understanding 120. The five Senses lie in the Naturall understanding in a Spirituall manner and in the second Property viz. in the motion in the fiery Mercury they lie in a Naturall manner 121. The sixt Property giveth understanding in the voyce or sound viz. in the q Articulation speaking of the word and the second property of Nature is the producer and also the House Toole or Instrument of the speech or voyce in the second Property the Power and vertue is painefull but in the sixt Property it is joyfull and pleasant and the difference between the second and sixt Property is in Light and darknesse which are in one another as fire and Light there is no more difference between them ☽ The seventh Property 122. The seventh Property is the substance that is the subjectum or house of the other six in which they all are substantially as the soule in the body by this we understand especially as to the Light-world the Paradise or budding of the working Power 123. For every Property maketh unto it selfe a Subject or r Or resemblance Object by its owne Effluence and in the seventh all the Properties are in a temperature as in one onely Substance and as they all did proceed from the unity so they all returne againe into one ground 124. And though rhey worke in different kindes and manners yet here there is but one onely substance whose power and vertue is called Tincture that is an holy penetrating growing or springing Bud. 125. Not that the seventh Property is the Tincture but it is the Å¿ Corpus aut Substantia Body of it the Power and vertue of the Fire and Light is the Tincture t Or with in the substantiall Body but the seventh Property is the substance which the Tincture penetrateth and sanctifieth we meane that it is thus according to the power and vertue of the Divine manifestation but as it is a Property of Nature it is the substance of the attracted desire of all properties 126. It is especially to be observed that alwayes the First and the seventh Property are accounted for one and the second and sixt also the third and fift and the fourth is onely the dividing Marke or u Or Limâ—t bound 127. For according to the manifestation of the Trinity of God there are but three Properties of Nature the first is the Desire which belongeth to God the Father yet it is onely a Spirit but in the seventh Property the Desire is substantiall 128. The second is the Divine power and vertue and belongeth to God the Sonne in the second Number it is onely a Spirit but in the sixt it is the substantiall Power and vertue 129. The third belongeth to the Holy Ghost and in the beginning of the third Property it is onely a fiery Spirit but in the fift Property the great Love is manifested therein 130. Thus the Effluence of the Divine Manifestation as to the three Properties in the first Principle before the Light x Appearet is Naturall but in the second Principle in the Light it is spirituall 131. Now these are the seven Properties in one onely Ground and all seven are equally Eternall without beginning none of them can be accounted the first second third fourth fift sixt or last for they are equally Eternall without beginning and have also one Eternall beginning from the unity of God 132. We must represent this in a typicall way that it may be understood how the one is borne out of the other the better to conceive what the Creator is and what the Life and Substance of this world is Of the third Principle viz. The visible world whence that proceeded and what The Creator is 33. THis visible world is sprung from the Spirituall world before mentioned viz. from the outflowne Divine Power and vertue and it is a Subject or Object resembling the Spirituall world the spirituall world is the Inward ground of the visible world the visible subsisteth in the Spirituall 134. The visible world is onely an Effluence of the seven Properties for it proceeded out of the six working Properties but in the seventh that is in Paradise it is in Rest and that is the Eternall Sabbath of Rest wherein the Divine Power and vertue resteth 135. Moses saith God created Heaven and Earth and all Creatures in six Dayes and rested on the seventh Day and also commanded y Or to rest on it it to be kept for a Rest 136. The understanding lieth hidden and secret in those words could not he have made all his workes in one Day neither can wee properly say there was any day before the Sun was for in the z Or depth or vast firmament above the Moone Deep there is but one Day in all 137. But the understanding lyeth hidden in those words he understandeth by each dayes working the Creation or Manifestation of the seven Properties for he saith In the Beginning God created Heaven and Earth The first Day 138. In the FIRST Motion the Magneticall Desire compressed and compacted the fiery and watery Mercury with the other Properties and then the grossenesse separated it selfe from the Spirituall Nature and the fiery became Metals and stones and partly Salnitre that is Earth and the watery became water then the fiery Mercury of the working became cleane and Moses calleth it Heaven and the Scripture saith God dwelleth in Heaven for this fiery Mercury is the Power and vertue of the Firmament viz. an Image and resemblance of the Spirituall world in which God is manifested 139. When this was done God said Let there be Light then the Inward thrust it selfe forth through the fiery Heaven from which a shining power and vertue arose in the fiery Mercury and that was the Light of the outward Nature in the Properties wherein the a Or growing vegetable Life consisteth The second Day 140. In the SECOND Dayes worke God separated the watery and fiery Mercury from one another and called me fiery the Firmament * The * seven Formes of Spirits mentioned REVELA cap. 1. ♄ ☽ The First forme Harsh Desiring will 1. Darke-world a similitude of it is a Candle ☿ ♃ Second Bitter or stinging ♂ ♀ Third Anguish till the flash of Fire ☉ Fourth Fire Dark-fire Light fire 2. Fire-world a similitude of it is the fire of a Candle ♀ ♂ Fifth Light or Love whence the watet of Eternall Life floweth 3. Light-world a similitude of it is the Light of a Candle ♃ ☿ Sixt. Noyse sound or Mercurie ☽ ♄ Seventh Substance or Nature  The First Principle Darke or Fire of Wrath Light or Fire of Love The second Principle The Dark-world hence God the Father is called an Angry zealous Jealous God and a Consuming Fire The Light world hence God the Sonne the word the Heart of God is called a Loving and Mercifull God The third Principle This world of foure Elements which is produced out of the two Inward Worlds and
considering of them the Spirit shall make a Hymne of thanks to the praise of Gods works of wonder as Esaias saith Though your sinnes were as red as bloud if you turne they shall be as wooll white as snow And yet you must know that in the life to come they shall appeare in the Figure but in another source or property Mark this yee children of God for much is herein contained 135. From this Ground wee know that Adam in his Innocency before his sleepe which signifieth Death when he had imagined into the spirit of the foure Elements was in this world in Paradise and yet it might well be said not in this world he was indeed in this world upon the face of the Earth but in a paradisicall source or property in the Dominion of the one pure Element and not in the foure Elements 136. But when he entred into the foure Elements he Entred into Death and his body became like a Beast and the Earth was Cursed from the Lord so that it bare no more Paradisicall Fruit For Adam was driven out into the outward Principle and there he must eate Earthly Fruit and open or manifest the Wonders of the Outward Principle and so he instantly became Earthly 137. For his Body was from the Earth and Created out of the Earth but it was not Earth no more then Gold is Earth though it groweth in the Earth and proceedeth from the Earth for it was Ex Matrice ex Massâ from the Matrix out of a Masse understand out of the substantiality out of which the Earth was originally generated and created