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A28529	Mysterium magnum, or An exposition of the first book of Moses called Genesis. Concerning the manifestation or revelation of the divine word through the three principles of the divine essence; also of the originall of the world and the creation. Wherein the kingdome of nature, & the kingdome of grace are expounded. For the better understanding of the Old and New Testament, and what Adam and Christ are. Also, how man should consider and may know himselfe in the light of nature, where he is, and where his temporall and eternall life, consist; also, where his eternall blessednesse, and damnation, consist. And is an exposition of the essence of all essences for the further consideration of the lovers, in the divine gift. Comprised in three parts: written anno 1623. By Jacob Behm. To which is added, The life of the author. And his Foure tables of divine revelation.; Mysterium magnum. English.	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Ellistone, John, d. 1652.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?; H. B. (Henry Blunden)	1656 (1656)	Wing B3411A; ESTC R212985	753,539	662

and mysterious intimations and prophecies concerning the hidden spirituall world shewing what shall be after this time 41. Reason must know that the Spirit of God hath not laboured in the work onely to set forth the histories of the Ancient which for the most part seem but simple and childlike no they are set forth for a Type and information 42. The Spirit of God hath represented the greatest wonders therein which he would accomplish in man and that in a plain simple and childlike manner that so the pride of the Devill and the suttlety or wisdome of Reason might be confounded and made foolish thereby 43. For we must know that the greatest power and vertue together with the wonders doth lye in the humility and lowliness and how God is so near unto all things and yet nothing apprehends him unlesse it stand still unto him and give up the Own will and then he worketh through all as the Sun through the whole world CHAP. XLIX Of the death of Sarah and the hereditary Sepulchre of Abraham What is understood and signified thereby THe Spirit in Moses hath set before him the whole figure of man by Abraham shewing what his condition should be in this world Gen. XXIII and what hereafter should become of him for after he had first spoken of the beginning viz. of the Stock of the humane tree shewing whence it did spring he afterwards declares its boughes and branches together with its power and vertue and mentioneth how this tree is corrupted in its power and essence and that God hath bestowed the highest Tincture upon it to tincture it again and renew it and how the Poyson in the essence of the tree * * * Or hath been with-stood is to be resisted 2. Here he doth now very wonderfully signifie how this tree hath stood in the corrupt property in a strange field and rooted it selfe with the root into a strange or alienate own hood wherein the root was not native and how the root of the humane tree must forsake the strange field together with the strange introduced essence and wholly give it selfe freely out of its life's will and desire 3. Also hereby is signified how the place whence the humane root did spring is between the holy spirituall world and this earthly corrupt world and that mans propriety from whence he is sprung doth stand in a double * * * Our Text hath it The Cave of Machpelah which here in the Germane version is rendred a double Cave or a twofold Pitt cave viz. in two Principles and how he must be buried in this twofold pit as a kernell which is Sown into the ground and how also this cave of Machpelah this twofold pit is mans propriety of which essence or substance he himselfe is essentially 4. The figure of this wee see here in Abraham that when he conversed in this outward world he possessed upon the earth no Land of his Own but went from one place unto another and was every where a Stranger but when his Sarah dyed then he would have a burying place for a certain possession for his wife himselfe also and his children and moreover he would not have it for nothing but buy it all which is a very wonderfull typification and not onely a bare history as the Jewes have held it to be before whose eyes the vail of Moses is hung but we will here also set forth the inward figure with the outward and see what the Spirit in Moses doth here signifie Gen. 23.2 5. Moses saith Sarah dyed at Hebron in the * * * Our Text Kiriach-arba head Citie in the Land of Canaan this may very well thus be but the Spirit hath his figure under it for he lookes upon the Centre where the death of the Saints is and where the true man must dye as namely in the Head-Citie Hebron that is in the formed Word where he hath introduced the own hood and selvish lust into the formed word of his life's property and set himselfe up into a selfefull Dominion and Regiment as into an Head Cittie where the selfe-will hath framed and contrived to it selfe