time of earnest Severity look not upon it with earthly eyes it concerns thee nearly thou wilt well see in thy Death what kind of Judgement it is in what time and under what Turba thou hast lived this we speak most earnestly as we ought The Thirteenth Question How the Souls feeding out of the Word of God is 1. VVHen the Soul entereth into the majestick Light as above mentioned and receiveth the Light of God then is it altogether longing and panting after it and continually draweth into its desire God's power and vertue that is God's Body into it self and the holy Spirit is the power and vertue of God's Spirit thus it acquireth God's Body and Spirit and eateth at God's Table all whatsoever the Father hath is his Sons and whatsoever the Son hath is his Images 2. It eateth Gods Flesh Christs Flesh and from that eating God's Body groweth in it so that it also hath Gods Body and is Gods Child not only his similitude but Child it is born in God out of God's Essence and liveth in God 3. When it heareth in this world God's Word taught or spoken from or by God's Children then it layeth hold of the same and eateth it 4. The outward Man eateth earthly Bread and the Soul eateth God's Bread concerning which Christ said he would give us his Body for food 5. And his Testaments are nothing else we eate not spirit without body for the Soul is Spirit beforehand it would have a body and thus it getteth Body and Spirit together 6. Let this be told thee O Babel and consider how thou managest Christ's Testaments what thou teachest when thou saist Christ's Testaments are Spirit without Body thou denyest God thou denyest God's Substantiality Christ's Heavenly Body which is greater than All which is the Fulness of all things but in its own Principle 7. Thou earthly Mouth shalt not chew it with thy teeth the Soul hath another Mouth and receiveth it under the outward Element the outward receiveth the outward and the inward receiveth the inward 8. Christs last Supper with his Disciples was even so the outward is a Remembrance the inward is the Substance for the Kingdom of God consisteth or standeth in Power and Vertue it is magical not as a thought but essential substantial 9. The Magia makes Substance for in the Eternal Nothing there is Nothing but the Magia makes somewhat where nothing is 10. There is not only and barely Spirit in God but Nature Substance Flesh and Blood Tincture and All This world externally is a Similitude of the Inward World 11. We tell you we speak what we see feel tast and know and it is not fictions and conceits and that not for our own sake but for yours as one Member is bound in duty to another that our joy may be in you and that we may partake with you as brethren in ONE Substance He that desireth to know more in this let him read our Third Part or Book where he shall find the Circumstances concerning the Souls eating and of Christs Testaments The Fourteenth Question Whether such New Soul be without Sin 1. VVE understand here the Propagated Soul in a Child newly born my beloved Friend this is a very acute Question but to you my beloved Friend it shall be answered that the time of the opening is born or generated the day dawneth or breaketh the night is passed away praise and thanks be given to God for it that hath generated us again to the Light to an uncorruptible or unfadable Inheritance and hath received us for his beloved Children 2. You my beloved Friend know well the heavy Fall of Adam as we have exactly set it down in all our Writings viz. that the Soul with its right Eye hath turned it self away from God into the Spirit of this World and is become disobedient to God and hath destroyed its noble and pretious Image and hath introduced a monstrous Image and let in the spirit of this world whereas it should with its will have strongly ruled over it and not at all with the Soul have eaten Evil and Good 3. But now it hath done against God's Command and put its Imagination into the Earthly Spirit where suddenly the Turba captivated it which hath introduced the Earthly Monster into the noble Image And thus the Turba suddenly sought and found the Limit in which the Image became broken and if the Word had not instantly set it self in the middle it had Eternally remained broken 4. And now also the Turba is become seated in the earthly Abyss and hath captivated both Body and Soul and bringeth the Body continually to the Limit where then it breaketh it and casteth it away and then the poor Soul remaineth raw and naked without a body 5. Therefore it is necessary that it convert and turn with its right Eye into the Word again and acquire again a Body generated or born of God else it is raw or naked and hath the Turba in it which the Fire awakeneth in its great Anguish for it is a vehement hunger a seeker and a finder 6. Thus it is now very