The Pure Element is also in the Earth as also Paradise and it is onely the source or property that maketh the alteration wherein the Light of God is detained 138. Adam would be as God in all the Three Principles and the Serpent also perswaded Eve to it that if shee would Eate of the fruite of the Earth shee should know good and evill indeed evill enough care misery and sorrowes in the Death of the foure Elements 139. And therefore seeing the foure Elements must break thence it is that ſ Transitorinesse 〈…〉 Corruption is in Mans Body and the soule which is taken out of the Etetnall remaineth in the Eternall therefore there must come a heavenly body out of the pure Element againe out of the substantiality which is before God out of the Matrix of the Earth like the first Body which was in Adam and must t Or Assume our humane soule receive our humane soule into it and u Or suffer Death Enter into Death and bring us out of Death on the Crosse into the Element againe into the substantiality in the presence of God in Ternarium sanctum into the Holy Ternary For Adams soule was taken on the Crosse in the Eternall Centre where the Heart of God ariseth from Eternity and was breathed into the Created Body of Adam from the Spirit of God and therefore the Heart of God must x Or be Incarnate become Man 140. And as Adam was entered into the Earthly Crosse into the Death of the foure Elements so must the New Adam Christ suffer himselfe to be y Crucified Hanged on the Earthly Crosse and enter into the Earthly Elementary Death for Death sticketh not only in the Earth but also in the Aire and Adam desired also with his Imagination not to enter into the Earth but into the Aire he lusted after the Spirit of the Principle of this world and it laid hold on him And so he fell also into the Earth 141. For the foure Elements are altogether in one another and the Ground or Foundation upon which they stand is the Fire of the fierce Anger of God wherein the Devills dwell as is above mentioned 142. z Note And so the New Adam Christ must enter into the Abysse of the foure Elements viz. into the Hellish Fire of the Wrath and a Or passe presse through the Hell of the wrath through Death and bring the humane soule againe into the Paradise of God 143. And therefore the New Adam Christ was Tempted or Tryed forty dayes in the Wildernesse whether he could stand in the Paradisicall source or property and so eate onely Paradisicall Fruit which groweth in the source or property from the Essences of the Spirit of God and there he did eate ex verbo Domini of the Word of the Lord and not at all of the foure Elements 144. For he did beare also the Earthly Image and there the New Heavenly must overcome the Earthly and the soule must enter againe into the new heavenly body that the Earthly may but onely hang to it and thus also was Adam Created in the beginning 145. He was to eate of Paradise whose property should rule over the Earthly and though he were in the foure Elements yet he was to live in the Pure Element and then he might have continued so Eternally though the Outward Principle should be broken yet he should have remained 146. For he was in Paradise and not in the foure Elements but when he entered into them he entered into Death and the Anger of God in the Abysse of Hell did captivate the soule which Christ brought forth from thence againe 147. O yee Children of Men Mark what is revealed to you doe not account it a fiction and a Historie It is knowne in Ternario Sancto in the opened seale of the Seaventh Forme in the Centre therefore consider what it is 148. Hereby is signified to you the finall breaking of the outward Principle Trim your Lamps the Bridegroome is ready his Trumpet soundeth the Seaventh Angel from the Throne of Heaven soundeth The Mysteries of the Kingdome of God shall be o Or finished accomplished at the time of his sounding and then there is no time more in the foure Elements but then the Eternall Time in the Element in the Life of God and the Time in the Abysse goeth on 149. Goe out from the c From the Confusion of Tongues Languages in Babel for wee all speake but one onely Language in Jerusalem Babel burneth in the Fire or confounded Christendome is kindled in Warres Contention and Strife in Famine and Pestilence in the Anger of God Amen The Sixt Chapter The Two Gates Of the World and also of Paradise most highly to be considered Note more of the Language of Nature 1. WEE have shewed you before the Ground of the Language of Nature how Adam gave Names to Every thing and out of what God spake to Adam viz. out of the Life of the Birth as wee speake at this very Day and if wee consider our selves therein we finde the whole Ground in Heaven and in this world and wee see it well enough with Earthly Bodily Eyes that it is true wee need no other Testimone then the Great Booke Heaven and Earth the Starres and Elements together with the Sunne wherein wee well know the similitude of the Deity 2.
care about the Number Thousand it standeth upon the Crowne of the Virgin in which are set Twelve Starres six of them Divine and six Humane k The Number 1000. is the Number of the Crowne the Number 100. is the Number of a Man the Crowne hath the Number Thousand and the Virgin the Number Hundred 9. Christ saith Seeke first the Kingdome of God and all other things will be added to you All lyeth in the willing for the willing maketh the desiring and the desiring receiveth where nothing is though indeed there is something there yet it is hidden to us Men unlesse a Man have attained the Stone upon the Crosse and then he findeth where Reason saith there is nothing for that which hath not been from Eternity is not at all and thereof wee know nothing we know onely of that which is and hath ever been though indeed not manifested to us Men but yet is of God in his Wisdome from Eternity to Eternity 10. Therefore although wee speake of two Kingdomes viz. of the Kingdome of God and of the Kingdome of this World in that manner as if we saw them with bodily eyes let it not seeme a wonder if God reveale himselfe in Man then is he in two Kingdomes and seeth with twofold Eyes and yet this way is not so hard and difficult as Reasons seeking in outward things it lyeth all in the willing the outward willing must enter into the inward it must deny it selfe as if it were dead to the outward and had no life in the outward and yet liveth as God liveth and is in the outward and the outward is dead to him so that it cannot apprehend him so also thou O Man thou art with thy soule in the inward but thy soules will hath turned it selfe about with Adam into the outward therefore if thou wilt behold God and the Eternity turne thy selfe about with thy will into the inward and then thou art as God himselfe for thou wert thus created in the beginning and thus thou livest according to the inward will unto God and in God and according to the outward will thou livest in this world and hath both Kingdomes thy own and art indeed rightly an Image and similitude of God thou searchest out all things and findest that which lay hidden in secret for thou findest that in the Eternity and beholdest it standing backward in the Out-birth in the Figure 11. The Ground of the Creation of this world is much easier to be knowne in the Inward Man in the Will of God then visible things to the outward Man the outward knoweth lesse that which he seeth with his eyes and taketh hold of with his hands heareth with his eares smelleth with his nose and tasteth with his mouth then the inward doth the Ground and the Existency of the outward The Inward seeth indeed the Creature in the Ground of it but is as it were dead to the outward and yet liveth therein and in that he liveth to the outward he liveth to God in regard of his Works of Wonder in that he manifesteth and bringeth into Beeing that which standeth hidden in the Figure 12. And yet wee say still that the Eternall standeth in the willing and the will maketh desiring and in the desiring standeth the Figure of the willing Thus it was before the Time of this world But when