only in the Impression in the cold Sulphur in the sharpness of the Wrath it turneth to a false desire viz. to a false Love which is contrary to the meeknes for its desire is Saturn and Mars 2. It putteth forth its Sun understand its luster of life in Mars and the warming Light which also receiveth its fiery sharpness in the Impression in Sulphur from Mars bringeth its desire again into the liberty viz. through the dying in the Fire through the anguish It doth wholly and freely give it self forth in the dying of the Fire and forsaketh the property of the wrath 3. And so it becometh a Generall joy and not its own only even like the Sun that giveth forth its shining Lustre Universally the Sun-shine is neither hot nor cold only Mercury in the Spirit of the great World doth make in Mars and Saturns property a heat therein for the Sun doth enkindle their desire whereupon they grow so very hungry eager desirous and operative that even a Fire is found to be in the Light which heat is not of the Lights own property but of the Soul of the great Word which doth so sharpen the pleasant Light in its Splendor that it is unsufferable to the eye 4. And we are highly to consider and know that if another Fire-desire which is not like unto the outward life in Mercury would rule in the Austere wrath of the outward Nature that then it would be an Enmity contrary to the Austere cold bitter and fiery Dominion and Life and that they would exalt or exasperate their wrath eagerly desiring to be rid of it Even as it so came to passe when the Divine Love desire did manifest it self with its great meeknesse to the false cold proud and austere Fire desire of the Saturnalites Martialists and especially of the false Mercurialites It was a great Opposition and Enmity to them that Love should rule in the Death of Poyson and dwell therein this they could not not would not endure for Heaven was come into Hell and would overcome the Hell with Love and take away its might as it is to be seen in the person of Christ he loved them and did them all manner of good and healed their plagues or diseases but in that he was not arisen from their wrathful might and that he said he was descended from above and was Gods Son this was unsavory to the cold hot Fires might even that he should rule with Love over them 5. Even thus it goeth in the Philosophick Work when the wrathful Forms of the Earthliness viz. the outward Saturn Mars and Mercury do see the Heavenly Champion with the Virgins property among them and perceive that he hath far another desire then they then they are angry in themselves for the Love-desire when it glimpseth on the Fire-flagrat doth awaken their Fire-flagrat and then the wrath proceeds forth from the Anxiety into Love where-from ariseth a Deaths-flagrat in the Love but being there can be no death therein the Love condescendeth in the Fire-flagrat and giveth forth or distuseth it self into their desire and leaveth its Essence so that in their desire they reach after its Property in the Deaths-flagrat this is a poyson to Death and a pestilence unto Hell and in this Property Death was deprived of its power in the Humanity For Christ when as he shed his Heavenly blood in the Flagrat of Death and left it in Death the wrath of God was driven to retain the Heavenly Love-essence in it self Even there the Fire-desire in the enkindled Humanity was changed into a Love-desire and out of the Anguish of Death proceeded a Joy and strength of Divine Power 6. But I will hereby give the Wel-wisher fundamentally to understand how it went with Christ and how in like manner it goeth with his Philosophick Work both have wholly one process Christ overcame the wrath of Death in the Humane property and changed the Anger of the Father into Love in the humane property the Philosopher likewise hath even such a Will he willeth to turn the wrathful Earth to Heaven and change the poysonful Mercury into Love therefore observe us here aright we will not here write parabolically but wholly clear as the Sun-shine 7. God would change the Humanity after that it was become Earthly and had awakened the poysonful Mercury in the Love-property which poysonful Mercury had devoured the Love and changed it into it self again in to the Divine Heavenly property and make Heaven of the humane earth of the four Elements only one in One desire and change the wrath of God in the humane property into Love 8. Now his Anger was a might of the Fire and Wrath and was inflamed in man and therefore there must be right Earnestnesse to withstand the same and change it again into Love the Love must enter into the Anger and wholly give it self in unto the Wrath it would not be enough that God should remain in Heaven and only aspect the Humanity with Love it could not be that the Anger and Wrath should thereby yeeld up its might and strength and freely give it self unto the Love as the Fire is not made better by the light it still holds its wrath for all that in it self but when a meek Essence as water doth come into the Fire then the Fire goeth out 9. Even so Heavenly Divine Essentiality understand Heavenly water which the Tincture of the Fire and Light doth change into Blood must enter into the wrathful Fire of God and become the Fires food so that the Fire of God might burn from another Essence for water could not have done it the Fire doth not burn in the Water but the meek oleous property of the Fire and Light in the Essence of Divine meekness in the Love-desire that did effect it 10. The humane Fire-life doth consist in the Blood and therein ruleth the wrath of God now another Blood which was born out of Gods Love-essence must enter into the Angry humane Blood they must go both together into the death of the wrath and the wrath of God must be drowned in the Divine Blood and therefore the outward Humanity in Christ must dye that it might not any more live in the Wraths property but that the Heavenly bloods Mercury viz. the Speaking Word might alone live in the outward Humanity and solely rule in peculiar Divine Power in the outward and inward Humanity that the Self might cease in the Humanity and Gods Spirit might be All in All and the Self only his Instrument whereby he maketh what he pleaseth that I say the Self hood might be solely Gods instrument and wholly in Resignation for God hath not created man to be his own Lord but his servant He will have Angels under obedience and not Devils in their own Fire-might 11. Now when as His Love would give it self into Death and deprive Death of its might then the two Worlds viz. the Fathers Fire-world with
and the Rain-bow upon which Christ sitteth in judgment in the expressed Mercury 71. The nature of this splendor ariseth out of the impression of Saturn the good Jupiter doth give himself forth to be seen in such a manner as God will change the World and transform it again into Paradise for this is the Understanding in the Expressed Word even as Christ hath made the foolish rude ignorant people truly wise and knowing in divine reall heavenly joviall understanding and knowledg 72. In the fourth Kingdom of the Mother of all Beings which is the Mercurial in the wheel of the nature of life Christ made the deaf to hear the dumb to speak and cleansed the lepers from the poyson of Mercury All apoplexies the French or poisonful pox and sores do arise from the Saturnine water in Mercury which water is called Phlegma all which Christ healed in the Form or Signature of the young man and Virgin for the Eternal Virginity had espoused it self with the young man viz. with the humanity 73. This cometh to pass also in the Philosophick work the Artist will see how the Heaven severs it self from the Earth and how the Heaven doth again sink into the Earth and changeth the earth into a heavenly colour he wil see how Mercury purifieth the matter and how the purified colours will appear in Antimony in their property and how the Wonder proceedeth on 74. In the fifth Kingdom of the Mother of all Beings Christ expelleth the Devils out of the Possessed and healed the deaf in this form and property 75. This likewise the Artist will see in the Philosophick work how Jupiter in Mercury will drive up a black twinkling fiery vapour out of the matter which sticketh on like foot for it is a hunger of the poyson in Mercury and is very rightly compared to the Devil for it is of his property 76. In the sixth Kingdom of the Mother of all Beings viz. in the wheel of Life called Venus Christ loved his Brethren and Sisters according to the Humanity and washed his Disciples feet and loved them even to the deepest exinanition and gave his life into the wraths property even unto death for them and manifested himself among them that he was Christ and when they perceived that the King was come that should deprive self-will of its might and Dominion and destroy the Devils Kingdom then they cryed out and said We have no King but Caesar they took him in the dark night into their power bound him and brought him before their Councel mocked him whipped him and beat him stripped him of cloaths and hung him on the Crosse. 