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A28534	Signatura rerum, or, The signature of all things shewing the sign and signification of the severall forms and shapes in the creation, and what the beginning, ruin, and cure of every thing is ... / written in High Dutch, MDCXXII, by Jacob Behmen, aliàs Teutonicus Phylosophus.; De signatura rerum. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Ellistone, John, d. 1652.	1651 (1651)	Wing B3419; ESTC R19165	213,124	234

the Devil Behold I pray the right Cure wherewith the enkindled Mercury in Mans life is to be remedied it must be a Mercury again but first enkindled in Venus and Jupiter it must have the Suns property which it attains unto by Jupiter and Venus As God dealeth with us poor men so must the outward poysonful sick Mercury be Tinctured with such an external Cure not with the dark Impression of Saturn with Cold unless it be first sweetly appeased and qualified with Jupiter and Venus that the Sun doth again shine in Saturn but with meek Love this is his right Physick whereby the Death is changed into Life yet this is only a common manual Cure which the Vulgar may learn 9. But it behoveth the Doctor if he will be called a Doctor to study the whole Process how God hath restored the universal in Man which is fully clear and manifest in the Person of Christ from his Entrance into the Humanity even to his Ascention and Sending of the Holy Ghost 10. Let him follow this entire Process and then he may find the Universal provided he born again of God but the selfish pleasure worldly glory covetousness and pride doth lie in the way Dear Doctors I must tell you the Coals are too black ye defile your white hands therewith the true unfeighned self-denying Humility before God and man doth not relish with you Therefore ye are blind I do not tell you this but the Spirit of Wonders in its manifestation 11. But we will give Direction unto the desirous Seeker who would fain see if he knew the way fitly to attain his intent for the time is at hand where Moses is called from the Sheep to be a Shepherd of the Lord which shall shortly be manifest maugre all the raging and raving of the Devil Let not the dear and worthy Christendom think being now it doth seem as if she should go to wrack and ruine that it is utterly undone No The Spirit of the Lord of Hoasts hath out of his Love planted a new branch in the humane Property which shall root out the thorns of the Devil and make known his Child Jesus to all Nations Tongues and Speeches and that in the Morning of the Eternal Day 12. Dear Brethren behold I pray the right Cure what did God with us when we lay sick in Death did he quite cast away the created Image understand the outward Part viz. the outward Corrupt Man and make wholly another new Man No he did it not although he introduced Divine Property into Out Humanity yet he did not therefore cast away our Humanity but brought it into the way or Process to the New-birth 13. What did he He suffered the outward Humanity viz. the outward Water understand the Essentiality of Venus which was shut up in the Wrath of Death to be baptized with the Water of the Eternal Essence and with the Holy Ghost that the Incentive of the outward Essentiality shut up in Death might again glow as a fire that falleth into Tinder Afterward he withdrew his outward food from the outward Body and brought it into the Desart and let it hunger and then the Spark enkindled from the Fire of God must Imagine into God and eat Manna of divine Essentiality forty days of which Israel was a Type in the Wilderness Sinai with their Manna The Essence of Eternity must overcome the Essence of Time therefore it is called a Temptation of the Devil for the Devil as a Prince in the Wrath of God did there tempt the outward Humanity and did represent all that unto it wherein Adam fell and became disobedient unto God 14. There now it was tryed whether the Image of God would stand being internally there was Gods Love-fire and externally the Baptism of the Water of Eternal Life Here the Soul was tempted whether it would be a King and an Angelical Throne in the stead of the fallen Angel and possess the Elected Throne of God in the Royal Office from which Lucifer was taken and thrust into the Darkness viz. into the Throne of Poyson and Death but seeing he did stand in that the Soul did resign and submit its Will alone into Gods Love-fire and desired no earthly food nor the earthly Kingdom Good and Evil for outward Dominion the Process to the Universal viz. to the Restoration of all that which Adam had lost did further proceed and go on He turned Water into Wine 15. Ye Physicians observe this it concerns you in your Process you must also go the same way to work He healed the sick so you must likewise make the Form in your poysonful Mercury whole and sound by the Power of the Philosophical Baptism He made the dead alive again the dumb to speak the deaf to hear the blind to see and cleansed the Lepers all this must go before that all the Forms in Mercury may be pure sound and living which Mercury himself doth make after the Baptism and Temptation as the living speaking Mercury did this in the Person of Christ the Artist cannot do it only there must be Faith for Christ also Testifieth that he could not do many Wonders at Capernaum save heal a few diseased for the Faith of the Capernaitans would not enter into the Divine Mercury of Christ. 