a Citie or propriety in the formed word and built it up for its own peculiar Land of possession where he indeed supposeth he is a God or Something of his Own that he may do with and how he please now this selfe-will must dye in the Head-Citie viz. in the formed Ens of the Word in its Centre viz. in the Citie of its own-hood 6. And this Citie Hebron lyeth right over against Mamre viz. between the eternall and temporall nature where the cave of Machpelah the twofold Pit is viz. the Kingdome of God and of nature for in this twofold Pit Abraham would bury his Sarah and have the Pit for his Own 7. That is to say when the children of the Saints in Hebron viz. in the Citie of humane own-hood do dye unto the selfefull outward naturall life or Selfehood then the true resigned life will no longer stand in a strange field or strange essence but in its own from whence it is Originally arisen but being it hath lost this same life's field in Adam and rooted it selfe into a strange field viz. into the Serpents field of falsehood the life cannot take unto it selfe again of due Right the first true field but it must buy it this is even the figure that Christ hath bought it for his Bloud of the heavenly essentiality for the holy Tincture understand he hath thus purchased it of the eternall nature wherein Gods Anger viz. the wrath of God in the Centre of nature was manifest and had devoured this field in the humane property into its selfe as its own for out of the Centre of nature the Word of the humane property was brought into a formation This the children of Selfe had taken into possession therefore saith the Spirit the children of Heth had this field for their own possession 8. This signifieth that Gods children must wholly forsake the nature-Right in this field of the formed life or word for they have lost the naturall Right in it but in Christ they must buy it again of the Father of nature they must take Christ for their Ransome and give the Father four hundred shekells of Silver for the same and these are the four Centres in the spirituall bodie 's property which are born in the holy Tincture viz. in Christs property 9. The first shekell is the true magicall fire the Second is the Light or Love-desire the third is the holy Sound of the mentall tongue the fourth is the formed or conceived Ens out of the other properties where the holy life is formed and stands in an Essence this is the pure Silver without any spott or foulness under which the Spirit of Moses points that Abraham in Christ hath given to the children of Heth viz. to Ephron understand to the Father or the Fathers property for his cave of

he was a prosperous Man and was in his Masters the Aegyptians house and his Master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand so that he found Grace and favour in the sight of his Master and was his Servant which he set over his house and all that he had he put under his hand and from the time that he set him over his house and over all his Goods the Lord blessed the Aegyptians house for Josephs sake and the blessing of the Lord was every way upon all that he had in the house and in the field therefore he left all that he had under the hands of Joseph and he medled with nothing while he had him but what he did eate and drinke and Joseph was a goodly person and faire of feature 2. The History prefigureth to us a true Christian Man what he is and how he is in this world and what his Office is that is when Christ is manifested in him he is no more his owne to doe what he will also in this world he hath nothing for his owne of which he can in truth say this is mine or I I am he that hath it I possesse it it is mine own I may doe therewith what my flesh and my owne will listeth I may use it for my honour and pleasure that I may thereby be * * * Or high aloft in the world No a true Christian hath none of that in his power 3. He indeed ruleth of right over that which he hath and possesseth with truth and righteousnesse but yet as a servant of his Lord Christ. For a Christian is a Christian in Christ and is bought to a Christian Life and to the obedience of Faith by the bloud of Christ with Christs † † † Thirty pieces of silver thirty pieces of silver whereof his Lord Christ hath committed to him Josephs * * * Twenty pieces of silver twenty pieces of silver and set him as a Steward over it that he may trade therewith and employ it till he make it come to thirty pieces of silver which he should weare in him and about him as a Mark or Badg of his Lord Christ as a Treasure of his Christianity 4. But seing his Lord Christ was sold and betrayed to Death for thirty pieces of silver and Joseph was sold by his Brethren to be a † † † Over whom the Master hath power of Life and all he hath Bondslave for twenty pieces of silver in both these numbers standeth the figure of a Christian viz. Christ when he is manifested in a Man sheweth him the thirty pieces of silver for which he was sold to Suffering and Death and this his suffering and Death he putteth upon him in