is the Seperation between Gods Name and Natures Name also between the Love-source or quality and the Naturall fierce wraths source or quality 495. In the Fire exist Two Principles viz Two Magia's Two desirous Wills viz the Lights and the Fires 496. The Light is a desire of Love Meeknesse and Substantiality and that is in the Eternity called God The Light is the Majesty the Lights desire is the Other or second Center or the Heart of God the Substantiality is Gods Substance it is the Water source or quality or the Spirit of the Eternall Joys Life 497. And the Fire maketh in the Water-source or quality the Tincture or Life so that Gods Substantiality is a Life That very Lights Substantiality is the Words or Hearts Cerporeity wherein the Great Mystery of the Will of the Abysse viz the Wisdome becometh Manifest 498. And the Fire is another Principle then the Light it hath a fierce wrathfull stinging consuming Desire climing up in Might and Pomp it willeth to consume and swallow up all into it self it is a cause of the Covetousnesse its Bitternesse is a Cause of the Envy for it is the sting of Death and Anger 499. And here goe back into the Formes to Fire and then thou wilt find the Dark World and the hellish fierce Wrath and in the Fire GODS Anger which the Light viz his Heart holdeth captive in the Love-Source or Quality and allayeth or meekeneth the Fires fierce-Wrath 500. For the Water of the Eternall Life generated or born out of the Meeknesse viz Gods Substantiality maketh out of the Divine Fire-source or quality another source or quality viz the climibing up of the Divine Joys Kingdome The Fire-source or quality must only be a cause of the Life and of the Light as also of the Spirit and of the Joys Kingdome 501. And heare the Name God severeth it self in the Trinity viz In the First Center to Nature viz the Eternall Will of the Fiat which in the Fire is a sterne severe zealous Substance and in the Light the cause of the Joys Kingdome and of the Spirit of Life That is the Father of all Substances also of his Sonnes viz of the second Centers of the Love-desires 502. And The Other or second Center of the power of the Light is his Sonne or Heart and maketh in himself and in the Father the Second Principle viz the Angelicall World that is our right Fathers or Native Country which Christ brought into US againe 503. And The Spirit going forth from the Fire in the Light is the Third Person in the Light in the Love and the Joy-source or quality He is called God the Holy Spirit understand according to the Sonnes Center and according to the Fires Center he is called The Anger-Spirit of the Father 504. In the Dark World HE is the Life of the Hellish source or quality out of all Formes to Nature In the Fire HE is the Flame of the fierce wrathfull Anger of God the Father and in the Light HE is the flame of the Great Love of God He is the right Life of God and is also the Life of all the Three Principles of all the Three Worlds in each World according to its property and is only knowne or acknowledged and rightly called God the Holy Spirit according to the Love viz according to property of the Sonne of God Else he is called the Spirit of the Nature of all things or Substances 505. Seeing we here goe so deep we will therefore shew you somewhat more out of true Love and not out of a Desire so totally to reproach you because of your unskilfulnesse or ignorance for we know you better then you do your selfe and though we are zealous over you yet it should be understood heartily as a reproofe of your high climbed stately proud Will over the Spirit of God from which I have my knowledge 506. Consider of the Principle of Fire and see how the Dead ariseth and how he dieth Behold the Fire is a great hungry desire after Substance and if it cannot have that then it extinguisheth 507. Here consider the Great desire of the Father after the Sonne viz. of the first Principle after the second how the Father thus in great desire loveth the Sonne for he is his life else were the Fathers Life a dry fainting hunger like the Devills and the Dark World for the Fire burneth not without the Substance of the Water-Spirit 508. Here consider what befell the Devill when he lost Gods Love and Meeknesse then he remained to be a dry hunger in the fierce Wrath of the Eternall Nature thus it goeth also with the Soul of Man for they originate all alike out of the Eternall Nature 509. Now see further what in the Center of the Fire is the Possibility and Substance you understand now that the fierce wrathfull Fire-source must have Substance and that the Fire-source or quality it self longeth after Substance and if the Fire get the Substance or the Substantiality of the Water-source or quality into it self then the Fire consumeth that Substantiality and then is the dying of the Substantiality for the Substantiality goeth againe into the Still Eternity without besides or beyond Nature viz into the Nothing 510. And you see rightly that yet there is no Dying but the Light goeth forth out of that very Death out of the Consumtibility forth and the Light is then first the power of the understanding and of the Thoughts or Senses Thus Death ariseth out of the Fire-Life viz into another World viz into the Eternall Nothing into the Liberty without besides or beyond Nature 511. And you see now that the Light dwelleth in the Fire without Source Quality or Torment and knoweth nothing of the fierce wrath of the Fire for it is in its Essence a Love Desire Thus have I written that the Deity viz. Gods Center knew nothing of the fall of the fierce wrathfull Devills but the first Principle know it viz the Father according to the Fires Nature and according to the Desire and according to the hunger in the Dark world 512. Here consider beloved Men and brethren in Christ what the suffering and dying of CHRIST as also OUR Dying is How our Soul must in Christs Death be introduced into the Center of the Hell of Gods Anger into the Principle of Gods Fire and go quite through the source or quality of the consumptibility into the other World viz into the Liberty into the Center of the Love of God 513. For Adam's Soul had turned it self out and was Dead to the Light in the Substantiality and therefore the second Adam brought the Soul againe into the Fire viz into Gods Anger-source or quality and kindled the Light againe in Death and there the Light shone againe in the Darknesse That was Death to Death and a Pestilence to the Anger viz to Hell 514. The Soul was gone forth out of the Liberty of God into the Nature of this World viz