16. So that we see there that the Person of Christ viz. the Creature could not work the Wonders in its own Power but the Mercury viz. the living speaking Word in him for the Person did cry and call into God viz. into the speaking Word and set its Desire thereinto as we may see in the Mount of Olives where he prayed that he did sweat drops of blood and by Lazarus when he would raise him up he said Father hear me but I know that thou always bearest me yet because of those that stand by I say it that they may beleeve that thou workest by me 17. Thus the Artist must not arrogate any thing unto himself the Mercury doth it self after the Philosophical Baptism work these Wonders before it doth manifest the Universal for all the seven Forms of Nature must be Crystalized and purified if the Universal shall be revealed and each Form carrieth a peculiar Process when it is to be brought out of the property of the Wrath and entered into the pure and clear Life and transmute it self into the Crystalline Sea which standeth before the Throne of the Ancient in the Revelation and change it self into Paradise for the Universal is Paradisical and Christ also came therefore into our Humanity that he might again open or make manifest the Universal viz the Paradise again in Man the Speaking Word in Christ wrought Wonders through all the seven Properties or Forms through the Expressed Word in the Humanity before the whole Universal was manifest in the Corps of the humane Property and the Body glorified 18. Even thus it is in the Philosophical Work when the Mercury shut up in Death receiveth into it the Baptism of

one from another to the lowermost In every external thing there are two Properties one from Time the other from Eternity the first property of Time is manifest and the other is hidden yet it setteth forth a likeness after it self in each thing 19. Whatsoever hath its beginning out of the Lubet of the Liberty standeth with the Root in an Heavenly Property and with the Body in an earthly but the Eternal standeth in Time and manifesteth it self with Time 20. Sulphur is on one part in the Internal Heavenly and as to the Body earthly yet putteth forth an Heavenly likeness according to the Eternal out of it self which is fixed and stedfast as is to be seen in Gold and is much more to be understood in the Humane Body if it were not corrupted in the Desire in Mercury for the spiritual or heavenly Man consists in Sulphur and in Mercury the Corporeal viz. the Similitude of the divine Man so also the Metalline Property in Sulphur is the noblest most excellent and highest for it is the highest Spirit 21. Understand it thus in the Heavenly Being there is also a property of a Sude when the Liberty is apprehended and enkindled in the highest Desire wherein the Joyfulness ariseth this is effected in the Heavenly Sulphur where it is made essential in the Heavenly Mercury viz. in the Eternal Word which is a spiritual Essence 22. But if the same Spirituality longeth to manifest it self in a likeness both according to the Property of the Spirit and the Essentiality too according to the Trinity of the Deity according to the Mortal and Immortal Essence then that Image is represented in the Stars and Elements and lastly it is set forth in Man who is a lively Image of the whole Essence according to the divine and outward World also the inward and outward World is represented with the Metals in a mortal Image as a Resemblance and Similitude of the living Heavenly Essentiality 23. The beginning is in Sulphur for Sul is the Lubet of the Light or the Liberty which longeth to manifestation and it cannot otherwise be effected save through Fire in Phur ariseth the Desire viz. an Austere Attraction which maketh the dark earthly Property and the Austereness of the Spirit viz. the fiery Essence In this Austereness ariseth Saturn which is the thing Impressed and Mercury is the desire of the Hunger and the Rager Raver and Breaker and Mars is the wrath in the Hunger a cause of Anger these three are the Property of