the preciousness of the Spirit for the Vessels sake wherefore I shall no longer be backward to reveal what is of great weight and importance as being well assured that the Lord Jesus will go along with me till I have fulfilled the Declaration of the whole Mystery I feel the divine Agent that works mightily in holy separated Souls and Minds driving on to make way for what is yet behind in reference to the manifestation of that Kingdom which now the Lord is about to restore in his Saints and therefore gives forth fresh and lively Ideas of it that pure Minds may be excited to look for its coming in their New Earth and Heavens which are to be garnished as with Purity so with Dominion and Power even the rising Body of the holy Spirit which must restore all things which have been in Confusion Now what goeth before to make ready for this hath been already set down by the Golden Pen which is dipped in the springing Unction to which more considerable Revelations are added by him who saith He is come to make all things New being ready to give forth the Promise of the Father in the Ministration of the everlasting Gospel I say the faithful Witness and Ground of all Mysteries minded me of his Charge to his Disciples when he was to disappear to the outward viz. That they should wait at Jerusalem the holy City in Harmony Concord and Oneness of Mind with great confidence and love to each other A deeper search the holy one doth make in them who in this last Age are waiting to be endowed with the full acting Body of the Deity which will be manifested in a different manner than in the days of the Apostles that being by way of Gift coming down as a Shower but now those who shall be endowed with this signal Blessing must have it by way of a Birth in them The Apostles were to wait at Jerusalem which was a figure of the Principle of Light where all Natures and Properties are harmoniz'd to an equal Temperature all Faculties are spiritualiz'd and purged from their Drossiness and reconciled to each other in a sweet Love-accord It is plainly shewed me that the holy Spirit will have his Birth in a peaceable Habitation where the conquering Life of Jesus by his dying and rising hath first made its way by reconciling the Properties of Nature and bringing them to a divine Harmony by which renewing Nature into a soft and sweet Mildness causing all Contrarieties of Spirit to cease by subduing it to the Light-Principle Wherefore it is but in vain to expect the Establishment of that Kingdom which the Birth of the holy Spirit will bring to us till this thorow Work be wrought that we may come to Unity in our selves and with one another which is a very high Perfection And truly from hence I have been informed where the Birth of Power hath stuck and why so many Faculties fruitless Births have been brought forth Wherefore let not our bribed Senses or the Spirit of Unbelief so far delude us to make us believe that the holy Spirit will open its Birth but according to what hath been by the Lord himself revealed But it may be objected That if the Terms be so hard it looks as an Impossibility to obtain it because nothing of the evil Qualities and striving Properties must remain which are not so quite allayed in any but may be stirred up again into Motion Pray therefore let us know what Provision hath been revealed against this that it may beg it a Hope and Belief in those who are yet in the Division and Strife the Good warring against the Evil and the Evil against the Good being divided betwixt the Night and the Day as the greatest Saints are For Answer to this Objection the Spirit of the Lord hath searched and found out a Cure which will bring the broken and divided Estate of the first Adamical Birth into Unity Harmony and pure Liberty I shall as I am able bring it sorth in the same Model it was given to me for a true seeing Glass by which I was directed to fathom the deepest Ground of my eternal Soul and to find out its true essential Properties as they were derived from the unmixed Purity of the one pure Element This pure eternal living Soul thus breathed by God into an Angelical Image and formed into an Organical Body from the one pure Element all which was to be seen in the first Paradisiacal Man But when Lucifer prevailed by darting in his hellish Fire it left such a Sting which hath poysoned all the inward Essences of of the very Immortal part and therefore the Wound is found so deep that no Medicine can be found to reach it but Christ the in-breathed Word who only can reach the Soul 's original Ground and being the Creating Fiat can alone make all Nowagain according to the highest Uniformity of the express Deity And this cometh first to be known in a fiery Ray of Loue-Light that discovers where the Root of sin doth lie and so when the Spirit of the Soul comes by the Word of Life to understand its own Original and by what means it hath been corrupted and captivated it is made full-willing and eager to strike in with that Christ which riseth from the Centre-Light in its own Soul to redeem and reconcile all to himself that was alienated from him in the Birth of Strife Thus Christin us is our Peace indeed who hath made of both and all one New Creature having abolished the Law of Enmity blotting and rcoting out sin by the same degrees as his own righteous Nature enters in which restores all peaceable Concord So that the Spirit who is made Partaker of this Gift of God hath put on Royal Liberty and being clothed with Christs essential Body finds it self unloaded of all sinful weights and moves swifty in the Circle of Light and runs its Races through the unknown Spaces and Christaline Spheres where other Worlds do appear with all their glorious Objects Ranks and Orders which must needs make this World look base and vile to a Soul that is come naked and free out of the original Womb as begotten again from the dead rising in a perfect clarified Body of Light and being quite recovered from that desperate lapsed state that would have sunk the Soul into everlasting Death Thus you see by what means the disagreeing Properties of Nature may come to be harmoniz'd as in the beginning God must become Man and by his consuming fiery Property destroy original Sin which is the first Engine that moves the Wheel of Strife and Division in the Soul which Fire is Gods choice Instrument when set and tuned by his hand who gave it a Beeing out of Eternal Nature into which it must be dissolved again that it may be a meet Instrument for the holy Spirit to play such Tunes and Triumphant Sounds and teach such new Lessons as have not hitherto
good whatsoever we part with on his account as there are some who can witness to Gods Truth and Faithfulness in this matter A Third Caution is for those who are got out of the Throng and Incombrance of worldly Multiplicity and have thrown off all those weights and sins which do so easily beset them they must know that all this will not fully secure them though it be a very good Ground-Work and greatly advantagious for the rearing up of Gods perfect Tabernacle within them for the following Glories to rest upon it but be advertised from the holy and true fore-sight of the Spirit of Jesus who knows the Dangers and Perils which attend this state also which though they have escaped the worldly Bondage and earthly Pollutions yet spiritual Defilements may remain which are of more dangerous consequence than briary Cares and worldly Distractions for we have not only to do with a Birth of Flesh and Blood but there are internal Powers and Principalities of an higher Descent which joyn their Forces with the rational Spirit which is the more wise and sober part in man and therefore most readily take upon them to prescribe Laws and Rules for the superior Soul to walk by who finding it self fallen stands in great need of an Help and Guide to bring it out of this wretched Plunge and confused State being convinced by Christ the true Life and Light risen within how the case stands with it and thereby made eagerly desirous to be set free from those inward usurping Powers which come with all deceiveableness to circumvent and keep the Soul in the strong hold of a rational Sense which must be quitted And now the enlightned Soul feeling the Malady so great and so painful looks out diligently for a speedy Relief