which is founded the figure of the thirty pieces of silver viz. that he was sold and betrayed and therein man becomes such a Christian as is founded implanted † † † Eingeatzed Etching of plates with Aqua fortis ingraven upon and into Christs sufferings and Death and therein a Man becometh a Christian in Christs sufferings and Death and standeth in the figure of Christ and looseth the right of his naturall selfe-will as also the kingdome of this world 5. For in Christs Death as to his inward spirituall Man he dieth from this world and according to that inward Man is no more in this world but in Christ in God viz. in the Kingdome of God as it is written * * * Luk. 17.21 The Kingdome of God is inwardly within you Also † † † Gal. 4.19 Examine your selves whether Christ have gotten a forme in you Also ‖ ‖ ‖ 1 Cor. 3.16 Ye are the Temple of the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in you Also * * * Col. 4.12 Ye are the servants of Christ and † † † Joh. 6 53. should eate the flesh of the Son of Man and so * * * Joh. 15.7 he abideth in you and you in him and † † † Joh. 6.53 without him ye have no Life as an hearb or grasse and all earthly things without the power and vertue of the Sunne have no life growth or vegetation and operation in them so Man without the Divine Sunne which through Christ hath manifested it selfe in his Christians hath no life or happinesse or salvation without Christ in him 6. And as Christ was sold for thirty pieces of silver to suffering and death which thirty pieces of silver signifie the † † † Luk 3.23 thirty yeares of Christ before his Baptisme ere he entred into his Office and divine Government according to the humanity when he gave up his humane Will to God and the Creaturely selfe-will ceased in him so also must a Christian when he is in truth in his owne naturall will sold for twenty pieces of the thirty pieces of silver to be a servant of God in Christ to be a Minister or Officer and Obedient to his Lord who liveth in him then his by past yeares of the Adamicall Naturall time of this world are sold in and with Christ for twenty pieces of silver and so the Adamicall time of his naturall will in this being sold ceaseth in Christs suffering Death and he is by his Lord who is arisen from Death in him and ruleth and raigneth over Death set to be an Officer over Christs Goods to dispose of them through the Spirit of Christ viz. in the power and vertue of his Lord who is in him in this world * * * As to the Dominiō of Christ. according to the Kingdome of Christ. 7. As Joseph was taken away from his Fathers house and was first cast into the Pit wherein he should have perished and was afterwards sold by his brethren for twenty pieces of silver to serve as a Bondslave so also a Christian is first taken away from his Fathers house viz. from the Adamicall Nature and is cast into the Pit viz. into Christs suffering and Death and then looseth the Adamicall inheritance of the Kingdome of this world and is with his Will and Minde brought away from it then he must yeeld up his Fathers house viz. all his selfehood together with his naturall Life to his brethren in his fathers house that is to the power of God in the Government of this world and suffer himselfe to be cast into the Pit of the Death of his Naturall will and therein give up himselfe to the Death of Christ and willingly die to the will of this world viz. to his owne Adamicall house and willingly suffer all whatsoever his brethren of this world doe to him 8. And then if he thus lye in the Pit or Grave of Christ and hath given himselfe up to the Death of Christ that he willingly would forsake all for Christs sake and dye the death of his owne will then Christ his Lord putteth on him his resurrection from the Dead and maketh

tooke in the same lust and formed him in his sleep even as the lust was and every member was formed in its place to the Conjunction of the beast-like copulation for each Desire hath obtained its mouth to manifestation Thus the Image of God formed it selfe in the Verbum Fiat into such a beast as vve are still to this day and this same was done in it selfe viz. Mans own Fiat viz. the first forme of nature which is the desire of Gods manifestation did effect it and none other maker from without him 26. We are not to conceive that there was any thing else upon Adam which made his Eve out of him or that formed them both to the outward naturall life save onely the Verbum Fiat in them their own very propriate and not any alienate or any thing strange from vvithout them as the first creation of Adam and all kindes of creatures was so brought to passe the Verbum Fiat Coagulated each Ens and the manifested word Severed it selfe in the Ens according to its property and formed the Creature according to its Astrum and kinde where also in every Ens the Matrix was separated from the limbus and formed into a Male and Female into an He and She. 27. The picturing of God as a man in making Adam and aftervvard standing over Adam as he sleepeth and making a woman out