God moved himselfe in his willing he so created the desiring that it stood in a Beeing and other then this very thing wee know nothing 13. Therefore now the desiring is another thing then the willing for the willing is without Beeing or Substance and the desiring maketh Beeing and so out of the Eternall Nothing is come whatsoever is and before there was nothing but onely a willing which was a Virgin without Image and yet was a figure of an Image in the willing and this figure hath discovered the Spirit and created it into a Beeing or Substance as wee perceive in the Forme of this World the Figure hath caused the Spirit that it hath Expressed the Wonders in Figure and that is the Matrix of the Genetrix and that is the Spirit of this world for the Spirit could l Spoken forth or Created expresse nothing but a similitude of it selfe for there was nothing else 14. Therefore wee demonstrate the Creation to you thus for to create signifieth to comprehend in the willing whatsoever standeth in the figure in the willing for when a Carpenter will build an house he must first Frame a Modell of it in his willing how he will build it and then he buildeth it according to the Modell of his willing 15. Thus also hath the Spirit of God framed in his will a Modell after his likenesse and so created that Modell for you see in this world that when the Spirit through the word Fiat upon the First Day created the Out-birth in the Wrath viz. Water and Earth he comprehended the Figure in the Will and that was the Heaven which he created on the Second Day and tryed the Work on the Third Day and suffered to proceed out of the Earth formes and Images out of the Essences viz. Trees Hearbs and Grasse which were Images of the Essences of the desiring but the Image of the Spirit remained still hidden and yet was in Beeing even unto the Fourth Day Heere understand a Day without the Sunne is one turning about of the wheele of Nature in the desiring of the willing and the Inward Will hath the Number Six according to the six Spirits and the outward Will in the desiring of the Figure hath also the Number Six according to the similitude of the Spirit and the two Kingdomes viz the inward and the outward make with their Number Sixes m The twenty-foure houres in 4 Quarte s Morning Noone Evening Midnight foure and twenty which divide themselves into foure parts viz. six before noone and six after noone six before midnight and six after midnight till the beginning or morning againe 16. And according to this the Spirit in the desiring did set a signe and a Reckoning whence Times and Yeares proceed which were not before for Every Number of the Twelve which is heavenly Divine and Earthly humane or Beastiall hath a signe in the Firmament which the Spirit created into a visible Beeing together with the Crowne of the Centre which is the n Or Sphere Circumference of the Constellations And we give you notice that the Creating of the Spirit is a going forth out of it selfe into the outward For in Loco Solis in the place of the Sun is the Point where the Spirit created the similitude for the word Fiat stood there and went forth from the inward Number Ten as a Body that is Luna and in such a comprehension was the manner and forme of the Deepe apprehended and the Spirit went forth and drave the Essences of the Centre even to the Crowne and there o Or framed them into the Signes
of Nature wherein the five Senses are to be found God maketh the Genetrix Verse 1 Chap. 3. How the sourenesse sharpeneth it selfe in the Love Verse 14. Chap. 12. A cleere Invitation to Love and Concord Verse 10 Chap. 12. Wherewith wee are well-pleasing to the Most High by seeking every one with our Love Much knowledge is not profitable Verse 36 Lucifer Chap. 4. Of the heavy Fall of Lucifer Verse 33 Chap. 4. The Minde asketh what moved Lucifer to Fall Verse 34 Chap. 4. Whence the superiour Principall Dominion cometh In the Matrix the purpose and Imagination of Lucifer is to be understood Verse 38 Chap. 4. The cause of the Pride of Lucifer and his Angells Verse 40 Chap. 4. Lucifer was created in the fourth Forme of the Matrix where Love and Anger stand opposite Verse 41 Chap. 4. The Desire of Love is generated in Humility which was not in Lucifer Verse 44. Chap. 4. The Minde is warned of that whereby Lucifer became a Devil Verse 61 Chap. 5. Why Lucifer with his whole Dominion is Fallen Verse 61. Chap. 8. The Fall of Lucifer is compared to the Cold Fire that maketh Ice Verse 42 Chap. 8. Lucifer being a Throne Prince had Free-will like us Men. Verse 43 Chap. 8. What was Lucifers Fall and what was not his Fall Verse 44 Chap. 9. Of the Creation Also how Lucifer lost his supposed Kingdome Verse 50 Chap. 10. Lucifer would be Creator in the Tenth Number he sought the Eternall Originall Fire which is now his Hell Verse 30 Chap. 12. Wee wrestle for the Crowne which Lucifer once had Verse 46 Luna Chap. 10. How Luna shineth not of it selfe but from Sol. Verse 7 Lust Chap. 9. Out of what the provocation or Lust to copulate in all kindes ariseth Verse 43 Chap. 15. The second lesson Youth learne is the Beastiall Lust Verse 8 Lye Chap. 11. They that goe into a Lye goe out from Christ into the Devill Verse 104 Magistrate Chap. 12. Of the Office of the Magistrate Advice to Subjects Verse 37 Chap. 13. The Office of Princes but not Babells Tricks are founded in Nature Babell maketh the Magistrate blindfold The Princes are the True Head of the Church Verse 7 Chap. 18. All hunt for the Belly both the Shepheard and the sheepe Magistrate and people so that there is very little of the Spirit of God amongst Men. Verse 36 Majesty Chap. 4. The Majesty hath Generated Nature Verse 88 Chap. 11. What the food of the Majesty is Verse 50 Maker Chap. 2. God and the Will have no Maker Verse 7 Man Men. Chap. 1. Man belongeth not to the outward World Verse 1 Chap. 1. Man hath a Threefold Life Verse 2 Chap. 1. How Man may know God and rightly speake of him Verse 45 Chap. 4. The Three Principles stand open in no Creature but in Man Verse 58 Chap. 4. How God in Love and Anger hath manifested himselfe in Man and how the Omnipotence of Man was barred up through Adam Verse 76 Chap. 5. According to the outward Man wee are strangers in our Mothers House and therefore understand not the Mother Tongue Verse 24 Chap. 5. How Man is drawne by two and is in this world as a Ballance Verse 30 Chap. 5. When the foure Elements in Man breake then the soule is either in Paradise or in the Abysse Verse 126 Chap. 6. Wee wholly sleepe in the outward Man Verse 37 Chap. 6. When it is that Man seeth with his owne Eyes Verse 39 Chap. 6. Man cannot carry the Eternity up and downe much lesse the Deity what that is that maketh Locality and why God is A. and O. Verse 44 Chap. 6. All whatsoever can be named is in Man Verse 47 Chap. 6. The whole Man consisteth of Three Principles and how that can be Verse 48 49 Chap. 6. How Man was constituted of Three Principles and which they are Verse 55 Chap. 6. How Man standeth between the Kingdome of God and the Kingdome of Hell and is the servant of that he yeeldeth to Verse 56 Chap. 6. The Fall of Man toucheth not God How the number Three dwelleth in the Anger Verse 57 Chap. 6. How Mankinde is without beginning Verse 74 Chap. 6. How the Eternall Flesh is hidden in the Earthly Man which must perish Verse 97 Chap. 7. The soule must not set the Garland of Pearles upon the old Man Verse 10 Chap. 7. How children are begotten in two Kingdomes also of the strife about Man Verse 33 Chap. 8. A description of Man before the Fall in the Fall in the Regeneration and after this Life Verse 7 Chap. 9. Hell in the Anger the spirit of this world and the Kingdome of God All Three strive about Man Verse 17 Chap. 9. The Desire of Man standeth in Three things or Dominions Verse 18 Chap. 9. How Man followeth all Three Desires Verse 23 Chap. 9. The Gate of the Deepe ground of Man was barred up by Adam and opened to the Authour Verse 39 Chap. 9. What wee must doe to know what Man is Verse 40 Chap. 9. Heere the Author beginneth to handle the Image of Man