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A76951	XL. questions concerning the soule· Propounded by Dr. Balthasar Walter· And answered, by Jacob Behmen. Aliàs Teutonicus Philosophus. And in his answer to the first question is the turned eye, or, philosophick globe. (Which in it selfe containeth all mysteries) with an exposition of it. VVritten in the Germane language. Anno. 1620.; Viertzig Fragen von der Seelen Urstand, Essentz, Wesen, Natur und Eisenschafft. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624. Clavis. English.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?.; Walther, Balthaser, 1586-1640.; Simons, Matthew, d. 1654, printer.	1647 (1647)	Wing B3408A; ESTC R172808	191,083	216

The Eye of Gods wonders 119. You must know also that the Spirit of the Aire proceedeth from the bitter Eternall Fire-spirit which also goeth forward after the Wonders in the will of the a Or attraction seeking of the Essences which are the Starres and therefore it maketh b Or Wheelings Or Jarring whirlings and cometh from many places as from above from beneath and sidewayes and many times round about like a wheele all according as the Fire-seeking is kindled by the Essences of the Starres 120. This is wholly like the wheele of the Minde and it hath its owne Spirit and a proper life of its owne and a proper Will of its owne and therefore it is a Principle and continueth so long till the End findeth the beginning then the beginning taketh the End into it selfe and maketh the Middle which manifesteth what is done between both beginning and End therein which ye will consider further of unlesse ye be c Or Mid. foolish d Matth. 25.8 Virgins 121. Also this e Regiment Viz. Turba Regimen secundum Werdenhagen Dominion continueth no longer then it can remaine in the number of the Creation For every day of the Creation is a Circle of a Revolution in the Eye and hath its f 1. Number or Time number g 10. X. 100. 1000. Ten whereof is the ✚ the highest number and Man hath ten times ten viz. a hundred for his number and in the Crowne of Paradise he hath the number Thousand but in the Eternall Essentiality in the Divine Centre of the Majesty he hath h 0. no Number 122. Now looke narrowly with very cleere Eyes God created this world with every substance in six dayes and they were finished about the middle of the sixt Day somewhat after-noone towards the Evening and then the Rest and the Sabbath of the seventh Day began on the sixt Day And so the Eternall Rest found the beginning of the Creation on the sixt Day afternoone this was the End then came the Beginning and the End together in One againe and it was manifest what God had made in the Dayes 123. Seeing then Man by his Imagination hath destroyed the heavenly Angelicall Body and hath brought it into a corruptible number that is into the outward Principle and therefore he is in it for he hath lost the Paradificall number and is placed in the hundreth number wherein he is also now given up to the Outward Life as to his leader that is he hath given himselfe up to this Leader so that his number to be fulfilled in the Circle of the Outward Principle is cleerely knowne to us 124. If we knew certainly the houre of the sixt Day wherein the Creation was finished we could then set you downe the yeare and day we meane the i Or Iudgement Day last Day for it goeth not a minute further it hath its limit hidden in the inward Circle 125. Therefore know for certaine that the time is neare for in the sixt Day afternoone the Rest of the Eternall Day began and therefore God instituted the Sabbath of the seventh Day for a Rest and an everlasting Remembrance 126. And as the Rest began on the sixt Day towards the Evening and the Entrance to the manifestation of the k Working Viz. the wonders workes of the Creation the End then taking in the beginning againe and the six Dayes stood thus in the Circle as a wonder so know that ye were created in Paradise and yet are gone out from it into the Spirit of Wrathfulnesse into Death l Which Spirit which hath now wrought its wonders in you these 5500. yeares and upwards 127. And now the End hath found the beginning againe and ye shall see also feele and finde what Paradise hath been even every one of them that shall be borne in God 128. For to speake after the manner of Reason and not according to God Paradise is borne againe but ye shall not escape mortality nor the wrath in the Flesh but Paradise is now already manifest in the Minde in the soule of the Children of God and they have the true taste of the Power 129. And no subtilty nor power can hinder it no subtilty can suppresse it nor can any Devill destroy it for the End hath found the beginning there can be no hinderance of it the Power of falshood breaketh and then remaineth nothing but a waiting for the bridegroome for the Children of God shall be found in Paradise when the Turba in the Wrath shall be swallowed up We speake high things yet we understand and know them certainly in the Wonders 130. Thus as is mentioned above if you understand us aright there is borne out of the Wrathfulnesse of the Anger out of the Eternall Centre out of which this world was produced and created which is a m Or attraction seeking of the Eternall in the Spirit of this world in this Principle wherein we now live and there will alwayes be borne falshood Covetousnesse subtilty deceit enmity in the Will Lying Murder Pride desire of honour Selfe-Power Art n Cunning or Policy wit the wisdome of this world proceeding from Reason they all come from this roote and remaine in the Wonders of Gods Anger and though Reason and selfe o Or Wit prudence be never so fine yet it is in the Anger of God and springeth from the Abysse 131. And here behold