of him is more Idolatrous then reall and God hath earnestly forbidden in Moses to make the likenesse of any God for he is no Image save onely in the Creatures according to the Expressed Formed Word both according to the creatures of Eternity and of time he is no such maker but a former of the properties a creatour and not such a maker 28. The Creating is the Fiat vvhich amasseth or formeth and the Word in the power of the Amassed or conceived being gives the distinction according to the Ens As the Ens is in the generation of the Spirit so a thing is formed for the body or substance of all things is nothing else but a Signature or mansion f f f Or of according to the Spirit as the Birth is in the Ens where the Spirit formeth it selfe so is likewise the body of all kindes of Creatures both in Animalls and vegetables as we plainly see that the first Creatour who hath moved himselfe and brought himselfe into a Creaturall Manifestation hath left in all creatures a Power to their own Multiplication or Encreasing propagation and g g g Text makeing procreation and incorporated the Fiat in them as a Maker for their own propriety or most innate Instinct CHAP. XX. Of the lamentable and miserable fall and Corruption of Man NOw when Adam did awake from sleep he saw his wife Eve standing before him and tooke her unto him for he knew that she was his owne that she was his Matrix and cast the property of his desire upon her as he had done before when he loved himself so now also the Fiery Tincture of Adams soule entered into the Spirits or lights Tincture in Eve 2. But they both stood yet in Paradise in the Garden in Eden and knew neither Evill nor Good for they lived yet in joy and delight in the Kingdome of Heaven and it was Eves first longing to eat of good and evill for Adams desire had introduced and imprinted it into the Magicall Image while it was yet in Adams Essence as a childe receiveth a marke or Impresse in the wombe which the mother imprints on it 3. Thus also Adam did Impress the false desire into his Essence whence the woman was made therefore the woman so soone lusted after the vanity as to this day meer earthly Lust of the flesh is found in most of them so soone as this Sex comes but to any yeares the selvish lust and will doth predominantly appeare in pride and glistering shewes of fleshly desires and they soone long after the forbidden tree contrary to the Virgin-like modesty chastity and angelicall humility 4. The Abomination which Adam introduced into his Matrix is so exceeding strong in them that they are as 't were h h h Or very weake and poore in Naked shame before the Image of God which God himselfe created in Adam therefore they must be subject to the man in that they are the cause that the vanity was enkindled to which the Devill also was a strong i i i Sollicitour promotour 5. For when he saw Eve he then knew his insinuated desire in her which he had introduced into Adam the same did shew forth and discover it selfe in Eves lust therefore the Devill came now in a strange forme viz. in the Serpents Essence which vvas the most suttle Beast and laid himselfe on the tree of temptation towards Eve that the introduced Concupiscence in Eve which the Devill had also infected did k k k Was much taken with amuse it selfe upon the outward Serpent and so one lust tooke another whereupon Eve did strongly Imagine and long after the forbidden fruit which the Devill perswaded her to eat and then her eyes should be opened and she be as God and know Evill and Good 6. Which indeed was true this knowledge did stick in the fruit for the Essences were discordant and un-like therein but he told her not that the enmity would awaken in the Essences of her body and that heat and cold moreover sicknesse and death would force into her Herein he was silent and fairely coloured it over and drew her in by collusion as if God had withheld some great thing from them which she might finde as a treasure so craftily did he deceive Eve 7. And when she yeelded to discourse with the Serpent she was taken in the voice for the Devill infected the same with false delight untill he perswaded her she should be wise if she did eat thereof 8. For the Devill thought that if Eve should bring forth chidren in Paradise then his l l l Text his cause might prove naught Designe would miscarry they might then possesse his Angelicall Kingdome 9. Now the question is wherefore the Devill did deceive Eve by the Serpent onely and not by some other meanes could he not doe it in his owne forme why did he even speake m m m Or in through the Serpent to Eve and wherefore did the Serpent addresse it selfe to the Tree to perswade her against Gods prohibition 10. Heere the vaile lyeth before Moses his cleare eyes for he sets down the Hystory very right but how can an un-illuminated minde understand it in that he writeth of the Serpent saying that the Serpent spake with Eve and deceived her whereas indeed it cannot speak and also is onely a beast without divine understanding and in its selfe cannot know the Image of God much lesse did the Serpent understand the heavenly Powers or the Prohibition 11. But heare what Moses saith the Serpent was more subtill then any beast of the field

