it though it were within them otherwise they could not doefo had â—o part in him and this be said when himselfe was conversant with his Disciples before his Suffering and Death Therfore there cannot be a Christ within in Christ without but one and the same Christ within and without now and then and alwaies from Eternity to Eternity There is another great difference concerning Perfection and the attaining to it in this Life one sort condemning the otherf or speaking that which they understand to be spoken in the Scripture but they doe not endeavour to reconcile the meaning of those Texts which seeme so extreamely to differ For perfection Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect Job was a perfect and upright Man If any Man sin not in word he is a perfect Man And there is mention made of the perfect Law of Liberty also he that is borne of God sinneth not neither can he because the seed of God remaineth in him As many as be perfect let them be thus minded viz to presse for the Prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus On the other side There is none righteous no not one there is not a Man that sinneth not in many things WEE sin all And the Apostle John who no doubt was then borne of God saith If WEE say we have no sinne we deceive our selves and there is no truth in us if wee say not if he or they say or whosoever saith And while he was in the instant of high Revelations he fell down before the Angel to worship him thinking it had been God but the Angel said to him See thou doe it not for I am thy fellow servant And these great differences cannot be reconciled by the distinction of a time or condition of Men unconverted before they have attained Perfection before they are righteous or before they are sanctified but they may be decided by the understanding what it is that sinneth in Man and what it is in Man that is perfect and cannot sinne For as the Soul in this Life entereth into the one or the other through obedience to it that Soul is either righteous and perfect or wicked and imperfect as the Scriptures testifie And ever one that shall be presented perfect is to be presented perfect in Christ Jesus so that our perfection consisteth in him not in Selfe and so the Gifts of God are perfect or else we could not be saved by Faith for that is not of our selves but is the gift of God and therefore it may well be said by the Apostle Paul after his high Revelation I know that in me that is in my Flesh dwelleth no good thing dwelleth not did or hath dwelt before his conversion or at the beginning of the writing that Epistle but at that instant dwelleth in him no good thing in his Flesh also saies he I doe find a Law in my Members rebelling against the Law of my mind and leading me into captivity to the Law of sinne So that the good which he would doe that he did not but the evil which he would not doe that he did To will was present with him but how to performe it that he did not know and then saies So in my mind I serve the Law of God which is perfect but in my Flesh I serve the Law of sin Also the Apostle John saith Let no man deceive you he that doth righteousnesse is righteous and the Apostle Paul again saith as many as are led by the spirit of God they are the Sons of God and his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of obedience unto righteousnesse or of sin unto Death Also it is said The Soul that sinneth it shall die If a righteous Man which is indeed a perfect Man so long as he is a servant to righteousnesse departeth from his righteousnesse and doth that which is wicked in the wickednesse which he doth he shall die and yet that which is perfect cannot die And on the other side If a wicked Man turne from his wickednesse and doth the thing which is good and righteous in the righteousnesse which he doth he shall live saith the Lord Thus a righteous Man can sin and a wicked Man can doe that which is righteous yet it is the Soul in the wicked Man that turneth and doth righteousnesse in the minde and the will and the Spirit and the heart and the Life through Christ in the Soul And it is the Soul in the Righteous Man that doth that which is wicked in the minde and will and spirit and heart and life through the Power of Sin corruption and imperfection also of the Flesh or the body of Death which is this mortal flesh and bloud therefore we should not let sinne Reigne in our Mortal Bodies that we should obey it in the Lusts thereof But we should strive after perfection that Christ may be formed in us we should give God our Hearts and he will clense them for us make us after his own heart and will make our Hearts desires and minds pure and then they are perfect for nothing that is Impure and so imperfect can enter into the Kingdom of God Thus in our Minds if we do the will of our Father which is in Heaven we shall know of the words of Christ whether they be of God or no which they that heard them from his owne mouth and did not so could not know But we are not to condemne those that have not attained to our mesure of Light Grace Knowledge or Perfection but to let our Light so shine before Men that they may see our good works and glorify our Father which is in Heaven and then they will say God is in us of a Truth they will be able to understand it If we be strong we should help those that are weak in Light or understanding and should declare the Gospel to those that sit most in Darknesse and in the shadow of Death and guide one anothers feete into the way of Peace and then we shall be like him who is in our hearts meeke and lowly and so wee shall find rest unto our Souls and then when He who is now our Life shall appeare we shall also appeare with him in Glory And when we have received the unction of the Holy one in our Souls we are then come to the spirits of Just men made perfect and to the Church of the first-Borne which are written in Heaven and yet some that were so did not know by what Death they should glorifie God and in Death the Body is sown in Corruption it is raised in Incorruption sown in Dishonour raised in Glory sown in weaknesse raised in power sown in imperfection raised in perfection for this Mortall must put on immortality Thus
of the corrupted Earth and quencheth its wrath whereby in the Astrall Birth or Geniture all standeth in the Life and so the Earth generateth the Life through the Death The Gate of the Mystery 38. But that there is a Firmament between the Waters which Firmament is called Heaven it hath this understanding or meaning 39. The whole Deep from the Moon to the Earth standeth all with its working in the wrathfull and comprehensible or palpable Birth or Geniture for the Moon is the Goddesse of the palpable Birth and so the House of the Devills of Death and of Hell is in the circuit orb or Extent between the Moon and the Earth 40. Where therefore the fierce wrath of God in the outermost Birth or Geniture in the Deep becometh daily kindled and blown up by the Devills and all wicked Men through the Great Sins of Man which still qualifie mix unite or co-operate with the Astral Birth or Geniture in the Deep 41. Now Therefore God hath made the Firmament which is call'd Heaven between the outermost and innermost Birth and that is a Partition or division between the outermost and innermost Birth or Geniture 42. For the outermost Birth of the water cannot comprehend the innermost Birth of the water which is called Heaven and which is made out of the midst or Center of the water Heaven is the Firmament viz. the fire-Sea or Sea-of-Fire out of the seven spirits of Nature out of which the Stars as a Quintessence were concreted incorporated or created by the word FIAT And it hath or containeth both fire and water and hangeth in it self inwardly on the first Principle and shall bring its wonders with or as to the figure of them into the Eternal but its Birth or Geniture fadeth or passeth away 43. Now the innermost Birth of Heaven reflects strongly upon the Earth and holdeth the outermost water upon the Earth together with the Earth also strongly captive 44. And if that were not then with the Revolution of the Globe of the Earth the water would be divided or dissolved again also then would the Earth Crumble break and moulder away in the Deep and all would be a Chaos again 45. But now therefore that Firmament between the outermost palpable water and the Inward holdeth the Earth and the palpable water Captive But now thou mayst Ask What is the fire then a Firmament of that Heaven which I can neither see nor apprehend Answer 46. Yes It is the Firmament between the clear Deity and the corrupt Nature which thou must break through when thou intendest to come to God and it is that very Firmament which doth not quite stand in the wrath neither is it altogether or perfectly pure concerning which it is written the very Heavens are not pure in the sight of God as in Job 15. 15. and at the last Judgment Day the wratn will be purged from them For it is written Heaven and Earth shall passe away but my word shall not passe away saith Christ Matth. 24. 35. Mark 13. 31. 47. Now that impurity in that Heaven is the wrath but the purity is the word of God which he once spake saying Let the water under the Firmament be separated from the water above the firmament Gen. 1. And that Word standeth and is comprised in the firmament of the water and holdeth the outward water together with the Earth captive or fixed The Gate of the Deitie Observe here the hidden Mystery of God 48. When thou beholdest the Deep above the Earth thou oughtest not to say that it is not the Gate of God where God in his holinesse dwelleth No no think not so For the whole holy Trinity God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost dwelleth in the Center under the Firmament of Heaven but that very Firmament cannot comprehend him 49. Indeed all is as it were one Body the outermost and inhermost Birth together with the Firmament of heaven as also the Astrall Birth therein in and with which the wrath of God also qualifieth mixeth and uniteth but yet they are one to another as the Government frame or constitution in Man 50. The Flesh signifieth 1o. The outward Birth or Genitute which is the House of Death 2o. The second Birth or Geniture in Man is the Astrall in which the Life-standeth and wherein Love and wrath wrestle one with another And thus far Man himself knoweth himself for the Astrall Birth generateth the Life in the outermost that is in the dead Flesh 3o. The Third Birth is generated between the Astrall and outermost and that is called the animated or soulish Birth or Geniture or the Soul and is as Large as the whole Man 51. And that Birth or Geniture the outward Man neither knoweth nor comprehendeth neither doth the Astrall comprehend it but every qualifying or fountain spirit comprehendeth only its innate or instant Root which signifieth or resembleth the Heaven 52. And that animated or soulish Man must presse through the Firmament of Heaven to God and live with God else the whole man cannot come into Heaven to God 53. For every Man that desireth to be saved must with his innate instant Births or Genitures be as the whole Deity with all the three Births in this world is 54. Man cannot be absolutely or wholly pure without wrath and sin for the Births of the Depth in this world are not fully pure before the Heart of God Job 15. v. 15. but alwayes Love and wrath wrestle one with another whence God is called an angry zealous God Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9. 55. Now as man is in the Government or Order of his Nativity Birth or Geniture Just so also is the whole Body of God in or of this world but in the water standeth the meek Life 56. As I. First in the outward Body of God in or of this world there is the congealed astringent bitter and Hot Death in which the palpable water is also congealed and Dead 57. And therein now is the Darknesse wherein King Lucifer with his Angels as also all fleshly or carnal wicked Men lye captive even with or in their living Bodies as also the Separated spirits of damned Men. 58. This birth can neither see hear feel smell nor comprehend the Heart of God but is a Foolish Virgin which King Lucifer in his Pride hath caused to be so 59. And II. The second Birth is the Astrall which thou must understand to be the Life of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits wherein now the Love and the wrath is against one another and therein standeth the upper water which is a spirit of the life and therein or between is the Firmament of Heaven which is made out of the midst or Center of the water 60. Now this Birth or Geniture presseth through the outward congealed Birth quite through Death and the Astral Life in the death that is in the congealed Earth Water and Flesh of the Beasts and of Men also of the Fowls Fishes and
Body in the outmost Birth or Geniture Now thou wilt Ask. How shall I understand this Answer 6. I cannot at all write it in thy Heart for it is not for every Mans capacity understanding and apprehension especially where the Spirit standeth in the House of wrath and doth not qualifie operate or unite with the Light of God But I will shew it to thee in an Earthly similitude that thou mightst if possible get a little into the deep Sence 7. Behold and consider a Tree on the outside it hath a hard grosse Rind or Bark which is Dead benumm'd and without Vegetation yet it is not quite Dead but in a faintnesse or imbecillity and there is a great difference between it and the Body which groweth next under the Rind or Bark But the Body hath its Living Power and breaketh forth through the Withered Rind and generateth many faire young Bodys or Twigs all which stand in the old Body 8. But the Rind is as it were dead and cannot comprehend the Life of the Tree but only hangs to it and is a Cover to the Tree in which worms doe Harbour which in the End destroy the Tree 9. And thus also is the whole House of this world the outward Darknesse is the House of Gods Wrath wherein the Devils dwell and it is rightly the House of Death for the Holy Light of God hath dyed therein Understand it stepp'd into its principle and is the outward substantiality in God as it were dead in our Esteem whereas it liveth in God but in another Source or Quality 10. But the Body of this great House which lyeth hid under the Shell or Rind of darknesse incomprehensibly to darknesse that is the house of Life wherein Love and Wrath wrestle one with another 11. Now the Love alwaies breaketh through the House of Death and generateth holy heavenly Twigs in the great Tree which Twiggs stand in the Light For they spring up through the shell or skin of Darknesse as the Twiggs do through the shell or Bark of the Tree and are One Life with God 12. And the wrath springeth up also in the House of darknesse and holdeth many a Noble Twigg captive in Death through its infection in the house of fiercenesse 13. And this now is the Summe or the Contents of the Astral Birth or Geniture of which I here intend to write And now it may be Asked What are the Stars or out of what are they come to be 14. They are the power of the seven Spirits of God for when the wrath of God was kindled by the Devil in this world then the whole House of this world in Nature or the outermost Birth or Geniture was as it were benumm'd or chilled in Death from whence the Earth and Stones are come to be But when this hard drosse or Scum was driven together into a Lump or Heap then the Deep was clear'd but was very dark for the light therein was dead in the wrath 15. But now the Body of God as to this world could not remain in Death but God moved himself with his seven qualifying or fountain spirits to the Birth or Geniture But thou must understand this high thing rightly 16. The Light of God which is the Sonne of God as also the Holy Ghost died not but the Light which is gone forth from or out of the heart of God from eternity and hath enlightned Nature which is generated out of the seven spirits that is departed or gone away from the hard corrupted Nature from whence it is that the Nature of this world with its comprehensibility or palpability hath remained in Death and cannot apprehend the Light of God but is a dark House of Devils 17. Upon this On the fourth Day of the Creation God regenerated anew the whole House of this world with the qualities thereof and hath placed or set the qualifying or fountain spirits in the House of Darknesse that he might generate to himself again out of that a new Body to his praise honour and Glory 18. For his purpose was to create another Angelical Hoast or Army out of this House which was thus to be done He would create an Angel which was Adam who should generate out of himself Creatures like himself which should possesse the House of the New Birth and in the middle of Time their King should be generated or born out of a Humane Body and possesse the new-born Kingdom as a King of these Creatures instead of the corrupted and expell'd Lucifer 19. And at the fulnesse or accomplishment of this Time God would adorn and Trim this House with its qualities as a Royal Government and let those very qualifying or fountain spirits possesse the whole House that they might in that House of darknesse and of Death bring forth Creatures and Images again as they had done from eternity till the accomplishment or fulfilling of the whole Hoast or Army of the new created Angels which were Men And Then God would bolt and barr up the Devil in the House of darknesse in an eternal Hole and then kindle the whole House in its own Light again all but the very Hole Hell or Dungeon of the Devils Now it may be Asked Why did not God bolt him up instantly and then he had not done so much mischief Answer 20. Behold this was Gods purpose and that must stand which is he would re-edifie out of the corrupted Nature of the Earth or build again to himself an Angelical Hoast or Army Understand viz. a true Body which should Subsist eternally in God 21. It was not Gods intention at all to let the Devil have the whole Earth for an eternal dwelling house but onely the Death and fiercenesse of the Earth which the Devil had brought into it 22. For what sin hath the Salitter committed against God that it should stand totally in Eternal shame None It was onely a Body which must hold still when the Devil elevated or swelled himself therein 23. Now if He should have instantly left it to the Devil for an Eternal dwelling House then out of that place a New Body could not have been built Now what Sin had that space place or Room committed against God that it should stand in eternal Shame None and therefore that were unequall to be so 24. Now the purpose of God was to make a curious excellent Angelical Hoast or Army out of the Earth and all manner of Ideas forms or Images For in and upon that all should Spring and generate themselves anew as we see in mineral Oares Stones Trees Herbs and Grasse and all manner of Beasts after a heavenly Image or Form 25. And though those Imagings were transitory being they were not pure before God yet God would at the End of this time extract and draw forth the Heart and the kernel out of the new Birth or Geniture and separate it from Death and Wrath and the new Birth should Eternally spring up in God without distinct from this place
blessed friendly and Mercifull Love of God The Divine Mystery Page 159 What remains hidden since the Beginning of the world Page 161 The Wrath the Original of Hell-fire Page 164 Chapter X. Of the Sixth Qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power The Sound Page 176 What in Men shall arise in Heavenly Joy or in Hellish Torment The Salitter Page 184 How a Man may Quench the kindled Wrath of God in this Life in himself Page 190 How neer God and the whole Trinity is to us Page 195 196 Chapter XI Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power The Divine SALITTER Page 200 The Holy Gate What the Father the Sonne and the Holy Spirit is Whom We Christians worship Page 206 207 What the Law of Nature is Page 208 Why He only that sinneth shall be punished Page 209 The Prerogative of Christians Page 210 Of the Word SALITTER Page 218 How the Imaging in Nature is Page 220 How our Life is a perpetual warfare with the Devil Page 224. Chapter XII Of the Birth or descent of the Holy Angels as also of their Government Order and heavenly joyous Life Page 230 What the Angels do when they sing not What do they Talk of Who they are like Page 238 239 What Heaven it self is Page 244 What the Angels walk upon Page 254 Of MICHAEL Page 256. Of LUCIFER Page 259 Of Lucifer's Creation Page 260. Of URIEL Page 261 The Beauty of Heavenly Forms Likened to Pretious Stones Page 263 Why Baptisme Instituted in the water Page 265 How the Wisdom of God is Incomprehensible Page 266 Chapter XIII Of the Horrible Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer Page 268 What the fountain of the First Sin of the Angels is Page 269 Where the fault lyeth that Lucifer is become a Devill Page 280 The Eternal Geniture of the Deity Page 290 The Beginning of Sinne. Page 293 Chapter XIV How Lucifer who was the Beautifullest Angell in Heaven is become the most horrible Devil Page 302 The cause that God Created Angels Page 305 Of the Eternal Enmity Page 316 Seven sources of Sinne and the Eighth the house of Death Page 318 Of the first source Page 320 What the Eternal Sport of God was before the Time of the Creation of the Angels Page 322 Of the second source of Sinne 's beginning Page 327 How God possesseth all and yet no Creature is He. Page 334 Chapter XV. Of the Third Species or spirit of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer Page 336 What Lucifer knew before his Fall Page 339 When the End of this Time will be Also of the Fourth Species of Sins beginning Page 342 Of the Sting of Death Page 345 What the Comprehensibility is Page 346 Of the Fifth manner of Sin 's beginning Page 348 Of the Sixth Form of Sin 's beginning Page 352 Of the Old Serpent Page 354 Chapter XVI Of the Seventh Kind of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer and his Angels Page 357 Of Sorcerers and Witches Page 358 Wherein Naturality consisteth Page 359 Of the mourning house of Death Page 364 That God willeth not Evil nor can do Page 365 Of Pride Covetousnesse Envy and Wrath. Page 378 to 380. The final Condemnation Also of the last Fight and Expulsion of Lucifer and all his Angels Page 381 What will be called the Burning Hell Page 385 Chapter XVII Of the miserable state and Condition of the Corrupt perished Nature and Original of the four Elements instead of the holy Dominion of God Page 386 What is called the Wrath of God Page 387 How a Comprehensible is come out of an Incomprehensible Page 389 How the Devil still presents the Swine-Apples of Paradise before the Soul Page 393 Chapter XVIII Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth And of the first Day Page 394 Why Man in this World so loveth Gold Silver and Pretious Stones Page 398 How shall I understand My self according to the Threefold Geniture in Nature Page 399 An Exposition of the first Verse of the first Cha. of Genesis according to the Language of Nature Page 405 Into what the Soul Goeth when we Dye Page 411 Of the Creation of the Light in this world Page 413 Whence fightings among all Creatures have their Original Page 418 What Light was before the Sun and Stars Page 423 Chapter XIX Concerning the Created Heaven And of the Form of the Earth and of the Water is also concerning Light and Darknesse Page 424 From what Light this Authour hath his Knowledg Page 428 How it was that Jesus Christ could take the Devil Death and Hell captive Also in what Heaven he sitteth at the Right hand of God Page 433 Where shall the wrath of God become at the End Page 435 Concerning the Form of the Earth Page 438 Why the Earth is so Hilly Rocky Stony and Uneaven Page 441 Of Day and Night Page 443 Of Morning and Evening Page 446 Chapter XX. Of the Second Day How God separated the Waters beneath the Firmament from the Waters above the Firmament Page 456 We should strive against the Malice and Wickedness that is in our Hearts Page 460 What the Moon or Luna is Page 465 How the Heavens are not pure in Gods sight Page 466 In what Heaven the Man that feareth God dwelleth Page 470 How Christ could go through the Doors being shut Joh. 20. 19. Page 474 Chapter XXI Of the Third Day Page 479 The Diurnal Motion of the Earth Page 479 Man is made out of the Seed of the Earth Page 485 How Man's hope standeth in God Page 488 How Sins are the Cause that the Deity is hidden from us Page 494 Of the Seven Spirits of God and of their Operation in the Earth Page 496 Why the Astral Birth of the Earth did begin a Day sooner then the Astral Birth in the Deep above the Earth Page 506 Whence Mercy Existed Page 509 Chapter XXII Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars and Creation of the Fourth Day Also the Reason of the Title Dawning or Morning-Rednesse Page 510 511 Why the Spirit of Nature it self will open the Door Page 515 What the Stars are Page 517 Sixteen Questions asked the Doctors Page 519 How this work is the Holy Ghost's Dear Revelation Page 523 Of the Earth Page 529 Of the Vegetations of the Earth Page 530 Of the Mettals in the Earth Page 531 Chapter XXIII Of the Deep above the Earth Page 538 Of the Astral Birth or Geniture and of the Birth or Geniture of God Page 541 The Severe Geniture of the Wrath of God cannot be accensible nor Elevable in God Page 542 What is called the Animated or Soulish Birth Page 548 Of the Beeing of the Deity and of the Three Persons Also whence the Living and Rationall Spirit existeth Page 551 What is the Water of Life Page 553 The Gate of the Holy Trinity Page 555 Of the Kindled Nature Page 565 Chapter XXIV Of the Incorporating or Compacting the Stars Page 565 Out of what the Stars are come to be Page 568
Why God did not Barre the Devil up instantly Page 570 Why the Stars should not be worshipped Page 572 In whom the Light of Life kindleth from the water of Life Page 574 Why Christ rested 40 hours and no longer in Death Page 575 God an angry God to those that hate him Page 577 What is the Water of Life Page 579 Where the Word of this Author is Generated Page 581 Chapter XXV Of the Whole Body of the Stars Birth or Geniture that is the whole Astrology Page 583 Though Body Soul should fail God is his Refuge Page 586 What is called the Corrupted Nature Page 590 The Kindling of the Life of this world of Sol. Page 591 Of Mars 592. The Highest Ground of the Sun and all the Planets Page 593 How the Eye of the Lord beholdeth all Page 595 How the Desire of the Flesh is the Lake of Hellish wrath Page 596 The Annual Motion of the Earth round about the Sun Page 598 Of the Planet Mars 601. Of Jupiter Page 602 Chapter XXVI Of the Planet Saturnus Page 609 Of the Planet Venus Page 612 The Gate of Love Page 613 How Christ is the Light of the World Page 615 What is the Divine Beeing Page 616 Of the Planet Mercurius Page 617 The Great Depth concerning the Centre or Circle of the Birth of Life Page 618 Why is called Eternity Also what the House of Flesh is Page 622 What hath the Casting shovell in its hand also Of Man and the Stars Page 624 How Man became a living Soul Page 627 The Deep hidden secret Mystery of the Humanity Page 630 RA. RA. RP See the Margine Page 635 4. Questions concerning that Masse which is Man Notes concerning the Not finishing this Book Aurora Page 642 643. These Errata are so many because after the Book was Printed in English there came over from beyond Sea a New Copie of the Aurora in High-Dutch printed and compared with that of the Authors own hand-writing And so also it was compared here with this printed Copie in English wherein most of these differences were found And therefore the Reader is desired to mend his Book before he reads it for it will render many of the Obscure places cleer to be understood J. B. Preface Page 4. line 6. for to read in p. 5 l. 28. 〈◊〉 25. 23. p. 6. l. 14 l. 19 l. 33 f. Nature r. kind l. 24. r. Mahalâ—leel p. 16 l. 9 r. Evil Quality p. 18 l. 14 r. Tree and spoyled many Tweggs in the Holy Tree p. 10 l. 12 f. dwell r. flow p. 26 l. 31 f. yet beheld r. behold p. 28 l. 5 f. fiâ—st r. for p. 3â— l. 10 r. see 10. the p. 36 l. 2â— r. eth in winter p. 47 l. 3 r. as if God were p. 57 l. 13 f. the very r. every p. 62 l. 2 r. 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If thy Heart p 466. l 10 11. r. what kind of Firmament of Heaven then is that which p 469. l 15. r. and generateth the. p 476. l 19. r. and with its Spirit made p 483. l 20. r. for the one only incorporated p 487. l 13. f. see r. be p 488. l 6. f. prevent r. boast of p 490. l 21. f. or altered at all r. but only altered p 491. l 5. f. with r. in p 505. l 32. f. Life r. the Light p 509. l 23. r. existed the Mobility put out the rest p 510. l 9. r. Deity in all the Births l 17. r. 140. Therefore on the Third Day the Earth began to Spring just as the Qualifying or fountain
