nigh unto any thing he is through All and in all his birth is every where and without and besides him there is nothing else he is time and Eternity Bysse and Abysse and yet nothing comprehends him save the True understanding which is God himselfe CHAP. II. Of the Word or Heart of God THis is now what Saint John saith Chap. 1. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and God was the word the same was in the beginning with God the word l l l Im signifieth in the. In is the will of the Abysse m m m Aâ—fang beginning beginning is the Conception or apprehension of the will where it conceiveth and bringeth it selfe into an Eternall Beginning the * * * Wort signifieth the word Which words in the High-Dutch he expounds according to the Language of Nature Word is now the Conceived which in the will is a Nothing and with the Conception there is a generation this was in the beginning with the will and in the will but with the Lubet of the will it receiveth its beginning in the Conception of the will therefore it is called a Heart viz. a Centre or Life-Circle wherein the Originall of the Eternall Life is 2. And John saith further By the same were all things made and without it was not any thing made that was made In it was the life and the life was the light of men heere O man take now this light of life which was in the Word and is Eternall and behold the Being of all Beings and especially thy Selfe seeing thou art an Image life and being of the unsearchable God and a Likenesse as to him heere consider time and Eternity Heaven Hell the world light and darknesse paine and Source life and death Something and Nothing Here examine thy self whether thou hast the light and life of the Word in thee so that thou art able to see and understand all things for thy life was in the Word and was made manifest in the Image which God Created it was breathed into it from the Spirit of the word now lift up thy understanding in the light of thy life and behold the Formed Word Consider its inward Generation for all is manifest in the light of life 3. Saist thou I cannot I am corrupt and depraved heare me thou art not as yet borne againe of God otherwise if thou hadst again that same light then thou couldest Goe to then we all indeed come far short of the Glory which we ought to have in God but I will shew thee somewhat have a care and conceive it aright be not a Mocker as the Confused Babel is Lo when we would speake of the Being of all Beings then we say that from God and through God are all things for Saint John saith also that without him was not any thing made that was made 4. Now saith Reason whence or how hath God made Good and Evill Paine and Joy Life and Death is there any such will in God which maketh the evill Heere Reason beginneth to Speculate and will apprehend it but it goeth onely about the outside of the Circle and cannot enter in for it is without and not in the word of the Life-Circle 5. Now then behold thy selfe and consider what thou art view what the outward World is with its Dominion and thou shalt finde that thou with thy outward Spirit and Beeing art the outward would thou art a little world out of the Great world thy outward light is a Chaos of the Sun and Stars else thou couldst not see n n n Or receive light from the Sun by the light of the Sun the Stars give the Essence of distinction in the intellective Sight thy body is fire aire water earth therein also lyeth the Metaline property for of whatsoever the Sun with the Stars is a Spirit of that the Earth with the other Elements is a o o o Essence Substance or body Being a Coagulated Power what the Superiour Being is that is also the inferiour and all the creatures of this world are the same 6. When I take up a stone or clod of earth and look upon it then I see that which is above and that which is below yea the whole world therein onely that in each thing one property hapneth to be the chiefest and manifest according to which it is named all the other properties are joyntly therein onely in distinct degrees and centres and yet all the degrees and centres are but one onely centre There is but one onely root whence â—ll things proceed it onely severizeth it selfe in the Compaction where it is Coagulated Its originall is as a Smoak or vaprous breath from the Great Mystery of the Expressed Word which standeth in all places in the re-expressing that is in the Re-breathing or ecchoing forth a likenesse according to it selfe an Essence according to the Spirit 7. But now we cannot say that the outward World is God or the speaking word which in it self is devoid of such essence or likewise that the outward man is God but it is all onely the expressed Word which hath so coagulated it self in its re-conception to its own expression and doth still continually coagulate it self with the 4 Elements through the Spirit of the desire viz. of the Stars and bringeth it selfe into such a motion and life in the mode and manner as the Eternal Speaking word maketh a Mysterie which is Spirituall in it selfe which Mystery I call the Center of the Eternall Nature where the Eternall Speaking Word bringeth it selfe into a Generation and also maketh such a Spirituall World in it selfe as we have materially in the Expressed Word 8. For I say the inward world is the Heaven wherein God dwelleth and the outward world is expressed out of the inward and hath onely another beginning then the inward but yet out of the inward it is expressed from the inward through