Opinions of Gods being and Essence and therein consists the Confusion viz. the Mystery of the great Babylon concerning which the Spirit of God did prophecie and declare out of the propheticall root both out of the Line of Christ how Christ should come to restore and remedy the poore captive soule and regenerate its right true life and also out of the Turba magna how this Beast together with the whore should be cast from the face of God into the fiery furnace 30. With this whore of Selfe all the false Spirituall * * * Clergicall and Ecclesiasticall ones or priesthood have cloathed themselves who set up themselves to be Teachers of the mystery of Gods Kingdome without Gods Spirit they have externally covered themselves with the propheticall and Apostolicall word and pleaded the Testimony of the Bible but they have introduced their own sense out of the Whores Ens thereinto and have hung in their heart to the babilonicall fleshly whore and have not understood the Propheticall and Apostolicall Tongue in its Sence 31. They have spoken from the sence of their owne beastiall selfe-hood through the propheticall and Apostolicall word and have brought and used Christs words to their own selvish babilonicall Harlottry and committed whoredome and likewise have Adorned and trimmed up their Bastard under Christs purpur-mantle with Silver Gold and pretious stones and also with worldly dignities Honours favour and riches 32. After these men have run and have even adored and esteemed them as Gods falling deeply in love with their Bastard although their hearts have never agreed or stood upon the onely true ground but have been at variance with each other and this is that of which the Prophet Daniel speaketh saying * * * Daniel 11. they shall honour a God whom their fathers knew not with Gold Silver and pretious stones and unto those that help them to strengthen their strange God * * * God of forces Maozim they will divide the Land for inheritance this whole chapter doth belong hereunto 33. Now when we consider aright what this babilonicall Towre is at present in Christs Kingdome upon the Earth and what it was under Moses and among the Gentiles then we finde very clearly that among all Three it is of one property and so also among the Turks and present Jewes every Nation builds it out of its own materialls for in the Right universall Sensuall tongue if it be manifest in one we are altogether but one onely people and Nation even from Adam 34. But the very cause that we are divided and brought into Opinions is by reason of our Master-builders and founders viz. of the high schooles Priests Popes Bishops Doctors also the Rabbies and Masters of all nations who are set as work-men to the building of the Towre all these have judged from their owne Language and naturall understanding viz. from their conceived and formed sensuall tongue from the outward letter and have indeed neither known God or the Light of nature but have been blinde and dumb as to both both the Jewes and Gentiles and also the Selfe-made Teachers of the Christians 35. Whosoever have run devoid of Gods spirit without divine understanding either among Jewes and Gentiles Christians and Turkes they have built onely this Towre in their own essence and the same is even a Towre of the great wonders of God of divine Contemplation both according to light and darknesse life and death joy and sorrow 36. Not that we are to understand that this Towre is not at all profitable before God it is even the great Mystery of Gods manifestation according to Love and Anger as God hath created out of the great mystery all manner kindes and sorts of Beasts Birds Wormes Trees and Hearbs evill and Good and that all to the manifestation of the Great wonders thus likewise the humane Tree hath brought forth such wonders out of its Sensuall tongue out of the multiplicity of the properties and introduced them into a Substance for its Growth and glory viz to the great Harvest of God where each property of Love and Anger Light and darknesse shall reap in it s own fruit and every thing shall possesse its heaven in it Selfe in its own formed and conceived Ens out of the onely word of God which hath given forth it selfe to every life even unto every life and Being according to its own proper quality and vertue according to and out of its Principle as an universall word to the glorious manifestation of Eternity 37. Now when we further consider of this Beast with the Whore what it is in it selfe within and without then we finde that it is the formed compacted word of the spirits of the Letters for men are all of one onely property as to their life all are begotten out of one flesh and Soul and have all but one onely kinde of life as a Tree in many boughes and branches where the boughes and twiggs doe not perfectly and wholly seeme alike or the same in forme