Wrath and made Bread of the Enclosed Mercury and eaten thereof then had the Will entered again into its self-hood and could not have been transmuted 31. But being it entered into Resignation into the Speaking Word of God and was willing to be and do what ever that pleased then the Will went from its self-hood though the wrathful Death of Gods Anger viz. from the Expressed Word which the Devil had poysoned with his Imagination quite through the property of the Wrath and sprang forth afresh with a new Love-desire in God here the Will was Paradise viz. a divine Lovebudding in Death 32. Thus now the Love-will being set in opposition to the poysonful Mercury of the Souls property in the Anger of God then came the Devil and said Thou art the King who hast overcome come and shew thy self in thy Miracles and Deeds of Wonder and he brought him upon the Pinacle of the Temple and said Fall down that men may see it for it is written He bath given his Angels charge over thee that they should bear thee up in their hands left thou dosh thy foot against a stone Here the Devil would fain that he should use again the Fires might viz. the Souls self-hood in its own fiery property and depart out of the Resignation into an Arrogation of Self in its own Fire-will as he had done and also Adam when he went with the Desire in his own Might into Evil and Good and would have his eyes open in Evil and Good as Moses writeth thereof that the Serpent did perswade them thereunto 33. Here came the fine Adorned Beast again and tempted the second Adam also for God gave him leave seeing he said the Fires Matrix had drawn him he could not stand here now that should be tryed for he was an Angel also as well as the humane Soul which he had Seduced but the humane property in Body and Soul in the Person of Christ had once cast it self into the Resignation out of its Self-hood into Gods Mercy and stood still in the Resignation viz. in the divine Will and would not cast himself down or do any thing save what God alone did by it and said unto the Devil It is written Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God which is as much as if he had said A Creature of God shall will not do nothing but what God willeth and doth by it there must be no other God besides the only One to Rule and Will the Creature must go and do as the Will-spirit of God doth lead it it must be Gods Instrument wherewith he worketh and doth only what he pleaseth 34. In this proof Adam did not stand for he went from the Resignation into an Arrogation of Self into an own self-will and would try Evil and Good Love and Anger and prove how Evil and Good tasted Here dear man was the trying state before the Tree of Temptation in Paradise and that was fulfilled which the first Adam could not and would not do in divine Obedience in Resignation 35. When the Devil saw that in this also he had no success that the Humanity would not give way to depart out of the Resignation out of Gods Will he carried the Humanity upon an high Mountain and shewed it all the Riches of the World all whatsoever doth live and move in the Expressed word all the Dominions and Might in the outward Nature over which he calleth himself a Prince but hath only the one part in the Wrath of Death in possession and said unto it understand to the humane property If thou fallest down and worshipest me I will give thee all this 36. The Humanity should again depart out of Resignation into a Desire of Propriety and desire to Possess something of its own in arrogation of Self in the Cursed Property Evil and Good this had been a dainty dish and delight unto the Devil then had he remained King and his lyes had been Truth in this Adam also was Corrupted and entred into selfish Propriety and desired worldly Dominion and Covetousness which may be seen in Cain which is the Heart of the poysonful Mercury viz. its Hungers-desire which maketh it self Essence according to the property of its Hunger not Manna but Earth as we may see in the wilde Earth what he hath made in the Enkindling or Motion of the Father in his Fires property in which Inflammation viz. in the poysonful Wrath of the Expressed Mercury the Devil thought to be a Prince and is so in the same property in the wicked and also in the Government of the World in the Wrath but God holdeth him captive with the Water and Light of the third Principle so that he is not Prince in the Dominion of the expressed Word but the Judges Executioner He must look where Turba Magna is enkindled in the Wrath and there he is busie so far as Turba Magna goeth in the Wrath further his Courage is cooled 37. He would give the Humanity of Christ this whole Dominion to rule in and above all in the Essence of all things as a mighty God which notwithstanding he only possesseth in the part of the Turba in the Wrath of God and hath it not in his full Domination He should but set his Desire thereinto and introduce his Will into him and he would bring his Mercury of the Creature into the Greatest Omnipotence that he should be a Lord over Good and Evil and have all things at Command to do therewith as he pleased for so Adam had fooled it 38. His Mercury went with the Desire into the Impression whence Cold and Heat ariseth and Imagined thereinto and so the property of the cold and hot Fire did presently boyl up in the Mercury of the Creature and so also the outward Heat and Cold did soon pierce into the enkindled Mercury of the humane property so that the body now suffereth pain from the Heat and Cold which property before when as it stood in the free Will of God in the Resignation was not manifest and thus Evil and Good did Rule and domineer in Adam 39. For the Centre of Wrath viz. the dark Worlds property was manifest in him in a poysonful Deaths property as the Mercury in Man is yet to this day so poysonful and of a venomous Source whereas indeed he is changed in the vital Light into a Solar property but yet the poyson and property of Death doth hang unto it and it is his Root as we plainly see that so soon as the ready Instrument of his martial fiery Properties Signature or Form is a little struck or played upon that his evil poysonful fiery Property doth come forth and shew it self and inflameth the body that it doth even tremble and shake for the very poyson of Wrath and will ever enter into the Enkindled Poyson Source in him who hath awakened and enkindled the same and assimulate in his malice with the malignant Fomenters malice and wrestle in the poysonful
gave his Humanity Gall and Vineger to drink and when he tasted it he would not drink it 66. Here is again the outward Type shewing how it went inwardly The name Iesus viz. the Love of God which was entered into the Humanity and had espoused it self thereunto did thirst in the Love-desire after the corrupt Humanity and would fain tast the pure water of the Humanity in it self but the wrathful Anger of God which was enkindled in the Humane property did give it self in with the Humane property unto the thirst of the Love desire and when the Love-desire tasted of it it would not drink it but sank down into it as wholly resigned or freely yeelded and did unite and very essentially incline it self into the Anger of God as a full and perfect obedience and fully and freely given over as a peculiar propriety thereinto 67. This was now the Flagrat of the wrath that the Love should so come into it whereupon the Earth trembled and the Rocks clove asunder for so the Death was dismayed at the Life and here the Awakened Wraths property did SeVer it self into the Centre viz. into the First Principle into the Fireâ—root and now from the Centre there proceeded forth the hunger to the New-birth in the Humane property of the hunger unto Death was made an hunger unto Life for the Love tinctured the Anger that the Fireâ—desire to the dark Impression became a desire of Life 68. Understand it here aright God the Father who gave his dear Heart into the Humanity to help mankind did now thirst after the Humanity viz. after his heart or word of Power and the Deity in the Humanity viz. the heart of the Father did thirst after the Father and the Love or the Essence of the Light did thirst after the Fires Essence for the Fires or Souls Essence in Adam was departed out of the Love-essentiality wherein the Paradise did consist into a Selfness and was become disobedient unto God and thereupon the Essence life and being of the Light and Love did dye in its Growing that is it did wither as to the Vegetative life or Heavenly growth blooming and Sense of the Paradissal Source and did awake and arise to the Earthly World 69. Here the Father brought the Soul which was entered into his Wrath and had manifested its self in his Anger again into the Love viz. into the disappeared Paradisical Image and here the dark World was dismayed in Deaths Flagrat at the Fire-Flagrat which arose up in Love in the Death as a joyful Flagrat which Joy-Flagrat entred into the dead Bodies of the Hopers of Israel who did hope upon the Messiah as a sound of the power of God and did awaken them from death 70. This Flagrat rent in twain the Vail in the Temple viz. the Vail of Moses which hung before the clear face of God so that man could not see God and therefore he must serve him with an Offering and Type of this Final Discovery in which God did manifest himself again in the Humanity This Flagrat broke the Type in the Offerings and Sacrifices and manifested the clear face of God and united the Humane Time with Eternity 71. All whatsoever the Jews did outwardly unto Christ the same was a Type of the inward viz. how it went between God and the Humanity viz. between the Eternity and Time the Jews gave Jesus Gall and Vineger in his Thirst both these properties are a Mercury in the Sulphur of Saturn viz. in the Impression this is even the Type and full resemblance of the Souls property as it is in it self alone devoid of the other Love-properties 72. God gave this property of the Soul again into his Love the Death into the Life the disappeared Love-essence which the Word of God had assumed to it self in the Essence and Seed of Mary and quickned to life he gave into the Anger 's property into the Souls essence viz. into the Centre of the Fire and dark World whereupon the Soul-like Fire and dark world became an exceeding Triumphant joyful Paradisical life and here the Champion upbraided Death and Hell viz. the dark World in the Soul and said Death where is thy Sting now in man Hell where is now thy victory in the Wrath of the poyson-Source in the expressed Word or Mercury all is now dead O Death I am to thee a Death Hell I am to thee a Conquerour thou must serve me for the Kingdom of joy Thou shalt be my Servant and Minister to the Kingdom of joy thou shalt enkindle the flames of Love with thy Wrath and be a Cause of the Spring in Paradise 73. Thus we give the Philosopher to understand our sence and deep ground in Nature who desireth to seek and open the disappeared Essence of the Earth which lyeth shut up in Death viz. in the Curse of God the Vail of Moses hangeth also before him and a very right earnestness is requisite for to rend the Vail in twain that he may be able to see the face of Nature otherwise he is not fitted thereunto 74. And as it went in the Humanity of Christ betwixt Gods Love and Anger and both were transformed into One so likewise it is in his Work of Nature the poysonful Mercury in the Sulphur of Mars and Saturn giveth its Lunar Menstruum viz. the greatest poyson of the dark Source into Venus's property when Venus thirsteth after the Fire of Love then Mercury giveth his poyson into the thirst of Venus and Venus's thirst giveth it self wholly unto the poyson as if it dyed it wholly yeeldeth up its desiring life whereupon ariseth the great darkness in the Philosophick Work for the Materia becometh as black as a Raven for Venus hath resigned its life whence the glance or splendor doth arise as it is to be seen by Christ that the Sun lost its light and there was a great darkness contrary to the common Course of Nature 75. For when the inward Sun gave in it self unto the Anger viz. into the darkness of God then the outward Sun which receiveth its power and lustre from the inward as a glass or resemblance of the inward could not shine for its root from whence it shineth was entered into the darkness in the place of this World and would turn the darkness in the Curse of God into light viz. it would make the place of this world again Paradise 76. Thus likewise the Sun of the outward World which is a Figure of the inward all essential Sun must stand still with its Splendor in the darkness from the sixth hour unto the ninth which is even the time of Adams sleep when he entered with the desire into the Centre of the Eternal Nature viz. into the Birth where the Love and Anger do part themselves into two Centres and would prove the cold and hot Fire which took him and did powerfully work in him Here are three hours according to the Ternary and in the Grave three days