the motion of the Eternall Speaking Word and closed into a beginning and End 9. And the inward world standeth in the Eternall Speaking Word the Eternall Word hath spoken it through the wisdome out of its owne Powers Colours and Vertue into an Essence as a Great Mysterie from Eternity which Essence also is onely as a Spiration from the Word in the wisdome which hath its re-conception to Generation in it selfe and with the Conception doth likewise Coagulate it selfe and introduceth it selfe into formes after the manner of the Generation of the Eternall Word as the Powers Colours and Vertue doe generate themselves in the word through the wisdome or as I might say out of the wisdome in the Word 10. Therefore there is nothing nigh unto or a far off from God one world is in the other and all are onely one but one is Spirituall the other Corporeall as soul and body are in each other and also time and Eternity are but one thing yet in distinct beginnings the spirituall world in the internall
its Servant thou art pranck and vapour as stately and gloriously in the Suns light as thou wilt hast thou not the Eternall light yet thy fountaine shall be made manifest to thee 47. By the two words Heaven Himmell and und Earth Erden we understand the whole ground of the Creation for the understanding is coucht in the language of Nature in those two words for by the word Heaven Himmell is understood the Spiration of the Verbum Fiat which created that Essence wherein Lucifer was enthroned with the Creative word out of it selfe that is out of the Spirituall holy world into a time or Beginning and by the word Earth Erde is understood the wrath in the Essence that the Essence was amassed in the wrath and reduced out of the Properties of the darke Sulphur Mercury and Salt viz. out of the powers of the Originall of Nature and introduced into a Compaction or Coagulation 48. This Coagulation is the Syllable z Er the other Syllable de or den is the Element for the Earth is not the Element but the Element is the moving viz. the Power whence it was Coagulated this is that Element which is spirituall and taketh its true Originall in the fire where the nature which is a Sencelesse life dyeth in the fire from which dying or mortification then there proceedeth forth a living motion and from that which is mortified in the fire a dead matter viz. Earth and a dead water and also a deadly fire and venomous aire which maketh a dying Source in the Earthly bodies 49. When nature was enkindled the Element did unfold and display it selfe into Foure Properties which yet in it selfe is onely one the reall Element dwelleth in the Essence which is mortified in the fire otherwise the Earth could bring forth no fruit those which now are called the foure Elements are not Elements but onely Properties of the true Element The Element is neither hot nor cold neither dry nor moist it is the motion or life of the inward heaven viz. the true angelicall life as to the Creature it is the first divine manifestation out of the fire through nature when the Properties of the Eternall nature work therein it s called Paradise 50. By the word * * * Himmel Heaven Himmell is understood how the water viz. the Grosnesse in the mortall part was Coagulated and Separated from the holy Crystalline water which is Spirituall where with the materiall time began as an Essence expressed or spirated out of the Spirituall water 51. The Spirituall water is living and the Spirated is livelesse Senselesse void of understanding and is dead in reference to the living water of which Moses saith God hath Separated it from the water above the firmament 52. The Firmament is another Principle viz. another beginning or inchoation of motion the water above the Firmament is the Spirituall water in which the Spirit of God ruleth and worketh for Moses saith also the Spirit of God moveth upon the water for the Spirituall Element moveth in the foure Elements and in the Spirituall Element the Spirit of God moveth on the Spirituall water they are mutually in each other 53. The Heaven wherein God dwelleth is the holy Element and the firmament or Gulfe betweene God and the foure Elements is the death for the inward heaven hath another birth that is another life then the externall Elementary life hath indeed they are in one another but the one doth not apprehend the other as Tin and Silver never mix aright together for each is from another or sundry Principle albeit they resemble each other and have very neere Affinity to each other yet they are as the inward and outward water to one another wherein also they are to be understood for the inward and outward Venus are Step-Sisters they come indeed from one father but they have two mothers the one whereof is a Virgin the other defloured and therefore they are Separated till the judgement of God who will purge away her reproach and shame through the fire 54. Moses writeth that God created the Heaven out of the midst of the waters it is very right the a a a Understand by the word Astrum the whole Starry Heaven with all its powers properties Influences and Constellations internall and externall Astrum is an externall water-Spirit viz. Powers of the outward water and the materiall water is the body wherein the powers worke now the fiery airy and also Earthly Source is in the Astrum the like is also in the materiall water the Superiour Astrum is the life and Dominion of the inferiour it enkindleth the inferiour whereby the inferiour doth act move