and is ready to embrace every Physitian that doth profess to be skillful in the curing of Souls whereupon comes in a second danger of which ye will do well to take heed that is to be cautioned from whom you receive Spiritual Medicine and whether they be such who have the true Balsom and Tincture of Life to give forth from the very Unction of God resting in them for no other can be profitable unto you All who have not this Soveraign White Stone which knows only how to pour out his Name as precious Oyntment from Vessel to Vessel are Physitians of no value Therefore while ye in the state of Minority are and have need to be under Pastors and Teachers till you are come up to the highest Form ready prepared and qualified for the great Master Teacher to undertake you even the holy Spirit who will perfect whatever was lacking in other Teachings and through other Mediums for which direct your Eye waiting in a peactable Concord and silent Harmony in your own Jerusalem within whereupon written is to be Holiness to the Lord in every Property and then you will come to know the fresh Pasturesprings which are only under the breaking-up-Seal of the holy Unction where no defiled foot hath ever come to raise the Dust to discolour this golden Stream This is the Ministration which you will find the following Openings to point out and lead to and though as yet it be an unbeaten Path which the Lord hath by his Instrument now declared and made known in way of Vision and Prophecy yet it is the true Day-star that will give its own light and witness Therefore let the Wonderers Despisers and Contemners take heed of making a Mock of that which the Alpha and Omega will own and stand by as his express Mind who prohibited the publisher hereof from altering the way and manner of the revealing of these great and deep things Therefore you have them unpollished in their own naked Simplicity as they were every day revealed given forth not in the dress of humane Wisdom no they are of another descent and the spiritual Ones in God will feel know and taste from what Treasure-House they proceed And as for others we do not heed their Judgment only shall be found in hearty Prayer for their true enlightning that all may come to know what the Love-Trumpet doth now sound for is it not that both Earth and Sea may give up their long buried Dead and that his cursed Ground may no longer shut up the dead in Christ Are not these Tidings brought from the bright East that the Lord is coming to bring forth himself in a new and marvellous Resurrection such as never was yet and therefore hath before-hand sent his holy Spirit of Prophecy to proclaim what he intends to fulfil according to his antient Purpose and Decree and for this end hath shewed what Gates are to open to give entrance into this All-fruitful Sharon where the scattered love-Flock hath been hunted and chased as panting Harts shifting their Pastares and yet not finding where to lie down and be at Rest which indeed can never be expected till through the Seven Seals ye do come where the full glorious Resurrection Day ye shall witness through all things becoming New where the holy Spirit your Over-seer and feeling Life shall ever and always be known for fixation in the Resurrection State And though the Saduces be numerous that have no Faith ever to see this first Resurrection which is from the Body of Sin to be made free giving witness hereunto first by being begotten alive from the Dead according to the Scriptures You hath he quickned who were dead in Trespasses and Sin Therefore it is not incredible to us that God should raise the Dead see Rom. 4 5 7 Chapters but each one in Christ's Order for allowance must be given for degrees for as the Death is gradually so is also the Resurrection perfected through received Acts of Power a Similitude whereof we may see in the visible Sun which doth not attain its Meridian height at his first rising and so the Body of the Resurrection doth not at once but by degrees advance to its full height of Lustre and Glory So as we must give way to Measures and Degrees in all sorts whether in dying or rising all opening one Everlasting Mystery of Glory in the Powers of our Lord Jesus who will bring all one after another up to Glory Now then let each one prove his own Work wrought in God whether in Death Resurrection Ascention or Glorification for these are all linked together though not attai ned or reached but in their own Order still going on from the first Step to the last the way for the Attainment of which you will find described according to the measure of the Spirit given for Manifestation of these long hidden Truths that have lain under the Seals where you will find the Path that leadeth into the Death and the loosing therefrom through the seventh Seal opening for the Resurrection which the seven Thunders do plainly express and so proceed on to the ascending Reign in Christs Kingdom which is great and magnificent giving its own
of it as yet because the Elect Stones are at present lying amongst the Rubbish of Confusion who in due time are to be linked together to make up a strong City of Defence through the Gates of which no unclean Vessel shall pass nor whatsoever is Lame or Blemished according as was seen in the Pattern This the Lord will effect by his Might and Spirit and establish this City on Mount-Zion at which the whole World shall Tremble Whilst the Lord was communing with me about this heavenly City I saw it descend and cover the whole Earth and all those who were not prepared to enter and who could claim no Birth-right freedom in this Mother-City did flee away by Multitudes Heaps upon Heaps to hide themselves from the bright Splendor of the divine Body with the anointed head in the midst of it The Glory was so great that we can only give an Eclipsed account of what was seen But as the descent of this Magnificence did terrifie and cause above three parts of the World to flee away as having an irreconcileable Enmity to Spirits and Bodies of such Purity so on the other hand I saw a Numerous Company gathered to it from all Quarters the Trumpet-shout of Jerusalems great King calling them in from all parts they were all the first-born of this Mother-City who well knows her own calling them by that Name which is impressed upon them in flaming Characters of Love Multitudes of this kind encompassed the holy City but few were admitted to the Seraphick wreathe even those only who had put on the glorified Body Whereupon I asked Why those who were called and had the Name of the heavenly City upon them were not received in And the Lord said That those who were taken into the Glory had finished their inward Transformation to the utmost Perfection waiting only for the Consumation of the Nuptial Glory but that the rest though far gone in true Regeneration could not be admitted until their Redemption were perfectly wrought out to the end that no flaw may be found in the Stones that are to constitute this divine Building but as any shall arrive to this degree of Perfection so this City shall descend and take them in Hereupon followed a further discovery to let me know the Royal Freedom of the spiritual Seed proceeding from the New-Jerusalem as the Virgin Bride of God who though come down into this visible Birth of Time yet was before all Time in the Substantiality of spiritual Essence by whom the renewed fruitfulness of this free Birth shall in this last Age of the World be made manifest which was the joyful Message which sounded in my Heavens with what is further to be declared for our Consolation It was thus laid before me That the Jerusalem from above hath been these many Ages travelling to bring forth her first and free-born according to that divine Likeness whose Descent is not to be found within the verge of Time For here the Gate of Gods deep hath been opened to let us in to see the wonderful Mystery that was fore-ordained to work through all the Vicissitudes of Time since the first Creation Now then let us consider what the first Plant of Paradise was from whence we are all sprung it was but a flower from the Earth for out of the Dust of the Earth the Lord God created man and breathed into his Nostrils the Breath of Life and man became a living Soul which was pure as immediately proceeding from the most Holy