turneth round viz. the Desire for this World is round so also the Birth when as the Liberty hath given its highest Lubet as a golden Hunger unto Saturn and placed Mercury for Work-master then it betaketh it self into it self into its Defire according to the property of Meekness for the first Conception to the golden Child is effected according to the property of Joyfulness but this out of goodness and meekness resigneth it self to Luna for it is a pleasant demission by reason of the meekness which Mercury doth apprehend and worketh therein also this Body is Silver and cometh from the first Impression where the yellow and white separate in the Fire viz. the Colours of the Vertue then Luna ariseth out of the yellow and turneth into white by reason of the divine Meekness and because its Original is from Sols Colour therefore it hath a perpetual Hunger after Sol and receiveth the Suns Lustre into it putteth it on and shineth therewith 30. Now as the Superior is so is likewise the Inferior namely Metals therefore Silver is the next degree to Gold and as Gold is generated so is also Silver Venus clothes it which Mercury cannot endure being he is the Master-worker and he gives his garment also but the Silver hath neither the property of Venus nor Mercury for it retaineth the property of its Mother viz. the meekness in the Liberty and is hatched as the Gold by reason of the Sun The Moon hath an Heavenly Property but in reference to its own proper Form from the property of the Desire it is of a very earthly property it is a Cabinet and Keeper of the earthly and heavenly Essence As the outward body of Man which before the fall in Adam was comparable to Silver but when he dyed in the Lubet then the earthly property only lived in him and therefore he continually hungreth after Sols glance and glory he would fain take again his splendor with Luna from the Sun but he getteth only an earthly Lunatical Lustre wherein he acts and exerciseth Pride unless he be born again out of Sols splendor that is out of Gods Power in the Heavenly Mercurius and so he becomes again the golden filver-child in divine Essentiality only covered and clothed this life-time with the Earthly Moon that is with Earthly Flesh. 31. Saturn also is the House of silver he is likewise the Cause of the first Conception but he turneth his Desire onely upon the golden Childe and leaveth the silver its garment and takes it into his stony Earthly Property and lets Mercury hatch it 32. The Desire of the Free Lubet is fixt and stedfast as concerning the Property of the Desire onely which bringeth its Will again from the Body into the Combate in the Senses and maketh Jupiter that is on the Orb upwards under Saturn under the Saturnine Power its metal is Tin and it is the third degree for the Lubet of the Liberty in the Desire proceedeth forth into the Desire of the Austereness and so gives it self into the Fiat 33. We must understand it thus The Lubet of the Liberty goeth forth out of it self as a Plant and maketh one degree after another in order but Mercury maketh the Sphere for he is the Work-master And as the Eternal Birth is in it self in the Heavenly Mercury viz. in the Eternal Word in the Fathers Generation so likewise with the Motion of the Father it came into a Creatural Being and so proceedeth in its Order as may be seen in the Wheel of the Planets for the Order is just so placed as Man is in his Order 34. First there is in him the true golden divine man which is the likeness of God Next there is in him the man of heavenly Essentiality viz. the inward holy body generated from the Fire and Light in the Tincture which is like to the pure Silver if it were not corrupted Thirdly there is in him the Elemental man from the pure Element resembling Jupiter Fourthly the Mercurial which is the growing or Paradisical man Fifthly the Martial from the fire viz. the Soulick man according to the Fathers property Sixthly the Venerine man according to the outward Desire and the waters property Seventhly the Solar according to the Suns property viz. according to the outward World as a Seer and Knower of the wonders of God and yet it is but the one onely man yet is both in the inward and outward World Thus likewise is the similitude or form of the Seven Metals with one property according to the inward World and with another visible palpable property according to the outward World 35. From Jupiter the Sphere turneth round and out of the Severation Mercury proceedeth forth with a broken metal according to his spirits property externally quicksilver and internally he is a Paradisical working he is in his spiritual property the Distinguisher or Articulator of the words voyces and speeches It is written God hath made all things by his Word The heavenly Eternal Mercurlus in his Word which the Father expresseth in the Enkindling of his Light and the Expressed is his Wisdom and the Word is the Worker Framer and Maker of the Formings in the Expressed Wisdom Now what the inward Mercurius doth internally in Gods Power that likewise the outward Mercurius effecteth in the outward Power in the Created Essence He is Gods Instrument wherewith he worketh extrinsecally to death and to life in each thing according to its property he buildeth and breaketh down 36. According to Saturns property he buildeth and according to his own property he distinguisheth and dissipateth the hardness in Saturn viz. the Enclosed and openeth it to life He openeth the Colours and maketh Forms and shapes and carryeth in him an Heavenly and also an Earthly Property in the Earthly he carryeth out of the first Desire to Nature viz. out of Saturn Mars viz. the wrathfulness of the Impression for he is his Soul wherein Mercury liveth he giveth him the fiery Essence and standeth under Jupiter in the order upwards on the Sphere for he carryeth the fire-spirit in Sulphur into all Planets and forms and giveth to each thing its Source and true spirit of life 37. Mars in the first Impression is the great Anguish and causeth the Love-will of the Liberty to separate from him and the Severed is called God and the Anguish or Fire-Source is called Gods Anger viz. the Wrath of the Eternal Nature And as internally Gods Love Severs from Gods Anger that is from the wrathful Property of the Eternal Nature viz. Heaven from Hell God from the Devil so also it is effected in the Birth of the outward Nature 38. Love proceedeth out of the Wrath and is an Humility or Submission Thus likewise it came in the Creation into Order therefore Venus standeth in the Sphere on the line of Mars under the Sun for so is the Separation in Nature and so one proceeds forth from another Its Metal is Copper the
Souls spirit would live that is burn 22. Thus by Gods Curse or withdrawing the Heavenly Body was shut up and the Anger-Source set open and so the Heavenly Body lieth still shut up but seeing Man by the Eternal Mercury that is by the Word of Divine Power was in one part formed out of Eternity into Body and Soul none could disclose the poyson-Poyson-death and destroy the mortal Mercury and change it again into the Lights-Source viz. into the Source of the divine Joyfulness save only the very divine Mercury viz. the Power and the Word of Life it self for the Serpents poysonful earthly property was manifest and stirred up in man therefore when Gods Word did pity the Corruption of man and did again embrace him he said The Seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head and thou understand the Serpents poyson or fire shalt sting him in the Heel 23. Herein now lieth the Philosophers Stone to know how the Seed of the Woman bruiseth the Serpents Head which is done in the Spirit and Essence Temporally and Eternally the sting of the Serpent is Gods Anger-fire and the Womans Seed is Gods Love-fire which must be again awakened and illustrate the Anger and deprive the Wrath of its might and put it into the divine Joyfulness and then the dead Soul which lay avalled in Gods Curse doth arise when the poysonful Mercury which resembleth Gods Anger is Tinctured with Love then the Deaths Anguish in Mercury is changed into the highest Joyfulness and Desire of Love which doth again make a Love-essence in it self viz. an heavenly Body out of the earthly when Mercury is changed into an heavenly Source it desireth no longer or more the earthly mortal Life it desireth not the four Elements but only the One wherein the four are contained as it were avalled as the Light holdeth the Darkness avalled in it self and yet the Darkness is in it but not manifest in the Light as God dwelleth in Time and the Time comprehends him not unless it be translated and wrapt up into Eternity that the divine Light doth again shine in its Source and then the Time is manifest with its Wonders in the Eternity 24. On this wise also is the Process of the Wise men with the Precious Stone There is no nearer Consideration of the same then to consider and know how the Eternal Word viz. the heavenly divine Mercury in the divine Power is become man and slain Death and the Anger in man viz. changed the Mercury into the divine Joyfulness whereby the humane Mercury which before lay shut up in Gods Anger viz. in the Source of Death doth with its new enkindled Desire which now is called Faith in the Holy Ghost attract divine Essentiality viz. Christs Body unto it self and setteth it self in divine Power and Light above the Anger of God and the Poyson of the Serpent and bruise the head of the Anger viz. the poyson of Death with the Life of divine Joyfulness that is the Anger was Master but in the Light it became a Servant which now must be a cause of the Joyfulness as it is most plain clear and manifestly made known and shewn unto us in the Mercurial Life 25. Now observe the Process and meditate thereon ye dear Children of Wisdom and then ye shall have Enough Temporally and Eternally do not as Babel doth which tickleth and comforteth it self with the Philosophers Stone and boasteth of it but keepeth only a gross Masons-Stone shut up in Poyson and Death in stead of the precious Philosophers Stone what is it for Babel to have the Stone when as it lieth wholly shut up in Babel It is as if a Lord bestowed a Country upon me which indeed was mine but I could not take possession of it and remained still á poor man for all that and yet I boasted of the Dominion and so had the Name and not the Power Even thus it goeth with Babel about the precious Stone of the New-birth in Christ Jesus 26. In the Sweet Name Jesus Christ the whole Process is contained what and how the New-birth is out of Death into Life which is very clearly understood in the language of Nature for the Name Jesus is the property of the free Lubet of Eternity which yeelds it self into the Centre of the Pregnatress viz. into the Fathers property and figurizeth it self in the Centre in the Fathers property viz. in the Fathers Fire to a word of Eternal Power 27. Understand the Father viz. the Fathers fiery Forms do figurate shape this divine Voyce essentially in it self in the Lubet of the Liberty that is the Fathers fiery property maketh it self in the divine Essence of the eternal Love to a Mercury of Ioyfulness for the Fathers property is the Fire-source and the Sons viz. the eternal Lubets property is the Love-source and yet also there would be no Desire of Love if the Fathers Fire did not enkindle it and make it moveable viz. denrous from the Fire ariseth the Desire 28. The Father of all Essences begetteth this holy Desire through his Fire-source which is now his heart of Love which giveth in his Fire the shining Lustre and Splendor even there the Wrath in the Fires-property dyeth from Eternity to Eternity and is changed into a Love-desire 29. Thus observe it the free Lubets property is here in the Fires property called Christ which signifieth in the language of Nature a Potent Champion depriving the Wrath of its Power a Shine of the Light in the Darkness a Transmutation where the Love-Lubet ruleth over the Fire-Lubet viz. over the Wrath the Light over the Darkness Here the Seed of the Woman understand of the free Lubet in which there is no Source bruiseth the Head of the Wrath of the Eternal Nature viz. of the Eternal Desire for the Fires property is rightly called the Head for it is the Cause of the Eternal Life and the Liberty viz. the free Lubet or the Nothing is rightly called the woman for in the Nothing viz. in the Liberty of all Source consists the Birth of the Holy Trinity of the Deity 30. Now the Fire giveth Life and the free Lubet giveth Essence into the Life and in the Essence is the Birth where the Father viz. the Eternal Ground begetteth his Essence viz. his Heart out of the Abyss in Himself that is out of the Abyss in Himself into a Byss the Son is the Fathers Byss Thus the Father remaineth in Himself as touching his own property only the Byss of the Eternal Nature and the Son remaineth in the Father the Byss of the Power and Kingdom of Ioy a resemblance whereof you see in the Fire and Light And thus the Son Tinctureth the Father with the Liberty viz. with the Nothing and the Father Tinctureth the Son the Nothing that there is an Eternal Life therein and no more a Nothing but a Sound or Voyce of the Manifestation of the