and worke the inferiour is the body or wife of the Superiour indeed the Superiour is coucht in the inferiour but as weake and impotent 55. And the Superiour were likewise as weake and impotent as the inferiour if it were not enkindled by the light of the Sun the same is the heart of all externall Powers and it is the Open Punctum even to the Tenth Number if we were not so blinde as to contemne all that we see not with our Calves-eyes it were right and requisite to reveale it but seeing God hath hidden the Pearle and also himselfe from the sight of the wicked therefore we 'l let it alone yet hint enough to our School-fellowes we will not give our Pearle unto Beasts 56. Thus we understand what the outward heaven is namely the Powers or Conception of the water the word or Power Fiat which began with the beginning of the world is yet still b b b Or in the creating a Creating it yet continually createth the heaven out of the water and the Spirit of God still moveth upon the water and the holy water is yet continually Separated from the water under the firmament 57. This holy water is that of which Christ told us that he would give us it to drinke that should spring up in Vs to a fountaine of Eternall life the holy heavenly Corporallity doth consist therein it is the body of Christ which he brought from heaven and by the same introduced heavenly Paradisicall Essentiality into our dead or decayed body and quickned ours in his understand in the c c c Mark or limit Ayme of the Covenant in the Essence of Mary as shall be mentioned hereafter 58. In this heavenly Essence the d d d Baptisme and the Supper Testaments of Christ doe consist and this holy Essence of the heavenly holy Virginity with the holy Tincture hath destroyed death and bruised the head of the Serpents Might in the wrath of God for the Divine power is the highest life therein 59. Thus we understand how the holy heaven wherein God dwelleth moveth in the Fiat or the Created heaven and that God is really present in all places and inhabiteth all things but he is comprended of Nothing Hee is manifest in Power in the inward heaven of the holy Essentiality viz. in
nature and it is manifest onely in one sole Property else if the whole nature were manifest in each thing then all things and Essences would be but one thing and Essence and therefore God hath by his Speaking Word moved the Sulphur Salnitri according to the properties that the distinct Severation might be manifest and this manifestation is a Mercurius for the the Eternall Speaking Word which is called God hath manifested his voice or will through nature 10. Therefore the whole Astrum is a pronounced voice or breathed tone of the Powers an expressed Word which doth againe give forth from it selfe its spiration and speaking out of the Properties it is an Eccho out of Gods Love and Anger out of the darke and light world 11. i i i Next the Stars After the Astrum are the foure Elements which also have their Originall out of this fountaine which also have their mutuall Spiration or outbreathing they also speake forth their properties out of themselves and they are as a Body of the Stars for they speake or breath forth from themselves a corporeall Essence and the Stars doe breath forth a Spirituall Essence and this twofold Essence ruleth mutually in the visible world as body and Soule 12. And we give you this rightly to understand in each Element there lieth a whole Astrum the fire hath a whole Astrum in it and also the aire wrter and earth but it is not manifest in them therefore God hath enclosed or encircled the Place of this world with a manifest Astrum that it might enkindle the other Astrum in the foure Elements that the manifest Astrum might worke in the hidden Mystesterie viz. in the Astrum of the foure Elements and procreate wonders for so a wonderfull figure and Property may be produced out of a thing which otherwise is impossible for nature to doe in its owne naked Selfe 13. Also we are to know that there is an Astrum in the divine Magick which is the fountaine of the Eternall Minde of the Abysse whence nature and all Essences are arisen likewise there is an Astrum in the manifest heavenly world and also an Astrum in the darke hellish world and these k k k Or Constellations Astrums are but one onely Astrum but they are Severized into distinct degrees and Principles that which is in the outward world open and manifest in the Figure the same is manifest in Power in the Spirituall world and not in formes 14. And we understand that the Verbum Fiat on the fourth day moved the fourth Property of nature viz. the fift Essence and opened it out of the Sulphureous property out of the fire flagrat viz. out of the third Property and thus an Astrum became manifest in the Aire which are the visible Stars and an Astrum in the fire which is the rationall life of all Creatures and an Astrum in the water which is the vegetative life and an Astrum in the Earth which is the wrathfull Earthly life 15. The Fiery viz. Astrum giveth Soule and the aiery Spirit the watry affordeth the mansion of the soule and the Spirit viz. bloud wherein the Tincture of the fire and light dwelleth and the Earthly giveth flesh and every of the foure Astrums giveth a Spirit and body according to its Property onely God hath thus associated one unto another that the one might be manifest in the other and be joyntly together one body like as all the foure Elements are onely one Element but they divide themselves into foure