77. This Also the Artist will see very powerfully in the Philosophick Work for so soon as the dark fiery steam viz. the material Devil goeth from the matter then Virgin Venus appeareth in her virginity very glorious and beautiful for it betokeneth Christs Love who did so humble himself and manifested his Love in our Humanity then the Artist thinketh that he hath the philosophick Child that he hath now the fine Morsell but he danceth with the Jews who thought when as they had taken Christ Now we have him we will keep him well enough Thus thinketh he also it is finished and receiveth the Child and when he beholds it in the Tryall then he hath Venus a Woman and not the Virgin with the Tincture of the Fire and light and is deceived by the woman 78. Now observe aright what do the properties viz. Saturn Mars and Mercury when as they see the Child viz. the Champion in Royall Colour and find that he manageth no externall Dominion and Royalty with Power and Authority as they do but will only rule with Love in their poysonful Fire-might They will not suffer him 79. For Saturn signifieth the worldly Dominion and Mercury the Spiritual dominion viz. the Pharisees and Mars signifieth the Devil these three would not endure Christ among them for he said that he was a King of Love and the Son of God and was come to deliver his people from Sin then thought the Devil sure this rhimes not well thou wilt lose thy Kingdom and the worldly Magistrate thought Is this a King and Gods Son then he will take away our might this doth not at all like us and the Mercurial Priests thought this man is too mean for us we will have a Messiah who may bring us unto worldly Dominion and make us to be High and rich in the world that we may alone possels the honour of the world we will not receive him he is too poor for us we might so lose the favour and respect of the worldly Magistrate and should be much damaged we will rather abide in our Power Respect and Authority and abandon this beggarly King with his Love-kingdom in like manner as yet to this day they are so minded and serve his Messengers so whom he sendeth 80. Thus likewise it goeth in the Philosophick work when Venus manifesteth her self with Love viz. in her own property in the three wrathful forms viz. in Saturn Mars and Mercury they can by no means endure it for it is wholly against their austere dark fiery might but especially against the poyson of Mercury they flash and lighten against Venus and shoot their rayes viz. the Mercurial poysonful rays upon her as the Pharisees did upon Christ. In the mean while Jupiter and Luna hold with Venus and give their power to Venus for Venus doth here stand forth in the power of Jupiter at this the Pharisees laugh and think with themselves we are wise enough already what need we knowledg and understanding we will have might and honour and Luna signifieth the multitude of Lay-men who stuck to Christ while it went well with him so doth Luna in the Philosophick Work to Venus in her Lustre so long as Saturn Mercury and Mars do not meddle with and assault her but when the Power of wrath cometh then Luna changeth her Will viz. the colour and looketh ariseth and cryeth also with the rest the Crucifige this the Artist will see if he be chosen and accounted worthy of God for the work CHAP. XI Of the processe of Christ in his suffering death and Resurrection Of the wonder of the sixth Kingdom in the Mother of all Beings How the Consummatum est was finished and how likewise it is symbolically accomplished in the Philosophick work 1. THis now is thus to be considered we are to know that the Essence of this world together with man doth consist in two properties viz in Fire and Light that is in Love and Anger Now the Fire is two-fold and the Light is also two-fold viz. a cold Fire from the Impression and an hot Fire from the Speer of Mercury in Sulphur and so likewise there is a cold Light from the cold Fire and a warming Light from the hot Fire the cold Light is false and the hot Light is good not that it is false in its property
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
consumes the Body and puts it into the eternal Darkness 15. This Hunger desireth nothing but the Mercy of God that he might be freed from the Anguish of Hell but this he cannot obtain of himself for he is shut up in the Anger of God and his dear Mother which nursed him in the beginning is also shut up in Death but if God sheweth his Grace and gives him again of his Love then the Anger is dismayed at the Love and this is a Flagrat of great Joy for he again tasteth the sweetness of his dear Mother and then he knoweth full well that he hath been so vile and wicked and repenteth of his Iniquity and will turn and mortifie the old Adam and cast it away from him 16. So the Artist taketh him presently away with the old Adam from the strange Anger and layeth him in a soft bed for the old Adam is sick and will dye and then his own Faber in the old Adam is in the Love of God which destroyed the Anger and will make a young childe and rejoyceth in the childe and the old Adam grows sick and weak wholly dark and swart and dyeth and the four Elements go out from him with their colours so the Faber gives him even Leave to go and continually laboreth on the new Body which shall arise from Death and none seeth his labor for he worketh in the dark 17. But the Artist takes no care about the work but giveth the Faber his own food till he seeth that a Vegetative Life appeareth in the dark Death with a new colour out of the black and then when the new Man is ready the Artist cometh and brings the Soul and gives it the Faber at which the Faber is dismayed that another Life cometh into him and he puts the Soul into the new Body and goeth inwardly in the Anger Thus the new Man ariseth in great Power and Glory from Death and bruiseth the Head of the old Serpent in the Anger of God and passeth through the Anger and the Anger can do him no harm at all Whoe'er thou art that hereunto art born Thou hast a chosen work no way for lorn CHAP. VI. How a Water and Oyl is generated and of the difference of the Water and Oyl and of the Vegetable Life and Growth 1. ALl Life Growth and Instigation consist in two things viz. in the Lubet and then in the Desire the Lubet is a free Will and as a Nothing in comparison to Nature but the Desire is as a Hunger in the Desire ariseth the moving Spirit viz. the Natural and in the Lubet the Supernatural which yet is Natures but not out of its own property but out of or from the property of the Desire 2. The Desire is the Instigation of the Essence viz. an Hunger and the Lubet is the Hungers Essence which it taketh into it self for the Desire is only an hungry Will and it is the natural Spirit in its Forms but the Lubet is out of the Liberty for God is desire-less as concerning his own Essence in so much as he is called God for he needeth nothing All is his and he himself is All. 3. But he hath a Lubet-will and he himself is the Will to manifest himself in the Lubet yet in the free affection-less Lubet no manifestation can be effected for it is voyd of Desire it is as if 't were nothing in respect of Nature and yet it is All but not according to the Desire viz. according to Nature but according to the satisfying of Nature it is the satisfying of the hungry Desire viz. of Nature it freely and willingly gives it self into the Hunger of Nature for it is a Spirit without Essence and Desire wholly free as a Nothing but the Desire doth essentialize or materiate it in it self and that according to two Properties viz. one according to the Eternal Liberty which is free from the Source and the other according to the Desire which giveth a vegetative Life viz. a growing or a giving forth it self 4. The Free Essence is and giveth an Oyl and the Desires property giveth a Life of the Oyl the Oyl is a Light and the Desires property giveth to the Light the Essence viz. the Fiery property so that the Light shineth as is to be seen in the Fire and Light and the free Lubet remaineth yet a free Will in it self but giveth its Meekness viz. a free Resignation into the Desire that it cometh to Essence and Lustre its Will is only good it hath no other Desire save only to be good meek and pleasant there is also no other possibility therein for it is as a Nothing wherein no disturbance or Source can be but it is the Meekness it self 5. But being it cannot be a Nothing by reason that it is a Cause and Beginning of the Desire therefore it giveth it self freely as the Sun-shine freely gives it self into every property and the Desire conceiveth or taketh this free Lubet viz. the Lustre or shine of the Abyss of Eternity into it self and makes it in it self into Essence according to its property so much property as is in the Desire so much also there is of Essence and we are to consider that when the free Lubet doth give in it self into the Hunger of