apprehensible to us that we are tyed and bound to the Spirit of this World with the Soul for the Turba holdeth us captive in the fierce wrathful Anger of God 7. And though our Soul do go forth and become generated in God yet it hath the Turba belonging to the outward Body which consumeth it for it searcheth through it even into the Abyss and there it findeth that it is only a Looking-Glass of the Eternal and then it goeth forth out of the Looking-Glass into the Eternal and lets the Looking-Glass lye in the Nothing 8. Thus you know very well that the Soul with the Body in the Seed is half earthly for it is Sulphur that is Phur and Sul one among another and the Turba is therein which hath indeed might and power enough to break or destroy the Seed 9. How then can a pure clean Soul be generated It cannot be It bringeth the Turba along with it into the world and is sinful in the Mothers Womb. 10. But know that God is become Man or Incarnate and hath put the word Fiat again into the Seed though now the Turba be also in the earthly part so that the Seed is not altogether free 11. Yet it is in this manner with the Soul so far as the Father and Mother are honest and vertuous and in God that the Soul is not left or forsaken of God for it proceedeth out of the Fathers and Mothers Soul and though a Child die in the Mothers Womb as it were without Baptism yet it is baptised with the Fathers Mothers Spirit viz. with the holy Spirit which dwelleth in them and the Turba will be broken off in death for the Faiths part presseth into God 12. But with wicked and ungodly Parents it is in another manner The Soul if the Child dyeth in the Mothers womb falleth home to
the Devil and what propriety or part he hath in it it goeth not naked unless it be so that the Spirit of God conduct it so that it hath him for a shield or defence so that the Devils suttlety cannot press or slip into it 25. It makes no wonder unless God's Spirit awaken or stir it up it giveth God the Honour and Glory and attributeth the might power to him it doth as a humble Child and remaineth standing under the Cross and letteth the Devil bluster over it but it self sprouteth in Humility and Meekness through Death into the Eternal Life and bringeth forth much fruit in Patience 26. Thus the Devil can do nothing to that Soul it is as it were dead to him he may with his Turba in the Earthly Life with his helpers and instruments wicked and ungodly Men make a stir and racket but he hath only scorn and derision in the presence of God for it for he is a proud arrogant spirit and would fain be above God's Wonders but an Humility can bind him or subdue him 27. In such a manner may every man escape the false and wicked Magus and also the Nigromancer for no power takes hold on them where God dwelleth As Christ in his Death overcame the Devil and Death so also we in Christ for the Word that became Man dwelleth in us and in that Word we can rule over the Devil and Hell there is no hinderance 28. Thus we give you for an Answer upon this Question that the Soul in its Original is greatly powerful it is able and can do much but only in that Principle into which it looketh or standeth is its power and might for the Devil cannot rule over God Its might or power is not given to it as a King giveth Might Power Authority or Favour to any but it standeth in Natures-right therefore we are Children of the Omnipotency of God and inherit his Goods in the Omnipotency The Seventh Question Whether the Soul be Corporeal or not Corporeal 1. A Thing which is from no Beginning hath also nothing that can give it any thing and if it be something it must seek the Beginning in it self for every spirit dwelleth in the deepest Abysse of its substance but if it must make the substance to it self it can dwell in Nothing that is strange to it but in it self in its own substance 2. When God created the Soul the holy Spirit surrounded it with the Tincture for it stood therein as to one part in it self it was raw or red as the glowing of the fire is raw or red and is surrounded with the Tincture 3. As you understand that from the warmth the growing existeth that is a driving of the Tincture which driveth the Twig or Branch out from the Root viz. out of the same Fire be it cold or hot 4. For the Darkness hath a Cold Fire so long till it reach the Anguish and then it kindleth it self in the hot as is to be seen in an Herb if it come into another quality 5. Thus we give you to understand that the Tincture is the right and true Souls Body for the Soul is Fire and the Tincture goeth forth out of the Fire which the Fire draweth again to it self and meekneth or allayeth it self therewith so that the fierce wrathful source or quality extinguisheth 6. Thus the Tincture standeth in meekness and it hath no substance or might or power in it self but the