was to undergo the Combare of this Tryal when the humane Essence was to enter again with its Desire into the Deity and eat of Gods Bread that is of the divine Essentiality He went to Jordan and was baptized of John Wherewith With the Water in Jordon and with the Water in the Word of Life viz. with divine Essence which must Tincture our mortal Essence in the outward Humanity of Christ whence the divine Hunger arose in the humane Essence that he desired to eat of Gods Bread therefore the Spirit of God took him and carried him into the Wilderness and there the Fathers Property in the Wrath did oppose him through the Prince in the Wrath and there Gods Bread and also the Bread of Gods Anger according to the Deaths Desire was tendered unto him now it was tryed whether the Soul which was generated and created out of the Fathers Property would after this Tincturation of Baptism enter again into the Love-desire viz. into the Nothing out of all Source 43. What is hereby intimated unto the Magus A Mystery is hinted unto him if he will do Wonders with Christ and Tincture the Corrupt Body to the New-birth he must first be baptized and then he getteth a Hunger after Gods Bread and this Hunger hath in it the Verbum Fiat viz. the Archeus to the new Generation that is the Mercury but I do not speak here of a Priests Baptism the Artist must understand it Magically God and man must first come together ere thou baptizest as it came to pass in Christ the Deity first entered into the Humanity but the Humanity could not presently comprehend it until it was quickened through Baptism and the Hunger viz. the dead Mercury in the Humane Essence was again stirred up in the Heavenly Part. 44. And Here began again the Humane Eating viz. the Mercury received again Divine Property and Will and then the inward Mercury understand Mans Property did eat in the Taste of the Divine Word of Gods Essence and the four Elemental Properties did eat of the Nights Property so long till the Humane Mercury sublimed its Life and changed the four Elements into One and the Life Tinctured Death which was done on the Cross then the four Elements departed from him that is He dyed unto Time viz. to the Night that is to the four Elements and arose in the Pure Element and lived to Eternity 45. The Magus must keep and observe this Process also with his Alchimy Dost thou ask how I will not put it into thy mouth by reason of the wicked who is not worthy of it Observe onely the Baptism that thou baptizest the dead Mercury which lieth in the Heavenly Essentiality enclosed and shut up in Impotency with its own Baptism and mark of what Essence he is in a thing but thou must have his divine Water and also the earthly for the earthly Mercury cannot else Receive the Divine Being except the Divine Mercury receiveth of its Power whereupon it stirreth and hungereth even then the Heavenly Mercury seeketh but yet findeth not Divine Essence about it for its food Thereupon it brings its Will through the Desire of Death into it self viz. into the Verbum Fiat which hath made and produced it and setteth its Hunger upon the same whereupon the Divine Essence inclineth it self unto it and will become Joyfulness in him even then ariseth the beginning of the new Body out of the Divine Essentiality which the Desire nourisheth and bringeth up and when the new Life is born viz. the Day then the four Elements dye and then the new Body is shut up in the dark Death and on the third day it riseth again from Death for the Night is avalled in the Grave and the Morning riseth 46. If thou didst understand this then hadst thou the Pearl But my Intent and purpose is otherwise I will shew thee Christ along with it and also this Pearl therefore none shall finde it but he that Loveth Christ. 47. Thou sayst Tell me the Baptism and I have already told it thee Every Hunger is a Desire after its Property now if thou givest again the Property of Death unto the Hunger of Death then Death encreaseth but if thou givest him Heavenly Property then Death receiveth it not for Hell is against Heaven therefore thou must give Death and the Anger of God to Death and in this Anger give him Heavenly Essence viz. the Baptism and so the Baptism will Aval the Death into it self even then the Anger dyeth in the Death through the Baptism but not presently thou must first keep the Process of Christ and suffer the baptized to Preach that is appear in his divine Form and Colours exceedingly persecute and plague him and give him no rest for so the right Mercury becomes working and active and when he hath shewn all his Wonders through the old Adam even then thou must east the old and new Man into Gods great Anger and slay the old Man ventilate him and hang him naked on the Cross and again take him thence and lay him into the Putrifaction viz. into the Grave 48. And then Christ will arise from death and appear but only his own know him He walketh about in Heavenly Form and sometimes in his own Form which he had here until the Feast of Pentecost for now here is tryed in him the highest Perfection whether he will persist in the Angels-form and eat only of the divine Essence and then cometh the Holy Ghost and proceedeth with his Power out of the whole Corpus viz. out of the Body and Soul which then Tinctureth the dead and broken Being as may be seen in the day of Pentecost where Saint Peter Tinctured three thousand Souls at once with his Heavenly Mercury and delivered them out of death 49. Dear Seekers herein lieth the Pearl had you the Universal then ye could also Tincture as Saint Peter did but your covetous Death doth withhold you and shut you up for ye seek only Covetousness and Temporal Honour in the pleasure of the flesh to generate your selves in the Nights property therefore the Pearl doth hide it self from you yet the day shall again appear when the wrathful Anger of God is fulfilled satisfied and appeased in the blood of the Saints and turned unto a Love-life and the time is near Process 50. Every Creature keeps in its generation and propagation unto its own Kind the male to the female and the female unto the male Now God said to Adam and Eve after the fall The seed of the Woman shall bruise the Serpents head He said not the seed of the Man Herein lieth the Baptism of Nature the Male hath the Fire-spirit and the Female the Water-spirit to the Tincture now the Mercury is a Fire-life and maketh himself a Body according to his Hunger and Desire now the chief of the work is in the beginning to give the Fire-hunger a Love-Virgin out of its Kind for its Consort that so
for the Meekness is like a Stilness but the Source of Anguish sublimeth it and turns into a pleasant laughter also the Anguish viz. the Darkness is the death and destruction of the Oyly property for if it gets the upper-hand in the oleous property it takes possession of the Corpus and turns the Oyl into a poysonful Source viz. into a dark Spirit or Body wholly earthly as Adam was when he Imagined into the Evil. 9. And yet we do not acknowledg that the Oleous property doth take any Poyson-Source into it self but Mercury viz. the Fire-Life insinuates it self into the Anguish and poysoneth the Essence of Time which the outward Mercury it self maketh in its own Desire that is he departeth from the inward oleous Essence and then the Internal Being remaineth immoveable in it self and the Essence and Spirit of Time do Se Ver from the Essence and Spirit of Eternity and yet there is no parting or dividing but both Principles remain in One Essence whereas there be two Essences but the one comprehends not the other as Eternity doth not comprehend Time for thus also Adam and Eve dyed the Souls Mercury departed with its Imagination from the Essence of Eternity into the Essence of Time viz. into the Anguish source and then the Essence of Eternity lost its Leader which Christ restored again by the divine Word or Mercury so that the Essence of Eternity which in Adam was forsaken of the Souls Mercury obtained the Life again 10. And thus we know that the Essence of Eternity lieth hid in the Anxious Mercury as in the Fortress of Death and our writing and teaching is to shew how a man may bring the poysonful Mercury with its Desire so far as to enter with its Desire again into the Essence of Eternity viz. into the Enclosed and re-assume the Essence of Eternity for a Body and with the same Tincture the Essence of Time and reconcile them in One that the whole Corpus of the inward and outward World may be only One that so there may be only one Will in the Spirit viz. a Love-Hunger and this Hunger doth then make unto it self only one Essence and then every Spirit eateth of its own Essence or Body so that afterward no Evil Will can arise any more therein 11. Thus we understand that Joy and Sorrow Love and Enmity do originally arise through Imagination and Longing for in the Inclination or earnest Desire towards God viz. the Free Love the Kingdom of loy doth arise in the midst of the Anguish of Death and if the Desire departeth our of the free Love into the Anguish of Death viz. into the Source of Darkness then is the Desire filled with the Source of Death and so Mercury worketh effectually in the Source of Death 12. Thus we declare with ground that there is nothing so bad but there lieth a Good therein but the Badness is not capable of the Good also there lieth in the most poysonful Mercury the greatest Pearl and Jewel if his poysonful Will may be introduced into the same then he himself manifests the Pearl for he changeth himself as is to be seen in the Earth where Mercury seeks its Pearl and turns it in the Oar to Gold and to other Metals according as the Sulphur is in each place 13. For there is a continual Combate in the Earth the Eternity travels with Longing through Time to be free from Vanity and in its Longing it giveth it self to Mercury as to its Life and Faber and when Mercury obtains it in his Hunger he becomes joyful and maketh this free Luber Corporeal in him and there ariseth Gold and Silver together with other Metals and good Herbs all according to the powerful Efficacy of each Place As the Boyling is in each Place so likewise is the Metal all according to the Property of the seven Forms of Nature that Form which is chief in a place according to the same Property groweth a Metal also Herbs and Trees 14. Here the Physicians must observe that they learn distinctly to know what kind of property is the strongest in each thing wherewith they would Cure if they do not know it they will oftentimes give their Patients death