But how soon did this Glory fade and return to Earth again whereas if he had kept his first Estate he would have been advanced to higher degrees of Perfection and become fruitful in Gods Virgin off-spring All which Design for a limitted time was overturned but the Foundation of Gods Election stood so firm in the Essentiality of the out-breathed Word which was the Light of Adam's Life in the Center of Immortality that the same Word will restore all again according to the first gracious Intent of the wise Creator whose purposed Grace shall renew the face of all things that have been marred in the first Adamiral Image But though so desperate a Fall hath overtaken the whole Creation yet is it but as the fading or cropping of a flower whose eternal Root remaining will put forth and spring a-fresh in a more glorious Beauty and Figure than the first ever had For though by one mans Disobedience all are made subject to Death and the Curse which is the bruising of the Heel yet the Head-Life remains which will recover raise and make all sound again for in this promised seed the faded Life will be quickned according to the Election of Him who will hereby more Eminently make known the Riches of his Grace and Glory in his Vessels prepared thereunto For though there be in all men an holy seed remaining whereby they are in a possibility of recovery yet because all have not an Heart to improve this Talent it continues an unprofitable dead Seed to many notwithstanding all are called To take of the Water of Life freely that by its quickning Virtue the buried Seed may be raised to a new Life in a Body of its own kind which Seed through many Deaths does renew its never fading Flower of Life for a higher degree of Glory in the New Jerusalem state of fixation Now from what hath been said we are informed that there is an Elect Number which is to make up the New Jerusalem-Bride here upon Earth who shall finish the Mystery of the Seventh Seal and be all instated in that Kingdom which the Alpha and Omega hath designed for his Virgin-Bride before Paradise or this World were And that I might know that this design and unchangeable purpose of God is still going on there was shewed me a clear White Stone in which were engraven numberless Names all ordained to make up the Glory of this City of God which shall be the Praise and Admiration of the Heavens and a dread and amazement to the Earth for the Revelation of it will bring a Wo upon them who have no part in it This the Lord himself did signifie saying Henceforth know your Free-Birth Name and Place in this City and be not fearful or unbelieving but travel on in the assured Hope that shall not be made ashamed for the everlasting Father hath prepared for you this City of which I am the Builder in you The hand of the Lord was strong upon me still and took me up into an high and lofty Place where I saw a burning Furnace which appeared all Blew like the airy Clouds and the Lord walking in it to and fro who said See whether thou canst make thy Pass to me and abide in this pure everlasting burning Region which is the Spirits purging Fire which will devour whatsoever is not of the same Essentiality with me Upon which I replied Ah! my Lord I am free to make my Pass to thee but how
shall I get rid of this Body I would fain exist in that pure Essence with thee where nothing of this lump of Earth might prevent my constant Walks in those high Places with thee whose presence will make these outward Elements to flee away from the superior Spirit The Holy One replied Be not troubled at thy Binding Mortality for I will descend in this fiery Cloud into thee as a baptizing Fire which shall take away the gross Impurities of the Senses that thou mayst be clarified in order to thy Codeification which will manifest the out-spreading Name of thy Emmanuel whereby thou shalt receive Power to ascend through Fire and Air and continue that all-desireable freedom of Communion with the holy Trinity And though none in a Body of Flesh and Six can come up to me yet Grace Pity and Love do move to descend in the Spirits flaming Cloud to make the way free that such may have a Pass who account no Place their Rest or Dwelling besides me Wherefore pursue and watch to drink in of this pure Spirit of Burning which will clear and take out of the way whatsoever hath kept from ascending into the Holy City Whilst these Words were in spoken from the Anointing I felt a sensible rising and spreading over all my Heart Head and Body as if all were covered with a Cloud of Sun-heat giving out light by which I could soe what was inwardly done as well as feel it Then it was further spoke in me that I should take notice that this was also the bright Garment of the Sun Such is the Nature of this secret flaming Matter that it seeds strengthens and clarifies a naked Spirit all at once Then was I inquisitive to know the Substance or Ground of it but it was replyed Meddle thou not with that only receive it passively and Co-operate with it when it ariseth and then walk with and draw in the feeding Fire and Air and when it resteth in its own place rest thou with it and be assured it will not leave thee till it have concentred thee in the Deity This light flaming Cloud encompassing me gave this further Revelation to shew what the Holy One is about to do in order to the laying of the Foundation of this strong City in which the mighty God will pitch his Tabernacle and settle his Rest forever Many Types Images and foregoing Figures of this Jerusalem have been given through the several Ages of the World but the Heavenly Thing it self hath not been brought forth as no wt will be because the set time approacheth For the trying burning Furnace is kindled and the Wind of the Almighty forcibly blows up the Flames thereof in the center of the Soul of every one who are the Elect Members of this Holy Corporation Now is the time for the Spirit of Burning and Judgment to prepare each Stone which is designed for this super-excellent Glory No connterfeit Gold or reprobate Silver can pass through this Furnace which is ordained to prove whatsoever comes to be built on this Foundation The mighty King sends forth his Decrees to fulfil the ancient Prophecies concerning the return of the long Captivity of these who belong to this Mother-City that they may know their original freedom and no longer abide as Captive-Exiles among the Babylonians in Confusion and Reproach And what sign will the Lord give for this but by loosing the last Seal under which doth lie the rich Bank and vast Treasury of Wisdom Spirit and Power which shall so vigorously carry on this New-Jerusalem-Building that all the Powers which the Dragon and Beast can raise by their Agents visible and invisible shall but turn to their Shame and Confusion when the Lamb ariseth to open the Seventh Seal under which the most precious things even that fine transparent Matter lies hid to be manifested in due time for the beautifying of this divine Building But here an Objection may arise and question this revealed Grace and proclaimed Liberty to the Children of the Captivity who are now called to sit upon this heavenly Building which is this That the time is not yet and that the last Seal is not so near breaking open and who is it that can give a Sign for a Testimony that this Decree is already gone forth To all which the Spirit of Truth gives this Answer who best knows what he hath wrought in order hereunto in the Central Deep of some Elect Vessels who are not to make any out-cry until the Mystery be fully finished in them know that the time is at hand wherefore let none look afar off or run out from themselves and neglect their own Vintage at home but regard how near the Grape is to ripeness which contains the Wine that is to be drunk at the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb who charges it as a great over-sight upon those that are Regenerate that they have put this Day afar off not discerning the Lords Body who is quickned from the dead in them who are passed from Death with him and so are put in Subordinate Commission with the Lamb to break open all those Seals which shall make way for the descent of the Holy City For what in John's Revelation is mentioned concerning these things is very obscure and mystical and there is no fathoming of it to