BEAST I beheld the pleasant Field and fruitful Garden working up the form of what indured and continued patient under those fiery Tryals until they became past over though many therein did dwell on a barren Heath who could not see when good comes whereby they perished in the Night of Obscurity and worldly sorrow that overtook them in their way wherein the power of DEATH wrought and became strong in the WORLDS CXIII And in the place of the fifth Head of the Beast in the midst of four which I had beheld Wounded as it were unto death were sprung up three other Heads And the Horns on that fifth Head which had received that deadly Wound were increased through the healing up of the Wound wherein a little Horn that sprung up between the Eyes of the Beast received Voice and began to speak great swelling words against the God of Heaven and his SAINTS that dwell on the Earth and the little Horn waxed strong towards the four Winds of the Heavens wherein the BEAST appeared with seven Heads and ten Horns which had Power in in the Beast to reign with him as Kings for their hour CXIV And whereas after I had seen the fall of five Horns on that fifth Head of the Beast I beheld remaining four Heads from whence sprung up four Horns in the dispersing abroad the Kingdom and Power of the BEAST under the four Winds of the Heavens so in the reviving of his power that which became exalted in the reducing of four to its first subjection ruled over five in which the wound was received and wherein the Beast came forth first manifest and in the discovery of both the rise and fall of the BEAST though through the great Horn of the Hee-Goat who did not touch the ground until he had accomplished his design after he had power given him in the awakened fury of the West-Wind the two Horns of the RAM from the EAST were broken and stampt in pieces that great Horn was also broken when its fury was accomplished CXV Yet was the power of the four Horns on those four Heads of the BEAST bound down in the four Heads of the great River until the time of the loosing of their four Angels that stood on the four Corners of the EARTH to hold the four Corners of the WINDS from blowing on the EARTH while the little Horn was magnified whereby the third Head which sprung up in the midst of the seven recovered four Horns from that which was dispersed under those four Winds of the Heavens and on the other six Heads were manifest six Horns CXVI Thus was the BEAST more monstrous then all those other Beasts that passed before him with Iron Teeth by which he did break and stamp in pieces And his Face was like unto a Leopard with the form of a third part of the Stars in the constellation of the HEAVENS on his Back but he had the Feet of the great Bear and discovered his power through the four Heads of the great River EUPHRATES in the loosing of those destroying Angels who came first out from the WATERS but the reviving of his strength from those deceitful healings proceeded out of the Earth through the power of the RAM in Nature CXVII And in the time of the sounding of the sixth Trumpet this BEAST came forth through the loosing of those destroying ANGELS out of the great River and through those earthquakes and shakings that were come into the WORLD wherein fell that tenth part of the great City God had returned unto himself his Tenths to be eaten as a Teyl-Tree and as an Oak whose substance was in it these were the remnant of the Holy Seed who worshipped the Lord with a pure Heart even in Spirit and in Truth and whose Garments were washed White in the Blood of the Lamb. CXVIII For they came to pass through great tribulations and Tryals in their WAY because they could not Worship the BEAST nor receive his Mark but they were preserved blameless before the Lord in that hour wherein Iniquity was not found in their HEARTS neither was there guile in their MOUTHS to be uttered with their Tongue And I beheld until the sin of MANASSEH became ripened and was filled up and the high Altars in both Courts whereon had been offered Sacrifice to IDOLS and Incense burnt to strange Gods which neither we nor our Fathers have heard of were pulled down because of the God of FORCES who was worshipped neither was the desire of Women regarded CXIX And after I came to see the WOMANS deliverance from the rage and fury of the great Red DRAGON who had cast his floods of Water after her in the time and times wherein she had been helped by the EARTH and sheltered by the Wings of the EAGLE with which she had fled into the Wilderness as the Dragon came to give up his Power to this monstrous Beast the remnant of her Seed was persecuted in the World for the space of full forty dayes And wherein the Sun had gone back ten Degrees for the prolonging of Life in the Just after he came to discover and reveal the glory in which was his safety before Babylons King who wrought by subtilty and much craft whereby fifteen dayes were added to his dying state CXX Those dayes were again doubled in the renewed Zeal wherein the Favour of God was multiplyed to the purging his House and Sanctuary according to the fifty-five dayes wherein Manasseh had caused the Israel of God to err in following after Idols And for ten days the Devil had power to cast many into Prison that they might be tryed and sifted by his cunning devices until their Garments became thus made white in the Blood of the slain Lamb of God CHAP. XI Describing the Form of the WHEELS in the VISION according to their MOTION wherein are numbred the dayes that the BEAST hath yet to reign and continue on the Earth CXXI AS to the form of the Wheels as they wrought and moved one within the other as a Wheel within a Wheel like unto the form of the Worlds which are moved the one within the other the WHEELS never rested but went streight forward towards Eternity wherewith they were tinctured and moved in the power thereof as though they crossed each other and yet there was no crossness in the Will and Wisdom of Eternity from whence they were moved in the power of him that first wrought and laboured in the motion thereof CXXII For all crossness that appeared in the motion thereof wrought in the Earthly ground wherein the World 's laboured to Center in a Glory below the power of Eternity from whence every thing first proceeded and was brought forth to a day of Tryal in the FRAME under which the Body of Nature was constituted to exercises from the Glory of the HEAVENS wherein the Will of the Creature was subjected to a change through vanity that entered the WORLD in a state of corruptible Glory which was