Water is its might or power there cometh out of the meekness of the Tincture water to be 7. For the Fire is desirous and where there is a desiring of the Original there is also a finding of the Original thus the Fire findeth in the Tincture Water and turneth that into Sulphur according to power or vertue of all the Seven Spirits of Nature that is a Water of Life 8. For the Tincture driveth up in the Water as a sprout and the Fire in the Abyss causeth that 9. Thus is the Water in the Sulphur of the Seven Spirits changed into the Mystery and the great Areanum or Secret lyeth therein Whatsoever God and the Eternity can do Thus the Mystery containeth Two Forms viz. Fire Water and changeth it self according to Both viz. according to the Fire into Red and according to the Tincture into White so that a clear shining or glance existeth from the Fire so that the Life seeth or knoweth it self out of which Reason and Thoughts exist and the Mind is in the Wheel or Orb of the Anguish in the Fire out of which the Essences exist 10. And thus you see what the Blood is viz. a House of the Soul but the Tincture is its Body 11. The right or true Soul hath no palpable Body which is called Soul but in the Tincture groweth the Body in the Sulphur out of Sulphur that is every Spirit of the Seven Spirits of Nature desireth Substantiality which is together Sulphur 12. For Sul is power and vertue out of the Light and Phur is power and vertue out of the Four Forms of Natures Original as in the Third Book is mentioned at large 13. Thus the Phur desireth Flesh that is a Mixture out of Fire and Water and is in the Tincture conceived and generated or born 14. And the Tincture is the growing of the Body and the Fire is an Original of the Spirit through the Tincture For in the Tincture the Souls Spirit taketh its Original which viz. the right true Image figureth according to God's Image that is according to all the Three Principles for in the Fire the Soul is no Similitude of God but in the Spirit it is the Image of God 15. For the First Soul was together incorporated with the Divine Substantiality so that it had God's Body in the Virgin of Wisdom in which the Tincture standeth this is the Angels Image 16. And I give you for Answer that as to what concerns the Soul merely and purely by which we understand not the Spirit it is a Fire-Globe with a Fire-Eye and with a Light-Eye which turn back to back and one within another as the Wheel in Ezekiel that can go on all sides though Babel have made clean another understanding upon it but a blind one without Spirit 17. But as to what concerns its Tincture out of the Light which existeth out of the Fire and Light it is a Spirit where the Original of the Soul and of the Spirit in Eternity cannot separate assunder it is an Eternal BAND and when the Blood goeth away and the Body dyeth then this Band continueth in Eternity 18. The Body as to what concerns the Soul purely belongeth not to the Substance of the Soul they are Two Substances for the Body is the Souls Looking-Glass and dwelling House also its proper portion and it is also the cause that the meer pure Soul altereth or changeth the Spirit viz. according to the Pleasure or Longing of the Body or of the
Anguish into Death and sprouteth forth again into the Liberty and that is the Light together with the Fires source or quality but it now containeth or holdeth another Principle in it for the Anguish is become Love 6. And just such a manner and kind it hath in the Body for the Flesh striveth against the Spirit the outward Fleshes Life is a Looking-glass of the most inward Fire-Life viz. of the Souls Life therefore is the Souls Spirit-Life together with the Light in the Tincture the Middlemost Life and yet becometh generated out of the Soul 7. But understand us according to its precious height the Souls Spirit wherein the Divine Image standeth originateth in the Fire and is first the Will to the Fire but when the fierce Wrath to the Fire so sharpneth and kindleth or inflameth it self then the Will cometh into great Anguish like a dying and sinketh down in it self out of the fierce Wrath into the Eternal Liberty and yet it is no Dying but thus the other or second World cometh to be out of the first 8. For the Will now sprouteth into the other World as a Sharpness out of the Fire but without such Quality flowing forth in the Eternal Liberty and is a moving driving and apprehending of the Anguish Nature it hath all Essences which are become generated in the first sharp Fire-world in the Anguish but they are as one that goeth out of the Fire into the Water where the Anguish of the Fire remaineth in the Water 9. Understand us thus Concerning this Life of the Souls Spirit-Life the Soul is the Center of Nature The Spirit is the precious Noble Image which God created to his Image herein