Properties according to the Centre of nature 16. These foure l l l Constellations Astrums doe procreate out of themselves their Officer viz. the outward nature that is the Soule of the outward world as a constantly enduring Minde wherein lieth the Omnipotency as a manifest great Mystery in this Officer God hath awakened and raised a King or as I might set it down by way of Similitude a nature-God with six Counsellers which are his assistants that is the Sun with the other six Planetick Stars which were spoken forth out of the seven Properties out of the place of Sol and in the Speaking were introduced into a rouling Sphear according to the Property of the Eternall Generation in the Centre of nature and this was opened in seven degrees out of the birth where the first degree of the motion in the light of nature from the inward Spirituall fire and light world was the Sun which receiveth its Lustre from the Tincture of the inward fire and light world it standeth as an opened Punctum to the fire-world 17. And with the Spiration the sixfold life of the six degrees of the dayes-workes and formes of the Centre came forth externally and Severized it selfe after the kinde and nature of the eternall birth as first Venus which is the water-Source out of the meeknesse out of the mortification in the fire which is a desire of meeknesse m m m By reason of from the fire for the fire enkindleth the meeknesse whence is desirous this is now the love-desire according to the Spirit and according to its Essence it is water which water in the metalls affordeth the noble Corpus Solis 18. This Venus being shee as to her owne naturall right is mortified to the fire is submissive and giveth the holy water understand as to her own peculiar Property n n n Water which is holy in the Spirit and yet in the Essence it is captivated in the wrath where it giveth the materiall water according to the deadly property it giveth body unto all the Seven Metalls and Essence to all the six Planets which we see in the metalls for each Planet maketh its Essence in its Property according to it selfe as the Sun in gold the Moone in Silver Jupiter in tin Saturne in Lead Mercurius in quicksilver Mars in Iron and yet it is the Essence of the onely Venus Property but they give their Power and Spirit into it and hold the body for their owne being they rule the same 19. This Venus Property in the place of Sol sunck downewards in the first Egresse and the fire-Source above it is Mars and out of Venus Property beneath the heavie Sound and that is Mercurius out of the Sulphur Salnitri through the water and upwards out of Mars the power of the fire and light that is Jupiter and beneath from Mercurius the Essence of the desire where Venus comprehends the Essence in her fiery desire as a body of the Powers that is Luna and above Jupiter Saturnus viz. the expressed Impression of the first forme of nature 20. These Properties were spherated in the Spiration in manner as the birth of nature is in the Essence which the Verbum Fiat received and amassed into a body and ordained it for dominion unto the foure Astrums over which he hath appointed Angelicall Rulers as a Supreame Counsell which we give onely a hint of heere being we have spoken thereof at large in another place CHAP.
XIV Of the Creation of the fift Day 1. NOw when God had Opened the Astrum and foure Elements as a moving life wherein the Superiour Astrum gave the distinction in the moving life and actuated the foure Astrums in the foure Elements then he Educed out of the Essence of all the Astrums and Elements through the motion of his Speaking Word in the Verbum Fiat the Impresse or expresse as the Power of that same life which was free from the paine and amassed it through the Verbum Fiat and spake forth that same life by the holy Eternall Speaking Word through the Fiat into formes and shapes according to the properties of the Astrums in the Spirituall Corpus in which the Fiat or the desire attracted the Elements according to the outward Essence unto it selfe as a body 2. And thence were creatures produced in all the foure Elements in each Astrum according to its Property as birds in the Astrum of the Aire fishes in the Astrum of the water cattle and foure-footed beasts out of the Astrum of the earth and foure Elements so likewise Spirits in the fire Astrum which also is in the other Elements and we see very exactly in the difference of the creatures that the degrees of the Astrum or constellations are so distinct and various for the wormes of the Earth live in the third degree viz. in the fire-flagrat in the Sulphur Mars and Mercury in the life devoid of understanding and whereas they have an understanding or instinct by the enkindling of the Superiour Astrum in which third degree in the property also grass hearbs and trees doe stand and yet they receive assisting influence from the Superiour Astrum in the Enkindling by which they are otherwise qualifyed 3. And we see that each kinde hath a Spirit and body according to the Degree of its Astrum for we understand that out of one Constellation or Astrum many kindes of creatures doe proceed the cause whereof is that each Astrum hath againe its degrees in it for there is in each Astrum whatsoever all the Astra have but yet in sundry distinct degrees in the manifestation and therefore the Properties in each Astrum are manifold so also divers sorts of creatures are proceeded from each Astrum the Spirit of each kinde is from the Astrum but