the utmost until the Lord himself come with the Plummet-Line of the Holy Spirit to measure out the meaning Though there are some who have been favoured with this Light of Revelation by means of which they understand what lies hid under those Allegorical Expressions and through the opening of the Seals have discovered those rich Jewels which were concealed under that dark Covert the opening of which Seals I shall set down in order according as it was acted in my own particular through my Soul 's waiting with the Lamb's-rising Power in a particular experience of my own in the divine Mystery At the opening of the first Seal the Spirit of Faith came forth to encounter with the fearful and unbelieving Spirits that set before me an Impossibility of ever reaching to a Paradisical Purity and Mount-Zion-Dignity and was kept under a great Fear and Perplexity under the dominion of Unbelief until this first Seal was broke open for thereupon the strong Lyon of the Tribe of Juda set me free to run the Race of Faith unto the end giving in this Caution to take care to be well mounted on this Horse of the Spirit of Faith and to hold fast to him who rides on it who hath the conquering Bow in his Hand to shoot his Arrows into those unbelieving Spirits that would still keep us in Doubts and Perplexity At the opening of the second Seal all Peace Pleasure and Joy were taken away from the Earthly Life and withal such a Light broke forth which made me see the vile Abomination of an earthly state compared with the Perfection of the Divine Life so that now I rejoyc'd in nothing more than
to see him who sate upon the Red Horse slaying with his Sword the Beasts and creeping things of the Earth that is all the moving stirring Essences springing from the original source of Evil and to find him taking away Peace from the earthly Life so that the earthly Mind is berest of all Peace Rest Content and Satisfaction in all its goings out whether in Thought Word or Action But how comes this to pass Why because he that sits on the Red Horse gives a mighty Sword to the Spirit of the Soul that thereby it may kill and destroy all the Essences of the earthly Life in joynt-Union with Christ which Sword is nothing else but the Power of the Spirit of Life which is Christ's Deity in his Eternal Humanity now fixed in the centre of the Soul It is Christ's rising Life in his Saints enabling them to conquer the Essences of the earthly Life which is the Beast in themselves Now this taking away of Peace from the earthly Life is a blessed Introduction to its final Destruction which is to follow upon it according to the intention of the Kingly Redeemer The opening of the third Seal sheweth Christ in us riding on a black Horse with a pair of Ballances in his Hand signifying Famine on the life of the Beast in his Saints that its day of plenty is passing away and that its earthly Essences must be weighed in the Balance of Rightcousness For the Lamb's Life rising in his dead and riaug Saints putting them into one Scale weigheth all chei Thoughts Words and Actions in the weight of Perfection Christ the holy One in the other to see whether they be brought into an even Pois with it to the end that all Increase and Plenty might richly abound in the fruitfulness of the Spirit from which heavenly sowing such a Crop doth spring as may proclaim a Plenty that may all former exceed and thus it will naturally spring in the Soul which is even ballanced with Christ the Anointed And nothing of the Oyl and Wine which from hence shall proceed shall ever be hurt or diminished At the opening of the fourth Seal Christ rides in his Saints on a powerful Horse whose Name is Conquering Death and hath Hell following him But though this Death looks grim yet it is such a Death as shall only hurt the fourth part of the Earth that is the evil Principle in the earthly Life which reigns and hath the dominion until the Life of Christ be risen in his Saints till which Time the Beast may be permitted to kill the Life of Christ in the Soul with Hunger Famine and languishing Death for it is said that the Beast shall make War with the Saints and for a time overcome them that is keep them under by reigning over them in the worldly dominion which reacheth to their outward Man as standing in his Elementary Kingdom where he hath great Power to afflict and famish unto Death by several Cruelties when so far permitted But I have experimentally found that the greatest Fury Hellish Force and Wrath of the Dragon is quelled and overcome by the Blood and inlaid Life of the Holy Lamb of God rising in his powerful Might within me who upon my complaint of the continual Usurpation of the Beasts Kingdom hath given assurance that there is a Viol of Wrath preparing to be poured out upon him which shall drown his Kingdom in everlasting Perdition that he may no longer insult over the sealed Ones of God to whom Power shall be given to bind him in everlasting Chains For the Lord Omnipotent in the Life of the Lamb is coming to reign over all the Beasts of the Earth and to exalt them to a victorious Kingdom who have been killed and slain with him The opening of the fifth Seal discovers the Souls of the slain Saints under the Altar of the Deity and Humanity Here the Soul witnesseth Conformity to the Death of the 〈◊〉 and lies as a live burning Coal under his 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to rise in such Power of Majesty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to take Vengeance of those that have killed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eternal Generation is to be counted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—â—â—â—â—ced into Nature who hath lain a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but as Abel's Blood did cry for Vengeance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Jesus cry more strongly in the Soulâ— of them who are 〈◊〉 with Christ and the Lord hath expresly assured that when the rising Incense goeth up from the Altar from the Soul 's live Coal it is a sure Testimony that the Resurrection is nigh when the naked Soul shall be cloathed with its long white Robe though this hath been a long Rest and Confinement to many yet it hath only been permitted that a stronger Cry might ascend Even as we see now that John's long sleeping Prophecy is now by some strong crying Souls awakened till all the Seals be made to fly open to the end that the imprisoned Souls in Christ may by their opening come to be set upon the Throne where they shall judge the Dragon and the Beast with all their Adherents that formerly exercised Cruelty over them unto Death Therefore rejoyce all ye who do find the Effects of the fifth Seal opening in your selves for by them ye may know the nearness of the Jerusalem-Kingdom look for its fulfilling in the World within which shall also in due time be fulfilled in the outward World I proceed now to the opening of the sixth Seal where the first thing observable is the great Earthquake representing the terrible Shakings of the very Foundations of the old Earth in which is the original Seed of Sin the hour of whose Judgment is come and the Trumpet hath founded for the dissolving this first Earth and Heavens that their Place may be no more found the Wind of the mighty Spirit blows upon all Flesh to make it dye and wither The Sun of the outward Reason is changed into Blackness and the Moon of the Senses into Blood and all the Starry Imaginations drop like untimely Fruit and every Island and Mountain of strength meleth away For there can be no hiding in this Day a Consumption being determined upon the whole Universe which hath been under the Beasts captivity We may call this a blessed Ruin and Undoing to see a destruction come upon all that hath kept the Lamb and his Kingdom out This causes a great out cry and perplexity in the Properties of degenerate Nature where the King of Reason and the Captains the Senses do not know whither to slee from the face of him who is come to make all things new which could not be till all of the old Building was broken down and taken to pieces where the fretting Leprosie of Sin did still rise The Wisdom of God could no better way contrive for the laying of a sound and sinless Foundation for the New Jerusalem according to this fore-contrived Model as by express Word it came