thy selfe thou faire world it is no Fable as thou holdest it to be it is knowne in Ternario Sancto and he that cannot get within the limit of that he is captivated by Antichrist and belongeth at last to that Lake from whence he sprung it is no time to linger now both the doores stand open and whatsoever hath growne in the Turba shall be swallowed up with it 132. So also consider the Eternall Fire further and take a similitude from all sorts of fire in this world for that which is a Spirit in the Eternity is a substance in this world You see also that fire in it selfe is an anguishing wrathfull rising bitter Essence and source and yet you see nothing else in the proper Forme of Fire but the flash which shineth you see not the source you can onely feele that 133. You see also that the fire when it burneth sendeth up from it selfe a Smoake in which there is water whence soote cometh which sticketh to the sides especially where the fire is inclosed and not free then the soote is seene as in a chimney and the soot and water are in one another and thus the Materiall Earth cometh originally from the Eternall fire which Lucifer kindled Then in the wrathfulnesse Time began and the Creation was after that manner which is mentioned in the Third Booke 134. Understand the p Mysterium Magnum Great Mysterie further you see that every Fire giveth light and you see also that Aire goeth forth from the source of the Fire and you know very

XL. QVESTIONS Concerning the SOULE Propounded By Dr. BALTHASAR WALTER And Answered By JACOB BEHMEN Aliàs Teutonicus Philosophus And in his Answer to the first Question is the Turned EYE OR Philosophick GLOBE Which in it selfe containeth all Mysteries with an Exposition of it VVritten in the Germane Language ANNO. 1620. LONDON Printed by M. S. for H. Blunden at the Castle in Corne-hill 1647. A CATALOGUE OF THE 40. QUESTIONS READER THe Author wrote this Answer to these Questions chiefly for his friends sake that sent them to him as also for the benefit of all such as love the knowledge of Mysteries this friend of his was Dr. Balthasar Walter who travelled for Learning and hidden Wisdome and in his returne home hapned to heare of this Author in the City of Gerlitz and when he had obtain'd acquaintance with him he rejoyced that at last he had found at home in a poore Cottage that which he had travell'd for so far and not received satisfaction then he went to the severall Universities in Germany and did there collect such Questions concerning the Soule as were thought and accounted impossible to be resolved fundamentally and convincingly which he made this Catalogue of and sent to this Author from whom he received these answers according to his desire wherein he and many others that saw them received full satisfaction QUESTION 1. WHence the Soule proceeded at the Beginning 2. VVhat is its Essence Substance Nature and Property 3. How is it created the Image of God 4. What and when was the breathing of it in 5. How is it peculiarly fashioned and what is its forme 6. What is its Power 7. VVhether is it corporeall or not corporeall 8. After what manner commeth it into the body of Man 9. VVhich way doth it unite it selfe with the Body 10. VVhether is it ex traduce and propagated after an humane bodily manner or every time new created and breathed in from God 11. How and where is it seated in man 12. How and what is the Illumination of it 13. How doth it feed upon the word of God 14. VVhether is such new soule without sin 15. How commeth sinne into it seeing it is the worke and creature of God 16. How is it kept in such union both in the Adamicall and Regenerate Body 17. VVhence and wherefore is the contrariety between the flesh and the Spirit 18. How doth it depart from the Body at the Death of a Man 19. How is it Mortall and how immortall 20. How doth it returne to God againe 21. VVhether goeth it when it departeth from the Body be it saved or not saved 22. VVhat doth every soule departed doth it rejoyce till the last Judgement Day 23. VVhether doe the soules of the wicked without difference for so long a time before the Day of Judgement finde so much as any mitigation or refreshment 24. VVhether doe mens wishes profit them any thing or sensibly doe them any good 25. What is the hand of God and the Bosom of Abraham 26. VVhether doth the soule take care for men their friends or Children or their Goods and whether doth it know see approve or disapprove their undertakings 27. Whether doth it know this or that Art or Occupation whereof while it was in the body it had sufficient skill 28. VVhether also doth it obtaine somewhat more certaine knowledge of Divine Angelicall Earthly and Diabolicall Matters then it had in the body 29. VVhat is its Rest awakening and Glorification 30. VVhat is the difference between the Resurrection of the flesh and of the Soule both of the Living and of the Dead 31. VVhat kinde of new Glorified bodies shall they have 32. What shall their forme condition joy and Glory be in the other Life 34. VVhat is that lamentable and horrible condition of the damned Soules 35. VVhat is the Enochian Life and how long doth it continue 36. VVhat is the soule of the Messiah or Christ 37. VVhat is the Spirit of Christ which he willingly commended into his Fathers hand 38. Of the things which shall come to passe at the end of the world 39. VVhat and where is Paradise with its Inhabitants 40. VVhether is it mutable and what shall it be afterwards TO THE EARNEST LOVERS OF WISDOME THe whole world would not containe the Bookes that should be written of Christ if all that he did and spake should be written of him flowing from that Fountaine of wisdome which dwelt in him what then can be expected in a little Preface but some