the darkness through the fire source or quality through the Death in the fire a-again into the Liberty of the divine Life into the divine Substantiality 19. And Therefore must Christ dye and with the soul-Spirit go through the Fire of the Eternal Nature viz through Hell and the fierce wrath of the Eternal Nature and enter into the Divine Substantiality and break open a way for our souls through the Death and Anger through which we may with and in him enter through death into the Eternall Life 20. But concerning the divine Substantiality viz concerning the divine Corporeity we are to understand as followeth 21. VVe understand that the Light giveth Meekness viz Love Now the fires anguish desireth Meekness that it may slake its great Thirst for the fire is desirous and the Meekness is giving for it giveth it self 22. Thus in the desiring of Meekness cometh to be substance or Being viz a substantial Essentiality which is sunk down from the fierce-wrath which giveth its own Life freely and that is Corporeity for out of the power in the Meekness it becometh substantial and is by the Astringency as by the Eternal Fiat attracted or put on and retained 23. And is therefore called Substantiality or Corporeity because it is sunk down from the fire source or quality and Spirit and is in respect of the spirit as mute or inanimate Dead and impotent whereas Yet it is an Essential Life 24. Understand us aright thus when God created the Angels there were onely Two Principles manifested and in Being or Substance viz that in the Fire and that in the light viz One in the fierce wrathful Substantiality in the stern astringent Fiat with the forms of the fires Nature 25. And then that in the Heavenly substantiality out of the Holy Power with the water source or quality of Meekness of the Life of Joy in which the divine Sulphur as in the Love and Meekness was generated its Fiat was Gods desiring will 26. Out of this divine Substantiality viz out of Gods Nature the Angels as Creatures were Created and the source or quality of their Spirit and Life ariseth in the Fire 27. For without Fire no Spirit doth subsist and if it go out of the Fire into the Light there it obtaineth the love source or quality and the fire becometh onely a cause of its Life but the fires fierceness becometh quenched with the Love in the Light 28. But Lucifer dispised this and continued in the Fire-Spirit and so Elevated himself also and kindled the substantiality in his Place out of which Earth and Stone came to be and he was thrust out and so the Third Corporeity and the Third Principle began together with the Kingdom of this world 29. So when the Devil was thrust out into the Darknesse then God Created another Image according to his similitude in this Place 30. But if it must be Gods similitude according to all the Three Principles then must it also be taken out of all the Three and out of All Beings or Substances of this Place or of this Deep as far as the Fiat had with Lucifers Principality given it self into the Ether to the Creation 31. For Man came in the sted of Lucifer and hence ariseth also the Envy of the Devils that they cannot afford Man that Honour but leade him continually into the Evil way of perdition whereby they may but increase their Kingdom and they do it as a spite against the Meeknesse viz the love of God supposing that seeing they live in the fierce strong Might that they are higher then the Spirit of God in the Love and Meekness 32. Understand it thus Gods Will-Spirit viz the Holy Spirit hath comprised the Two-fold Fiat in two Principles viz in the Angelical world the Inward and in this outward world the Outward and Created den Mesch oder Menschen as a Mixt person for The Mixture or Man he should be an Image according to the Inward and outward world but should with the inward source or quality rule over the outward thus he should have been the similitude of God 33. For the outward Substantiality hung to the Inward and the Paradise grew through the Earth and Men in this world upon the Face of the Earth was in Paradise for Paradisical fruit grew for him till the Fall when the Lord Cursed the Earth 34. Then Paradise passed into the Mystery and became a Mystery or hidden secrecy to Man whereas yet if he be born of God again according to the Inward Man he dwelleth in Paradise but according to the Outward he dwelleth in this world 35. VVe are further to consider the Beginning and Original of Man thus God hath created his Body out of the Matrix of the Earth out of which the Earth was Created 36. All was together one in another and yet parted it self into Three Principles of a Threefold Substantiality and yet that in the fierce wrath was not known 37. Now if Adam had continued in Innocency he had lived the whole time of this world only in Two Principles and had ruled with one over all and the fierce wrathful Kingdom had not been known or manifested in Him though indeed he had it in him 38. And we are to understand furthee that Adams Body was Created out of the Inward Element wherein the Inward Firmament and Heaven together with the Heavenly Essences do lye as to one Part by the Inward Fiat 39. And as to the other Part he was created by the outward Fiat out of the outward Four Elements and out of the Constellation or Astrum for in the Matrix of the Earth they stood one among another The Paradise was therein and the Body was created also in Paradise 40. Understand us aright He had divine and also Earthly Substantiality on him but the Earthly was impotent and as it were swallowed up in the Divine 41. The Substance or matter out of which the Body was Created was a Mass or Lump of fire and water together with the Essences of Both those principles although the First also lay therein but not stirring 42. Every Principle should continue in its seat and should not mixe even as is done in God and then Man were a Total Image according to Gods Being or Substance Of
Tincture is the Matrix which was Impregnated with the substantiality viz with Sulphur in the Fire which yet in Venus's Water cometh to Beeing or Substance 10. The Fire Tincture giveth Soul and the Lights Tincture giveth Spirit and the Water viz the substantiality giveth Body and Mercurius viz the Centre of Nature giveth the wheele of the Essences and the Great life in the Fire and Water heavenly and Earthly and the Sal or Salt Heavenly and Earthly holdeth it in the Beeing or Substance for it is the Fiat 11. For as Man hath the Outward Constellation or Astrum in him which is his Wheel of the outward worlds Essences and Cause of the Minde so also he hath the Inward Constellation or Astrum of the Centre of the fiery Essences as also in the second Principle he hath the Light flaming Divine Essences 12. He had the whole Magia of the Beeing of all Beeings or Substance of all Substances in him it was the possibility in him he could generate Magically for he loved himselfe and desired his likenesse again out of his Centre As he was Conceived from Gods desire and brought forth by the Genetrix in the Fiat so should he also have brought forth his Angelical or Humane Hoast 13. But whether they should all have been generated out of One viz out of that one Princely Throne or successively all one out of another is not needfull to be known for the limit is broken we have enough in the Knowledge in that we know what we are and what our Kingdom is 14. Indeed I find in the Deep in the Centre that one should have proceeded out of the other for the Heavenly Centre hath its Minutes as well as the Earthly which always strike where the Wheele with all the Three Principles always goeth and always one wonder openeth it selfe after another 15. Thus was Mans Image also found and contrived wherein the wonders lie without number they should be opened by the Humane Hoast 16. And clearly in Time one Greater Wonder is opened in one then in another all according to the Heavenly and Earthly Birth and wonderful Variation or Alteration as is done also at this very day that in One more Art and understanding of the Wonders lyeth then in an other 17. Therefore I conclude that one man should have been generated and proceeded from another for the sake of the Great Wonders and for the pleasure delight and joy of Man wherein a Man would have brought forth his like 18. Thus should the Humane Generations have stood in the Generating till God had set the Third Principle of this World again in its own Ether 19. For it is a Globe with Beginning and End for the beginning reacheth to the End that the last may passe into the First thus all is finished ond entire 20. And then will the Middle again be cleared and goe again into that which it was before the Times of this world even all but the Wonders which continue in Gods wisdom in the great Magia standing as a shadovv of this World 21. Now seeing Adam was so Glorious an Image moreover in the sted and place of extruded Lucifer the Devil would not allow or afford him that but Envied it vehemently and set his Vizard and Imagination alwayes before Adam he slipt also with his Imagination into the Earthlinesse of the fruit and Imagined or represented before Adam as if Great Glory did stick in his enkindled Earthliness 22. Though indeed Adam did not know him for he came not in his own Form but the forme of the Serpent as in the form of a Sumptuous Beautiful Cunning Beast and Managed his Apish Sport like a Fowler who deceiveth the fowles and so catcheth them 23. So did he also he infected the Earthly Kingdom with his disease and venome of Pride and halfe killed it as is to be seen in Earth and Stones which though so very much diseased venomed and full of vanity yet would very fain be loosed from the vanity 24. And when it found that Adam was a child of God and had the Glory and the Power then it Imagined or longed vehemently after Adam together with the Kindled Anger of God that also Imagined or longed after Adam to delight it selfe in this living Image 25. All drew Adam and would have him the Kingdom of Heaven would have him for he was created for it 26. Also the Earthly Kingdom would have him for it had one part in him it would be his Lord seeing he was but a Creature 27. Also the fierce wrath set open its Jawes and would be Creaturely and substantial to satiate its great fierce hunger 28. And thus stood Adam in the Trial or Proba for forty Dayes so long as Christ was tempted in the Wilderness and Israel on Moant Siâ—â—i when God gave them the Law to see whether it were possible that this people could in the Fathers source or