Also they must know that they are to understand and very exactly to know the property of the Patient which of the properties among the seven Forms of Nature is the Mercury in Sulphur for such a Salt he also maketh Now if the Physician giveth him a contrary Salt Mercury is only thereby the more vehemently enraged and made more venomous but if he may obtain his own Salt according to his own property after which he hungereth then he rejoyceth and readily quitteth his Poyson-Source in Mars his Fire But the Right Physician hath another Cure he first bringeth his Mercury wherewith he will Cure out of Deaths-Anguish into the Liberty He may well Cure the other is dangerous and uncertain if he doth happen to cure it is by chance and very unconstant and cannot cure any disease fundamentally for the outward Mercury is shut up it cannot reach no further then into the four Elements into the mortal-Essence it is able to do nothing in the Sydereal Body but if it be turned and introduced into the Love as is before mentioned then it toucheth the very Root and Ground and reneweth it even to the Divine Power in the Second Principle 15. We have an excellent Resemblance of this in the blooming Earth on the Herbs for in the Earth Mercury is earthly and venomous but when the Sun tinctureth him then he reacheth after the Suns Power after its Light and bringeth it into his Hungry fiery Mars desire into his Salt viz. into his Corporeal Essence viz. into Sulphur which is his Mother and wheels it about with his Rotation in the Essence as if he also boyled and then the Liberty viz. the highest Power reacheth after its Property viz. after the Solar Property and apprehendeth Mercury also along with it 16. Now when Mercury tasteth the Heavenly Being in it self it grows exceeding desirous after the Power of Love and draweth the same into its Desire whereupon it changeth it self and its Salt so also its Mother the Sulphur into a pleasant Source and now if the Liberty be so introduced into a Moving Life with Mercury then it is very full of Joy and springeth up in its Joy as a light from the Fire and putteth forth through the Sulphur-spirit in the Salt Thus is the growing of the Root and thence the Root geteth such a pleasant smell and taste for in the Original the Salts sharpness in the first Impression from Saturn is a sharpness of Deaths Anguish and here it is turned to a pleasant Power for all taste in Herbs in Salt 17. Thus understand us further about the Root in the Earth when the inward Power of the Liberty in Mercury his Property which now is changed doth thus force it self forth
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
and sores then inwardly The fine and subtle part is to be taken into the body and is expulsive the more subtle it is the nigher it is to the life in the body which the Physician may very well know by its Salt for no sough wilde property is to be taken into the body unless the body be inflamed with a sudden Poyson where the life also is fresh and strong then a vehement resistance must be used yet Mercury and Mars must not be administred in the Wrath but in their most potent Power Mars in the greatest Heat but before changed into Joy and then he also changeth Mercury according to himself Iupiter belongeth to the transmutation of wrathful Mars but he must be first introduced into Sol's property and then he is rightly fit thereunto 49. Every living Creature according to its kind in the foregoing property is friendly and pleasant if you deal friendly and gently with it but if it be dealt roughly with then Mercury is stirred up in the Poyson-property for Mars soon boyleth up and gets aloft in the bitter property and then the Anger springeth forth for the ground of all Malignity lieth therein but if it be not stirred up then it is not manifest as a great sickness which lieth in the body but while the same is hid and not enkindled it is not manifest and apparent 50. But if Mercury be next Saturn in the Property and next him the Moon and Venus and Iupiter beneath and also weak then let Mars stand where he will yet all is earthly for Mercury is held in the austere Impression in the Cold property viz. in Deaths Form and his Sulphur is earthly if Mars comes near unto it then it is poysonful also but if Venus maketh an opposition therein then the Poyson is resisted yet it is but earthly it giveth a greenish colour from the Power of Venus 51. But if Venus be next Saturn in the Property and the Moon not opposed by Mars and Iupiter likewise goeth in his own Power then all is pleasant and lovely under that Property or Constellation the Herbs are slender single and soft in touch of white blossoms unless Mercury brings in a mixt colour from the Power of the Sun viz. from Mars half red and from Iupiter bluish and it is weak in the Property and of little use in Physick yet not hurtful in the Creature it gives a pleasant courteous humble life with no deep reason reach or capacity but if Mars comes thereunto the Creature is small or thin of a white weak and effeminate nature 52 There are three especial Salts which may be used for to cure which belong unto the Vegetable Life viz. Iupiter Mars and Mercury these are the Working Life in which the Sun is the right Spirit which maketh these Salts Operative 53. The Salt or Power of Iupiter is of a pleasant good smell and taste from the inward Original of the Property of the Liberty of the divine Essence and from the external Principle or Original of the Property of the Sun and Venus but yet it is not alone of it self of sufficient Power in Nature for the outward Nature consists in Fire and Anguish viz. in Poyson and Jupiters Power is opposed to the fiery Poyson life which maketh a Temperature in the poysonful Nature viz. a Desire of Meekness out of the Enmity 54. The Salt of Mars is fiery bitter and austere and the Mercuriall Salt is anxious and raging like a Poyson inclined both to Heat and Cold for it is the Life in Sulphur and unites or assimulates it self according to each things Property for if it comes into Jupiters Salt it causeth Joy and great Power but if it comes into Mars his Salt it maketh bitter Pangs Stitches Akings and Woe but if it comes into Saturns earthly Salt it maketh Swellings Anguish and Death if it be not hindered by Jupiter and Venus Venus and Jupiter are opposite to Mars and Mercury that so they might Temperize them both and without the Power of Mars and Mercury there would be no Life in Jupiter Venus and Sol but only a stilness therefore the worst is as profitable as the Best and the one is the cause of the other 55. But the Physician is to heed and mind what he takes in hand lest he inflame the Mercurial Poyson more and more in his Patient or introduce it into another adverse Source He ought indeed to use the Martial and Mercurial Salt for his Cure but he must first reconcile Mars and Mercury with Venus and Jupiter that so both these angry Adversaries may resign their Will into Jupiters Will so that Iupiter Mars and Mercury may all three obtain one Will in the Power and then the Cure is right and the Sun of Life will again enkindle it self in this Union and Agreement and also temperize the Nauseate of the Disease in the Contrariety in the Salt of the Disease and turn Mercury's Poyson and Mars his bitter Fire into a pleasant Iupiter 56. This is now to be understood only concerning the Vegetable Soul viz. concerning the outward Man which liveth in the four Elements and concerning the sensible and feeling Property 57. Reason likewise is to be cured with its likeness for as Reason may be brought by words into a sensible Sickness and Disease so that Reason may vex fret and torment it self and at last fall into an heavy sad Sickness and Death so also it may be cured with the application of the same thing with its own Assimilate 58. As for example An honest man falls into great debts care trouble and distress which doth even afflict him nigh to death but if a good friend comes and payeth his debt for him then is the Cure soon effected with its likeness Even thus it is in all things whence the disease is arisen even such a like Cure is requisite for the restoring its health and thus it is likewise in the mental Soul 59. The Soul of the poor Sinner is poysoned in the Anger of God and the Mercury understand the eternal Mercury in the eternal Nature is inflamed in the Souls property in the fiery Mars of Gods Anger which doth now burn in the Eternal Saturn viz. in the horrible Impression of Darkness and feeleth the sting of the poysonful angry Mars His Venus is imprisoned in the house of misery his Water is dryed up his Iupiter of Understanding is brought into the greatest folly his Sun is quenched and his Moon turned to dark night 60. Now he cannot be cured and remedied any other way save with the likeness he must again appease the mental Mercury he must take Venus understand the Love of God and introduce it into his poysonful Mercury and Mars and Tincture the Mercury in the Soul again with Love and then his Sun will again shine in the Soul and his Iupiter will rejoyce 61. Now if thou sayst That thou canst not and that thou art too strongly
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
its refreshment in Love then all the seven Forms do manifest themselves in this Property as came to pass in the Process of Christ in his Miracles but as yet they are not perfect in the operation of their Properties manifestation 19. The Universal is not yet there until all seven do give their Will into One and forsake their property in the Wrath and depart from it with their Will and take into them the Loves-property they must take in the Will of the Nothing that their will be a Nothing and then it can subsist in the Wrath of the Fire and there is no further Turba therein for so long as the Desire of the Wrath is in the Form it is adverse and opposite unto the second Form and enflameth the second Form with its wrathful property that is it striketh the Signature of the second and awakeneth it in the Wrath and then the voyce or sound of the second enkindleth the first Forms property in Mercury and so no Form can attain unto any perfection that it might enter into Love 20. Therefore the Artist can effect nothing unless he gives a Meat unto the Forms which they all do desire and love to eat wherein there is no Turba now the Properties cannot eat being their mouth is frozen up in the Impression of Saturn the Artist must first open their mouth and make them alive in their Zeal that all the Forms may be hungry and then if there be Manna they do all eat together thereof and so the precious grain of mustard-seed is sown 21. Now when Mercury doth thus awake from the Death of the Impression of Saturn and gets Manna into the mouth of his property of the poysonful Deaths-Source then ariseth the Flagrat of the Kingdom of Joy for it is as a Light which is enkindled in the Darkness for the Joy or Love springeth up in the midst of the Anger Now if Mercury apprehends the glimpse or aspect of the Love in Mars then the Love dismayeth the Wrath and it is as a Transmutation but it is not fixt and stedfast and as soon as this cometh to pass the Angelical Properties do appear in view and ken The Process in the Temptation 22. Jesus was led by the Spirit into the Wilderness and the Devil came unto him and tempted him When the Soul of Christ did hunger the Devil said unto Jesus Open the Centre in the Stones that is the Impressed Mercury and make thee Bread eat the Substance of the Souls property what wilt thou eat of nothing viz. of the speaking Word Eat of the expressed Word viz. of the property of Good and Evil and then thou art Lord in both this also was Adams bit wherein he did eat Death Then said Christ Jesus Man liveth not by bread alone but by every word which proceedeth from the mouth of God 23. Mark Whence had the Person of Christ the Will that he would not eat with the Souls Hunger of the Bread which could have been made of stones which he could well have performed Or how had it been if the Hunger of the humane Property had after the Unction of Baptism here eaten in the Temptation of the Mercury in the Impression of Death viz. of the Sulphur of the expressed Word in which was the Anger and from whence the Love was fled as it