through the striving and strugling which I saw in the Air. LV. And as that which came forth out of the Womb of Eternity was brought FIVE DAYES forward for manifestations sake I beheld a Principle of Corruption and Destruction that came to be allowed to work up its Power in a Mystery through and over all forms that were come into being in the OLD WORLD which remained suffering under those THREE and under that through which these Two became imbodied from the Womb of Nature in the Creaturely form and being in that FIFTH DAY who were separated into the Principles of AIR and WATER thus made distinguishable LVI For of the THREE that strove to come forth out of the Womb of Eternity imbodied in the Creaturely form and being there were but only Two that became incorporated from the Womb of Nature though there was the MULTIPLICITY of FORMS and the variety of ESSENCES concerned therein And as I beheld the effect of what came forth through the contest in the place of Conception the BEHEMOTH possessed the SEVENTH PART of the Worlds in which the WATERS were held even as LEVIATHAN possessed the Waters themselves LVII Yea through the drying up of the THIRD PART of the corruptible Waters on the THIRD DAY that which aboad in the Air in which the Firmament was placed became a mighty and Potent PRINCE and GOD of the WORLDS which impregnated on blew up the stern-harsh-FIRE in the enkindled qualities of Divine Justice against the Creature by whom SIN took occasion to work up the power of Death over the Body of Nature through a Law in the Members wherein the concupiscence wrought against the Law of the Mind under which the Nature of all Creatures was brought forth and subjected through the contrariety of the Spirit of Enmity that tinctured the ELEMENTAL qualities of the Worlds with the harshness thereof against the regulating power of order LVIII For that which sunk in the fall became imbodied again in form anew after I had beheld the dispersing abroad of all that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity in its fallen Properties and Qualities which setled in the Created being of all powers of Nature in the imbodied form which was brought forward into BEING under the power of Corruption over which I beheld the motion of the WHEELS until it became EQUINOCTIAL LIX And it was SIX DAYES forward and six dayes backward in what was wrought up into FORM through the operation in Properties and Qualities of what was endless in the WORLDS wherein the FOUR BEASTS which I beheld came forth into manifestation and these four had the Face of a LYON and the Face of a CHERUB or Calf and the Face of a MAN and the Face of an EAGLE and they moved in the WHEELS over all that came forth imbodied in FORM while place and time endured LX. And thus did I behold until all that came forth thus FALLEN in the bodily frame was again returning and centring in an Eternal Rest and Quiet IN THE LORD where it became immoveable stedfastly abounding in the good Fruit of Joy and Rejoycing wherein the Creator of all forms in NATURE had first planted it and therein had God finished all work and labour in the beginning of CREATION which is become the Seventh DAY in NATURE to that which remaineth capable of entring into Rest that is formed therein which is the ground of torment and disquiet to the Spirit of the WICKED ONE CHAP. VI. Describing the coming forth of the first Seven Nations of the Worlds into the forms of Nature LXI THese are the Generations of the the WORLDS in the day that God created the HEAVENS and the EARTH when he beheld it without form and void for it was an Emptiness and dark NOTHING before he Created it into FORM through the power of the Word of LIFE in which God willed the coming forth of that which was to replenish it in time and place LXII Wherein all that was brought forth in the Dominion of Innocency In ADAM was a subjection to the forming part of the IMAGE that mankind was stated in according to the Mind and Will of the Spirit of GOD in him REVEALED whose conditions for Good or Evil are concerned in what he ruleth in and over LXIII For the Earth was not now without form nor in its voidness and emptiness but was filled and replenished with Creatures and Things which were created beautiful in their place and season and the World was set in their Hearts the beauty and glory of which did wither and pass away as the flowers of the Field And all that stood IMBODIED under the power of corruption in time and place was consumed so that the Works of God in that STATE could not be beheld from the beginning to the end thereof LXIV And the Government of God through the power of all Properties in the ELEMENTAL WORLDS was manifest in those Four forms of the BEAST in Nature wherein the effect of all produced from the FIERY HEAVENS was comprehended for Governments-sake in the form of a LYON and there came a Voice from the HEART of the fire as from the Heart of the LYON let the Earth keep silent while the Islands renew their strength LXV For