quality in the Law stand before God 29. And whether Man could have continued in Obedience so as to have set his Imagination upon God so that God should not have needed to become Man for which cause God did such wonders in Egypt that man might see that there is a God and so love and feare him 30. But the Devil was a lyar and deceiver and seduced Israel so that they made a Calf and worshipped it for God now seeing it was not possible for Israel to stand therefore * Moses came from the Mountain with the Tables upon which the Law was written and brake them and slew the worshippers of the Calf 31. So also must not Moses bring this People into the promised Land it could not be JOSUA and lastly JESUS must do it who stood in the Temptation before the Devil and the Anger of God who overcame the Anger and brake Death in peeces as Moses did the Tables of the Law 32. The first Adam now could not stand though the Kingdom of God stood before his Eyes and he in Paradise yet Gods Anger was so very much inflamed that it drew Adam for he was too much kindled in the Earth through the Devils Imagination and strong willing 33. Now saith Reason Had the Devil so great Might yes deare Man Man had it also he can throw down Mountains if he entereth strongly with his Imagination 34. The Devil was also out of the great Magia of God and a Prince or King of this Throne and Entered into the strongest Might of the Fire in a will and entention to be a Lord over all the Hoast of Heaven 35. Thus the Magia became kindled and the Great Turba Generated that had wrestled with Adam to try whether he would be strong enough to possesse the Devils Kingdom and to rule in the same with other Sources or Qualities 36. This Adams Rational Spirit did not understand but the Magick Essences strove against one another whence the whole Lust and the will did exist till Adam began and Imagined after the Earthliness and would have
have suffered it selfe to be impregnated with Earthly seed 94. Here it attaineth the right fires and Mans Tincture so that thus it is also a right Masculine Virgin as Adam was in his Iâ—nocency The Tenth Chapter Of the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Jesus Chrst the Sonne of God and how he lay Nine Months as all the Children of Men shut up in his Mothers Body or Womb and how properly his Becoming Man is 1. MEn have had much disputing about Christs becoming Man but very blindly and have made many Opinions concerning it and so Men have beene turned about with Opinion and have left and let the right becoming Man or Incarnation lye still upon which our Eternal Salvation dependeth 2. Of which all the cause hath been that Men have sought it in outward Wit or Understanding and Art and Not at the right Mark Aim or Place 3. If a Man were entered into Christs becoming Man or Incarnation and were born of or out of God it would need no disputing for the Spirit of God openeth to every one the becoming Man or Incarnation even in himself and without this there is no finding it 4. For how will we find in this Worlds Reason that which is not in this World we find in the outward Reason scarce any Glimps thereof but in Gods Spirit is the right finding 5. The becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ is such a Mystery as which the Outward Reason knoweth nothing of for it is done in all the Three Principles and cannot be searched out unless a man know the first Man in his Creation before the Fall 6. For Adam was to generate the Second Man with the Character of the Holy Trinity out of himselfe in which the Name JESUS was Imaged or Incorporated 7. But that could not be and therefore must another Adam come in whom it was possible for Christ is the Virgin-like Image with the Character of the Holy Trinity he is conceived in Gods Love and generated in this world 8. Adam had divine Substantiality and his soul was out of the first Principle out of the Fathers property and that should have with its Imagination inclined it selfe into the Fathers Heart viz into the Word and Spirit of Love and purity and have eaten of the Substantiality of Love and then it had reteined Gods Substance in the Word of Life in it selfe and would have been impregnated with the power out of the Heart of God 9. Whence then it should have Imagined out of it selfe into â—s substantiality and it selfe have impregnated its Substantiality so that a whole similitude according to the first Image would have Existed through the Imagination and the yeelding up of the Soul into it and be conceived in the power of the Substantiality 10. But being this could not be done in Adam because of the Earâ—â—liness which clave to him therefore it was done in the Second Adam Christ who was in such a manner conceived through Gods Imagination and entering into the Image of the first Adam 11. And it is known to us that being the first Adam had fixed his Imagination in the Earthliness he is become Earthly and that done against the purpose of God yet the purpose of God must stand 12. For here God set his purpose in Adams Child and brought his Imagination into the perished Image and Impregnated the same with his divine power and Substantiality and Converted the Souls will out of the Earthliness into God so that thus Mary became Impregnated with such a Childe as Adam should have been impregnated with 13. Which selfe ability could not effect but sunk down into sleepe viz into the Magia where then the Woman was made out of Adam which should not have been Made but Adam should himselfe have impregnated in Venus's Matrix and have generated Magically 14. But seeing that might not be therefore was Adam divided and his own wilâ— of Great Might and power was broken in him and shut up in Death 15. And seeing he would not set his Imagination into the Spirit of God therefore must his great Might and power in Death hold still and let the Spirit of God set his Imogination into it and do with it what he will 16. Therefore Gods Spirit awakened the Life to him out of that Death and became the Spirit of that Life that the Image and Similitude according to God which was known from Eternity in Gods wisdom might yet be generated and subsist 17. For it stood before the time of the World and from Eternity in the Virgin-Looking-Glass in the wisdom of God and that in two Forms 18. Viz according to the First Principle of the Father in the Fire and in the second Principle of the Sonne in the Light and yet was onely Manifest in the Light and in the Fire as it were in a Magia viz in a possibility 19. As the Starry Heaven modelleth to Man a figure in sleep in his Minde according to its ability or possibility so also hath the Image in the Center of the Fires Nature appeared altogether Invisibly 20. But in the wisdom in the Looking-Glass of the Deity it hath appeared as an Image like a shadow yet without Material Substance and yet hath been in the Essence of that Spirit 21. Which if it had discerned it selfe in the Looking-Glass of the wisdome it would have known and seen this Image and would once have set its will thereinto to bring it into Substantiality that God might have an Image or similitude in Substance where it might not need any more to see it selfe as in a Looking-Glass but find it selfe in Substance 22. Therefore seeing the first Image Imagined into the stern Might and power and thereupon became Earthly and Dead Gods Spirit brought its will and life into Death and took to it selfe again the first Life out of Death that the first Life might stand in full obedience before it and that it alone may be the Will and the Deed. 23. Thus it is known to us that God hath Entered into the halfe dead Image understand into Mary and even into that virgin-like form which lay shut up in Death wherein Adam should have become impregnated and generated an Image of himselfe in the Virgin-like Chastity 24. In this shut up Virgin-like half dead Matrix is Gods Word or Heart viz the Center of the Holy Trinity become a Humane Image without hurt to his Substance 25. And whereas the first living Virgin-like Matrix in Adam would not be obedient to God yet now when it was again awakened and raised out of Death it became Obedient and gave it selfe totally humbly and willingly into Gods will and thus now the right Virgin-like Image became figured into the Obedience of God again 26. For the first will must remain in Death which Imagined against Gods will and a pure Obedient will became awakened which might remain in the heavenly Meekness which would no more suffer the Image in the fire in the Fathers part to
flow up in it self but would remain in one souce or quality 27. Even as the Deity bringeth its Life but into ONE onely source or quality viz into the Light into the Holy Spirit and yet carrieth on his Dominion over all the Three Principles 28. Also we are to understand concerning Christs becoming Man or Incarnation that when Gods Spirit awakened again the Virgin-like Life in Mary which in the Earthly Essence lay shut up in Deaâ—h and fierce wrath then that Life hence-forward turned it self onely into the ONE onely will viz into Gods Love and gave it selfe up to the Spirit of God 29. Thus that Life became impregnated of a right virgin-like Image which should have been with Adam but was not done 30. For the one Imagination received the other Gods Imagination received the Imagination in Death and brought it to Life again that Life Imagined again into God and became Impregnated with God and became out of the Deity and Humanity ONE Person 31. The Deity hung to the heavenly Substantiality which hath ever been from Eternity with the Kingdom Power and Glory viz the Kingdom of Paradise and the Angelical World viz the Spirit and the Seaven forms in the Center of Nature as in the Third Part or Book of the Threefold Life is mentioned with all Circumstances 32. And the Humanity hung to the Kingdom of this world but when the will of the humanity gave it selfe up into the Deity then this virgin-like Image in Christ Jesus came to be onely a Guest in this world and his Deity was a Lord over this World 33. For thus it was to be in Adam also that the lesser and impotent should be subject to the greater and Omnipotent 34. But Adams will went into the less and impotent end therefore he became altogether impotent and fell downe into sleep and home again to the Creator 35. But with Christ this Image remained standing in the Divine Wisdome and the Earthly source or quality hung to it in the Office and Manner of a Servant but now no more as a Lord as it was over Adam and Mary his Mother