is so in the earthly Property 24. Observe The Will and Desire to eat of the Speaking Word came into the Souls property from the Motion of the Deity when as the same had moved it self in the Soulick Essence shut up in Death in Mary his Mother in her Essence or Seed and introduced the Aspect of the Eye of God in the Love into the dead Souls Essence and had manifested the Love in Death then one Divine Property desired the other and the Desire of the bodily Hunger to eat of Gods Bread or Essence came from the Baptism When the Water of the Body which in the Impression of the Substance was enclosed in Death did taste the Water of eternal Life in the holy Spirit viz. the holy Spirits Corporality or Essentiality in the Baptism then the Incentive of the divine Hunger of the Ardent Desire after Gods Essence did arise in the flesh as a divine Hunger a glimmering or shining Incentive of Divine Property 25. Now the Man Christ must hereupon be tempted in Body and Soul of which he would eat on one part the Expressed Word of Love and Anger was represented before Body and Soul in which the Devil would be Lord and Master and rule therein omnipotently and on the other part the Speaking Word in the Love property was only represented to the Soul and Body 26. Here now began the Combate which Adam should have undergone in Paradise for on one side Gods Love-desire which had manifested it self in the Soul did eagerly attempt the Soulick and bodily property and introduced its Desire into the Souls property that the Soul should eat thereof and give the Body Manna thereof and on the other side the Devil in Gods wrathful property did assault in the Souls property and brought his Imagination into the property of the first Principle viz. into the Centre of the dark World which is the Souls Fire-life 27. Here was the Contest about the Image of God whether it would live in Gods Love or Anger in the Fire or Light for the property of the Soul as to its Fire-life was the Fathers according to the Fire-world and being the Soul in Adam had quenched the Light-world the Light-world was again incorporated with the Name Jesus which came to pass in the Conception of Mary 28. Now it was here tryed in the Temptation of which property man would live whether of the Fathers in the Fire or of the Sons in the Light of Love Here the whole property of Christs Person was Tempted The Devil said as he had also said unto Adam Eat of the Evil and Good Hast thou not Bread then make Bread of Stones why dost thou Hunger so long in thy own Property Then said the Divine Desire Man liveth not of Bread alone but of Every Word of God 29. Thus the property of the fiery Soul resigned it self with its Desire into the Love viz. into the Speaking Words property and the fiery Desire did eat Manna in the Love-desire O ye Philosophers observe it well when this was done the Love transmuted the fiery property into its Love-property here the Father gave the Fire-Soul unto the Son understand the fiery property of the Expressed Mercury to the Speaking Mercury in the Light for Christ also said so afterwards Father the men were thine and thou hast given them me and I give unto them Eternal Life 30. Here Gods Love gave the Eternal Love-Life to the Corrupted Humanity the Love did wholly give it self in unto the Fire-wrath and transmuted the Wrath of the Soul into a Triumphant joyful Love but if the Souls and Bodies property had obeyed the Devil in Gods
Properties Right and then must the Body set to its strength as a Servant and accomplish the Poysonswill and wrangle and contest with his Adversary and beat him or be beaten of him let it be either by hand-blows or words it is all in this Property and Desire of this poysonful Mercury 40. Hence ariseth all War and Contention namely from the Dominion of Gods Anger in the Corrupt and Enkindled Mercury of the Expressed Word which doth so act its delight and sport in the poysonful Wraths and dark Worlds property in Man 41. Therefore the Warrior is a Servant of Gods Anger He is the Ax wherewith the Angry Husbandman cuts up his Thorns and Bryars from off his ground He is the chief Worker and Accomplisher of the wrathful Anger of God Gods Anger according to his Fires property will have it so and not his Love and he that suffers himself to be made use of thereunto he serveth the Anger of God according to the dark and Fire-worlds-desire and property which in the heavy Fall of Adam hath manifested it self in the humane property and brought Man viz. the Angelical Image into an half devilish Vizard and Likeness in which property and Image of his Will in the Expressed Creatural Mercury or vital Word he cannot inherit Gods Kingdom but must be born a new in his Mercury and Will with and in Christ in Gods Love viz. in the holy Speaking Mercury and Word of Life that a new obedient Will wholly resigned into Gods Love may proceed from his Creatural Mercury which neither wills or acts any thing but what the Will of the Speaking Divine Mercury willeth who in his Self-hood and selfish Arrogation in his own Will is as Dead that he may be the Instrument of the Great God whereby he should act work and do how and what he pleaseth and then is God All in All in him his Will and Deed and he is a Branch in the Great Tree which draweth Sap Power and Life from the Tree of God and groweth and liveth in him and bringeth forth his fruit then is the Mercury of the humane Life a procreated or expressed fruit which groweth upon the Paradise-Tree of God and giveth forth its Note and Sound and striketh the Signature in the Speaking Word of God viz. Gods Harp and Lute in his Praise to which end man is created not that he should needs play upon the Instrument of Anger and Death according to the Devils will 42. The Devil hath given himself to be such a Lutanist who contriveth and helpeth to act and drive on the Play in the Wrath viz. in the Darkness He is the Instrument and Actor in the Wrath of the Eternal Nature which hath its effects and atchievements with him and in him as its Instrument The like also must the wicked man do as Saint Paul speaketh thereof The holy man is unto God a sweet Savour unto Life and the wicked a sweet Savour unto Death All whatsoever doth live and move must enter into the Glory of God one worketh in his Love the other in his Anger All is generated and created in the Infinite Being to the manifestation of the Infinite great God out of all the Properties of Evil and Good Creatures were brought forth by the Will of the Speaking Word for the property of the Darkness and the Fire was as well in the Speaking as the property of the Light and therefore there are evil and good Creatures 43. But the Angels and Men were spoken forth in the Image of Gods Love they ought not to speak and incline their Will into the Fire and dark Word and introduce their Desire thereinto also not at all will to be their own but continue stedfast in the Resignation in the Speaking Will of God as a form of the Speaking Will and bear no inclination to any thing save only unto the Speaking in which Figure they stand as an Image or Platform of the Expressing as a spoken Word wherewith the Speaking Word doth behold it self in its own likeness whereby it doth there manifest the Eternal Knowledg of the Eternal Mind and setteth the Spirits Will into a Form and playeth therewith 44. As a Limmer that pourtrayeth his own Image and doth thereby behold what he is and how his form and feature is or as a Musician doth compose a curious Lesson or Song and so playeth and melodizeth with his Life and Will of Life viz. with the Sound of his own Lifes Mercury in the Tune of the Song or upon some Musical Instrument as it is agreeable to his Life 's Mercury wherewith his vital Mercury doth joy and delight it self 45. Thus likewise God created us to his Love-Consort unto his Joy and Glory whereby he exalteth his Speaking Eternal Word or playeth in the same with us as with his Instrument 46. Therefore when this melodious Instrument was broken in its Sound by the wrathful Might of his Anger that is when Mans Image would play in its own Might both in Evil and Good in Love and Anger viz. in its own self-will and would not yeeld it self to be used whereunto the Speaking Word had created it and departed out of Resignation into an Arrogation of Self and would play as it self pleased now good then bad Then this Instrument was against the Love of God in which no voyce breath or inkling of Anger is manifest or can be as in the light of the Fire no pain of the Fire is manifest 47. For the Will of the humane Mercury went out from the Will of the divine Speaking Word into its own self-will Thus it fell into the Centre of the Pregnatress of all Essences viz. into the Anguish Poyson and Death where Gods Anger viz. the Speaking in the Wrath took possession of it Here now was our distress we were forlorn Opprest in wrathful Death and woful Scorn If God had not restored us again We should have still been tumbling in Deaths pain 48. Thus dear Reader it is clearly set before you wherein Christ was tempted namely whether the Soul and the whole Man viz. the Image of the Speaking Word after that God had introduced the Spark of his Love again into the humane Property and freely given in it self again with the Love into it would now again enter into its first place and be Gods melodious Instrument in his Love or not or whether it would be a selfish Arrogator in its own Will and do what it s own Speaking would bring forth in the Enkindled Mercury of its Life whether it would suffer Gods Will to strike the Signature upon its Instrument or the Anger of God to strike it as before came to pass viz. in the First Adam 49. Here it was tryed Therefore said the Devil viz. the Organist in Gods Anger unto Christ That he should fall down and worship him and then he would give him all Dominion Power and Glory he should and might do what he please he should live and
according to the time viz. according to the Humanity 77. When Adam was in the Image of God and was neither Man nor Woman but both He stood forty days in Paradise without wavering and when he fell he stood even untill the third day viz. forty hours in the Sleep even till God did make or build the Woman out of him Thus Israel must be tempted forty days on Mount Sinai whether it would live in the obedience of God under the Wonders and mighty Acts and when as it could not be God gave them the Law of His Covenant as a Looking-glass of that which was promised in the Covenant therefore the temptation of the body was upon them forty years that the body must eat Manna to try whether Man could be remedied when as the body or outward person could not stand then Joshuah brought them through the water with the Covenant of the Type where Israel must serve with Sacrifices in the Covenant in the Type of the Final accomplishment until the time of Restitution came in and then the Valiant Champion in Battel stood 40. days in the Wilderness of the temptation and stood out the first Tryal of Adam in Paradise and the three hours of darkness on the Cross are the three hours of the Temptation of Christ when the Devil tempted him And again the forty hours of Christ in the Grave are the forty days of Adam in Paradise and the forty days of Moses upon the Mount and the forty years in the Wilderness and the forty days after the Resurrection before the Ascention are even one and the same and now when the Champion had stood out Adams Tryal the Soul was tempted forty days in the Humane property whether it would eat of Gods Word and live in full Resigned obedience in the Will of God and be a true Image Likeness and Similitude of the Divine Power in the Unsearchable Eternity according to the Trinity of the Deity 78. In the like manner let the Philosopher observe us that the essence of time doth also stand in such a property for man was created out of the Essence of time into an Image as an extract of all essences a compleat Image and likeness according to Time and Eternity ruling and standing in the Time and in the Eternity as an Instrument of the great infinite God with whom by and with his Spirit he would make and do what he pleased 79. Now man is the Instrument of God with or by whom he doth manifest his hiddenness both in his own Humane property