standeth the High-Kingly and precious Image of God for God is also thus and comprehended in the same Lifes quality or source 10. The Spirit is not severed from the Soul No as ye see that Fire and Shining is not severed and yet also is not one and the same it hath a twofold source or quality the Fire fierce wrathful and the Light meek and lovely and in the Light is the Life and in the Fire Δ is the Cause of the Life 11. Thus you may very easily and without much seeking find the Cause of the Contrariety of the Flesh and of the Spirit for the Inward Spirit hath God's Body out of or from the Meek Substantiality and the Outward Spirit hath the fierce wrathfull Fires-Looking-Glasses Body viz. the Souls Looking-Glasses Body which would continually awaken the fierce Wrathfulness viz. the Great Wonders which lie in the Arcanum or secresie of the Souls Sternness therefore the Inward Love-Spirit hindereth it that it should not lift up it self and kindle or inflame the Soul else it would lose its Love-habitation and Image and the Souls Fierce-wrath would destroy it 12. The Contrariety is thus the inward Spirit would be Lord for it Subdueth the outward and the outward would be Lord for it saith I have the Great Wonders and the Arcanum or Secret and thus Glorieth about the Mystery and yet is but a Looking-Glass of the Mystery 13. It is not the Substance of the Mystery but a Seeking or Searching like a palpable Looking-Glass in which the Mystery becometh seen he will needs be a Master being he hath attained one Principle and is an own Self-Life but he is to be accounted a Fool in respect of the Mystery 14. Therefore loving Brother if you would seek the Mystery seek it not in the outward Spirit for so you will be deceived and get but a Glimps of the Mystery go in even to the Cross then seek Gold you will not be deceived you must seek the pure Child without blemish in another World in this world you find only the Rusty or Drossy Child which is altogether imperfect and now take this right thus 15. Go from the Cross back into the Fourth Form there you have Sun and Moon one in another bring it into Anguish into Death and drive on the made or framed Magick body so far till it become again what it was before the Center in the Will and then it is Magical and hungry after Nature 16. It is a seeking in the Eternal Seeking and would fain have a Body therefore give him for a Body Sol viz. the Soul and then it will suddenly make it a Body according to the Soul for the Will sprouteth in Paradise with very fair heavenly fruit without spot or blemish 17. There you have the fair noble and precious Child you Covetous stiff-necked Person we must indeed tell you seeing it is together born and generated with the time and yet we will hereby only be understood by those that are Ours 18. For we mean not A Looking-Glass or Heaven but Gold wherewith you boast that hath so long time been your Idol That is born or generated and puts the Eyes of the blind Cow or Beetle quite out at last so that it seeth less than before but the Children shall see eat and be fat that they may praise God 19. We speak wonderfully here yet onely that which we should speak which yet none wonder at that he knoweth the Mystery who never learned it Doth not an Herb grow without your counsel or advice it enquireth not after Art so also is the Mystery grown without your Art It hath its own School like the Apostles on the day of Pentecost who spake with many Tongues and Languages without the precognita or the fore-skill of Art and so is this Simplicity 20. And it is a forerunning Message to thee Babel of thy Overthrow that thou mayest know it no fierce Wrath or Anger will avail the Star is born or generated which leadeth the Wise-men out of the East but seek them only where thou art and find thy self and cast the Turba away from thee and so thou wilt live with the Children this we speak earnestly there is no other Counsel or Remedy thy Anger is the fire which will devour thy self 21. Or dost thou suppose that we are blind If we did not see we should be silent how would a Lye be pleasing to God and so we should be found in the Turba which sifteth through the work and doings and substance of all men or do we this service for Wages is it our living why do we not hold to depend on Bread according to our outward Reason 22. If it be our day Labour we should do as the Father will have us For †we shall give an account of it in the evening this we speak dearly and earnestly with deep seriousness 23. Thus we can certainly understand the Contrariety of the Spirit and of the Flesh and apprehend very well how Two Spirits are in one another one striving against the other for the one would have God and the other would have Bread and both are profitable and good 24. But let this be said to thee O Child of Man lead thy life Circumspectly let thy Souls Spirit be Lord and then thou wilt