lost the Life understand the right Divine Life of his Noble Image and that hath Christ brought again he hath generated that Image out of Death againe the living Word out of Gods Heart is entered into the Image shut up in Death and hath assumed or taken THAT Essence to himself and become a true Man such a Man to whom the outward Body only hung which stood swallowed up in the right Image but in the outward World manifest 271. He hath also therewith put on again to the Soul the holy Body viz the Innocent or Immaculate and into that holy Body hath taken a humane Soul out of Mary's Souls Essence-seede therefore must Christ afterwards be Tempted and want the outward food for Forty Dayes 272. For the Soul must be tempted to try whether now in that holy Body it would Eate of Gods Substance and satiate it self and therefore it was permitted to the Devill to Tempt the Soul 273. Seeing he Excused himself that he could not stand because the Matrix of the fierce wrathfull Nature had drawen him too hard therefore now he should tempt and try it with THIS Man as he had also tempted and tryed it with Adam and overcame him 274. Therefore God sent another or second Adam and set him upon the Kingly Throne which he had there he should tempt or try with him whether he could also give him a Fall He now set before him the Glory of this outward World viz the outward Eating or foode 275. And though indeed that was not at hand therefore that he should with his Noble Image and Divine strength goe into the outward and command Stones to become bread to try whether he could bring it to that that the Noble Image might yet become captivated and shut up in Death 276. And then he set before him the Great power and authority he had he should with the Divine Omnipotency in the outward kingdome flie from the Temple to try whether he might introduce him into the outward Lust so that Gods Love Spirit might depart from this Image whereas the Deity was only humble and Lowly he would introduce him into Pride 277. Thirdly he set before him the Dominion of the Outward world he should be a Lord in the Third Principle that he would let him only be a Lord in the Inward should fall downe and pray unto him or worship him 273. For the Devill had to doe about the Kingly Seate that this Man was to possesse Therefore it was permitted to him viz to the Devill to Tempt HIM so that if he stood the Devill should remaine a Lyer and his Judgement be upon his own Lying Mouth or Tongue The Conception and Becoming Man or Incarnation of Jesus Christ is with its Circumstances as followeth 279. WHen the Divine Image in Adam was vanished or disappeared Then God pittied it and would that this Image might be helped againe and Promised to Adam and Eve the Crusher of the Serpent viz the Word and Power of the Deity that should take the Womans seede understand the disappeared Image Essence into it self and therewith destroy the sting of the Devill and the Anger of God in the Soul 280. That very Promised Word stood neverthelesse presented to the Noble Image now shut up in Death and desired its former dwelling house of its similitude for a Delightfull habitation 281. But by or with the Promise it hath set it self before the Soul againe in the Light of the Life of the Soul and set a Limit or Mark thereto whereby it would againe enter into the in Death inclosed right humane Essence and awaken the Life from Death 282. That Limit or Mark was set in Mary the Virgin and became blessed in the Word of Promise in Paradise and stood as a Center or Limit of the Humanity 283. Gods Heart had promised and espoused or united it self in that Limit or Mark That Limit or Mark became adorned with the highly precious Virgin of the wisdome of God viz with the Looking Glasse or Eye of the Holy Spirit indeed not with any strange thing but with the first Life understand the Divine of the Noble Image in Adam from which Adams Soul went forth into the Spirit of this outward world viz into the source or quality of the Starres and Elements whose Center is the Abysse of the first Principle 284. This blessed Limit or Mark was promised to the Fathers viz to Adam Abraham David and others O how have the Prophets delighted and rejoyced at this Limit or Mark the sacrifices of the Jewes were a Type of this Limit or Mark. 285. For when Adam had lost the pure and faire Image understand the power of the Heart of God which stood in his body of the Heavenly Substantiality as a Center of the Deity then stood the Soul barely in the Fathers Property understand the Eternall Nature which without the Light of God is a fierce wrathfull and Consuming fire 286. For the Soul is out of that Center viz out of the Eternall Nature of the Father and therefore was that Soul in Israel lead so long a while even unto the Limit or Mark in the Father Nature 287. The Law on Mount Sinai was given in Fire and Thunder in the Fathers Nature and Moses was also called in the Bush by