but all have one onely Sapp and vertue so likewise the creature of mankinde among Jewes Christians Turks and Heathens 38. And the onely difference is this the spirits of the Letters in the formed word do sever us in the understanding else we live all alike in the four Elements and eat of the fruits of one Mother and remaine in her when we dye to this outward life 39. The compacted Sensuall tongue which is divided in the spirits of the Letters doth confound us and make us to erre so that we doe suppose we are strange one to another and yet we are all but one onely Tree which the Devill hath poysoned with his desire in Adam so that the equall Temperature or Accord was brought into distemper and discord whereupon the spirits of the Letters were variously made manifest so that we speak from many speeches that is we have introduced the powerfull word of God into the multiplicity of the divided properties and have made in each tongues property a Selfehood or a Self-ish desire to arrogation self-apprehension and assumption 40. Hence arise the contrarieties differences and * * * Text Images Opinions in that we have introduced the unformed word into the forme of our owne selfe-made Image now we contend and strive about these Images and conceits and every one supposeth his own to be best and when we bring all these Images and severall Semblances again into one Language and Speech and mortifie them then the Onely Quickning Word of God which giveth power and life to all things is again manifest and strife ceaseth and God is all in all 41. Therefore we say as we have found it in the Grace of the One that all mens Imaginations opinions and Knowings of God his being and will without the divine light or * * * The undoubted Unction of the holy Ghost illumination of the Spirit are this same whores Beast which is flown forth and arisen from the

that so he might have great respect in the City Babel and therefore they build themselves strong holds and make great bulwarks and walls to defend and keep the Image and flatter themselves in hypocricy and understand and meane by the contrived and painted Image the God Maozim viz. the fat-belly God and pleasure of the beast viz. of this whores Image they set the Image upon the Towre for the shew of their holinesse and therewith they are very devout in glistering appearances before God as with a peculiar Selfe-born God but they immure the Beast within their Stone-houses that it may be secure and there fat it selfe 64. What is now this beast with the whore it is halfe-devill which hath its Kingdome upon the Earth and it is half beast this evill Beast hath devoured man viz. the Image of God 65. And for this cause God became man that he might destroy slay and nullifie the works of the Devill and we must put on this divine humanity and destroy the Devills Kingdome in us and mortifie all Images otherwise we cannot see God the living word must mortifie the literall Image 66. The living word is therefore become man that the literall Image might dye and the first man which was formed out of the living word in Gods Image might be regenerated anew in Christs Spirit viz. in the living word and if now he be borne then all the Image-teachers are more prejudicall then beneficiall to him for they introduce their Images onely into the Temple of Christ and destroy the Image of God 67. And let this here be declared concerning the children of Nimrod and the Towre of Babel as the Spirit hath so given us to know and we doe admonish the Reader in Love to prove and examine himselfe he shall finde where he is this is not written to reproach any but thus the Spirit speaketh with open mouth and sheweth what all things are from whence they come and into what End they shall goe 68. But the reason why so much is written of the Beast and the Whore of Babel is because it is at its End and shall soone be broken in pieces therefore it must be revealed that men may see and know it for Babel falleth not unlesse that all whatsoever hath made the Images doth likewise fall all Images Opinions and Sects of Religion together with the Beast and whore must fall else there is no Cure or remedy 69. Men have for a long time been a patching and pieceing of it and have verily thought to have made a virgin of the whore but her whoredome hath thereby been onely adorned trimmed up and made the greater if this whore shall fall then all Sects which are onely the Images of the whore must fall down and come to naught together with Beast upon whom she rideth every man must break down and destroy the Images and Idols in himselfe and where they will not doe it there the zeale of the Lord doth it 70. How very finely doth the whore at present perck up its head and being it heareth that the spirit doth intimate great and glorious things of Zion viz. of the Adorned holy bride of Christ then it thinks that it is the faire childe which God will bring into a golden Temple wherein there shall be a brave Golden Time and meere joy pleasure and delight and it looketh about to see from whence