before the high blessing opening of the Deity but as a Servant for this Image became now in Gods Spirit and Might a Lord over the Third Principle of this World Qustion 36. Now saith Reason How is it come to pass in this becoming Man or Incarnation Was then the Life so suddenly with the Point of Conception become stirring above the Naturall Course so that that Part of Mary viz the Womans seed instantly lived Answer 37. No for it was an Essential seed and became in its Natural Time stirring with Soul and Spirit as all Adams Children 38. But that part of the Deity environed with divine Substantiallty and wisdome liveth from Eternity to Eternity 39. The Deity went not to nor fro what it was that it remained to be and what it was not that it came to be 40. It gave it selfe with divine Substantiality into the Essence and Substantiality of Mary and Maries Essence and Gods Essence became one Sonne 41. But Maries Essences were Mortal but Gods Essences were Immortal 42. Therefore must Maries Essences dye on the Cross and go through Death into Life to which Gods Essences did help else it had been impossible 43. Thus Gods Essence helped us and still always helpeth us through Christ into Gods Essence and Life again 44. Thus we konw the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ to be natural as of all the Children of Men for the heavenly divine Subsstantiality hath given it selfe with its Life into the Earthly halfe dead subtantiality 45. The Lord gave himselfe to be under the Servant that the Servant might become living and is in like manner in Nine Moneths become a perfect Man and also continueth a True God and is also after the Manner and way of all Adams Children become born into this World through that very way and passage as all Men are 46. And that therefore Not that he needed it he could have been born Magically but he would not nor should not for he was to heal our impure Birth or Geniture and Entrance into this Life 47. He should enter into our Entrance into this World and introduce us out of this World into Gods Entrance and bring us out of the Earthly source or quality 48. For if he had been generated or born Magically after a divine Manner then he had not been Naturally in this World for the heavenly Substantiality must have swallowed up the Earthly source or quality and then he had not been like us 49. How then would he have suffered Death have entred into Death and destroyed it but therefore it was not so 50. He is truely and really the Womans Seed and is entered into this World the Natural way like all Men but yet also is gone forth through death the divine way of the divine Might and Substantiality 51. He is a divine living Substantiality which subsisted in Death and destroyed and despised death and brought the halfe dead humanity through Death into Eternal Life 52. For the Earthly part which he took to himselfe out of his Mother Mary that is to or upon the divine Substance dyed away on the Cross from the Earthly source or quality 53. Thus was the Soul in the Subantiality of God and as a victorious Conquering Prince went into the Hell of Devils that is into Gods Anger and quenched it with Gods love and Meekness of the divine Love-suhstantiality 54. For the Love-fire came into the Anger-Fire and drowned the Anger wherein the Devill would be God 55. Thus was the Devil taken captive with the darkness and lost his Dominion for the sting and the Sword of the Cherubine the staying Angel was here destroyed 56. And this was the Cause that God became Man viz that he might introduce us out of Death into the Eternal Life and quench the Anger which burned in Us with the Love 57. For you must understand us aright how Gods Anger became quenched not with the Mortal Bloud of Christ which he shed upon which the Jews despised him 58. But with the Bloud of the Eternall Life out of Gods substance which was immortal which had in it the fountain of the Water of Eternall Life that became shed upon the Crosse with and under the outward Bloud and when the outward fell to the Earth then fell the Heavenly with it but yet it was immortal 59. Thus the Earth received Christs Bloud whence it Trembled and Quaked for the fierce wrath of God in it became now overcome and the living Bloud came into it which was come out of Gods Substantiality from Heaven 60. That Opened the Graves of the Saints and Opened Death and made a Path through Death so that Death was made a shew of in Tiumph 61. For when Christs Body arose from Death then he bare Death as a Spectacle or shew on his Body for its Might was broken or
like a Plant or sprout he sprouteth as a Juniper Tree in Gods substance 32. He hath with his entrance into the humane halfe dead Essence broken or destroyed death for he sprouted at once both in the humane and divine Essence 33. He brought to us along with him in our Humanity the virgin-like Chastity of the wisdome of God he environed our souls Essence with heavenly substantiality 34. He was the Champion or Saviour in the Battel where the two Kingdoms lay together in strife viz Gods Anger and Gods Love he gave himselfe willingly up into the Anger and quenched it with his Love understand in the humane Essence 35. He came out of God into this world and assumed our Soul into himselfe that he might introduce us out of the Earthliness of this world again in himselfe into God 36. He generated us again a new in himselfe that we might be capable to live in God 37. Out of his will begat he or generated he us that we should put our will into him and then he bringeth us in himselfe to the Father into our Native Country again viz into Paradise out of which Adam went forth 38. He is become our Fountain his water springeth up in us he is our Spring and we are Drops in him he is become the fulness of our substantiality that we in him may live in God 39. For God is become Man he hath introduced his abyssal immensurable substance into the Humanity his Substance which filleth the Heaven that he manifested in the Humanity 40. Thus the Humane Substance and Gods substance are become one substance one fulness of God our substance is his moving in his Heaven 51. We are his Children his Wonder his moving in his abyssal Body 42. He is Father and we his Children in him we dwell in him and he in Us we are his Instrument wherewith he seeketh and maketh what he will 43 He is the Fire and also the Light together with all substance or every thing He is hidden and the Work maketh him Manifest 44. Thus we know that God is a Spirit and his Eternal Will is Magicall that is desirous he alwayes maketh substance out of Nothing ond that in a twofold source viz according to the Fire and Light 45. Out of the fire cometh fierce wrath climing up Pride willing not to unite it selfe with the Light but a fierce wrathful Eager Earnest will according to which he is not called God but a fierce wrathful consuming Fire 46. This Fire also becometh not manifest in the pure Deity for the Light hath swallowed up the Fire into it self and giveth to the Fire its Love its substantiality its water so that in Gods substance there is onely Love Joy and a pleasant habitation and no fire known 47. But the Fire is onely a Cause of the desirous Will and of the Love as also of the Light and of the Majesty else there would be no substance As it hath been largely expounded in the former writings 48. And now it is known to Us wherein our New Regeneration standeth even while we are yet in this world covered with the Earthly Tent or Tabernacle and are fallen home to the Earthly life viz meerly in the Imagination that wee with our will enter into Gods will and wholly unite and give up our selves into Him which is called Faith or Beleeving 49. For Word Faith or Glauden Believing is not Historical but it is a receiving out of Gods Substance to Eat of Gods Substance to introduce Gods substance with the Imagination into the Souls Fire to still its hunger therewith and so to put on the Substance of God 50. Not as a Garment but as a Body of the Soul the Soul must have Gods Substance in its Fire it must Eat the Bread of God if it will be a Child 51. Thus also it becometh New born in Gods Spirit and Substance which Spirit it transplanteth out of the soyl of the fierce wrath and Anger into the soyl of Love Meekness and humility of God and blossometh forth with a new blossom in Gods soyl or field 52 And that blossome which groweth in Gods Love is the right true Image of the Deity which God desired when he Created Adam to or in his likeness that now hath Gods and Mans Sonne Regenerated to us again 53. For his Regeneration out of God and out of our Substance is our Regeneration his power Life and Spirit is all ours 54. And we need do no more to it but that we onely and meerly enter with our will-Spirit through him into Gods substance and so our Will becometh generated in Gods will and receiveth divine power and substance 55. Not strange substance but our first with which we with Adam entered into Death and that awakeneth and raiseth up again to us the first born out of the Dead which is Christus Christ 56. He is God but yet is generated or born out of us that he might make us living from or out of the Death 57. Not any strange Life which we have not had in this World but our own Life for Gods purpose must stand 58. The fait blossome and Image must grow out of the Corrupted soyl and not onely so but also out of the pure Soyl. 59. We must be generated or Born of or out of the Virgin not out of the Man of the Anger out of the Fires Tincture but out of the Lights Tincture 60. We put on the Virgin of Christ with our giving up our selves thereinto 61. We herewith become the Virgin of Modesty and Chastity and purity in Ternario Sancto in the holy Ternary in the Angelical world a Looking-Glass of the Holy Trinity whetein God beholdeth himselfe and which he hath taken to him for his Spouse 62. He is our Husband or Man to whom we in Christ have been betrothed Maried and incorporated 63. And We are now Mary in the Covenant of Grace out of which God and Man become generated or born 64. Mary was the first in the high blessing for in her was the Mark at which the Covenant aimed or pointed 65. She was known in God in the highly precious Name JESU before the foundation of the World was laid 66. Not that she brought the Life out of Death but that God in her would bring the Life out of Death and therefore she became highly blessed and the pure virgin Modesty was put on to her 67. And out of that Virginity out of which Christ became Generated or born we all must be generated or Born for we must become Virgins and follow after the Lamb of God else we shall not see God For Christ saith Ye must be generated or born anew if ye will see the Kingdom of God through water and the holy Spirit 68. The water is the Virginity for the Virgin bringeth the Lights and Waters Tincture viz Love and Meekness 69. And the Spirit out of which we must become generated or Born is that which gave it selfe into