viz. in the Essence and Image of God and then also through man as with the Instrument in the Mother of all Beings as in the Grand Mystery viz. in the Soul of the great world 80. Man hath power so far as he goeth as an instrument of God in Divine obedience as his Spirit doth guide and lead him that he can introduce the Earth which standeth in the Curse of God into the Benediction and make of Deaths-anguish the highest triumphant joy in the outward Pregnant Mother but he himself doth it not only his will doth labour with the understanding therein and doth conjoyn the Compacta which belong together as Life and Death which stand opposite to one another these he must joyn together and bring them into one by such an art as Time and Eternity are united by and in the man Christ and by him all those which give their will thereinto 81. He will see in his work all whatsoever God did in the Humanity when he brought it again into the Universal viz. into Paradise He will see how the Wrath devours and swallows up the fair Venus into his pricking thorny essence and how Venus doth fully yeeld in her self and how the Wrath also dyeth away in Venus and becometh wholly dark and black as a Coal for death and life do lie together both in the Death viz. in the obedience of God they both hold still unto him and suffer the Spirit of God to make of and with them what it pleaseth who introduceth them again into the Eternal will of God whereto he at first created them and thus the Essence standeth again in the beginning in the Order as God created it It must only stand in its Impression in the Verbum Fiat viz. in the Divine making until the day of Gods Separation when God will change the Time again into the Eternity 82. And when Jesus had drunk the cup and tasted the Vinegar mixed with Gall in the outward man and inwardly in the Love-property viz. in the Virgin the wrathful Anger of God then said the whole man Christ My God my God wherefore hast thou forsaken me For Gods Speaking Word stood still now in the Humane property and the new-born essentiality which was dead in Adam and was again quickned in Christ did cry with the same My God my God wherefore hast thou forsaken me For the Anger of God was by the Souls property entred into the Image of the Divine Essentiality and had devoured the Image of God 83. Here now the Image in the Creature of the Soul cryed My God my God wherefore hast thou for saken me for the Humane Image which disappeared in Adam and was again revived in Christs Incarnation should bruise the head of Gods Anger in the Fire-soul and change its Fire-might into Sol and now the Speaking Word of God did here forsake it and it fell into its souls wrath where it felt Gods Anger for the Speaking Word did so bring it through the Anger into Death and out of the Death again into the Solar life understand into the Eternal Sun 84. Like as the Candle dyeth in the Fire and out of that death the light power proceedeth viz. the great painless life so out of Christs dying and death the eternal Divine Sun should and must arise in the Humane property but the Selfness of the Humane property viz. the Souls own Self will to live in the Fires might must here dye and be drowned in the Image of Love and the Image of Love must also resign and give it self in unto the Wrath of Death that so all might fall down into death and arise in Gods will and mercy through death in the Paradissal Source in the Resignation that Gods Spirit might be all in all Hells eye must see through the Love as the light shineth out of the Fire and the Fire from the Darkness and the Darkness taketh its Original from the Eternal desire 85. And as Adam changed the likeness of God into the dark Deaths form so God did again change the likeness through his Fire-wrath out of Death into the Light he drew forth the likeness again out of death as a blossome groweth from the harsh Earth 86. Thus it goeth likewise in the Philosophick work Venus is forsaken when she receives the three wrathful properties into her self in wrath their wrath viz. the death doth devour her life whereupon she loseth
the colour and yet becomes a Death to the three forms in the Wrath for she drowneth Death with Love Thus the Life is made a death to death viz. to the Wrath and now they both do lie in the will of the Eternal Nature viz. in the Verbum Fiat which proceedeth with them the Divine way in manner as it proceeded forth into Essence in the beginning of the Creation for in the beginning Paradise viz. the Universal was manifest and the Love shone through the Death or Anger Even so it must be again Venus must become the Eye or Sight in the Wrath and then of Saturn Mars and Mercury there will be a Jupiter Mars becomes Sun and Saturn Moon and so Mars shineth with the Sun out of Saturn in Luna from Venus's eye and all Seven are only one Thus the strife hath an end and all is accomplished until the Resurrection of the body 87. And when Jesus had drunk the Cup and said My God why hast thou forsaken me then he said All is finished understand the work of mans Redemption and said further Father into thy hands I comit my Spirit and towed his head and gave up the Ghost Here the whole life of Christ resigned it self into the Fathers desire viz. into the Will of the Eternal Nature and fully gavein the Will of his Self-hood viz. his creatural will again into the Centre viz. into the first Mother whence the Soul-like Creature was produced that is into the grand Mystery of Eternity the Self-will must again enter into Natures End so that the selfness may wholly dye that Gods Eternal Will and Spirit may be and do only All in All in the Humanity and that the Creature might afterwards be alone his Instrument wherein he might do and work according to his good pleasure and thus God the Father hath in Christs death and entrance into our Humanity again received our self-hood into his Will and that this might be he first tinctured the Humanity with the Deity that the Humanity might be a pleasant sweet savour and offering to him in his power for afore death lay before it 88. Here the Love destroyed Death and opened the fast Seal that the Will might again enter into that which it was before it was the creature and even so we all must follow him upon the path which he hath made open for us none can see God unless God become first man in him which is brought to pass in Faiths desire and even then the Corrupt Will which is apprehended in the Death and Anger of God and which bloometh in the earthly essence and bringeth forth fruit unto death be wholly mortified and fall into the free Resignation into the Will and mercy of God and then the own will is with and in Christ at Natures end in the Grand Mystery of God viz. in Gods hands Gods hands are the Eternal desire or the Eternal will which is Unchangeable thus the Creatural Self-will dyeth it entereth wholly into the Nothing that it might no more live to it self but unto God 89. Thus it falleth out also in the Philosophick work when the Artist hath first seen great wonders which the Creatural and Natural will hath wrought in the power of Venus insomuch that he supposeth that he is nigh thereunto Even then Nature doth first dye in his work and becomes a dark night unto him the property and power of all the forms must give forth themselves from their Centre and fall unto Natures End all do freely yeeld over themselves as one dead Essence and there is no longer any effectual working therein all is divided in the Crown into the Thousand number and then it is again in the mystery at Natures End as it was before it came into the Creatural Being understand the Essential desire viz. the expressed Mercuty must again come unto the End of its selfness and resign it self into the Speaking Word 90. The Corporall Essence remaineth in the Centre of the four Elements until the judgment of God which now at Death standeth in the Centre of Sol viz. in the Compaction of Venus and Mercury which Compaction at Death falleth wholly into one thing viz. into one power of Jupiter that is into the Centre of the Liberty for here the desire to cold and heat goeth out all Earthly will and desire of the properties dyeth and there is no more any hunger after the Earthly or Deaths property CHAP. XII Of the Seventh form in the Kingdom of the Mother how the Seventh Kingdom viz. the Kingdom of the Sun is again opened and made alive set forth in Parable or by way of Similitude of Christs Resurrection 1. WE are not to think that when Christ dyed the natural Death in the Humane property that he dyed as to his creatural Soul much less as to the Deity also he did not disappear or dye in the Heavenly Essentiality and in the Heavenly Tincture this cannot be only the Will and Dominion of Self viz. of the outward World which domineered in man unto the own Will and own powers of the Selfish creature wherein man was disobedient to God I say he gave that wholly into the Fathers hands viz. into the End of Nature into the Fathers great Mystery not that it should be dead but that Gods Spirit might alone be the life thereof that the Divine Dominion might be in Christs Person that the Eternal Father might Rule and Reign with his Eternal Spirit in his Image and therefore God hath determined to keep the last judgment by this Jesus 2. Now the Creature of Christ doth not it alone but God in his Image through the Creature in the Dominion of his Eternal Spirit of all the three Principles which is the life and Dominion of every Being in each thing according to its property 3. And understand us aright when Christ dyed on the Cross the Name Jesus did not also dye which destroyed Death and Tinctured the expressed Word viz. the Form of the Deity or the Formed Word viz. the Soul with Love No it cannot be the Eternity doth not dy only the Spoken Word which standeth again in the desire of the Speaking viz. in the Fiat which changeth it self in its own Speaking viz. in the Self-desire and bringeth its own Sound into another form and Source then the Speaking Word had spoken it set it forth with the Verbum Fiat into a Form Signature and Will as Lucifer with his Royal throne and Adam also did when they both departed out of Resignation into Self hood the Instrument would be Master 4. The outward working Sensitive life wherein the Anger of God was set on fire did wholly dye away not that it should be a Nothing but it fell into the Nothing viz. into Gods Will into Gods working and feeling quite from the Will of the outward World which is evill and good so that it might no longer live to the World viz. to the Astrum in the walm of the