Phur viz. of the free Lubets-desire 24. The free Lubets Property begetteth the Essence in the three fore-mentioned Forms viz. in Saturn Mercury and Mars for it giveth it self in to each Property and the Property in the Hunger of Mercury maketh it a Corporeal Form but if the free Lubet turneth also to an Hunger in the Austere desiring then it maketh also three Forms according to it self viz. Jupiter who is the understanding of the Lubet and Venus which is the desire of the Lubet and Luna which is the body of the Lubet and according to the Property of the Light it maketh Sol all this is Spirit but now in every Spirits Hunger there is also an Essence both according to the mortal and immortal Ens a fixt and unfixt a Figure according to the Heavenly and a Figure according to the Earthly Being or Property 25. In the Saturnine Property the desire of the free Lubet maketh according to Saturns own Property Lead and according to the watry Property in Saturn Salt and according to the mortal and earthly Property in Saturn Stones and Earth and all whatsoever is of that Sort and Semblance 26. But according to the Liberty or according to the Free Desires own property in that it yieldeth up it self to Saturn viz. to the Desire it maketh in Saturn Gold according to the desire of the Light where the Spirit and Body do sever the Spirit of its Desire is Sol and the Body is Gold understand the golden Body is in Saturn according to the property of the free Desire and not according to Saturns property his property in himself is Lead Salt and Earth but he keepeth the golden Child shut up in Himself as a black Raven not in his gray form but in a darkish glee He is a great Lord but his Dominion by reason of the golden Child which he hath in his bowels standeth not in his own Power He is not Father of the Child but Mercury is he which formeth the Child but he puts his morning Mantle upon it that he can have no joy with the golden Child but he Corporizeth the fair Child for he is its Fiat or Creator and doth hide and cover it close under his Mantle He cannot give it the Body from his own property for it understand the golden Body is the Essence of the free Desire in the highest degree of Corporality in the fix'd Death where yet there is no Death but an Enclosing and in the Similitude a Representation of the divine Heavenly Essentiality 27. Mercurius is the Master-workman of this Child which Saturn hideth when he getteth it into his Hunger he casteth off his black Cloke and rejoyceth in it but he is too malignant in his Fire-wrath he devoureth the Child and turns it wholly to his own property when he is most sharply hungry in the Fire then Sol must be given him it is his wife that his Hunger may be appeased and then when he is satisfied he laboreth in the Materia of the Child with his own Hunger or Fire and filleth up his sufficed Desire out of Sols property which he before had eaten down and nourisheth the Child till it getteth upon it all the four Elements with the Constellation and he grows exceeding pregnant with the Child and then it belongeth or is fit unto a strange Fire and yet not strange unto an Earnest Fire and then the Father giveth it the Soul viz. the Fire-spirit and its first Mother which Mercury did eat down in its Hunger which was fixt and perfect giveth the Souls-spirit viz. the Light-life even then the Death ariseth and the Child is born and becomes afterward its own and a Child of the Liberty and careth no more for its Work-master it is better then its Father but not better then its Mother in whose feed it say before the Father wrought in it it bruiseth the Head of its Fathers fiery Essence viz. of the Serpent and passeth freely through death in the Fire dost thou understand nothing here then thou art not born unto the highest knowledg of the Spargirical Science 28. Further we are to consider of the Degrees what the Liberty viz. the Eternal Lubet giveth to the Hunger of the other Forms in Sulphur in the property of the other Planets the Form of the Birth is as a Turning Wheel which Mercury causeth in the Sulphur 29. The Birth of the highest Degree