the Womans seed with the Moving of the Deity which brake or destroyed Death which out of the water bringeth forth a Light-flaming Blossome wherein he is the spirit and life of the blossome 70. Not according to the Fire-source or quality of the fierce wrath but according to the Quality of the Light in the Meekness and humility The Twlefth Chapter Of the Pure Virginity How we poor Children of Eve must be conceived out of the pure Virgin-like Modesty or Chastity in the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and be new born in God else we shall not see God 1. WE poor Children of Eve finde in us no pure virgin-like thoughts for Mother Eve which was a Woman hath made us all Feminine and Masculine 2. We are in Adam and Eve all become Men and Women except we enter into the heavenly virginity with our desiring Will in which God hath generated us out of Christ to be Virgins again 3. Not according to the Earthly Life in which there is no Modesty Chastity and purity but according to the Life of the Heavenly Virgin in which Christ became a Man and which with the Over-shadowing of the Holy Ghost became put on to Mary which is without ground limit and End which every where standeth before the Deity which is a Looking-Giass and representation or express Image of the Deity 4. Into this Virgin wherein the Holy Tinity dwelleth wherein we were discerned or discovered before the times of the world by the Spirit of God and were know in the Name of JESU we must Enter with our Will-Spirit 5. For our true Image in which we are the similitude of God is with Adam and Eve extinguished to Us and become Earthly 6. Which is done through Lust or Imagination and so Gods clear Countenance became covered for we lost the heavenly Modesty or Chastity 7. But seeing God for us hath out of his favour and Love opened his clear countenance towards us again in the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and so now it lyeth in this that as we in Adam have imagined into the earthly longing whence we are becom Earthly so we now set our desiring will in the havenly Virgin and bring our longing thereinto and then our Image goeth out from the Earthly Woman and conceiveth the virgin-like Essence and property wherein God dwelleth wherein the souls Image may attain the Countenance of God again 8. Outward Reason saith how may that come to pass that we might be born again out of the Virgin out of which Christ was born It understandeth solely Mary but we understand not the Mary which is a creaturely Virgin 9. For as we also in the immaterial Virgin-like modesty or chastity became Creaturely Virgins so if we enter into the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ not according to the outward Life in the four Elements but according to the Inward in the One Element where the Fire of God swalloweth up the four Elements into it self and yet in his Light viz in the second Principle wherein the outward Man and Woman must go through death in Christs resurrection as a virgin in the one Element wherein all the four lye hidden we then grow forth and spring in the Right viâ—gin-like wisedome of God 10. We must dye away from the Man and the Woman and Crucifie the Corrupt Adam he must die with Christ and be cast into the Fathers Anger 11. That swalloweth up the Earthly Man the Earthly Woman and giveth to the soul out of the becoming Man or Incarnation of Chrâ—st a virgin-like Image wherein the Man and the Woman is but one only Image with one only Love 12. Now the Man sets his Love in or upon the Woman and the Woman in or upon the Man but if both the loves be turned into one there is then no desire of Co-mixture more in the one onely Image but the Image loveth it selfe 13. But now the Image in the beginning was Created in the virgin-like wisedome of God viz out of the divine substantiality 14. And now because the substance was become Earthly and fallen into death therefore the Word which became Man awakened and raised it up again and so the Earthly source or quality remaineth with death in the Anger and the raised remaineth in the word of life in the virgin-like Modesty or chastity 15. And so we bear here in this World a two fold Man in one Person viz a virgin-like Image born out of the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and an Earthly Image Masculine and Feminine shut up in Death and in the Anger of God 16. The Earthly must bear the Cross and suffer it selfe to be scorned persecuted and afflicted in the Anger and becometh at length given to Death and then the Anger swalloweth it up into the sourcive qualifycating fire of God 17. And so if the word of Life which in Mary became Man is together in the Earthly Image then Christ who wrought the word of Life out of God riseth up from Death and bringeth the Essence of the sourcive or Qualificating fire understand the humane Essence out forth from Death 18. For he is arisen out from Death and liveth in God and his life is become our Life and his death our Death we are buried in his death and sprout forth in his resurrection and victory in his Life 19. But understand the meaning right Adam was the virgin-like Image he had peculiar Love of his own for the Spirit of God had breathed it into him for what other can the Spirit of God breath out of it self then what it selfe is 20. But now that is All and yet all sources or qualities are not called God but in all sources or qualities there is but one onely Spirit which is God viz according to the second principle in the Light yet there is no Light without Fire 21. But in the fire he is not the love-Spirit or Holy Ghost but the fierce wrath of Nature and a cause of the Holy Spirit an Anger and a Consuming fire 22. For in Fire is the Spirit of Nature Free and yet the Essentiall fire also giveth or affordeth Nature and is it selfe Nature 23. And yet we understand but one holy Spirit in the Light though indeed all is but one substance yet we understand that the Matter which is generated out of the Meekness of the Light is as it were impetent and obscure which the fire draweth and swalloweth up into it selfe 24. But giveth forth out of the Material source or quality out of the fire a mighty potent Spirit which is free from the Matter and also from the fire and though the fire reteineth it yet it apprehendeth not its source or quality 25. As we see that the Light dwelleth in the Fire and yet hath not the source or quality of the Fire but a Meek love-source or quality which also would not be if the Matter were not dead and consumed in the Fire 26. Thus we consider and conceive
of the first Adam he was contrived or Imagined out of the Lights Essence and substantiality but being he was to go into a Creature and was to be a total or entire Similitude of God according to all substances according to all the Three Principles therefore he became also apprehended with the word Fiat in all substances of all the Three Principles and was brought into a Creature 27. Now certainly all the three Principles were free in Him and stood one in another each in its Order and so he was a right totall or entire similitude of God according to and out of the substance of all substances 18. But we are to know and observe How the Third Principle viz the source or quality of this world in the kindling of Lucifer became totally fierce wrathful thirsty and base or Evill and instantly in Adam thirsted after the Second Principle viz after the heavenly Matter whence the Longing in Adam Existed for the source or quality of the pure Love out of the Holy Spirit had refused that 29. But when the Love entered into the Earthly source or quality to satisfie it in its kindled thirst then the pure Material love conceived or received the desirous Earthly perished Cortupt Longing 30. And then the second Principle Extinguished not as a Death as that it were become a Nothing but it became caprivated in the fierce wrathful thirst 31. Now then seeing God is a Light the pure Love-source or quality stood as shut up in Death without the Light of God 32. And now the Image was perished and captivated in the fierce wrath of God and the Own selfe-love lost its might and strength for it was shut up in the perished corrupt Earthliness and loved Earthlness 33. Thus a Woman or Wife must be made out of this Image and the Two Tinctures viz the fires Essence and the Matrixes watery Essence must be parted viz into a Man and a Woman 34. Whereas yet the Love thus became moving in a twofold source or quality and so one Tincture loved and desired the other and mingled together whence the Generation was to be propagated and maintained 35. But now this Generation of Men thus in the Earthly source or quality could not know or see God for the pure Immaculate Love was shut up in the Earthly thirsty source or quality and was shut up and captivated in the fierce wrath of the Eternal Nature which Lucifer had kindled for the fierce wrath had attracted the love with the Earthliness into it self 36. That now in the captivated love stood the virgin-like Mcdesty or Chastity of the wisdome of God which to Adam was with the second Principle with the heavenly substantiality together incorporated to his body and much more the Spirit of the Meek substantiality through the breathing in of the Holy Spirit which was breathed into Adam 37. And so now ther was no Remedy unless the Deity awakened it selfe in the divine Virgin according to the second Principle in the virginity which was shut up in Death and that another Image came to be out of the First 38. Thus it is sufficiently known and understood by us that the first Image must be given to the fierce wrath wherewith it might quench its thirst and must go into Consumption as into the Essential fire whereas yet the Essence dieth not nor consumeth 39. For which cause God hath appointed a Day wherein he will being the Essence of the Old and first Adam through the fire that it might be delivered or loosed from the vanity viz form the Longing of the Devil and of the Anger of the Eternal Nature 40. And we understand further that God hath again borught into US the life of his Eternal