the discovery of which we will pass by at present and first define what wonderful Virgin this is and of how noble an Extract who is taken into God's Bosom in a mutual Love-imbracing and therefore may be termed the eternal Goddess in a high and sober sense and it is an evil and sinful thing to give this Title to any other as it is too frequently done But to proceed to describe this Virgin according to the delineation which God hath given of her as first to its Matter and Substance it is of that thin pure airy subtlety so as nothing of the gross and ponderous outward Elements can mix with it for they would but tarnish her Clarity which is ever conversant with the Deity which was signified by the Sun and Stars which were seen about the Head of the Woman in the Revelations signifying those superior Planets which cannot be adulterated with the Desilemonts of this inferior Orb as possessing far higher and more exalted Powers carrying dominion over all that is beneath them For as the lower Planets hold down in subjection to the Curse so these deliver and set free from it Wherefore it is all-worthy to be enquired in what Planet the Nativity of the Virgin may be again renewed which must be by bright Venus which must bring forth the mighty Birth under Sol in Conjunction with the rest of the superior Planets which are all harmoniz'd in one for they agree to bring forth the Mother and then the Son in the Virgin-Humanity that bears from the heavenly Matter both Figure and Form Organically for operation in their various Properties which are deciphered by the highest Wisdom to illustrate the only true Virgin in her beautiful Form The divine Mould for her Shape is again found according to what was before either Angels or Man were formed which is not to be portrayed till she come to be essentially manifested within only her Organical Faculties are unto us described thereby to know what makes out the Virgin 's high Descent in these several Faculties as follow The first Faculty set before me was that of Seeing seated in her Eye which appeared like a fiery Ray and sparkled as a Star piercing all things in the Heights and Depths An Eye that slumbers not but watcheth at each Centers-Gate to spie what goeth in and out to prevent all violation of her Virgin-Chastity that her Vow may not be broken by which she stands engaged to her Husband The second Faculty is that of Hearing seated in the Ear which must be so Chaste as to turn away from all corrupt and unsavoury Language which speaks not God forth in his immense Love and Goodness or in his Greatness and Soveraignity The true Virgins Ear is turned inward to listen to the sweet Voice of her Bride-groom she waits for the dropping of his Lips whose Words are the strength and marrow of her Life she is in such union with the Deity that she can't hearken to any strange Voice left she should be desiled thereby The greatest danger and hurt she feels from the talking Spirits from the dark center in the Soul from which her Virgin-Ear turns away and dare in no wise stay in their astral counsel and therefore turns her Ear to those Eccho's Voices and Sounds which leave a sweetness which resists the taking of delight in corrupt and impertinent Communications from without Thus reserving both Eye and Ear she still moves forward in her heavenly Sphear The third organical Faculty is that of Smelling This may be understood in a two-fold sense the first is a drawing in of the Paradisical Perfumes and those sweet ravishing Odours which are sufficient to renew languishing Life and to make it strongly active and vigorous Secondly the Virgin is in her self an high sented Odour her Garments send forth a Fragrancy far surpassing all the spicy Compositions of this earthly Climate How Vile and Despicable doth every thing that hath lost its Paradisical Property appear to those who sometimes draw in these ravishing Odours which might they but continue they would never desire any other Food Shall I declare what is made known to me of the Virtue of these Virgin Perfumes It is aver'd to me they will recover a putrified Soul and eat out all the Poyson of Original Sin and recover dead flesh and keep it from Putrifaction it is a Balsom endued with so penetrating a Spirit that it can go through Stone and Iron Flesh and Bones None can know this till they have passed the Virgins Womb and then they will double this Witness Now it is to be considered how unsupportable all rank Plants of the Earth are to the Virgin who continually breathes this perfumed Air When ever she makes a swift pass through this noisom Kedar what a strong sented Garland doth she need that nothing of Infection may hurt her Virgin Purity To which end this Provision is made to keep out the evil Scents which every where meet us in the Walks of this World The fourth Faculty is that of Tasting Here we find what it is that nourisheth the Virgin her Food is in her self and it is no other than pure Deity which riseth as a flowing Spring from her own deep She lives upon Spirit of Air which maintains and blows up the Quint-Essential Fire as the first Virgin-matter out of which the Soul was made which in Adam became adulterated by eating of the forbidden-fruit who might have lived upon the Root of eternal Life which he had in himself he might have tasted the Paradisical Fruits at pleasure but what was palpable without he had essentially in the Virgin within himself so that he might chuse whether he would eat of them or no in a corporeal way This hath been a secret hitherto little understood but God in Christ through his appearance hath revealed it and for this end to let us know what we are to feed upon at the return of our Virginity whose Life's Nourishment will be in itself without any dependence upon any thing from without Oh! there will quite another thing be known in the Virgin Soul when she is espoused to her though she hath liberty to eat as Adam had before the fall So here the outward Month may taste of these mortal Fruits but not of necessity because the Life is centred in and maintained from the heart of the Deity for the enereass and growth of pure Virgin Nature And truly nothing but God can be the Virgins Food nothing is so well digested by her for it is a flowing source of Almighty strengthening and pleasant tasting according to an infinite variety This being once found the Soul can no more eat down the Fruits of the mixed Tree in whose Root the Curse is whereby Death comes in which hides the Virgin from the Soul's Essence The fifth Faculty is the saper-sential Feeling What Sence more excellent than this Can there be a greater Confirmation than a feeling Life out of which Joy Peace and Assurance do
spring The Virgin feels her self in the Centre of the Deity she handles what doth not appear to be tangeable viz. Breath Spirit Fire and Air in all these her feeling-motion is in great Serenity A Center-Life that burneth from the Mirror of the Deity boyles Love up to that height as nothing is felt but Pleasure and ravishing Delight it is the Heat and Blood that runs through every Vein of the Virgin-Body and is an Antidote against all Fear and Pain which is felt in the mortal Sense Oh! what Deaths Akings and Griefs have we felt in our Souls as well as in our Bodies our Minds being in continual Anxiousness and Trouble to see what we are fallen into I speak of such who have been touched with the Fire-Stone of the Virgin which must go before her healing Medicine And blessed are they who have first known the painful feeling under her severe Discipline for such shall be her polished Pillars on which she will engrave her Virgin Name as he saith who is the true and faithful Witness who is come to take off the Virgins Vail that we may see her in the Glass of perfection and come to know and feel her not as distinct and a-part from us but all Virginized in her essential Deity that the joyful feeling in breath of Fire and Air may be witnessed and then we shall see what shall follow the Harmony of these Sences which is the Character of the Virgin-Nature the Pattern we are to try our selves by for which end we are also called to look into her Mirror that so it may stir up all favour of desire in us to have those Sences in their excellency awakened in us Oh great Goddess and Queen of