and melted yet a man shall have nothing save a contemptible matter devoyd of any form of Vertue until the Artist taketh it in hand and useth the right Process about it and then it is manifest what was therein 44. So likewise God dwelleth in all things and the thing knoweth nothing of God he likewise is not manifest to the thing and yet it receiveth Power from him but it receiveth the Power according to its property from him either from his Love or from his Wrath and from which it receiveth so it hath its Signature externally and the Good is also in it but as it were wholly shut up or hidden to the Iniquity or Evil an example whereof you have on Bushes and other thorny and pricking Bryars out of which notwithstanding a fair well smelling Blossom groweth and there lie two Properties therein viz. a pleasant and unpleasant which overcometh that shapeth formeth or marketh the fruit 45. Thus also it is with man he was created a fair Blossom and Fruit of Paradise but the Devil raised up in him his thorny property by the Serpent understand the Centre the property of the wrathful Nature which in his Paradisical Source was not manifest in him but when his Hunger entered into the thorny false property of the Serpent viz into Death then the property of Death and the false Serpent in the Devils Desire pressed into his Hunger and filled Soul and Body so that the Hunger of the false Serpent began effectually to work in him and Death awaked in him and then Paradise hid it self in him for Paradise entered into it self and the poyson of the Serpent in Deaths property dwelt also in it self here was now the Enmity then said God to him The seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpeats head and thou shalt sting the Heel with Deaths poyson 46. Understand the Paradisical Image shut up and captivated in the wrathful Death in which the Word of the Deity viz. the divine Mercury ruled and wrought did disappear as the Gold is disappeared in Saturn so that nothing is seen but a contemptible matter until the right Artist sets upon it and again awaken the Mercury in the enclosed Gold and then the dead enclosed Body of the Gold doth again revive in Saturn for Mercury is its Life who must be introduced into it again and then the dead Body of the Gold appeareth and overcometh the gross Saturn wherein it lay shut up and changeth its mean contemptible old Body into a fair glorious golden Body 47. Thus likewise it is with Man He lieth now shut up after his Fall in a gross deformed beastial dead Image He is not like an Angel much less like unto Paradise He is as the gross Oar in Saturn wherein the Gold is coucht and shut up His Paradisical Image is in him as if it were not and it is also not manifest the outward Body is a stinking Carkass while it yet liveth in the Poyson He is a bad thorny Bush whence notwithstanding fair Rose-buds may bloom forth and grow out of the Thorns and manifest that which lieth hidden and shut up in the wrathful poysonful Mercury so long till the Artist who hath made him take him in hand and bringeth the living Mercury into his Gold or Paradisical Image disappeared and shut up in Death so that the Enclosed Image which was created out of the divine Meekness and Love-essentiality may again bud and spring forth in the divine Mercury viz. in the Word of the Deity which entered into the Humanity shut up and closed in the Death and Curse 48. And then the divine Mercury changeth the wrathful Mercury into its property and Christ is born who bruiseth the Head of the Serpent viz. of the Poyson and Death in the Anger of God understand the might of wrathful Death and a new Man ariseth in Holiness and Righteousness which liveth before God and his divine Image appeareth and puts forth its Lustre as the hidden Gold out of the earthly property and hereby it is clearly signified to the Artist chosen of God how he shall seek no otherwise then as he hath sought and found himself in the property of the pure Gold and so likewise is this Process and not a whit otherwise for Man and the Earth with its Secrets lie shut up in the like or same Curse and Death and need one and the same Restitution 49. But we tell the Seeker and sincerely and faithfully warn him as he loveth his Temporal and Eternal Welfare That he do not first set upon this way to try the Earth and restore that which is shut up in Death unless he himself be afore born again through the Divine Mercury out of the Curse and Death and have the full knowledg of the Divine Regeneration else all what he doth is to no purpose no learning or studying availeth for that which he seeketh lieth shut in the Curse in Death in the Anger of God if he will make it alive and bring it into its First Life then that Life must be afore manifest in him and then he may say to the Mountain Get thee hence and be cast into the Sea and to the Fig-tree No fruit grow on thee henceforth and it shall come to pass for if the divine Mercury liveth and is manifest in the Spirit then when the Spirit of the Souls Will imagineth into any thing Mercury also goeth along with it in the Imagination and enkindleth the Mercury fast apprehended in Death viz. the Similitude of God or the Manifestation wherewith the living God hath made himself manifest 50. I know and see that the Mocker in the Devils Vizard will yet bring my writing into a misapprehension