have fought a good fight here for here it is a very short Time 25. We stand here in the field or soyl and grow let every one have a care what fruit he beareth at the End of Harvest every ones work will be put into its own Barn 26. It is better to labour a little while in irksomness and Toyl and expect the great reward wages and refreshment then to be here a little while a King and afterwards to be a Wolf a Lyon a Dog a Cat a Toad a Serpent and Worm in Figure 27. O Child of Man consider it be warned for we speak pretious things out of a Wonderful Eye you will suddenly know it by Experience there is yet but a little Time For the Beginning hath clearly found the End and this is a little Rose out of the Beginning pray become seeing put away Covetousness from your Eyes else you will wail and lament and none will have pitty on you for that which any one soweth that he will also reap and then what will Pomp and Honour avail you when it falleth away from you 28. Ye are here very Potent and afterwards very Impotent ye are Gods and yet your selves run to the Devil take pitty of your Life and of your fair Heavenly Image 29. You are God's Children be not the Devils let not the Hypocrites with praise and flattery keep you back they do it for their Belly and Honour sake for Moneys sake they are the Ministers or Servants of the Great Babel 30. Search thy self ask thy Conscience whether it be in God it will complain against thee and say drive the flatterer and hypocrite away from thee and seek the clear Countenance of God see not by a Looking-Glass 31. God is for you he is IN you worship him come with the lost or prodigal Son to him else none can take the Turba from you when you give him good words you must only through Death go into the other world whereinto your hypocrisie and flattery cannot enter else there is no forgiveness of sins and if you give all to the Hypocrites or Flatterers yet you are at one time as well as the other captivated in the Turba 32. It is not so as if one stood by and did take away the Turba from you if you give him good words No No it is Magical you must be born again as Christ saith else you cannot attain God do what you will all Hypocrisie or flattery is deceit 33. If you would serve God then you must do it in the New Man the Earthly Adam can do him no service which is acceptable to him Sing Ring Call Crie Pray and what he will and whatsoever he doth it is but fighting before a Looking-Glass the Will must be in it the Heart must give it self into it else it is a Conjecture and a fable or fiction of Antichrist which filleth the whole world 34. The WILL is Greater and Mightier then much Crying it can destroy the Turba and enter into the Image it hath might or power to be God's Child it can cast away Mountains and raise the Dead if it be born or Generated in God and that The Holy Spirit give it leave 35. For it must converse in Obedience and great humility and Only cast its will into God's Will that God in it may be the Will and Deed that is the way to Blessednesse and Happinesse and to the Kingdom of Heaven and no other let the Pope or Doctors Preach what they will to the contrary all is lying and an Hypocritical flattering fighting before a Looking-Glass The Eighteenth Question How the Soul departs from the Body in the Death of a Man 1. HEre we will invite the World for a Guest especially Babel the Whore to try whether a Child can be made out of her for Death is a Terrible Guest he throweth the Proud Rider with the Horse to the Ground 2. My beloved Friend that is a very sharp question and needeth the Eyes of all the Three Principles which can see very well they must not die in Death if they will enter in and see this it must be Poyson to Death and a Pestilence to Hell it must take Death Captive if it will see else it gets no understanding unless it self come into Death then it will well feel what Death is it will well tast what that is when one Principle breaketh viz. one Life 3. You have perceived above that all Substances or Things are Magical one being the Looking-Glass of the other where in one Looking-Glass the desire of the first Looking-Glass becometh opened and cometh into Substance and then as in all substances or things the Turba is which breaketh or destroys all to the first substance and that is alone and hath no breaker or destroyer 4. For there is nothing more it cannot be broken or destroyed it standeth in it self and out of it self and goeth whither it will and then it is every where in no place for it is in the Abysse where there is no place of Rest it must only rest in it self 5. They seeing all Substances or Things are come or proceeded out of One therefore is the Beginning also in the Last Substance or Thing for the Last is again turned back into