6º how metals stones and other creatures in the earth are generated 7º How the birth of life is and the corporeity of all things 8º Also what the true heaven is in which God and his Saints do dwell 9º And what the wrath of God is and the Hellish fire 10º And how all is become kindled and enflamed In brief How and what the Being of all Beings is 37. The First Seven Chapters treat very plainly and comprehensibly of the Being of God and of Angels by similitudes that the Reader may from one step to the other at last come to the deep sense and true ground 38. In the Eighth Chapter beginneth the depth in the Divine Being and so on the further the deeper 39. One thing is often repeated and still more deeply described for the Readers sake and by reason of my slow and dull apprehension 40. That which you do not find sufficiently explained in this book you will find more clearly in the second and third 41. For corruption is the cause why we know but in part and have not perfect knowledge at once 42. Yet this Book is the WONDER of the World which the holy Soul will understand well enough Thus I commit the Reader into the meek and holy Love of God The First Chapter Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature of both the Qualities the Good and the Evil. 1. THough Flesh and Blood cannot conceive or apprehend the Being of God but the Spirit only when enlightned and kindled from God 2. Yet if a man will speak of God and say What GOD is Then I. A man must diligently consider the Powers in Nature II. Also the whole Creation Heaven and Earth III. The Stars the Elements and the Creatures which are proceeded from them As also the holy Angels Devils and Men moreover Heaven and Hell Of the Two Qualities in One. 3. In this Consideration are found Two Qualities a Good one and an Evil one which are in one another as One thing in this world in all Powers in the Stars and the Elements as also in all the Creatures and no Creature in the Flesh in the Natural Life can subsist unlesse it hath the Two Qualities What a QVALITY is 4. Now here a man must consider What the word QVALITY meaneth or is A Quality is the Mobility boyling springing and driving of a thing Of Heat 5. As for Example Heat which burneth consumeth and driveth forth all whatsoever cometh into it which is not of the same property and again it enlightneth and warmeth all cold wet and dark things it compacteth and hardneth soft things Of Light and Fiercenesse 6. It containeth likewise two other kinds in it namely 1º Light and 2º Fiercenesse of which take notice in this manner The light or the heart of the heat is in it self a pleasant joyfull Glance or Lustre a power of life an inlightening and glance of a thing which is afar off and is a piece or source of the heavenly Kingdom of Joy 7. For it maketh all things in this world living and moving all flesh trees leaves and grasse grow in this world in the power of the light and have their life therein viz. in the Good 8. Again it containeth also a fiercenesse or wrath which burneth consumeth and spoileth this wrath or fiercenesse springeth driveth and elevateth it self in the Light and maketh the light moveable 9. It wrestleth and fighteth together in its two-fold source as one thing It is also one thing but it hath a double source The light subsisteth in God without heat but it doth not subsist so in Nature 10. For all Qualities in nature are one in another as one Qualitie in that maner as God is all and as all things descend and come forth from him For God is the Heart or fountain of Nature from him cometh all 11. Now the Heat reigneth and predominateth in all powers in Nature and warmeth all and is one source or spring in all for if it were not so the water would be too cold and the Earth would be congealed and there would be no Ayr. 12. The Heat is predominant in all in trees herbs and grasse and maketh the water moveable so that through the waters Springing out of the earth there groweth herbs and grasse and it is therefore called a Quality because it operateth moveth and boyleth in all and elevateth all 13. But the Light in the Heat giveth power to all qualities so that all groweth pleasant and joyful Heat without Light availeth not the other qualities but is a perdition to the Good an evil source or Spring for all is spoiled in the fiercenesse or wrath of the Heat Thus the light in the heat is a quick Spring or living fountain into which the Holy Ghost entreth but not into the fiercenesse or wrath 14. Yet the heat maketh the light moveable so that it springeth and driveth forth as is seen in winter when the Light of the Sun is likewise upon the earth but the hot Rayes of the Sun cannot reach into the earth and that is the reason why no fruit groweth Of the qualification of the Cold Quality 15. Cold is a Quality also as well as Heat it qualifieth or operateth in all creatures whatsoever come forth in Nature and in all whatsoever doth move therein in Men Beasts Fowles Fishes Worms Leaves and Grasse 16. And Heat is set in opposition unto it and qualifieth therein as if it were one and the same thing but it opposeth the fiercenesse or rage of the Heat and allayeth the Heat 17. It containeth also two sorts or Species in it which is to be Observed viz. It mitigateth the heat and maketh all things pleasant and is in all creatures a quality of life for no creature can subsist without cold for it is a springing driving Mobility in every thing 18. The other kind or Species is Fiercenesse for where it getteth power it suppresseth all and spoileth all even as the Heat doth no life can subsist in it if the Heat did not hinder that The fiercenesse of Cold is a destruction to every life and the house of Death even as the Hot fiercenesse also is Of the qualification of the Ayr and the Water 19. Ayr hath its original from Heat and Cold â—or Heat and Cold work powerfully and replenish all whereby is caused a lively and stirring motion but when cold allayeth or mitigateth the Heat then both their qualities are rarified and made thin and the Bitter quality drawes them together so that they become Dewey 20. But the Ayr hath its original and greatest motion from Heat and the water hath it from cold 21. Now these Two Qualities wrestle continually one with another the Heat consumeth the water and the Cold condenseth or crowdeth the Ayr. Now ayr is a cause and the spirit of every life and motion in the world be it in flesh or in any of the vegetables all whatever is hath its life from the Ayr and nothing can
subsist without ayr whatsoever moveth and is in this world 22. Water also Springeth in every living and moving creature in this World in the water consisteth the Body of every thing as the Spirit consisteth in the Ayr be it in animals or vegetables 23. And these two are caused by heat and cold and qualify or mix and operate together as one thing 24. Now in these two qualitis two other Species or kinds are to be observ'd viz. a living and a dead operation The Ayr is a living quality if it be temperate or moderate in a thing and the Holy Ghost reigneth in the Calmnesse or Meeknesse of the Ayr and all the creatures rejoyce therein 25. But there is a fierceness or wrath also in it so that it killeth destroyeth by its terrible disturbance But the qualification taketh its original from the fierce disturbauce or elevation so that it moveth and driveth in every creature from whenee life hath its originals and doth exist and therefore both of them must be in this life 26. The Water also hath a fierce deadly Spring for it killeth consumeth and so all things that have a life and Being must Rot and perish in the water 27. Thus is the Heat and the Cold a cause and original of the Water and of the Ayr in which every thing acteth and standeth every life and mobility standeth therein Of which I shall write plainly Concerning the Creation of the Stars Of the Influences of the other Qualities in the Three Elements Fire Ayr and Water Of the Bitter Quality 28. The Bitter quality is the heart in every life for as it draweth together the Water in the Ayr and also dissipateth the same so that it becometh separable so also in other Creatures as in vegetables of the Earth For Leaves and Grasse have their green colour from the Bitter quality 29. Now if the Bitter quality dwelleth meekly and Gently in any Creature then it is the Heart or joy therein for it dissipateth all other Evil Influences and is the beginning or cause of joy or of Laughing 30. For being moved it causeth the Creature to tremble and be joyful and raiseth it up in its whole Body for it is as it were a glimpse or Ray of the heavenly joyfulnesse an elevation of the spirit a spirit and power or vertue in all vegetables of the Earth and a mother of the life 31. The Holy Ghost springeth moveth and driveth vehemently in this quality for it is a part of the heavenly joyfulnesse as I shall demonstrate afterward 32. But it hath also in it another Species or kind namely the fiercenesse or wrath which is the very House of Death a Corruption of all Good a perdition and destruction of the Life in the Flesh. 33. For if it be elevated too much in any creature and be inflamed in the Heat then Flesh and Spirit separateth and the Creature loseth its Life and must Die for it move to and kindleth the Element of Fire for in the great Heat and Bitternesse no Flesh can subsist Of the Sweet Quality 34. The Sweet Quality is set opposite to the Bitter and is a gracious amiable blessed and pleasant quality a refreshing of the Life an allaying of the Fiercenesse it maketh all pleasant and friendly in every Creature it maketh the Vegetables of the Earth fragrant and of good taste affording fair yellow white and ruddy Colours 35. It is a glimpse and source of meeknesse a pleasant Habitation of heavenly joyfulnesse a House or Mansion of the Holy Ghost a qualification of Love and Mercy a joy of the Life 36. But on the other side it hath also a fierce or wrathful source a source of Death Corruption For if it be kindled in the Bitter Quality in the Element of Water then it breedeth diseases and the botchey Plague or Pestilence and corruption of the Flesh. 37. But if it be kindled in the Heat and Bitterness then it infecteth the Element of Ayr whereby is ingendred a suddain spreading Plague and suddain Death Of the Soure Quality 38. The Soure Quality is set opposite to the Bitter and Sweet and is a good temper to all a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and sweet qualities are elevated too much it is a longing delight in the Taste a pleasure of life a stirring Boyling flowing joy in every thing a desire longing and lust of joyfulness a still Joy or habitation of the Spirit thus it is a temperature to all living and moving creatures 39. It containeth also a source of evil and corruption For if it be too much elevated or stirreth too much in any thing so that it be inflamed then it engendreth sadnesse and Melancholy 40. In the water it causeth a stinck putridnesse and ranknesse a forgetfulnesse of all good things a melancholy or sadnesse of life a House of Death a Beginning of Sorrow and an End of joy Of the Astringent or Saltish Quality 41. The Saltish quality is a good Temperature in the bitter sweet and soure making every thing pleasant it opposeth the rising of the bitter Quality as also of the sweet and soure lest they should be inflamed it is a sharp quality a delight in the taste a source of life and joy 42. It containeth also fiercenesse and corruption Being inflamed in the fire it engendreth a hard tearing and stony nature a fierce wrathful source a destruction of life whereby the Stone or Gravel is engendred in the flesh causing great pain and torment to the flesh 43. But if it be inflamed in the water then it engendreth in the flesh scabs sores pox leprosie and is a mourning house of Death a misery and forgetting of all good things The Second Chapter An Introduction shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine and Naturall Beeing And further of the two Qualities 1. ALl whatsoever hath been above mentioned is therefore called Quality because it qualifieth operateth or frameth all in the Deepe above the earth also upon the earth and in the earth in one another as ONE thing and yet hath severall distinct vertues and operations and but one mother from whence descend and Spring all things 2. And all the creatures are made and descended from these qualities and live therein as in their mother and the earth and Stones descend or proceed from thence also and all that groweth out of the earth liveth and Springeth forth out of the vertue of these qualities no rational man can deny it 3. Now This two-fold Source Good and Evil in every thing is caused by the Stars for as the Creatures in the Earth are in their Qualities so also are the Stars 4. For from the two-fold Fource every thing hath its great Mobility running Springing driving and growing For meeknesse in nature is a Still Rest but the fiercenesse in every power maketh all things moveable running and Generative 5. For the driving qualities cause a lust in all creatures unto evil and good so that every
astringent or harsh quality there is no life but an astringent cold hard Death and in the bitter quality there is no Light but a dark bitter and raging Pain a house of Trembling Horrour and fierce wrathful fearful Misery 121. Therefore when they are Guests feasting at the sweet and Light quality then are they affected and pleasant very joyful and triumphing in the Creature 122. And therefore no Lean creature is merry unlesse it be so that Heat be predominant therein that is though it be Lean and hath little of the fat or oyl in it yet perhaps sweetnesse is very abundant there 123. On the other side many Creatures have much fatnesse and yet are very Melancholy or sad which is because their fatnesse is inclined to the condition of the Elementary water wherein the astringent or harsh and bitter quality is somewhat strong Of the Language of Nature 124. Art thou a rational man then Observe this the Spirit which moveth on high aloft from the heat taketh its Exit rising and shining in the sweet quality therefore the sweet qualities is its friendly or kind will and raigneth in meeknesse and meeknesse and humility are its proper House or Habitation 125. And this is the Pith or Kernel of the Deity and therefore IT is called GOTT God because it is sweet meek friendly and Bounteous or Good GUTIG and therefore is IT called Barm-hertz-ig Warm-Heart-ed or Merciful because its sweet quality riseth up in the astringent sowre and bitter qualities and refresheth moistneth and enlightneth them that they might not remain a dark valley 126. For understand but thy Mother Tongue aright thou hast as deep a Ground therein as there is in the Hebrew or Latine Though the Learned elevate themselves therein like a proud arrogant Bride it is no grat matter their Art is now on the Lees or bowed down to the Dust. 127. The Spirit sheweth and declareth that yet before the End many a Layman will know and understand more then now the Wittiest or Cunningest Doctors know for the Gates of Heaven set open themselves those that do not blind themselves shall and will see it very well the Bridegroom Crowneth his Bride AMEN BARM-HERTZ-IG 128. Observe the word BARM is chiefly formed upon thy Lips and when thou pronouncest BARM then thou shuttest thy Mouth and snarlest in the hinder part of the Mouth and this is the Astringent quality which environeth or incloseth the word that is it figureth compacteth or contracteth the word together that it becometh hard or soundeth and the Bitter quality separateth or cutteth or distinguisheth it 129. That is when thou pronouncest BAR the last letter R snarleth and murmureth like a trembling Breath and thus doth the bitter quality which is a trembling 130. Now the word BARM is a dead word void of understanding so that no man understands what it meaneth which signifieth that the Two Qualities Astringent and Bitter are a hard dark cold and Bitter Being which have no Light in them And therefore a man cannot understand their power without the Light 131. But when a man saith BARM-HERTZ he fetcheth or presseth the second syllable out from the Deep of the Body out from the Heart for the right Spirit speaketh forth the word HEARTZ which riseth up aloft from the heat of the Heart in which the Light goeth forth and floweth 132. Now Observe when thou pronouncest BARM then the two qualities the astringent and bitter form frame or compact together the word BARM very leisurely or slowly for it is a long impotent feeble syllable because of the weaknesse of the qualities 133. But when thou pronouncest HERTZ then the spirit in the word HERTZ Heart goeth forth suddenly like a flash of lightning and giveth the distinction and understanding of the word 134. But when thou prnouncest IG then thou catchest or captivatest the spirit in the midst of the other two qualities so that it must stay there and form the word 135. And thus is the Divine power also the Astringent and Bitter quality are the Salitter of the Divine Omnipotence the sweet quality is the Pith or Kernel of the Barm-hertz-ig-keit Warm-heart-ed-nesse or Merci-ful-nesse according to which the whole Being with all the Powers is called GOTT GOD. 136. The heat is the Kernel of the Spirit out of which the light goeth and kindleth it self in the midst or Center of the sweet quality and becometh captivated by the astringent and bitter quality as in the midst or center wherein the Sonne of God is generated and that is the very Hertz Heart of God 137. And the Lights Flame or Flash which in the twinkling of an Eye or Moment shineth into all the powers even as the Sun doth in the whole world is the Holy Ghost which goeth forth from the clarity or brightnesse of the Sonne of God and is the flash of Lightning and sharpnesse for the Sonne is generated in the midst or Center of the other qualities and is catched by the other qualities Understand this high thing rightly 138. When the Father speaketh or pronounceth the WORD that is generateth his Sonne which is alwaies done for ever and Eternally then that Word first taketh its Original in the astringent quality therein it fixeth conceiveth or compacteth it self and in the sweet quality it taketh its fountain spring or source and in the bitter quality it sharpeneth and moveth it self and in the heat it riseth up and Kindleth the middle sweet fountain or source 139. And now it burneth joyntly or equally alike in all the qualities of the kindled fire and the fire burneth forth from the qualities for all qualities burn and that fire is one fire and not many several Fires 149. And that fire is the very Sonne of God which is thus generated alwaies from eternity to eternity this I can demonstrate by the Heaven and the Earth the Stars and the Elements and by all the Creatures Stones Leaves and Grasse yea in the Devill himself and that not with Dead slight unsignificant Arguments void of understanding but with cleer quick living and invincible firm Arguments even above beyond and to the Refutation of all mens Reason convincingly and undeniably and lastly in opposition against all the devills and the Gates of Hell and would do it here if it would not take up too much room 141. Yet it shall be treated of all along in this whole book in all the Articles and parts thereof but you shall find it more particularly in that part concerning the Creation of the Creatures as also conconcerning the Creation of Heaven and Earth and of all things which will be fitter to be done then and easier apprehended by the Reader Now Observe 142 Out of that fire goeth the flash or the light forth and moveth or boyleth in all the powers and hath or containeth the fountain and sharpnesse of all the powers in it self because it is generated through the Sonne out of all the powers of the Father
who were they that falsified and adulterated the right pure Christian Doctrine and alwayes fought against and opposed it Even the Learned Doctors and Scribes Popes Cardinals Bishops and great Dons or Masters and Teachers And why did the world follow after them and depend on them But because they had great respect were in great authority and power lived stately and carried a Port in the world Even such a Proud Whore is the corrupt perished humane nature 13. Who was it that purged the Popes Greedinesse of Money his Idolatry Bribery deceit and Cheating out of the Churches in Germany A poor despised Monk or Fryer By what power and might by the power of God the Father and by the power and Might of God the Holy Ghost Question 14. Then what is yet concealed or remains hidden The true doctrine of Christ Answer No but the Philosophie and the deep Ground of God the heavenly Delight and Pleasure the revelation of the Creation of Angels the revelation of the horrible Fall of the Devil From whence Evil proceedeth The Creation of this world The deep ground and mystery of Man and of all Creatures The Last Judgment And Change of this world The Mystery of the Resurrection of the Dead And of Eternal Life 15. This shall arise in the Depth in great plainnesse and simplicity But why not in the heighth in Art That no man should dare to boast that he himself hath done it and that hereby the Devils pride should be discovered and brought to Nothing 116. But why doth God so Of his great love and Mercy towards all People and Nations and to shew hereby that now is near at hand The Time of the Restitution of all whatsoever is lost wherein men shall behold and enjoy the perfection and move in the pure Light and Deep Knowledge of God 17. Therefore before hand will arise the Dawning of the Day or Morning Rednesse whereby the Day may be known or taken notice of 18. He that will now sleep let him sleep still and he that will awake and trim his Lamp let him awake still Behold the Bridegroom cometh and he that is awake and is ready accompanieth into the eternal heavenly Wedding But he that sleepeth at his coming he sleepeth for ever Eternally in the dark prison of fiercenesse or wrath 19. Therefore I would have the Reader warned that he read this Book with diligence and not be offended at the meannesse or simplicity of the Author for God looketh not at high things for He alone is High but he careth for the Lowly how to help them 20. If you come so far as to apprehend the spirit and sense of the Authour then you will need no admonition but will rejoyce and be Glad in this light and thy Soul will Laugh and Triumph therein 21. Now Observe the Gracious amiable blessed Love which is the fifth fountain-spirit in the divine power is the hidden source fountain or Quality which the corporeal being cannot comprehend or apprehend but onely when it riseth up in the body and then the Body triumpheth therein and behaveth it self friendly lovely and Courteously for that Quality or spirit belongeth not to the Imaging or framing of a Body but riseth up in the Body as a flower springeth up out of the Earth 22. Now this fountain-spirit taketh its original at first out of the sweet Quality of the water Understand this how it is and observe it exactly 23. First there is the astringent quality then the sweet next the bitter the Sweet is in the midst between the Astringent and Bitter Now the Astringent causeth things to be hard cold and dark and the bitter teareth driveth rageth and divideth or distinguisheth These two Qualities rub and drive one another so hard and move so eagerly that they generate the Heat which now in these two Qualities is dark even as Heat in a Stone is 24. As when a man taketh a stone or any hard thing and rubbeth it against wood these two things are heated now this heat is but a darknesse having no light therein and so it is also in the Divine power 25. Now the astringent and bitter quality without the sweet water rub and drive themselves so hard one against another that they generate the dark heat and so are kindled in themselves 26. And this Together is the Wrath or Anger of God the source and originall of the hellish Fire As we see by Lucifer who elevated and compressed himself so hard together with his Legions that the sweet fountain-water in him was dryed up wherein the light kindleth and wherein the Love riseth up 27. Therefore now he is Eternally an Astringent Hard Cold Bitter Hot and Sowre stinking fountain source For when the sweet quality in him was dryed up it became a sowr stinck a valley of misery and a House of perdition and woe Now further into the Depth 28. When the astringent and bitter quality rub themselves so hard one upon another that they generate Heat and so now the sweet quality the sweet fountain-water is therein in the midst or center between the astringent and bitter quality and the heat becometh generated between the astringent and bitter quality in the sweet fountain-water through the astringent and bitter Quality 29. And there the Light kindleth in the heat in the sweet fountain-water and this is the beginning of Life for the astringent and bitter Qualities are the beginning and cause of the heat and of the Light and thus the sweet fountain water becometh a shining light like the Blew or Azure Light of heaven 30. And that bright-Light fountain-water kindleth the astringent and bitter quality and the heat which is generated by the astringent and bitter quality in the sweet water riseth up out of the sweet fountain-water through the astringent and bitter quality and in the astringent and bitter quality the light first then becometh dry and shining as also moveable and triumphing 31. And when the light riseth up out of the sweet fountain water in the heat in the astringent and bitter quality then the bitter and astringent quality tasteth the light and sweet water and the bitter quality catcheth the taste of the sweet water and in the sweet water is the light but only of a skie-colour or Azure which is Blew 32. And then the bitter quality trembleth and dissolveth the hardnesse in the astringent Quality the Light becometh dry in the Astringent and shineth clear much brighter then the Light of the Sun 33. In this rising up the astringent quality becometh meek light thin or transparent and pleasant or lovely and obtaineth its life whose original riseth up out of the heat in the sweet water and this now is the true fountain or well-spring of Love Observe this in the deep Sense 34. How should Love and Joy not be there where life is generated in the very Center or midst of Death and Light in the midst of darknesse Question Thou askest How comes that
look upon HIM perhaps thou mayst be made sound or whole again 61. But stay a little another sitteth on thy Throne He is kissed and he is an obedient sonne to his Father and doth as the Father doth 62. Stay yet a little while and the Hellish fire will kisse thee in the mean while make much of this Latine till more groweth out of it thou wilt suddenly lose thy Crown Now one might Ask What then in Lucifer is properly that Emnity against God for which he was Thrust and driven out of his place 63. Here I will shew you exactly the Pith Kernel and Heart of Lucifer and then you will see what a Devil is or how he is become a Devil Therefore take heed and do not Invite or Entertain him as a Guest for he is the Arch-sworn Enemy of God and of all Angels and Men and that in his Eternity 64. Now if thou understandest and apprehendest this aright then thou wilt not make of God a Devil as some do which say God hath created the Evil and that his will is that some men should be Lost which men that so say help to encrease the Devils Lies and bring upon themselves the severe Judgment by their perverting Gods truth and so turning them into Lies Now Observe 65. The whole Deity hath in its innermost or beginning Birth in the Pith or kernel a very tart terrible sharpnesse in which the astringent quality is a very horrible tart hard dark and cold attracting or drawing together like winter when there is a fiery bitter cold frost when water is frozen into Ice and besides is very Intolerable 66. Then think or suppose if in such a hard Winter when it is so cold the Sun should be taken away what kind of hard Frost and how very rough fierce and hard darknesse would it be wherein no life could subsist 67. After such a manner and kind is the astringent quality in the innermost kernel or Pith in it self and to it self alone without the other qualities in God for the austerenesse or severity maketh the attracting or drawing together and fixation or Glutinousnesse of the body and the hardnesse dryeth it up so that it subsisteth as a Creature 68. And the bitter quality is a tearing penetrating and cutting bitter quality or source for it divedeth and driveth forth the hard and astringent Quality and maketh the mobility 69. And betwixt these two qualities is heat generated from its hard and fierce bitter rubbing tearing and raging which riseth up in the Bitter and hard quality as a fierce wrathful kindling and presseth quite through as a hard fiery Noise 70. From whence existeth the hard Tone and in that rising up or climbing it is invironed and fixed in the astringent quality so that it becometh a Body which subsisteth 71. Now if there were no other quality in this Body which could quench the fiercenesse of these four qualities then there would be a perpetual Emnity therein For the bitter would be against the astringent in that it stormeth and teareth so vehemently therein and breaketh open the astringent 72. And then the astringent also would be against the bitter in that it attracteth draweth together and holds fast the bitter captive that it could not have its own course 73. And the Heat would be against both in that with its fierce wratful kindling and rising up it maketh all hot burning and raging and is fully or totally against the cold 74. And so the Tone would be a great Emnity in all the other in that it penetrateth forcibly through all like a Tyrant 75. And thus this is the very deepest and innermost hidden Birth of God according to which he calleth himself an angry zealous or Jealous God as may be seen by the Ten Commandements on Mount Sinai Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9. 76. And in this quality standeth Hell and Eternal Perdition as also the eternal Emnity and murtherous Den and such a creature the Devil is come to be 77. But now seeing he is a sworn Arch-enemy of God and though indeed the Disputants and Helpers of the Devil will needs force it so in arguments that God willeth the good and also the evil and that he hath created some men to Damnation therefore and thereupon the Spirit of God citeth them upon pain of eternal Emnity to come before this Looking-Glasse wherein their Heart shall be laid open and they shall see what God is and who the Devil is or how he is become a Devil 78. If thy heart be not bolted and barred up in death through thy stubborn wilfulnesse aed Blasphemy and drown'd in horrible sins purposing not to desist from them or leave them then awake and behold I take Heaven and Earth also the Stars and Elements and all the Creatures and Man himself also in his whole substance to witnesse and so I will prove it also plainly and clearly in its due place with all these forementioned things especially when we come to treat of the Creation of all the Creatures 79. If these things will not give thee satisfaction then pray to God that He would open thy Heart and then thou wilt know and see Heaven and Hell as also the whole Deity with all its qualities and then no doubt thou wilt forbear and justifie the Devil no more I am not able to open thy heart for thee Now observe the true Birth or Geniture of God 80. Behold as I have mentioned above the Birth or Geniture of God in its innermost Being in these four qualities is thus Sharp or Tart. Thou must understand it exactly 81. The astringent quality is thus sharp in its own proper quality in it self but it is not alone or without the other neither is it generated of or in it self as being wholly free but the other six Spirits generate it and they also hold it by the Reins and may let their Reins and authority go as far only as they please 82. For the sweet spring or fountain water is suddenly a whip scourge or Lash upon the astringent quality and mitigateth softneth or suppleth it so that it groweth very thin gentle mild and soft as also very Bright 80. But that it is thus sharp in it self is to the end that a Body may be Imaged or framed through its attracting or drawing together otherwise the Deity would not subsist much lesse a creature 84. And in this sharpnesse God is an All-comprehensible and all-fixing or all-fastning sharp God for the Birth Geniture and sharpnesse of God is thus every where 85. But if I shall describe the Deity in its Birth or Geniture in a small round circle in the highest Depth then it is thus In a Similitude 86. As suppose a WHEEL standing before thee with seven wheeles one so made in the other that it could go on all sides forward backward and crosse wayes without need of any turning back or stopping 87. And in its going that alwayes one wheel in its turning about