and make me more dark and doubtful because I write of the inward and outward Mercury and understand by the inward the Word of God or the Divine Voyce viz. the Manifestation of the Eternity of the Abyss and by the outward Mercury I understand the Officer in Nature viz. the Instrument which the inward living powerful Word or divine Voyce useth wherewith it formeth and worketh Now the Sophister will falsely interpret it and say That I mix them both together making no difference and hold Nature for God as Babel hath already done unto me But I bid him view my words well and learn to understand them aright for I speak sometimes from the Heavenly Mercury and see that only and then presently I name the Instrument of the Heavenly therefore let him have regard unto the sence I write not Heathenishly but Theosophically from a higher Ground then the outward Faber is and then also from the same CHAP. IX Of the Signature shewing how the Internal doth Sign the External 1. THe whole outward visible World with all its Being is a Signature or Figure of the inward spiritual World whatsoever is Internally and howsoever its operation is so likewise it hath its Character externally like as the Spirit of each Creature doth set

through the Earth thus it is also yet hidden in all things and may be opened by understanding and Art so that the first Vertue may overcome the enflamed malignity 53. Albeit we Men have not full power to do it in Self-might yet it may be done in Gods permission who hath again turned his mercy towards us and again opened Paradise and its comprehension in Man Hath God given us power to become his Children and to rule over the World wherefore then not over the Curse of the Earth Let none hold it for impossible there is required only a Divine understanding and knowledg thereunto which shall blossom in the time of the Lilly and not in Babel for whom we also have not written CHAP. XIV Of the wheel of Sulphur Mercury and Salt of the Generation of Good and Evil shewing how the one is changed into the other and how one doth manifest its property in the other and yet both remain in the first Creation in the Wonder of GOD to his own manifestation and Glory 1. THIS is an open gate of the fore-going Description Every one saith Shew me the way to the manifestation of the Good Hear and observe well dear Reason thou must thy Self be the way the understanding must be born in thee otherwise I cannot shew it thee thou must enter thereinto so that the understanding of the Work in its practique Art wherein I deal not may be opened unto thee I write only in the Spirit of Contemplation how the generation of Good and Evil is and open the Fountain He shall draw the water whom God hath appointed thereunto I will here only describe the wheel of Life as it is in its self 2. When I speak of Sulphur Mercury Salt I speak of one only Thing be it either Spiritual or Corporeal all created things are that one thing but the properties in the generation of this only Thing do make difference or do give various gradual distinctions for when I name a Man or Lyon Bear Wolf Hare or any other Beast yea also a Root Herb Tree or whatsoever may be named it is the same only thing 3. All whatsoever is corporeal is the same being the Herbs and Trees and also the Animals but each thing in its difference of the first beginning according as the property in the Verbum Fiat hath imprinted it self in each thing so is that Kind in its propagation and all things stand in the Seed and Procreation and there is not any thing but it hath a fixity in it be it either hidden or manifest for all shall stand to the glory of God 4. Whatsoever is arisen from the Eternal Fixity as Angels and the Souls of Men doth remain undestroyable in its fixt being but whatsoever is arisen in the Unfixt being viz. with the motion of Time that doth again enter into the first motion whence it hath taken its Original and is a Map of its form which it had here like a picture or as an Image in a Glass without life for so it was from Eternity before the times of this world which the most High hath introduced into an Image into the Comprehensible Natural life in time to behold the great Wonders of his Wisdom in a creatural Being as we plainly see 5. Now we are to consider the only Mother how the same is in her property whence the innumerable multiplicity doth arise and hath continually arisen and how she generateth Life and Death Evil and Good and how all things may be brought into their First Ens viz. into the place where they do originally arise to which the Death or the Dying is the greatest Mystery 6. For no thing which is departed out of its first Order as the Mother brought it forth can go back again and enter with it s