the first and seeketh the first and findeth it in it self and when it findeth the first it letteth all the other go and dwelleth in the Limit and there it can be without source quality or pain 6. For there is nothing that can give it source quality or pain it is it self the thing of the first Substance and though it be another thing yet it is but its Twig or Branch and hath its will and none other for there is nothing that can give it another will 7. We give you to understand concerning dying thus the beginning seeketh the Limit and when it findeth that it casteth the seeking away that is the Earthly Life that will be cast away it must break or destroy it self 8. For the Beginning viz. the Soul continueth in the Limit and lets the Body depart and there is no complaint about it also the Soul desireth it no more it must go into the Limit viz. into the Wonders of that which hath been done or wrought 9. The Souls Spirit hath no woe done to it when the Body departeth but woe is done to the Fire-Life for the Matter of the Fire which hath generated the Fire that breaketh away but only in the Substance 10. The Figure remaineth standing in the Will for the Will cannot break and the Soul must continue in the Will and taketh the Figure for Matter and burneth in the Will for the first Glance of the Fire goeth not away but its Matter of the Earthly Life viz. the Phur will be broken away from it 11. Thus the Fire becometh impotent and passeth into the Darkness unless it be so that the Spirit have Heavenly Substantiality viz. God's Body then the Fire viz. the right or
with strangers for in Heaven we are all Brethren they have no greater care about their Children and Parents then about others unless they work and Act in God and then indeed their service of God is much more full of Joy to them but they enter not into their Turba 43. For after the Last Judgement Day the honest Parents will know Nothing of their Children that are in Hell And so it is sufficiently apprehensible to us that they now take no care about their wicked Matters or Doings The Seven and Twentieth Question Whether the Souls in Death know or understand this or that Business and Art in which they were skilled when they were in the Body 1. THis is as in the following Question all their Substance or Matters and Doings appear to them in their Will or Mind in a Magical kind or manner they see it but the Figure or Frame of them will first be given to them in the Day of the Restoration that they may be able to look upon them aright for they must first be tryed by the Fire and that which is false or wicked must remain with its Turba in the Fire according to the purport of the Word of Christ 2. But if the Question be concerning Arts whether they know them surely they know all Arts though never so Deeply founded but they dare not awaken or stir them up that they should appear in their Spirit for Arts are Generated in the Center of Nature out of the Essences wherein the Wonders stand which they have sought in this World so much as hath been opened to them in the Mystery 3. A Soul without Gods Body goeth not into the Mystery for Art it standeth still and quiet in its Rest it feareth the Turba it giveth Glory to God 4. But the highly Enlightned Souls which carry Heavenly Substantiality in their Spirit they have the skill and knowledge of Heavenly Matters and of all whatsoever lyeth in the Mystery especially those which have been conversant in the Mystery here the other do not use to search into the Mystery 5. For every one continueth in his own Calling and Employment which he hath here loved and delighted in though indeed there be no such working or Labour there yet they have Joy in it for in Heaven there is a simple humble Childrens Life 6. Why should Men there enquire after Arts and Sciences The whole Mystery standeth Open God filleth all in all there are meer Wonders they live all in Wonders and are all the Art of God they have all great skill and knowledge but in a Paradisical simple Childrens Life The Eight and Twentieth Question Whether they have any more skill or knowledge of Divine Angelical and Earthly things and also of Devilish and can have more certain Experience and Knowledge of them then they had in the Body 1. Concerning Divine and Angelical Skill and Knowledge they have certainly much more for they are in the Principle of God and the Son seeth very well what the Father doth in his House so also the Soul seeth what is in Heaven 2. Their skill and knowledge is very various for the highest skill and knowledge is apprehended in the Majesty and there must most Souls wait till the Last Judgement Day when they shall get their New Bodies 3. But the highly Enlightned How Souls that are in God's Body and Power they have surpassing overflowing skill and knowledge of God and of the Angels for