the Fire-flame in the Fathers Nature 288. And Christ also sayd thus when he came in the Flesh Father the Men were thine and thou hast given them to ME and I give them Eternall Life 289. That highly blessed Limit or Mark stood in the Grace Covenant of the Sacrifices with or in Israel The Sacrifices were a Signe or Type of the Limit which God set before them and Israel became in the Sacrifices through the Limit or Mark ransomed from sinne 290. Israel offered Sacrifice with the bloud of Beasts that Gods Imagination looked upon through the Limit or Mark of his Covenant since Man was become Earthly therefore God set the Limit or Mark before himself for a Covenant of Grace that his Imagination might not enter into the Earthly source or quality and that his anger Fire might not be awakened with Mans Earthlinesse and Sinne and so he devoure them as was done by Eliah 291. The Circumcision of the Jewes was also this that Israel must shed its Bloud and that Gods Imagination looked on through the Limit or Mark of his Covenant For Christ should destroy Death with the shedding of his bloud It should fall into the Anger of God viz into the Souls Fire and quench the kindled Fire of God 292. Therefore now God Imaged or represented to himself in the Covenant the bloud-shedding of Christ and quenched with this Imagination the fierce wrath in the Soul and through THAT became Israel saved such as with earnest sincerity have set or put their Will and Imagination into the Covenant they have received or conceived the power of the Limit or Mark in the Covenant viz
expected in me and so how much I want of the Infinite effect of being able to dwell with the Eternall Burnings I may well account my self one of the unworthiest of the children of Men John Sparrow The First APOLOGIE To Balthazar Tylcken Being An Answer of the Authour concerning his Book the AVRORA Opposed by an Enemicitious Pasquil or Opprobrious Libel This Answer Written Anno 1621. By Jacob Behme Also called Teutonicus Philosophus Englished by JOHN SPARROW LONDON Printed by M. S. for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his Shop at the Black-Spread-Eagle at the West end of St. Pauls 1661. A brief and well intended Answer of the Authour concerning his Book AVRORA against the enimicitions Pasquil or Libel in respect of some opposed and falsly recited Articles or Conclusions and ill-understood by this Libeller 1. INto what Calamity Misery Anxiety and great Perplexity we are plenged by the heavy fall of Adam is dayly demonstrated in that we have not only thereby obscured and darkened our Noble Image so that we cannot any more see or apprehend the Divine Light unlesse we become borne of God againe but also we have thereby awakened and made stirring in US the Originall fierce Wrath of the Eternall Nature so that the fierce wrath venome and poyson thereof is become Springing up and burning in us 2. Which is rightly called GODS Anger-Fire which should not become stirring and Manifest but continue shut up in the Center for it should remaine shut up in the Love in the Divine Light and be only a cause of Life and Mobility 3. Which so long as it remaineth shut up in the Light is a Spring or Fountaine of Joy and Knowledge but if the Light Extinguisheth is an Evill Opposite Poyson wherein nothing qualifyeth or operateth but meere self Enmity or Hatred where instantly all Love and desire of Good hath an End 4. As we poor Children of Eve must now feele in us with great paine sorrow and Misery how that fierce wrath stirreth driveth and vexeth us so that now we no more converse one with another in Love as Children of God but very venomously spitefully hatefully murtheringly and enimicitiously doe maliciously persecute dispise slander and reproach also rob Murther and doe all manner of Evill and alwayes wish death fierce wrath and all Evill one to another 5. Which great Misery and Evill is sufficiently to be traced in this Libell and out of what manner of Mind knowledge and Will it is flowen forth in that he undertakes not only to Misconstrue the words but also to wrest the whole understanding into a false meaning or sense and to pronounce the Authour to be a Devill and in a very vaunting reproachfull spitefull Malicious and Odious manner likeneth the Authours Will or Intent thought or sence and mind to the Devill without any knowledge of him who he is how he is or what Spirit 's Child he is whether he seeks God or this World 6. Thus he takes upon him to infinuate his innate poyson into the Heart thought or sense and Will or intention of the Authour all which is very horrible lamentable and Miserable in that he knoweth not himself or from what Mind his Zeal proceeds and in whose driving he runneth 7. He cannot see that his whole writing is a meer venomons Pasquil or Libel and Evill meaning or intention for though that which is spoken is not reproveable by him yet he can not leave it unreproached whereby a man may cleerly see out of what Spirit and Mind it is flowen forth and how the miserable fierce wrath hath ruled in him and yet he dares set in his Title that it is Christian-like and well intended 8. But if he would set any thing better in the room of it it might indeed be born with But I can find in all his Writing no Divine Knowledge and Light which yet he highly boasteth of as if he had an enlightened Mind and Thoughts and were Exercised therein 9. An Enlightened Mind or thoughts if the Light be from God proceedeth friendly and lovingly and instructeth a Man what he should Doe and leave undone it owneth others in a brotherly Duty it hunteth not Mens Minds into the Jawes of the Devill but they are Gentle in reproving and teaching with Good instruction They reprove in Generally they catch not hold of a Man