all Worlds wilt thou after so long a time of Desertion once appear again Who is it that hath entreated thy Favour and gained a Promise from thee of a Visit though this be too short because nothing now will satisfie unless thou bestow thy self with all thy divine Sences as a co-deified Life to shew that thou art now prevail'd upon to joyn with the Redeeming Blood to restore thy own Virginity where thou findest Humility and Importunity in that Personality which is all beloved of the highest Wisdom and only Spouse of God know and remember us who are brought to thy feet and have been under thy severe Discipline therefore allot thy self to be our Garland and Crown Now we are advanced one step higher towards Wisdom's heavenly Throne from whence her Golden Scepter is stretched forth to lay hold on which passeth through and beyond every elementary Cloud which the sensitive Life hath raised so as we could not see our way to that sparkling Rock of the Deity for which cause the bright Sun now shines from her eternal Orb through the dark Clouds that we might see every ascending degree twisting and winding so intricately that without a Guide expresly sent down from that Sphear there is no possibility ever to come to any one of her Gates which lead to the New Jerusalem These are set before me to be in number Twelve five of which were spoken of in the fore-going Chapter and now we repair to her Oracle as our Guide for the revealing of the other seven Gates together with the Way which leads from one to to the other where the hidden Track of the Virgins Way may be found treading upon that unknown ground under which is found a rich and precious Stone from which the highest blessing will abound The Way to the first of these seven Gates is very solitary and lonely it is very rare to meet with two agreed to hold out in it to the end it is so full of rending Thorns and affrighting wild Beasts for herein lies the design of the horned Beast to scatter and divide such who are agreed to travel in Wisdoms Path Also the Nimrod Hunters of this World send out after them either to divide or bring them back again These are the Oppositions we may expect in this Way against which we must be provided and fore-armed that our entrance by this Gate may not be prevented The Inscription of this Gate is Abnegation or Renunciation of this outward Principle The first Question which is asked by the Angel who keeps this Gate is Are you come away as Strangers and Pilgrims Will you no more return to the Traffick of Babylon For the Prince of this City will only admit of such as shall abjure all Commerce with the Merchants of Tarshish though by this means all earthly Riches are gained to keep up a Worldly Reputation and Fame but the Angel of this Gate will have good Assurance that whoever comes up hither be quite broken off from and have no further dealing with the Harlot daughter of Sidon who hath deceived the Kingdoms of this World with her Sorceries Whoever they be that get through this streight Gate for them a sure and good Foundation is laid to walk forward towards the second Gate But here another thing is to be considered before entrance can be given for this Angel is charged not to take any ones single Security but enquires whether Christs Spirit in them and his Person for them will stand engaged to perform all this Agreement For she dares not trust the Soul upon a single Promise though fervent and unfeigned and full of good Will yet it is not sufficient if he be not able to maintain the Gate ground against his Enemies that will attempt to circumvent him Therefore we that are come hereunto are to give in the Name of our Security and so pass on freely to the second Gate The second Gate is called the wrestling or struggling Gate it is the Gate of Probation before it stands a Center-Gulf Here will rise what will countermand the Pilgrim back again into the worldly Principle which he had abjured and left behind Wisdom stands by her Angel to call and invite to come through but the Gulf swells so very high that it appears impossible to get over Legions of Spirits here do follow crying out What mean you to run so great a hazard as to have a place where is store of all good things for Supply and Maintenance Thus Temptations and Assaults will beset the Pilgrim threatning hard and bitter things to him who is a seeking his own Native Country and original Virginity and endeavours with great wrestling to get rid of all these knawing Vipers What! say they will you turn quite away from those pleasant Joys in which others live spending their days in Gods Love and Peace and therein rest contented not attempting the passing of this Gulf till the limit of your Life requires it All this and much more will press in to turn away the Soul from pursuing after its Virgin Crown and therefore this Gate is called the Probation Gate Now if the Spirit of Christ be so powerful in the Soul as not to regard these Temptations being resolved to venture through the fiery Gulf that
out of request both as to spiritual Wares or bodily Sustenance as soon as some Virgin-Passengers shall have entred this Gate who shall be so highly favoured for having here broke through that they shall have liberty to open this high Factory to the rest of their fellow-Members that yet are Captives in the Assyrian Land and were there brought up according to the Laws and Customs of the Babylonians which could not be avoided during their time of Captivity But now Babylon's Sun is going down and the Night of Death and Darkness is spreading it self over all the pompous state of the Merchants of the Earth All this will be seen upon the breaking in of the Bridegroom's Spirit and his Virgin who will deliver the exile Captives and clasp them close within themselves and exercise the Soul in another Science Its skill and wisdom in the divine Magia will actually go forth from this Co-essential participation of the Virgin-Nature to renew all good and pleasant things according to the first Paradisical Property as in the following Gate will be made out where the Virgin will particularly exercise her Magia for Redemption out of the present Captivity under which the Israelites as well as Ethiopians do groan being beset with the effects of Sin and Mortality which this sixth Gate doth deliver us from The sixth Gate is called the transferring Gate where the most choice and noble Gifts are transferred from the Palace of the glorious Majesty as the Foundation of Wisdom's factory mannaged by Wisdom's Correspondents who are skilful in the working Wheel of the divine Magia Oh! what transferring Powers will pass from one to the other to bring forth the flourishing of Eden that it may again appear in this habitable World Wisdom's Lovers now must dig deep to find this Kernal which hath lain hid in the Ground of Virgin-Wisdom from whom it must be transmitted to them who shall plant Paradise in a greater Latitude in this World For which a sure and unalterable Decree is gone forth for it is affirmed by the living Word who declares before-hand the truth of these things which are already begun and shall be finished as soon as all the Virgin 's Gates are past and entred And this is more considerable where such a mutual constant Correspondency is betwixt those two Kingdoms Paradise and Mount-Zion all rich things will be transferred from each to other yea an immortal Factory is here to be maintained betwixt the Inhabitants of these two heavenly Countries and so transferred still into this lower Orb as occasion shall be For though some part of this Earth by virtue of the Virgin-Stone may be ting'd into a Paradisical Property and thereby made capable of Commerce with the superior Worlds yet there will be a race of Vagabond Cains that will abide still under the Curse Tho Paradise be made visible in this World yet all will not suddainly thereby be brought to leave Babylon's Merchandize neither will the divine Arts and Mysteries be transferred commonly but upon such who have sought them diligently and have let all other Arts and Callings to for them being resolved to know no other but the heavenly Magia This is the invisible Stock which the Virgin doth traffick with to gain Honour Wealth Renown and a Crown of Glory to her God and Bridegroom Now it may be asked What matter is here to work upon