they are in the Wonders of God till their own Wonders shall be presented also to them 4. The Souls without a Body are in Heaven in God as it were Magically they awaken or stir up no Wonders but are under Gods Altar and wait for the Wonders at the day of Appearing 5. They take no care about Devilish things for that belongeth to the Angels to strive with the Devil and defend Men No Soul Imagineth into Hell it is Enmity to them The Nine and Twentieth Question What the Souls Rest awakening and Clarification are 1. THis is also clearly enough Explained its Rest is without Substance in the stilness where they are in God's Hand and no source or pain toucheth them they have no feeling of any pain but it is as one that lyeth in a sweet sleep and resteth quietly 2. Their Clarification during this time is when they think and consider of the Joy to Come then the Spirit entereth into the Majesty of God whence they have Joy and Clarity or Glory and so during all the time they trim their Lamps that they may be ready in their New Body to be received by their Bridegroom 3. There is a very sweet Paradisical Joy in them but Paradise is not stirring in them with full perfection for that belongeth to the New Body out of the Earth The First Body which God Created which Christ hath redeemed by his Death that will bring the Wonders and enter again into Paradise and be surrounded or Cloathed with God's Majesty and then is the Tabernacle of God with Men. The Thirtieth Question What the difference of the Livings and Deads Resurrection of the Flesh and of the Soul is 1. COncerning this saith Christ there shall be great difference wherefore we remit you to the Scripture for it shall all be according to the Scripture 2. But seeing this is unsearchable and unapprehensible to Mans Reason therefore I know not how to answer you more then the Scripture saith but seeing you long and desire to know these things therefore you are also in your seeking the finding and I am only the Instrument 3. And though it be given and opened to me yet it is not from my own understanding and knowledge but the knowledge standeth in the Spirit of Christ according to which this Hand calleth it self Two-fold and saith WE for it speaketh from Two Persons and two Persons say not I but We and speak of Two as a Lord that speaketh of his Person and of his Dominion 4. And so Gods Children and Servants should not say the knowledge is Mine the understanding is Mine but give the Honour and Glory to God and in their opening or manifesting the Wonders of God should speak of two viz. of the Giver and of the Receiver 5. Neither should any understand our Writing so as if the hand did boast or Glory of it self according to the Authority and worthiness of Man though indeed in Christ we are worthy but according to the Outward Man we would have no boasting or praise and honour for the Praise is Gods 6. VVe are Children of the Father and should do that which he would have us do and not hide or bury in the Earth the Talent which he hath given us for the Father will require it of Us with Increase and if nothing be increased with it then he taketh it again from him to whom he had given it and giveth it to him that hath gained much which would be a Miserable taking away from me to
the Fire-source or quality viz. Red and therein the power and vertue viz. Sulphur and the other as a Thin Meekness and yet Substantiality viz. Water which the desirous Tincture draweth and turneth into one in a thing so that it becometh Blood 11. Now in the Blood is the Original of the Fire viz. the Warmth that is a Tincture a Life and in the power and vertue of the Tincture goeth forth out of the Thin Water of Life the power and vertue out of the power and vertue and the vertue and power receiveth that going forth or exit continually again and that going forth is free from the Fire and also from the power and vertue for it is going forth and yet is generated out of the Power and Vertue 12. And this is now the right and true Spirit that becometh generated out of the Soul wherein the Image of God with the Divine Virgin of the Wisdom of God standeth for in the Spirit lyeth all Wit or Ingenuity Wisdom and Understanding it hath the THOUGHTS and the Noble or Precious Life which uniteth it self with God and is so subtile that this Spirit CAN and may enter into God 13. And then if this Spirit do give it self up into God and casteth away its Souls Fire-pomp and Wit then it attaineth God's Image and God's Body for it goeth with the Will into God and dwelleth with Power and Authority in God Thus it hath God's Substance on it or in it and is without this World in the Life of God 14. But being this Spirit out of the Center of Nature first originateth out of the Fire-Life though it is not the Fire-Life but its Spirit and the Fire-Life with the Original