how Man cometh to be or is Incarnate Verse 42 Chap. 10. How Man seeth in two Kingdomes with a twofold Eye the inward will should be Lord what Man must doe to be like God and to finde all things Verse 10 Chap. 11. How God created Man to his Image and out of what he is created Verse 10 Chap. 11. Mans ability before the Fall and his Condition Verse 19 Chap. 11. Why God Created Man in a seaventh Day by himselfe and not that Day that the Beasts were created also why he created but one Man 20 Note that according to our Authours setting it downe the 23 verfe of the first Chapter of Genesis is put after the 24 and 25 verse and that not without Ground and so the Conclusion of the fift Day and God saw that it was good followeth then upon the End of the 25 verse Chap. 11. How the Man soweth soule and the Woman spirit How Adam saved Eve and Eve Adam Verse 24 Chap. 11. Of the Devills practice in Mans carelesnesse and evill constellations Verse 37 Chap. 18. How Heaven and Earth and all things lye in Man also of the true Heaven Verse 33 Chap. 7. What concerneth us Men most of all Verse 1 Chap. 9. Men can better remember the slanders then that which concerneth the soule Verse 27 Mary Chap. 6. The Errour of the Auntient that sppuosed Mary was one come from Heaven and not of Earthly Parents Verse 76 Chap. 6. Of the Blessing of Mary and how God and Man became one Verse 77 Chap. 6. How the Word became Man in Mary Verse 79 Meeknesse Chap. 4. Of the two Centres the one thirsting after Meeknesse the other after fiercenesse The Meeknesse is generated out of the fiercenesse Verse 67 Chap. 5. How the fiercenesse is changed into Meeknesse Verse 21 Chap. 7. How the Meeknesse of God holdeth the Anger Captive Verse 68 Mercy
indeed it had the life but t Or faint weake an unpotent life 47. This wee demonstrate thus that you may rightly understand it look upon a u Red hot flaming Iron which sendeth two spirits forth from it selfe one hot one which hath the Centre and can kindle and awaken another fire and one Airey one from which water proceedeth which hath also all Powers of the Fire yet the Tincture therein is not fire but it is an Eternall Barre that no fire can be therein and yet is the Spirit of the Fire which hath its source out of the Fire and its life like to the Fire for in the Eternity there is no Death Therefore in the female kinde no life can proceed out of their Tinctures but the Matrix must get the Tincture from the seede of the Male. 48. Thus wee declare unto you also the Ground of the difference between the Male and the Female kinde for when God created the Materiall Substance there went forth the kindes of all Essences in the Centre of Nature according to all the Properties for as you see the Starres that one hath a property different from the other which all are created out of the Centre of Nature according to the Materiall Substantiality and so all Essences stood in the Materiall Substantiality and the Fiat attracted all towards the Created Earth 49. And there hath every forme of the Tincture and of the Spirit of the severall kindes figured every one it s own body according to its Properties as to be Beasts Fowles Wormes Fishes Trees and Hearbs also to be Metalls and Earth all according as the life was in them And this you may well perceive by the difference of each Dayes work of the Creation 50. For on the first Day God Created the Materiall Water which hath an unpotent and life and is a Barre upon the fire of the Anger and upon the Devils smoaky Pit where he thought in the burning fire to domineere over God Also he then created the Earth and Stones and so the x Drosse Grosse part was severed which consisted in mortall and fierce Essences whereby Lucifer supposed to be King and Creator therein 51. When this was done God said Let there be light let the Light of the Tincture open it selfe and there was Light then God seperated the Light from the Darknesse Understand this rightly Hee God shut up the fierce fire which Lucifer had kindled which sourceth out of the Darknesse and let the Tincture in the Quintessence burne as in the fat of the Water-Spirit as in a Beast the fire of its life burneth 52. Thus the life did burne in the Tincture and turned the fat viz. the Oyle into a Quintessence viz. Bloud and so that life did burne in the Bloud for therein standeth the Noble Tincture and God hath reserved in his own power the Centre of the Fire for he hath shut it up in the Darknesse as it hath stood from Eternity in the Darknesse and so every Life standeth in his hand for if he let the fire come into the Tincture then the Spirit is in the hellish Fire 53. Now when the light did shine out of the Tincture he divided the Tincture into two parts even as it divideth it selfe viz. into the Fire-Life and into the Light-Life as was mentioned in the last foregoing leafe and created the two lives the fire-life to be a Heaven and a firmament between the Holy Meeknesse viz. the Heart of God and the unpotent Aire-Spirit and yet the Aire goeth forth from its Mother the Tincture of the Fire-spirit and God dwelleth between them both 54. The Fire-spirit of the Tincture hath the Eternity y for in its Roote and the Aire-Spirit hath the materiall life which sourced forth with the awakened Substantiality and ruleth the outward Beastiall Life for it is the Beastiall life of every Creature also it is the life of Trees Hearbs and Grasse it hath also a Tincture but not strong enough 55. Thus you see how the Life standeth in the Water and hath two Dominions viz. Fire and Aire and you see whence the Bloud hath its originall which maketh a Creature that hath bloud more Noble then one that hath not bloud in it for that Creature hath a false Tincture and is proceeded from the Will of the Devill as you see in Vipours and venemous Wormes they have not the Noble Tincture or the Noble Life 56. But when the Devill intended to be Lord in the Tincture and would Create he awakened such a life in his will which yet is not all his life he is indeed of the same Essences and the Devills Bodies are figured also in Hell into such Serpents venemous Wormes and z Loathsome deformed ugly Beasts for they cannot in their own forme be otherwise although indeed they have not a Body from the Divided Tincture from its Substantiality but they have a body out of the Centre of Nature out of the fierce Matrix out of the Eternall Substantiality out of the Darknesse which is a Spirituall Body 57. Now when God had Created the Earth the water was over the whole Earth which God seperated that the Earth became dry and called the Water Sea Méér which in the Language of Nature signifieth a covering and holding fast the fiercenesse of the Devill a true reproach to the Devill that his power was drowned to expound this very acute Writings are requisite and a The naturall Man Man could hardly be able to apprehend it 58. Thus the Earth sprung b Put forth its own vertue in its own Essences and Tincture which were also c Or conceived comprehended in the First Creation 59. It shall also be rightly expounded to you which Moses saith God seperated the Water above the Firmament from the Water beneath the Firmament that is into the Water and Bloud of the living Creatures for the water above the Firmament is Bloud and therein standeth the d Or life Tincture which seperateth the Heaven from the water beneath the Firmament viz. from the Elementary water as wee see that each of them hath its own habitation and Dominion of which may be spoken more at large in another place 60. Only wee understand therein two Kingdomes viz. the soule dwelleth in the Bloud in the Tincture and in the water dwelleth the Aire-Spirit which is corruptible for it had a beginning but the soule had none for the Tincture is from Eternity and therefore the figures of all kindes must remaine in Eternity account it not for an opinion it is really so 61. Now when Heaven Earth and the Elements were thus formed then the fiery Tincture was as a shining Light and was a Firmament called Heaven for this world had no other Light And then God suffered the Centre of Nature to open it selfe in the Created Substantiality For this whole Principle became but one body and there brake forth its Heart viz. the Heart of this Principle with its own proper will