the Desire that the Desire then maketh out of the free Lubets property a Similitude according to the Liberty which is as if 't were nothing and yet is this is a Water and Oyl 6. But seeing the Desire that is the Hunger is filled with the free Lubet it maketh its own property in the Essence of the Liberty also to Essence its Essence is Water and the Essence of the free Lubet is an Oyl Thus a two fold Property ariseth in one only Spirit viz. a fiery Property according to the property of the Desire and a joyful or Lucid Property according to the Liberty 7. The fiery giveth in its Essence viz. in its Water a sharpness from the austere Desire which is saltish or a Salt and from the fiery Anguish a Brimstone whence in the Impression and Creation of the World are made stones earth and metals so also the Elements and Stars all according to the forms in the Desire and the oleous property giveth its Meekness viz. a Love-Lubet wherein the fiery is impressed with the Desire and maketh Corporality and the oleous giveth it self out in its Meekness and maketh the Vegetable Life viz. a springing and growing in the fiery Impression whereinto the Fire must give its Essence and Instigation viz. the vehement Compunction in the Attraction of the Desire which is the Severator in the Corporality viz. the Distinguisher Carver and Causer of the Essence and Multiplicity or Variety 8. Philosophers have called this Form Mercurius from the anxious inciting Sphere which is the Cause of all Life and Motion and a Faber in the oyly and watry Property 9. Thus we are
Anger nor Death can destroy it 72. It seems strange in the eyes of Reason that God hath kept such a Process with the Restoring of Man in Christ that he appeared in such a poor disesteemed form in the humane Property and was reviled mocked scorned scourged crucified and slain and that he was buried and rose again out of the Grave and walked forty days upon the Earth before he entered into his invisible Kingdom Reason is so blind that it understandeth nothing of the Eternal Birth it knows nothing of Paradise how Adam was in Paradise and how he fell and what the Curse of the Earth is if it understood this the whole Process were manifest to it as the Eternal Birth is in it self so is also the Process with the Restoration after the Fall and so likewise is the Process of the Wisemen with their Philosophers Stone there is not the least tittle of difference betwixt them for all things do Originally Arise out of the Eternal Birth and all must have one Restoration in one and the same manner 73. Therefore if the Magus will seek Paradise in the Curse of the Earth and find it then must he first walk in the Person of Christ God must be manifest in him understand in the internal Man that he may have the Magical Sight He must deal with his Purpose as the World did with Christ and then he may find Paradise wherein is no Death 74. But if he be not in this Birth of Restoration and walketh not himself in the way wherein Christ walked upon the Earth if he steps not forth into the Will and Spirit of Christ then let him give over and leave off his Seeking he findeth nothing but Death and the Curse of God I tell him plainly and faithfully for the Pearl of which I write is Paradisical which God doth not cast before Swine but giveth it to his Children for their play and delight 75. And albeit much might be mentioned here that even Reason might obtain open eyes yet it is not to be done for the wicked would grow worse and more full of pride therefore being he is not worthy of Paradise and also cannot enter thereinto no Heavenly Jewel shall be given him and therefore God doth hide it and permits him to whom he doth reveal it to speak of it no otherwise then Magically therefore none attains it unless he himself be a Magus in Christ unless Paradise be manifest in his internal Man and then he may find if he be thereto born and chosen by God CHAP. VIII Of the fiery Sulphureous Seething of the Earth and how the Growth is in the Earth also of the Separation of the several Kinds of Creatures An open Gate for the Wise Seekers 1. LEt the Reader but consider what before is written concerning the Centre of the Generation of all Essences and then he may easily proceed here All whatsoever is Corporeal let it be either Spirit or Body consisteth in a Sulphrous property the Spirit in such a spiritual Property and the Body out of the Spirit in such a Corporeal property 2. For all things are arisen from the Eternal Spirit as a likeness of the Eternal the invisible Essence which is God and the Eternity hath in its own Desire introduced it self into a visible Essence and manifested it self in a Time so that he is as a Life in the Time and the Time is in him as it were dead as a Master that maketh his work with an Instrument and the Instrument is mute to the Master and yet it is the Making the Master only guides it even so are all things confined into limit measure and weight according to the Eternal Generation and they run on in their Operation and Generation according to the right and property of Eternity 3. And God hath appointed over this great Work only one Master and Protector which can alone manage the Work which is his Officer viz. the Soul of the great World wherein all things lie and he hath appointed a Type of its likeness as the Reason over this Officer which represents unto the Officer what he is to do and make and this is the Understanding viz. Gods own Dominion wherewith he ruleth the Officer Now the Understanding sheweth unto the Officer what the property of each thing is how the Se Veration and Degrees proceed from each other for all things are contained in the Sulphurean Body and Mercury is Sulphurs Life and the Salt is the Impression that preserveth the Body from falling to ashes so that the Spirit is known in a palpable Essence 4. The Property of Mercury is in Sulphur as the boyling of a Water Sulphur is the Water wherein Mercury Seetheth and produceth continually Two Forms out of the Water viz. one Oleous living from the Liberty of the divine Powers property and one Mortal from the dissolution in the Fire in the Salnitral Flagrat 5. The Oyly is in Stones and metals herbs trees beasts and men and the Mortal property is in the Earth in the Water in the Fire and Ayr likewise the Oleous property is in these four Forms viz. in the Earth Water Fire and Ayr as a Spirit or Life and these four Properties are as a dead Body in which the Oyl is a Light or Life whence the Desire viz. the Growth ariseth as a Springing out of the dead Property which is the Vegetative Life a Springing budding and growing out of Death 6. But now the Oyly property could not be a Life if it were not in the Anguish of Death the Anguish maketh it to pullulate or move in that its Will is to fly from and press out of the Anguish and forceth it self eagerly forwards whence the growth ariseth Thus must Death be a cause of the Life that the Life may be stirring or active and therefore Mercury is the true moving Life 7. In the Mortal property he is Evil and is called the Life of Death of Hell and the Anger of God and in the Oyly property he is Good from the efficacy of the Meekness and Liberty of God and he is the Officers Faber whereby the Officer distinguisheth the Degrees in the Vegetative Life severing the living Being from the mortal the heavenly Essentiality from the dead or earthly and orders it into two Kingdoms viz. the Good in the Oleous property into a heavenly Being viz. into a Light and the Mortal part into the Darkness 8. These two Kingdoms are in continual Combate one with another and there is an uncessant wrestling in them as water boyling on the fire each boyleth in its property viz. the Oyly in Joy and Meekness and the Mortal in the Anguish of Darkness and yet one is the cause of the other the Light is the Death and deadly destruction of he Darkness viz. of the Anguish for in the Light the Anguish hath no strength but it changeth it into the exultation of Joyfulness and the cause of Joy else there would be no Joy
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
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