four Elements but to the Eternal Fathers Nature in the walm of the pure Divine Element the life of the outward world dyed 5. Thus the true Humane Life fell forth-with again into that place whence Adam had brought it viz. into Paradise whereupon Christ said to the Thief To day thou shalt be with me in Paradise it fell into Adams death whereby he dyed unto Paradise and sprang up in Adams Death as a new creature out of the old like as the branch springeth from the Corn and this it did from the might and power of the Speaking Word which of grace was entered with living essentiality into the disappeared Heavenly Essentiality of man and had freely given it self into the Centre of the Soul-like nature and also into the wrath of the Anger and Death in the Flesh and changed the Anger into Love and tinctured the corrupt blood in the Anger with the Love 6. The Divine Tincture Tinctured the Humane the Divine Sun entered into the Humane the Divine Sun entred into Adams night viz. into Adams sleep Gods Sun with the Name Jesus entred with Adams Soul and Humanity in Christs person into death understand into Adams sleep 7. When Christ dyed then Adam dyed also to his Self-hood in Christs death the Name Jesus was in Christ the Serpent-stroyer in Adams Humanity Christ entered into the Image of the first Adam so that the first Adam in the Humanity of Christ did become the same Christ and Serpent-stroyer indeed not in the same Creature but in the same Souls and Bodies property 8. The first Adam fell into Sleep viz. into the impotence of the Divine World and dyed in the death of Death the second Adam entered into the death of Death and took the death of Death captive in Himself viz. in the Humanity of Adam He was a death to Death and brought forth the Life out of Death into the Eternal Liberty He arose in the Divine Omnipotence in the Essence of the first Adam Gods Spirit in the Speaking Eternal Word brought forth Adam out of death in Christs Humanity Adam did arise in Christs Humanity and all the Children of Adam which are partakers of Christs Kingdom do arise in Christ all in Christs Flesh and Blood Soul and Spirit but every one in his Creature which he hath had here and mortified in Christs death 9. Every one is a particular twig but there is only one Tree which is Christ in Adam and Adam in Christ only One not two only one Christ in all Christians so that I may say If I be dead in Christ unto the World I am the same Christ viz. a branch on the same Tree 10. But seeing that I in the outward man do yet live in my Self-hood therefore I must also dye with the outward man in Christs death and arise and live in him Now therefore I live with the Will of Faith in the mind in Christ and am a Christian in the Will of the Mind in the desire of Faith and receive Christ with his Humanity into my Will and cast my Will into his death and thus my inward man is also dead in Christs death and liveth no longer to Self-hood but I am resigned in him and lie buried in his death but being He is arisen in Gods Will I also live in His Resurrection in Him but my Earthliness in its Selfness liveth to the Earthly World until it also dyeth quite to Self-hood and entereth into the Resignation and Putrifaction and then Christ will awaken it through my inward man which now liveth in Him 11. Like as he is arisen from the Dead even so shall I who shall dye to the Earthliness in Him viz. in my first Father Adam in the Name Jesus as a Christian in Christ my twig withered in Sin on the Tree shall obtain strength and sap in the Name Jesus to life I shall and must spring forth afresh with my Humanity in Him as in my Stem who is become a Heart and Power in my Father Adam and bring forth fruit to the praise of God 12. My Will-spirit which now is in Christs Humanity and liveth in Christs Spirit that shall in Christs power give Sap to the dry tree that it shall again arise at the last day in the sound of the Trumpet of the Divine Breath in Christs voyce which also is my voyce in his Breath and spring afresh in the Tree Christ viz. in Paradise the Paradise shall be in me all whatsoever God hath and is shall appear in me as a Form and Image of the Divine Worlds being all colours powers and vertues of his Eternal Wisdom shall be manifest in me and on me as on his likeness I shall be the manifestation of the Spiritual Divine World and an instrument of Gods Spirit wherein he maketh melody with Himself with this Voyce which I my self am as with his Signature I shall be his Instrument and Organ of his expressed Word and voyce and not only I but all my fellow-members in the glorious Tuned Instrument of God we are all strings in his Joyful Consort the spirit of his mouth doth strike the tune and note on our strings 13. And therefore God became Man that he might again repair his glorious Instrument which he has made for his praise which perished as to him and would not sound according to the desire of his joy and Love and did introduce again the true Love-sound into the strings yea he hath introduced the voyce which soundeth in his presence again into us viz. into his Instrument he is become that I am and hath made me that which he is so that I may say that I am in my Resignation in him his Trumpet and the sound of his Instrument and Divine voyce at which now I do rejoyce in all my fellow-strings and voyces which with me are tuned and set as an Eternal work unto the praise and glory of God 14. Thus know ye now my Fellow-voyces in the praise of God that I sound with my string played upon in the Spirit upon and in your Note and thus sing I unto you that whatsoever Jesus hath done through the Christ viz. through his and my Humanity the same he doth yet to day in me and in all my fellow-members he dyed to my Self-hood in his death and I also dye to my self-hood in his death He is given up to his Resignation in God his Father and God his Father hath araised him up with the spirit of his mouth in him and set him forth for the Royal Image according to the holy Trinity through and with whom God will judg all things in the place of this World 15. Thus God also hath awakened in him my Spirit and Soul through his Spirit in the great Name Jesus in Christ so that I in my Resignation in him need not to dye for he dyed in me and for me his death in that he is arisen from death is become my Eternal life so that now I live in his
desire to thy Self but wholly and fully introduce thy Desire again with the Resignation into the Eternal viz. into Gods Will that the same Will may be thy Will and Desire 7. Without this there is nothing but misery and death a continual dying and perishing for hence ariseth the Election of Grace If the Humane will which is departed out of the Unity of Eternity and entred into a self-fulness viz. into a selfish Lust and desire doth again break it self off from Self hood and enter into the mortification of Self-will and introduce its desire again only into the first Mother then the first Mother doth again choose it to be its Child and maketh it again one with the only Will of Eternity but that Will or Person which continueth in Self-hood he continueth in the Eternal Dying viz. in an Eternal selfish enmity and this also is only called Sin because that it is an Enmity against God in that the Creature will be at its self-ful command and Government 8. Thus in its Self-hood viz. in a Contentious strife-ful Dominion it cannot either will or do any thing that is good and as it doth impose awaken and powerfully stir up to its Self nothing else but the Dying and Death so likewise it can do nothing else unto its fellow-members for hence also ariseth the falshood or lyes that the Creature denyeth the Union with or in the Will of God and setteth his Self-hood in the place so that it goeth forth from the Unity into Desires and self-Lusts If it did but truly know that all Beings were its Mothers which hath brought it forth and did not hold the Mothers Substance for its own but for Common then the Covetousness Envy Strife and contrary Will and Enmity would not arise from which the Anger viz. the Fire of Destruction doth arise 9. All Sins arise from Self for the Self-hood doth force it self with the Desire into its Self-fulness it maketh its Self Covetousness and Envy it draweth in its own Desire strange Effence into it self and maketh the Possessor of the strange Essence also an enemy against it self so that Sin is wrought with Sin Vileness with Vileness and all run confusedly in and among one another as a meer Abomination before the Eternal Mother 10. In like manner also we are to consider of the regenerate Will which goeth out of its selfishness or Self-hood again into the Resignation the same becomes also an Enemy and an Abominate to self-hood as Sickness is an enemy to health and on the contrary Health an enemy to sickness Thus the Resigned Will and also the Self-Will are a continual enmity and an uncessant lasting War and Combate 11. Self-will seeketh only what serveth to its self-hood and the resigned Will is not at all careful but bringeth its Desire only and alone into its Eternall Mother that it might be One with her It will be a Nothing that the Mother might be alone all in it Self-will saith to the Resigned Will thou art foolish in that thou givest thy self to death and yet mightest well live gloriously in me but the Resigned Will faith thou art my Abominate Pain and Enmity and bringest me out of Eternity into a Time only into perplexity and misery thou plaguest me a while and then thou givest my Body to the Earth and the Soul to Hell 12. True real Resignation is the mortification of the Abominate against God He that wholly forsaketh his Self-hood and giveth himself up with Mind and Desire Senses and Will into Gods mercy into the Dying of Jesus Christ he is dead to the Earthly World with the Will and is a two-fold man where the Abominate worketh only in it self to Death but the resigned Will liveth in Christs death and ariseth up continually in Christs Resurrection in God and albeit the Self-desire sinneth which indeed can do nothing else but sin yet the Resigned Will liveth not in sin for it is mortified to the desire of sin and liveth through Christ in God in the Land of the Living but Self-hood liveth in the Land of Death viz. in the continual Dying in the continual Enmity against God 13. The earthly man is in the Curse of God and is an Abominate before Gods holiness he can do nothing else but seek his Self-hood for he is in the Wrath of God and albeit he doth something that is good yet he doth it not from his own self-will but the Will resigned in God compelleth him that he must do what his Self would not willingly do and now if he doth it he doth it as an Instrument of the Resigned Will not from his own Desire but from Gods Will which guideth the Resigned Will in its Desire as an Instrument 14. Therefore now whosoever will see the Kingdom of God and attain thereunto he must Educe or bring forth his Soul out of self-hood out of the Earthly Desire as the Physitian brings forth the Cure of the Desease from the painful Tormenting desire and introduceth it into a Love-desire and then the Cure also bringeth forth the Sickness in the Body out of the painful Desire and sets it into a Love-desire Sickness becomes the Physicks servant and so likewise the evil Earthly will when the Souls will is cured is the Resigned wills servant 15. The Elemental and Sydereal man must only be the instrument wherewith mans Soul laboureth in the Resigned Will for thereto God hath also created it but the Soul hath made and set up it self in Adam for Lord and Master and is entered into his Prison and given its Will thereinto but if it will be acknowledged for Gods child then it must again dye to the same and be wholly mortified to the earthly Self-hood and Desire in Gods Will in Christs death and be wholly regenerated a new in Gods Will and deprive the earthly Will in Self-hood of its power and rule over it and guide it in subjection and command as a Master his Instrument and then Self-hood loseth the power and prevalency and the lust of Self-hood ariseth as a continual longing Self-hood doth then continually long after the forms of its own life viz. after Self-glory and after earthly Abundance also after Envy and Anger whether it may be able to attain that Abundance and also after the cunning lyes of falshood these are the vital forms of the Earthly Self-hood 16. But the Resigned Will doth as a potent Champion continually bruise the head of this Serpent and saith Thou art arisen from the Devil and Gods anger I will none of thee thou art an Abominate before God And although the Resigned Will is sometimes captivated with false lust when it doth overwhelm and over-power it with the Devils desire and insinuation of its Imagination yet the Resigned Will doth forth-with cry unto the Word of God That Gods Will doth again bring it out of the Abominate of Death 17. The Resigned Will hath no rest here in this Cottage but must always be in Combat for it