darkness came over all that stood manifest in form wherein the Creature sought to glory in the imbodied will of SELF-EXCELLENCY which was moved towards the PIT of perpetual SILENCE to inhabit the NOTHINGNES through such a REVOLVE in the turning about and overturning of the Worlds in the motion of the WHEELS LXVI And over the face of the mighty deeps was a thick Cloud and over the PEOPLE who are the unstable Waters was the gross thick darkness and the Nations of the Earth were angry and moved at this coming forth of the Lord. And I beheld the Worlds in their divided Qualities and Properties wherein was preparation for a NEW Heaven and a NEW Earth and the Face and form of the MAN whom I saw went both forward and backward in the Heavens according to the form and frame of the Worlds in the VISION of the Wheels from those FIVE DAYES wherein I beheld the MOON striving to encrease her recovered strength towards NEW MOON to the reducing of that which was lost in the KALENDS of the Months LXVII And until the end of NINE and TWENTY dayes I saw the IDES of the Month in a Mystery working up a form to the new created being of all things substantial in an eternal existence And the Face and form of the Man whom I beheld exalted in the Heavens was turned towards the South For he was not able to behold the illustrious breaking-forth of the glory of the DAY that was risen upon the Earth LXVIII And the form of the Man whom I had seen placed in the GARDEN was divided into TWAIN to wit into Masculine and Feminine through whom the Heavens came to multiply their forms in the Dual number over the Earth whereby the strivings in the
of moveability because God is the unchangeable being of Love Delight in REST in the Center of all that is good and Nature is that into which good and evil hath entered from whence its TREE hath sprung up and doth grow which the Creature who is the cause of work and labour in God hath fed on that hath brought the sence of pangs and misery into the World where is the worldly sorrow that worketh and bringeth under the power of Death and all other afflictions they meet with in their way CHAP. V. Describing the Form and Order of the WHEELS in their MOTION XXV FOR God is the cause of nothing without NATURE though in the Wheels there appeared two Motions whereby the cause of moveability was kept from centering in the ground of Corruption and Mortality under the power of which the Creature of God was thus fallen in a NATURAL Body through that which was sown in Weakness therefore in what ever the Creature was betrayed under the power of its guidance it was a CROSS to all proneness and adiction of Motion that did arise from the ground of Corruption XXVI And about the CENTER in which stood a Heart inflaming was made a Diurnal Motion in the Wheels which moved at a distance in two Rings of the inward Wheels wherein the third and inward Principle moved equally with the ground of Motion from the first CENTER and the two outward Principles of the inward World acted according to what was formed in a third Principle by which those three Principles came to manifest their CENTER in Nature XXVII But in the WHEELS there was also an Annual Motion that moved round that which stood fixed in the Center and this caused a ground without the Center as it stood manifest through the inward Motion to be corruptible and to Center under a power of Corruption though in those inward Rings of the Wheels there were kept and preserved a tincture of the first Motion XXVIII Yet having let in another Tincture from the power of Corruption under which the Worlds were labouring to Center what ever came forward under its motion must again be brought back into the sence and feeling of that which it reacheth after through DEATH to the cause of all labour and pangs wherein the Body of Nature standeth afflicted XXIX For there was neither East West North nor South from the Center in the inward Rings of the Wheels though it appeared to me in the ground whereon I lay for the beholding of the Vision that as the outward Rings in the Wheels were moved in a power of the four Winds of the Heavens the inward motion was from East to West and the Wheels went side wayes in all courses of the World XXX In which the three Rings of the outward Wheels did move and were moved according to the frame of the Worlds wherein centered the Principles of the whole but the inward Wheels moved by reflection the CENTER being unmoveable wherein two Rings only were discerned at a distance in that inward Wheel though in the Principles of each and both Worlds there were moved about three Rings in each Wheel XXXI And though in the outward Ring of the Inward Wheel in its Diurnal Motion the Heavens did move and were moved in what stood fixed toward the CENTER yet the outward Ring of the outward Wheel standeth 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 distance of years from the motion in the 〈◊〉 as doth the inward Ring of 〈◊〉 inward Wheel from the revolution of the Moon in the Annual Motion of the Wheels And in the second Ring of the outward Wheels the Heavens were moved about in their Annual Motion at the same distance from the Center as they were in the second Ring of the inward Wheel in their Diurnal Motion CHAP. VI. Describing the MYSTERY of the sounding of the seven Golden TRUMPETS and the seven THUNDERS that are for the preparing a ground in which the Judgement of God is manifest XXXII ON the Ground and Principles of a third part of the Worlds into which the DRAGON drew a third part of the Stars of Heaven after him did five of these Golden Trumpets sound forth the Judgment of God in what is loosed and unsealed from the BOOK of WONDERS in the Heavens wherein the four BEASTS were manifest each in their day calling to come and see what lay slain