the light in the second principle and the third in the spirit of this world in the Aeriall and Astrall source 119. When the astringent or harsh quality as the Father formeth the Word or Sonne or Spirit then it stands captive in the Center of the Heart and is examined or tryed by the other spirits whether it be good or no. Now if it please the fire then the fire letteth the flash in which the Bitter spirit standeth go through the sweet water wherein it conceiveth the Love and goeth therewith into the astringent Quality 120. Now when the flash returns with the Love into the astringent quality again together with the new generated spirit or will then the astringent quality rejoyceth in the New young Sonne and elevateth it self 121. Then the Tone layes hold thereon and goeth forth therewith at the Mouth Eyes Ears and Nostrills and executeth that which is decreed in the councel of the seven spirits for as the Decree of the Councel is so also is the spirit and the Councel can alter the same as it will 122. Therefore the original Lust sticketh in the circle of the Heart in the Councel of the seven spirits and as they generate the spirit so also it is 123. And so in this manner Lord Lucifer brought the Deity into Anger and Wrath that is Kindled the Eternal Nature according to the first principle Being he together with all his Angels as a malicious Devil fought or strove against the Deity intending to bring and subdue the whole Circumference Circuit or Region under his innate Spirits that they should form frame figure and Image all and the whole Circumference Region or Extent should bow yield and suffer it self to be ruled and formed by the kindled sharpnesse of the innate spirits 124. And as this hath a Being or substance form or condition in Angels so it hath also a being substance form or condition in Man Therefore bethink and consider your selves you that are proud covetous theevish Extorting Usurers calumniating Blasphemous Envious and Whorish or Lascivious what manner of little sonne or Spirit you send into God The soul was originally comprehended in the Eternal Nature with the Word Fiat which is Gods Nature according to the first Principle and eternal Original of Nature and if it kindleth it self in the Originall then it kindleth Gods wrath in the eternal Nature Objection Thou wilt say We do not send this into God but only into our Neighbour or into his work which we like and have a Mind to Answer 125. Now shew thou me any Place to which thou sendest thy Covetous or Lustful spirit be it to Man Beasts Garments Fields Money or any thing whatsoever where God is not from him is all and he is in all Himself is All and he upholdeth and supporteth all Objection Then thou wilt say But he is with his Wrath in many things which are so hard and Evill that they are not suitable to or capable of the Deity Answer 126. Yes dear Man all this is true The wrath of God is certainly every where all over In Silver Gold Stones Fields Garments Beasts and Men and all whatsoever is comprehensible and palpable otherwise they would not be so hard and harsh to be felt as they are 127. But thou must know that the kernel of Love also sticketh in all in the hidden Center unlesse it be too too altogether Evill and so Evill a thing Man hath no liking to at all neither God possesseth all onely as to Nature He is not the essence He possesseth himself Or dost thou think thou dost well if thou bathest or soakest thy self in Gods wrath take heed that it doth not kindle thy Body and Soul and so thou wilt burn therein eternally as befell Lucifer 128. But when God shall bring forth the hidden things at the End of this time then you will discern in what Gods love or wrath hath been Therefore have a care and take heed and turn thy Eyes from Evil or else thou undoest thy self and so bringest thy self into Perdition 129. I take Heaven and Earth to witnesse that I have performed here as God hath revealed it to me that it is his Will 130. Thus hath King Lucifer in his body turned the sweet water into a sowr sharpnesse intending therewith in his haughty-mindednesse to rule in the whole Deity 131. And he hath brought it so far to passe that in this world with that sharpnesse he reacheth into the heart of all living Creatures as also into vegetables leaves and grasse and into all other things as a King and Prince of this world 132. And if the Divine Love were not yet in the whole nature of this world and if we poor Men and Creatures had not in and about us the Champion in the Fight we should all perish in a Moment in the hellish horrible Abominations 133. Therefore we sing very rightly thus Mitten wir im Leben seynd Mit dem Todt umbfangen Wo sollen wir dan fliehen hin dass wir Gâ—ad erlangen Zu dir Herr Christ alleine Daist nun Der Held im streit Zu dem wir fliehen musien Welcher i st unset Konig JESUS CHRISTUS In the midst of this our Life Death doth us round embrace whither shall we flie away that we may obtain Grace To thee Lord Christ alone This is the Champion in the Fight To Him 't is we must flie Who is Our King JESUS CHRIST 134. He hath the Fathers Love in him and fighteth in Divine Power and Might against the kindled hellish Abomination To Him we must flie and he it is that preserveth and retaineth the Love of God in all things in this world else all would be lost and perish But hoâ—â— wart and belt 〈…〉 Doth ein Kleine Zelt 〈◊〉 des Tenfels Reich danâ—â—t leit Now Hope pray and wait But a small Time and then strait Th' Devill 's Kingdom will be quite down laid 135. Ye Philosophers and Jurists or Lawyers that make God to be as a Devill in saying That He willeth Evill bring in your Plea and answer once more here and try whether you can maintain your Cause to be just if not then the sowr sharp Tart spirit in Lucifer shall be also condemned as a Destroyer and the enemy of God and of all his heavenly Hoasts and Armies The Fifteenth Chapter Of the Third Species kind or form and manner of Sinnes beginning in Lucifer 1. THe third Spirit in God is the Bitter Spirit which existeth in the flash of Life for the flash of Life riseth up in the sweet water through the rubbing or fretting of the astringent and hot quality but the body of the flash abideth in the sweet water subsisting very meekly as a Light or heart and the flash is very trembling and by the terrour and fire and water and astringent spirit it becometh bitter through the original of the water in which it riseth up 2. And that flash or raging terrour or bitter spirit
Strong Helmet against the fiercenesse and the kindled fire according as the Kingly Prophet David saith To the Honest or the upright the light riseth up in the darknesse Psal 112. 4. 23. And in this strife and fight against the wrath of God and the kindled fiercenesse of the Devils and of all wicked Men the Light riseth up in the heart of the Honest and upright and the friendly Love of God embraceth him that he may not despair in his Crosse but strive further still against the wrath and fiercenesse 24. If there were not at all times some honest upright Men on Earth who quench the wrath of God with their opposing the Hellish fire had kindledâ— self long ago and then it would have well been seen where Hell is which men do not now believe 25. But thus saith the Spirit assoon as the fiercenesse overcometh the opposition of love in this world then the fire kindleth it self and then there is no more time in this world 26. But that the fiercenesse doth terribly burn now at present it needs no proof here for it is known as clear as the Day by wofull experience Behold there riseth up yet a little fire in the opposition against the wrath out of a singular especiall Love-restraint of God when this groweth weak also then is the End of this Time 27. But whether Lucifer hath done rightly in that he hath awakened and stirr'd up the fiercenesse in the Salitter of God whence this world is become Stinging Venomous Thorny Rocky Envious and Evill false or wicked let the Atturneys Proctors Advocates and defenders of Lucifer answer plead and justifie it if they can if not then this third Bitter stinging venomous spirit shall be condemned also Of the Fourth Kind Species form or manner of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer 28. The Fourth Spirit of God is Heat which is generated between the bitter and astringent quality and is conceived or bred in the sweet water and is shining and giving light and is the true fountain of life 29. For in the sweet water it is very meek from whence Love existeth and is onely a loving warmth and no fire 30. And though indeed it be in the hidden kernel of the fires quality or Originall yet that fire is not kindled or burning for it is generated in the sweet water 31. Now where the water is there is not burning fire but a pleasing warmth and gentle qualifying or vivifying but if the water should be dryed up then there would be burning fire there 32. Thus Lord Lucifer thought also if he did but kindle his fire then he might domineer forcibly in the Divine power but he thought it would have burnt Eternally and also have given Light his purpose was not to put out the Light but he would have it burn continually in the fire he thought he would dry up the water and then the light would move stirre or shine in the burning fire 33. But he knew not that if he kindled the dryed water that the kernel that is the unctuosity oyl or heart of the water would be consumed and that the light would turn into darknesse and the water turn into a sowr stinck 34. For the oyl or unctuosity in the water is generated through meeknesse or well-doing and that is the unctuosity oyl unction marrow or fatnesse wherein the Light becomes shining But if the unctuousnesse be burnt up then the water is turn'd into a sowr stinck and moreover becometh very dark 35. And thus it befell the Pride of Lucifer he triumph'd a little while with his kindled Light but when his light was spent and burnt up then he became a Black Devill 36. But he supposed he would Eternally reign thus in his burning light in the whole Divine power as a very terrible God and so with his fire-spirit he wrestled with the Salitter of God intending to kindle the whole circumference or Extent of his Kingdome 37. And indeed he hath done somewhat in that he hath set the Divine power into a burning which appeareth even in the Sun and Stars also the fire in the Salitter in the Elements is often kindled so that it seemeth as if the Deep were of a burning fire of which I shall speak in another place He stept back out of the meeknesse into the anxious fire-will and fell into darknesse The Reader is advertised that he must not understand in any place as if the Devill had kindled or fired the Light of God no but the forms of Nature only out of which the light shineth For he hath not comprehended the Light as little as the fire doth which cannot lay hold on the Light But he entred into the fire and is expelled into the Darknesse and hath neither fire nor light besides without or distinct from his creature or own Creaturelinesse 38. Now in this quality King Lucifer hath prepared for himself the right Hellish Bath or Lake He dares not say that God hath framed or erected the Hellish quality for him but he himself hath done it Moreover he hath offended the Deity and turn'd the powers of God into a hellish Bath or Lake for his own Eternal habitation 39. For when he and all his Angels had kindled in their Bodies the qualifying or fountain spirit of the fire then the unctuousnesse marrow or fatnesse burnt in the sweet water and the flash or terrour which riseth up fiercely in the birth of the light became raging and tearing burning and stinging and a being or substance of a meer opposite or contrary will 40. And here in this quality the Life was turn'd into a Sting of Death for through Heat the bitter quality grew so fierce stinging raging and burning as if the whole body were meer fiery Stings these did tear and rage in the astringent quality as if one did thrust fiery Pins Needles or red-hot Bodkins through the Body 41. On the other side the cold fire of the astringent quality was in a mad furious rage against the heat and against the bitter venom or Poison like a great Uproar or hurliburly and now furthermore in the Body of Lucifer there was nothing else but a murthering rubbing fretting burning and stinging a most horrible hellish fire 42. This fire-spirit and right Devils-spirit elevated it self now also in the Center of the heart and would rule through the animated or soulish spirit Hereby is understood the spirit of the will out of the Center which is generated out of the Genitrix viz. out of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits which is the Image of God in the whole Divine power and kindle the whole Salitter of God as a new and potent God and so the formings and Heavenly Imagings should rise up in a horrible fiery Qvality and suffer themselves to be Imaged and framed according to this fiercenesse 43. Now when I write of the animated or soulish spirit then thou must exactly know what it is or how it is else thou wilt read this Birth or
from his Bands in whom I will fight against him till my departure out of this Life Of the terrible lamentable and miserable perdition of Lucifer in the Seventh Nature-Spirit The Sad mourning House of Death 32. If all Trees were Writers or Clerks and all Branches were Pens and all Hills were Books and all Waters were Ink yet they could not sufficiently describe the lamentable misery which Lucifer together with his Angels hath brought into his place or whole space of that World wherein he was Created 33. For he hath made the House of Light to be a House of Darknesse and the House of Joy to be a House of Mourning Lamentation and Sadnesse that which was the house of pleasure delight vivifying and refreshing he hath made to be a House of thirst and hunger the House of Love to be a House of eternal Emnity and the house of meeknesse to be a House of knocking rumbling thundring and lightning the house of Peace to be a House of lamenting and eternal Howling the House of laughing to be a House of eternal trembling and Horrour 34. The Birth or Geniture of light munificence and well-doing to be an eternall hellish Pain and Torment the food of pleasing relish to be an eternal Abomination and Stinck a Loathing of all fruits and the house of Lebanon and Cedars to be a Stony and Rocky House of Fire the sweet sent or relish to be a stinck and a house of ruine and desolation an End of all Good the Divine Love to be a black cold hot eating corroding and yet not consuming Devill who is an Emnity against God and his Angels and so he hath all the heavenly Hoasts or Armies against him Now Observe 35. The Learned have had many Disputations Questions Conceits and Opinions concerning the fierce malignity and evil that is in all the Creatures even in the very Sun and Stars in this world moreover there are some so very poisonous and venomous Beasts Worms and Vegetables in this world that thereupon Rational men have justly wondred and some have concluded peremptorily That God must needs have also willed the Evill being He hath Created so much that is Evil And some have laid the blame and fault thereof upon the Fall of Adam and some have imputed it to the work and doings of the Devill 36. But being all the Creatures and vegetables were created before the Time of man therefore the fault ought not to be laid upon man for man gat not the beastial Body in his creation but it first came to be so in his Fall 37. Neither hath man brought the malignity poison and venom into the Beasts Birds Worms and Stones for he had not their Body otherwise if he had brought malignity and fiercenesse or wrath into all Creatures then he could never have looked for mercy at Gods Hands no more then the Devill 38. Poor Man did not fall out of a resolved purposed will but through the poisonous venomous infection of the Devil else there had been no Remedy for him 39. Now this true information thou wilt find described here following not from a zeal to vilifie any body thereby but in Love and as a humble information and instruction from the Abysse of my spirit and for an assured comfort to the poor sick old Adam which now lyeth at the point of his Last departure from hence out of this world 40. For in Christ we are all one Body therefore also this spirit would heartily fain have it so that its fellow Members might be refresh'd with a draught of the precious Wine of God before their departure from hence whereby they might encounter and stand in the great fight with the Devil and obtain the Victory that the victory of the Devill in this modern Drunken world might be disappointed and destroyed and the great Name of the LORD might be Sanctified Now behold 41. When King Lucifer together with his Angels so gloriously beautifully and divinely created as a Cherubin and King in God then he suffered his bright beautious form to befool him in that he saw how noble glorious and fair a Spirit rose up in him 42. Then his seven qualifying or fountain spirits thought they would elevate and kindle themselves and so they also would be as fait glorious and mighty as the animated or soulish spirit and thereby would domineer by their own Power and Authority in the whole Court Circumference Dominion or extent as a New God 43. They saw very well that the animated or soulish spirit qualified mixed or operated with the Heart of God and thereupon they were resolved they would elevate and Kindle themselves hoping to be as bright illustrious deep and Almighty as the deepest Ground in the Center of the Heart of God 44. For they thought to elevate the natural Body which was compacted together or incorporated out of the Nature spirit of God up into the hidden Birth or Geniture of God that their seven qualifying or fountain spirits might thus be as high and as all comprohâ—â—â—sible as the animated or soulish spirit 45. And the animated or soulish spirit should triumph over the Center of the Heart of God and the Heart of God should be subjected under it and so the seven Spirits of God should Image frame and form all by their animated or soulish spirit 46. And this High mind and self-will was directly and wholly against the Birth or Geniture of God for the Body of the Angels should abide and remain in its seat and be Nature and as an humble mother hold still and be quiet and should not have the Omniscience and own self rational comprehensibility of the Heart or of the deepest Birth or Geniture of the holy Trinity but the seven spirits should generate themselves in their Natural Body as is done in God 47. And their comprehensibility should not be in the hidden kernel or in the innermost Birth or Geniture of God but the animated or soulish spirit which they generate in the Center of their Heart should qualifie mix or operate with the innermost Birth or Geniture of God and help to form all figures shapes and Images according to the pleasure delight and will of the seven spirits whereby in the Divine pomp all might be but One Heart and one will 48. For the Birth or Geniture of God also is thus the seventh Nature-spirit doth not reach back into its Father which generateth it but holdeth still and is quiet as a Body and letteth the Fathers Will which is the other six spirits to form and image in it how they please 49. Neither doth any one spirit particularly and severally reach with its corporeal Being after the Heart of God but includeth closeth or joyneth its will with the other in the Center to the Birth or Geniture of the Heart so that the Heart and the seven Spirits of God are One will 50. For this is the Law of the comprehensibility that it do not elevate it self up into the incomprehensibility for the
extinguisht in the animated or soulish spirit and became a fierce furious Devillish Spirit all according to the kindling and will of the qualifying or fountain spirits 72. Now this animated or soulish spirit was bound or united with the Deity in Nature and could qualifie mix or operate in and with the same as if it were one and the same thing and that now stung forth out of the Bodies of the Devills into the Nature of God like a Theef and a Murtherer that desired to Rob murther and spoil all and bring all under its power and so kindled all the Seven spirits in Nature and then there was nothing else but an Astringent Bitter fiery and cracking burning tearing and raging 73. Thou must not think that the Devill hath thus powerfully and mightily overcome the Deity No but he hath kindled the wrath of God which indeed had otherwise rested Eternally in secret and so he hath made the Salitter of God to be a Murtherous Denne for if fire be cast into a heap of straw and kindled it will burn 74. Moreover the wrath-fire of God doth not reach in Nature into the innermost kernel of the Heart which is the Sonne of God much lesse into the Secret glory or Holinesse of the Spirit but into the Birth or Geniture of the six qualifying or fountain spirits in the place where the seventh is generated 75. For in that place or in this Birth or Geniture is Lord Lucifer become a Creature and his dominion did reach no further or deeper then so but if he had continued in the Love then his animated or soulish spirit had reach'd even to the Center of the Heart of God for Love presseth or penetrateth through the whole Deity 76. But when his Love was extinguisht then the animated or soulish spirit could no more reach into the heart of God and so his attempt was in vain but he raved and raged in nature that is in the seventh qualifying or fountain spirit of God 77. But being the power of all the seven spirits stood in this One therefore also all the seven were kindled in the wrath but yet only in the outward and comprehensible qualification or constitution 78. For the Devill could not touch the heart neither could he touch the innermost Birth or Geniture of the qualifying or fountain spirits for his Glory of the seven spirits was already mortified in the first flash of kindling and was presently held captive and imprisoned in the first exit of the animated or soulish Spirit 79. In this Hour King Lucifer prepared for himself the Hell and eternal Perdition which now standeth in the outermost qualifying or fountain spirit of the Nature of God or in the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world 80. But when Nature kindled it self thus horribly then the house of joy came to be a house of trouble affliction and misery for the astringent quality became kindled in its own House which is a very hard cold and dark Being like a cold hard frosty Winter which only attracted the Salitter together and dryed it up so that it became rugged cold and sharp like Stones wherein the heat was captivated imprisoned and also attracted together and so formed or framed into a hard cold dark Being 81. When this was done the Light in Nature was extinguish'd in the outermost Birth or Geniture also and all became very dark perished and spoiled the water became very cold and thick and staid here and there in the Clefts this is the original of the Elementary Water on Earth 82. For before the Times of the world the water was very Thin or rarified like Ayr and then the life was generated therein also which water is now so mortal corrupted perished and spoiled and so rolleth and runneth to and fro 83. The Gracious amiable and blessed Love which rose up in the flash of the life became a fierce and bitter venom or Poison a very murtherous Denne a Sting of Death the Tone or Tune became like the hard knocking or Loud Rumbling of stones and a house of Lamentation 84. Briefly all was a meer dark and miserable Being in the whole Circumference Extent or Dominion in the outermost birth or Geniture of the Kingdom of Lucifer 85. But thou must not think that Nature was thus corrupted and kindled even to the innermost ground but only the outermost Birth or Geniture but the innermost in which the seven qualifying or fountain spirits generate themselves retain'd its own Right to it self being the kindled Devill could not reach into it 86. But now the inner Birth or Geniture hath the Fanne or Casting-shovel in its Hand and will one Day purge its floor and give the Chaffe or husks to the Kingdom of Lucifer for Eternal food 87. For if the Devil could have reach'd into the innermost Birth or Geniture then instantly the whole Circumference Court or Extent of his Kingdome would have been the kindled burning Hell 88. But now he must lye captivated and imprisoned in the outermost Birth or Geniture even till the last Judgment Day which is at hand and very near to be Expected 89. But Lucifer hath kindled his qualifying or fountain spirits even in the innermost Birth or Geniture and now his qualifying or fountain spirits generate an animated or soulish Devills spirit which is an eternal Enemy of God 90. For when God was angry in his outermost Birth or Geniture in Nature then it was not his purposed determinate will to be kindled neither hath he effected that kindling but he hath drawn the Salitter together and thereby hath prepared an eternal Lodging for the Devil 91. For he cannot be expell'd quite out away beyond God into another Kingdom of Angels but a place must be reserved to him for a Habitation 92. Neither would God presently give him the kindled Salitter for an eternal Habitation for the internal Birth or Geniture of the spirits stood yet hidden therein 93. For God intended to do somewhat else with it and so King Lucifer should be kept a Prisoner till another Angelical Hoast or Army out of the same Salitter should come in his stead which are Men. 94. Now come on ye Atturneys Lawyers and Advocates of Lucifer maintain the Cause of your King now and shew whether he hath done Right in kindling of the wrath-fire in Nature if not then he must burn therein eternally and your Lies against the Truth must burn with him 95. These are the Seven kinds species forms or manners of Sin 's beginning and eternal Emnity against God Now followeth briefly concerning the Four new little Sonnes of Lucifer which he hath generated in himself in his corporeal Regiment for which he was expell'd from his Place and is become the Horriblest Devill Of the First Sonne Pride Now it may be asked What moved Lucifer to this that he would needs be above God Answer 96. Here thou must know that without distinct from himself he had no impulse at all to his Pride but his Beauty
they generated such a violent moving spirit and so the sweet water which before the times of the wrath was very rarified and thin and incomprehensible grew very thick and elevated and swelled and the astringent quality grew very sharp and Cold-firie or fierce-cold for it got a strong attracting together like Salt 10. For the Salt-water or Salt which still to this Day is found in the Earth hath its original and descent from the first kindling of the Astringent Quality and so the Stones also have their beginning and descent from thence as also the Earth 11. For the astringent quality now attracted the Salitter very strongly together and dryed it whence the bitter Earth is proceeded but the Stones are from the Salitter which at that Time stood in the power of the Tone or Tune 12. For as Nature with the working wrestling and rising up of its Birth or Geniture stood in the time of the kindling Just such a Matter attracted it self together Now it may be Asked How then is a comprehensible or palpable Sonne come to be out of an incomprehensible Mother Answer 13. Thou hast a Similitude of this in that the Earth and Stones are proceeded out of the incomprehensibility 14. For behold the Deep between Heaven and Earth is also incomprehensible and yet the Elementary Qualities at sometimes generate living comprehensible flesh therein as Grashoppers Flyes and Worms or creeping things 15. Which is caused by the strong attracting together of the qualities in which attracted Salitter the life is suddenly generated For when the heat kindleth the astringent Quality then the life riseth up for the Bitter quality stirreth it self which is the original of life 16. So in like manner the Earth and Stones have their descent for when the Salitter kindled it self in Nature then all became very rugged thick and dark like a thick dark Mist or Cloud which the astringent quality dryed up hard with its coldnesse 17. But being the Light in the outermost Birth was extinguished the Heat also was captivated in the Comprehensibility or palpability and could no more generate its Life from thence Death did come into Nature so that Nature or the corrupt Earth could no more help it and thereupon another creation of Light must needs follow or else the Earth would have been an Eternal undissolvable Death but now the Earth generateth or bringeth forth fruit in the power and kindling of the created Light Now one might ask What is the condition then of this Two-fold Birth or Geniture Is God then extinguisht in the kindling of the wrath-fire in the place of this world so that nothing is there else but a meer wrath-fire or is the One onely God become a Twofold God Answer 18. Thou canst not better comprehend apprehend or understand this then in and by thy own Body which through the first fall of Adam with all its Birth or Geniture fitnesse faculties and will is become just such a House 19. First thou hast the Beastial Flesh which is come to be so through the Lustfull longing Bit of the Apple for it is the House of Corruption For when Adam was made out of the corrupted Salitter of the Earth that is out of the Seed or Masse or Lump which the Creator extracted out of the corrupted Earth he was not then at first such flesh else his Body had been created Mortall but he had an Angelicall powerfull Body in which he should subsist Eternally and should eat Angelical fruit which did grow for him in Paradise before his fall before the LORD cursed the Earth 20. But being the Seed or Masse or Lump out of which Adam was made was somewhat infected with the corrupt disease or malady of the Devill Adam therefore long'd after his Mother that is to eat of the fruit of the corrupted Earth which then in its outward comprehensibility was become so Evil and in the wrath-fire was become so hard palpable and comprehensible 21. But being Adams spirit long'd after that fruit which was of the Quality of the corrupted Earth therefore also Nature formed or framed such a Tree for him as was like the corrupted Earth 22. For Adam was the Heart in Nature and therefore his animated or soulish spirit did help to Image fashion or frame this Tree of which he would fain eat 23. But when the Devill saw that the Lust was in Adam then he stung lustily and briskly at the Salitter in Adam and infected the Salitter out of which Adam was made yet more and more 24. And now then it was time that the Creator should frame a wife for him which afterward set the Sinne on work and did eat of the evill or corrupt fruit Else if Adam had eaten of the Tree before the woman had been made out of him then it would have been far worse then it is 25. But being this requireth a high and deep Description as also requireth much Room therefore seek for it concerning the Fall of Adam where you will find it largely described So now I return to the forementioned Similitude 26. Now when Adam did eat of the fruit which was Good and Evill then he suddenly gat such a Body also The fruit was corrupt or perished and palpable as to this day all fruits now on Earth are and so such a flesly and palpable or comprehensible Body Adam and Eve gat instantly 27. But now the flesh is not the whole Man for this flesh cannot comprehend or apprehend the Deity else the flesh were not Mortal and corruptible or fading and transitory for Christ saith John 6. 63. It is the Spirit that quickneth the flesh profiteth nothing 28. For this flesh cannot inherit the Kingdom of heaven neither but is only a Seed which is sowen into the Earth out of which will grow an impalpable or incomprehensible Body such as the first was before the Fall But the Spirit is eternal life which uniteth qualifieth or mixeth with God and comprehendeth the internal Deity in Nature 29. Now as Man in his outward Being is corrupted and as to his fleshly Birth or Geniture is in the wrath of God and is moreover also an Enemy of God and yet is but one Man and not Two and on the other side in his spiritual Birth or Geniture he is a Child and Heir of God which ruleth and liveth with God and qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the innermost Birth or Geniture of God Thus also is the Place of this world come to be 30. The outward comprehensibility or Palpability in the whole Nature of this world and of all things which are therein standeth all in the wrath-fire of God for it is become thus through the kindling of Nature and Lord Lucifer with his Angels hath his dwelling now in the same outward Birth or Geniture which standeth in the wrath-fire 31. But now the Deity is not separated from the outward Birth or Geniture so as if they were Two things in this world if so Man could