substance when he moved himselfe with his own heart and Word or power of the divine Life in the virginity which was shut up in Death viz in the true pure Love and kindled that again and introduced his heavenly substantiality with the pure Virginity into the virginity which was shut up in Death and hath out of the heavenly and out of the Virginity that was shut up in Death and Anger generated a New Image 41. And then Thirdly we understand that this New Image must through Death and the fierce wrath of the fire be introuduced again into the heavenly divine substantialit in Ternarium Sanctum into the Holy Ternary 42. For the Earthly longing which the Devil had possessed must remain in the Fire and was given to the Devil for food therein he Adams virginity and introduced it out of Death through Gods fire into the divine source or quality 51. Christ is become Adam not the divided but the virgin-like Adam which Adam was before his sleepe 52. He hath introduced the perished-corrupted in Death into Gods fire and hath brought forth the pure virgin-like out of Death through the fire whose Sonne thou art if thou dost not remain lying in Death as rotten wood which cannot qualifie or operate which in the fire giveth no Essence but becometh Dark or black Synder or Ashes Question 53. Now saith Reason how cometh it then seeing I am Christs Member and Gods Childe that I do not find nor feel him Answer 54. Here indeed sticketh the Matter deare defiled piece of Wood smell into thy bolome what is it thou stinkest of Even of Hellish Lust and Longing viz of Hellish voluptuous pleasure Covetousness honour and power 55. Hearken these are the Devils Garment pluck off the Hide or skin and cast it away put thy desire into Christs Life Spirit flesh and bloud Imagine thereinto as thou hast Imagined into the Earthly Longing and so thou wilt put on Christ in thy Body and in thy flesh and blond thou wilt become Christ his becoming Man or Incarnation will instantly unite it self in thee and thou wilt become born or generated in Christ 56. For the Deity or the Word which moved it selfe in Mary and became Man that became Man also in like manner in all Men that had dyed from Adam to that time who had given up and Commended their Spirits into God or into the Promised Messiah 57. And it passed upon all those which were yet to be born out of the Corrupted perished Adam who would but suffer that word to awaken them or arise in them for the first Man comprehendeth also the last 58. Adam is the stock we all are his branches but Christ is become our sap virtue and life 59. Now if a branch on the Tree withereth what can the virtue and the sap of the Tree do to it It giveth its virtue to all brances why then doth not the branceh draw the sap and virtue into it 60. The fault is that Man draweth devillish virtue or power and Essence or sap instead of divine Essence into himselfe and letteth the Devil seduce him into Earthly desires longing and lust 61. For the Devil knoweth the Branch which in the Country that was his is grown up to him and still groweth and
therefore as he was a Murtheter and lyer at the beginning so he is still and infecteth or poysoneth Men. 62. Being he knoweth that they are fallen to the outward Dominion of the Starres into his Magick Longing therefore he is a Continual poysoner of the Complexion and where he smelleth but a Crum that serveth his turn that he alwaies setteth before Man and if a Man Imagineth into it he will suddenly infect him 63. Therefore it is said Watch pray be sober lead a Temperare life for the Devil your Adversary goeth about as a roaring Lyon and seeketh whom he may devour 64. Seek not so after Convetousness riches Money Goods Might and honour for we are in Christ not of this world 65. For therefore Christ went to the Father viz into the Divine substance that we should with our hearts Minds thoughts and wills follow after him and so he will be with us all the dayes to the End of the World but not in the source or quality of this World 66. We should press forth out of the source or quality of this world our from the Earthly Man and give up our wills into his will and Introduce our Imagination and Longing in to him and so we in his virginity which he hath stirred up again in us become impregnated and Conceive the Word which maketh it selfe stirring in him in our virginity shut up in Death and become born in Christ in our selves 67. For as death through Adam pressed upon us all so the word of Life out of or from Christ presseth upon us all 68. For the Moving of the Deity in the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ hath continued moveable and standeth open to all Mâ—n the failing is onely in the Entering in that Man suffereth the Devil to detein him 69. Christ need not first depart from his Place and Enter into us when we become new born in Him for the divine Substance wherein he became born or generated hath in all places and Cornors the second Principle in it and where a Man may say there is God Present there a Man may say The Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ is present also for it became opened in Mary and so qualifieth or operateth backward again even into Adam and forward even into the Lift man 70. Now saith Reason Faith alone attaineth it very right In the right Faith the Impregnation proceedeth 71. For Faith is Spirit and desireth Substance and that substance is nevertheless in all Men and that which is wanting is that it apprehend the Spirit of Faith 72. And if it be come apprehended then the fair Lilly blossometh out of it not onely a Spirit but the Virgin-like Image becometh generated or born out of Death into Life 73. The Rod of Aaron which is dry sprouteth forth out of the dry death and taketh its body out of Death the fair New virgin-like life out of the halfe dead virginity 74. And this the dry Rod of Aaron signified as also Old Zachary also Abraham with his old Sarah who according to the outward world were all as it were dead and no more fruitful 75. But the Promise in the New Regeneration must do it the Life must sprout out of Death 76. The Old Adam which became Earthly must not be Lord Nor Esau the first born to whom formerly the Inheritance had belonged if Adam had continued standing But the second Adam Christ who sprouted forth through death out of the first must remain Lord. 77. Not the Man or the Woman shall possess the Kingdom of God but the Virgin which becometh generated or born out of the Mans and Womans Death must be Queen of Heaven 78. One onely Generation or sex not two one onely Tree not Many Christ was the stock being he was the root of the New Body which sprouteth out of Death which brought forth the dead virgin again as a fair branch out of Death 79. And we all are his sprouts and stand all upon one stock which is Christ 80. Thus we are Christs Sprouts his branches his children and God is the Father of as all and also of Christ In him we live and Move and are 81. We bear Christs Flesh and bloud in us if we do but come to the New Birth for we become regenerated in Christs Spirit 82. That in Mary became a living Man in the dead humanity without the touching of a Man and that also becometh a Man in our selves in our dead virginity 83. And henceforward that which is wanting is this that we cast the Old Adam viz the Husk into Death that the Earthly lifes quality or source may depart from us and so we go forth from the Devil out of his Country 84. And not alone this for the Old Adam must not be so totally cast away but the Huske onely viz the Shell wherein the Seed or Kernel lyeth 85. Out of the Old Essence must the New Man in Gods blessing sprout forth as the blade out of the Grain or Corn as Christ teacheth us 86. Therefore must the Essence be injected into Gods Anger must be persecuted afflicted plagued scorned and lye under the Cross for the New Man must sprout forth out of God anger fire he must be Tryed in the Fire 87. We were fallen home to the Anger 's Essence but the Love of God set it selfe in the Anger and quenched the Anger with the Love in the blood of the Heavenly substantiality in the Death of Christ 88. Thus the Anger reteined the Husk viz the perished corrupt Man understand the Earthly source or quality and the Love reteined the New Man 89. Therefore can no Man besides shed heavenly Bloud the Earthly Mortal Bloud onely for Christ who was conceived without Man and Woman he onely could do it for in his heavenly substantiality there was no Earthly Blood 90. But yet he did shed his heavenly bloud under or among the Earthly that he might deliver us poor Earthly Men from the fierce wrath 91. For his heavenly bloud must in its bloud shedding mix it selfe together with the Earthly that the Turba in the Earthliness in us which held us captive might be drowned and that the Anger might be quenched with the love of the Heavenly bloud 92. He gave his life for us into Death he went for us into Hell into the source or quality of the Fathers Fire and out of Hell again into God that he might break or destroy Death and drown the Anger and make way for us 93. Therefore now the whole matter depends on this that we follow afteâ— him he hath indeed broken and destroyed death and quenched the Anger yet if we will be conformable to his Image then we must follow him into his Death take his Cross upon us suffer persecution be scorned despised and slain 24. For the Old Husk belongeth to the Anger of God it must be purged 95. For it is not the Old Man that must live in us but the