this faire Temple of God should come into which it should enter and become a virgin it hearkneth continually from whence these holy People should come who as it supposeth should make a Golden world 71. But it thinks not to leave off from its covetous voluptuous whoredome and be converted no! it groweth worse and worse and more unchaste and abominable full of blasphemies so that there is scarce any good at all in it and it standeth before God as an arraigned condemned whore 72. Hearken thou Adorned and crowned Babilon full of evill and wickednesse in the sight of God and his Angels we have heard a watchman say Away the city together with the Towre of the whore and the beast is fallen and judged of the most High thou shalt not see the city of God for ever unlesse that thy children doe put off and cast away the defiled Garment full of shame and fall down wholly naked and bare without any Image at the feet of the most High and turne unto him such as these may indeed see it but as for others who hope for golden mountaines and seek for Temporall honour money and pleasure of the flesh not any of them AMEN 73. Reason will here in the above mentioned Text where it is mentioned that a true Christian must dye to all Images Opinions and Selfe-knowledge and be wholly annihilated in himselfe begin to speculate cavill and say that we doe forbid man the naturall knowledge and externall Rationall wisdome whereby men doe Governe the life and all things of this world and if this were so all understanding would be abolished 74. Unto him we declare that nothing is hereby taken away or abolished in man neither understanding skill or Art for all these arise out of the divine wisdome we doe not nullifie the expressed Word of the formed wisdome but onely the Beast which will rule in divine contemplation viz. the beast-like will of Selfe and selvish ownhood and propriety which is departed from God which honoureth it selfe as a false selfly God and cannot beleeve or trust in God This is even the Antichrist which hath * * * 2 Thess. 2.4 set himselfe up in Gods place and we withall doe teach that man must wholly dye to the Antichristian Image that he may be born again in Christ with a new life and will which new will hath might and ability in the formed word of nature to see and behold with divine eyes all the wonders of God both in nature and creature in the formed wisdome 75. For if the Antichrist dyeth in the Soul then Christ ariseth from death for he resteth in the five vowells in his grave viz. in the mentall-tongue which dyed in Adam and lieth captive in Antichrist when this same ariseth from death in the mentall tongue and is made alive then he openeth all the treasures of the heavenly wisdome in the Sensuall tongue so that man doth far more clearly understand the spirits of the letters viz. the formed word of nature in all the three Principles then he did before in the Antichristian whores child 76. For the new birth is indeed effected and brough● to passe in the mentall tongue viz. in the disappeared Image of the heavenly humanity but it Tingeth and casteth away the false antichristian Image of the naturall humanity viz. of the spirits of the dumb sencelesse letters and doth make them all sencelesse and dead in their selfe-hood and gives them their own life so that they doe behold themselves in the new humanity and make all their assumptions and formations in the new humanity 77. These

Man 13. As to the part of the beastiall soul of Man that attains not the pretious Image in this life time for propriety the mortall soul either from the Stars or four Elements attains it not onely the inward Soul out of the Eternall word of God out of the Eternall Nature out of the formed word out of Gods Essence according to Gods Love and Anger viz. out of the Centre of the Eternall Nature which hath its Originall out of the divine desire through the eternall * * * Word Verbum Fiat whereby the divine Lubet formeth and fashioneth the wisdome into a Substance to the Contemplation of the Deity This soul is that which is betrothed to Sophia 14. The outward Soul is now betrothed and espoused to the Stars and four Elements to form and bring forth the wonders of Gods formed wisdome in Figures both in words and workes this outward Soul obtains sometimes onely a look from Sophia for it hath the death and mortality in it selfe but it shall after this time be changed again into the first Image which God created in Adam and leave the Serpents Ens to the earth which shall at the end of dayes be tryed in the fire of God where the Serpents introduced desire shall evaporate from it and then the whole Image of God out of all the Three Principles stands in One Essence and even then * * * Ephes. 