in the Abysse standeth in the quality or source of the Anger of God therefore hath Christ not Commended this his Spirit to the Fiery-Life but to his Father into his Hands 15. His Hands are the Love Desiring wherewith he reacheth after our Spirit when we enter into him and Commit or Commend our selves to him 16. For now when his Body was to die on the Cross and his Soul was to go through Hell God's Anger then the Devil waited and thought we will surely keep him well enough in our Turba in the Fire therefore CHRIST Commended his Spirit into God 's Love 17. And thus came now the Soul of Christ with the Spirit into God's Hands comprised in the Anger-Fire in Death there Death would have held him but it was broken and made a scorn of 18. For it slew the outward Man viz. the outward Life and took it away and thought now must the Soul needs stay in the Turba but there was a stronger in the Soul viz. God's Word that took Death Captive and destroyed the Anger and quenched the fierce Wrath with the Love in the Spirit of Christ 19. That was a Poyson to Hell that the Love of God came into it and slew it in the Soul and was to Death a Pestilence and a Dying a Breaking and destroying it must now suffer that an Eternal Life grow up in it 20. Thus the Spirit of Christ took the Devil Captive and brought him out of this Souls-Fire forth into the Darkness and thrust him into Darkness out from the Souls Fire out from Gods Fire into the fierce wrathful harsh austereness and bitterness in the Cold there he may heat himself lest he freeze for Cold. 21. Consider the first four Forms of Nature and then you may be informed what the Devils dwelling house is For before Christ he held the Soul Captive in the Turba with the Fire and though clearly he doth not hold the Souls Spirit yet he had the root in the Turba but there the forbearance was commanded him and he was thrust out and brought into the Darkness and his Malice and Wickedness was thus destroyed by Christs going into Hell and Christ became his Judge 22. Thus ye have in brief described what Christs and our Spirit is viz. not the outward Life but the Spirit of the Soul not the Soul it self but its Lifes-Spirit 23. As there is in God the Holy Number Three a Distinction of Three Persons in One Substance and yet but ONE God where the Sonne hath the Spirit viz. the Life proceeding out of his Heart and Mouth and the Heart is the Flame of Love and the Father the Source or Quality of Anger and is meekned and allayed by his Son in the Love so that ALL in God is ONE Will and Substance or Deed. 24. So it is also in Man and no otherwise in one Syllable whatsoever God in Christ is that are we also in Christ in God his true Children and therefore should we also commend our Spirits into his hands and so we may also enter through Death into Life with Christ in God 25. Be not led astray and deluded by the facetious pleasant specious shews as Men hither to have been in Babel where they have conceited this and that concerning the Soul and its Spirit one thus another otherwise there is no Ground but Conceits and Opinions 26. The Understanding is generated in God not in the Schools or Universities from Art though we despise not Art for if it be generated in God it is a TEN-fold Mystery for it attaineth alwayes the Tenth Number in Wit or Understanding more then the Layick for it can of many Numbers make One 27. But it standeth not in own self ability No the Entrance upon the Cross must be in One as well as in the Other be he Doctor or Layick in God's Mysteries there are none Doctors but only Scholars yet a Learned Scholar can go far 28. Had this Hand the High Art and also this High Gift you should well see it but God would have it as it is it pleaseth him well that he might turn the Wisdom of this World into Foolishness and he giveth his power to the weak that every Life may bow before him and acknowledge him that He is Lord and doth whatsoever he will The Eight and Thirtieth Question Of those things which are to be done at the End of the World 1. MY Beloved Friend here we ought not to answer your Question also it standeth not in our Ability neither ought any to Ask for it is the secret Counsel of God and none should Esteem himself as God and know ALL before hand 2. Our knowledge standeth in God's Spirit and Will when that moveth then go you on in the Heavenly Magia and pass into the Wonders of the Earthly Now is the Prophet Born for he standeth upon the Crown and speaketh Magically concerning the Beginning of the Wonders and of its Turba and how it shall come to an End and break again and come into the First 3. For all Prophets speak out of the Turba they declare what is false or wicked and shew that which is better which goeth in God's Will 4. Therefore do not burthen us with this Question for we should be captivated by the Turba