into the deepest Humility before him it suffereth and doth all things readily only that it might but receive grace it is willing to take the Cross of Christ upon it self and regardeth not at all the scorn of all the World in its Self-hood but continually presseth forward into Christs Love-desire this Desire doth only grow out of Christs Death and out of his Resurrection in God and bringeth forth fruit in Patience which are hidden in God of which the earthly man knoweth nothing for it findeth it self in its Self-hood 29. A true Christian is a continual Champion and walketh wholly in the Will and Desire in Christs Person as he hath walked up and down upon the Earth Christ when he was upon the Earth desired to overcome Death and bring the humane Self-hood in true Resignation into Divine Obedience and this likewise a Right Christian desireth to do he desireth continually to dye to the Iniquity of Death and Wrath and give himself up to Obedience and to arise and live in Christs Obedience in God 30. Therefore dear Brethren take heed of putting on Christs Purple mantle without a Resigned Will the poor Sinner without Sorrow for his Sins and Conversion of his Will doth only take it in scorn to Christ Keep you from that Doctrine which teacheth of self-ful Abilities and of the works of Justification 31. A true Christian is himself the great and anxious Work which continually desireth to work in Gods Will and forceth against the self-ful Lusts of Self-hood and willeth continually so to do and yet is many times hindered by Self-hood He breaketh Self-hood as a Vessel wherein he lieth captive and buddeth forth continually in Gods Will-spirit with his Desire Resigned in God as a fair blossom springeth out of the Earth and worketh in and with God what God pleaseth 32. Therefore let the true Christendom know and deeply lay to heart what is now told and spoken to her viz. that she depart from the false Conjecture or Opinion of comforting without conversion of the Will it is only an outward expressed form of the New birth a Christian must be one spirit with Christ and have Christs Will and Life in him the form doth not renew him neither comforting or giving good words doth at all help or avail but a mortifying of the evil imbred Will which is Gods child and born out of Christs death no other Will attaineth Christs Inheritance my much knowing doth not also do it the Heardsmen in the Field is as near to me as the Doctor no wit or subtle art in Disputation about the way of God doth help or avail any thing thereto it is only a let and hinderance the true Will entreth into the Love of God and his Children it seeketh no form but falleth down before its Creator and desireth the death of its false Self-hood it seeketh the work of Love towards all men it will not flourish in the Worlds scorn but in its God its whole life is a meer repentance and a continual sorrow for the evil which cleaveth unto it It seeketh no glory or applause to shew it self but liveth in humility it acknowledgeth it self always as unworthy and simple its true Christianity is always hidden to it in its self-hood He saith I am in myself-hood an unprofitable Servant and have not as yet begun to do or work repentance aright He is always in the beginning to work repentance and would always fain reach the gates of the sweet grace he labourech thereto as a Woman in Travel laboureth to bring forth and knows not how it fareth with him the Lord hideth his face from him that his working may be great towards him He soweth in anguish and tears and knoweth not his fruit for it is hidden in God as a painful Traveller goeth a long way ayming at his wished for journeys end so also he runneth after the far mark of his rest and findeth it not unless his Pearl doth appear unto him in its beauty and embraceth him in its Love If it again departeth from his Self-hood then ariseth sighing and sorrowing again with continual Desire and one day calleth another the day the night and the night the morning and yet there is no place of Rest in the Earthly Self-hood save only in the fair Solar lustre of his precious Pearl when the Sun ariseth to him in the Darkness then the Night departeth and all Sorrow and Anguish fly away 33. Therefore dear Brethren learn to take heed and beware of Contention where men contend about the literal Form A true Christian hath nothing to contend for for he dyeth to his Reasons desire he desireth only Gods knowledg in his Love and Grace and letteth all go which contendeth and striveth about the Form for Christs Spirit must make the Form in Himself the outward Form is only a guide God must become Man or else Man becomes not God 34. Therefore a Christian is the most Simple or plainest man upon the Earth as Esaias saith who is so simple as my Servant All Heathens desire Self-hood and do teer and devour one another for the Authority and Honours but a true Christian desireth to dye to them he seeketh not his own but Christs honour All whatsoever contends about Self-hood viz. about the self ful honour and pleasure of this Life the same is Heathenish and far worse then Heathenish yea like the Devil who departed from God into a Self-fulness Let it cover it self with Christs mantle as much as ever it will yet the man of false Self-hood is lodged under it if he will be a Christian then he must quite dye to Self-hood that the same may only hang unto him from without as a Garment of this World wherein he is a Stranger and Pilgrim and always consider and think that he is but a servant in his high Office and serveth God therein as a Servant and not be his own Lord and Master 35. All whatsoever doth Lord it self without Gods call and appointment the same is from the Devil and serveth the Devil in his own Power and Form defend and flatter thy self as much as thou wilt it doth not avail before God thy own heart accuseth thee that thou art a false branch thy Nobility and Highness doth not at all avail or help thee in the Sight of God If thou dost not thereby drive Gods Order thy Office is not thine but Gods If thou walkest falsly therein then thy own judgment is upon thee and condemneth thee to death thou art a Servant and although thou beest a King yet thou servest and must enter with the poorest into the new birth or else thou shalt not see God 36. All self-ful assumed or arrogated Laws and Authority wherewith the poor are vexed and oppressed do all come from Self-hood whose Original is in the expressed form which hath with the Form introduced it self into a Self-hood and extroduced it self quite from God Whatsoever doth not serve in a Servants Office before
cavil and carp at any thing but what danceth as they pipe but I value not their Censures but pity their Letter-learned mock-sciences being but the courted shadows of their own amused fancy such as these being captivated in the Mystery of Babel do Wonder only after their Beast Mammon upon which they ride in Pride and scorn any thing but what doth please and flatter them in their admired works of Covetous iniquity gilded over with seeming holiness but the Babylonish Structure of their Turba Magna-miracles will fall when it hath attained the highest limit of its Constellation and no wit of man shall be able to prop it up In the mean time the Antichrist in Babel will rage and domineer and execute the Sentence of Wrath or his own dismal doom upon himself But I will not transgress by too large a digression but come to my intent which is to explain thee some words which I have used in this Translation as Flagrat Lubet Source Sude The Translators Exposition of the word Flagrat The word in the Germane is Scbra'ck which signifies properly a Fright sudden Astonishment or Dismayment in the other Books it is translated Terrour and Crack but I have put it Flagrat from the Latin word Flagro although by it I mean not a burning but even the powerful opening of the Life or Death in the enkindling of the Fire in Nature for the Fire is the dividing bound mark wherein the life of both Principles is Opened and Se Vered the life of the first is the dying death in the darkness and the life of the Second is the living life in the Light you may perceive a Resemblance of this Flagrat in Thunder and Lightning so also in Gun powder or the like as take divers Sulphrous Salnitral minerals exactly mixt now their Powers are as I may say contracted or shut up in the Astringent dark Desire or Death but touch them Rightly with the true Fire and you will see how they will soon open disclose and flash forth and even display and stream forth themselves into divers properties colours and vertues It is even the bursting forth of the Ardent Desire in Nature It is as I may term it the Magical Fire-breath whereby the powers either of Light or Darkness are dismayed In brief it is the pregnant Eccho of the sound of Eternity every where speaking working and opening it self in Love or Anger in each thing according to its Will and Desire In some it is the horrible Flagrat to Death and in others it is the pleasant Triumphant Flagrat to Life Lubet The word in the Dutch is Lust which signifies a longing desire or list to a thing also a delight delectation or contentful joy Sometimes Imagination and Lust but because our word Lust is commonly used in the worst sense viz. for a longing after Evil and Vanity and would not properly to agree or fully express the Germane word Lust in all places I have generally translated it Lubet from the Latin word Lubitum whereby is meant the Divine beneplacitum or good pleasure by it is understood the Original to a Desire in the Eternal Nothing or Pregnant Magick Gods free wel-liking to the Desire of the manifestation of Nature and Creature without which all had been an Eternal Stilness in the Nothing This Lubet in man is the moving will to Good or Evil Light or Darkness Love or Anger Source By this is meant the first Original Qualities or Properties of both the inward Principles as they do break forth in the Sude of the Fire in the Flagrat of Love or Anger in Nature or Creature for in the Darkness the Love-Ens or Paradissical Light is shut up in Death and causeth an austere dark Source Pain Horror Torment or Disquietness and so it is the radical Property of the contentious Elements and Stars in the Curse of God and in the Light the Life of Love breaks forth and swallow up this wrathful Source of Darkness and Death and turns it into Joy or a divine Source So that by Source understand the Original Quality Property or Qualification of Evil Darkness Anger Sorrow Cursing Damnation Death Hell or the contrary to these in their divine Source or essential working Property both according to Time and Eternity Sude The word Sude is Germane and signifies a Boyling or Seething It is the Stirring of the Seven Properties in Nature arising from the Assimulation or essential co-influence of the outward and inward Sol in Sulphur whence the bloomy Vegetation of the Earth proceeds also the Generation of Metals and Mynerals doth lie therein These are some unusual Words which I have used in the rendering this Book into English not that I would make it a Strange-Lation or be a Coyner of new words to amuse the mind only but to express as well and as fitly as I could the Authors Intent and scope although I cannot say I have every where attained to the full and lively expression of the Authors meaning for as Nature did open its knowledg in him so likewise its language so that in some words there may be a proper and peculiar Idea which our English words in some places perhaps do not so fully express yet I hope none shall find the Authors Sence falsified or perverted but truly translated according to the Original Copy which I have Words they are but Vehicula rerum they are formed to express things and not bare Sounds or empty Ayrs Now He that rightly understands the ground of the Cabala and Magia and knows how the Language of Nature speaks in every Tongue may well translate this Author but the bare letter of his Writings though never so exactly translated will not give a man the understanding of them but the Spirit of Regeneration in Christ in whom the fulness of the Deity dwelleth bodily I should be glad that any one would take the Pains to amend what I have done Amiss and render them more easie to a vulgar capacity It shall be enough for me that I have made him but stammer in English with a Babes tongue God in due time may raise up those that will do them better for all things in this World come by child-like steps or gradually to their Perfection In the mean time I shall adventure to put one Book more God willing into English which is the chiefest of all his Writings if any may have the preheminence and that is the Mysterium Magnum or A deep and Theosophical Exposition upon the whole first Book of Moses called Genesis The SeVerall Names and Titles of the Authors Books collected out of his Writings and put into Seven Parts THe first Book called Aurora or The dawning of the Eternal Day was written in the year 1612. It was taken from him before it was finished and kept by the Magistracy of Gerlits with strict command to him that he should not meddle with writing Books which belonged not to his Vocation whereupon he did forbear for Seven years but