delight in his own self-will he should only give the Devil his Will and forego Resignation and depart out of Gods Mercy and Love-will and if this had come to pass then had the fair Instrument been once again broken and the humane Melody in Gods Love and Deeds of Wonder had ended but Christ said Get thee hence Satan it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and serve him only Then the Devil left him and the Angels came and ministred unto him The Magical Process 50. Herein as 't is already mentioned at large the Magus must well consider his purpose and intent not desiring with the Covetousness of the Devil to possess the earthly Kingdom also not to fly or cast himself down from the Temple much less to work out his intent from the stones he must think that he is Gods Minister and Servant not a selfish Lord of whom becomes a fool If he will help the poor Captive shut up in the Anger of God out of the bands of Darkness wherein he is swallowed up in the Curse of the Earth and deliver him from the Anger of God then he must think and well observe how God with his Entrance viz. into the Humanity hath redeemed him he must very exactly and intimately consider the Temptation of Christ not blindly grope after it with outward manual Art and think with himself I have a dead Stone before me it neither knoweth or feeleth any thing I must per-force set upon it that I may compel it and take its lewel which it hath hidden in it 51. He that doth so is a Fool and goeth on in his own self-will and is altogether unfit for the work let him not meddle with it we desire faithfully to admonish him that if he will seek aright then let him consider the Process of Christ how God hath again regenerated the universal shut up in Death in the humane Property 52. For God did not take Man as he lay closed up in Death and cast him into a furnace and melted him in the Wrath as the false Magus doth but he gave his Love first into his humane Essence and baptized the Humanity afterward he brought him into the Wilderness and set the Devil opposite to him not into him he let him first fast and hunger forty days and gave no outward food to the Humanity he must eat of his Life 's Mercury that God might see whether the Humanity would bring its Desire into God and when the Humanity introduced its Desire into the Deity and received the Manna then he let the Devil set upon the Humanity who introduced all his Subtlety and desires into the Humanity and tempted him Dost thou not understand any thing here What shall I say more unto thee If thou beest a beast then I give thee not my Pearl it belongeth to Gods Children 53. God must become Man Man must become God Heaven must become One thing with the Earth the Earth must be turned to Heaven if you will make Heaven out of the Earth then give the Earth the Heavens food that the Earth may obtain the Will of Heaven that the Will of the wrathful Mercury may give it self in unto the Will of the Heavenly Mercury 54. But what wilt thou do wilt thou introduce the poysonful Mercury which hath only a Deaths Will in it self into the Temptation as the false Magus doth Will you send one Devil to another and make an Angel of him In deed and in truth I must needs laugh at such folly If thou wilt keep a corrupt black Devil how dost thou think to turn the Earth by the Devil to Heaven Is not God the Creator of all Beings Thou must eat of Gods Bread if thou wilt transmute thy body out of the earthly Property into the heavenly 55. Christ said He that eateth not the flâ—sh of the Son of man hath no part in him And saith further He that shall drink of the water that I shall give it shall spring up in him to a fountain of eternal life Here lieth the Pearl of the New-birth It is not enough to play the Sophister the grain of Wheat bringeth forth no fruit unless it falleth into the Earth all whatsoever will bring forth fruit must enter into its Mother whence it came first to be 56 The Mother of all Beings is Sulphur Mercury is her Life Mars her Sense Venus her Love Jupiter her Understanding Luna her Corporal Essence Saturn her Husband You must reconcile or lovingly betroth the Man with the Woman for the Man is Angry yet give him his dear Spouse into his Arms but see that the Spouse be a Virgin wholly chaste and pure for the womans Seed shall break the Serpents Head viz. the Mans Anger The Virgin must be in real Love without any falshood or unfaithfulness a Virgin which never touched any man in Anger according to his manhood for the pure Deity doth so espouse it self in clear Love with the Humanity even as Mary said Be it unto me as thou hast spoken for I am the Lords handmaid and so the Humanity assumed the Diety and also the Deity the Humanity 57. The chast Virgin signifieth in the Philosophick work the clear Deity the Humanity is Mercury Sulphur and Salt both heavenly and earthly the Heavenly property is disappeared and as a nothing the deadly property in the wrath is stirred up and liveth to the Anger and in the properties of the Anger the Humanity both in Adam and in Christ was tempted Dost thou ask wherewith Resp. with the like opposite in the wrath even with such a Devil as had all these properties in him as a Potent Prince in all the properties of the Anger 58. The properties in Sulphur were tempted with the likeness of the Sulphur in the Sulphur or from the Sulphrous property the Temptation did come and arise and its forms are three as one in the Impression which the Philosophers call Saturn which the Humane Spirit or Will should open in Venus property and therewith satiate or feed its hunger viz. the Fire the other property was that he should live in his own awakened and opened Venus out of Saturns property and aspire in Self-will 59. The third property was he should introduce his will through the Awakened Love-desire again into the Centre viz. into the Sulphurean Mother which ariseth in the Impression in the Anguish and this he would not do but the first Adam did it and therefore God when he would help him Tempted him in the Sulphur viz. in the first Mother to the Humanity and suffered a wrathful Devil which was enkindled in the Sulphur to tempt him with his enkindled malignity and malice in the Sulphur Dost thou not understand this what then shall I say more unto thee 60. Sulphur is the womb whereinto we must enter if we would be new born Nicodemus said well how can one being old enter into his mothers womb and be born again But Christ said Except you be
converted and become as Children you cannot see the Kingdom of Heaven The Self-wil must enter again into the First Mother which brought it forth viz. into the Sulphur by the Will understand Mercury 61. But now who will perswade it to do so for it is become a Self-thing and must enter again into the Mother and become Nothing this seemed a strange wonderful thing to Nicodemus but the Lord said unto him The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but thou knowest not from whence it cometh or whither it goeth even so is every one that is born of God Behold who perswaded the Will of Christ in his Humanity for to enter again with the Will into the Filiation or Adoption as it were into the Mothers Womb and eat Nothing forty days and would also eat nothing but remained in full stedfast Resignation in the Mother Did not the Deity do it which was entered into the Humanity 62. Thus likewise it goeth in the Philosophick Work therefore let the Artist well observe and rightly understand us he must seek the evill stubborn Child which is fled from the Mother and entered into the Centre and would be a Self-thing or it s own only in Saturn for the wrath of God hath shut him up with its Impression in the chamber of Death 63. Not that he hath made him to Saturn but he holdeth him shut up in the Saturnine death the same he must again take and bring into the Mothers Womb and then send the Angel with a Message unto Mary and tell her she shall bring forth a son whose name shall be called Jesus and if the Mother shall yeeld her consent thereunto and receive the Name Jesus then the new Humanity shall begin in the Mother with the new Child in the old Apostate captivated in the Anger of God and the Name Jesus will first give in it self unto the Dead Child which lay captivated in Saturn and eagerly draw the Will of the Evil dead child unto it self this is the fair Bride which sheweth her Crown of Pearl unto her Apostate Bridegroom he should but again receive her and she would again give him her love Now if the Apostate youth shut up in death doth again receive her then is the Artist well prepared and counted worthy by God to finish his purpose Now will the Bride love the Bridegroom and a Virgin bring forth a Son at which all the World will wonder the Virgin shall embrace the Man but he is a Man and not a Woman and hath the Virgins heart 64. Now he must be tempted whether or no he will live in Virgin-like Chastity and in full Resignation of his Will to God for he must be a Valiant Champion and destroy the Devils Fortress of Prey which he hath in his Mother in seven Kingdoms then let the Devil set his Mothers House on fire with his wrath and tempt him he will now well enough defend himself with Christ against the Devil 65. This being done the young man with his Virgin-like heart will wholly give himself up unto the Mother when as the Tempter comes and assaults him and the Mother will wholy swallow him up into her self through the Devils wrath He giveth himself forth wholly out of his own Will into the Nothing Now thinketh the Artist with himself I have lost all that he hath lost Heaven for he seeth nothing and doth not consider that a Virgin hath now brought forth but let him have Patience that which is impossible to the Artist that is possible to Nature after the night it is day when the Tempter hath finished all his Temptations then cometh the Sign