for such abundant increase Where lies the Mystery of this Art that must be transferred by her as a Gift I Answer That this is a great Secret which cannot be revealed all at once and so deeply Mystical that none but Wisdom's exercised Magicians have ever founded it and found the matter hereof Yet we must not deny the great favour which the Most-High hath afforded for the opening of this secret thing through the very Person of Christ's glorified Humanity that so we might know what will make mortal Dross become like the fine Gold of Opher But to give an answer to that Question What that matter is which in Wisdom's Principle we are to work upon I say first negatively That it is no gross tangible Matter that we shall traffick with we shall need no Barns or Store-houses to lay it up in To describe it according to what is revealed we say it is a rushing Breath a tincturing Blood a running flash of Light and Fire coagulating together in a word it is the Power of the Deity transferred to a Virgin-Spirit on God's behalf as in the Person of Christ and his Virgin transmitting themselves as a spiritual Root from whence all fruitful Powers of the holy Ghost may be proved for otherwise all fore-passed things will bring little Glory to our mighty King and Saviour The seventh Gate is the Gate of Projection which will take off all Vails that have been upon the most Holy Place where we may enter as all knowing in Wisdom's Mysteries and Wonders But here lies the difficulty how to attain the skill to stir up the precious Gift that according to what was before described from the tincturing Blood of the divine Virgin we may be able to bring forth Matter Form and Colour according to the Quint-essential Spirit transferred from the highest Beeing But it may be asked here How or in what manner doth this Projection operate I Answer Several wayes all which may be referred to these two Heads viz. Transformation and Transfiguration in which two great effects Projection will be known in its essential Virtue flowing out and entring in where the Venom of the Serpent is which poysonous matter is transferred in the Soul by means of this Projection from the Tincture of Wisdom's Stone which causes an unalterable Transmutation of all gross Matter and the vile Bodie 's shape into a bright heavenly Consistency Such a Coelestial Body Wisdom's Virgin shall have power to put on when called up to the Seraphick Thrones and to appear before the highest Majesty to receive new Commissions what to act further according to the Counsel and Will of the Holy Trinity who will greatly delight to put them upon working what is Noble Great and Wonderful which none can parallel except they have first passed all the fore-mentioned Gates If it be asked What Works and Signs shall follow Wisdom's Projections I Answer They are such as Jews will not believe before they see them nay even Wisdom's Disciples who have been gathered under her Wing and drunk of her tincturing Blood will be sometimes in doubt of these things whilst they are yet but Passengers from Gate to Gate Wherefore we must not expect to be believed by those who are yet without the Gates However we will according to what hath been revealed by the supream Magns declare and set forth what God can do by his Instruments who are thus highly and divinely qualified In the first place they will be able to act from a creating Power the Virgin 's Omnipotency will enable them to give a new Form Virtue and Purity to all things
into himself the whole Body of the Sonship which is the height and luster of that Kingdom which is to come and is to be yielded up to the one God who is over all Not that he will be a living Tabernacle to all but only to those who are meetly qualified Who are they then who may expect to be rearers up of this Tabernacle which the Majesty of the Glory will fill They are pure holy and separated Souls set apart for this very purpose bearing the Inscription of Heavenly Magicians as being principled in that great Mystery and being made all knowing through the friendly Counsel and Revelation of the Virgin-Wisdom who is the great Revealer of these Mystical Sciences and Magical Arts such as were practised before this World or its Craft were in being But now the Wisdom of this World is needed and universally exercised by all ranks and degrees under the present Fall Regenerate and Unregenerate do both agree in this matter and do make use of Reason for the supply succour and support of the mortal Spirit and Body But what will you say if this good old Magical way from which the whole Creation is turned shall in this last Age be restored and found again for the redeeming out of the Care Sorrow and painful Exercise of Mind and Body This will be worth lending an Ear to it being such a mysterious and advantagious Art as will sufficiently pay the Cost of what we shall be out in attaining it The ground we go upon for this new way of living after a God-like manner are the many Scripture-Prophecies that run all in this Sense with which agrees what is of late-renewed to some who are waiting for their Lot within this New Paradisical Scene being under the Dispensation of such Revelations as are in order to give entrance into the Tabernacle of God where it will be natural to produce all things Magically beginning first to exercise this Mystical Wisdom and Power upon it self as having an old Creation which must be dissolved that a new one may take its place The Physitian must first give proof that he can heal himself before he undertake others So in this matter the true Magus is taught to make a tryal of his skill upon his own inward and outward Defects and thereby gain the Fearful and Unbelieving that they also may come and enter through this everlasting Gate where the New Jerusalem Magicians are in their first Paradisical Callings which the holy Ghost hath received Commission to put some holy qualified Souls afresh upon that they may be leading Presidents to others But it may be further enquired What this Magia is And how it may be acted forth to alter the whole state of things Internally and Externally It is thus made out to us That it is arising Infinitum that forms it self into a Birth the matter of which can no otherwise be described than the unknown Beeing of God himself who is a meer virtual working Power in a finite Beeing from whence a flowing source of generating Powers do act forth from what lieth hid so unconceiveably as cannot be either seen felt or heard out of it self but only as it produceth great and marvelous Effects upon whatever it doth move This is that which is called the Magia of the holy Ghost so defined as he hath pleased to reveal it unto us Now it remains to enquire By whom and how this is to be acted forth and for what end it is to be manifested after such an high degree As to the first By whom this is to be exerted or acted forth of this much hath been said already we shall only mention one thing which is the principal Qualification of those to whom this Honour shall be given viz. They are to take up a firm and fixed Resolution to follow this Magical Vocation only and to reject all others that proceed from the Astral Birth that do pour in whole Floods to drown the little spark of Faith from whence the Magia Tree must first grow and appear in all its various Fruits This I say is that which is to be done on our parts as we would be Adeptists in the supersensual working Wheel which will run us into our lost Dominion to be in God again But then watchfulness is required to repel and judge down every whirling Motion and Thought that shall rise to thwart the Magia Way which indeed is nothing else but a most pure single act of Faith heightned to that degree as to become a kind of Omnipotency if they can but get free from the Life of Sense which is its great and home-born Enemy which will hardly suffer the Soul to make its pass away but follows still at the Heels till the Hand of Faith grows strong enough to use the Magical Rod which may break their binding Circle that so we may get a swist pass into the boundless Liberty and some to be expert in the Theosophical Science which is not of Man nor after any rational Wisdom of Man but as the pure fiery Breath of the holy Ghost doth incorporate with the Fire-Essence of the Soul and so drive it up into