imagine into the Wonders so soone as you doe so you goe quite out from Gods will which is the Eternall Liberty and are captivated in your Imagination Mark this for Every Imagination maketh Substantiality and therein you stand and must goe out from that againe or else you shall not see God 32. Therefore Christ teacheth us Humility Love Purenesse of Heart and to be Mercifull and calleth upon us to seeke after the will of God and to submit our selves to it For in Gods will wee are able to do ALL our own Nature must not doe it but God himselfe is Zealous in Us and he is our doing if wee work any p Or Miracle Wonder For no humane soule should say or think I will doe Wonders no that cannot be for the wonders above the outward Nature goe forth onely from the Centre of the Eternall Nature out of the Tenth Number which the creature cannot doe but if it be yeelded up into the will of God then God in the creature doth the Wonder for it is his delight to manifest himselfe in the weake for the strong is stiffe in his own will and will not submit it unto God he relyeth upon his own Wit and Reason Thus his will is out from God and is able to doe nothing And then if he speak from himselfe concerning Gods Beeing and Will he is an ignorant lyar he speaketh not from Gods Spirit and Will but from himselfe from his own Opinion in which there is meere doubt and from thence ariseth the Contention about Matters of Faith and Religion about Divine knowledge so that Men seek God in their own willing and knowing Men will needs finde God in their own willing and he is not therein for he dwelleth meerely and barely in that willing which yeeldeth it selfe with all its reason and knowing wholly to him and to that he giveth knowledge and power to understand his Beeing 33. Therefore lift up your Heads and observe this the will of God is not in any strife and contention but Mans will and the Devills it is the will of the Wrath of God let not the flattering Hypocrites seduce you who enter in boasting of the Historie and say Wee have the Will of God by us wee are his Ministers looke upon us wee are Gods Officers and though wee be wicked yet wee rightly Beare the Office and dispence the Will of God O Cursed Generation of Caine and Judas you are neither borne nor knowne in God why then Boast you of the will of God How can you say that you q Or Beare the office of dispencing the Great Divine Mysteries Beare the Great Mysterie of God whereas you are without God in a strange will and in your selfe you carry not the Mysterium Magnum But a poore Sinner who converteth but is captivated by the Devill and is strife against the Devill He that panteth sigheth and cryeth after God he runneth in sorrow and abstinence to the Office of the r The Mysterium Magnum Great Mysterie which Christ hath given to his Discipes and Children who are in the will of God and they have the True Å¿ Jus Divinum Key to Heaven and Hell 34. But you Sophister beare not the Office while you are without the will of God But the poore Repentant Man bringeth the Mysterium Magnum the Great Mystery with him to you and rendereth himselfe up to the Apostolicall Power which you have not but the Church or Congregation of Christ which is in the will of God hath it and so One Faith receiveth the other and the Church or Congregation of Christ Absolveth the repentant sinner and not you Sophister who have neither vertue nor powers nor knowledge of the Kingdome of God but are your selfe the Devills captive and you sit in the Anger of God and are onely the Proud Whore of Babell and swimme aloft upon the office of the Great Mysterie and are uncapable of it unlesse you be in the will of God and then you are Christs Apostle and weare the Garment of Aaron and God t Bindeth and looseth openeth and shutteth by your Mouth but your naturall will doth it not that should alwayes be dead or else you are not capable of the Office also in your own will you sit not in the Office of Christ upon Peters Chaire but upon the Stoole of Pestilence and are the Antichrist as wee have knowne you in the Number Seaventy Two which you beare for you are in Contention about the Cup of Christ and you have it not in your Power but the Church or Congregation of Christ which is submitted to the will of God hath it The Arke of the Covenant is with them at Shilo and not in your contentious Schismaticall Sectarian Jerusalem which you have made full of abominable Blasphemies 35. But what shall the Spirit Judge more concerning you seeing you are an adulterous Woman and have lost your Faith and Fidelity He hath given you time to Repent and you doe not Repent but lye in Whoredome day and night and therefore he will spew you out in the Wine-Presse and Babell shall burne up it selfe Thus Christ saith O Jerusalem Jerusalem how oft would I have gathered thy Children together as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her wings but thou wouldst not Behold your dwelling houses shall be left unto you Desolate And so he saith also to you now you desolate Jerusalem in Babell the Time cometh that the children of Christ will goe out from you and it is already and you shall perish in your whoredome Behold your Merchants will stand a farre off and say Behold Babell in which wee became rich and fat is become Desolate The Eleventh Chapter Of the true Knowledge concerning Man 1. WEE have shewne you what the Essence of all Essences it and what its life and spirit is and what the Matrix of the Genetrix is viz. that it standeth in the Eternall willing and in that Eternall willling is the Centre of Nature and therein is the Number Three which is the Heart which manifesteth the Eternity in Creatures Figures and Similitudes especially in Three Kingdomes viz. the Heavenly Angelicall and then the Hellish fiery Diabolicall and thirdly the Substantiall Kingdome of the Out-birth viz. this world 2. Now you know very well that the Deare Man Moses saith in his first Booke called Genesis That on the Fift Day God Created all the living Creatures at once which you are to understand thus that in one Revolution of the Earth God created out of the Earthly Great Mysterie out of the Matrix of the Spirit of the Earthly property as an Out-birth out of the Eternall Propertie all living Creatures that they should be Images and similitudes of the Eternall u Essence of all Essences Beeing Essence or Substance 3. Now they are indeed created out of the Earthly Mysterium Magnum but yet the Spirit there is not so wholly Earthly for it is yet x Or Lunarie Luna as
through the Turba viz. through the Anger of God and quite through Death and when it is through then it is in Gods m Or substance Essence 3. It remaineth in its n Deedes and wonders and Essences which it wrought here It beholdeth the Majesty of God and the Angels face to faâ—e 4. Wheresoever it is it is in the Abyssall world where there is no End nor Limit whither should it goe where the carkasse is there the Eagles gather together It is in Christs flesh and Bloud with Christ its Shepheard 5. Though it should goe a thousand miles off yet it were then in the same place from whence it went for in God there is no Limit neere and farre off is all one 6. It is as swift as a Thought it is Magicall it dwelleth in its Wonders they are its House 7. The Essentiality that is without it is Paradise a springing blossoming and growing of all manner of faire heavenly fruits just as we have all kinds of fruit here in this world which we eate after an Earthly manner so also there are all manner of fruits in Paradise which the soule may eate they have colours and vertues in the substance and not like a thought though they be as thin and subtile as a Thought but substantiall comprehensible and palpable to the soule virtuall and sappy with the water of Life and all this from the heavenly substantiality 8. For the heavenly body of the soule is from the pure Element