or Appearance of the Angels then the Devil which hath tempted him must depart 66. Let the Artist well observe this and pack away the Devil and suffer the young man with his Virgin-like Heart to lie in his Bed and eat his former food for he is now become a Physician of his Sisters in his Mothers house he will do great Wonders in all the seven Kingdoms of his Mother which are the seven Forms of Life as Christ hath done 67. As in Saturn he will raise the dead understand he will awaken the dead Essence which held him captive in his former Prison for the shall turn or make the Earth to Heaven Even as the Virgin hath raised up his Will out of the Anger in the Love and made him a Wonder-worker so must he also awaken with his Will which is united unto the Virgins Heart the Form or Signature in his Mothers womb whence she hath brought forth him and all her Children and enkindle it with the Virgins and his Love-desire This is effected and done in the Sulphur of Saturn in the young mans own personal Property and in his mother for before the espousing of the Virgin the heavenly Essence of the young man lieth shut up in Death for when God cursed the Earth then the heavenly Paradisical Body disappeared and the Impression of Saturn took it in possession until the Restitution where God shall restore that which is hidden that Paradise doth again spring forth afresh in the Expressed Word or that the Artist doth open the same in a Part by Gods permission 68. In the second Kingdom of the Mother viz. in Luna he shall also do Wonders for Jesus fed with five Barley loaves five thousand people this is the working in the Essentiality or Corporality He turned water to wine These and the like do all belong unto the Lunar property where the Champion with his Virgin doth open Paradise and feedeth the Body where nothing is where the outward Mercury hath not laboured and wrought Thus the Forms in the Lunar property do open themselves as if they are Paradisical even then the Artist thinketh I am nigh unto it but he is yet far off from the End 69 In the third Kingdom of the Mother viz. in Jupiter Christ did make the Babes and Ignorant of a very weak and mean capacity Knowing and Understanding viz. of poor Fishermen Carpenters and the like Mechanicks he made Apostles and the most understanding men of all and also of poor disrespected vilified people as of women and simple ones he made faithful devout dear godly children who apprehended in themselves the Universal without any Art 70. Thus likewise it goeth in the Philosophick work the essentiality which lieth disappeared in death where the Mercury is wholly earthly cold and impotent doth now arise in power as if the whole Being and Essence were become a new life at which the Artist doth wonder and marvelleth what it is or how it hapneth and yet doth also exceedingly rejoyce that he seeth the Divine Power to spring forth before his eyes in a half dead Essence and that in the Curse of God he seeth all the four Elements each apart and seeth how the Wisdom of God doth represent it self therein as an harmony of joy and seeth all colours
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
death as one dying and yet there is no more any death in him but thus I dye to my Self and Sin in him seeing that my desire and will presseth forth from my Self hood into it so that I dye dayly to my self until once I shall obtain the limit of my Self-hood and my Self-hood with the earthly Will and Desire doth wholly dye unto its Selfness even then shall my Self-hood and all whatsoever is in me which seeketh and loveth it self fall into the Death of Christ viz. into the first Mother whence God created me and my Self-hood shall become a Nothing and even then my Self-hood lieth in Christs Death in the Resignation as an Instrument of God who then will make it his Instrument as he pleaseth 16 But seeing now my Soul and Spirit doth live in his Resurrection and his Voyce Ayr or Breath is in me according to the Resignation in him as S. Paul saith Our Conversation is in Heaven whence we do wait for the Saviour Jesus Christ Therefore also his Voyce which is in me in that I am or live no longer to my Self-hood but he alone is and liveth in me shall raise up my dead body which I resign to him and bring it into his first Image whereto he created it 17. Thus now I live in God and my Self-hood doth not know it for it liveth not in God but in it self God is indeed in it but it doth not apprehend him and hideth the Pearl which I am in Christ not I but he in his Humanity in my Creature in Himself and thus I speak and write of the great Mystery of all Beings not that I have apprehended it in my self-hood but he striketh my Signature in my Desire which presleth into him as he pleaseth 18. I am known to my self but not in my self-hood but in his Mirror which of Grace he hath put into me thereby to allure my self-hood unto him viz. into the Resignation and so likewise dear Brethren it shall again be represented unto you out of his Glass which he hath set forth through my Capacity in him as his Instrument 19. Thus it goeth also in the Philosophick Work Sulphur Mercury and Sal are entered by the Curse of God into their Self-hood viz. into a Self working and living all doth now work in the Curse and Anger of God according to the property of the first Principle if God had not placed the Sun as a Nature god of the outward visible World therein which tinctureth every working life even every thing which groweth and moveth all would be in the dark Deaths Impression viz. in the Abyss of Hell 20. Now if any thing shall be freed from this Self-hood viz. from the wrathful Death and be again brought into the Universal viz. into the highest Perfection then it must dye wholly to its Self-hood and enter into the Stilness viz. into the Death of the Resignation at Natures End Mars must wholly lose the might of the Fire and Wrath and Mercury also his Poyson-life Saturn must be a Death to himself in so much that the Artist seeth nothing but the great Darkness and even then the Light appeareth in the Resignation for Saint John saith The Light shineth in the Darkness and the Darkness apprehended it not that is in its Self-hood viz. in its own Will and Working it cannot apprehend it but in the Resignation the Nothing viz. the Liberty of God doth shine in it 21. For the Nothing doth manifest it self in its Lubet out of the Liberty in the Darkness of Death for the Nothing will not be a Nothing and also cannot be a Nothing and likewise it cannot otherwise manifest it self save according to the property of the free Lubet which is now fixt or stedfast and in it also as a Nothing for there is no Turba therein the Self-will and Hunger is dead and in the Nothing and the Lubet of the Eternal Liberty is its Life Now seeing that the Highest Being hath once moved it self and come into a visible comprehensible Essence it doth again Figurize or form that same Essence which departeth from its Self-hood and entereth into the Nothing into such a Being or Essence as it was before the times of the World but seeing that the Verbum Fiat standeth yet to this day a Creating of the Corporal Essence it doth again make a sixt perfect Essence as the like is brought to pass in the Philosophick Work where a new Life ariseth out of Death as God doth raise us up in Himself in Christ if we dye to Self-hood and wholly resign up our selves into him 22. And thus when the expressed Mercury in the Sulphur of Saturn resigneth its Self-hood into Venus then the Verbum Fiat changeth it again into such an Essence according to the Lubet of the Liberty the Death ariseth in a new Body out of the Darkness of Death in a white fair Colour but as an hidden Lustre wherein the Colour is not rightly and distinctly known until it doth dissolve it self and the Materia becomes desiring then the Sun ariseth in the Centre Saturn in the Property of Jupiter and Venus in all the Seven Forms that is in the Verbum Fiat as a New Creation and the Desire of all the Seven Forms do tend unto Sols Lustre viz. unto the white and red Colour from the Fire and Light which is the Majestatical Colour Lustre or Glory 23. And as CHRIST after His Resurrection walked forty Days in the Mystery of all the Three Principles at once in the property of the first Adam after his Creation before his sleep and before his Eve and appeared to his Disciples in his property which he had here from the outward world and did eat with them and shewed them his assumed Humanity and that he had in no wise wholly put off the same 24 Even so let the Artist understand us that in the Philosophick Work the first matter doth not wholly pass away or vanish but it entreth into the death of the life of its wrathful property and dyeth in the Curse of God but ariseth again in its former being which it had before the Curse of God the Curse only is destroyed therein and the first life doth again rise up therein and therefore it is fixt and subsists in the Fire for it is dead to the dominion of the four Elements and liveth in the fifth essence not that it hath that same life but it standeth still therein yet the spirit of the new-born Essence is a vegetative life with its growing therein its Lustre doth stand therein it sheweth the first Adam in innocency who stood likewise in such perfection 25. And as Christ tinctured our corrupt Humanity in which Mercury was turned to poyson with the Heavenly blood of the Eternal Divine Virginity and Essentiality whereby the Humane Self-hood dyed in the poyson and the Resigned life did again arise Even so the poysonful Mereurial Martial and Saturnine Will and desire