few observations of the footsteps and paths of Wisdome and they are set downe here as they occasionally presented themselves to the thoughts of him who desireth to be made fit for the acquaintance with the lowest scholar in her Schoole Many have been her schollers in their owne way which Nature hath inclined them to or God in them that have kindled the Divine Nature and so have been made partakers of it in their soules we may perceive the excellencie of everie one of them by that which hath been left for a Record behind them and their fitnesse to be followed in Order till we shall attaine the highest pitch we are capable of Since the true Grounds of the ancient Wisdome have been hidden in the darke writings of the wise men of former Ages some in this latter Age have endeavoured to reforme the Errours that have risen from the want of knowing those grounds from which they wrote the writings of that Learned SELDEN are eminent in this kind among others by which meanes the true fame and Glory of Learning hath been in some good part restored againe as also by contriving meanes to direct the way to raise the severall kinds of knowledge from their owne true Basis and foundation The Renowned Sir Francis Bacon Lord Verulam Vicount of St. Albans laid his foundation sure and raised his building high by his Instauratio Magna he taught men first to free themselves from the Idola mentis humanae and then laid downe the whole processe of the Mind from a Naturall and experimentall History to raise a Naturall Philosophie which doth shew the way to compose a Divine experimentall History to the building of a Divine Philosophie or Mysticall Divinity Comenius also by his Pansophia designeth the best way to educate all from their childhood so that in the shortest time they may get the highest Learning their Natures can attaine to Pellius in his platforme concerning the Mathematicks doth designe to raise the Principles and whole structure of that Art out of every ones selfe with-without the help of Bookes or Instruments by a Treatise he calleth Mathematicus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which may be well transferred to a Philosophus Medicus Legislator Jurisperitus Politicus Theologus Theosophus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Also that strict inquirer into Truth Comes Castri Insulae in his Booke de veritate teacheth the true progresse of the mind in finding the certaine infallible truth in all things Du Chartes doth

number 31. 196. But the soule which in the Time of this Life did turne again and did yield it selfe up with its will into the Death of Christ at the line of the Crosse N. 27. that soule is then sunk downe from its proud and x Or evill wicked workes and become free in that same will and is entred into the Death of Christ and sprouteth forth with the Spirit of its will N. 28. in the Divine power from the Death of Christ through the second Principle where the Spirit of the Will viz. the Image y Or reacheth obtaineth the Divine Light againe N. 29. and the z Or Spirit Image N. 30. standeth againe in the Divine Man N. 31. Image number 32. God number 33. a Or substantiality 197. For when the Spirit of the Will entreth into Death at the Crosse then it putteth on the Divine Essentiality that is Christs flesh into it selfe againe and bringeth it with it selfe into the Light world where the Divine life springeth forth againe in the Holy Body and the Image is free againe as here N. 32. is to be seene and it dwelleth in God N. 33. and eateth of Gods word or Essence For the Image here is b Or beyond without Nature in the Liberty but the Humanity is in Nature as it is here set downe 198. But for those soules which abide in their proud covetous workes in the Anguish N. 26. they abide indeed in the Magick Fire of Anguish and their workes are fuell for that fire 199. But if the Spirit of the Will at length yet doe incline it selfe towards the death of Christ and yet is hard bound to the wrath then it hangeth as it were by a thread to the death of Christ The ninth Number number 34. 200. This soule must needs burne thus a while till the Spirit of the Will can enter into the Death of Christ and till its Sydereall fuell be burnt up when the Earthly body dieth the Image must be c Or washed scoured or purged * Or washed scoured or purged bathed which this present too wise world scorneth but shall be forced to trie it in Death where that little Sparke which did hang but as by a thred must enwrap it self quite into the Death of Christ for it hath lost both body and Essence and remaineth naked without Divine d Or substance Essence or body in Gods Mercy in the Divine Tincture viz. in the ninth number N 34. and waiteth for the last Judgement wherein God will restore in the Tincture all that which ad m lost But the workes which it hath do●e he●e will not passe through the fire but the Darke Magick fire hath swallowed them up into its Mysterie in the Darke world let this be told thee O Man Soules Eternall Habitation number 35. 201. After the ninth Number standeth the soules Eternall Habitation noted with the N. 35. which signifieth that these escaped soules are yet in God in the Angelicall world but without their workes and they cannot so highly attaine the Glance of the Majesty as those which e Or here in this life have clothed themselves with the power of God The word Habitation entreth into the Liberty without Nature as also above it the word Image doth For the soule must stand in Nature but the habitation of the Image is without Nature in the Divine Liberty Angelicall World number 36. 