whence the foure Elements are brought forth and that giveth flesh and the Tincture giveth bloud the heavenly man hath flesh and bloud and Paradise is the Power of the substantiality it is heavenly Earth incomprehensible to our outward Reason 9. But wee will againe teach you another A. B. C. All in this world have not Christs flesh in them hidden in the Old Adam yea among very many not one but the Regenerate who are departed from their owne will into Gods will in whom the Noble Graine of Mustard-seed is sowne out of which a Tree is growne 10. Most soules depart from the body without Christs body yet they hang as by a o The small threed of Faith threed and are at last in their Faith gotten into the will these soules indeed are in the Image in the Spirit but not in Flesh 11. Such as these waite for the last Day when the Image viz. the Body shall come forth out of the Grave out of the first Image for God will raise it up by the voyce of Christ even that Image which Adam had in his Innocency which hath been washed with Christs Bloud 12. But the Earthly Body shall not touch it that must come before the Judgement in the Turba but after the Sentence of the Judgement the Turba shall swallow it up and the p Or workes Wonders of it shall onely remaine 13. You must understand us aright These soules that must waite till the the last Day for their Bodies they remaine with their bodies in the still Rest till the last day without feeling any q Or Source paine but in another Principle 14. They have neither Darknesse nor Majesty in the Earth but are at rest without paine in the Eternall still Liberty without touching of the Body 15. Yet they see their r Or workes Wonders but they effect nothing in them for they expect God and are in Humility fot they are sunke downe through Death and are in another world yet there is a great Å¿ Gulfe or distance Space between them and the holy soules that are in Christs flesh and Bloud but not a Principle they are in one and the same Principle 16. But a Spirit without a body hath not that t Or Power might which the Spirit in the body hath therefore they rest and are under the Altar of God 17. When the last Day shall come then shall they come forth and eat of the Bread of God and put on the Divine Body as is mentioned in the Revelations of John Rev. 6.9 10 11. where the soules under the Altar cloathed in White say Lord when wilt thou avenge our Bloud and it was answered them that they should rest a little while till their brethren were accomplished which should be killed for the witnesse of Jesus 18. But the soules of the wicked have another place viz. in the most u the innermost in the utter Darknesse innermost which also is the most uttermost of all Darknesse they dare not goe up and downe they remaine meerely with the body in their x Esseâ—ce of workes substance yet not in this world neither doe they touch the Earth 19. It hath indeed power enough over the Earth it can open it without y Essence and feeling substance and perceptibility But it hath not the outward Principle it hath not power enough over the outward Spirit yet it can for a time make z Shew jugling tricks Apparitions in the a Or Spirit of the Aire fydereall Spirit 20. As many appeare againe in the Astrall Spirit and seeke b Or Rest Abstinence and make many afraid with keeping a racket in houses all which they doe by the Astrall Spirit till that be consumed and then their c Or Pompe and shew trickes lie in the Darknesse and they expect the last Judgement 21. Our Babell sath it is the Devill which goeth up and downe in the shape of the soule indeed the damned soule hath enough of the Devill but it is not the very Devill he is in the Abysse and tormenteth the soule in the time of the body willingly in the Abysse of the soule 22. Neither doth he altogether want a cloake for his knavery for he can put on an outward cloake to seduce or terrifie men in 23. But this complaint we have against Babell that she is so extreme blinde and hath so little knowledge of God she hath cast away Magick and Philosophie and received the Antichrist now she hath lost her understanding she hath a kinde of Art still but her understanding quite faileth her she hath broken the Glasse and peereth through the holes of the Spectacles 24. What shall we say The world is blind-folded it is led by a string and taken captive and it seeth it not yet it were at liberty if it did but see it once the snare wherewith it is bound is malicious Knavery thou shalt soone be made to see It is broad day-light doe but awake thou Keeper of Israell 25. Thus my beloved friend know that there is a difference of Places where soules are according to that whereinto the soule is entred if it be Holy and Regenerate then it hath a d The body of Christ Body which expecteth onely the e Or workes Wonders of the body at the last Day it hath f Conceived or formed comprehended them already in the Will but at the Day of Judgement it must stand before the Judgement 26. All soules
they will creepe into the Caves and clefts of the Rocks and endeavour to bury themselves in the Mountaines they would willingly kill themselves but there is no Death more they will endeavour to bereave themselves of Life with Weapons yet there is no dying but Wrath and Anger left 38. In this horrour all the buildings in the world will fall downe for the Earth will ttemble as if it were shaken with Thunder and the horrour will be in all living things every thing according to its y Property or Condition Source a Beast hath no such source as the soule hath onely it is afraid of the Turba 39. And in this elevation and Commotion all waters will arise above the height of all Mountaines so that there will be no z Or respiration breathing upon the Earth they will rise so high that they will be as it were consumed All things will be so comprehended in the Anger in the Turba that there will be nothing but meere Anguish in the Elements 40. All high Mountaines and Rocks cleave asunder and tumble downe the a That is those properties which are in the Firmament or a Magick desire as ver 41. following Starres likewise fall to the Earth with their strong influence and vertue All this will be bâ—ought to passe in severall dayes for as the world was created so it shall have its End for the b Seeking or earnest desire longing of the Earth in its Anguish will draw the Starres to it as it hath alwayes done c Or all this while in this time so that the Earthly body hath drawne the d Desire or longing seeking of the Starres to it 41. For the Starres are a Magicall d Desire or longing seeking which hath awakened Life therefore now when the Earth is awakened in the great Turba it will then become so thirsty and hungry that it will draw downe the Starres to it there will be such an Anguish upon the Earth 42. But the Children of God shall lift up their Eyes and hands to Christ for joy that the Day of their Deliverance is at hand for the e The water Anguish doth not touch them 43. And in those dayes but how many are appointed for it are onely knowne to God for in six dayes the world and all its Hoasts were created but it is now hidden to us the water will returne againe to its owne place and fill all the Deepes in a more abundant manner then they were before 44. For now Death commeth thereby and in that houre all Creatures except man shall die also all men that have crept into the Rocks and Mountaines shall come forth but with anguish of their Conscience although as yet the Turba hindred so that the horrour was in Death for the falling of the water doth captivate the Turba 45. And then the voyce of the Holy Ternarie will put forth it selfe according to all the three Principles and say by the Mouth of Christ the Judge Arise ye Dead and come to Judgement 46. This voyce is the originall Eternall Spirit which upholdeth every life and which also hath alwayes governed in all the three Principles for it is that Spirit whence the life of every thing hath sprung and in which it consisteth to Eternity It hath been the life and motion of all things in which the beginning and also