1.23 God filleth all in all this is here to be understood by this figure 15. Further the spirit of Moses describeth the children of Ismael and relates how he begatt twelve Sons Gen. 25.16.18 from whom twelve Princes arose in their Generations and he setts down at last He fell in the presence of all his brethren here he meaneth before Isaacs generation and yet he waxed great in worldly Dominion before them and potent Nations did arise from him and Isaac with his children and posterity were onely as Pilgrims and travelled up and down from one place to another untill they were at last redeemed from the Egyptian Bondage and possessed the promised Land The inward figure 12 Princes 16. Ismael in his twelve Princes typifieth the kingdome of the Corrupt Nature of mans property which kingdome is twofold viz. six numbers out of the inward life's figure 6 Inward and six numbers out of the earthly outward life's figure 6 Outward viz. the outward visible palpable Man and the inward spirituall Soulish man both these have twelve numbers in the figure whence Twelve Princes arose according to the inward and outward natures property these the spirit of Moses puts in the figure and saith that they fell in the presence of all their brethren to signifie that the twelve dominions of the inward and outward nature of the humane property in its corruption fell before the twelve dominions new-born of the Ens of faith in their corrupt Selfe for the Devill had set his dominion and power into these properties 17. But when the promised Seed of faith was conceived in Abraham it did suppress and beat down the Devils power in the dominion of mans Selfe and then hapned the spirituall fall in Ismaels line wherein the Devill as an haughty Prince had set himselfe to bear the chiefe sway and domination for Christ killeth the pride of the Serpent in man 18. Now saith Moses Ismael fell in the presence of all his brethren this was nothing else but a spirituall fall of the humane Selfness before God for as to this world they were famous renowned people as their Princely dominions doe testifie whereas on the contrary Isaac's Generation were onely strangers among the Nations which signifieth that Christs kingdome and Dominion is not in this worlds nature and yet the kingdomes of this world shall fall before Christ and be in subjection to Christ. 19. Afterwards the spirit of Moses describeth Isaac's children by Rebecca and saith that she was barren and Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife and God was intreated of him and Rebecca conceived with two Sons which strove together in the wombe Here now the figure of the kingdome of nature and also of the kingdome of Christ in the new birth is clearly set forth for Rebecca's two sons which she brought forth viz. Esau and Jacob point at two lines viz Esau proceeds from Abrahams own Adamicall corrupt nature and Jacob ariseth in the Ens of faith in which Abrahams faiths Ens had incorporated it selfe into his Adamicall nature in which also the Covenant and the line of Christ stood who should bruise the Serpents head in the Adamicall nature 20. And here is deciphered and held forth how the two kingdomes in the two brothers viz. the Devills kingdome in the corrupt nature of Esau in Adams own nature of the introduced Serpents Ens and also the kingdome of Christ in Jacob in the Ens of faith did both strive together while they were children even in the wombe where then the kingdome of nature in Esau began to fall before the kingdome of Christ in Jacob for here the womans seed already bruised the head of the Serpents Ens its might in Esau and the Serpent already stung the womans seed viz. the Ens of faith in Jacob on the heel and therefore they strugled together in the wombe 21. Also we have here a very emphaticall pregnant figure in Rebecca in that she was shutt up and could not be opened to conceive of Isaac's seed untill Isaac had intreated the Lord that he would open the * * * Stop or strong bar Barrennesse withholdment in the Covenant in Rebecca where then the Lord was intreated in the Covenant concerning the barrennesse of Rebecca so that he did open the Tincture in the womans seed to this Impregnation or conception The inward figure stands thus 21. The seed of faith was in Isaac inherited from his father Abraham but Rebecca had not this Ens indeed she was in the Covenant but the Ens of faith was not in her in the Essence but onely in the Covenant and therefore her matrix was shut up was not capable of the Ens of faith so long till Isaac immersed his beleeving desire into the Lord understand into the Centre of nature in Rebecca so that the spirt of the Lord did move it selfe in the Covenant in Rebecca and moved also the Covenant together with her Adamicall nature so that the barrennesse in her matrix was disclosed both in the shutt up Ens in the Covenant and then likewise the Adamicall Matrix whereupon she conceived two sons of two kingdomes property 23. And this is the meaning of the saying The Lord was intreated when Isaac brought his faiths desire through the Eternall and Temporall nature into the Lord and therewith did earnestly press for his wife Rebecca that the Lord would be pleased to open her through his prayer and faiths-desire that so shee might be with childe by him which faiths desire together with the Adamicall natures desire