202. Beyond the word Habitation standeth Angelicall world N. 36. signifying the whole f Or place Court of Angels or g Thrones or Principalities Princely Thrones in the Liberty of the Divine Majesty whereas their root is in Nature but is not h Or acknowledged felt Proud Devill number 37. Will of the Devill Lucifer number 38. 203. At the left hand in the upper space N. 37. standeth proud Devill with two i Or Legs lines one reaching to be upon the Cha acter O N. 4. and the other reaching up above the Great Mysterie of the Ternary where standeth Will of the Devill Lucifer N 38. Here the Devills fall is to be considered 204. He hath driven his proud will from the line of the Crosse upwards and would domineere over the Mystery of the Divine wisdome by k Or reason or in Wit craft and fury cunning subtilty and wrath in the power of Fire and l Or inflame kindle the Mysterie of the Ternary that he might be Lord as indeed he did kindle the Essence in the Mysterie where from Earth and stones proceed and would faine have flowen out above the Mystery of the Ternarie N. 38. as still at this very day he desireth to flie out above the highest Thrones of Angels Abysse of the Darke world number 39. Eternall Hell of Devills number 40. 205. And hence it followed that he was thrust out from the Divine Mysterie from the highest Thrones into the darke Magick fire and is throwne downe beneath viz. into the Abysse of the Darke world N 39. where he must dwell without the Principle in the horrour of Fire that is in the first three formes m Or till fire or before the fourth forme which is fire it selfe of Fire in the Anguish and there he hath his Hell as below N. 40. is to be seene and thither also doe the damned soules fall where to Eternity they cannot see God The other line of the Crosse upwards 206. Over that line N. 1. above standeth Abysse Eternity signifying the Liberty without the Principle and thereby is n Or understood meant the Mysterie of the Eternity wherein every Creature standeth in its owne source in its owne fire whether in Darknesse or in Light and hath no other light but what shineth o Or in the Creature it selfe in it selfe and it also comprehendeth that light p Or beside it selfe outwardly without it selfe Both worlds viz. the Light and Darke world are in one another but the Light is not attained except a creature be capable q Or to receive it of it 207. There are Angelicall Thrones which we know nothing of our knowledge reacheth onely r In Locum or space or bounds unto the place of ſ Or that this world so farre as the kindling in the Creation did reach and t For a resemblance of it therefore this wheele is made with the Crosse in it SONNE number 41. and of the Heart 208. Over the upright line standeth SONNE N. 41. and at the left Angle or Point N. 9. FATHER and at the right line N. 14. HOLY GHOST signifying the Persons and birth of the Holy u Or Triplicity Trinity The ♡ in the Crosse is the Centre and signifieth the Eternall band of the x Or Threenesse Trinity 209. The word SONNE N. 41. signifieth the Word which the Eternall FATHER alwayes speaketh from Eternity in the Light and Darke world according to the property of each source 210. But the Three Persons are free from the Crosse and touch

10. All things have been from Eternity but essentially in the Essence not in the Substance of the Essence not substantiall Spirits but Spirits h Figurales Spiritus in figure without Corporality they have beene from Eternity as in a Magia one hath swallowed up the other in the Magia 11. And a third is come out of these two according to the forme of these two there hath been a wrestling from Eternity and a figured substance the Creation hath placed all in the Wonders so that now in Eternity all things stand thus in the Eternall Magia in the Wonders 12. Now if the wicked soules had brought no substance into their wills then they should have no paine Note the condition of the wicked soules of such Infants as die in their Mothers wombe and in innocence before they commit sinne actually there would be no feeling but Magia but the substance is an Image and that is in the Turba and so there is a source that may be felt 13. There is a dying and yet no dying but a will of dying viz. an anguish in that substance which was brought into the will 14. And this is caused by the Longing that all things have after God and yet are not able to reach him which causeth anguish and sorrow for the wickednesse they have let into them when the soule continually thinketh hadst thou not done this or that then thou mightest have attained the Grace of God and the i evill substance causeth the Eternall Despaire 15. And thus we say no soule is mortall whether it be in God or in Hell and its substance remaineth for ever to Gods Wonders The twentieth Question How doth the Soule returne to God againe 1. THis hath been already sufficiently cleared that it was i Or breathed spoken out of the Mouth of God and created by the Holy Ghost in the Image of God 2. Now if it so continue then when it leaveth this Earthly Life it it is already in the Mouth of God for it is in the Divine Body no k Evill paine or hurt can come at it Source can touch it The one and twentieth Question Whether goeth the Soule when it departeth from the body be it saved or not saved 1. HE that rightly understandeth the three Principles need not aske this Question for the soule departeth not out at the Mouth for it did not come in at the Mouth but it onely leaveth the Earthly Life the Turba snatcheth away the Earthly Life and then the soule remaineth in its owne Principle 2. For the body retaineth it not no wood no stone can l comprehend inclose keepe or withold it retaine it it is thinner then the Aire and if it have the Divine Body then it goeth strait as a Conquerour through the Turba viz. through the Anger of God and quite through Death and when it is through