assumed Order into its Root unless it dye again with its assumed Order in its Mother and even then it is again in the End and in the place whence it was created and so it stands again in the Verbum Fiat viz. in the Bound of its Order in the Expressed Word and may enter again into that which it was in the beginning before it was Corporeal and there it is Good for it standeth again in that whence it proceeded 7. Now therefore we are to consider the beginnings of all things for we cannot say that this World was made out of Something it was only and barely a Desire out of the Free Lubet that the Abyss viz. the highest Good or Being viz. the Eternal Will would behold it Self in the Lubet as in a Glass therefore the Eternal Will hath conceived the Lubet and brought it into a Desire which hath Impressed it self and figurized and corporized it self both to a Body and Spirit according to the same Impressions property according as the Impression hath introduced it self into forms whereby the Possibilities or powers are arisen in the Impression as a Nature 8. This Impression is the only Mother of the manifestation of the Mystery and it is called Nature and Essence for it manifests what hath been from Eternity in the Eternal Will yet we are to conceive that there was in Eternity a Nature in the Eternall Will as an Eternal Mind in the Will but it was only a Spirit in the Will and the Essence of its Ability was not made manifest save only in the Looking glass of the Will which is the Eternal Wisdom wherein all things which are in this World were known in two Centres viz. according to the Fire and Light and then according to the Darkness and Essence all which came with the motion of the Eternal will through the desi●e in the will into a manifest mystery and so introduced it self into a manifest possibility 9. This is now the Essence expressed or made manifest out of Eternity into a Time and consisteth in the fore-mentioned Forms in Sulphur Mercury and Salt where the one is not divided or parted asunder from the other it is one Eternal Essence and shapes it self into the properties of the Desire according to the possibility of the Manifestation and we are to understand that one property is not nor cannot be without the other they are altogether the same only Possibility and now we will speak of their differences viz. how this only Possibility doth introduce it self into Good and Evil viz. into still Peace and Constant unquietness 10. We find Seven especial properties in Nature whereby this only Mother worketh all things which are these viz. First the Desire which is astringent cold hard and dark Secondly bitter which is the Sting of the Astringent hard enclosure this is the cause of all Motion and Life Thirdly the Anguish by reason of the raging in the Impression where the impressed hardness falleth into a Teering or contriting Anguish and Pain by reason of the Sting 11. Fourthly The Fire where the Eternal Will in this Anxious desire doth introduce it self into an anxious darting Flash

Resurrection walk forty days upon the Earth ere he went to Heaven 141. What is Christ's Ascention that he went up visibly whither is he gone and where is he now 142. What do the two men in white Apparel signifie who said Yee men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into Heaven This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall come again in like manner as you have seen him go into Heaven 143. Wherefore must the Disciples of Christ yet wait forty days for the sending of the Holy Ghost why was it not done presently 144. Why must the Disciples wait and remain together in one accord till the Holy Ghost came 145. What is the Feast of Pentecost How was the pouring forth of the Holy Spirit effected and how was the band of tongues loosed in the Disciples of the Lord 146. How is the Diversity of tongues to be understood in them that they at one and the same time spake all Speeches together in one only Sence that all Nations could understand them 147. What profit is this pouring forth of the Holy Ghost unto us and what benefit is Christ's Death Resurrection Ascention unto us how may the same also be wrought and brought to pass in us 148. What is both the literal word and the living word Christ in this Diffusion or Effluence how are they distinguished seeing they did not all hear the Holy Ghost teach out of the mouth of the Apostles For some said They are full of wine These indeed did hear the words of men but not Christ Teaching in his Resurrection 149. How doth Christ himself teach present in the Office of Preaching and yet sitteth at the Right hand of the Power of God or by whom doth Christ teach what is a Shepheard in the Spirit of Christ and a Letter-teacher