up my whole Heart and Mind as also all my Thoughts and whole will and resolution incessantly to wrestle with the Love and Mercy of God and not to give over unlesse he blessed me that is unlesse he enlightened me with his holy Spirit whereby I might understand his will and be rid of my sadnesse And then the spirit did break thorough 11. But when in my resolved zeal I gave so hard an assault storm and onset upon God and upon all the Gates of Hell as if I had had more reserves of vertue and power ready with a resolution to hazard my life upon it which assuredly were not in my ability without the assistance of the Spirit of God suddenly after some violent Storms made my spirit did break thorough the Gates of Hell even into the innermost Birth or Geniture of the Deity and there I was embraced with Love as a Bridegroom embraceth his dearly beloved Bride 12. But the greatnesse of the triumphing that was in the spirit I cannot expresse either in speaking or writing neither can it be compared with any thing but with that wherein the life is generated in the midst of Death and it is like the Resurrection from the Dead 13. In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all and in and by all the Creatures even in Herbs and Grasse it knew God Who he is and How he is and What his will is and suddenly in that light my will was set on by a Mighty impulse to describe the Beeing of God 14. But because I could not presently apprehend the deepest Births of God in their Beeing and comprehend them in my Reason there passed almost Twelve years before the exact understanding thereof was given me 15. And it was with me as with a young Tree which is planted in the Ground and at first is young and tender and flourishing to the Eye especially if it comes on lustily in its growing But doth not bear fruit presently and though it blossometh they fall off also many a cold wind frost and snow puffe upon it before it comes to any growth and bearing of Fruit. 16. So also it went with this spirit the first fire was but a Seed and not a constant lasting Light since that time many a cold wind blew upon it but the Will never extinguished 17. This Tree was also often tempted to try whether it would bear Fruit and shew it self with Blossoms but the Blossoms were struck off till this very time wherein it standeth in its first Fruit in the growth or vegetation 17. From this Light now it is that I have my knowledge as also my will impulse and driving and therefore I will set down this knowledge in writing according to my Gift and let God work his will and though I should Irritate or enrage the whole world the Devill and all the Gates of Hell I will look on and wait what the LORD intendeth with it 18. For I am too too weak to know his Purpose and though the spirit affordeth in the Light to be known some things which are to come yet according to the outward man I am too weak to comprehend the same 19. But the animated or soulish spirit which qualifieth or uniteth with God that comprehends it well but the bestial Body attains onely a Glimpse thereof Just as if it lightned for this is the posture of the innermost Birth or Geniture of the soul when it teareth through the outermost Birth or Geniture in the elevation of the Holy Ghost and so breaketh through the Gates of Hell but the outermost Birth presently shuts again for the wrath of God bolteth up the firmament and holds it captive in its Power 20. And then the knowledge of the outward Man is gone and he walketh up and down in an afflicted and anxious Birth or Geniture as a woman with child who is in her travel and would alwaies fain bring forth her child but cannot and is full of Throes 21. Thus it goeth also with the bestial Body when it hath once tasted of the sweetnesse of God then it continually hungreth and thirsteth after it But the Devil in the power of Gods wrath opposeth exceedingly and so a Man in such a course must continually stand in an anxious Birth or Geniture and so there is nothing but fighting and warring in his Births or Genitures 22. I write not this for mine own glory but for a comfort to the Reader so that if perhaps he be minded to walk with me upon my Narrow Bridge he should not suddenly be discouraged dismayed and distrustfull when the Gates of Hell and Gods wrath meet him and present themselves before him 23. When we shall come together over this narrow Bridge of the fleshly Birth or Geniture to be in yonder green Medow to which the wrath of God doth not reach or come then we shall be fully requited for all our damages and hurts we have sustained though indeed at present the world doth account us for fooles and we must suffer the Devill in the power of Gods wrath to Domineer Rush and roar over us It should not trouble us for it will be more excellent Reputation to us in the other life then if in this Life we had worn a Royal Crown and there is so very short a time to get thither that it is not worth the being called a Time Now Observe 24. If thou fixest thy Thoughts concerning Heaven and wouldst fain conceive in the Mind What it is and Where it is and How it is thou needest not to swing or cast thy Thoughts many thousand Miles off for that Place or that Heaven is not thy Heaven 25. And though indeed that is united with thy Heaven as one Body and so together is But the One Body of God yet thou art not in that very place which is become a Creature aloft many hundred thousand Miles off but thou art in the Heaven of this world which containeth also in it just such a Deep as is not of any Humane Number or is Circumscriptive 26. For the true Heaven is every where even in that very Place where thou standest and goest and so when thy spirit apprehendeth the innermost Birth or Geniture of God and presseth in through the astral and fleshly geniture then it is clearly in Heaven 27. But that there is assuredly a pure glorious Heaven in all the three Births or Genitures aloft above the Deep of this world in which Gods Being together with that of the holy Angels riseth or springeth up very purely brightly beautiously and joyfully is undeniable and he is not born of God that denyeth it But thou must know 28. That the place of this world with its innermost Birth or Geniture uniteth or qualifieth with the Heaven aloft above us and so there is one Heart one Being one Will one God All in All. 29. But that the place of this world is not called Heaven and that there is a firmament or fast inclosure between the upper Heaven
above us it hath this understanding or meaning as followeth 30. The upper Heaven compriseth the two Kingdoms that of Michael and that of Uriel and of all the holy Angels which are not fallen with Lucifer and that Heaven continueth as it was from Eternity before the Angels were created 31. The Other Heaven is this world in which Lucifer was a King who kindled the outermost Birth or Geniture in Nature and that now is the wrath of God and cannot be called God or Heaven but Perdition 32. Therefore the upper Heaven includeth it self up so far in its outermost Birth or Geniture and reacheth so far as the wrath of God reacheth and so far as the Government or Dominion of Lucifer hath reached for the corrupted or perished Birth or Geniture cannot comprehend the Pure 33. That is the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world cannot comprehend the outermost Birth or Geniture of Heaven aloft above this world for they are one to the other as the Life and the Death or as a Man and a Stone are one to the other 34. And therefore there is a strong firmament or inclosure between the outermost Birth or Geniture of the upper Heaven and that of this world for the firmament between them is Death which ruleth and reigneth every where in the outermost birth in this world and this world is so bolted up therewith that the outermost Birth of the upper Heaven cannot come into the outermost Birth of this world there is a great Cliff or Gulph between them And therefore in our outermost Birth or Geniture we cannot see the Angels neither can the Angels dwell with us in the outermost Birth of this world but in the innermost they dwell with us 36. And so when we fight with the Devill they keep off his Blowes in the innermost Birth and are the Defence and Protection of the holy Soul 37. Therefore we can neither see nor comprehend the holy Angels for the outermost Birth of their Body is incomprehensible to the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world 38. The second Birth of this world standeth in the life for it is the Astral Birth out of which is generated the third and holy Birth or Geniture and therein Love and wrath strive one with the other 39. For the second Birth standeth in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of this world and is in all places and in all the Creatures as also in Man But the Holy Ghost also ruleth and reigneth in the second birth and helpeth to generate the third holy Birth or Geniture 40. But this third Birth or Geniture is the clear and holy Heaven which qualifieth or uniteth with the Heart of God without distinct and above all Heavens as one Heart also they are the one Heart which holdeth and beareth up or sustaineth the place of this world and holdeth the Devil Captive in the outermost birth in the Anger fire as an Almighty incomprehensible God 41. And out of this Heart JESVS CHRIST the Sonne of God in the Womb or Body of the Virgin Mary went into all the three Births or Genitures and assumed them really that He might through and with his innermost Birth or Geniture take the Devill Death and Hell Captive in the outermost Birth and overcome the wrath of God as a King and Victorious Prince and in the power of his Geniture or Birth in the flesh presse thorough all Men. 42. And so by this entring of the innermost Birth of the Heart of the Heaven of this world into the Astrall and outermost is JESUS CHRIST the Sonne of God and of Mary become the Lord and King of this our Heaven and Earth who ruleth and reigneth in all the three Births or Genitures over Sin the Devil Death and Hell and so we with him presse through the sinful corrupted and outermost dead Birth or Geniture of the flesh through Death and the wrath of God into our Heaven 43. In this Heaven now sitteth Our King JESUS CHRIST at the right hand of God and encompasseth or surroundeth all the three Births as an almighty Sonne of the Father who is present in and throughout all the three Births in this world in all Corners and Places and comprehendeth holdeth and beareth up or sustaineth all as a new Born Sonne of the Father in the power and upon the Seat or Throne of the once Great mighty Potent and now expell'd accursed and Damned King Lucifer the Devill 44. Therefore thou child of man be not discouraged be not so timorous and pusillanimous for if thou sowest in thy zeal and earnest sincerity the seed of thy Teares thou dost not sow it in Earth but in Heaven for in thy astral Birth thou sowest and in thy animated or soulish Birth thou reapest and in the Kingdom of heaven thou possessest and enjoyest it 45. While thou livest in this strugling or striving Birth or Geniture thou must Buckle and suffer the Devil to ride upon thee but so hard as he striketh thee so hard thou must strike him again if thou wilt defend thy self For when thou fightest against him thou stirrest up his wrath-fire and destroyest his Nest and this is then as a great combustion and as a great strong Battel maintained against him 46. And though thy Body perhaps is put hard to it and suffers pain in misery yet it is much worse with him when he is vanquished for then he roareth like a Lion which is robbed of her young whelps for the fiercenesse and wrath of God tormenteth him but if thou lettest him Lodge within thee then he groweth fat and wanton and will vanquish thee in Time 47. Thus thou hast a real description of Heaven And though perhaps thou canst not in thy Reason conceive it Yet I can very well Conceive it therefore consider Rationally and seriously upon it What God is 48. Thou seest in this world Nothing but the Deep and therein the Stars and the Birth or Geniture of the Elements now wilt thou say God is not there 'pray then what was there in that place before the time of the world Wilt thou say there was Nothing then thou speakest without Reason for thou must needs say that God was there or else nothing would there have come to be 49. Now if God were there then who hath thrust him out from thence or vanquished him that he should be there no more But if God be there then he is indeed in his Heaven and moreover in his Trinity 50. But the Devil hath kindled the Bath or Lake of wrath whence the Earth and Stones also the Elements are become so fluctuating as also cold bitter and hot and so hath destroyed the outermost Birth or Geniture 51. Whereupon now this Treatise and my whole purpose is to describe how it is come to be living and revived again and how it regenerateth it self again And from thence also in the Creatures the beastial Flesh is come to be but Sin in the Flesh is the Wrath
of God Another Question which is chiefly treated of in this Book is this viz. Where then shall the Wrath of God become Answer 52. Here the spirit answereth that at the End of the Time of this corrupted Birth or Geniture after the Resurrection from the Dead this place or space where the Earth now is will be given to the Devill for a propriety or Possession and House of wrath yet not through and in all the three Births or Genitures but onely in the outermost in which he now standeth But the innermost will hold him Captive in its might and strength and use him for a footstool or as the Dust under its foot which innermost Birth he will never be able either to comprehend or to touch 53. For it hath not this understanding or meaning that the wrath-fire should be extinguished and be no more for then the Devils also must become Holy Angels again and live in the holy Heaven but that not being so a Hole Burrough or Dungeon in this world must remain to be their Habitation 54. If Mans Eyes were but opened he should see God every where in his Heaven for Heaven standeth in the innermost Birth or Geniture every where 55. Moreover when Stephen saw the Heaven opened and the Lord JESUS at the right hand of God there his spirit did not first swing it self up aloft into the upper Heaven but it penetrated or pressed into the innermost Birth or Geniture wherein Heaven is every where 56. Neither must thou think that the Deity is such a kind of Being as is onely in the upper Heaven and that the Soul when it departeth from the Body goeth up aloft into the upper Heaven many hundred thousand Miles off 57. It needeth not do that but it is set or put into the innermost Birth and there it is with God and in God and with all the holy Angels and can suddenly be above and suddenly beneath it is not hindred by any thing 58. For in the innermost Birth the upper and neather Deity is one Body and is an open Gate the Holy Angels converse and walk up and down in the innermost Birth of this world by and with our King JESUS CHRIST as well as in the uppermost world aloft in their Quarters Courts or Region 59. And where then would or should the Soul of Man rather be then with its King and Redeemer JESUS CHRIST For near and afar off in God is one thing one comprehensibility Father Sonne and Holy Ghost every where all over 60. The Gate of the Deity in the upper heaven is no other also no brighter then it is in this world and where can there be greater Joy then in that place where every hour and Moment beautiful loving dear new born children and Angels come to Christ which are press'd or penetrated through Death into Life 61. Doubtlesse they will make large Relations of many Fights and where can there be greater Joy then where in the midst or Center of Death life is Generated continually 62. Doth not every soul bring along with it a new Triumph and so there is nothing else but an exceeding friendly well coming and Salutation there 63. Considâ—â—â—hen the Soules of children come to their Parents who in the Body did Generate them whether Heaven can choose but be there or dost thou think my writing is too Earthly 64. If thou wert come to this Window thou wouldst not then say that it is earthly And though I must indeed use the earthly Tongue yet there is a true heavenly understanding couched under it which in my outermost Birth I am not able to expresse either in writing or in Speaking 65. I know very well that the word concerning the three Births cannot be comprehended or apprehended in every Mans Heart especially where the Heart is too much steeped soaked or drowned in the flesh and bolted and Barred up with the outermost Birth 66. But I cannot render it otherwise then as it is for it is just so and though I should write meer Spirit as indeed and truth it is no other yet the heart understandeth onely Flesh. Concerning the Constitution and form of the Earth 67. Many Authors have written that Heaven and Earth were created out of NOTHING but I do wonder that among so many excellent Men there hath not one been found that could yet describe the true Ground seeing the same God which now is hath been from Eternity 68. Now where nothing is there nothing can come to be All things must have a Root else can nothing grow If the seven Spirits of Nature had not been from eternity then there woâ—â—â— no Angel no Heaven also no Earth have come to be 69. But the Earth is come from the corrupt Salitter of the outermost Birth or Geniture which thou canst not deny when thou lookest on Earth and Stones for then thou must needs say that Death is therein And on the other side also thou must needs say that there is a Life therein otherwise neither Gold nor Silver nor any Plant Herb Grasse or Vegetable could grow therein Now one might Ask Are there also all the three Births or Genitureâ— therein Answer 70. Yes the Life presseth thorough Death the outermost Birth is the Death the second is the Life which standeth in the wrath-fire and in the Love And the Third is the Holy Life An Instruction or Information 71. The outward Earth is a bitter stinck and is dead and that every man understandeth to be so But the Salitter is destroyed or killed through Death for thou canst not deny but that Gods wrath is in the Earth otherwise it would not be so astringent bitter sowr venomous and poisonous neither would it engender such poisonous venomous Evill worms and creeping things But if thou shouldst say that God hath created them thus out of his Purpose that is as much as if thou shouldst say that God himself is Evil Malice Malignity or Wickednesse Pray tell me Why was the Devil expell'd or Thrust out 72. Surely thou wilt say because of his Pride In that he would needs be above God But Guesse Sir with what he would do so what Power haâ— he to do it Here tell me if thou knowest any thing of it if thou knowest Nothing be silent and attentive 37. Before the Times of the Creation He sate in the Salitter of the Earth when it was yet Thin or Transparent and stood in a heavenly holy Birth or Geniture and was in the whole Kingdom of this world therein it was neither Earth nor Stones but a heavenly Seed which was generated out of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of Nature for therein sprung up heavenly fruits forms and Ideas which were a pleasant delightfull food of Angels 74. But when the wrath did burn therein then it was killed and destroyed in Death Yet not so to be understood as if it were therefore altogether quite dead For how can any thing in God dye totally that hath had its
whilest the spirit goeth through its Place it signifieth that the dark Night in the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world hath never comprehended the Light also never shall comprehend it in all Eternity 140. Hence it is that the Creatures see onely the Astrall Light with their Eyes else if the darknesse were not yet in the outermost Birth or Geniture then the Astrall spirit could see through Wood and Stones as also through the whole Earth and could not be hindred by any thing Just as it is in Heaven 141. But now the Darknesse is separated from the Light and abideth in the outermost Birth or Geniture wherein the wrath of God resteth till the Last Judgment Day but then the wrath will be kindled and the darknesse will be the House or Habitation of Eternal Perdition wherein Lord Lucifer together with all wicked Men which have sowen into Darknesse into the soyl of the wrath shall have their eternal Dwelling and Residence 142. But the Astrall Birth in which the natural Light now standeth and wherein the holy Birth is Generated shall be also kindled at the End of this Time and the wrath and the holy Birth shall be separated asunder for the wrath shall not comprehend the holy Birth or Geniture 143. But the wrath in the Astrall Birth shall be given to the House of Darknesse for a Life and the Wrath shall be called the Hellish fire And the House of darknesse which is the outermost Birth shall be called Death And King Lucifer shall be the God therein and his Angels and all Damned Men shall be his Ministers Officers and Servants 144. In this Devouring Gulf or Throat will rise up all manner of Hellish Fruits and Forms all according to the hellish quality and kind as in Heaven there spring up Heavenly fruits and forms according to the heavenly quality and kind 145. Thus you may understand what the Creation of Heaven and Earth signifieth and is also what God made on the first Day Though indeed the first Three Dayes were not distinguisht or severed asunder by Evening and Morning but a Time is to be reckoned and accounted as of Twenty four Hours as there is on high above the Moon such a Time and Day 146. Secondly it is also therefore counted for a Humane Day because doubtlesse the Earth instantly began its Revolution and did turn Round about once in such a period of Time while God was separating and so till he had separated the Light from the darknesse and thus it performed and finished its course the first Time The Twentieth Chapter Of the Second Day 1. IT is written thus concerning the second Day And God said Let there be a Firmament in the midst of the waters and let it be a distinction or division between the waters so there God made the Firmament and divided the waters under the firmament from the waters above the firmament and it was so done And God called the firmament Heaven and so out of the Evening and the Morning the second day came to be Gen. 1. v. 6 7 8. 2. This description sheweth once more that the Dear Man Moses was not the Original Authour thereof for it is written very Obscurely and not fnlly expressed though indeed it hath a very excellent understanding and meaning 3. And without Doubt the Holy Ghost would not have it revealed lest the Devill should know all the Mysteries in the Creation For the Devil doth not know the Creation of the Light viz. how Heaven is made out of the midst or Center of the water 4. For he can neither see nor comprehend or apprehend the Light and holy generation or production which standeth in the water of the Heaven but the Generation or production only which standeth in the Astringent Bitter Sowr and Hot Quality from whence existed the outermost Birth or Geniture which is his Royall Fort or Castle 5. The meaning is not that he hath no power in the Elementary water to possesse it for the outermost corrupted Birth or Geniture in the Elementary water belongeth also to the wrath of God and Death is also therein as well as in the Earth 6. But the spirit in Moses meaneth here quite another sort of water which the Devill can neither understand nor comprehend But if it should have been declared so long a time ago then the Devill would have learned it from Man and had without doubt strowed his hellish chaff also into it 7. Therefore the Holy Ghost hath kept it hidden almost till the last Hour before the Evening wherein his Thousand yeares are accomplished and then he must be let loose again for a little season as is to be read in the Revelat. ch 20. v. 3. After that Summer cometh the Last Winter but the Sun will shine warm yet before that Time 8. But being he is now loose from the chains of Darknesse God causeth Lights to be set up every where in this world whereby Men might learn to know him and his feats and wiles and beware of him 9. Whether he be loose or no I offer it to every one to Consider view but the world in the clear Light and thou wilt find that at present the four new Sonnes which the Devill generated when he was thrust out of Heaven do govern the world viz. 1. Pride 2. Covetousnesse 3. Envy 4. Wrath These rule the world at present and are the Devills Heart his animated or soulish spirit 10. Therefore view the world very well and then thou wilt find that it fully qualifieth uniteth and Co-worketh with these four new Sonnes of the Devil Therefore men have cause to look circumspectly to themselves For this is the Time of which all the Prophets have prophesied and Christ in the Gospel saying Thinkest thou that the Sonne of Man will find any faith when he shall come again to Judge the world Luke 18. v. 8. 11. The world supposeth that it flourisheth now and standeth in its Flower because the clear Light hath moved over it But the spirit sheweth to me that it standeth in the midst or Center of Hell 12. For it forsaketh the Love and hangeth on Covetousnesse Extortion and Bribery there is no Mercy at all therein Every one cryeth out if I had but Money Those that are in Authority and power suâ—k the very Marrow from the Bones of Men of low Degree and Rank and feed upon the sweat of their Browes Briefly there is nothing else but Lying Cozening robbing and murthering and so may very justly be called the Devils Nest and dwelling House 13. The Holy Light is now adayes accounted a meer History and bare knowledge and that the spirit will not work therein and yet they suppose that is Faith which they professe with their Mouthes 14. O thou blind and foolish world full of Devils It is not Faith to know that Christ dyed for thee and hath shed his Blood for thee that thou mightest be saved This in thee is but a meer History and knowledge