do dye in the blood of Venus in the Philosophick work and do both enter together into Death and arise both together in one Love in one Will. 26. Therefore let the Artist observe the Tincture it is more noble and precious for mans use in this valley of misery then the body which ariseth in the Tincture for the Spirit is the life the body is only a Figure of the Life and the blood is a mansion of the Spirit 27. The Artist must well observe this in the blood of the young man when his Pearl giveth it self to the three Murtherers that it also sheddeth its blood in and with the young mans then the Champion standeth in Hell and disclaimeth the Humane Self-hood then the white Lyon appeareth upon his Crimson-coloured Beast even there lyeth the Cure of sickness and the death of death 28. The body is dissolved in the blood of Love in the Death out of the Earthly into an Heavenly property The Tincture gives it self into the new body and afterwards when the body ariseth in Sols splendor it doth also forsake its will it resigneth it self wholly into the bodies essence and becomes its beauty splendor and colour which the Artist can never separate for they are together in the fifth Essence viz. in the mystery of the Verbum Fiat and do belong to Gods motion of the final day of Separation in this time unto his own manifestation unto his honour and deeds of wonder but after this time to the crystalline world in the glassie Sea before the ancient in the Apocalyps A brief Summary of the Philosophick WORK 29. Our meaning might seem very difficult unto the Reader in that we go so far about and shew Christ all along therein at which let no man wonder we do not seek gold or any Temporal goods thereby and drive man into vain curiosities we speak only with the Children whom God hath chosen thereunto for the Time is born where that which is lost shall be again found yea not only the Universal for the body of this World but also for the Soul 30. The Process is very short in both and it is only of one property which is thus the Tree understand the Life is divided into seven Forms now the curse of God is come into the seven Forms so that they are in strife and enmity and one Form doth annoy the other and can never agree unless they all seven enter into Death and dye unto the Self-will Now this cannot be except a Death comes into them which breaks all their will and be a death unto them as the Deity in Christ was a death to the Humane Self-hood and the seven Forms in the Humane Life thus is it here also the Humane Will was changed in Christ into the Eternal Sun viz. into the Resignation in God even so must all the Forms in the Philosophick Work be changed into one viz. into Sol Seven must become one and yet remain in Seven but in one desire where each Form desireth the other in love and then there is no more any strife and contest 31. Therefore let the Artist but consider how he may give death to the death with the pure life and how he may awaken the dead and disappeared life which is Heavenly and lyeth hidden and captivated in the Curse so that it may again receive the Fire-soul and if he doth but bring it so far it worketh of it self 32. When the Virgin doth again receive her Bridegroom who hath been faithless then he is prepared and fitted to the work otherwise he is no way at all fitted but all is in vain and to no purpose which he attempteth there is not any possibility for the Heavenly Image according to Gods likeness in man to be otherwise helped and restored after that the Fire-soul had entred into its self-hood unless the Spirit of God did introduce it self into the disappeared Image viz. into the Heavenly Essentiality and give it self in with the same Image awakened in it into the Souls Fire viz. into the wrath of Death and be a death to Death viz. to the wrathful anger of God that it might be drowned in the Love in the blood of the Heavenly Essentiality and although there could be no parting nor dying yet there was a dying of the Wrath so that the Wrath was changed into a joy and Love 33. Even thus the Artists Work is exactly and throughout no otherwise For Man was created out of all Beings out of the Heaven and Earth but when he became wholly earthly and the Curse seized on him the Curse also came over the earthly Being whence Man was made Thus the Heaven was shut up from man and the Heaven also was shut up in the Earth in Metals Trees and Hearbs in the food of Man and whatsoever belonged to his Ornament and Delight 34. The soul of the Earth viz. the property of the Fire of the first Principle is entered into its self-hood viz. into Gods anger now the Heaven is hidden in it therefore the Artist must in his Work reduce the Soul in the Curse and the Heaven again into One He must introduce the Soul again into Heaven or else there is no possibility now he cannot bring the Soul in its iniquity into Heaven for it will not and therefore he must bring the Heaven into the Soul and wholly give in the Heaven to the Soul that the Soul may eat of Heaven will she or nill she the Heaven must be as Death in the Soul so that the Soul cannot get rid of it how angry soever she be and vehemently rage against it until she be overcome in her wrath and entereth with the Desire into Heaven viz. into the disappeared Essence and willeth to murther it as the Jews Christ and if she so entreth into the Heavenly Essence then the Image of the Heavenly Essence falleth into the jaws of the Murtherer 35. Thus when the Heavenly Essence giveth its desire unto the Murtherer the Murther is dismayed at the Dear Love-life and ariseth in the Flagrat in the dismayment in the Heavenly Essentiality thus the disappeared Essence doth again receive the Fire Flagrat into it self and wholly uniteth it self with the Fire-life and so the Fire must burn in the Love and Meekness and forego its right in the Centre as the Light which shineth from the Fire thus and no otherwise the Heavenly Essence obtaineth its life and as a Fire doth through-heat an iron that it appeareth as if it were meer Fire and it is so but the iron doth still retain its substance even so the disappeared Essence viz. the Heaven is manifest in the poysonful Mercurial and Martial Fire-soul and maketh of Seven Wills only one and yet Seven remain but the Enmity ceaseth 36. This is a Universal which also changeth the Enmity or Malignity of all Diseases in the Humane body into one Will into unity So that the raging and raving viz. the seven
its likeness in its degree viz the Hunger of Time eateth of Time and the Hunger of Eternity doth eat of Eternity both the Spirit of Mercury and the Spirit of Sulphur whereas yet there are not two Spirits but only two Properties all whatsoever doth only take its Original in one Principle as the Creatures of the outward World they have only one Region but a two-fold Inclination from the good and evil but whatsoever taketh its Original out of two Principles as Man he hath also a two-fold Food and Dominion viz. from the dark Centre and from the outward Centre but if he dyeth to his Self hood and bringeth his Hunger into Gods Kingdom then he may eat of the divine Mercury viz. of the five divine Senses with the Soul and of the Element in the divine Essence and yet the outward Man apprehendeth not in this life-time the divine Essence Corporally but only through Imagination where the inward Body doth Penetrate the outward as the Sun shineth through the Water and yet the Water continueth still Water for here lieth our fall in Adam 65. The Element did wholly Penetrate the four Elements and it was wholly One in Man but in the Curse the Element did sever from the Soul so that the poor Soul doth now live only in the Vessel of the four Elements unless that it doth again enter in the Death of its earthly Will into the divine Desire and spring forth in the Element 67. Thus also the outward Body is in the Curse and eateth of the Cursed Earths property viz. only of the earthly Salniter where one Hunger of the earthly Properties doth continually oppose another for the Curse is a loathsom Abominate in all Salts and thence it cometh that a constant Contrariety doth arise in the outward Body for one Hunger of the Properties receiveth or catcheth from the other the Abominate now for to help the Body that it may be freed from the Abominate it must take the Assimulate of the Lothing Abominate which is arisen in the