a Body of all-Magical operation For the free actuation of which Life we are warned to cease from all other ways and employs and upon this only to fix our Minds and to stop our Ears to the pleas and cryes of the Senses that would still have us to lie at the Breast of the Creature when-as nothing but Death Sorrow and the Curse can be sucked from it It is indeed but natural so to do as long as we stand in the first Birth from which it will be hard to get loose till the other come to rise in the Soul's center For in this second Birth there is a strong force which is able to overcome and break that Yoke which hath been so often near strangling this Magical Birth of Life that it could not display its free Breath wherefore let us now take heed and ny away from our mortal Senses and totally exclude them from that new erected Throne Council and Court wherein pure Austraction and Child-like posture of Spirit we may wait to learn how to act forth each one according to his Gift in this high land supernatural Magia That we may speak out what Lineage and Birth we are brought forth in after Gods own likeness in Power Wisdom and Purity to glorifie him in a new Tabernacle-Body Magically raised which being consummated within the outward form of visible Corporeity the unchangeable Priesthood begins within the most holy Place and is carried on not as in the figurative and fleshly Administration wherein was need of Attonements and Offerings for Sin which in this great and more perfect Tabernacle there will be no occasion for Sin being ended and the holy Ghost having obtained a more excellent Ministration in us to wit Offering the first Fruits of Redemption which in no fore-going Ministration was ever reached unto
But here it may be asked What manner and kind of Offerings will those first Fruits of Redemption be This is a Question which cannot be so fully answered till we are compleatly perfected in this Tabernacle which hitherto is only a rearing But what of these Immunities hath been expressed by the great Priest and opened from the Tabernacle-Testimony unto me shall be given forth for their sakes who may have right to bring in such perfect Offerings to the most holy and separated place in the day of their Restoration mutually with us who are expecting the accomplishment in all its divine Ordinances and Consecrations for the perfecting every Comer hereunto But now to define what kind of Offerings we shall bring as Priests to God they are the Fruits of the Magia in their out-flowing Operation which actually send out a most powerful Spirit from its own essential Spring of Spirit wherein God is the only pure Original of it What is sent forth to effect but a new Generation of Heavens and Earth The Magia worketh in this manner saying Let the old Tabernacle with all its shadowy Appearances pass away and be no more And it is so for the force of the out-going Spirit incorporates with the Word and makes it Essential whether it be expressed Vocally or no the Co-centred Decree passeth into and though the Spirit carrieth all Power with it either to nullifie or make void or to give a new Plantation and an heavenly splendorious Formation upon Creatures and Things for a lustrious Transformation of what is fading and dying that so Immortality may be renewed whether in Rationals Animals or Vegetables The matter of the one Element is so immerced and coagulated in a Magical Spirit that it is able to give a Life where the very Face of Death doth appear whether dead as to a Spiritual Life according to that saying And you hath he quickned who were dead in Trespasses and Sens. Who is this in the Person of Christ but the same holy Ghost in his out-going Power that through our Persons so influencing and given a Resurrection to a dead Life whether in our selves or others as cause requires Then also as to the very mortal Life to prolong it and to secure it from Pain and Sickness Yea from Death it self But this quickinmg Spirit is only appropriated to such as have dyed and suffered with Christ in the Flesh and thereby have overcome the World Therefore let none think that they can come to this degree of Power Might and Dignity till they are Born again from the Dead that is a cessation to the enkindled Life from the Stars which generate earthly Motions and Thoughts which work in a way of Sensuality from which there must be a departing in reference to those great Things which are to succeed I have been often brought to see the limit of the first Born Life that doth consist between Time and Eternity in the stirring Essences of Sin whereby I am made so wisely knowing as not grieve or to have any Reluctancy upon the sentence of a total Expiration of such an injurious Life as keeps me out of God's Tabernacle-Body where I can no more dye Whereupon the holy Ghost out of the Virgin-Body doth cry and call to such who would come to be all Magical to offer up their first-Born rational Life for a Sacrifice And then of a truth we shall bring other kind of Fruits and Offerings and no more as Tributaries and Servants to Sin Beast or Dragon but be freed through the rising Birth that will mount and fly over all those who kept the other under great Fear and Bondage but in this we shall come to be Kings in God's House and of his own Family Oh! what hath been here let down by Golden Drops from the Head-Fountain Let it O God mingle all forcibly for Life contaction with the more noble part within us that so this great and perfect Tabernacle may be according to its own secret way compacted indissolvably where we may securely dwell and nothing of Violence Oppression or Fear but receive Power from the rising Body of the holy Ghost to bear down and expel whatsoever is against us This is what the Lord hath by a signal Word averred and he will see it fulfilled as in any one such a Spirit of Resolution shall be found to go forward in this great Enterprize to encounter and rush through every Throng that would stop and put them by who are ready to venter their All for it Now somewhat may be said as to those high Ends for which God is resolved to raise his principal Magia First to redress comfort and relieve the groaning Creation which is in spiritual travail even such who are in Famin and Death in Agonies Sorrow and Heaviness through divers Temptations and the Buffetings and Wiles of Satan To these the Magical Balsom shall be given for Cure from such as are first risen in the Tabernacle-Body of God They shall bind all evil Spirits and there shall go forth a virtual Power from them to do as if Christ were in person there And in the second place this Power shall extend it self to the taking away of all outward Maladies of the Body and all Sufferings relating to Penury and Want and all Weariness Toil and anxious Care for the Needs and Requirings of the Body A further addition to the former subject Know then that as in a miraculous way this will be made as healing Waters from out of the Threshold of the Sanctuary that shall recover the dry and parched Earth to make it bud and flourish as it did before the Curse did overflow it Take it inward as to spiritual Fruitfulness or otherwise as to the outward Elementary state Great also will be the Trust that will be granted by the mighty Jehovah for mannagement for his little Flock sake and put into the Hands of some that are to be set apart as good and principal Shepherds indeed who can both let out and lay down their Life for the elect Sheep which are to be gathered in not by Sounds or Words but by a Magical Impregnation which can send in a Breath of Life to quicken what is as dead This is now what we are in a daily expectation of from the rich Furniture which will come down with the Tabernacle-Body Oh come holy Souls and let us be in a watchful posture for I do see in Spirit that the Morning of this Day begins apace to clear the bright Clouds do open the face of our Heavens appear the separating Vail is all rending away that out of the first Tabernacle we may pass and within the most holy place fixedly stay where we shall have no cause to fear that God will henceforth move away because we our selves shall be brought up to that height of Purity that all Offerings shall be most pleasant and powerful from the everlasting Flame of the holy Altar from whence ascending Powers will go up to bring