The Devil also knoweth as much but it profiteth him Nothing so thou also thou foolish world goest no further but contentest thy self with the bare knowledge and therefore this thy knowledge will Judge thee 15. But if thou woudlst know what the true Faith is then observe Thy heart must not qualifie or co-operate with the four Sonnes of the Devill in Pride Covetousnesse Envy Wrath Extortion Oppression Lying Deceiving Murther and tearing the Bread out of thy neighbours Throat studying day and night to do mischief in bringing subtile Devices and designs to Effect that thou mayst give satisfaction to the Proud Covetous Envious and wrathful Devils to Court them and exercise thy self in worldly pleasures and voluptuousnesse 16. For thus saith the spirit in its zeal or in the Jealousie of Gods wrath in this world while thy spirit and will qualifieth or co-operateth with and in the four Abominations of the Devill thou art not one spirit with God and saith the spirit though thou presentest me every Hour with thy Lips and Prayest and bowest thy knees before me yet I will accept none of thy Labour Is not thy breath however continually before me whar shall thy Incense be to me in my fierce wrath dost thou think I will recive the Devil into my self or exalt Hell into Heaven 17. Convert Convert and strive against the malice and wickedness of the Devill and incline thine heart towards the LORD thy GOD and walk in his will Heart will incline to me saith the spirit then will I also incline to thee or dost thou think that I am false and wicked as thou art 18. Therefore I say now if thy heart doth not qualifie mix or Co-operate with God in thy knowledge out of a true Purpose of Love then thou art a Dissembler Lyar and Murtherer in the sight of God for God doth not hear any mans Prayer unlesse his Heart be fully directed and bent in Obedience to God 19. Wouldst thou fight against the Wrath of God then thou must put on the Helmet of Obedience and of Love otherwise thou wilt not break thorough and if thou dost not break thorough then thou fightest in vain and remainest to be a Servant or Minister of the Devil in one way as well as in the other 20. What will thy knowledge do thee Good if thou wilt not strive and fight therein It is Just as if one knew of a great Treasure and would not go for it but though he knoweth he might have it would rather starve for hunger in the bare knowing of it 21. Thus saith the spirit many Heathens who have not thy knowledge and yet strive or fight against the wrath will enter into the Kingdome of Heaven before thee 22. For who shall Judge them if their Heart do qualifie unite or operate with God For though they do not know him and yet work and labour in his spirit in Righteousnesse and in the purity of their Heart in true Love one to another they testifie assuredly that the Law of God is in their Heart Rom. 2. 15. 23. But being thou knowest it and dost it not and the other know it not but yet do it they with their Doing judge thy knowledge and thou art found to be a hypocrite dissembler and an unprofitable Servant who wert put into the Vineyard of the Lord and wilt not work therein 24. What dost thou suppose the Master of the House will say to thee when he shall require and demand his Talent which he entrusted thee with thou having buried it in the Earth will he not say thou Perverse wicked servant why didst thou not put my Talent out upon use and then I could have demanded the Principall and the Interest or profit 25. Note And so the sufferings of Christ will be quite taken from thee and will be given to the Heathens who had but One Talent and yet made Five good for it to the Master of the House and thou must howl with the Dogs Now Observe 26. Now if we will rightly consider How God separated the water under the Firmament from the water above the Firmament then great Things are to be found herein 27. For the water which resteth on the Earth is as a corrupt perished and mortal or Dead Being or Thing as the Earth is and belongeth also to the outermost Birth which with its comprehensibility or as to its palpability standeth in Death even as the Earth and Stones do 28. The meaning is not that it is quite reprobated rejected or thrust out from God for the Heart therein belongeth yet to the Astrall Birth or Geniture out of which the holy Birth becometh Generated 29. But Death standeth in the outermost Birth and therefore is the palpable water separated from the impalpable Now thou wilt Ask How is that Answer 30. Behold the water in the Deep above the Earth which qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Elementary Ayr and Fire that is the water of the Astrall Birth or Geniture wherein standeth the Astral life and wherein especially the Holy Ghost moveth and through which the Third and innermost Birth doth generate incomprehensibly as to the wrath of God therein and that water to our Eyes seemeth like the Ayr. 31. But that Water Ayr and Fire are one in another in the Deep above the Earth every intelligible Man may see and understand 32. For thou seest that often the whole Deep is very clear and pure and in a quarter of an Hour is covered with watery Clouds that is when the Stars from above and the water upon the Earth from beneath kindle themselves and so water is suddenly there also generated which would not be if the wrath did not also stand in the Astral Birth or Genitute 33. But being all is corrupted therefore must the upper water in the wrath of God come to help the Astringent Bitter and Hot quality of the Earth and allay mitigate and quench its fire so that the life may alwayes be generated and that the holy Birth between Death and the wrath of God may be generated also 34. But that also the Element of Fire is and doth rule in the Deep of the Air and Water thou seest in Tempests of Lightning also thou perceivest how the Light of the Sun kindleth the Element of Fire on the Earth with its reflection although many times aloft in the upper Region towards the Moon it is very cold 35. But now God separated the palpable water from the impalpable and placed the palpable on the Earth and the impalpable remained still in the Deep in its own Seat as it had been from Eternity 36. But being the wrath also is in that water in the Deep above the Earth therefore constantly through the kindling of the Stars and of the water in the wrath such palpable water generateth it self which with its outermost Birth standeth in Death 37. Which being it qualifieth or uniteth with its innermost Birth of the Astrall Birth or Geniture it cometh to help the Salitter
rolled or turned once about and accordingly there pass'd the Time of one Revolution or of One Day which containeth Twenty Four Hours 6. In the Duration of the Second Day began the sharp separation and the incomprehensible Cliff between the Wrath and the Love of Light was made and so King Lucifer firmly strongly or fast bolted up into the House of Darknesse and was reserved to the final Judgment 7. And so also the water of Life was separated from the water of Death yet in that manner as that they hang one to another in this Time of the world as Body and Soul and yet neither of them comprehend the other but the Heaven which was made out of the midst or center of the water is the Cliffe between them so that the comprehensible or palpable water is a Death and the incomprehensible or impalpable is the Life 8. Thus now the incomprehensible spirit which is God ruleth every where in this world and replenisheth or filleth all and the comprehensible hangeth or dependeth on him and dwelleth in the Darkness and can neither see hear smell nor feel the incomprehensible one but seeth the works thereof and is a Destroyer of them 9. And now when God had bound up the Devill in the Darknesse through the closure of the Heaven which Heaven is every where in all places then HEE began again his wonderful Birth or Geniture in the seventh Nature-spirit and all generated again as it had done from Eternity 10. For Moses writeth thus And God said Let the Earth send forth Grasse and Herbs that yield a Seed and the fruit Tree yielding or bearing fruit after its kind and which hath its own seed in it self upon the Earth and it was so done And the Earth sent forth grasse and the herb that yieldeth seed each after its kind and the tree yielding fruit and which hath its seed in it self every one according to its kind and God saw that it was good And so out of Evening and Morning the Third Day came to be Gen. 1. v. 11 12 13. 11. This indeed is very rightly and properly described but the true ground sticketh hidden or concealed in the Word and hath never been understood by Man For Man since the Fall could never comprehend or apprehend the inward Birth or Geniture to perceive How the heavenly Birth or Geniture is but his Reason lay captivated in the outward comprehensibility or palpability and could not penetrate and presse through Heaven and see the inward Birth or Geniture of God which also is in the corrupted Earth and every where in all Places 12. Thou must not here think that God hath made some New thing which never was before For if that were so then there had been another God which is not possible to be For without or besides this one onely God nothing is at all for the Gates of Hell are not any where without beyond or absent from this one onely God onely there is a Partition or distinction between the love in the light and the kindled wrath in the Darknesse so that the one cannot comprehend the other and yet hang one to another as one Body 13. The Salitter out of which the Earth is come to be was from Eternity and stood in the seventh qualifying or fountain spirit which is the Naturespirit and the other six have generated the seventh continually and are incompassed or surrounded therewith or lie captivated or inclosed therein as in their Mother and are the power and life of the seventh just as the Astrall Birth is in the Flesh. 14. But when King Lucifer had stirred the wrath in this Birth or Geniture and had with his loftinesse brought the Poison and Death into it then in the wrathful Birth in the fiercenesse or Sting of Death such Earth and Stones were Generated 15. And upon this now ensued the Spewing out thereof for the Deity could not endure such a Birth or Geniture in the Love and Light of God but the corrupted Salitter must be driven together in a Lump and Lord Lucifer also with it so then presently the innate Light in the corrupted Salitter went out or extinguished and the closure of the Heaven between the Wrath and the Love was made that so such Salitter might be generated no more and that Heaven might hold the Wrath in the outermost Birth or Geniture in Nature captive in the Darknesse and be an Eternal Partition or separation between them 16. But this being accomplished in the Two Dayes then on the Third Day the Light rose up in the Darknesse and the Darknesse together with the Prince thereof could not comprehend it 17. For there out of the Earth sprung up Grasse and Herbs and Trees and there now also it standeth written thus Each according to its kind Gen. 1. v. 12. In these words lyeth the Kernel of the eternal Birth or Geniture hidden or concealed and cannot be comprehended or apprehended by or with Flesh and Blood but the Holy Ghost through the animated or soulish Birth must kindle the Astrall man otherwise he is blind herein and understandeth nothing but concerning Earth and Stones also Grasse Herbs and woodden Trees 18. But now is it written here God sprach said Let the Earth bring forth Grasse and Herbs and fruitfull Trees Observe here 19. The word Sprach Said is an Eternal word and was before the times of the wrath from eternity in this Salitter when it stood yet in the heavenly form and life and now also it is not quite dead in its Center but only in the comprehensibility or palpability 20. But now when the Light rose up again in the outward comprehensibility or in Death then the Eternal Word stood in its full Birth and generated the life through and out of Death and the corrupted Salitter brought forth fruit again 21. But being the eternal word must qualifie mix or unite with the corruption in the Wrath thereupon the Bodies of the fruits were Evill and Good For the outward Birth or Geniture of the fruits must be out of or from the Earth which is in Death And the spirit or life must be out of the Astral Birth which standeth in Love and Wrath. 22. For thus stood the Birth or Geniture of Nature in the Time of the Kindling and was thus together incorporated in the Earth and must also in such a Birth spring up again For it is written that the dead Earth should let the Grasse and Herbs and Trees spring up each according to its kind Gen. 1. 12. that is according to the kind and quality as it had been from eternity and as it had been in the heavenly quality kind and form For that is called its own kind which is received in the mothers Body or Womb and is its own by right of Nature as its own peculiar Life 23. Thus also the Earth brought forth no strange Life but even that which had been in it from eternity And as before the time of the wrath
it had brought forth heavenly fruit which had a holy pure heavenly Body and were the food of Angels so now it brought forth fruits according to its comprehensible palpable hard Evil wrathful poisonous venomous half-dead kind for as the Mother was so were her children 24. Not that the fruits of the Earth are thereupon wholly in the wrath of God for the incorporated or compacted Word which is immortal and incorruptible which was from eternity in the Salitter of the Earth sprung up again in the Body of death and brought forth fruit out of the dead Body of the Earth but the Earth comprehended not the Word but the Word comprehended the Earth 25. And now as the whole Earth was together with the Word so was the fruit also but the word remained in the Center of the Heaven which is also in this place hiddenly and this Birth or Geniture caused the seven qualifying or fountain spirits out of or from the outermost corrupt and dead Birth or Geniture to form the Body and it self viz. the Word or Heart of God remained in its heavenly seat sitting on the Throne of Majestie and filled the Astrall and also the mortal Birth or Geniture but to them was the holy life altogether incomprehensible 26. Thou must not think that thereupon the outermost dead Birth or Geniture of the Earth hath gotten such a Life through the risen word that sprung up so that it is no more a Death No that can never be for that which is once dead in God that is really dead and in its own power can never be living again but the Word which qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Astrall Birth in the Part of the Love that generateth the Life through the astrall Birth or Geniture through the Death 27. For thou seest plainly How all the Fruits of the Earth whatsoever it bringeth forth must putrifie and Rot also they are a Death 28. But that the Fruits get another Body then the Earth is which is much fuller of vertue fairer or more beautifull also of a better taste relish and smell it is because the Astrall Birth or Geniture receiveth power or vertue from the Word and formeth or frameth another Body which standeth half in the Death and half in the Life and standeth hidden between the Wrath of God and the Love 29. But that the Fruits upon the Body are much pleasanter lovelier sweeter and milder and with a Good Taste and relish that is even the Third Birth out of the Earth according to which the Earth shall be purged and cleansed at the End of this time and shall be set or put again into its first Place but the Wrath will abide in Death The richly joyfull Gate of Man 30. Behold thus saith the Spirit in the Word which is the very Heart of the Earth and which riseth or springeth up in his Heaven in the half flash of the Life wherewith my spirit in its knowledge qualifieth mixeth or uniteth and through which I write these words 31. Man is made out of the Seed of the Earth out of an incorporated or compacted Masse or Lump Understand out of the Matrix of the Earth wherein the Eye is twofold the one in God and the other in this world out of Three Principles and not out of the wrath but out of the Birth or Geniture of the Earth and stood in the Astrall Birth or Geniture in the part of the Love but wrath hung to him which he should have put forth from himself as the the fruit putteth forth from it the bitternesse of the Tree 32. And that he did not but reached back from the Love into the wrath and lusted after his dead or mortal Mother to eat of her and to suck her breast and to stand upon her stock 33. Now according to his wrestling so also it befell him and so he brought himself with his outermost Birth or Geniture into the Death or mortality of his mother and with his life he brought himself out from the Love into the Part of the wrathful Astral Birth or Geniture 34. And there he standeth now between Heaven and Hell in the Face of the Devill in his kingdome against whom the Devil warreth fighteth and striveth continually that he might either banish him out of his Country into the Earth or make him a child of wrath in Hell And what is Now his Hope Answer 35. Behold thou blind Heathen behold thou Render Perverter Obscurer and wrester of the Scriptures open thy eyes wide and be not ashamed at this simple plainnesse for God lyeth hid in the Center and is yet much more Simple and plain but thou seest him not 36. Behold thy spirit or thy soul is generated from or out of thy Astral Birth or Geniture and is the Third Birth in thee Just as an Apple upon a Tree is the Third Birth or Geniture of the Earth and hath not its vegetation in from or within the Earth but from above the Earth and if it were a Spirit as thy soul is it would not suffer the Earth any more to tye or bind it to corruption 37. But thou must know that the Apple on its stock or Branch however with its innermost Birth or Geniture qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Word of God through whose power it is grown out of the Earth 38. But being the wrath is in its Bodily or Corporeal Mother therefore it cannot set or put it out from the Comprehensible or palpable Birth but must remain with its Body in the palpablenesse or comprehensibility in Death 39. But in its power in which its life standeth wherewith it qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Word of God it will in its mother in the power of the Word at the last Judgment Day be set or put again into its heavenly Place and be separated from the wrathfull and dead or mortall palpablenesse and spring up in the Heaven of this world in a heavenly form and 〈◊〉 a Fruit for Men in the other LIfe Here understand The power of the Principle out of which the Apple and All groweth shall in the Renovation of the world spring up again in Paradise with the wonders 40. But being thou art made out of the Seed of the Earth Red Earth is Fire and Water conceived with or by the word Fiat out of the Matrix of the Earth but when Man Imagined or set his desire into the Earth he became Earthly and hast set or put thy Body back again into thy Mother therefore thy Body also is become a palpable dead or Mortal Body such as thy Mother is 41. And thy Body hath the same Hope which thy Mother the Earth hath viz. that at the last Judgement Day in the power of the word it shall be set or put again into its first Place 42. But being thy Astral Birth standeth here on Earth in the wrath and qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Love in the Word Just as the Fruit on the Tree doth for the power
of the fruit qualifieth or uniteth with the word Therefore thy Hope standeth in God For the Astrall Birth or Geniture standeth in Love and Wrath and that in this time it cannot prevent in regard of the outermost Birth or Geniture in the Flesh which standeth in Death 43. For the dead or Mortal Flesh hath encompassed the Astrall Birth and Mans Flesh is a dead Carkasse whilest it iâ— yet in the Mothers body or womb and is encompassed with Hell and Gods wrath 44. But now the Astrall Birth generateth the animated soulish Birth viz. the Third which standeth in the word 〈◊〉 the incorporated or compacted word lyeth hiddeâ— in iâ—s Heaven The Sulphur to he production of the Soul is the first Principle in the eternall will-spirit and cometh to Life in the third Principle and so liveth between love and wrath and hangeth to born 45. But now being thou hast thy Reason and art not like the Apple on the Tree but art Created an Angel and the similitude or Image of God instead of the Expulsed Devils and knowest how thou canst with thy Astrall Birth in the part of Love qualifie or unite with the Word of God therefore thou canst in the Center in the Word set or put thy animated or soulish Birth into Heaven and thou canst with thy soul even with thy living Body in this Dead or Mortal palpability rule with God in Heaven 46. For the Word is in thy heart Deut. 30. 14. Rom. 10. 8. and qualifieth or uniteth with the Soul as if it were one Beeing and if thy Soul standeth in the Love then it also is one Beeing And thou mayst say that according to thy soul thou sittest in Heaven and livest and reignest with God Understand according to the spirit of the soul with the Image out of the animated or soulish fire 47. For the soul which apprehendeth the Word hath an open Gate in Heaven and can be prevented by nothing neither doth the Devill see the soul because it is not in his Country or Dominions 48. But being thy Astrall Birth standeth with the one part in the wrath and that the Flesh through the wrath standeth in Death thereupon the Devil in the part of the wrath seeth continually even into thy Heart and if thou lets him have any Room or place there then he teareth that part of the Astrall Birth which standeth in the Love out from the word 49. And then thy Heart is a dark Valley And if thou dost not Labour and work quickly again to the Birth of the Light then he kindleth the wrath-fire therein and then shall thy soul be spewed out from the Word and then it qualifieth or uniteth with the wrath of God and so afterward thou art a Devil and not an Angel and canst not with thy animated or soulish Birth reach the Gates of Heaven 50. But if thou fightest and strivest with the Devill and keepest the Gate of Love in thy Astrall Birth and so departest from hence as to the Body then thy Soul remaineth in the Word quite hidden from the Devil and reiâ—neth with God even unto the Day of the Restitution of that which was Lost. 51. But if thou standest with thy Astrall Birth in the wrath when thou departest from hence as to the Body and thy Soul not comprehended in the word then thou canst never reach the Gates of Heaven but into what thou hast sown thy seed that is thy Soul in that very Part shall thy Body also arise The Gate of the Power 52. But that Soul and Body shall come together again at the Day of the Resurrection thou mayst perceive so much here by the Earth For the Creator said Let the Earth bring forth Grasse and Herbs and Trees bearing Fruit each according to its Kind And then each sprung up according to its kind and grew and as before the time of the wrath it had a Heavenly Body so it got now an Earthly one answerable to its Mother 53. But it is to be considered how all was comprised in the word at the great tumult and uproar of the Devill so that all sprung up in its own Being according to its Power vertue and kind as if it had never been destroyed or altered at all 54. Now if it were thus at that Time when there was such murthering and robbing sure it will be much more so at the Last Judgment Day when the Earth shall be separated in the kindled wrath-fire and shall be living again or revived then surely it will be comprehended in the Word of Love as it hath in the same Word here generated its Fruit of Grasse Herbs and Trees as also all manner of mineral Oras of Silver and of Gold 55. But being the Astrall Birth of the Earth standeth in the Love and the outward in Death therefore will each remain in its seat and so Life and Death will sever themselves 56. And where now would the Soul of Man rather be at the day of Regeneration then with its Father that is †in the Body which hath Generated it 57. But being the Soul all the while the Body had been in Death remained hidden in the Word and being the same Word also holdeth the Earth in the Astral birth in the Love therefore it qualifieth mixeth or uniteth through the Word all the time of its hiddennesse and secreâ—ie also with its Mother the Body according or as to the Astral Birth or Geniture in the Earth and so Body and Soul in the Word were never separated one from another but live joyntly and equally together in God 58. And though indeed the Bestial Body must putrifie and Rot yet its power and vertue liveth and in the mean while there grow out of its power in its Mother fair beautiful Roses Blossoms and Flowers and though it were quite burnt up and Consumed in the Fire yet its power and vertue standeth in the four Elements in the Word and the Soul qualifieth mixeth or uniteth therewith for the Soul is in Heaven and the same Heaven is every where even in the midst or center of the Earth 59. O Dear Man view thy self for a vvhile in this Looking-Glasse thou wilt find it more largely to be read of concerning the Creation of Man this I set down here for this very cause that thou mightest the better understand the power of Creation and that thou mightest the better conceive and fit thy Self for this Spirit and so learn to understand its Language The open Gate of the Earth Now it might be Asked From or Out of what matter or power and Vertue then did the Grasse Herbs and Trees spring forth what manner of substance or condition or Constitution hath this kind of Creature Answer 60. The simple saith God made All things out of Nothing but He knoweth not That God neither doth he know what He is for when he beholdeth the Earth together with the Deep above the Earth he thinketh verily all this is not God or else he
Masse or Lump 80. Then next the Bitter spirit which existeth in the fire-flash is also in the Matter or Masse and that cannot endure to be captivated or imprisoned in the dryed exficcated Matter but rubs it self against the astringent spirit in the dryed Masse or Lump so long till it kindleth the fire and so when that is done then the Bitter spirit is terrified and getteth its life Conceive this here aright 81. In the Earth thou canst not perceive find or search out any thing besides the Herbs Plant or Vegetables and Metals more then Astringency Bitternesse and water But the water now therein is sweet opposite to the other two Qualities Also it is thin or Transparent and the other two are Hard Rough and Sowr and alwaies the one is against the other Thereupon there is a perpetual struggling fighting and wrestling but in the struggling of these three the Life doth not yet stand but they are a dark valley and they are three things which can never endure one another but there is an eternal struggling amongst them 83. And from hence mobility taketh its Originall also Gods wrath which resteth in the hidden secresie taketh its original from hence and so also the Original of the Devil of Death and of Hell it ariseth from hence as you may read thereof concerning the Fall of the Devill The Depth in the Center of the Birth or Geniture 84. Now when these three viz. the Astringency Bitternesse and Sweetnesse rub themselves one against another then the astringent quality groweth predominant for it is the strongest and forcibly attracteth or draweth the sweetnesse together for the Sweetnesse is meek and extensive in respect of its Supplenesse and must yield to be captivated or imprisoned 85. And so when that is done then the Bitternesse is also together captivated or imprisoned in the Body of the sweet water and becometh also together dryed up and then the Astringent sweet and bitter are one in another and struggle so strongly in the dryed Masse or Lump till the Masse be quite dry For the Astringent quality alwaies contracteth it together and dryeth it more and more 86. But when the sweet water can defend it self no longer then anguish riseth up in it just as in Man when he is Dying when the spirit is departing from the Body and so the Body yieldeth it self captive as a Prisoner to Death just so the water also yieldeth it self captive as a Prisoner 87. And in this anxious rising up an anguishing Heat is generated whereby a Sweat presseth forth as it doth in a dying Man and that sweat qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the astringent and bitter qualities for it is their sonne which they have generated out of the sweet water which they had kill'd and brought to Death 88. Now when that is done then the Astringent and Bitter qualities rejoyce in their sonne understand in the Sweat and each of them giveth to it their power vertue and Life and stuffe it like a greedy Gurmandizing Hogg so that it soon comes to grow full and swelled For the astringent quality as also the bitter alwaies draw the sap out of the Earth and stuffe it into their young sonne 89. But the Body which was first contracted or drawn together out of the sweet water remaineth dead or Mortal and the Sweat of the body which qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the astringent and bitter qualities hath the house therein where it spreadeth it self forth groweth Grosse full and Lusty or Wanton 90. But now the Two Qualities viz. the Astringent and Bitter cannot leave their contention and opposition or contrary will but wrestle continually one with another The astringent is strong and the bitter is swift 91. And so now when the astringent grapleth with the bitter then the bitter leaps aside and taketh the sonne 's sap along with it And then the astringent every where presseth hard after it and would fain captivate it then the Bitter rusheth out from the Body and extendeth it self so far as it can 92. But then when the Body begins to be too straight or narrow for it that it can extend or stretch it no more and that the contention be too great then the bitter must yield it self captive Yet for all that the astringent cannot kill the bitter but only holds it captive and so the strife in them is so great that the bitter breaks out of the body in strings like Thrids and taketh some of the Sonnes sap or Body along with it And this now is the vegetation or growing and incorporating or imbodying of a Root in the Earth Now thou Askest How can God be in that Birth or Geniture Answer 93. Behold that is the Birth or Geniture of Nature and so now if in these three qualities viz. the astringent bitter and sweet the wrath-fire were not kindled then thou wouldst plainly see where God is 94. But now the wrath-fire is in all Three for the astringent is too very cold and contracteth or draweth the Body too hard together and the sweet is too very thick and dark which the astringent soon catcheth and holds it captive and dryeth it too much and then the bitter is too stinging murtherous and raging and so they cannot be reconciled to agree 95. Else if the Astringent were not so much kindled in the cold fire and the water not so thick also the bitter not so swelling rising and Murtherous then they Might kindle the fire from whence the Light would Exist and from the light the Love and so out of the fire flash the Tone would Exist and then thou shouldst see plainly whether there would not be a heavenly Body there wherein the light of God would and doth shine 96. But being the astringent is too cold and dryeth the water too much thereupon it captivateth the Hot file in its coldnesse and killeth or destroyeth the Body of the sweet water and so the bitter captivateth it and dryeth it up 97. And so in this exâ—iccation or drying up the unctuousnesse or fatnesse in the sweet water is killed or destroyed in which the fire kindleth it self and so out of that unctuosity or fatnesse an astringent and bitter spirit comes to be For when the unctuousnesse or fat in the sweet water dyeth then is it turn'd into an anguishing sweat in which the astringent and bitter do qualifie mix or unite 98. The meaning is not that the water dyeth quite no that cannot be but the astringent spirit taketh the sweetnesse or the unctuosity and fatnesse of the water captive in its cold fire and qualifieth mixeth or uniteth therewith and maketh use thereof for its Spirit It s own spirit being wholly benummed and in Death therefore it maketh use of the water for its Life and draweth out its unctuosity or fatnesse to it self and bereaveth it of its power 99. And then the water becometh an anguishing sweat which standeth between Death and Life and so the fire of the Heat