then it is in Gods m Or substance Essence 3. It remaineth in its n Deedes and wonders and Essences which it wrought here It beholdeth the Majesty of God and the Angels face to face 4. Wheresoever it is it is in the Abyssall world where there is no End nor Limit whither should it goe where the carkasse is there the Eagles gather together It is in Christs flesh and Bloud with Christ its Shepheard 5. Though it should goe a thousand miles off yet it were then in the same place from whence it went for in God there is no Limit neere and farre off is all one 6. It is as swift as a Thought it is Magicall it dwelleth in its Wonders they are its House 7. The Essentiality that is without it is Paradise a springing blossoming and growing of all manner of faire heavenly fruits just as we have all kinds of fruit here in this world which we eate after an Earthly manner so also there are all manner of fruits in Paradise which the soule may eate they have colours and vertues in the substance and not like a thought though they be as thin and subtile as a Thought but substantiall comprehensible and palpable to the soule virtuall and sappy with the water of Life and all this from the heavenly substantiality 8. For the heavenly body of the soule is from the pure Element whence the foure Elements are brought forth and that giveth flesh and the Tincture giveth bloud the heavenly man hath flesh and bloud and Paradise is the Power of the substantiality it is heavenly Earth incomprehensible to our outward Reason 9. But wee will againe teach you another A. B. C. All in this world have not Christs flesh in them hidden in the Old Adam yea among very many not one but the Regenerate who are departed from their owne will into Gods will in whom the Noble Graine of Mustard-seed is sowne out of which a Tree is growne 10. Most soules depart from the body without Christs body yet they hang as by a o The small threed of Faith threed and are at last in their Faith gotten into the will these soules indeed are in the Image in the Spirit but not in Flesh 11. Such as these waite for the last Day when the Image viz. the Body shall come forth out of the Grave out of the first Image for God will raise it up by the voyce of Christ even that Image which Adam had in his Innocency which hath been washed with Christs Bloud 12. But the Earthly Body shall not touch it that must come before the Judgement in the Turba but after the Sentence of the Judgement the Turba shall swallow it up and the p Or workes Wonders of it shall onely remaine 13. You must understand us aright These soules that must waite till the the last Day for their Bodies they remaine with their bodies in the still Rest till the last day without feeling any q Or Source paine but in another Principle 14. They have neither Darknesse nor Majesty in the Earth but are at rest without paine in the Eternall still Liberty without touching of the Body 15. Yet they see their r Or workes Wonders but they effect nothing in them for they expect God and are in Humility fot they are sunke downe through Death and are in another world yet there is a great Å¿ Gulfe or distance Space between them and the holy soules that are in Christs flesh and Bloud but not a Principle they are in one and the same Principle 16. But a Spirit without a body hath not that t Or Power might which the Spirit in the body hath therefore they rest and are under the Altar of God 17. When the last Day shall come then shall they come forth and eat of the Bread of God and put on the Divine Body as is mentioned in the Revelations of John Rev. 6.9 10 11. where the soules under the Altar cloathed in White say Lord when wilt thou avenge our Bloud and it was answered them that they should rest a little

sight of God or else he will carrie his scorne with him into the Fire of Anger and then it will gnaw him for ever we would have this spoken for a warning 9. For we shall here describe a very earnest matter be not deceived God is not mocked the wrathfull Anger is in his Power he hath Heaven and Hell in his Power the last Judgement is an r Severe earnest worke 10. And because wee are to set downe the Resurrection of the Dead we must write the manner of it what it is and by what power this world shall ſ Or passe away perish and the Dead arise it will be in earnest account it no jesting matter we shall speake of the very ground of it 11. Doe not thinke it it is a Fable it proceedeth from the t Disturbance or confusion Turba upon the u Or when the measure of your sinne is full Crowne the x The Spirit of the awakened wickednesses Spirit of your owne Turba declareth this unto you for the End hath found the beginning thus the y Or workes Essences of the whole world are brought to z That they may be seen Light in the middle and thence your Prophet ariseth viz. from the a Or workes Wonders which you have wrought and he speaketh of the Destruction 12. For the Spirit of the Turba shall not Governe but the Spirit of Christ he hath overcome Death and taken the Turba captive He leadeth Captivitie captive as a Conquerour 13. But the Turba will execute b Or Justice Judgement for it is Gods servant in the Anger not his Master but his servant therefore that Thunder which shall make the Earth to tremble will proceed out of the Mouth of God which shall set the Elements and Firmament on fire 14. The last Judgement belongeth to the Judge Christ and the Holy Ghost for here the Center of the Eternall Spirit will stirre up it selfe having also divided it selfe into three Principles whereof one is the Spirit of Anger and the other the Divine Spirit of Love and the third is the Airy Spirit of the outward world 15. The last c Or manifestation moving belongeth to him who according to the Deity is