under the ALTAR of God in his Temple and House wherein the Sun Moon and Stars of Heaven did shine through that which was smitten in its third part XXXIII And herein is discovered the seat of the BEAST in Nature whose torment is awakened out of the bottomless Pit though as yet the number of Horsemen and Riders do multiply on the Earth through that which is awakened from the sounding of the sixth Trumpet on the great River EUPHRATES in which hath been bound the four Angels that were prepared according to the time in which standeth the Execution of their destroying Power in with-holding the Winds from blowing on the EARTH as they are seen come up exalted on the four Corners of the same holding the four Corners of those Winds XXXIV Wherein each of those four Beasts in the forms of Nature recovereth six Wings according to the six Spirits of God in which the seventh unchangeable Spirit of Rest in him is begotten into the Creature and Creation that are become his Workmanship and they cover the living Creatures who day and night are crying HOLY unto the Lord and by the lifting up and letting down of their WINGS is the whole Earth and Worlds darkned or inlightned with GLORY XXXV And the Mansions or twelve Houses of the Fathers GLORY in the Heavens have their form defended with the WALL that is raised up on its antient Foundations wherein are twelve Pearls on its twelve Gates and under it are the twelve Foundations setled in the Refining Power through which are to be brought other three parts of a new World in its Heaven Earth in the destruction of a fourth part over which the fourth BEAST hath ruled with the Face of an Eagle who is come forth on his PALE HORSE like unto Death and Death and Hell follows him XXXVI Whose Power is by Famine Pestilence and Sword with WILD Beasts of Prey in all that lives in or moves on the GROUND and PRINCIPLES over which the seven THUNDERS are awakened to Thunder from those Places wherein Life doth strive to break forth and come into the CENTER of the creaturely being where every Birth hath its SIGNIFICATOR and the twenty four Wings of the four Beasts are the Army of the HEAVENS according to what came forth first MANIFEST in the four Wings of the FOWL that was stretched forth over the LYON in what strove to come up under the four Winds of the HEAVENS wherein the Heavens contended CHAP. VII Describing the MYSTERY of the four Beasts in the seven Forms of NATURE and of the Beast himself who is the Eighth XXXVII FRom the THUNDERS in
WORLDS in their Generations where wild BULLS of Bashan are reared up to push and devour each other and from DAN there is in mine Ear the snorting of Horses and ratling sound of the Chariot Wheels like rumblings in the Air hurling up and down for REST from noise And what is herein written is of things past present and to come which are all to be fulfilled in their place and order according to the Dayes and Hours for which the VISION doth work and is made to speak in what is narrowed to the Creaturely Capaciiy through him that hath cut the Work short in Righteousness that is manifested throughout this la lâ— and Age of the WORLD LX. For from the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about EUROPE in its fourth part and Quarter is the destroying Power of God loosed for the Execution of Divine Justice on those Men that have the Mark of the Beast on whom the torment of those Months is accomplished to the finishing the work in which Death hath Dominion over that Nature wherein the WORLDS are imbodied in its Quarters therefore is the time near at hand wherein the Worlds will suffer very great shakings and Earthquakes will break forth in divers parts thereof to the overturning of many Foundations and changing of Laws and Governments of Men whereby coldness of Spirit and deadness hath over-taken the Multitude in a dull and secure state and afterwards will follow a great Power of HEAT in kindling its FLAMES of DESTRUCTION throughout the BODY of the ELEMENTS CHAP. XI Describing the MYSTERY of Time for which the Vision is set c. LXI Concerning the TIME for which the VISION is set it is now near the expiration of one hundred and twenty days since the finishing of the fifteen years wherein I beheld the prevailing of the Waters over the Earth in the fifth year that I saw the fall of the Worlds under a Power of Corruption through which the Waters became smitten in their third part under which the WORLDS stand divided in their four Quarters in the dispersing abroad of the FLOODS on which the People were moved and tossed up and down as the Waters fell BACKWARD into their four Heads by which every thing hath been tryed and carried into its appointed Place through the Tempests and swelling Waves of awakened Storms that are come into the Worlds LXII For from those TWELVE Years wherein the Nations of the Earth were subject to one KING a Spirit of Rebellion against the Power of the Beast entered four Kings of the four Winds of the Heavens who fell before five in the Vale of Siddim that is full of slime-pits whereby the remainder of those that escaped were reduced to the Mountains on their flight yet the thirteenth year which was the year of their Rebellion was it in which the Power of the BEAST stood dispersed in the striving of the four WINDS of the Heavens on the great River EUPHRATES out of which their Power is again revived and loosed though from the Seat of the Beast which is the BOTTOMLESS-PIT from whence proceeded those living Creatures called LOCUSTS that I beheld in the Vision in the form of Goats c. Life again entred that on which rested the First Wound in Nature LXIII And as the LEOPARD or Great BEAR came forth manifest with four Wings on his Back like the Wings of a FOWL his Kingdom stood dispersed abroad the Earth and Worlds