Privately particularly and Singly and make not a Den of Theevery or Murther by the Good Way side 10. An Enlightened Mind which hath Exercised Thoughts as the Libeller would seem to have knoweth the Gifts of God that they are without End or Number that God Leadeth his Children Wonderfully and giveth to one a Divers gift to Expresse than to another as the Apostle also witnesseth the same 11. That God giveth to one from the gift of his Spirit to do Miracles or Wonders to another to interpret Tongues to a Third to Prophesie to a Fourth to speak with Tongues c. and all from the One only Spirit of God which thus speaketh from the Great Wonders of the eternall Wisdome of God and thus Driveth and teacheth the Children of God that the unmeasurable Wisdome of God may appear in his Children 12. If the Spirit of God ruleth in a Man then he is NOT Crafty suttle Deceitfull trecherous Lying astonishing ambitious but reproveable teachable and Meek he is not thorney prickley Misconstruing and vainly frivolous he suddenly apprehends what is in a Man and from what Spirit he Speaketh For the Spirit of God it self knoweth it self very well in a Man it needeth no Witnesse it tryeth the Heart and the Reins Soul and Body it speaketh the Truth and disgraceth or reproacheth no man it drives on all to that which is good and proveketh Men to Righteousnesse 13. But this whole Libell or Pasquil is nothing Else but a Misconstruing poysoning and disgracing he draweth the Scripture by the hair of the Head and corrupteth it that he may but take occasion to prick with Thorns besides he hath no right understanding of the Scripture that must serve him as he will have it meane that he may therewith satisfie his fierce wrath and bring it as fuell to his ficrce Fire that it may burn farre and neere and so make shew of his Deep knowledge though he should thereby tread his Brother Abel under his feet 14. And yet his knowledge which he hath here brought forth to the Day Light Concerning GODS Will is as to one part in Bibell and he largely buildeth the Babylonish Tower therewith as it shall be set before his eyes which for my part I doe unwillingly but now necessity requires I must doe it 15. Not for my own sake but for the sake of those whom he hath kindled with his envious fire and poysoned and hath insinuated into them very Erroneous Opinions especially concerning Gods Election of Grace therefore it behoveth me to cleere my meaning how I have apprehended it in Divine knowledge and how also it
Paper of yours that he may discerne us both 58. He that desireth a full Explanation let him read the book of the Threefold Life he will find more then he would search for especially in the Three Principles which the Libeller or Pasquiller dare not well beleeve yet if he will be called a Christian and Doe that which is right let him read that he will see what Spirit 's Child I am perhaps we shall come neerer together and he may of a Saul become a Paul which I doe heartily wish in his behalfe and had much rather have a hearty good and Christian Conference with him concerning our IMMANVEL then this Controversie 59. Truly I say that my Book which he opposeth in some places needs a better Explanation for the simple understanding I am also very ready to doe it if any desire it for it stands in some places yet in a very Magick understanding 60. But there are also such Mysteries therein that the learned Schoolman or Master Alexen cannot number them for it hath pleased God to have it so I look upon the writings of the Prophets and see whether they be cleere in all places besides CHRIST himself taught also in Parables or Similitudes †Men should not cast Pearls before Swine 61. But what concerns the Articles of Faith which in this Book are still in a Magick understanding those in the other writings are set down cleer enough more then the Libeller or Pasquill requires or understandeth yet if any desire more cleering it shall be afforded him and if he desire proof thereof it shall also be given him 62. But he that desireth it not I have not written it for him let him leave it to me I write for my self and run after none I have not put it out to any Booksellers shop to sell if some people fearing God had not intimately Earnestly and in true Christian intention asked and entreated for it I had not given it to any at all 63. But since honest hearts fearing God are found whose Christianity is indeed sincere and in Earnest should Christian Love be withdrawen from them Or hath God given me it that I should put it under a stool or bury it in the Earth 64. Christ faith none Kindleth a Light or Candle and setteth it under a Stool or under a Bushel but setteth it upon a Table that all that are in the House may see by it The Divine Light will not be covered those that God giveth it to should let it shine for God will require an account of his Talent 65. Moreover what is it that Men contend about in the Christian Religion and dispute much The Christian Religion is no strise contention or Opinion it consisteth in the New Regeneration out of Christ in Faith from the Holy Ghost in Humility Love and Righteousnesse 66. A Christian must be borne of Christ he must have a Christian Will and desire and lead a Christian Conversation It is not only knowing will doe it and comforting ones self with Christs sufferings and be a Dissembling Hypocrite in the presence of God to speak one thing and Will Desire and Doe another and let the evill poysonous Worm of the Corrupt Natures Fire burn still and be but a Lip or Mouth-Christian 67. It lyeth not in knowing much that a man should tickle himself with Christs sufferings and set them alost on the Pinnacle and yet reteine the Evill Envious kindled poysonous worm Continually in the Heart and