in the Mouth of Christ but according to the wrath he is in the Hellish d Or property source of Anguish and according to the e Or workes Wonders he is in the Spirit of this world 16. And as he was the f Artificer or framer of all things Worke-master of all Essences so also it is he that shall give every thing it s owne Mansion and gather every thing into its owne Granary 17. For he hath many helpers viz. the Angels they shall sever and part all asunder and then the Father g With the word of the Lord. cum verbo Domini pronounceth the Sentence by the Mouth of Christ and then the world beginneth to burne and every thing entreth into its owne Granary and Reservatory 18. For the Reservatories will be divers not onely two viz. the two Principles yet in two Principles but with much difference every thing according to its h Or power vertue 18. For every worke hath its Magicall Principle wherein it is contained as a peculiar Wonder both in Heaven and Hell every thing according to its Spirit as it hath been good or evill so will its forme appeare and so also will its vertue be like the flowers of the field in their differences And in this manner also shall the Glorification and joy of Man be all according to the i his workes which he wrought here Essence which he brought forth here 20. But we understand here the Essence of Faith which is the vertue in the Essence of Love and not of the outward worke for all shall be represented in the figure in the Wonders and that both as to the beginning and circumstances 21. When the last Day shall begin to dawne then the Deity manifesteth it selfe once more and that is the third time in all Formes in Love and Anger and then all things together at once shall be plainely layed open and visibly set forth in the sight of all Creatures in this manner following 22. The beginning of the Creation in the Word Fiat hath inclosed this world in it selfe as a Modell and k Or appointed founded the limit wherein now the Wonders are contained which also were revealed in the middle in the time and brought to Essence which were foreseen from Eternity in the wisdome in the Magia of God and will be together all in the Essence then and then the l End finishing or consummation of all things limit is nigh at hand and there will be no time of seeking more for then all is finished whatsoever God had in his Eternall Counsell he hath conceived and manifested in time 23. Now here is the End of time for then the beginning hath found the end and the End is then the beginning and passeth againe into that which it was from Eternity 24. But the m Viz. the world and every creature middle with the n Viz. all that hath been done in the world from the beginning to the End Wonders which were manifested in the time continueth for evermore in the beginning and in the End as an Eternall middle with its Wonders viz. with the Angels and men and their Essences as also the figures of all Creatures and all what ever hath been Essentiall at any time the Earth with its Metalls also stones and all materiall substances as Trees and hearbs all these stand in the Figure in the middle and in the Wonders but quite voyde of such Essences and life 25. For no Beast commeth againe but its figure continueth in the Magia for it arose out of the Eternall Glasse so that now when the outward Earthly Glasse breaketh it must remaine in the Eternall as a Wonder to Gods honour and glory for evermore 26. And these Essences belong all to Paradise for they shall be the Holy Paradise wherein the heavenly Essences shall beare Essentiall palpable fruit 27. And as here in this Life wee doe account the fruits of the Earth proceeding from its Essence as o Inanimate senselesse things dead things without p Life or sense understanding so also the Bestiall and Earthly Image of this world shall appeare as a dead Essence and so shall the Essence of all Creatures they shall remaine as a shadow 28. But Paradise hath and beareth fruit from the vertue of Eternall Life that is from Gods q Or Wonders Essences Now all that which for the most part is hidden from us here tstat is inclosed in the word Fiat in the beginning and End and it lyeth therein as a great Mysterie 29. But no● the Spirit of the first Creation will move all the three Principles yet before that be brought to passe the Word of God r Formeth it selfe by the Spirit conceiveth it selfe

l Or through and through transparently wholly perspicuously and the m Or Glance or Luster brightnesse of God shall be the light thereof and the Holy Jerusalem the Great City of God shall be therein where they shall offer up the calves of their lips there shall the bright City of God with rhe Wonders and Wisdome be established and the Temple of God the New Jerusalem shall be prepared upon the New Earth which is adorned from the Power and Wonders of God 5. All what ever the Prophets have written shall be there fulfilled for Gods word and Wonders shall flourish afresh upon the New Earth as grasse 6. There is no Death any more also no feare no sorrow no sicknesse no Superiour but onely Christ who will dwell with us we shall have one Communion with the Angels wee shall have fruit grow according to our desire and wish 7. There will be no old Age but one of a hundred yeares will be as a new-borne childe and we shall live in meere delightfull Love 8. All what ever is joyfull will be sought after and there the will of all will be bent to make one another rejoyce 9. We shall lead an Holy Priestly Life and we shall all speake of Gods wisdome and Eternall Wonders for the Divine Magia hath infinite and innumerable Wonders the more that is sought the more there is in it and this is the encreasing of the will of God 10. To this end God hath made himselfe manifest in his Images viz. in Angels and Men that so he might have joy in himselfe and eternally rejoyce with the essences of his Life Hallelu-jah 11. Thus my beloved friend we have set you downe according to our guifts a round Answer to your Questions and we exhort you as a brother not contemptuously to despise us in respect of our simple speech and n Or unlearnednesse incongruity 12. For we are not borne of Art but of simplicity and we speak great things in simple words take this as a singular guift from God you shall finde more in it then in the best o Artificiall Eloquent Oratours Eloquence of the highest Art except they also have their birth from this Schoole and then we will prescribe nothing to such but acknowledge them for our loving Brethren in Christ with whom wee have assured hope to rejoyce eternally in the heavenly Schoole of which wee here have attained a little fore-taste 13. Yet our knowledge here is but in part when we shall attaine p Or the totall perfection then we will say what God is and can doe AMEN A short Summary Appendix OF THE SOULE The Image of the soule and of the TURBA which is the Destroyer of the Image Written by the same Author I. B. In a Short Summary Appendix of which in the other writings of this Author is written fundamentally and at large .1 THE soule is an Eye in the Eternall Abysse a similitude of Eternity a perfect figure and Image of the first Principle and resembleth God the Father in his Person as to the Eternall Nature 2. The Essence and substance of it meerely and purely as it is in it selfe is first the wheele of Nature as to the first foure * 1. Astringent 2. Bitter 3. Fire 4. Anguish Formes 3. For the Word of the Lord q Or formed or fashioned or created comprised the soule by the Eternall Fiat in the Eternall will of the Father in the Center of the Eternall Nature and opened it with the Holy Ghost or blew it up like a fire which lay hid in the Eternity and wherein all formes of the eternall Nature stood from Eternity and r The soule the formes is alone known in the wisdome in the Divine Magia as a figure or Image without substance 4. Yet that Å¿ Or being thing hath not been substantiall but Essentiall and hath been knowne in the Principle in the flash where the fire ariseth But the shadow of it hath from Eternity in a figurative Image figured it selfe in the Desiring will of God and hath stood t Or in the presence of the Ternary before the Ternary of God in the Magia in the wisdome of God as a similitude of the Holy Trinity in which God hath manifested himselfe as in a Glasse 5. The substance and Image of the soule may be resembled to the Earth having a faire flower growing out of it and also to the fire and Light as we see that Earth is a u Ground foundation or soyle or the Mother of that which groweth upon it Center but no Life yet it is Essentiall and a faire flower groweth out of it which is not like Earth neither hath it the smell and taste of the Earth much lesse the figure of it and yet the Earth is the Mother of the flower 6. And so the soule also x shone appeared out of the Eternall Center of Nature out of the Eternall Essence with the word Fiat in the will of God and was held in the Fiat so that it x shone appeared as a fiery Eye and similitude of the first Principle in a creaturely forme and substance 7. And from this Eye went the Glance of its Fire as Light doth from fire and in this Glance of its owne Fire the Eternall Image which is in the wisdome of God was seen and conceived by the will of the Heart of God in the second Principle that is by the word Fiat of the second Principle in the Love and Power of the Holy Trinity whence the Holy Ghost proceedeth 8. And thus the soule was a whole similitude and Image of the Holy Trinity here we must take the soule for the Center of Nature and its fiery Life for the first Principle but the sprout or the Image of the soule which is a similitude of God buddeth forth from the soule as a flower from the Earth and is comprised by the Holy Ghost for it is his Mansion 9. Now if the soule put its Imagination out from it selfe wee meane out from its y Or property source of fire into the Light of God then it receiveth the Light as the Moone doth the glance of the Sunne and so its Image is in the Majesty of God and the soule in the Light of God and its fiery Property is changed into meeknesse and fervent Love and then it is know ne to be the child of God 10. But seeing the soule is Essentiall and its owne substance a Desire it is plaine that it consists in two Fiats one of them is its corporeall propriety and the other is the second Principle proceeding from Gods will which is in the soule in which God desireth to have z The soule it his Image and similitude 11. To which End Gods desiring is as a Fiat in the Centre of the soule and continually draweth the will of the soule towards the Heart of God for the Longing of God would have the soule a Lust pleasure will