the end of every life hath stood yes even the Eternity it selfe for it is from Eternity and the Creatour of all things 47. It hath two Eternall beginnings viz. one in the Fire and one in the Light and the third beginning is become the f Wherein the Eternall hath been behâ—ld Glasse of the Eternall viz. the Spirit of this world also it hath been as a Wonder in this world and the Wonders have been made manifest by it and it is he to whom the last Judgement doth belong his moving is the last 48. For in the Creation he moved the Father and in the Incarnation of the Word the Sonne and now the last moving and the Judgement is his he will reduce every thing to its Eternall abode and this is done by the voyce of the word proceeding from the Mouth of Christ 49. For the Spirit goeth forth in two Principles in God that is in the Anger or Fire he goeth forth as the earnest wrath of the Fire-life in the light of the Love he goeth forth as a flame of the Divine Majestie and in the Spirit of this world he goeth forth as a Wonder of Life and all this is undeniable 50. And if perhaps some person would arrogate such exceeding high Learning to himselfe as to gainesay it to him we offer to demonstrate it in every thing we will except nothing in this world every thing will afford an evident Testimony of it let him come to us when he will he ought not to put it off and say we are mad for if these few words will not satisfie him we will so evidence it to him that he himselfe shall finde and see who himselfe is yes though the Devill himselfe should burst for very Anger yet we would set it downe plainely before his eyes 51. Now seeing this Spirit hath the word Fiat viz. Gods word and the Center of Nature whence it hath its Eternall Originall and as the Spirit of the Center hath a twofold Effluence the first being in the Fire in the Essences of the Originall of Life in the ground of the Origînall of the soule and the second in the light of the Fire which is the second g Or Property source which buddeth afresh through Death and is called the Kingdome of God where also in the Light it is a flame of Love and in the Fire it is a flame of Anger 52. And therefore it will breake open the Gates of Death for it shall raise the Dead and it hath the word Fiat in it and this Fiat is both in the soule and in the body also and although the body have been long corrupted yet the Turba remaineth still in the Fiat with the Wonders of the body 53. And now the foure Elements must restore to the Fiat that Essence which they have swallowed up for h Verbum Domini the word of the Lord is in it but in its owne Principle Every thing must i Give or yield up restore that which it hath received viz. the Earth the body viz. the k The substance or drosse Phurâ— and the water also its Essence that is l The Light Sul The Aire the sound and voyce of the words and the Fire the Essences of the soule for All things must be judged 54. All the words which the Mouth hath spoken which the Aire hath received into it and m Which Aire hath served for the making of the words these the Aire shall againe n Or represent bring forth for it is the Glasse of the Eternall Spirit the Spirit seeth them in the Glasse 55.
Government be ordained of God 77. Therefore ye Rulers and Potentates of the world looke to it and see whether you be the Ordinance of God and are placed in the Right Divine Order Have a care how you deale with the distressed inferiour for now he standeth before your Eyes and blameth you saying that you have been the cause of all his sinnes and wickednesse 78. For there one will crie out and accuse the other saying that he hath caused me to commit such ludenesse and will curse him the Inferiour his Superiours and the Superiours their Superiours Also the Prince will accuse his false Counsellours and his Counsellours the Priests because they did not reprove their Courses but soothed and flattered them for Ambition and honour sake 79. How will you be able to stand ye i Or Universities high Schooles and Doctors even all of you who have set up your selves in Christs stead and have so proudly k Or disputed wrangled about Christs Cup also about Christs Doctrine and Glory that you have provoked and put on the Princes of your Land who are the Ordinance of God to warre and bloud-shed for a few l Termes of Art words sake which you your selves have m Or Contrived forged 80. Where is Christs teaching and Spirit of Love who said Love one another for thereby shall they know that ye are my Disciples Where is your Love looke upon your bloudy instigations wherewith you have encouraged men to battle and have lead the world astray from Love and n Or Concord Unanimity 81. Ye have made Rents and Divisions so that Kings have been at variance and enmity for your Pride sake in that you have wrested the words of Christ and have not regarded whether you have had Christs Spirit and o Or meaning Will or no and therefore you above all others shall give an heavie account for you have knowne the will of the Lord and have not done it you have run and thrust your selves into Christs Office meerely to get profit favour and Honour you have not regarded the Spirit of God therefore the Spirit calleth you Babell a confusion of all those that live 82. You have set the whole world at ods and though you should teach them Love you have taught them Contention and strife so that one brother hath hated and persecuted another for your p Opinions Doctrineâ— which you have set down for Orthodox fables sake O! how is the name of Christ q Reproched or scandalâ—sed for your disputations sake blasphemed for your contentîons sake whether will you betake your selves and where will you abide when this shall be set before your Eyes and the whole world crye woe woe woe to you 83. Also here the Angels who are the Reapers shall divide all into two Heards and place the r Or Righteous Honest at the Right hand and the wicked at the left viz. at the Eye of Anger for the Principle of Light is here called the Right hand and the Principle of Fire the Left 84. And thus the Tribunall or seate of Judgement will be set All the great Shepheards whom God hath sent forth for a Light to the world who have reproved and taught as the Patriarchs who taught of the Promise of Christ shall be placed with the Prophets and Apostles at the Right hand of the Judgement and Moses and all Teachers of the Å¿ And Law-givers Law at the left hand of the Judgement 85. For Moses and Elias and all those exceeding precious teachers of the Law beare the fiery Sword and require Gods Justice and they at the Right hand Gods Mercy 86. And in this houre is the very last Day when the Judge shall say Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the Beginning for I was hungry thirsty naked sick and in Prison and you have administred to me 87. And to the wicked company Goe ye cursed into everlasting fire I know you not for I have been hungry thirsty naked sick and in Prison and you administred not to me 88. And then they will excuse themselves before the presence of the Judge and say we knew thee not Lord but he shall say being you have not done this to my poore Children you have not done it to me 89. And here the Spirit of God will manifest himselfe forthwith in all the three Principles and stirre up the t Or Ground Center of Nature so that it shall burne in the fire of Anger for all both Heaven Earth and the Firmament will be set on Fire together 90. And the Turba will swallow up the Earthly world in the Fire and restore it to that which it was before the Creation onely the u Viz. All whatsoever grew was borne made or done by word or Deed from the beginning of the world to the End Wonders remaine still in two Principles the third Principle doth vanish quite away all but the Wonders which shall be brought into the beginning 91. And then the Earthly Life and the Earthly Body will fall away and the Fire will consume them 92. And the Glorious bright Paradisicall Body of the Righteous shall passe through the Fire with its owne Wonders which shall follow it and whatsoever is false shall