cannot kindle it self For the unctuosity or fatnesse is captivated in the cold fire and so the whole Body remaineth a dark Valley which standeth in an anguishing Birth or Geniture and cannot comprehend or reach the life For the life which standeth in the Light cannot elevate it self in the hard bitter and astringent Body for it is captivated in the cold fire but not quite dead 100. And thou must see that all this is really so for Example take a Root which is of a Hot quality put it in warm water or take it into thy Mouth and make it warm and supple or moist and then thou wilt soon perceive its life and active or operative quality But so long as it is without or absent from the Heat it is captivated in Death and is cold as any other Root or piece of wood is 101. And then thou seest that the Body upon the Root is dead also for when the vertue is gone out of the Root then the Body is but a dead Carcasse and can operate or Effect Nothing at all and that is because the astringent and bitter spirit hath killed or destroyed the Body of the water and attracted the fatnesse or unctuosity thereof to it self and thus they have drawn or sucked up the Spirit thereof into the dead Body 102. Otherwise if the sweet water could keep its unctuosity or fatnesse in its own power and that the astringent and the bitter spirit did rub themselves one with another very gently in the sweet water then they would kindle the unctuosity or fatnesse in the sweet water and then the Light would instantly generate it self in the water and would enlighten the astringent and the bitter quality 103. Whereupon they would get their true Life and would be satisfied by the Light and rejoyce highly therein and from that living Joy Love would arise up and then the Tone would rise in the fire-flash through the rising up of the Bitter quality in the astringent And if that were done there it would be a Heavenly Fruit just as it springeth up in Heaven 104. But thou art to know that the Earth hath all the qualifying or fountain spirits for through the Devils kindling the spirits of Life were incorporated or compacted together also in Death and as it were captivated but not quite murthered 105. The first three viz. the Astringent Sweet and bitter belong to the Imaging or framing of the Body and therein standeth the mobility and the Body or Corporeity and these now have the comprehensibility or palpability and are the Birth of the outermost Nature 106. The other three viz. the Heat Love and Tone stand in the incomprehensibility and are generated out of the first Three and this now is the inward Birth wherewith the Deity qualifieth mixeth or uniteth 107. And now if the first three were not congealed or benumm'd in Death so that they could kindle the Heat then thou wouldst soon see a bright shining heavenly Body and thou wouldst see plainly where God is 108. But being the first Three qualities of the Earth are congealed or benummed in death therefore they remain also a Death and cannot elevate their life into the Light but remain a dark valley in which there standeth Gods Wrath Death and Hell as also the Eternal Prison and Source or Torment of the Devils 109. Not that these three qualities of the outermost Birth in which the wrath-fire standeth are rejected and reprobated even to the innermost no but onely the outward palpable Body and therein the outward hellish source quality or Torment 110. Here thou seest once more how the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Hell hang one to another as one Body and yet the one cannot comprehend the other For the second Birth viz. the Heat Light Love and the Sound or Tone is hidden in the outermost and maketh the outward moveable so that the outward gathereth it self together and generateth a Body 111. And though the Body standeth in the outward palpablenesse yet is it formed according to the kind and manner of the inward Birth for in the Inward Birth or Geniture standeth the Word and the Word is the Sound or Tone which riseth up in the Light in the fire-flash through the bitter and the astringent quality 112. But being the Sound of Gods Word must rise up through the astringent bitter Death and generate a Body in the half-dead water thereupon that Body is Good and also Evill dead and living for it must instantly attract the sapp of Fiercenesse and the Body of Death and stand in such a body and power as the Earth its Mother doth 113. But that the Life lyeth hid under and in the Death of the Earth as also in the children of the Earth I will here demonstrate it to you 114. Behold Man becometh weak faint and sick and if no remedy be used then he soon falls into Death The sicknesse caused either by some bitter and astringent Herb which groweth out of the Earth or else caused by an evil mortiferous deadly water or by severall mixtures of earthly Herbs or by some evil stincking and rank flesh or Meat and surfet from thence to Loathing 115. Now if a Learned Physitian inquireth from the sick Person from what his Disease is proceeded and taketh that which is the cause of the Disease whether it be Flesh Water or Herbs and distills or burneth it to powder according as the Matter is and so burneth away the outward Poison thereof which standeth in Death then in that distill'd Water or burnt Powder the Astral Birth remaineth in its Seat where life and death wrestle oâ—e with another and are both capable of being raised up for the Deadâ—Body is gone 116. And so now if thou minglest with this water or powder some good Treacle or the like which holdeth Captive the rising up and the power of the wrath in the Astrall Birth and givest it to the sick party or Patient in a little warm drink be it Beer or Wine then operateth the innermost and hidden Birth of the thing which hath caused the Disease in man through its outermost dead Birth 117. For when it is put into warm Liquor then the life in the thing becometh rising and would fain raise it self and be kindled in the Light â—ut it cannot because of the wrath which is opposite to it in the Astral Birth or Geniture 118. But it can do thus much viz. it can take away the Disease from a Man for the Astral Life riseth up through Death and taketh away the power from the Sting of Death and so when that hath gotten the victory then the Party becometh sound again 119. Thus thou seest how the power or vertue of the Word and eternal life in the Earth and in its children lyeth hidden in the center in Death and springeth up through Death incomprehensibly as to the Death and continually travelleth in anguish to the Birth of life and yet cannot flourish or budd till the
Death be severed from it 120. But it hath its Life in its Seat and that cannot be taken from it but Death hangeth to it in the outermost Birth or Geniture as also the wrath in Death for the Wrath is the life of Death and of the Devill and in the wrath standeth also the corporeal Being or the Bodies of the Devils but the dead Birth or Geniture is their Eternall Dwelling House The Depth in the Circle of the Birth or Geniture Now one might Ask What manner of substance hath it or what is the condition thereof that the Astral Birth of the Earth did begin its qualifying operating and generating one Day sooner then the Astral in the Deep above the Earth seeing the fire in the Deep above the Earth is much sharper and easier to be kindled then the fire in the Earth and seeing also that the Earth must be kindled by the fire in the Deep above the Earth else it can Bear no fruit Answer 121. Behold thou understanding Spirit the Spirit speaketh to thee and not to the dead spirit of the flesh Open the Door of thy Astral birth wide and elevate that one Part of the astral Birth in the light and let the other in the wrath stand still and take heed also that thy animated or soulish spirit do wholly unite with the Light 122. And so when thou standest in such a form then thou art as Heaven and Earth is or as the whole Deitie is with its Births or Genitures in this world 123. But now if thou art not thus then thou art blind herein though thou wert the wittiest and wisest Doctor that ever could be found in the world 124. But if thou art Thus then raise up thy spirit and look through thy Art of Astrology thy deep sense and measuring of Circles and see if thou art able to apprehend it It must be born IN THEE Else thou gettest neither Grace nor Art 125. If the Eyes of thy Spirit shall stand open then thou must generate thus else thy Comprehensibility is a Foolish Virgin and it befalls thee as if a Limner should offer to pourtray the Deity on a Table and tell thee It is made right the Deity is just so 126. Then the Believer and the Limner are both alike both of them see nothing but only wood and Colours and the one blind leadeth the other surely thou art not to fight here with Beasts but with Gods Now Observe 127. When the whole Deitie in this world moved it self to the Creation then not onely the one part did Move and the other rest but all stood joyntly in the Mobility Even the whole Deep so far as Lord Lucifer was King and so far as the place of his Kingdom reach'd and so far as the Salitter in the wrath-fire was kindled 128. The motion of the three Births lasted the length of six Dayes and Nights wherein all the seven Spirits of God stood in a full moving Birth or Geniture as also the Heart of the spirits and the Salitter of the Earth turn'd about in that while six times in the great wheel which wheel is the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of God and at each turning about or Diurnal Revolution there was generated a several special fabrick or work according to the innate Instant qualifying or fountain spirits 129. For the First qualifying or fountain spirit is the Astringent cold sharp and hard Birth or Geniture and that belongeth to the first Day in the Astrall Birth or Geniture the Astrologers call it the Saturnine which was performed on the First Day For therein the hard dry sharp Earth and Stones came to be and were incorporated or compacted together moreover then was also generated the strong Firmament of Heaven and the Heart of the seven spirits of God stood hidden in the hard sharpnesse 130. Astrologers appropriate or attribute the Second Day to Sol or the Sun but it belongeth to Jupiter to speak of it Astrologically for on the second Day the Light brake forth out of the Heart of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits through the hard quality of the Heaven and caused a mitigation or allaying in the hard water of the Heaven and the light became shining in that meeknesse and allay 131. And then the meeknesse and the Hard water separated themselves asunder and the hardnesse remained in its hard place as a hard Death and the meeknesse or softnesse penetrated through the Hardnesse in the power of the Light 132. And this now is the water of Life which is generated in the Light of God out of the hard Death And thus the light of God in the sweet water of Heaven brake through the astringent and hard dark Death and thus the Heaven is made out of the midst or Center of the water 133. The hard Firmament is the astringent quality and the gentle Mild or meek firmament is the water in which the Light of Life riseth up which is the Clarity or Bright Light of the Sonne of God And in this manner or form also the knowledge and the light of life riseth up in Man and the whole light of God in this world standeth in such a Form Birth and rising up 134. The Third Day is very rightly attributed to Mars because it is a bitter and a furious raging and stirring spirit In the third Revolution of the Earth the bitter quality rubb'd it self with the astringent Understand this thing rightly 135. When the Light in the sweet water did penetrate through the astringent spirit then the fire flash terrour or crack of the Light when it kindled it self in the water rose up in the astringent and hard dead quality and made all stirring from thence existed the 〈…〉 136. Now I speak here not onely of the Heaven above the Earth but this stirring and Birth or Geniture was also in the Earth and every where 137. But being the heavenly fruits before the time of the wrath sprung up onely in this stirring of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits and vanish'd or passed away again by their stirring and so changed or altered themselves therefore on the third Day of the Birth or Geniture of the Creation they sprung up also through the stirring of the fire-flash in the astringent quality of the Earth 138. And though indeed the whole Deity is in the Center of the Earth hidden yet the Earth could not for all that bring forth heavenly fruit for the astringent quality had shut and barred the hard Bolt of Death upon it and so the Heart of the Deity remained hidden in its meek and Light Heaven 139. For the outermost Birth is Nature and that ought not to reach back into the Heart of God neither can it but is the Body in which the qualifying or fountain spirits generate themselves and shew forth and manifest their Birth or Geniture by their fruits The Two and Twentieth Chapter Of the Birth or Geniture of the Starres and Creation of the Fourth Day 1. HEre now is
wilt Dissemble with Him and adorn or magnifie thy Birth then I suppose thee to be a very fine Angel indeed But He that hath Love in his heart and leadeth a mercifull meek and lowly-minded life and fighteth against malice and hatred and presseth through the wrath of God into the Light he liveth with God and is One Spirit with God 57. For God needeth no other Service but that his creature which is in His Body do not slide back from Him but be Holy as He is 58. Therefore also God gave the Law to the Jews that they should diligently study and endeavour after meek Holinesse and Love that thereby all the world might have them for their Looking-Glasse But when they grew proud and boasted in their Birth instead of entring into Love and turn'd the law of Love into the sharpnesse of wrath then God removed their Candlestick and went to the Heathens 59. Secondly II. There is this Difference betwixt the Christians Jews Turks and Heathens that the Christians know the Tree of Life which is CHRISTUS CHRIST who is the Prince of our Heaven and of this world and ruleth in all Births or Genitures as a King in God his Father and Men are his Members 60. And now Christians know how they may by the power of this Tree presse out from their Death through his Death to him into his life and raign and live with him wherein they also with their pressing through with their new birth out from this Dead Body may be and are with him in Heaven 61. And though the dead Body is in the midst or Center of Hell among all the Devils yet for all that the new Man reigneth with God in Heaven and the Tree of life is to them a strong Gate through which they do enter into Life But of this thou shalt find more largely in its proper Place Now Observe 62. Moses writeth that God said Let there be Lights in the Firmament of Heaven which should therein give a Light to the Earth and divide or distinguish Day and Night also make Years and Times or Seasons 63. This description sheweth that the first writer did not know what the Stars are But He took hold on the Deitie at the Heart and look'd upon or had respect to the Heart to consider what the Heart and kernel of this Creation is and the Spirit kept the Astral and outermost Dead Birth or Geniture hidden from him and did onely drive him in Faith to the Heart of the Deitie 64. Which is also the Principal Point most necessary for Man For when he layeth hold on true Faith then he presseth through the Wrath of God through Death into life and reigneth with God 65. But being Men now at the End of this time do listen and long very much after the Root of the Tree through which Nature sheweth that the time of the discovery of the Tree is at hand therefore the Spirit will shew it to them and the whole Deitie will reveal it self which is the Day-spring dawning or Morning-Rednesse and the breaking forth of the great Day of God in which whatsoever is generated from Death to the Regeneration of Life shall be Restored and Rise again 66. Behold when God said Let there be light then the light in the powers of Nature or the seven spirits of God rose up and the Firmament of Heaven which standeth in the Word in the Heart of the water between the astrall and outermost Birth or Geniture was closed or shut up by or with the Word and Heart of the water and the Astral birth is the Place of the parting-mark or Limit which standeth half in Heaven and half in the Wrath. 67. For from or out of that half Part of the wrath the Dead Birth generateth it self continually and out of the other half Part which reacheth with its innermost Degree even into the innermost Heart and light of God generateth it self now continually through Death and yet the Astrall Birth or Geniture is not two but One Body 68. But when in these two Dayes the Creation of Heaven and of Earth was compleated and that the Heaven was made in the heart of the water for a difference or distinction between the Light of God and the Wrath of God then on the Third Day through the terrour or crack of the fire-Flash which rose up in the heart of the water and pressed through Death incomprehensibly as to Death there sprung up all manner of Ideas Forms and Figures as was done before the time of the kindled wrath 69. But being the water which is the Spirit of the Astral Life stood in the midst or Center of wrath and also in Death thereupon also every Body formed it self as the Birth or Geniture to Life and mobility was Of the Earth 70. But now the Earth was the Salitter which was cast up out of the innermost Birth and stood in Death but when the fire-flash through the Word rose up in the water then it was a terrour or crack from which existed the mobility in death and that Mobility in all the seven spirits is now the Astrall Birth or Geniture The Depth Understand this aright 71. Now when on the the Third Day the fire-flash in the water of death had kindled it self then the Life pressed forth quite through the dead body of the water and of the Earth 72. But yet the Dead water and Earth comprehend no more then the flash or terrour or crack of the Fire where-through their mobility existeth But the Light which riseth up very softly Gently or meekly in the fire-flash that neither the Earth nor the dead water can comprehend 73. But it retaineth its Seat in the kernel which is the unctuosity or fatnesse or the water of life or the Heaven for it is the Body of Life which the Death cannot comprehend and yet it riseth up in the Death 74. Neither can the wrath take hold of it or apprehend it but the Wrath remaineth in the terrour or crack of the Fire-Flash and maketh the Mobility in the dead body of the earth and the water 75. But the Light presseth in very gently after and formeth the Birth which through the terrour or crack of the fire-flash hath gotten its compacted Body Of the Growths or Vegetables of the Earth 76. When now the Wrathfull fire-flash awakened and rouzed up the spirits of Nature which stand in Death in the Earth by its fierce terrour or crack then the spirits began according to their peculiar Divine Right to generate themselves as they had done from eternity and form figure or frame a Body together according to the innate instant qualities of that Place 77. Now that kind of Salitter which in the time of the kindling of the wrath dyed in Death and as it did qualifie or operate at that time in the innate instant Life of the seven spirits of God so also it did rise again in the Time of the Regeneration in the Fire-Flash and is not
become any New thing but onely another form of the Body which standeth in the comprehensibility or palpability in Death 78. But now the Salitter of the Earth and of the water is no more able to change or alter it self in its dead Being and shew forth it self infinitely as it did in the heavenly place or Seat but when the qualifying or fountain spirits form the Body then it riseth up in the power and vertue of the Light 79. And the Life of the Light breaketh through the Death and generateth to it another Body out of Death which is not conformable to or of the condition of the water and the dead Earth also doth not get their taste and smell but the power of the Light presseth thorough and tempereth or mixeth it self with the power of the Earth and taketh from Death its Sting and from the wrath its poisonous venomous power and presseth forth up together in the midst or center of the Body in the growth or vegetation as a Heart thereof 80. And herein sticketh now the kernel of the Deitie in the Center in its Heaven which standeth hidden in the water of Life if thou canst now apprehend or lay hold on it Of the Metalls in the Earth 81. The Metals have the same substance condition and Birth or Geniture as the vegetables upon the Earth have For the Metalls or Mineral Oares at the time of the kindling of the wrath in the innate instant Wheel of the seventh nature-Spirit stood in the Fabrick work or operation of the Love wherein the meek beneficence or well-doing generateth it self behind the Fire-Flash wherein the Holy Heaven standeth which in this Birth or Geniture when the Love is predominant presents or sheweth forth it self in such a gracious amiable and blessed Clarity or Brightnesse and in such beauteous colours like Gold Silver and Pretious Stones 82. But Silver and Gold in the dead Palpability or Tangibility are but as a Dark stone in comparison of the Root of the heavenly Generating but I set it down here only that thou mayst know from whence it hath its Original 83. But being it hath been the excellentest rising up and generating in the holy heavenly Nature therefore also it is loved by man above all other in this world For Nature hath indeed written in Mans Heart that it is better then other Stones and Earth but Nature could not reveal or manifest to him the ground thereof from whence it is come or proceeded whereby now thou mayst Observe the Day-spring or Morning-Rednesse 84. There are many several sorts of minerall Oars according as the Salitter in Natures Heaven was predominant at its rising up in the Light of Love For every qualifying or radical spirit in the heavenly Nature containeth the property or kind of all the qualifying or fountain spirits for it is ever infected or affected with the other from whence the Life and the unsearchable Birth or Geniture of the Deitie existeth But yet is predominant as to one Power and that is its own Body from whence it hath the Name 85. But now every qualifying or fountain spirit hath the property of the whole or Totall Nature and its Fabrick or Work at the time of the kindling of the wrath was together also incorporated in Death and out of every Spirits fabrick or work Earth Stones mineral Oars and water came to be 86. Therefore also in the Earth there are found according to the quality of Each Spirit minerall Oars Stones water and Earth and therefore it is that the Earth is of so many various qualities all as Each qualifying or fountain Spirit with its innate Instant Birth or Geniture was at the time of the kindling 87. Nature hath likewise Manifested or revealed so much to man that he knoweth how he may melt away the strange or Heterogene matter from every qualifying or fountain Spirits strange infected innate Birth or Geniture whereby that qualifying or fountain spirit might remain chief in its own Primacy 88. You have an Example of this in Gold and in Silver which you cannot make to be pure or fine Gold or Silver unlesse it be melted seven times in the fire Psal. 12. 7. But when that is done then it remaineth in the middle or Central Seat in the Heart of Nature which is the water sitting in its own quality and Colour I. 89. First the astringent quality which holdeth the Salitter captive in the hard Death must be melted away which is the grosse stony Drosse II. 90. Then Secondly the astringent Death of the water is to be separated from which proceeds a poisonous venomous water of separation or Aquafortis which standeth in the rising up of the fire-flash which is the evil Malignant even the very worst source of all in Death even the Astringent and Bitter Death it self for this is the Place where the Life which existeth in the sweet water dyed in Death And that separateth it self now in the second Melting III. 91. Thirdly the Bitter Quality which existeth in the kindling of the water fire-flash is melted away for that is a Rager Raver Tyrant and destroyer also no Silver nor Gold can subsist if that be not killed or mortified for it maketh all dry and Brittle and presenteth or sheweth forth it self in severall Colours for it rideth through all spirits assuming the Colours of all spirits IIII. 92. Fourthly the fire spirit also which standeth in the horrible anguish and pangs of life must be also melted away for it is a continued Father of the Wrath and out of or from that is generated the Hellish woe 93. Now when the wrath of these four spirits is kill'd then the minerall Oary Salitter standeth in the water like a tough Matter and looketh like that spirit which is predominant in the minerall Ore and the light which standeth in the Fire coloureth it according to its own Qualitie be it Silver or Gold 94. And now this matter in the fourth melting looks like Silver or Gold but it is not yet sixt nor is it tough or malleable and pure enough its body indeed is Subsistent but not the Spirit V. 95. Now when it is melted a Fifth Time then the Love-spirit riseth up in the water through the Light and maketh the dead Body living again so that the matter which remained in the first four Meltings getteth power or strength again which was the proper own of that qualifying or fountain-spirit which was predominant in this Minerall Oar. VI. 96. Now when it is melted the sixt Time then it groweth somewhat harder and then the Life moveth which is risen up in the Love and stirreth it self and from this stirring existeth the Tone in the Hardnesse and the mineral Oar gets a clear sound for the Hard and dead beating or noise of the bitter fiery matter is gone away 97. In this sixth Melting I hold to be the greatest Danger for Chymists about the preparing of their Silver and Gold For there belongeth
clear Deitie though indeed it is there and in them but thou seest and comprehendest with thy Eyes First Death and then the Wrath of God and the Hellish fire 12. But if thou raisest thy Thoughts and considerest where God is then thou apprehendest the Astral Birth or Geniture where Love and Wrath move one against another but when thou drawest up the Faith in God who ruleth in holinesse in this Government or Dominion then thou breakest thorough Heaven and apprehendest or layest hold on God at his holy Heart 13. Now when this is done then thou art as the whole or totall God is who himself is Heaven Earth Stars and the Elements and hast also such a regiment or Dominion in thee and art also such a Person as the whole God in the place of this world is Now thou sayst How shall I understand this for the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Hell and of the Devill are distinct one from another and cannot be one Body Also the Earth and Stones are not God nor the Heaven Stars and Elements much lesse can a Man be God for if so he could not be rejected by God Here I will tell thee the ground of all by degrees one thing after another therefore keep the Question in Mind Of the Astral Birth or Geniture and of the Birth or Geniture of God 14. Before the Times of the created Heavens the Stars and the Elements and before the creation of Angels there was no such wrath of God no Death no Devil no Earth nor Stones neither were there any Stars but the Deitie generated it self very meekly and lovingly and formed framed and figured it self in Ideas shapes and Images which were incorporated according to the qualifying or fountain spirits in their generating wrestling and rising up and passed away again also through their wrestling and figured or framed themselves into another form or condition all according to the primacy or predominancy of each qualifying or fountain spirit as you may read before 15. But observe here rightly the earnest and severe Birth or Geniture out of which the wrath of God Hell and Death are come to be which indeed have been from Eternity in God but not accensible nor elevable 16. For the whole or Totall God standeth in seven Species or Kinds or in a sevenfold Form or Generating and if these Births or Genitures were not then there would be neither God nor Life nor Angel nor any Creature 17. And these Births or Genitures have no Begining but have so generated themselves from Eternity and as to this Depth God Himself knoweth not what He is For He knoweth no Beginning of himself also he knoweth not anything that is like Himself as also he knoweth no End of himself 18. These seven Generatings in all are none of them the first the second or the Third or Last but they are all Seven every one of them both the first second third fourth and last yet I must set them down one after another according to a creaturely way and manner otherwise thou couldst not understand it For the Deity is as a Wheel with seven wheels made one in another wherein a man seeth neither Beginning nor End Now Observe I. 19. First there is the Astringent quality which is alwaies generated from the other six Spirits which in it self is hard cold sharp like Salt and yet farre sharper For a Creature cannot sufficiently apprehend its sharpnesse seeing it is not singly and alone in a creature but according to the manner and kind of the kindled Hellish quality I know How it is This astringent sharp quality attracteth or draweth together and in the Divine Love holdeth or retaineth the forms and Images and dryeth them so that they subsist or are fixed II. 20. The Second Generating is the Sweet water which is generated also out of all the six spirits for it is the Meeknesse which is generated out of the other six and presseth it self forth in the astringent Birth or Geniture and alwaies kindleth the astringent again and then quencheth and matigateth it that it be not too much astringent as it might be in its own sharpnesse if it were not for the water III. 21. The third Generating is the Bitternesse which existeth out of the fire in the water for it rubbeth and vexeth it self in the astringent and sharp coldnesse and maketh the coldnesse moveable from whence mobility existeth IIII. 22. The Fourth Generating is the fire which existeth from the mobility or rubbing in the astringent spirit and that is now sharp burning and the bitter is stinging and raging But when the fire-spirit rubbeth it self thus ragingly in the astringent coldnesse then there is an anxious horrible quaking Trembling and sharp opposite contentious generating Observe here the Depth 23. I speak here as to the kind and manner of the Devil as if the Light of God had not yet kindled it self in these four kinds and as if the Deitie had a beginning I can no other or nearer way offer it to your Judgment that you may understand it 24. In this Fourth rubbing is a very hard and most horrible sharp and fierce coldnesse like a refined melted and very cold salt-water which yet is not water but such a hard kind of power and vertue as is like Stones 25. There is also therein a raging raving stinging and burning and that water is continually as a Dying Man when Body and Soul are parting asunder a most horrible anxiety a woful painful Birth or Geniture 26. O man here consider thy self here thou seest from whence the Devil and his fierce Wrathful Malice hath its original as also Gods Wrath and the Hellish fire also Death and Hell and eternal Damnation Ye Philosophers observe that 27. Now when these four Generatings rub themselves one upon another then heat gets the Primacy and predominancy and kindleth it self in the sweet water and then instantly the Light riseth up Understand this rightly 28. When the Light kindleth it self then the fire-terrour or crack cometh forth first as when you strike upon a Stoâ—â— the fire-crack is first and then the light first â—â—â—ceiveth it self from the fire-crack 29. Now the fire-crack in the water goeth through the astringent quality as maketh it moveable but 〈◊〉 light generateth it self in the water and becomes shining Light and is an impalpable meek and most richly loving Being which neither I nor any other Creature can sufficiently write or speak of but I stammer only like a Child which would fain learn to Speak 30. That same Light is generated in the midst or Center out of these four Species out of the unctuosity or fatnesse of the sweet water and replenisheth the whole Body of this Generating But it is such a meek pleasing well-doing well-smelling and well-tasting Relish that I know no similitude to liken it to But where Life is generated in the midst or Center of Death or as if a Man did sit in a huge scorching hot flaming fire and