without the Spirit of Christ each in his Office 150. What is the office of the Keys Mat. 20. How can the same be rightly used or who is worthy and capable of this office of the Keys How is this to be understood Doth Christ himself hold them in the Office or Function and is he himself the Function or hath he given man liberty that he may forgive Sins without the Spirit of Christ or how is the same effected 151. What is the Testament of Christ with the last Supper with Bread and VVine How is Christ really enjoyed what Flesh and Blood is it and what is the mouth to it 152. Where is the place in Man wherein Christ's Flesh and Blood remaineth as he himself saith John 6. whosoever eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood he remaineth in me and I in him Also If ye shall not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood then ye have no life in you 153. How is and becometh man to be a branch on the Vine of Christ How doth Christ dwell in him and yet sit at the right hand of God in Heaven How can he also sit in Man at the right hand of God and yet the outward man is not the same 154. What kind of Christian is a Titular Christian without Christ who only comforteth himself and applyeth the merits of Christ to himself but is not regenerated of Christs Spirit and liveth bestially Doth Christ also belong to him in such working or Doing Or what doth he receive in the Supper of Christ 155. Can the Flesh and Blood of Christ be enjoyed of the faithful without the Testamental Order and Use or how may it be effected 156. VVherefore did Christ ordain and institute this Testament and said That so often as we do it we should do it to his Remembrance To what profit and use is it administred with Bread and VVine and not without the same or can it also be enjoyed without Bread and VVine 157. Is the true real Testamental Enjoyment strictly bound to the first Apostolical use or have men power to alter that order as it is come to pass 158. Is the Testament also powerful and effectual in the changed Order or no 159. What do the Learned when they revile and reproach one another for the exceeding precious Testament of Christ and for the Covenant of Grace and give one another over unto the Devil for the same Do they officiate the Function of Christ Is it right or wrong Do they this as the Ministers of Christ or whom do they serve by doing thus 160. VVhat is the true mark of a right Christian upon the Earth whereby is he distinguished from a titular Christian 161. VVhat is properly and exactly a Christian within and without How is he a Temple of the Holy Ghost ●n whom the Kingdom of God is manifest inwardly How doth he walk also both in Heaven and upon the Earth 162. VVhat is the Anti-christ upon the Earth in Christendom 163. VVhat is Babel the Beast and the whore in the Revelation 164. VVhat is the destruction of the Beast and how shall the same Seven-headed Beast be cast into the bottomless pit or Abyss 165. How doth Christ then take possession of the Kingdom when this Beast is slain 166. What is the true Regeneration in the Spirit of Christ is the same wrought in this life-time or after this life-time 167. What is the dying of a true Christian what dyeth in him 168. What is the Dying or death of a wicked man being the same is called an Eternal dying 169. Whither goeth the Soul when it separates from the Body be it saved or not 170. What do the Souls Do and what is their life until the last day 171. What is the last Judgment or how shall the same be effected 172. How is the Resurrection of the Dead what is that which ariseth 173. How shall this World perish or pass away and what remaineth of it 174. What shall be after this World when God shall be All in All Where all Dominion and Authority shall be put down 2 Cor. 15. 24. 175. What shall the Saints and Damned Do and not do 176. Where shall Hell be and also the Eternal Habitation of the Saints 177. What shall be the Eternal joy of the Saints and also the Eternal pain of the wicked or may there be an alteration The Authors Preface unto these Questions Reader IT is written The natural man understands nothing of the Spirit of God it is a foolishness unto him he cannot apprehend it and it is also written The Spirit of God searcheth all things yea the depths of the Deity Now if Mr. Wiseling without Divine Light should undertake to clear and expound these Questions he shall not be able to do it nay perhaps he may esteem it a sin to ask such deep questions being he himself cannot understand them Therefore we bid him to let them alone and leave them for those to whom Gods Spirit which search all things through the spirit of man shall give the understanding being it is an Impossibility unto him and also seems