remaine in the Fire 93. And so they shall be caried through the Fire in the twinckling of an Eye and the fire comprehendeth them not for as little as the fire can retaine the light or Wind so little can x The fire of Wrath. it retaine the Light of the Holy men for they can dwell in the Fire without feeling any paine 94. Then instantly by the kindling of the Fire the Divine Majesty and Paradisicall Life is made ready and thither they enter as Children and live Eternally with their Father in one Love in a simple Childe-like Life and this is a Communion of Saints together 95. There is no Day or Night there for the Sunne passeth away and the Starres passe away but their y Or operations Wonders remaine apparently in the Great z See in the small six points what the Magia is Magia to the glory of God thus they shall passe away 96. The wicked also must goe into the Fire and their Earthly Life will also fall away and their a Or Vizard monstrous Image will appeare in the Spirit according to the shape of all hideous abominable Beasts like the Devills 97. For they dwell in one and the same Principle and Lucifer is their great Prince whom indeed they served here though they depended on their Hypocrites for a false Paradise 98. Thus my beloved friend you have a briefe description and Declaration of the last Judgement Day for whatsoever is of this world shall passe away 99. The Earth and all stony Rocks and Elements will melt away and that onely will remaine which God would have and for the sake of which he hath created this word 100. Both the good and
is a Glasse of them wherein Light and Darknesse Good and Evill are mixt it is not Eternall but hath a beginning and an End This Table belongs to the Clavis at the End of the 132. verse of Heaven which came out of the midst of the waters viz. of Mercury whence arose the Male and Female Sex kinde in the Spirit of the outward world that is the Male in the fiery Mercury and the Female in the watery 141. This Separation was made all over in every thing to the end that the fiery Mercury should desire and long for the watery and the watery for the fiery that so there might be a Desire of Love betwixt them in the Light of Nature from which the Conjunction ariseth therefore the fiery Mercuy viz. the outflowne word separated it selfe according both to the fiery and to the watery nature of the Light and thence comes both the Male and Female kinde in all things both Animals and vegetables The third Day 142. In the THIRD Dayes worke the fiery and watery Mercury entred againe into Conjunction or mixture and embraced on another wherein the Salnitre viz. the Separator in the Earth-brought forth Grasse Plants and Trees and that was the first Generation or production between Male and Female The fourth Day 143. In the FOURTH Dayes worke the fiery Mercury brought forth its fruit viz. the fift Essence an higher power or vertue of Life then the foure Elements and yet it is in the Elements of it the Starres are made 144. For as the compression of the Desire brought the Earth into a c Or lamp Masse the compression entring into it selfe so the fiery Mercury thrust it selfe outwards by the Compressure and hath inclosed the place of this world with the d Or constellations Starres and starry Heaven The fifth Day 145. In the FIFT Dayes worke the e The Spirit of the world Spiritus Mundi that is the f Anima Macrocosmi soule of the great world opened it selfe in the fift Essence we meane the Life of the fiery and watery Mercury therein God created all Beasts fishes fowles and wormes every one from its peculiar property of the divided Mercury 146. Here we see how the Eternall Principles have moved themselves according to Evill and Good as to all the seven Properties and their Effluence and mixture for there are evill and good Creatures created every thing as the Mercury that is the Seperator hath figured and g Or Imaged framed himselfe into an Ens as may be seen in the evill and good Creatures And yet every kinde of Life hath its Originall in the Light of Nature that is in the Love of Nature from which it is that all Creatures in their kind or Property love one another according to this outflowne Love The sixt Day 147. In the SIXT Dayes worke God created Man for in the sixt Day the understanding of Life opened it selfe out of the fiery Mercury that is out of the Inward Ground 148. God created him in his likenesse out of all the three Principles and made him an Image and breathed into him the understanding fiery Mercury according to both the Inward and outward Ground that is according to time and Eternity and so he became a living understanding soule and in this Ground of the soule the Manifestation of the Divine Holinesse did move viz. the living outflowing word of God together with the Eternall knowing Idea which was knowne from Eternity in the Divine Wisdome as a Subject or forme of the Divine Imagination 149. This h Or Image Idea becomes i Indued or invested cloathed with the Substance of the heavenly world and so it becommeth an understanding Spirit and Temple of God an Image of the Divine k Or Contemplation vision which Spirit is given to the soule for a Spouse as fire and Light are espoused together so it is here also to be understood 150. This Divine Ground budded and pierced through soule and body and this was the true Paradise in Man which he lost by sin when the ground of the darke world with the false Desire gat the upper hand and Dominion in him The seventh Day 51. In the SEVENTH Day God rested from all his workes which he had made saith Moses yet God needeth no Rest for he hath wrought from Eternity and he is a meere working Power and vertue therefore the meaning and understanding here lieth hidden in the Word for Moses saith he hath commanded us to Rest on the seventh Day 152. The seventh Day was the true Paradise understand it spiritually that is the Tincture of the Divine Power and vertue which is a temperament this pierced through all the Properties and wrought in the seventh that is in the substance of all the other 153. The Tincture pierced through the Earth and through all Elements and tinctured All and then Paradise was on Earth and in Man for evill was hidden as the Night is hidden in the Day so the l Or grim fiercenesse wrath of Nature as also hidden in the first Principle till the fall of Man and then the Divine working with the Tincture m fled into their owne Principle viz. into the Inward Ground of the Light-world 154. For the l Or retired wrath did rise aloft and got the predominancy and that is the Curse where it is said God cursed the Earth for his cursing is to leave off and flie from his working as when Gods Power and vertue in a thing worketh with the Life and Spirit of the thing and afterwards withdraweth it selfe with its working then the thing is cursed for it worketh in its owne will and not in Gods will Of the Spiritus Mundi and of the foure Elements 155. We may very well observe and consider the hidden spirituall world by the visible world for we see that Fire n Or Water Light and Aire are continually begotten in the deep of this world and that there is no Rest or cessation from this begetting and that it hath been so from the beginning of the world and yet men can finde no cause of it in the outward world or tell what the ground of it should be but Reason saith God hath so created it and therefore it continueth so which indeed is true in it selfe but Reason knoweth not the Creator which doth thus create without ceasing that is the true o Distinguisher or divider Archaeus or Seperator which is an Efluence out of the Invisible world viz. the outflowne word of God which I meane and understand by the word fiery Mercury 156. For what the invisible world is in a spirituall working where Light and darknesse are in one another and yet the one not comprehending the other that the visible world is in a substantiall working whatsoever powers and and vertues in the outflowne word are to be p Or conceived understood in the Inward Spirituall world the same wee understand also in the visible world