were suddenly snatched out from thence and set in such a very exceeding easie place of refreshment where instantly all the smarting scalding pains which he felt afore by the burning of the Fire should suddenly passe away and he be put into such a pleasing temper and soundnesse Just so the Generating of the 4. Kinds or Species are set or put into such a soft and meek well-doing and refreshment assoon as the Light riseth up in them Thou must understand me here aright 31. I write and mean it in a creaturely kind and manner as if a Man had been the Devils Prisoner and were suddenly removed out of the Devils fire into the Light of God 32. For the Light hath had no beginning in the generating of God but hath shined or given Light so from eternity in the Generating and God himself knoweth no beginning therein 33. Only the Spirit here setteth Open for thee the Gates of Hell that thou mayst see what is the condition of the Devils and of Hell and what the condition of Man is when the divine Light extinguisheth in him so that he sitteth in the wrath of God and then he liveth in such a Generating in such an anguish Smarting Pains woe and misery 34. Neither can I declare it unto thee in any other manner for I must write so as if the Generating or Geniture of God had or took a beginning when things came to be thus but I write here very really true and Pretious dear words which the Spirit alone understandeth Now Observe The Gates of God 35. The Light which generateth it self from the Fire and becometh shining in the water and replenisheth or filleth the whole Geniture and enlightneth it and mitigateth it that is the true Heart of God or Sonne of God For he is continually generated out of the Father and is another Person then the qualities and Geniture of the Father 36. For the Generating or Geniture of the Father cannot catch or comprehend the Light and use it to its Generating but the Light standeth by it self and is not comprehended by any Geniture and it replenisheth and enlightneth the whole Geniture viz. the onely begotten Sonne of the Father John 1. 14. And this Light I call in the humane Birth or Geniture the animated or Soulish Birth understand the Image which Budded forth out of the Essences of the Soul according to the similitude of God or the Birth or Geniture which qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with this animated or soulish Birth or Geniture of God and herein is Mans soul one heart with God but that is when it standeth in this Light V. 37. The fifth Generating in God is when this Light thus very gently mildly and amiably presseth through the first four Births or Generatings and then it bringeth along with it the Heart and most pleasant lovely power and vertue of the sweet water and so when the sharp Births or Genitures taste of it then are they very meek and richly full of Love and is as if continually the life did rise up in and from Death 38. There each spirit tasteth of the other and getteth meer new strength and power for the astringent quality groweth now very pliable and yielding because it is mitigated by the power of the Light that springeth out of the sweet water for it warmeth the coldnesse and the sweet water maketh the sharp taste very pleasant lovely and mild 39. And so in the sharp and fiery Births or Generatings there is nothing but a meer longing of Love a tasting friendly affecting gratious amiable and blessed Generating there is nothing but meer Love and all wrath and Bitternesse in the Center is Bolted up as in a strong Hold. This generating is a very meek beneficiall well-doing and the bitter spirit now is the Living Mobility VI. 40. Now the Sixth Generating in God is when the Spirits in their Birth or Geniture thus taste one of another for then they become very full of Joy For the fire-flash or the sharpnesse out of or from the Birth or Geniture riseth up aloft and moveth as the Ayr in this world doth 41. For when one power or vertue toucheth the other then they taste one another and become very full of Joy for the Light becometh generated out of all the powers and presseth again through all the powers whereby and wherein the rising Joy generateth it self from whence the Tone or Tune existeth 42. For from the touching and moving the living Spirit generateth it self and that same Spirit presseth through all-Births or Generatings very unconceiveably and incomprehensibly to the Birth or Geniture and is a very richly Joyfull pleasant lovely sharpnesse like melodious sweet Musick 43. And now when the Birth generateth then it conceiveth or apprehendeth the Light and speaketh or inspireth it again into the Birth or Geniture through the moving Spirit And this moving Spirit is the Third Person in the Birth or Geniture of God and is call'd God the Holy Ghost VII 44. The seventh Generating is and keepeth its Birth or Geniture and Forming in the Holy Ghost and so when that goeth through the sharp Births or Genitures then it goeth forth with the Tone and so formeth and Imageth all manner of Figures all according to the wrestling of the sharp Births or Genitures one with another 45. For they wrestle in the Birth or Geniture continually one with another like a loving Play or Scene and according as the Birth or Geniture is with the colours and taste in the rising up so are the figures also Imaged 46. And this Birth or Geniture now is called GOD the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost and neither of them is the First and neither of them is the Last though I make a distinction and set the one after the other yet neither of them is the first or the last but they have all been from Eternity thus seated in the same Equality of Beeing 47. I must write by this way of distinction that the Reader may understand it for I cannot write meer heavenly words but must write humane words Indeed all is rightly truly and faithfully described But the Beeing of God consisteth only in Power and the Spirit only comprehendeth it and not the dead or mortal Flesh. 48. And thus thou mayst understand what manner of Being the Deitie is and how the three Persons of the Deitie are thou must not liken the Deitie to any Image for the Deity is the Birth or Geniture of all things And if there were not in the First four Species or kinds the sharp Birth or Generating then there would be no mobility neither could the Light kindle it self and generate the Life 49. But now this sharp Birth or Geniture is the original of mobility and of Life as also of the Light from whence existeth the Living and Rational spirit which distinguisheth formeth and Imageth all in this Generating 50. For the astringent cold Birth or Geniture is the beginning of all things which is astringent severe
Tree to reveal to them what the whole Tree is thereby to intimate that it is the Dawning or Morning Rednesse of the Day which God hath long ago Decreed in his Councel AMEN 93. Thus thou seest What God is and How his Love and Wrath hath been from eternity also how his Birth or Geniture is and now thou canst not say that thou art not in God or dost not live in God or that God is any strange Tâ—ing which thou canst not come at but must confesse that where thou art there is the Gate of God 94. Now if thou art holy then as to thy Soul thou art with God in Heaven but if thou arâ— wieked tâ—en as to thy Soul thou art in Hell-fire Now Observe further 95. When God created the Angels all of them were created wholly out of this Birth or Geniture of God their Body was compacted or incorporated out of Nature therein their Spirit and Light generated themselves as the Deitie generated it self And as the qualifying or fountain spirits of God alwaies took their power and strength out of or from the Body of Nature so the Angels also they took their power and strength alwaies out of or from the Nature of God 96. And as the Holy Ghost in Nature formeth and Imageth or frameth all so the spirit of the Angels also qualified or united with the Holy Ghost and did help to form frame and Image all that all might be One Heart and will and a meer delight and Joy For the Angels are the Children of the Great God which He hath generated in his Body of Nature for the multiplying of the divine Joy 97. But here thou must know that the Bodies of Angels cannot apprehend the Birth or Geniture of God neither doth their Body understand it their spirit onely understandeth it but the Body holdeth still as the Nature in God doth and lets the spirit co-work and Labour with God and Play lovingly 98. For the Angels Play before and in God as little children play before their Parents whereby the Divine Joy is increased 99. But when the mighty potent Prince and King Lucifer was created he would not do so but elevated and swelled himself and would be God alone and kindled the wrath-fire in himself and so did all his Angels also 100. But when that was done he roared with his kindled fire-spirit abroad into the Nature of God and then the whole Body in the Nature of God as far as his Kingdom and Dominion reach'd was kindled But being his light was instantly extinguish'd he could no more qualifie or unite with his Spirit in the two Births or Genitures viz. of the Sonne of God and of the Holy Spirit of God but remained standing in the sharp Birth or Geniture of God 101. For the light of God and the Spirit of God cannot comprehend the sharp Birth or Geniture and therefore they are two distinct Persons And so Lord Lucifer could no more touch see feel or taste the Heart of God and the Holy Spirit of God with his austere cold and hard fire-Birth but was Spewed out with his fire-spirit into the outermost Nature wherein he had kindled the wrath-fire 102. And that Nature is indeed the Body of God wherein the Deitie generateth it self but the Devils cannot apprehend the meek Birth of God which riseth up in the Light For their Body is dead to the Light and liveth in the outermost and austere Birth or Geniture of God wherein the Light never kindleth it self again any more 103. For their unctuousnesse or fatnesse in the sweet water is burnt up and that water is turn'd into a sowr stinck wherein the Light of God can no more kindle it self and the Light of God can no more enter into it 104. For the qualifying or fountain spirits of the Devils are shut up in the hard wrath their Bodies are a hard Death and their spirits are a fierce Sting of the wrath of God and their qualifying or fountain spirits generate themselves continually in the innermost sharpnesse according to the sharp Law of the Deitie 105. For otherwise they cannot generate themselves neither can they dye or passe away vanish and be no more but they stand in the most anguishing Birth or Geniture and there is nothing in them â—ut meer fiercenesse wrath and malice the kindled fire-source riseth from eternity to eternity and they can never touch nor see nor apprehend the Sweet and Light Birth or Geneniture of God any more Of the kindled Nature 106. But God hath therefore kindled Nature so much and so hard and did so kindle the burning in his wrath therein that he might thereby build a dwelling house for the Devils and keep them Prisoners therein in that they were the children of wrath in whom he must rule with his fierce Zeal or Jealousie and they also in the wrath of God The Four and Twentieth Chapter Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars 1. NOw when the whole Body of Nature in the Extent Space or Circumference of this world was benumm'd or deadned as in the hard Death and yet that the Life was hid therein thereupon God moved the whole Body of the Nature of this world on the Fourth Day and generated the Stars from or out of Nature out of the risen Light For the wheel of Gods Birth or Geniture moved it self again as it had done from eternity 2. Indeed it had moved on the First Day and began the Birth or Geniture in the Body of the corrupt Nature for on the first Day the life separated it selfe from the Death and on the second Day a firmament was Created between and on the third Day the Life brake forth through Death For there the light brake forth through the Darknesse and made the dead body of Nature to spring flourish and to be stirring and agile 3. For on the third Day the Body of Nature did travell so hard in anxietie till the Love fire had kindled it selfe in the Death and till the Light of life was broken forth through the congealed Body of Death and sprung up out of Death but on the third Day it stood onely in the Fire crack from whence mobility existed 4. On the fourth Day the Light rose up and made its seat in the house of death and yet Death could not nor cannot comprehend it As little as the austere Birth of God which standeth in the innermost kernel from whence life existeth can apprehend the meeknesse and the light of the meeknesse together with the Spirit in the meeknesse so little also can the dead Darknesse of this world comprehend the Light of Nature no more can the Devills neither 5. But the light shineth through Death and hath made its Royall seat in the midst or center in the House of Death and of Gods wraths and generateth to it selfe a new Body of God out of the house of wrath which subsisteth eternally in the Love of God in comprehensibly to the old kindled
and bear Heavenly fruits again 26. But the death of the Earth and the wrath therein should be Lord Lucifers eternal House after the accomplishing of the new Birth or Geniture in the mean while Lord Lucifer should lie captive in the Darknesse in the Deep above the Earth and there he is now and may very shortly expect his Portion 27. And that this New Birth or Geniture might be accomplished whether the Devil will or no the Creator hath therefore in the Body of this world generated himself as it were creaturely in his qualifying or fountain spirits and all the Stars are nothing else but Gods powers and the whole Body of this world consisteth in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits 28. But that there are so many Stars of so manifold different effects and operations it is from the Infinitenesse which is in the efficiency of the seaven spirits of God in one another which generate themselves infinitely 29. But that the Birth or the Bodys of the Starrs doe not change or alter in their seat but do as they did from eternitie it signifyeth that there shall be a constant continued Birth or Geniture whereby the benumm'd Body of the Earth should continually and constantly in one uniform operation which yet standeth in the infinitenesse be kindled againe and generate it selfe a new and so also should the House of darknesse of the Deep above the Earth whereby the new Body might continually and constantly be generated out of Death till time should be accomplished and the whole new borne Body Now thou wilt object and say Then sure the Starrs are God and they must be honoured and worshipp'd as God 30. The wise Heathen also came to this who indeed in their sharp or acute understandings far excelled our Philosophers but the right Door of knowledge hath remained yet hidden to them 13. Behold the Starrs are plainly incorporated or compacted out of or from God but thou must understand the difference between them for they are not the Heart and the meek pure Deitie which man is to honour and worship as God But they are the innermost and sharpest Birth or Geniture wherein all things stand in wrestling and fighting wherein the Heart of God alwaies generateth it self the Holy Ghost continually riseth up from the rising of the Life 32. But the sharp Birth or Geniture of the Starrs cannot apprehend the Heart of God again nor the Holy Ghost but the Light of God which riseth up in the anxiety together with the moving of the Holy Ghost remaineth free to it self as the Heart and ruleth in the mid'st or center of the Closure of the hidden Heaven which is from â—r out of the Water of Life 33. For from the Heaven the Starrs have their first kindling and are onely as an instrument which God useth to the Birth or Geniture It is Just such a Birth as is in Man the Body is even the Father of the soule and when the Body standeth in the anguishing Birth or Geniture of God as the Starrs doe and not in the fierce hellish Birth then the soul of Man qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the pure Deitie as a Member in or of his Body 35. Thus also is the Heart or Light of God alwaies generated in the Body of this world and that generated Heart is one Heart with the eternal beginning lesse infinite Heart of God which is in and above all Heavens 36. It is not only generated in and from the Starrs but in the whole Body of this world but the Starrs alwaies kindle the Body of this World that the Birth or Geniture may subsist every where But here thou must well observe this 37. The light or the Heart of God taketh not its original barely from the wild rough Starrs where indeed Love and wrath are one in another but out of or from the Seat where the meek water of Life is continually generated 38. For that water at or in the kindling of the wrath was not apprehended by Death but subsisteth from eternity to eternity and reacheth to all the Ends and Parts of or in this world and is the water of Life which breaketh through Death out of which the new Body of God in this world is built 39. But it is in the Stars as well as in all Ends corners and places but not in any place comprehensible or palpable but filleth or replenisheth all alike at once It is also in the Body of Man and he that thirsteth after this water and drinketh thereof in him the light of life kindleth it self which is the heart of God and there presently springeth forth the Holy Ghost Now thou Askest How then do the Stars subsist in Love and Wrath Answer 40. Behold the Stars are risen or proceeded out of the Kindled House of Gods wrath as the mobility or stirring of a Child in the Mothers Body or Womb in Three Months But now they have attained their kindling from the eternal benummed water of Life for that water in Nature was never dead 41. But when God moved himself in the Body of this world then on the third Day the anxiety in the birth of this world rubbed it self from whence the fire-flash existed and the light of the Stars kindled it self in the water of Life 42. For till the third Day from the time of the kindling of Gods wrath in this world Nature in the anxiety was a dark valley and stood in Death but on the third Day the life brake through Death and the New Birth began 43. For so long and not an hour longer the new born King and Grand Prince of this world JESUS CHRIST rested in Death and hath born or generated the first three Dayes of the Creation of Nature and that very Time in Death to Light again that this time might again be one Time with the Eternal Time and that no Day of Death might be between and that the Eternal Love and the new born or Regenerated Love out of the new Body of Nature might be one Eternal Love and that there might be no difference between the eternal Love and the new-born or regenerated Love but that the new-born Love might reach into the Being or Substance which was from Eternity and it self also be in Eternity 44. Thus the new-born Love which rose out of the water of Life in the light in the Stars and in the whole Body of this world is wholly bound and united with the eternal beginning lesse infinite Love so that they are one Heart and one Spirit which supporteth and preserveth all 45. In this kindling of the Light in the Stars and Elements the Birth of Nature did not thereupon wholly transmute or change it self into the holy Meeknesse as it was before the Time of the wrath so that the Birth of Nature is now altogether holy and pure No but it standeth in its sharpest austerest and most anxious Birth wherein the wrath of God uncessantly springeth up like hellish-Fire 46. For
if Nature had fully chang'd it self with its sharp Birth into Love according to the heavenly Right Law or Manner then were the Devils again in the Seat of God 47. And this thou mayst very well perceive and understand in Extream Heat and Cold as also by the Poison Bitternesse and Sowrnesse in this world all which stand in the Birth or Geniture of the Stars wherein the Devil lyeth Captive 48. The Stars are onely the kindling of the great House for the whole house is benumm'd in Death as the Earth is for the outermost Birth or Geniture is dead and benumm'd as the Rind Shell or Bark of a Tree but the Astral birth is the Body in which the Life riseth up 49. But it is in its Body very sharp yet the new Birth which riseth up in the water of Life and presseth through Death mitigateth it But it cannot alter the kernel of the sharp Birth but is generated out of it and keeps its holy new life to it self and presseth through the angry Death and the angry Death comprehendeth it not 50. Now this love and wrath is indeed one Body but the water of Life is the heaven of Partition between them so that the Love doth not receive or comprehend the Wrath nor the wrath the Love but the Love riseth up in the water of Life and receiveth into it self from the Earth and austere Birth the power which is in the Light which is generated out of the Wrath so that the New Body is born out of the Old 51. For the old Body which standeth in the austere Birth belongeth to the Devil for a House and the new belongeth to the Kingdom of Christ. Now it may be Asked Are not all the Three Persons of the Deitie in the Birth or Geniture of Meeknesse in this World Answer 52. Yes they are all three in this world in the full Birth or Geniture of Love meeknesse Holinesse and purity and they are alwaies generated in such a substance and Bâ—eing as was done from Eternity 53. Behold God the Father Spake to the People of Israel on Mount Sinai wâ—en he gave the Law to them saying I am an angry zealous or Jealous God to those that hate me Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9. 54. Now thou canst not make of this One onely Father who is both Angry and also full of Love two Persons but he is one onely Father which continually generateth his heartily beloved Sonne and from both these the Holy Ghost goeth forth continually Observe the depth in the Center 55. The Father is the One onely being who himself is ALL who continually generateth his heartily beloved Sonne from eternity and in both of them the Holy Ghost is continually standing in the Flash wherein the Life is Generated 56. But now from the austere and earnest Birth or Geniture of the qualifying or fountain spirits of the Father wherein the Zeale or Jealousy and the wrath standeth the Body of Nature alwaies cometh to be wherein the Light of the Sonne viz of the Fathers Heart standeth incomprehensibly as to Nature 57. For the light is in the Midst or Center of the Birth or Geniture and is the place of Life wherein the meek Life of God is generated from or out of all the powers of the Father and in the same place the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne 58. Now those powers of the Father which stand in the kindling of the Light are the holy Father and the meek Father and the pure Birth or Geniture of God and the Spirit which riseth therein is the holy Ghost but the sharp Birth or Geniture is the Body wherein this Holy Life is continually generated 59. But when the Light of God shineth through this sharp Birth or Geniture then it becometh very meek and is as it were like a Man that is a sleep in whom the Life still moveth and the Body is in a sweet quiet rest 60. And in this Body of nature now was the kindling made for out of this Body the Angels also were created and if they had not elevated and kindled themselves in their Highmindednesse then their Body might have stood eternally in a stillnesse and in an incomprehensible meeknesse as it is in the other Principalities of Angels that are without distinct from this world and their spirit had generated it self eternally in their Body of meeknesse as the holy Trinitie doth in the Body or Corporeity of God and their inborn or innate spirit had been one Heart one Will and one Love with or in the Holy Trinity for to that end also they were created in the Body of God to be a joy to the Deitie 61. But Lord Lucifer would himselfe be the Mighty God and kindled his Body and excited or stirred up therein the sharp Birth of God and opposed the Light or bright Heart of God intending to rule therein with his sharpnesse which was a thing impossible to be done 62. But being he elevated and kindled himself against the Right of the Deitie thereupon the sharp Birth in the Body of the Father rose up against him and took him as an angry Sonne Prisoner or Captive in the sharpest Birth and therein now is his eternall Dominion 63. But now when the Father kindled himself in the Body of the sharpnesse he did not for all that kindle the holy source wherein his most loving Heart generateth it self and so thereupon his Heart should sit in the source of wrath No! that is impossible that it should be for the sharp Birth cannot apprehend the holy and pure Birth but the holy and pure presseth quite through the sharp and generateth to it self a new Body which standeth again in meeknesse 64. And that new Body is the water of Life which is generated when the light presseth through the wrath and the holy Ghost is the Former or â—ramer therein but Heâ—ven is the Partition between love and wrath and is the seat wherein the wrath is transmuted or changed into Love 65. Now when thou beholdest the Sun and Stars thou must not think that they are the Holy and pure God and thou must not offer to pray to them or aske any thing of them for they are not the Holy God but are the kindled austere Birth or Geniture of his Body wherein Love and Wrath wrestle one with another 66. But the holy God is hidden in the Center of all these things in his Heaven and thou canst neither see nor comprehend him but the soul comprehendeth him and the Astral Birth but half for the Heaven is the Partition between Love and Wrath That Heaven is every where even in thy selfe 67. And now when thou worshippest or prayest to the Holy God in his Heaven then thou worshippest or prayest to him in that heaven which is in thee and that same God with his light and therein the holy Ghost breaketh through in thy Heart and generateth thy Soul to be a New Body of God which ruleth and