Power J. 33. For I. is the Effluence of the Eternall indivisible Unity or the sweet gracefulnesse of the ground of the Divine u I I-hood selfe or selfenesse somethingnesse E. 34. E is a threefold I where the Trinity shutteth it selfe up in the Unity for the I goeth into E and joyneth IE which is an out-breathing of the Unity in it selfe H. 35. H is the Word or x Or speaking breathing of the Trinity of God O. 36. O is the Circumference or the Sonne of God through which the IE and the H or breathing out-speaketh from the compressed Delight of the Power and vertue V. 37. V is the joyfull Effluence from the y Or speaking breathing that is the proceeding Spirit of God A. 38. A is that which is proceeded from the power and vertue viz. the wisdome a Subject of the Trinity wherein the Trinity worketh and wherein the Trinity is also manifest 39. This Name is nothing else but an out-speaking or expression of the Threefold working of the Holy Trinity in the unity of God Read further of this in the Exposition of the Table of the three Principles of the Divine Manifestation Of the Divine Wisdome 40. The Holy Scripture saith the wisdome is the breathing of the Divine Power a ray and breath of the Almighty also it saith God hath made all things by his wisdome which wee understand as followeth 41. The Wisdome is the outflowen word of the Divine Power vertue Knowledge and holinesse a Subject and Resemblance of the infinite and unsearchable Unity a Substance wherein the Holy Ghost worketh formeth and modelleth I meane he formeth and modelleth the Divine understanding in the Wisdome for the Wisdome is the passive and the Spirit of God is the Active or Life in her as the soule in the Body 42. The wisdome is the Great Mysterie of the Divine Nature for in her the Powers Colours and vertues are made manifest in her is the variation of the power and vertue viz. the understanding she is the Divine understanding that is the Divine z Or Contemplation vision wherein the Unity is manifest 43. She is the true Divine Chaos wherein all things lye viz. a Divine Imagination in which the a Formes Or Images Idea's of Angels and soules have been seen from Eternity in a Divine Type and resemblance yet not then as Creatures but in a resemblance as when a man beholdeth his face in a Glasse therefore the Angelicall and humane Idea did flow forth from the wisdome and was formed into an Image as Moses saith God created Man in his Image that is he created the body and breathed into it the breath of the Divine Effluence of Divine Knowledge from all the Three Principles of the Divine Manifestation Of the b Or Great Mysterie Mysterium Magnum 44. The Mysterium Magnum is a subject of the wisdome where the breathing word or the working willing Power of the Divine understanding floweth forth through the wisdome wherein also the unity of God together floweth out to its manifestation 45. For in the Mysterium Magnum the Eternall Nature ariseth and two c Essences or Beings substances and wills are alwayes understood to be in the Mysterium Magnum the first c substance is the unity of God that is the Divine Power and vertue the outflowing wisdome 46. The second substance is the separable will which ariseth through the breathing and outspeaking word which will hath not its ground in the unity but in the Mobility of the Effluence and out-breathing which bringeth it selfe into one will and into a Desire to Nature viz. into the Properties as farre as Fire and Light in the Fire the Naturall Life is understood and in the Light the Holy Life that is a manifestation of the unity whereby the unity becommeth a Love Fire or Light 47. And in this place or working God calleth himselfe a loving mercifull God according to the sharpned fiery burning Love of the unity Or zealous and an Angry d Jealous God according to the fiery ground according to the Eternall Nature 48. The Mysterium Magnum is that Chaos out of which Light and Darknesse that is the foundation of Heaven and Hell is flowne from Eternity and made manifest for that foundation which wee now call Hell being a Principle of it selfe is the ground and cause of the Fire in the Eternall Nature which fire in God is onely a burning Love and where God is not manifested in a thing according to the unity there is an Anguishing painefull burning fire 49. This burning Fire is but a manifestation of the Life and of the Divine Love by which the Divine Love viz. the unity e Or over inflameth kindleth up and sharpneth it selfe for the fiery working of the Power of God 50. This ground is called Mysterium Magnum or a Chaos because good and evill ariseth out of it viz. Light and Darknesse Life and Death Joy and griefe Salvation and Damnation 51. For it is the ground of soules and Angels and of all Eternall Creatures as well evill as good it is a ground of Heaven and Hell also of the visible world and all that is therein therein have laine all thing in one onely ground as an Image lyeth hid in a peece of wood before the Artificer doth carve it out and fashion it 52. Yet we cannot say that the spirituall world hath had any beginning but hath been manifested from Eternity our of that Chaos for the Light hath shone from Eternity in the Darknesse and the Darknesse hath not comprehended it as Day and Night are in one another and are two though in one 53. I must write distinctly as if it had had a beginning for the better consideration and apprehension of the Divine ground of the Divine Manifestation and the better to distinguish Nature from the f Or Divinity Deity also for the better understanding from whence evill and good are come and what the g Or Essence of all Essences is Being of all Beings is Of the h Centrum Center of the Eternall Nature 54. By the word h Centrum Center we understand the first beginning to Nature viz. the most Inward ground wherein the i Or owne arisen selfe raised will bringeth it selfe by a reception into k Ihood or I-nesse or owne-nesse somethingnesse viz. into a Naturall working for Nature is but a Toole and Instrument of God which Gods Power and vertue worketh with and yet it hath its own l Or Mobility Motion from the out-flowne will of God thus the Center is the Point or ground of the owne receivingnesse to somethingnesse from whence something commeth to be and from thence the seven Properties proceed Of the Eternall Nature and its seven Properties 55. Nature is nothing but the Properties of the receivingnesse of the owne arisen Desire which Desire ariseth in the m Or separation variation of the Breathing Word that is of