and in the place of the Great Horn of the RUFF GOAT of GREECE which was broken by the power under which the Worlds stood divided those Four notable Horns were seen that became exalted towards the four Winds of the Heavens which are the Power of four KINGS and four Heads of the Beast that did spring out of the first Breach whose Kingdoms are not so mighty as the first wherein the Little Horn came forth between the Eyes of the Goat c. LXIV And that little Help through which the fifth Head in the midst of four on which sprung up five Horns that were broken and fell in the first King received that deadly Wound c. is a Power in the North Wind of the Heavens under which the Wound is become again healed up that is the Feet of the Image which is partly to break and partly to be broken for it is both Iron and Clay And this is the King of the NORTH who may be manifest in the Person of a Man of fierce Speech and dark Countenance as he is indeed manifest through many in whom a Power of the North Winde hath been dignified as Kings in that REGION wherein is a cold binding Climat of dark Air. LXV For since the fourteenth year wherein the South Winds of the Heavens were reproved and corrected for their Rebellion in those four Kings whose Kingdoms were enlarged in the dispersing abroad of the Power of four that sprung out of one who retained not the ARM that which grew up towards its tryal by FIRE was separated into its Mystery in what was effected through the fifteenth year from whence the Worlds have been warned one hundred and twenty days according to the days of the Life of Man of that destruction and desolution by the over-flowing Scourge wherein the Waters have exercised a Dominion that is ome under the smiting of the four Winds of the Heavens LXVI And wherein both the HEADS and HORNS of the Beast are KINGS and POWERS in Nature that have their Form in and on Men yet the King himself of that North Wind is not the Person of any ONE Man but a Power in One as well as in Many that are wholly under the Dominion of the Beast or that have his Mark c. according to the Power of the Constellations under which the period of all Signs in the Heavens are moved and do work over such that have their concern therein in a mystical and spiritual sence to all NAMES in Nature but now is it manifest that the MYSTERY of Time is compleat in the Figure of the FORMS in Nature wherein every thing that is either past present or to come remaineth MEASURABLE and DISTINGUISHABLE according to that Spirit under which all Powers in Nature doth WORK and and whereby all that is wrought in its BEING is come forth into FORM. LXVII Yet Nature that is Creatable suffereth through all Changes and REVOLUTIONS that are MANIFEST on and in the BODY of ELEMENTS subject to Vanity and a Power of Corruption both the Good and the Evil of which the MAN hath tasted in the exercise of his Sence according to the operation of Qualities that are predominate in his BIRTH though nothing is absolute in time and place to the MAN but in the Power under which his Life is concerned operating in all the faculties of Nature in which is the holy and glorious Land whence tidings shall come out of the North and from the East which will trouble the NATIONS and Inhabitants of the Earth who are yet to
solitary place XXVI The separation in the Heavens being made betwixt the two great Lights by which the day night was ruled the first that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity into the Womb of Nature had slain his Keeper for he was a monstrous shape and form of the Beast in Nature with the Head and Face of a RAM the Neck and Throat of a BULL the Wings of an EAGLE the Breast of a CRAB-FISH the Heart of a LYON the Bowels of both MAN and BEAST but downwards like a SCORPION XXVII And he sat on all the FORMS in Nature which became this Beasts seat who went THIRTY DAYES backward in the Rings of the outward Wheel after he had slain his Keeper for by the strugling of TWAIN the VIRGIN in Nature was slain which the man should have kept alive who was made Keeper of his Virgin that had the Face of Man both Male and Female XXVIII And by him was slain the Face of a Man who was exalted in the Principle of Air in the glory of Angels in an Angelical Paradisical being and state After the Virgin in Nature was thus lost and became slain in the place of Conception and Field of Nature whereby the Creature Mankind became as made a little lower then the Angels subjected in that state wherein the Creation of God was brought forth XXIX So that as NECESSITY came to work in a Mystery through the ground of what was brought forth in the created Forms in Nature it became a LAW in Nature under the power of which every Creature was brought for the grounds sake that thus stood under subjection to the Power of God and that a man might be brought forth to till and tear up the ground under which I beheld the subjection of all forms in Nature after all the works of God were seen to be good XXX And then as the Keeper of the living had the glory of the Life of God in Nature subjected in hope the groanings and waitings of the Creation became a longing expectation of God afterwards to be revealed whereby he that remained with his Face exalted in the Air was made the Keeper of the Vineyard of his Brethren XXXI For as the Work of God became imbodied in the Creaturely being from the Womb of Nature I beheld the form of a Man who was that GOOD Man that smote me on my Head casting SEED into a Ground in which I saw the working form and frame of all these things and he afterwards fell asleep And a SECOND man also came forth and he likewise cast in Seed into a GROUND scattering it in the Air towards the NORTH Wind of which some fell on the good Ground XXXII Whereby the Face and form of