raigneth with God in his Heaven 68. For the earthly Body which thou bearest is one Body with the whole kindled Body of this world and thy body qualifyeth mixeth or uniteth with the whole body of this world and there is no difference between the Stars and the Deep as also the Earth and thy Body it is all one Body This is the only difference thy Body is a Sonne of the whole and is in it self as the whole Being it selfe is 69. And now as the new Body of this world generateth it selfe in its Heaven so the new man also generateth himselfe in his Heaven for it is all but one Heaven wherein God dwelleth and therein thy new man dwelleth and they cannot be divided asunder 70. But if thou art wicked then thy Birth or Geniture is not capable of Heaven but of the wrath and remaineth in the other part of the Astral Birth or Geniture wherein the earnest and austere fire-source riseth up and bolts it up into Death so long till thou breakest through Heaven and livest with God 71. For instead of thy heaven thou hast the wrath-Devil sitting there but if thou breakest thorough then he must get him gone and the Holy Ghost ruleth and reigneth in that Seat and in the other Part viz. the fiercenesse the Devil tempteth thee for it is his Nest and the Holy Ghost opposeth him and the new man lyeth in his own Heaven hidden under the protection of the Holy Ghosâ— and the Devil knoweth not the New man for he is not in his House but in Heaven in the Firmament of God 72. This I write as a Word which is Generated in its Heaven where the Holy Deity alwaies generateth it self and where the moving spirit riseth up in the Flash of Life even there this Word and this knowledge is generated and risen up in the Love-fire through the Zealous spirit of God 73. I know very well what the Devil intendeth for that Part of the earnest and austere Birth or Geniture wherein Love and wrath are set opposite one to another seeth into his very Heart For when he cometh with his fierce and hellish Temptation like a fawning Dogg then he setteth upon us with his wrath in that part wherein the austere Birth or Geniture standeth and therein the Heaven is set in opposition to him and there the fair Bride is known 74. For he stingeth through the Old Man with an intent to spoyl or destroy the New but when the new riseth against him then the Hell-Hound retireth and then the new Man feeleth very well what device the Hell-hound hath darted or spit into the astral Birth and then is it time to Purge and scour it out 75. But I find that the cunning'st Devill is set against me he will raise scorners and mockers who will say that I intend by mine own conceit to grope dig deep and search out the Deitie Yes Mr. Scorner thou art indeed an obedient son to the Devil thou hast great cause to mock Gods children as if I were able in mine own power to fathom the depth of the Deitie No! but the Deitie searcheth the Ground in me Or dost thou think that I am strong enough to stand against it 76. Indeed thou proud Man God is a very meek simple and quiet still Beeing and groapeth not in the Bottom of Hell and Death but in his Heaven where there is nothing but an Unanimous meeknesse therefore it is not meet for me to do so 77. But behold it is not I that have made way for this but thy desire and highly raised lofty Lust hath moved the Deitie to reveal to thee the desire of thy Heart in the highest simplicity in the greatest depth that it may be a witnesse against thee and denunciation of the earnest severe Day of God 78. This I speak to thee as a word of the earnest Severity of God which is generated or born in the Flash of Life The Five and Twentieth Chapter Of the whole Body of the Stars Birth or Geniture that is the whole Astrologie or the whole Body of this World 1. THe learned and highly experienced Masters of Astrology or the Starry Art are come so high and deep in their understanding that they know the course and Effects of the Stars what their conjunction influence and breaking through of their powers and vertues denoteth and produceth and How thereby wind rain snow and heat is caused also Good and Evill Prosperity and Adversity Life and Death and all the drivings and agitations in this world 2. And indeed it hath a true foundation which I know in the spirit to be so but their knowledge standeth onely in the House of Death in the outward comprehensibility or palpability and in the beholding with the Eyes of the Body but the root of this Tree hath hitherto remained hidden to them 3. Neither is it my purpose to write of the Branches of the Tree and to invert or disprove their knowledge neither do I build upon their Ground but I leave their knowledge to sit in its own seat being I have not studyed it but I write in the spirit of my knowledge concerning the root stock Branches and Fruits of the Tree as an industrious and laborious Servant to his Master in discovering the whole Tree of this world 4. Not with an intent to set any new thing on foote for I have no command to do so but my knowledge standeth in this Birth or Geniture of the Stars in the Midst or Center where the Life is generated and breaketh through Death and where the moving spirit existeth and breaketh thorough and in the impulse and moving thereof I also write 5. Also I know very well that the Children of the flesh will scorne and mock at me and say I should look to my own Calling and not trouble my Head about these things but rather be diligent to bring in food for me and my familie and let those meddle with Philosophy that have studyed it and are called and appointed to it 6. With such an attempt the Devill hath given me so many assaults and hath so wearyed me that I have often resolved to let it alone but my former purpose was too hard for me For when I took care for the Belly and to get my Living and resolved to give over this businesse in hand then the Gate of Heaven in my knowledge was bolted up 7. And then my soul was so afflicted in anxiety as if it were captivated by the Devill whereby reason gat so many checks and assaults as if the Body were presently to fall to the ground and the spirit would not give over till it brake thorough againe through the Dead or Mortall Reason and so hath broke open to peeces the Door of darknesse and hath gotten its seat again in the stead thereof 8. Whereby I understand that the spirit must be tryed through the Crosse Affliction and I have not failed of bodily Temptation but was faine alwayes to
stand ready for an encounter so much hath the Devill set himself against this 9. But when I perceived that my Eternal Salvation was concerned therein and that through my negligence the Gates of the Light would be shut against mee which yet was the very Firmament and Fort of my Heaven wherein my soul did hide it self from the storms of the Devill which I took in and gained with great toyle and many hard assaults and stormings through the Love of God by the breaking through of my Redeemer and King JESVS CHRIST and therefore I leave my care to God and will take my fleshly Reason Captive 10. And I have chosen the Gate of knowledge of the Light and will follow after the impulse and knowledge of the spirit though my bestial Body should be brought to beggery or quite fall to the ground I regard none of these things but will say with the royal prophet David Psa. 73. 26. though my Body and Soul should faint and faile yet thou O God art my Salvation my comfort and the refuge of my Heart 11. In thy Name I will venture it and will not strive against thy Spirit though the flesh be troubled and must endure miserie yet faith in the knowledge of the Light must move and soare above Reason 12. And I know also very well that it is not fit for the disciple to fight against his Master and I know that the high experienced Masters of Astrologie do far exceed me in their way But I labour in my calling and they in theirs lest I should be found a Lazy Idle Servant to my Lord at his coming when he shall demand the Talent he hath entrusted me withall but that I may present into him with usury or profit and gaine 13. Therefore I will not bury his Talent in the Earth but lend it out upon usury or interest lest he should say to me at that time of his requiring it of me Thou wicked sloathfull Servant why hast thou hid my Talent in the Darknesse and did'st not put it out upon use and so now I might have received it with usury gain and profit and so then he will take it quite away from me and give it to another who hath gained many Talents with his one Therefore I will sow let him water it I leave the care to him Now Observe 14. The whole House of this World which standeth in a visible and comprehensible or Palpable being is the old House of God or the Old Body which stood before the time of wrath in a Heavenly claritie and brightnesse But when the Devill stirred up the wrath therein then it became a House of darknesse and of Death 25. Therefore then also the holy Birth or Geniture of God as a special Body of it selfe separated it self from the wrath and made the Firmament of Heaven between the Love and the Wrath so that the Birth or Geniture of the Stars standeth in the middle understand it thus viz with its outward comprehensibility and visibility it standeth in the wrath of Death and with the New Birth rising up therein which standeth in the middle or central seate where the closure of Heaven is it standeth in the meeknesse of the Life 16. For Meeknesse moveth against the wrath and the wrath against the Meeknesse and so both are distinct Kingdoms in the one onely Body of this World 17. But being the Love and Meeknesse of God would not leave the Body or place of this kindled wrath world sticking in eternal wrath and ignominie therefore he generated the whole old Body of this world againe into a rectified reformed Body wherein life did rule in a divine manner and way though in the kindled wrath yet it must subsist according to the Right of the Deitie that out of it a New Body might be generated which should subsist in holinesse and purity in Eternity 18. For which cause there is appointed in God a Day of separation on which Life and Wrath shall be separated asunder 19. Now when thou beholdest the Stars and the Deep together with the Earth then thou seest with thy bodily Eyes nothing else but the old Body in the wrathfull Death thou canst not see Heaven with thy Bodily Eyes for the Blew or Azure Sphere which thou seest aloff is not the Heaven but is only the old Body which may be justly called the corrupted Nature 20. But that there seemeth to be a Blew or Azure Sphere above the Stars whereby the place of this world is closed and shut out from the holy Heaven as Men have thought hitherto yet it is not so but it is the superiour water of Nature which is much brighter then the water below the Moon And now when the Sun shineth through the Deepe then it is as it were of a Light-Blew or Azure colour 21. But how deepe or how large the place of this world is no Man knoweth though some Natural Phylosophers Mathematicians Astronomers or Astrologers have undertaken to measure the Deepe with their Measures of Circles their measuring is but conjecturall or a measuring of somwhat that is comprehensible or Palpable as if a Man would grasp the wind in his Fist. 22. But the true Heaven is every where all over to this very time and till the last Judgment Day and the Wrath House of Hell and of Death is also in this world every where even to the last Judgment day 23. But the dwelling of the Devills is now from the Moon to the Earth and in the deep Caves and Holes thereof especially in Wildernesses and Desart Places and where the Earth is full of Stones and Bitternesse 24. But their Kingly Regiment or Government is in the Deep in the four Coasts or Quarters of the Equinoctial Line or Circle of which I will write in another place 25. But here I will shew thee 1o. How the Body of this World came to be and 2o. How it is at present and then 3º how the Regiment or Government therein is 26. The whole Body of this world is as a Mans Body for it is surrounded in its utmost Circle with the Stars and arisen powers of Nature and in that Body the seaven spirits of Nature Governe and the Heart of Nature standeth in the Midst or Center 27. But the Stars in generall are and signifie the wonderfull proportion or changing variety of God For when God Created the Stars he created them out of the rising up of the infinity out of the Old-Body of God then further kindled 28. For as the seaven spirits of God had before the time of the wrath generated themselves infinitely by their rising up and Effectings whence rose up so many several varieties of figures and Heavenly Ideas or vegetations So also the Holy God formed his old body of this corrupted Nature into as many and various powers as ever stood in the Birth or Geniture in the Holynesse Understand this high thing rightly 29. Every Star hath a several peculiar propertie which thou maist
qualitie manner forme also every Life be it good or bad taketh its original thus 51. For this is the Right or Law of the Deitie that every Life in the body of God should generate it selfe in one manner or uniforme way though it be done through many various Imagings yet the Life hath one uniform way and Original in all 52. I see not this knowledge with my fleshly Eyes but with those Eyes wherein life generateth it self in me in that seat the Gates of Heaven and Hell stand open to me and the new Man Speculateth into the midst or center of the Astral Birth or Geniture and to him the inner and outermost Gate standeth Open. 53. While he yet sticketh in the Old Man of Wrath and Death and sitteth also in his Heaven he seeth through both in such a manner also he seeth the Stars and Elements For in God there is no place of hinderance for the Eye of the LORD beholdeth all 54. Now if my spirit did not see thorough his spirit then I were but a blind Stock but being I see the Gates of God in my spirit and have the impulse to do it I will therefore write directly according as I have seen it and will not regard any Mans Authority 55. Thou must not conceive it so as if my Old man were a living Saint or Angel No friend He sitteth with all Men in the house of Wrath and of Death and is a constant Enemy to God and sticketh in his Sins Wickednesse and Malice as all Men do and is full of faults defects and Infirmities 56. But thou must know this that he sticketh in a continual anxious Birth or Geniture and would fain be rid of the wrath and wickednesse and yet cannot For he is as the whole house of this world wherein alwayes love and wrath wrestle one with another and the new Body alwaies generateth it self in the midst or center of the anguish For so it must be if thou wilt be born anew otherwise no man can reach the Regeneration 57. Man is alwaies seeking here for soft Dayes of Ease for the Flesh and after Riches beauty and Bravery and knoweth not that he sitteth therewith in the chamber of Death where the Sting of wrath darteth into Him 58. Behold I tell this to thee as a word of Life which I receive in the knowledge of the Spirit in the midst or center in the Birth or Geniture of the new Body of this World over which the Man JESUS CHRIST is Ruler and King together with his Eternall Father 59. Also I receive it from before the Seat of his Throne where all Holy Soules of men stand before him and rejoyce before him That the Desire of the flesh in soft pleasingnesse to be Rich to be Handsom Beautiful Fair or to be Mighty or Potent is a very Bath or Lake of hellish Wrath into which thou crowdest and runnest as if thou wert drawn in with Cartropes for there is very great danger therein 60. But if thou wouldst know how it is behold I will tell thee in a Parable or similitude When thou art pressed according to the desire of thy Heart into Riches and Power then is it with thee as if thou stoodst in a deep water where the water alwaies standeth up to thy very mouth and thou feelest no ground under thy Feet but thou swimmest with thy Hands and struggling waverest thy self suddenly thou art deep in water suddenly above water again yet alway in a great Terrour and danger Expecting to sinck down to the bottom the water coming often into thy Mouth alwaies expecting Death by being Drowned 61. Just in this manner thou sittest and no other when thou art in the pleasures of the flesh if thou wilt not Fight thou canst not look for any Victory but thou wilt be murthered in thy soft Bed of Down For man hath a continual Hoast or Army before him which fighteth with him continually if he will not defend himself then he is taken captive and slain 62. But how can he defend himself that swimmeth in a Deep water he hath enough to do to keep himself up struggling and wavering in the water and yet neverthelesse he is there also assaulted and stormed by the Devils 63. O Danger upon Danger as our King Christ also saith It is very hard for a Rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven a Camel will easier go through the Eye of a Needle then a Rich man enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Math. 19. 24. Mark 10. 25. 64. But if any will bee new born again he must not yeeld himself to be a servant to Cove toufnesse Pride State and self-power to take delight in the will or desires of his Flesh but he must struggle and fight against himself against the Devill and against all the Lusts of the Flesh and he must think and consider that he is but a Servant and Pilgrim on Earth which must wander through many miserable Seas of danger into another world and there he will be a LORD and his dominion will consist in power and perfect delight beauty and brightnesse this I tell as the word of the Spirit Now Observe 65. The SUN hath its own Royall place to it self and doth not goe away from that place where it came to be at the first as some suppose that it runeth round about the Globe of the Earth in a Day a Night and some of the Astrologers also write so and some have undertaken to measure how far its Orb and Circumference of its supposed Motion is 66. This opinion or supposition is not right but the Earth roueth it selfe about and runneth with the other Planets as in a wheele round about the Sun The Earth doth not remaine staying in one Place but runneth round in a yeare once about the Sun as the other Planets next the Sun but Saturne and Jupiter as also Mars by reason of their great Orb circumference and great height cannot do it because they stand so high above and far distant from the SUN How it may be asked what is the SUN and what are the other PLANETS or how are they come to be 67. Behold the other Planets are peculiar Bodys of their own which have a corporeal proprietie of themselves and are not bound to any setled or fixed place but only to their Circle Orb or Sphere wherein they runne their course But the SUN is not such a Body but is only a place or Locality kindled by the Light of God Understand it aright 68. The place where the SUN is is such a place as you may choose or suppose any where above the Earth and if God should kindle the Light by the Heat then the whole world would be such a meer SUN for that same power wherein the Sun standeth is every where all over and before the time of wrath it was every where all over in the place of this world as Light as the Sun is now but
is generated in the hidden Heaven in the water of Life 114. The outward Jupiter is onely the Meeknesse and understanding in the outward comprehensibilitie or palpable things but the holy fountain or well-spring is incomprehensible and unsearchable or unfathomable to outward Reason For the Astral Birthor Geniture standeth with the Roote in the holy Heaven and with the Corporeity in the wrath The Six and Twentieth Chapter Of the Planet Saturnus 1. SAturn that cold sharp austere and astringent Regent takes its beginning and Original not from the Sun for it hath in its Power the chamber of Death and is a dryer up of all powers from whence Corporeity existeth 2. For as the Sun is the Heart of the Life and an original of all spirits in the Body of this world so Saturn is a beginner of all corporeity and comprehensibilitie or palpability and in the power of these two Planets standeth the whole Body of this world and there cannot be any Creature or imaging nor any mobilitie without the power of these two in the natural Body of this world 3. But Saturnes original is the earnest astringent and austere anxietie of the whole Body of this world for as in the time of the kindling of the wrath the Light in the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world was extinct which Birth or Geniture is the Nature or comprehensibilitie or the rising up of the Birth of all qualifying or fountain spirits so also the astringent qualitie stood in its sharpnesse and severest Birth or Geniture and attracted or contracted most strongly and eagerly the whole work or effect of the qualifying or fountain spirits 4. From whence then the Earth and Stones came to be and were very rightly the House of Death or the enclosing or shutting up of the Life wherein King Lucifer was captivated 5. But when on the first day the Light somwhat brake forth again through the word or Heart of God in the Root of the Nature or Body of this world as a choosing or appropriating of the Day or beginning of the mobilitie of Life then the severe and astringent Birth or Geniture obtained againe a glimpse or rising up of the life in the Birth or Geniture 6. And from that time it stood as it were in an anxious Death till after the third Day when the Love of God press'd through the Heaven of the Partition and kindled the Light of the Sun 7. But being the Heart or power of the Sun could not open the anxious Birth or qualitie of fiercenesse and wrath and temper the same especially aloft in that height above Jupiter thereupon that whole circumferenâ—e or sphere stood in a Horrible anxietie just as a woman in travel and yet could not awaken or raise the Heat because of the horrible coldnesse and astringency 8. But being the mobilitie neverthelesse was risen up through the power of the hidden Heaven therefore nature could not rest but was in anguish to the Birth and generated out of or from the Spirit of sharpnesse an astringent cold and austere Sun or Starre which is Saturne 9. For the Spirit of Heat could not kindle it selfe from whence the Light existeth and out of or from the Light through the water the Love and meeknesse exist but it was a Birth or Geniture of an austere cold and severe fiercenesse which is a dryer spoyler and enemie of meeknesse which in the Creatures generateth the Hard Bones 10. But Saturne was not bound to its place as the Sun is for it is not a Corporeal place or space in the roome of the Deepe but Saturne is a sonne which is born or generated out of the Chamber of Death out of the kindled hard and cold anxietie and is only one of the House-hold or family in that space or roome in which it hath its Course and Revolution For it hath its corporeall proprietie to it selfe as a Child when it is born or generated from the Mother Saturne indeed was Created together with the wheele when the FIAT Created the wheele but it doth not goe forth or proceed from Sol. 11. But why it did rise up thus from God out of the austere Birth and what its Office is I will mention hereafter concerning the driving about or revolutions of the Planets 12. But its height or distance cannot be exactly known But I am fully perswaded that it is in the midst in the deepe between Jupiter and the general Sphere of the fixed Stars or constellations for it is the Heart of the Corporeity in Nature 13. For as the Sun is the Heart of Life and a cause of the spirits of Nature so Saturne is the Heart and the cause of all Bodies Imagings formings and framings in the Earth and upon the Earth as also in the whole Body of this world 14. And as in Man the Skull is a contayner or incloser of the Brayne wherein the Thoughts are generated So the Saturnine power is an environer dryer and contayner of all Corporeity and comprehensibilitie or Palpability 15. And as the Planet Jupiter which is an unshutter and Generator of meeknesse and is betweene the fierce Mars and the austere Saturne and generateth the Meeknesse and wisdom in the Creatures so the Life and the Senses of all Creatures are genenerated between these two qualities especially the new Body of this world as also the new Man of which thou wilt finde more concerning the description of Man Of the Planet Venus 16. Venus that gracious amiable and blessed Planet or the kindler of Love in Nature hath its original and descent or proceeding from the Springing up of the Sun also but its condition qualitie being and proceeding or descent is thus Here observe this rightly and exactly 17. When the Love of God kindled the place of the Sun or the SUN then there sprung up first out of the anxietie out of the Place of the Sun out of the seaven qualifying or fountain spirits of Nature the terrible fierce bitter fire-crak whose Birth and principal or first original is the kindled bitter wrath of God in the astringent qualitie through the water 18. And that sprung up first in the kindling of the Sun out of the Chamber of Death and was an awakener or rouser of Death and a beginner of life and climed up aloft very fiercely and trembling till the Light of the Sun layd hold on it and affected or possessed it and there it was caught or captivated by the meeknesse of the Light and stayed from which the Planet Mars came to be 19. After that fire-crack the power of the light which at the beginning had generated it selfe out of the unctuositie or fatnesse of the water behind the fire crack instantly shot forth after it like a mighty potencie or power and took the fierce Fire-crack captive and highly elevated it selfe aloft beyond it as a Prince and subduer of the fiercenesse from whence now existed the sensibilitie of Nature or the Planet Jupiter The Gate
of Love 20. But when the two spirits of the mobilitie and of the Life were risen up out of the Place of the Sun through the kindling of the water then the meeknesse as a seed of the water pressed downward in the Chamber of Death with the power of Light with a very gentle and freindly affection or influence from whence existed the Love of Life or the Planet Venus But thou must here understand this high thing 21. The Birth or the rising or springing up of the seaven Planets and of all the Stars is no otherwise then as the Life and wonderfull proportion variety and harmonie of the Deitie hath generated it selfe from Eternitie 22. For when King Lucifer had caused this place of the world to be appointed as a House of wrath for him supposed thus fiercely powerfully to Rule thereâ—n then presently the Light in Nature went out wherin he supposed to be the Lord the whole Nature was benumm'd and congealed as a Body of Death wherein was no mobilitie and he must remaine there in darknesse as an Eternall Captive Prisoner 23. But now the Holy God would not let this place of his Body understand the space or roome of this World stand in eternal darknesse and ignominie and leave it to the Devills for their proper own but generated a new Regiment or dominion of Light and of all the seaven qualifying or fountain spirits of the Deitie which the Devill could neither apprehend nor lay hold on or touch neither was it usefull or profitable to him at all 24. For he can no more see in the Light of the Sun but in the darknesse for he is not become a Creature in this Light and therefore it is not profitable or usefull to him 25. But being there must be a new Government or dominion it must needs be such a one as the Devil could lay no hold on or touch or that he could make no 〈◊〉 as his corporeall proper owne Now that is thus constituted 26. The Love or word or Heart that is the innate or onely begotten Sonne of the Father who is the Light and meeknesse and the Love and Joy of the Deitie As He hin selfe say'd when he assumed the humanitie I am the Light of the World John 8. 12 He took the place of this world by the Heart and sate in the mid'st or center of this space or roome in that place where the mighty Prince and King Lucifer did sit before his fall and there he was new Borne to be a Creature 27. And so out of this kindled place of the Sun there existed and were chiefly generated six sorts of qualities all according to the right Law or Order of the divine Birth or Geniture 28. 1º First there arose the fire-crack or the mobility in the Heate that is the beginning of Life in the Chamber of Death 2º After this secondly the Light in the unctuositie or fattness of the water became shining in the Heat and that is now the Sun 3º And thirdly when now the Light of the Sun had affected or possessed the whole Body of the Sun then the power of Life which rose up out of the first affecting or possessing ascended as when wood is kindled or when fire is struck out of a Stone 29. Then first is discerned the Glance or splendor and out of the splendor the fire-crack and after the fire-crack the power of the kindled Body and the Light with the power of the Body elevateth it self instantly above the crack and ruleth or reigneth much higher deeper and more powerfully then the fire-crack 30. Also the power of the kindled Body in the outgone power without and beyond the fire qualifieth mixeth or uniteth gently pleasantly and very sensibly and herein rightly is understood the Divine Being 31. In the same manner also is the existency of the Sun and of the two Planets Mars and Jupiter 32. But being the Place of the Sun that is the SUN it selfe contained all qualities according to the Right of the Deitie as also all other places had thereupon instantly in the first kindling all the qualities went upward and downward and generated themselves according to the eternall beginning lesse infinite Law and Right 33. For the power of the Light which did mitigate the astringent and bitter qualitie in the place of the Sun and made it thinne like water or the Love of Life that went downwards according to the Nature of Humilitie 34. Out of this the Planet Venus existed for in the House of Death it is an opner of meeknesse or a kindler of the water and a soft penetrater into the hardnesse a kindler of the Love in which the upper Regiment or Dominion as the bitter Heat is desirous or longing after Mars and the heartie sensibilitie is desirous or longing after Jupiter 35. From whence the affections or insinuations exist for the power of Venus maketh fierce Mars or the fire-crack mild and mitigateth it and maketh Jupiter humble else the power of Jupiter would break through the hard Chamber Saturne and in Men and Beasts through the Scul or Brain-pan and so the sensibilitie would transmute it self into high-mindednesse above the Birth-Right or right Law or order of the Geniture of the Deitie in the manner and way of the proud Devill Of the Planet Mercurius 36. If we would exactly and fundamentally know how the Birth or beginning is of the Planets and Stars and of the Being of all Beings in the deepe of this world we must accurately consider the instant or innate Birth or beginning of Life in Man 37. For that taketh such a beginning and rising and standeth also in such an Order as the Birth or Geniture of the Being of all Beings in the Body of this World doth 38. For the instant or innate wheele of the Stars and Planets is no otherwise then as the Birth of the seaventh spirit of Nature before the time of the world rose up wherein were formed images and figures formes shapes or Ideas as also heavenly fruits according to the eternal right Law or Order of the Deitie 39. And in that Man is created according to the qualifying or fountain spirits of God and also out of the divine Being therefore mans Life hath such a beginning and rising up as that of the Planets and Stars was 40. For the beginning instant or innate State and Being of the Planets and Stars is no other then the beginning and impulse or government and Dominion in Man 41. And now as the humane Life riseth up so hath also the Birth of the seaven Planets and Stars risen or sprung up and therein there is no difference at all The Center or Circle of the Birth of Life The great depth 42. The spirit citeth the Physitians to come before this Looking-glasse especially Anatomists and dissectors of Men who by their Anatomy would learne the Birth and rising or springing up of Mans Life and have murthered many innocent men against