Aegypt 26. That is the Virgin-like Image must suffer it selfe to be put into Aegypt into Bondage and servitude and the Earth viz the fierce wrath of God Covereth the virgin-like Image it devoureth the streams of the Dragon 27. Although the Dragon with his abominations overwhelmeth the virgin-like Image and reproacheth slandereth and despiseth it yet that hurteth not the Virgins Child for the fierce wrath taketh the reproach and slander which is cast forth upon the Child to it selfe for the Earth alwaies signifieth the fierce wrath of God 28. Thus the Virgins Child standeth upon the Earth as upon the Earthly Moon and must continually flie into Aegypt before the Dâ—agon it must here be onley under the Bondage and Servitude of Pharao 29. But it standeth upon the Moon not under the Moon the Prince Josua or JESUS bringeth it through Jordan into Jerusalem it must onely through Death go into Jerusalem and leave the Moon 30. It is but a Guest in this World a stranger and Pilgrim it must wander through the Dragons Country and when the Dragon casteth forth his streams upon it it must bow downe and passe under the Crose and then the Anger of God receiveth the Dragons fire to it 31. It is known to us that the Old Adam knoweth and understandeth Nothing of the New it understandeth all things in an Earthly manner it knoweth not where nor what God is it flatters it self and ascribeth honesty and holiness to it 32. It supposeth it serveth God and yet serveth but the Old Dragon it Offereth Sacrifice and yet its heart hangeth to the Dragon it will suddenly be honest and with the Earthliness go into heaven 53. And yet it despiseth the Children of Heaven whereby it declareth that is a stranger in Heaven it is onely a Lord upon Earth and Devil in Hell 34. Among such Thornes and Thistles must Gods Children grow they are not known in this World for the Anger of God Covereth them 35. A Child of God also Knoweth not himself aright he seeth onely the Old Adam which hangeth to him which will alwaies drown the virgin-childe 36. But if the virgin Childe conceive a glimpse in the Holy Ternary then it knoweth it selfe when the Noble faire Garland or Crown of Victory is set upon it there must the Old Adam first look back and knoweth not what is done to him 37. He is indeed very Joyful like one that danceth to an Instrument of Musick when that Ceaseth sounding his Joy hath an End and he remaineth to be the Old Adam for he belongeth to the Earth and not to the Angelical World 38. So soon as it cometh so farre with a Man that the virgin-like Image beginneth to sprout forth out of the Old Adam so that a Man giveth up his Soul and Spirit into the Obedience of God then the strife with him beginneth then the Old Adam in the Anger of God striveth with the New Adam 39. The Old will be Lord in flesh and blood also the Devil cannot endure the virgin-like Branch for he dareth not to touch it but the Old Adam may touch infect and posses it 40. Because his own dwelling in the Darkness of the Abyss pleaseth him not therefore he would fain dwell in Man for he is an Enemy to God and hath without Man no authority 41. Therefore he possesseth Man and leadeth him according to his pleasure into the Anger and fierce wrath of God wherewith he scorneth Gods Love and Meekness for he supposeth still seeing he is a fierce wrathful fire-source or quality that he is higher then the Humility being he can go so terribly 42. But being he dare not touch the virgin-like Branch therefore he useth sublime subtle Craft knavery and wickedness and destroyeth it so that it is not known or acknowledged in this world else too many such little branches might grow in his supposed Country for he is wrath an Enemy to them he bringeth his Proud Ministers or Officers and Pâ—â—gurs with scorn upon that man so that he is persecuted despised and held a Fool. 43. And this he doth through the Reason-Learned wise world through those who call themselves shepheards or Pastors of Chirst upon whom the world looketh that so the Holy Lilly branch may not be known else men might observe it and too many such branches may grow for him and then he should loose his Dominion among Men. 44. But the Noble Lilly Twig or Branch groweth in Patience and Meekness and taketh its Essence pover and smell out of the Soyl of God as also out of Christs becoming Man or incarnation for Christs Spirit is its Essence Gods Substance is its Body 45. Not out of any strange or Heterogene property but out of its own included and shut up in Death aud in Christ Sprouting Essence groweth the virgin-like Lilly Twig or Branch It seeketh not nor desireth the fariness or excellency of this world but of the Angelical world 46. For it also groweth not in this world in the Third Principle but in the Second Principle in the Paradise-world and therefore there is great strife in flesh and blood in the outward Reason 47. The Old Adam knoweth not the New and perceiveth that it withstandeth and opposeth him it willeth not what the Old willeth it continually leadeth the Old to abstinence which causeth woe to the Old The Old willeth onely to have pleasure voluptuousness and temporal honour it Cannot endure the Cross and Contempt 48. But the New is well pleased that it shall bear the Marks or Prints of the wounds of Christ That it should become conformable to the Image of Christ 49. Therefore the Old goeth often very mournfully about when it seeth it must be a fool and yet knoweth not how it befalleth him for he knoweth not Gods will 50. He hath onely the will of this world what there flattereth faire he willeth to have that he would fain be Lord continually before whom Men must bowe or stoop 41. But the New boweth it selfe before its God and desireth nothing also willeth nothing but it panteth after its God as a childe after its Mother It casteth it selfe into the bosome of its Mother and giveth its body up to its heavenly Mother into the Spirit of Christ 52. It desireth the food and Drink of its Eternal Mother and it Eateth in the bosome of the Mother as a child in the body or womb of the Mother eateth of its Mother 53. For so long as it is covered in the Old Adam so long it is yet in the becoming Man or Incarnation but when the Old dyeth then the New becometh Generated or born forth out of the Old 54. It leaveth the Vessel wherein it lay and became a virgin-like childe â—o the Earth and to the Judgement of God but it becometh born or brought forth as a blossome in the Kingdom of God 55. And then when the Day of Resteration shall come all his Works which he hath wrought Good
which is more Noble then what it had devoured it giveth Spirit for substance 29. For it devoureth the Meek munificence or well doing that is the water of Eternal Life but it giveth the spirit of Eternal Life As ye see that the Wind goeth out of the fire as also the Air viz the right spirit out of the fire-life 30. Thus understand our Minde aright God the Father is in himselfe the Liberty without or beyond Nature but maketh himself manifest in Nature through the Fire the fiery Nature is his property 31. But he is in himself the Abyss wherein there is no feeling of any source quality or pain 32. But yet bringeth his desirous willing into source or quality and Createth to himself in the source or quality an other or second willing to go out of the source or quality again into the Liberty without or beyond the source or quality 33. That same second will is his Sonne which he generateth out of his own Eternal willing from Eternity 34. Which he bringeth through the breaking open of the source or quality of Death viz through the Earnest severity of his fierce wrath forth Through the fire 35. That very second will viz the Sonne of God the Father is that which breaketh or destroyeth Death viz the stern dark source or quality which kindleth the fire and goeth forth through the Fire as a thining Lustre or Glance of the fire and filleth or satiateth the first willing which is called Father 36. For the Glance is also as a thinne as a Nothing or as the will which is called Father and therefore it can dwel in the Liberty viz in the Fathers Willing and maketh the Father Light clear bright amiable friendly for it is the Fathers Herts oder Barmhertzigkcit Heart or Mercifulness 37. It is the Fathers substantiality it filleth or satiateth the Father in all places though indeed there is no place in him no beginning nor End 38. Understand us further thus The Fathers fire devoureth the Meek substance viz the water-source or quality of Eternal Life into it selfe into the fires owne Essence and meekeneth it selfe therewith 39. There must the substantiality in the fire as it were dye for the fire devoureth it into it self and Consumeth it 40. And giveth forth out of the Consumingness a living richly Joyful spirit and that is the Holy Spirit which thus goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne into the Great Wonder of the holy substantiality and openeth the same perpetually and Eternally 41. Thus the Deity is an Eternal Band which cannot cease or pass away and thus it generateth it self from Eternity and the first is continually also the last and the last again the first 42. And thus understand the Father to be the fiery world the Sonne the Light and power-world and the holy spirit to be the Life of the Deity viz to be the outgoing driving Power and yet all is but ONE God 43. As the Fire and the Light together with the Aire are but one onely Substance but yet divideth it self into Three parts and none can subsist without the other for the fire is not the Light also not the wind which goeth forth out of the Fire 44. Each hath its office and Each hath its own Substance in it self and yet each is the others life and a cause of the others life 45. For the Woâ—â—â—â—loweth the fire up else it would be stifled in its fierce wrath 〈◊〉 would fall into the dark death even as the stifling is the true 〈◊〉 wherein the fire of Nature extinguisheth and no more draw â—â—â—bstance into it 46. Of all thiâ—â— have a good similitude in the outward World in all Creatures she◠〈◊〉 every Life viz the Essential Fire-life draweth substance to 〈◊〉 â—hat is its food to Ear. 47. And the fire of its life consumeth the substance and giveth forth the Spirit of the power out of that which is consumed and that is the life of the Creature 48. And you see doubtless very rightly how the Life ariseth out of Death it becometh no Life unless it break that out of which the Life should go fortâ— it must also go into the Anguish Chamber into the Center and must reach to attain the fire-flash in the Anguish else there is no Kindling 49. Although the Fire be manifold and so also the Life yet out of the greatest Anguish existeth also the greatest Life as out of a right Fire 50. Thus dear children of God in Christ we give you our knowledge and entent to ponder of We mentioned in the beginning that we would shew you concerning the Death of Christ First wherefore Christ must have dyed and secondly wherefore we must dye also and Thirdly rise again in Christ 51. This you see now in this description very clearly and understand our Great Misery that it hath been necessary for us that the word or Life of the Holy Light-world is become a Man and hath generated us anew in himselfe whosoever understandeth nothing here he is not generated or born of God 52. Do but see into what Lodging Adam hath introduced us He was an extract of all the Three Principles a total similitude according to all the Three-worlds and had in his Mind and Spirit the Angelical property in him 53. He