a Man who came forth out of the Womb of Eternity became the SECOND who was embodied from the Womb of Nature and was slain in the Field of Conception by the FIRST and LAST that became thus imbodied from the Womb of Nature by which means the Face of FOUR Beasts in Nature became exalted in the Heavens and the WOMAN was taken from him whilst he fell asleep though like a good man he had first sown his Seed before the envious man came XXXIII Yet was it not then good that the Man should be alone under the workings of that NECESSITY in the LAW of Nature for he had neglected his own Vineyard that was over-grown with Nettles Bryars Thorns and Weeds whereby sin and the concupiscence of the Flesh took occasion to work in the Members of him who was the Tiller and tearer up of the ground of Corruption into which Death entered who came first forth out of the Womb of Nature because of his need for the MEET HELP XXXIV And this became the FOURTH day in Nature but it was the first day in the work of Creation in Coelestial Bodies called TREM for it was FULL time and tide in turning the Worlds about backward wherein all that came forth imbodied from the Womb of Eternity took form from the Womb of Nature in the changeable being through a Government that God had setled over all that should come forth thus imbodied in form XXXV For the night came over all glory in the first Creation of God so that the FIFTH day of the Work of God in all forms of Nature was the SECOND DAY of God's Holy Weeks concluding a cessation from all labour in what was brought on the Creation of God by means of the Curse come over mankind in his Exercise of these the Creatures of God XXXVI And there arose a WEST-Wind out of which flamed a Sword of the Cherub which drove the form of the Man that I saw EASTWARD and he went his way so that the FIRST which came forth out of the Womb of Nature in which the Creature became thus imbodied into form took being on the FIFTH day in such state as the Creature and Creation was fallen under in that form wherein he came forth CHAP. IV. How all forms in Nature began to degenerate into the monstrous shapes of deformed Beasts XXXVII AND the ANGEL of God said Come up hither and I will shew thee the MYSTERY of all those WATERS and of that which came forth out of the Womb of Eternity from whence all those Waters came and whither they shall return and until the end of the FIVE dayes I beheld the working-frame of what stood manifest from the Womb of Eternity And I saw all the Earth overspread with Creatures and things yet nothing was moved out of the ground under which it was subjected by the Creating power that wrought for manifestations sake until the end of FORTY DAYES XXXVIII And there was also from the THREE that bare Record on Earth a SECOND great LIGHT that ruled the Night in the glory of the Terrestrial Body borrowing a lustre from the Suns clarity For as I travelled through a great trance of the minds perplexity I beheld the whole frame of the works of God from the beginning to the END of time and place as of TWO and TWENTY dayes labour wherein I saw the Sun and Moon stand in a distance of course two and twenty Degrees of the Suns Motion that wrought up their glory in and through all the Powers of Nature unto which the life of the Creature was subjected under a change in time and place XXXIX Which became the Glory of the Sun of the day of the Son of Man in and through all Coelestial Bodies comprehended in the forms of Nature as a great Light whereby the great and LAST day was ruled and over-ruled in which God is working up his Eternal Glory through what is come forth into manifestation in time and place dignifying the Creator of all forms into being that is able to reveal the Mystery of satsfaction to Divine Justice through what appeareth magnificent in works of Wonder XL. For all Motion in Wisdom from the beginning of FORM through the WORD of Life was the Creators Glory
suffered to work in a hidden ground to manifest the deceit of the TEMPTER CXXIII And Nature had not a Will of its own to move about the Wheels in the Power of the Heavens that wrought on and over Creatures that took being in time and place according to the form and frame of the Worlds in which all Glory wrought without the ENEMY neither was the Enemies power any thing prevalent but through a subjection in the Will of the Creature in that Power wherein he was made able to resist him but time and place became measurable from the Heavens wherein the comprehensible course of all forms in Nature had their end come up in the World in that which was manifest through distinction CXXIV But Number and Order remaineth manifest among the forms in Nature in which every thing cometh forth into being according to the Figure of its Birth constituted in the power of the Heavens in respect to the dignification of the Mind in the thing wherein it delighteth through which the Man cometh to sow the Seed from whence he expecteth to reap Fruit answerable thereunto though in the flesh of Creatures there is that already sown and spred abroad which worketh in the Members against that which dignifieth the mind that remaineth as a Thorn in the flesh to make sensible of its pricking pangs when the Creature goeth forth into self-exaltation beyond or above the measure of power and ability which he hath received from God CXXV And this is to humble the Creature and make him sensible of the need he hath of the preserving Power of God in that which keeps open the Eye of the MAN at all times to see himself upon the Watch for every Principle of Nature hath a contrariety attending that which is formed in its Birth according to the Diurnal and Annual motion in the Wheels wherein that which causeth a change in the state of the Creature multiplyeth dayes and hours