continually carry Fewel to its Fire I say that very Mantle will become hellish fire to Many that he hath known Gods will and will not enter thereinto and give up himself to him 68. A Christian must break his own Naturall Will and give himself up into Gods Will he must alwayes quench his Fire-will and Continually bring all the Thoughts of his Mind into the Obedience of God into the Love and Mercy of God in CHRIST into his becoming Man or Incarnation Suffering Dying Death and Resurrection he must will nothing but Gods Will in Christ 69. But this is his Desire that God may be his Will and Deed that God in him may be his knowledge he should continually slay the will of his Flesh and desire only GODS Will in himself that it may rule Drive and be the Deed in him 70. For man of himself doth no good thing but the Law of God which God writeth in his Nature that Doth the Good that very Law is the Eternall Word of the Deity and putteth on to it self Divine and heavenly substantiality viz. the New Body for it is become man and must also become Man in us 71. And in that Body standeth the right willing and doing and the performance and the ability of a Christian Man without that there is no Christian but the Antichrist and a spirituall Whoredome as the Revelation of St. John Testisyeth 72. Therefore it lyeth not in Disputing flying high and being accute desâ—â—ing and giving his brother to the Devill for God 〈…〉 as the V. Psalme speaketh and Ezekiel the 33. As truè as I live saith the Lord I will not the Death of a Sinner c. And Christ saith I am come to call sinners to Repentance and not the Righteous Also Isaiah faith Who is so simple as my Servant Also the Kingdome of God consisteth in Power What needs then such high flying and Contention 73. God respecteth a shiveered Broken Contrite and sighing heart that is affraid of his wrath that would alwayes fain Doe well that alwayes Desireth God and goodnesse that Co-worketh with God for what the Mind is desirous of that it receiveth be it necessity or Death or else the Kingdome of God for the Kingdome of God is not far off but within us we must become born of God if we will see God or receive Gods Will. 74. In Adam we lost Gods will and in the Promise of the Womans Seed we found it again for it presented it self with or by the Promise to all Men in the Light of Life and Espoused it self to the soul for a Bride Whatsoever soul is Entered thereinto out of that is the Noble Lilly Twig or Branch Sprouted up again and that is become Elected or Chosen to be the Child of God 75. But he that hath not willed but let the fierce wrath of the Eternall Nature deteing him hath the fierce wrath and Anger swallowed up into it self and kept him in the Abysse of the Originall in the first Principle out of which the Worme of the soul ariseth Originally 76. In that very regenerate will of God Israel is become born in God and in that very will is the Word of Eternall Life which maketh Divine Essence wherein the Divine Will becometh generated 77. And that is entered into Mary's Essence and Opened the in Death inclosed Will in MARY and brought sorth the Lilly of God and therein is become a true Man and hath received or
assumed a soul out of the in Death inclosed and now through Gods Motion Sprouting forth humane Essence into it self in which now Divine ability standeth for it is in the Word of the Light of Life and to that very will we must unite and give up our selves that it also may become MAN in US 78. In Adam the Ability was shut up in Death for the Divine Light Extinguished in Alams soul and in the Promise it stood before the soul for an Eye-Mark and in the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ it was brought again into the soul and shone again in the Darknesse 79. Though indeed in it self it was not Extinguished but Adams soul was entered into the spirit of this World and gone forth out of the Divine Principle it had received the spirit of this World for a Lodging thus stood the Light in it self in the Shining and was covered as to the soul 80. For the soul is another Principle then the Light as the Fire hath another source or quality then the Light so the soul is a Magick-fire introduced into Adam out of the first Principle and with the Moving of the Deity in the Divine Fiat became generated a Creature 81 For its Essence it hath been alwayes from Eternity but in the Creature in the time of the Bodies Creation became formed to the Image of God and yet it is not solely or entirely the right Image but the Essentiall fire to the Image if it attain the Divine Ligh viz the Second Principle then the Divine similitude groweth out of it in which God Dwelleth and in which Gods Will standeth which hath Divine Power Might or Strength 82. But if not and that it standeth barely in his Magick-fire and will not introduce Gods will into it self then it bringeth the Will of the Originall viz of the first Principle or of the Kingdome of this World which standeth in the Ground of the first Principle into it self the Image whereof also the Magick fire of the soul receiveth whence CHRIST called the Pharisees a Generation of Adders and brood of Serpents and Hered a Fox understand according to the Image of the inward Man which through the Imagination becometh generated and born 83. Therefore it lveth in the Imagination which when it receiveth the Divine Lightening in the aspect or Countenance of 〈◊〉 Light of God becometh impregnate of the Word of God and then is FAITH generated which then Eateth of Christs flesh and Drinketh of his Blood and taketh the Divine substantiality into it self wherein the true similitude and the Image of God standeth which then Eateth ex Verbo Domini of the Word of the Lord and of the bread of God of which Christ saith Whosoever eateth my flesh and Drinketh my bloud he continueth in me and I in him 84. Read the Book of the Threefold Life there it is explained with all Circumstances and cleered there a Man may understand what a Principle is and much more in the Three Books of the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and of or concerning his Mother MARY and also of the Eternall Mother where all is become brought forth out of the Center of Nature Also read the Three Principles there thou hast the Ground which is here too long to write neither doth the Libeller deserve it 85. Therefore I say still the true Christain Faith stands in no Conceit or Opinion much lesse in strife but in the New Birth out of the Word of Eternall Life which became Man and that must become Man in us or else we cannot see God as CHRIST saith to Nicodemus therein shineth the Light of God 86. We must give Divine sewell to our souls-fire if it be to burn in a Divine source or quality and if a Divine Light be to shine from it earthly fewell giveth an earthly source or quality and a Light according to that source or quality whatsoever a man kindleth in himself THAT burneth in him 87. But Gods kingdome standeth in Power in Love and Joy it searcheth after nothing for it hath all things beforehand only the soul searcheth it would enter into the kingdome of Rest and in the Earthly Body it sticketh in unquietnesse and therefore it searcheth after its Native Country out of which it went forth in Adam from Jerusalem to Jericho viz into it self into the originall of the first Principle and out of it self though the first Principle into the spirit of the outward World into the Multiplicity viz into the Stars and Elements into the source or torment-house where if findeth and learneth ARTS It will needs be as God and will know Evill and Good yes indeed it experienceth that It were better to be in Paradise 88. Therefore is all contention and strife concerning the kingdome of God only a fighting with a shadow a Babylonish work in the kingdome of Antichrist 89. A True Beleeving Christian ought not to strive or Contend with any about Religion let him strive only against himself against Flesh and Bloud and Endeavour for this how he may work the works of God in the Love of his Neighbour let him seek only Gods will and give himself up to that and Lead his Life in Obedience to the Will of God let him draw himself away from this World for he is not at home in this world and let him seek his brother as a Member of his own Soul and take him along with him 90. As one Member wisheth and doth all Good to the other so will also a Beleeving Soul Continually have his fellow Member with it and endeavoureth for this how it may shew his Brother any Good it alwayes sheweth him its Light and with or by its Imagination sets it before the Eyes of the soul to be looked upon and saith Come I pray hither for which things sake this Pen hath written so very much which the Pasquill or Libeller doth not understand for the Sting is in him 91. O how miserably and horribly hath he written of the Propagation of Man and Of the will of God whereas a Man whom the Devill assaulteth enough besides might Despair upon it therein sticketh Heresie that a man dares pervert the will of God who only willeth Good and make of Gods will a will of Evill or Malice 92. How very blind is he as to the knowledge of God how altogether Nothing doth he know of the Eternall Nature and of the Originall of the Will what the will to Good and to Evill is He rejecteth my A. B. C. little Book and sets the Babylonish Grammar in the 〈◊〉 of it Art 〈◊〉 doe the thing 〈…〉 Mine is bestowed upon me of Grace in the Love of God I shall well stand with mine against your it is as the Sun and the Moon to one another An honest Man fearing God who seeketh but Gods will may very well distinguish my writings and thine asunder 94. Dost thou suppose that men are satisfied by them Can they satisfie the heart and poor
his own Bosom before he condemneth others and passeth his judgement upon them 249. Is not Mary extracted or begotten of Joachim and Anna also Naturally conceived and borne as all the children of Adam then let him demonstrate it else his conceit will till then remaine untrue 250. But if he say if Mary were begotten of Joachim and Anna then were Christ begotten of sinfull seed as his high flowne Spirit runneth on and supposeth Then I say to him once for all that he is altogether blinde in the Divine Mystery and understandeth nothing thereof 251. He speakes indeed of the High Blessing of Mary but he draweth it to a strange Seede out of which Mary was begotten or extracted but he saith not with any ground what kinde of seede that was whether it was barely the Spirit of God or whether it was heavenly Substantiality or the Seede in the Word or was also somewhat of humane Essence 252. For the Humane Essence is to Him throughout sinfull he will not at all be born of Man but of God in like manner as if God in Christ had introduced a strange humanity and he throughout explaines it so He will only be born in Christ as the Dew of the Morning 253. But Sir Libeller hearken we will not be so evill as you are we will readily of Good Will shew you the true Ground in the Mysterie if you will not goe in that way then goe aside we have other Eyes then you have Have you Art then have we Light 254. You are not our Judge though you condemne me I am a childe of God in Christ and my seeing is proceeded from Gods seeing Therefore I will from a Good heart shew you my open Face though you are not able to apprehend how Christ is become conceived aad born of Humane Essence without sinne and you conclude throughout that I speak of Christ as if he were proceeded from sinfull seed though