was introduced into the holy power and substantiality viz into Paradise that is the divine substantiality he should have eaten of divine substantiality and have drunk the water of Eternal Life after an Angelical Manner as in the Book of the Threefold Life hath been mentioned at large 54. But he lost the divine substantiality and the Angelical property and Imagined into the out-birth viz into the Kingdom of the Earthly source or quality which the Devil had kindled in his Fall He turned his Eyes out from God into the Earthly God out from the divine Light into the light of this world 55. Thus he became captivated and remained in the Earthly source or quality and so he fell into the Earthly Corruptible source or quality which ruleth in him and filleth him it putteth a body on to him and breaketh or destroyeth it again and swalloweth it up into its own Essence into its Essential Fire 56. But being the soul was breathed in out of the Spirit of God viz out of the Eternal into Man so that the soul is an Angel therefore hath God assumed the same to himself again 57. And the power of the holy Light-world viz the Heart of God is entered into the humane Essence which lay shut up in death into the anguish Chamber of our Misery 58. He hath gotten into himself a soul out of our Essence he hath taken our Mortal Life into himselfe and introduced the soul through death through the Earnest severe fire of God the Father into the Light-world hath broken or destroyed death which held us captive and unshut the life 59. Now it may not nor cannot be otherwise wâ—osoever will possess the Light-world
of God and that the Imagination or longing sucketh of Gods power then we may assuredly know that the Noble Lilly-Branch is generated that the Image of God is in substance that God in the similitude is become Man 9. There it is necessary that the Noble Image be highly regarded and taken care of and that the Old Adam with his Lusts have no room or space left him but that he be continually put to death that the New-Man may Grow and be great and become adorned with the Wonders of the wisdome 10. But now Reason asketh How is then the similitude 11. Behold God is Spirit and the Mind together with the Thoughts and desire is also Spirit The Mind is the wheel of Nature the Desire is the Center viz the first substance to Nature the Thoughts are the Essences 12. For out of the Essences go the senses or Thoughts they are and have their Original out of the sting of the desirousness viz out of the harsh astringency for they are the bitterness and run alwaies into the Mind as an anguish wheel and seek rest to try whether they may attain the liberty of God 13. They are they which strike up the fire in the Anguish wheel viz in the Mind and in the kindling in the Crack or Terrour willingly give up themselves into Death and thus sinck down through the fire-source or quality into the Liberty viz into Gods Arms and they go forth into the Liberty as a Life out of Death 14. They are the Root of the New Tast or relish which penetrate into Gods wisdome and wonders they bring the Desire out of the Anguish of Death they fill their Mother the Mind and give it power from Gods Essence 15. Thus is the mind the wheel or the Right Chamber of the Life viz the souls own House of which it self is a Part if the substantiality understand the substantiality of the Tincture be accompted to it viz the Fire-life 16. For out of the Fire-life â—â—isteth the Mind and the fire-life dwelleth in the Mind but the Mind is Nobler then the Fire for it is the Mobility of the Fires-life it maketh the understanding 17. The Thoughts or senses are the Minds Servants and are the subtilest Messengers they go into God and again out of God into necessity 18. And wherein-soever they kindle themselves either in God or in Necessity viz in falshood or wickedness that they bring home to the Mind 19. Therefore must the Noble Mind often be Lord over the Evil or wickedness and stifle it in its Anguish when the Thoughts have entertained or loaden in false or evil Imaginations into the Desire 20. Thus understand it lastly in this Manner God is himself ALL and in ALL. 21. But he goeth forth out of the fierce wrath and findeth the Light-and power world in himselfe he himselfe maketh them so that the fierce wrath with all forms are onely a Cause of the Life and a finding of himself in Great Wonders 22. He is the Ground or Byss and Abyss the Liberty and also the Nature in Light and Darkness 23. And Man also is IT all if he do but so seek and find himself as God doth 24. Our whole Writing and Teaching aimeth at this how we must seek make and lastly finde our selves how we must generate or bring forth that we may be ONE spirit with God that God may be in US and we in God that Gods Love-spirit in us may be the willing and the Doing 25. And that we withdraw from the Anguish source or Quality that we may introduce our selves into the true similitude in Three worlds that each of them may stand in their Order and that the Light-world in us may be LORD that that may lead the Dominion 26. That so the Anguish world may abide hidden in the Light-world as it doth also in God and so be onely a Cause of the Life and of Gods wonders 27. Else if we attain not the Light-world then is the Anguish-world in us the upper Dominion and so we live Eternally in an Enimicitious source or Quality 28. And this strife lasteth so long as the Earthly Life endureth and then it goeth into the Eternal Ether either into Light or into Darkness whence there is no release more and therefore Gods Spirit warneth us and teacheth us the right way AMEN Conclusion 29. Thus Reader who lovest God Know that a Man is the true similitude of God which God highly loveth and manifesteth himself in this similitude as in his own God is in Man the Midlemost 30. But he dwelleth onely in himself and if it be so that the spirit of Man become ONE spirit with HIM then he manifesteth himself in the humanity viz in the Mind Thoughts and Desiring so that the Mind feeleth him 31. Else in this world he is very much too subtile to be beheld by us onely the Thoughts behold him in the Spirit understand in the willing-spirit for the will sendeth the Thoughts into God and God giveth himself into the Thoughts 32. And then the Thoughts bring the Power of God to the will and the will receiveth them with Joy but with Trembling 33. For it acknowledgeth it self unworthy seeing it proceedeth out of a rough Lodging viz out of a wavering Mind and therefore it receiveth the Power in the sinking down before God 34. Thus out of its Triumph cometh a soft gentle Meekness to be that is Gods true substance and it apprehendeth that very Substance 35. And that conceived or apprehended substance is in the willing the heavenly Body and is called the True and Right Faith which the will hath received in the power of God the same sincketh or demerseth it self into the Mind and dwelleth in the fire of the Soul 36. Thus the Image of God is entire or total and God seeth or findeth himself in such a similitude 37. And we should not at all think or Conceive of God that he is a strange substance or sorrein Thing to the wicked indeed he is a strange substance for the wicked apprehendeth him not 38. God is in him indeed but not Manifest in the willing and minde of the wicked and ungodly it is onely his fierce wrath that is manifest in him he cannot reach or attain the Light 39. It is in him but it is not profitable to him his Essence conceiveth or apprehendeth not it it sheweth it self before him and is only his pain source or Torment and he doth but hate it and is an Enemy to it as the Devil is an Enemy to the Sun and also to the light of God 40. He would be better at Ease if he could be Eternally in the Dark and knew that God were farre from him and then he would find no shame or reproach in him 41. But if he knew that God is so neer him and he cannot apprehend him that would be his greatest plague so that he would hate himself and it would make him an Eternal contrary will opposite
one in another one not comprehending the Other viz One in the fierce wrath of the fiery Nature in the water of the Poyson and Anguish source or Quality wherein the Devil dwelleth 56. And then one in the Light wherein the water of the Light is sunck down out of the Anguish into the Eternal Liberty which the Poyson-water cannot apprehend or reach 57. And yet is not severed asunder but onely through the Death where it divideth it selfe into two Principles and so severeth it selfe into two Lives viz one in the Anger and the other in the Love which Life is known to be the right Life 58. And herein sticketh the ground that as we with Adam went out of this Life into the Outward Life wherefore also God became Man so he must introduce us through this death through and out of the fierce wrathful source or quality out of the fire-Anguish-life through the Death into the Light-and Love-life again 59. Whereas yet the Gates of Death were in the wrathfulness shut up in the humane soul so that the soul stood in the Anguish source or quality in the inward Nature in the fire of the Poyson viz in the water of the Anguish 60. And there hath the Prince Christ broken the Look Fort or Barre of Death and is with his humane soul sprouted forth through the Death into the Light of God again and so now his Light-life leadeth Death captive and so it is become a Reproach and Scorn 61 For with the Lock Fort or Barre Lucifer thought to be a Lord and Omnipotent Prince 62. But when the Lock Fort or Barre became broken then the Power of the Deity in the Light destroyed his Kingdom and there he became a Captive servant for Gods Light and the Water of Meekness is his Death for the Anger becometh killed or mortified therewith 63. Thus is the Light and the Love entered into the Anger together with the Paradise-Element and the water of the Eternal Life and Gods anger is become quenched 64. And so now Lucifer abideth in himself in an anxious fierce wrathful fire-source where his Body is a Poyson a source of Poyson-water 65. And thus is become thrust out from Gods fire into the Matrix of the Eternal Nature viz. into the stern harshness which generateth the Eternal darkness wherein he manageth the very stern dominion in the Anxious Mercurius and so is as a Reproach or Out-cast 66. Who in his Original was a Prince but now is no more then an Executioner a Base Slave which must be there in Gods fierce wrath as a Hangman who punisheth the Evil when he is commanded by his Lord to do so he hath no further