in the course through which it is manifest according to the sufferance or according to the delight of SPIRIT in which he is attended CXXVI This do I see in each Birth and moreover I observe how Nature ripeneth that which the Man reacheth after in the number of hours or dayes according to which the mind standeth afflicted thereby wherein nothing can exceed the number thirty in the course of Nature for that which is changeable returneth to the beginning of the WORK by which it is Judged to be manifest in its Birth And thirty years are the largest extent of motion in the Rings of the outward Wheel as thirty dayes accomplish the race of the swiftest motion in the Wheel's Rings according to their Orbs in the Heavens CXXVII And in like manner as in twelve hours a day in Nature is compleat in that which divideth it from the night so in twelve years that which moveth in the most equal ORB among the forms in Nature returneth to the Center from which it was moved though it be streight forward that the Wheels are moved in the Heavens for all that hath its Period in time Centereth and endeth its course in the Will and under the power of God in that which is suffered to labour and work up the form over which Death and Dissolution hath had power CXXVIII But the Inward Heavens being tinctured with the love and delight of God all BEAUTY and glory centereth therein and shineth therefrom as from the FIRE of Gods Jealousie whereby his honour is mentained in that which hath kindled and inflamed a desire burning after the highest good which hath its similitude in the WATERS wherein Nature is moved in its Principles according to the several ORBS and Sphears in which the Power of the Heavens doth labour and work CXXIX Wherein the Heart of Eternity inflameth through the forms of Nature in a yearly course under which the Heavens have doubled the effect of that which riseth up inkindled in the ORB which breaketh all essences in form and maintaineth War in the source in which the RAM hath taken Head distributing power under the four Winds of the Heavens in which the Elements of Nature stand divided and under the same came forth the faces of the four Beasts according to the third Ring in the Wheels through which the fourth BEAST is become exalted in his dominion over a fourth part of the WORLDS CXXX For the course of motion in this Ring of the WHEEL is forty nine Weeks to regain that which is lost in form through the Beauty Glory of what was finished in seven dayes from whence the Heavens have multiplyed all forms in Nature until the day and hour under which Death is dispossessed in its dominion for the separation of day and night in Nature met in the Power of the Heavens through that which discovereth the Period of all changeable Courses in which the Moon hath strengthened her Revolutions while Winter and Summer and Seed time and Harvest continue CXXXI And while I thus beheld the motion in the Wheels there came forth out of the Heart of FIRE in Nature an ANGEL of the Sun cloathed with the Rain-bow of the Heavens and he rode on all the Powers of Nature proclaiming with a loud Voice a Feast that was prepared for the Fowls of the Air which were gathered together under the conduct of the EAGLE and they were a great Multitude and very numerous and on my other Hand stood the ARK of God which was taken in BATTEL by his Enemies wherein Glory was departed out of the Tents of those that God had first chosen to be his own CXXXII For the Aged departed in Sorrow and the Old Man died full of Grief and pained in Heart until there came a Voice from the Heavens Behold the result of Israels deliverance from their Enemies Hands wherein the Servant in Gods House in his good Old Age hath his Eye open to see the Salvation of God and is inabled to depart in Peace And henceforth shalt thou no more count an Infant of dayes nor Old Man full of years because of the sinner that dyeth accursed but a Child shall die a hundred years old where the Hoary Head is not reverenced nor the tenderness of youth respected CHAP. XII Wherein the substance of the VISION is concluded in a PROPHECY of that which is yet to come to pass directed in an Epistle to all that are separated into several Fellowships concerning the third part of the Book CXXXIII AS I beheld the Ark of God's COVENANT which was made with many People and great Nations brought up from the Waters in the new Created HEAVENS wherein the forms of Nature stood MANIFEST in their Figure and order of Number Among three hundred URNS or earthen PITCHERS that were broken that Light might spring forth from the Power of the Heavens whereby the Enemies of God were discomfited there remained onely two of those Vessels in the forms of Nature wherein every thing in being was doubled and the Heavens were drawn both
expected to befall NATIONS in such a Case though his displeasure may be AWAKENED against a People or Nation and in his sufferance are destroying ANGELS loosed out of the great River of the WORLDS Sea and often is he stirred up to that which he delighteth not in even to appear like unto a LYON roused up before he please and as a Giant disturbed from his sleep yet will great Alterations and changes come into the World and they will happen unto the secure like Events determined from an over-ruling Power THE THIRD PART CHAP. I. Wherein is opened the Mystery of what came forth in the Worlds in the form and frame of the Heavens from whence the Vision had power to work up its discoveries I. THE principles of ETERNITY in God or God in his eternal existence is the fire of Life burning in jealousie over his own Honour and Glory that gave being to Love in which remaineth â—he Original Center of all good from whence his preheminence is mainâ—ained in and over his Creature through that which