all indeed is very groundlesly Judged and your meaning standeth in Babell Therefore observe my Confession of Faith and acknowledgement as it followeth Exactly 255. God sayd to Adam when he stood in Paradise and lived in the Divine source or quality and substantiality What day thou eatest of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evill thou wilt dye the Death by Dying he meaneth not only the Outward Body which with the Beginning of Sinne first became Living 256. For the Outward Body fell not down instantly when Adam transgressed the Commandment and Dyed but he gat now the Great Life and became Lord before he was weak or impotent and the right Man potent or Mighty he formerly came behinde and waited on the Image of God and was a servant but when the Soul introduced Earthly source or quality then he was Lord and the Image was shut up in Death 257. The Spirit is the Life the Flesh is not the Life The heavenly Fleshes Life was Gods Spirit and the Earthly Fleshes Life was this Worlds Spirit 258. When the Earthly drew into the Heavenly and took the Dominion then the heavenly vanished or disappeared for the Spirit of the heavenly departed away out of the Earthlynesse into its Principle then stood the Image which was out of the Divine Substantiality in Death not in the fierce wrath of the Death of the Anger so that the heavenly Substantiality were become kindled in Gods Anger but as a vanished disappeared Substance without source or quality and Life 259. For that which is generated out of the Love that receiveth no fierce wrath into it self for the Lights Substantiality is water of Eternall Life the water maketh no fierce wrath but quencheth the Fires fierce wrath 260. If now the heavenly Image or Substantiality in Adam were taken out of the Heavenly Limbus then surely its Originall Mother was the Water of the Eternall Life which originateth from the Meeknesse or Desire of the Light of God as the Water in the Deepe of this world from the Meeknesse of the Sun 's Light Through Venus's Desire 261. What fierce wrath or Anger then would or could come into the heavenly Substantiality of the Holy Body in Adam Also that Substantiality was not at all the Life it self but the Spirit of God was the right Life in the holy Body 262. But when the Spirit of God departed then stood that Image as dead without Life and the Soul lived of the Earthly Fire-fewell though indeed it is not quite Earthly Essence yet that Earthly Essence is generated from the first Principle wherein also the Soul standeth 263. Therefore also the Soul lusted after that source or quality there was given to the Soul a heavenly Body of which it should Eate and Not of BOTH Body's It should set or put its Lust or longing and Imagination only into the Heavenly then would the Soul-Fire have had the Earthly Body in the Dark World only hanging to it 264. But when it would eate of Both then came the Dark Body to have power or strength and Light and ruled over the right humane Body Thus sinne began in the Soul-Fire for it became kindled with the fierce wrathfull Essence and so now the Soul Fire burnt in that very source or quality and the Divine Light of the Soul which shone in the meek heavenly Substantiality extinguished 265. For in the Beginning the right humane Essence of the Soul was the fewell to its Life's burning but afterwards the Earthly Essence was it and that is now the Sinne and the Opposite Will and the Soul hath no Image or Body which remaineth Eternally unlesse it be through Christ Regenerated out of its first Substantiality through the Death of Christ 266. Therefore it is that many kindes of Figures appeare in the Souls Image in the inward all according to what its desire is to a Substance as the Image of wilde Beasts also Serpents and Toads In whatsover Essence and Will the Souls-Fire liveth and burneth according to that Essence is also the FIAT in the Will-Spirit and it Imageth or frameth such an Image so now when the outward Body deceaseth then standeth that Image thus in such a forme and source or quality 267. In the Time of the Earthly Life it may alter its will and then also its Fiat altereth the Figure but after the Dying of the Body it hath nothing more wherein it can alter its Will as is to be seene by the Devills 268. Therefore sayd Christ To must become borne anew through Water and the Holy Spirit or ye cannot see the kingdome of God understand out of Gods Water out of the water of the first right Image wherein the Holy Spirit dwelleth in which christ is become conceived and born 269. That Water hath not taken sinne into its Essence for that cannot be for that which is out of or from Gods meeknesse becometh not kindled in the fierce wrath of God but is as an impotency or weaknesse shut up in Death viz in the stillnesse in the still nothing 270. Adam
Modest Eye of the wisdome of God and the Wisdome is the Holy Spirits Corporeity wherein he dwelleth It is his Eternall Looking-Glasse wherein he hath discovered or discerned the Great Wonders from Eternity 314. And the Holy Spirit is gone forth or proceeded from the Word viz out of the Center or Heart of God forth from the Father viz out of the Fire through the Light into the Majesty into the Essence of the Paradisicall and Angelicall World understand into that Essence or into the Pure Element viz into the Substantiality of the Heavenly Corporeity 315. This very Substantiality or Corporeity as is now mentioned was Christs heavenly Flesh and Bloud For the Noble Tincture maketh the Water out of the Majesty turne into Spirituall Bloud 316. That very Substantiality which was in the Covenant wherein the Promised Word of God stood is Entered into Maryes Substantiality viz into the in Death inclosed Substantiality and is become a