power 67. Although yet he is a deceiver that he might entrap many and that his Kingdom may be great that he may have many and not stand in reproach with so few 68. As a Whore thinketh if there were many Whores then I should not be a Where alone I am as others are thus he also desireth a great Tribe or Genealogy that thereby he may reproach God 69. For he alwaies attributeth the blame and fault to God that he is fallen as that bis wrath hath so drawn him and thrust him into such a willing of Pride and state so that he stood not 70. Thus he supposeth if he did draw many to him that his Kingdom would be great and so should get more to him that would do as he doth and Curse God but justifie himself that is his strength and pleasure in his dark harsh anguish where he continually stirreth up the fire in himselfe and flyeth out above the Thrones and so holdeth himself still to be a Prince and King 71. And though he be indeed Evil yet he is a Prince in his Legions in the Anger in his Creature but With the Anger without his Creature he hath not power to Act therein he must abide as an impotent captive 72. Thus understand the Life in two forms viz one according to the fire of Nature and the other according to the fire of Light which fire bunreth in the Love wherein the Noble Image of God appeareth or shineth 73. And we understand herein that the willing of Man should enter into Gods willing and so he goeth in Christs Death with Christs soul through Death into the Eternal Liberty of God into the light Life and there he is in Christ with God 74. And the Third Form of Life is the outward Created Life from or out of this world viz from the Sun Stars and Elements 75. Which Gods spirit with or by the Spirit of the Great world to Adam breathed into his Nostrils wherein then also he became an outward soul which moveth or swimmeth in the Bloud and Water and burneth in the outward kindled Fire viz in the warmth 76. That same outward Life should not gripe into the Image in the Inward Life also the Image should not let in that into the inward Light which shineth through Death and sprouteth with its power into the Eternal Liberty for the outward Life is onely a similitude of the inward Life 77. The Inward Spirit should onely in the outward Looking-Glass open the Eternal Wonders which in Gods wisdome were become discovered in the Abyss in the divine Magia and bring them to a figured Looking-Glass viz to a Looking Glass of Wonders to Gods honour and to the Joy of the Inward Man generated or Born out of God 78. But its will should not go into it to draw in the outward wonders into the Image as we now with Lamentable Misery know that Man draweth in and Imageth to himself an Earthly treasure into the Mind and so destroyeth the pure Image of God in the second Principle 79. For his willing spirit goeth into the Earthly Substance and bring th his Body wherein the Image standeth into the Earthly Substance viz into the Earthly Treasure into an Earthly Vessel or Comprehension 80. And now the Image through the Imagination becometh also Earthly and goeth again into Death and looseth God and the Kingdom of Heaven for his willing-spirit sticketh with the Body in the outward Life 81. And now the outward Life must die and break or Corrupt that the Created Image according to the Inward Kingdom may appear and shine 82. And thus the willing-spirit sticketh with the Body in the outward Wonders and bringeth them in the dying of the outward life along with it self before the Judgement of God 83. And there shall the willing-spirit go through the fire and the Image shall be tryed through the fire and all that is Earthly must be burned off from the Image it must be pure and Immaculate or without spot 84. As the Light subsisteth in the Fire so must willing-spirit also subsist in Gods Fire and if there it cannot go free through the fire of God through Death then will this Image be spewed out into the Eternal Darkness 85. And this is verily the heavy Fall of Adam that he hath
the Abominable Devils and do what the Abominable Prince Lucifer will The Eighth Chapter In what manner God forgiveth sinnes and how a Man becometh a Child of God 1. MY beloved seeking and desirous Minde thou that Hungerest and Thirstest after Gods Kingdom Mark the Ground I pray thee what is shewed to thee 2. It is not truly so easie a thing to become a child of God as Babol Teacheth where Men bring Consciences into the History and so tickle and flatter them Courtlike with Christs sufferings and Death where Men teach forgiveness of sinnes Historically 3. Like a worldly Judicatory where ones faults are remitted him of Grace though he plainly abide wicked in his heart 4. It is clean otherwise here God will have no dissembling Hypocrites he taketh not sinne from us in such a manner in that we cleave to the knowledge and Comfort our selves with the suffering of Christ and yet in the Conscience abide in the Abominations 5. It is said Ye must be born a New or else ye shall not see the Kingdom of God 6. He that will tickle himself with Christs suffering and Death and appropriate the same to himself and yet with his willing will abide unregenerated in the Adamical Man doth like one that comforteth himself that his Lord will bestow his Land upon him without considering that he is not his Sonne whereas he hath promised that he wil bestow it onely upon his Sonne so it is also here 7. Wilt thou possess the Land of thy Lord and have it for thy proper own then thou must become his right and true Sonne For the Sonne of the Maid servant shall not inherit with the free the Sonne of the History is a stranger 8. Thou must become born or generated of God in Christ that thou mayst be a bodily Sonne and then thou art Gods child and an heir of the sufferings and death of Christ 9. And Christs Death is thy Death his Resurrection out of the Grave is thy Resurrection his Ascention into Heaven is thy Ascention into Heaven and his Eternal lifes Kingdom is thy Kingdom 10. In that thou are his right true Sonne born of his flesh and bloud so thou art an heir of all his Goods else thou canst not be Christs Child and Heir 11. So long as the Earthly Kingdom sticketh to thee in thy Image so long thou art the perished Adams Earthly Sonne no flattering hypocrisie will help give as many good words before God as thou wilt yet thou art but a strange Child 12. And Gods goods do not belong unto thee so long till thou comest with the lost Sonne to the Father again with a right true sorrow and repentance for thy lost Goods of inheritance 13. Thou must go forth with thy willing-spirit out from the Earthly Life and break or destroy the Earthly willing which is woful to the Mind and willing-spirit to forsake the treasure it possessed wherein the willing-spirit became generated and must enter into Gods willing 14. And there thou sowest thy Seed in Gods Kingdom and art new born in God as fruit which groweth in Gods field for thy willing receiveth Gods power Christsâ—Body and the New Body in God groweth to thee 15. And then thou art Gods Childe and Christs Goods belong to thee and his Merits are thy merits his Suffering Death and Resurrection is all thine thou art a Member of his Body and his Spirit is thy Spirit He leadeth thee upon right Paths and all that thou dost thou dost to God 19. Thou sowest in this world and reapest in the Heaven of God thou art Gods Work of Wonder and openest in the Earthly Life his Wonders and drawest thy selfe with thy willing-spirit into the Holy Mystery 17. Mark this ye Covetous ye Proud ye Envious ye false Judgers ye wicked Malicious which introduce your willing and desire into Earthly Goods into Money and Plenty into pleasure and the voluptuousness of this Life and esteem Money and Goods to be your Treasure and set your desire therein and yet for all that will be Gods Children 18. Ye stand and dissemble before God â—e shall forgive you your Sins but ye abide with your Image in Adams Skin in Adams Flesh and so Comfort your selves with the Sufferings of Christ and are but dissemblers ye are not Gods Children 19. Ye must become born in God if ye would be his Children else ye deceive your selves together with your Hypocrites or dissemblers who paint before you a Glistring Colour 20. They Teach and are not known of God not sent to Teach they do it for their Belly and for worldly honours sake and are the Great Where at Babel who flatter God with their Lips and with the heart and willing-spirit they serve the Dragon at Babel 21. Beloved Mind wilt thou be the Chlide of God then prepare thy selfe for affaults and for Tribulation it is no light and soft entrance into the Childs Life especially where Reason lyeth captive in the Earthly Kingdom 22. It must be broken and the willing must go out from Reason it must sow it selfe into Gods Kingdom in lowly obedience as a Grain is sown in a field or soyl it must in Reason make it selfe as it were dead and give it self up to God and so the New fruit groweth in Gods Kingdom 23. Thus that Man standeth in a Three-fold Life and all belongeth to God 24. The Inward fiery Essences of the first Principle become incorporated with the New body in Christ so that they flow up in Christs Flesh and Bloud out of Gods willing and their Fire is Gods Fire out of which the Love meekness and humility burneth 25. Where the Holy Spirit goeth forth and helpeth him to stand out the Battel against the Earthly Reason also against the pâ—rished corrupt Flesh and the willing of the Devil his Yoak of the earthly willing becometh lighter to him but he must in this World abide in the strife 26. For to the Earthly Life belongeth sustenance that he must seek and yet ought not to hang his willing and heart thereupon 27. It must Trust God and his earthly Reason passeth alwaies into doubting it will faile him it will needs alwaies see God and yet cannot for God dwelleth not in the Earthly Kingdom but in himself 28. Thus must Reason being it cannot set God be compelled into Hope 29. There then Doubting runneth Counter against Faith or Believing and would destroy the Hope and therefore must the Earnest willing with the right true Image strive and fight against the Earthly Reason there is woe and it often goeth sadly 30. Especially if Reason looketh after the Course of this World and so its willing-spirit as it were foolish hath respect towards the Course of this world There it is said be sober watch fast and pray that is that ye may Tame the Earthly Reason and make it as it were dead that Gods spirit may find place in you 31. If that