he first inkindled â—n the Ground and Center of Nature in which is both a good and an evil But Waters are the first and all Principle in NATURE through the sinking frame of the WORLDS into and under palpability wherein EARTH took form as a third Principle in Nature separated into being on the third day from whence all Creatures became imbodied in the substantial form of Palpability II. And all separated qualities remain in the ground of substantiality while time place endureth wherein the Life of the Creature centereth in that which is come forth into its individual being among the forms of Nature according to the source it possesseth and inhabiteth for these beings are formed in and from the Earthly Principles which are separated from the Heavens in what remaineth sinking under a power of Corruption wherein threâ—… do bear record for God which are the glory of Terrestrial Bodies Essentially forming Nature into being in that which continueth breathing through the out-spread Firmament of the Atry Heavens under the Waters III. As also from the fiery Heavens from whence a third part of the Waters was dryed up from the Earth in their Principle on the third day and by a third dayes work of God therein manifest the three Glories of the Father do shine through all Celestial Bodies to wit one Glory of the SUN which is a great LIGHT to rule the DAY and another of the MOON which is the lesser LIGHT to rule the NIGHT and another of the STARS according to their differing Glories in which the over-ruling Power of the Heavens subjecteth the forms of Nature in their several Constellations that gives life to the Creatures being in the Earth IV. In this respect God is considered and become the cause of all causes in ETERNITY and ground of all being in NATURE as Palpability is the ground of Corruptibility wherein he is called a consuming and everlasting FIRE and yet as substantiality is not without the Creature he is absolutely the cause of nothing as well as of all things where nothing without God is God without Nature which is a cause of both good and evil wherein the Worlds do remain unmanifest but in Nature and wherein the work of God is comprehended in the forming qualities of that which is brought forth in the effect of labour in seven Natural days V. Therefore said the ANGEL of God these WATERS that thou sawest are those on which the multitude of the WORLDS and great Nations are moved and carried to and fro according to the course of time and tide the WOMAN remained exalted on them who allured many into those Vessels that begin to swim pleasantly over the streams of Corruption singing a Requium to their Souls that they might not remember the danger in their way wherewith they are daily beset and they are called the PEOPLE and Tongues and Nations of the Kindreds of the Earth that are divided under the four WINDS of the Heavens tossed up and down through the boysterous Storms and swelling Tempests that are again gathered together in HEAPS over the main Sea and Ocean of Trouble in which is the Lake and Bottomless Pit from whence all Monstrous shapes in Creatures are come forth to cover the Earth VI. And the Vessels that thou sawest carried thereon are those which were first built and erected from the Heavens into which the Patrons of all Earthly forms were gathered in one and were again distributed through many according to the Nature of the BEAST wherein wrought the confusion of Languages in the prevailing of the MOON over Woman in the changeable wayes and course of the WORLD under which the Heavens stand thus divided VII In seven they took Head and in ten was each Horn exalted over nine which is an intricate number among the Figures in forms of Nature wherein those seven that thou sawest come forth into the Creaturely being first imbodied under the power of Corruption are the seven forms of Nature subjected under a power in which the Heavens and Earth are multiplyed in and according to their Generations generating Nature and name to the being of each form Corporal CHAP. II. Describing the Nature of the degeneration of the WORLDS in those Principles wherein the Creature became imbodied in time and place VIII FOR answerable to the time and place wherein all Created Prinples in the forms of Nature remained sinking under a Power of Corruption working properties in the Heavens prevailed over the bodily frame to afflict it with labour according to the motion in the Wheels in which those Principles suffered and were acted and that which suffered the glory of the frame of the WORLDS to work up the gross form of Palpability in the way and course the Body of Nature became acted by a motion in the Heavens was subject to Corruption that came into time and place through the change of the frame in the Worlds IX And agreeable to the Name and Nature of those Men that were FATHERS in their Generations through whom palpability prevailed in the Waters whereby the Worlds were first overwhelmed in the deluge and overflowing scourge the glory of the World imbodied a form in Nature for the Seed of Life to work up the first Beauty of CREATION according to what was manifest in time and place wherein each day had its year multiplyed in Nature from the Heavens as each Month hath its Hour in what is divided to every particular state and condition of the Creature under which Death and Afflictions have increased their dominion over the ends of the Worlds X. And as from the Womb of Eternity the BEAST in the forms of Nature prevailed in a backward course under which the Heavens were subjected for the manifesting of each day in Nature wherein the Principles of the World were acted and wrought in a frame that discovered its revolutions so according to the years wherein the multiplicity of such forms increased the WATERS