Body and hath made that which was shut up living againe The divine and heavenly Paradisicall Substantiality in the Covenant and Maries Substantiality is become ONE thing the Life sprouted or grew in Death 317. Therefore is Christ become our Life and Spirit also our Flesh and Bloud and therefore he giveth us understand our Souls-Fire his heavenly Body and Bloud to eate and to drink Our Soul hath with the Divine Substantialities Entrance againe gotten heavenly flesh for its Fire-Life it burneth againe in the divine source or quality out of the Love-Substantiality 318. The Holy Tincture according to the divine Fires Property belongeth to the Soul and the Waters property viz the Lights Meeknesse belongeth to the Body the Body is alwayes under or beneath the Soul 319. For the Soul it out of the Eternall Nature-Fire it is the Principle between the Dark and Light World it hath the Center of the Fire-World in it self 320. And the Substantiality is out of the Center of the Light-world in the Divine desire it cometh to a Substance for it is the substance of the Desire the Desire is Spirit and that which is comprehended in the Desire is the Substance of the Desire 321. And what can the desire comprehend other then it self that is the Meeknesse of the Light that is a sinking downe of the Love and Meeknesse towards the Fire-Spirit that riseth up That the Fire-Spirit continually comprehendeth in its desire and consumeth it that is it bringeth it through the sharpnesse of the Father and there it goeth through death againe forth into the Liberty and maketh the source or quality of the divine World for the Spirit of God is understood therein 322. Not that there is a dying or Death therein but the Fire source or quality is accounted for a Death for the Roote of the Fire is the Dark World with its sterne formes to the Fire-Nature As in the Book of the Six Points of the Great Mysterie is expresly mentioned at Large 323. Now understand the sence aright Gods Substantiality hath been from Eternity it is unmeasurable and unsathomable it is every where all over wheresoever a Man can say here is God there is also the Divine Substantiality yet not in the Outward World in the Third Principle but in the Heavenly in the Second Principle 324. Therefore said Christ John 3. 13. None goeth to Heaven but the sonne of Man which is come from Heaven and which it in Heaven his divine Substantiality was in Heaven and yet it was come into the Humanity and the Humanity is without him dead in Adam 325. Now would any goe into Heaven they must then have his substance on them He is the Ladder that Jacob saw which with one End reached to Heaven and with the other End in the Humanity 326. A Man is to understand it thus that the Body of Christ understand the Corporeity of the divine Substantiality which hath revealed or manifested it self in the Corporized Substantiality of the Humanity in Mary is Greater then ALL. 327. The divine Substantiality is not totally gone into the Creaturely Image that cannot be for it is unmeasurable Only it hath revealed or manifested it self in the humane Substantiality in the Created Image in the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and kindled the humane and given its Life understand into Adam's Image which also was in Mary and in all Men. Question 328. Now it may be asked What kinde of Person was Mary being the Limit of Gods Covenant stood in her Or how did CHRIST get Body and Soul in Her and yet remained what he was from Eternity Answer 329. Many was First a Bodily Issue and Daughter of Eve the Mother of us all and of her right Mother Anna and of her right Father Joachim no immaculate pure virgin understand according to the outward World for the Anger of God stuck also in her and shee is redeemed or reconciled through the Bloud of Christ 330. And according to the Second Principle her Image stood also shut up in Death But the Limit or Mark stood in her understand in her Image but undiscernably and unperceivably in that way and manner as God is in all and the Thing knoweth nothing of him for God dwelleth not in the Thing he possesseth Nothing but only himself Thus was the Limit or Mark in Mary and Gods Promise in the Word of Life was in the Limit or Mark yet not dwelling in Mary but in it self 331. God had never according to his Heart moved himself from Eternity and when once he moved himself in Mary in the Limit or Mark then Mary became highly blessed and in the Blessing impregnate with the Saviour For the Life came into Death into the in Death inclosed Essence 332. Now yet the Seed of Man qualified or operated with the Body and now when the divine Life came into the Essence of the Seed of Mary then her whole Body viz the Images Body according to the Second Principle became Highly Blessed And in this new Wonderous Entrance and Moving of God was brought to Life so that her Essence became living and the Tincture of her Bloud became kindled with the Divine Tincture understand the Seeds Tincture which qualifieth or mixeth with the whole Body 333. But the outward Kingdome of this World was not at this time broken off from Mary that held her still captive SHEE must through Dying through her Sons Death enter into the Eternall Life 334. Her Body indeed did not vanish or fall away for it was in the Midst in the Blessing only the Earthly source or quality must break or corrupt in her and all Adam's Children must enter through One and the same Entrance into Life viz through the Dying of Christ when Christ quenched the Soul-Fire on the Crosse in Death then also Maryes Soul-Fire became quenched that is rightly kindled in the Light of the Majesty 335. The outward Body remained to be a Covering before it so long as it stood in the source or quality of the Stars