Body as a Sude and introduce it into the Dying of the Fire and extroduce it in the Love-desire from the Curse of the Vanity now this is no otherwise effected but as the true Life dyeth unto the dark Vanity 68. The Abominate of the outward Life ariseth from a property of the Salt which is contrary to the Oyl of the Life Thus the Abominate doth forthwith enkindle it self in the four Elements and beginneth to Seethe in the Salniter as a strange Life This strange Life doth at last darken and destroy the first true Life if it be not resisted and it can have no better help then with the Assimulate of the introduced Abominate which the Life hath taken into it self therefore that must be done to the Cure which is to be done to the Life that it might be freed from the Abominate 69. The Cure must be freed from the same Abominate which it hath received in the four Elements from the like false Insinuation In fluence or Impress it must be brought into the Death of the four Elements and its Spirit must also be Tinctured in the fifth Form with the Venus desire viz. with a pleasant Essence that the spiritual Mercury may arise in Jupiters property understand the Cure must first dye to its sickness in all the four Elements it must be introduced into the Putrifaction of all the four Elements in the Fire it dyeth to its earthliness and in the Putrifaction to the Waters earthliness and in the Ayrs Putrifaction to the Abominate and earthliness of the Ayr and then it must be brought into Venus and from Venus into Jupiter and then the Sun will arise in the Love-desire and with this the Abominate in the Body may be resisted 70. All other Cures which are administred raw and undigested as when one takes Cold and will resist Heat and so likewise Heat to resist Cold are only an opposite fiery Flagrat whereby indeed the enkindled Fire doth cease from its powerful working but the Flagrat entereth into Deaths Anguish and the Root of the Abominate becomes a poysonful Mercury unless that the Heat and Cold be afore Temperized with Venus and Jupiter and then indeed it is an Appeasing of the Abominate in the Salnitral Sude but the Root of the Abominate remaineth still unless that the Life be strong and mightily bringeth forth its Desire out of the Abominate This the Physicians must well observe that the raw Herbs do not reach the Root where the Abominate is arisen in the Centre in the property of the Lifes Form they reach only the four Elements and give some easement but the Abominate remaineth still in the Root as an hidden sickness 71. The like is also to be understood concerning the Astrum which hath its Sude in the outward Body as a peculiar Body in the four Elements if the Cure may be freed from the Abominate of the four Elements then the Astrum falleth also into the Good part and introduceth its Desire thereinto and so the Body is also freed from the Abominate of the Astrum for the Scripture saith That the whole Creature longeth together with us to be freed from the Vanity Now the Curse of the Earth wherein the Astrum doth inject its Desire is the Vanity and if it tasteth a pure Life in it self then it doth also rejoyce therein and casteth forth the Abominate 72. Every Abominate of the oyly Life ariseth from the inward Mercury in the inward Sulphur for Sin also doth hence take its Original that the poysonful Mercury which is a cause of the Life doth in the Fire-flash in the Original of the Salniter in Retiring backwards introduce it self again in to Self-hood for even there is the Original of the Poyson-life 73. Every Life which will be without spot must dye in the Will-spirit to Nature in the Fire of the Abominate to the first Impression of the Wrath and must give it self forth in the Will-spirit to Nature as a Resigned Will through the Mortification in the Light of Love Let it be either heavenly or earthly it must hold that Process or else it cometh not to the highest Perfection in its degree for man could not be helped unless the Love-Centre of the Love-desire did enter again into the Humanity and bring forth the Own Life viz the humane Self through the Mortification into it self This is an exact Type that whatsoever will be freed from the Abominate viz. from the Curse the same must dye to the four Elements in the Abominate and bring forth its degree through the Mortification of the Fire in the Light 74. Thus likewise is the Salnitral Sude in the Earth whence Metals good Herbs and Trees do grow each property is desirous of the Assimulate and if it can reach the Assimulate in Sulphur and Mercury in the Love then it brings forth it self higher then it is in its degree as the Eternal Liberty with its Lubet doth
his Creation in Highest joyfulness but he departed from the Likeness and put himself forth out of the Accord or Heavenly Consort into the cold dark fiery Generation out of which the hot fiery Generation ariseth He forsook his Order and went out of the Harmony wherein God created 〈◊〉 He would be Lord over all and so he entered into the Austere 〈◊〉 Domination and is now an Instrument in the austere Fires Might upon which also the all essential Spirit striketh and soundeth upon his Instrument but it soundeth only according to the wrathful Fires property As the Harmony viz. the Lifes-form is in each thing even is also the Sound or Tone of the eternal Voyce therein in the holy it is holy in the perverse perverse All things must praise the Creator of all Beings the Devils praise him in the mâ—ght of Wrath and the Angels and Men praise him in the might of Love 8. The Being of all Beings is but one only Being but in its Generation it Severs it self into two Principles viz. into Light and Darkness into Ioy and Sorrow into Evil and Good into Love and Anger into Fire and Light and out of these two eternal Beginnings or Principles into the third Beginning viz. into the Creation to its own 〈◊〉 play and Melody according to the Property of both eternal Desires 9. Thus each thing goeth in its Harmony and is guided or driven by one only Spirit which is in each thing according to the property of the thing and this the Clock or watch-Watch-work of the Great Mystery of Eternity in each Principle according to the property of the Principle and then according to the innate Form of the Composed Instrument of the same Creatures even in all these Beginnings or Principles 10. Death is the Bound-mark of all whatsoever is Temporal whereby the Evil may be destroyed but that which ariseth out of the Eternal Beginnings and in its Harmony and Lifes-form entereth into another Figure that departeth out of Gods Harmony out of the True Order wherein God created it and is cast out of the same Harmony into its Likeness as a dissonant discording Melody or Sound in the great Excellent well-tuned Harmony for it is an opposite contrary thing and beareth another Tone Sound and Will and so it is introduced into its Likeness and therefore Hell is given to the Devil for his House Habitation because he introduced his Lifes form into the Anger of God and into the fiery wrath of the Eternal Nature so that now he is the Instrument in the Eternal Fire of God and the Angerspirit doth strike his Instrument and yet it must stand to the Honour and Admiration of God and be the Sport and Play in the Desire and Property of the wrathful Anger 11. The Anger and Wrath of God is now his joy not as if he feared sorrowed and lived in impotency no but in great Strength and fiery Might as a potent King and Lord yet only in the same property which he himself is viz. in the first Principle in the dark World 12. The like also we are to know concerning the Angelical World viz. the second Principle where Gods Light and glorious Beauty shineth in every Being or thing and the Divine voyce or sound ariseth up in all Creatures in great joyfulness where the Spirit proceeding from the Divine Voyce maketh a joyfulness and an uncessant continual Love-desire in those creatures and in all the Divine Angelical Beings as there is an Anguish-source and Trembling in the painful Fire so in like manner there is a Trembling joyfulness in the Light and Love-fire viz. a great Elevation of the Voyce of God which doth make in the Angels and in the like Creatures as the Souls of men a great manifestation of the Divine joyfulness 13. The Voyce or breath of God doth continually and Eternally bring forth its joy through the Creature as through an Instrument the Creature is the manifestation of the voyce of God What God is in the Eternal Generation of his Eternal Word out of the great Mystery of the Fathers property that the Creature is in an Image as a joyful Harmony wherewith the Eternal Spirit playeth or melodizeth 14. All properties of the great Eternal Mystery of the Pregnatress of all Beings are manifest in the holy Angelical and Humane creatures and we are not to think thereof as if the creatures only stood still and rejoyced at the glory of God and admired only in Joy no but as the Eternal Spirit of God worketh from Eternity to Eternity in the great Mystery of the Divine generation and continually manifesteth the infinite and numberless Wisdom of God even as the Earth bringeth forth always fair blossoms Herbs and Trees so also Metals and all manner of Beings and putteth them forth sometimes more soveraign powerful and fair then at other times and as one ariseth in the Essence another falleth down and there is an uncessant lasting Enjoyment and Labour 15. Thus likewise is the Eternal Generation of the holy Mystery in great power and reprocreation or Paradissical pullulation where one Divine fruit of the great Love-desire standeth with another in the Divine Essence and all is as a continual Love-combate or wrestling delight a blooming of fair colours and a pleasant ravishing smell out of the Divine Mercury according to the Divine Natures property a continual good Taste of Love from the Divine Desire 16. Of all whatsoever this World is an earthly Type and Resemblance that is in the Divine Kingdom in great Perfection in the Spiritual Essence not only Spirit as a will or thought but Essence corporeal Essence sap and power but as incomprehensible in reference to the outward World for this visible World was generated and created out of this same spiritual Essence in which the pure Element is and also out of the dark Essence in the Mystery of the Wrath being the Original of the Eternal manifest Essence whence the properties do arise as an out-spoken breath out of the Being of all Beings not that it was made of the eternal Essence but out of the forth-breathing or Expression of the eternal Essence out of Love and Anger out of Evil and Good as a peculiar Generation of a peculiar Principle in the hand of the Eternal Spirit 17. Therefore all whatsoever is in this World is a Type and Figure of the Angelical World not that the Evil which is alike manifest with the Good in this World is also manifest in Heaven no they are SeVered into two principles in Heaven all is good which is evil in Hell whatsoever is Anguish and Torment in Hell that is good and a joy in Heaven for there all stands in the Lights Source and in Hell all standeth in the Wrath in the dark Source 18. Hell viz. the dark World hath also its generation of fruits there is even such an Essence Dominion in them as in Heaven but in nature and manner of the Wrathful property for the Fiery
Type are these two Brothers 81. In what Grace was the first World saved without the Law what was their Justification 82. Was Cain condemned for his sins what was his doubt or despair of Grace 83. Why did God make a mark on Cain and said He that slayeth Cain His blood shall be avenged seven-fold 84. VVherefore said Lamech Cains Successor to his VVives Zilla and Ada Lamech shall be avenged seventy and seven-fold what doth this mean and signifie 85. VVhat was the greatest Sin of the first world 86. VVhat is the Henochian life what is become of Henoch so also of Moses and Elias 87. VVhat doth Noah's Flood Typyfie and point out 88. VVhat doth Noah's Drunkenness signifie by reason whereof he cursed his Son Ham 89. VVhat is the Tower of Babel and wherefore were the Speeches there altered 90. VVhat was the Covenant with Abraham concerning the Blessing and also the Circumcision 91. VVhat Figure is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha how was it effected 92. VVherefore was Lot's wife turned to a pillar of Salt how is it to be understood 93. VVherefore did the Daughters of Lot lie with their Father and first made him drunk that they might be with child by their Father whence arose two potent Nations what doth this Figure signifie 94. What doth the Figure of Moses signifie that he must be drawn out of the River and be preserved to such a Great Office 95. Why did the Lord appear to Moses in a fire-flaming bush when he chose him 96. From what power did Moses do his wonders before Pharaoh 97. What Figure is the departure of the children of Israel out of Aegypt 98. VVherefore must Moses remain forty days upon the Mount Sinai when God gave him the Law 99. VVhat is the Law in one Sum 100. VVhat were the offerings of Moses How was Sin blotted out and appeased through these offerings 101. What is the Ground of the Prophetical prophecyings By what knowledg and Spirit did the Prophets in the Old Testament prophecy 102. VVhat is Christ of whom the Prophets prophecyed in the Old Testament 103. VVhat was John Baptist Christ's fore-runner 104. What kind of Virgin was Mary in whom God became Man before she conceived 105. Why must Mary be first espoused to Joseph before she conceived of the Holy Ghost 106. How was God viz. the word made Flesh what did he assume from man 107. Why would God become Man could not he forgive man his sins without being incarnate 108. How was the Union of the Deity and Humanity brought to pass in this Incarnation 109. How was Christ born of Mary unto this World without the breach of her Virginity how could Mary after the Birth be a Virgin 110. Wherefore did Christ walk forty years upon the Earth before he took his Office wherefore did he encrease in Age and favour with God and Man when as he was himself God and needed no Growing or Encreasing 111. Wherefore did Christ suffer himself to be baptized of Iohn with water when as he himself was the baptisme and the Baptizer who should baptize with the Holy Ghost 112. Wherefore must Christ be tempted forty days after his baptisme in the Wilderness what doth it mean that a God-man should be tempted and wherefore must the Devil tempt him before he began his works of Wonder 113. How was Christ in Heaven and upon the Earth at once 114. Why did Christ Teach before the People of the Kingdom of Heaven in Parables 115. Wherefore did not Christ himself set down his Gospel in writing but only Taught it and left it to his Apostles afterward to write down 116. Wherefore must even the High Priests and Scribes who taught the People gainsay and oppose Christ being always bent to reproach and slay him why must not the worldly Magistrate do it or the common Crue 117. Why was there such a process of Revilings Mockings and Scourging kept with Christ before his Suffering wherefore did God so suffer it to be done 118. Wherefore must even the Teachers of the Law bring Christ to be condemned and yet he must be killed by the Heathenish Magistracy 119. Wherefore must Christ suffer and dye Did God require such an Avengement for to be reconciled and could not he otherwise forgive Sin 120. What is the Figure of the two Murtherers which were hanged with Christ upon the Cross and wherefore must Christ dye upon a wooden Cross and no otherwise 121. How did Christ with his dying flay Death upon the Cross how was that brought to pass 122. Wherefore must Christ be nailed to the Cross and wherefore was Christ's side opened with the Spear from whence ran forth water and blood what doth this signifie in the Figure 123. Wherefore must Christ be reviled upon the Cross 124. Was the Divine Power also in that Blood which he shed forth upon the Earth 125. Wherefore did the Earth tremble when Christ hung upon the Cross 126. What doth the Darkness signifie which at that time came above the ordinary course of Nature 127. Wherefore did Christ in his death commend his Soul into his Fathers hands what is that hand of the Father 128. Wherefore did some convert themselves and Return when they saw those things which were done at the death of Christ and not the High Priests wherefore must they remain blind and hardned as to that work 129. What is the Descending of Christ into Hell where he overcame Death and the Devil 130. How did Christ preach to the Spirits which believed not in the days of Noah 131. What doth Christs Rest in the Grave signifie that he must lie forty hours in the Grave 132. Wherefore must Christ's Grave be guarded with Watchmen what doth it Typifie that the High Priests would withstand and oppose Gods Might and keep Christ in the Grave 133. Wherefore doth the Evangelist say That the Angel rouled away the Great stone from the door of the Sepulchre could not Christ otherwise have risen out of the Grave 134. What is the Power of Christ's Resurrection through death How hath he triumphed over Death in his body what hath he thereby done 135. What Gate hath Christ opened through Death in our Humanity into the Anger and Righteousness of God through which we may enter into God How is this effected 136. What doth the journey or Pilgrimage of the two Disciples from Jerusalem to Emaus signifie where they did bemoan themselves and lament in Great Anguish for their Master and yet Christ walked with them asked them questions and taught them and yet they knew him not 137. Wherefore did Christ first appear after his Resurrection to a Woman and not to the Disciples 138. Wherefore did Christ after his Resurrection eat with his Disciples of the broyled Fish and went in unto them through a shut door and taught them 139. Wherefore did not Christ after his Resurrection shew himself to Every one but only to some 140. Wherefore did Christ after his