all kindes must use the foure Elements for they arise out of that fountaine whence all the Astra doe originally proceed 4. On the fift day Jupiter hath the dominion the first houre of the day among the Planets and that because he hath his Originall in the Creation of the Astrum out of the fift Degree of nature viz. out of the power of the Sulphureous and Salnitrall oyle and that on the fift day this joviall property was opened and educed out of the fourth dayes property as a pleasant powerfull life out of all the Constellations unto which life God created all Creatures except man each out of the property of his Constellation out of his Degree so that they might all live in the Soule of the outward nature and be under the Government of one Officer which is the outward Constellation wherein the Sun is chiefe Regent 5. Each Constellation hath its Compaction of Sulphur and Mercury the Sulphur giueth Essence and Mercurius give Spirit into the Essence and from both these Sal is generated viz. out of the sharp Fiat according to the property of Sulphur and Mercury and out of these three properties viz. out of Sulphur Mercurius and Sal all creatures entred into a life and creaturall beeing and now such as the Sulphur was on each place in every Punctum in the property as was taken or conceived in the Fiat in the motion of the fift Property in all the Elements even such a creature was opened or brought forth as the Compaction was Coagulated in each Punctum and so each Kinde had its Spirit and Seed in it to generate and bring forth againe 6. The two Sexes viz. the male and its female arise from the Separation of the watry and fiery Tincture in Sulphur for the Separation was in the Verbum Fiat where out of one Sulphur in one onely Punctum two Sexes came forth out of one Essence viz. the fiery property in it selfe to a male and the lights or waters property to a female where then both tinctures severed 7. And as we see that the fire cannot burne without the water and the water were a nothing without the fire and they mutually beget one another and also doe againe vehemently desire each other and their right life consisteth in their conjunction in that they have produced each other and afterwards doe enter into and mutually embrace each other as one where also they are againe changed in the fire into one and yet doe againe proceed forth from the fire in one Essence viz. in an oleous Property in which they stand in the bond of the highest Love-desire for their light shineth in the oyle and as the fire-world desireth the light-world and the light world the fire-world as Father and Son the like also is to be understood of the two Sexes 8. The Female is from the male as the tincture of the light and water is from the fire and they joyntly belong together in nature as one thus the one may not be without the other and they have a very Ardent Longing after each other for the Tincture of the light viz. Venus Tincture desireth the fires tincture and the fire the lights as its * * * Meekning pleasing delight 9. For Venus giveth Essence and the fire taketh the Essence to its life and yeeldeth out of the received Essence the light and in the fiery light the oyle and out of the oyle againe the water and Essence and hence it is that all creatures doe desire copulation each with its owne kinde and so they doe generate a third viz. an Assimulate according to two in one every Ens brings forth a Similitude according to it selfe 10. And we see very clearly that each Kinde is created out of a sundry Ens each out of a different degree and how each kinde liveth in its mother whence it hath taken its Originall and that it cannot live in another Degree as the Beasts upon the earth which are a limus of the earth and aire therein they live and thence they take their food and nourishment for the Fiat extracted them out of the Earths Property and amassed them in the fift manifestation of the Essence as a Sulphur of the fift Ens whereon the foure depend 11. The Birds were created in the Sulphur of the aire therefore they flye in their mother also the fishes in the Sulphur of the water and the wormes in the Sulphur of the Earth thus each thing liveth in its mother whence it was taken in the beginning and the contrary is its death 12. And the Essence and life of this time is nothing else but a Contemplation of the inward Spirituall world what the
Sunder it selfe into Properties both Spiritually and Substantially as is to be seen in this World whence also the manifold Salts doe arise which with the Creation came to be such Matter which in the Eternity was onely a Spirituall Essence but in the beginning of Time became Gross and hard 11. Also the manifold Spirits both good and evill doe originally spring from this Eternall root and likewise the manifold Stars with the foure Elements and all whatsoever liveth and moveth but the Separation in it selfe is thus to be understood when the blaze ariseth then out of the fire proceedeth the Severation the Fire-Flagrat is Consuming it apprehendeth the Conceived Essence both in the free Lubet and in the Austere impression and consumes it in a twinckling of an Eye for heere the Eternall Will which is an Abysse becomes manifest in the fire no Essence can subsist before it it devoureth all into it s Nothing 12. And heere is the Originall of the Eternall Death or devoration and in this Devoration is the highest Arcanum or Secret for the true essentiall lively Spirit and understanding proceedeth out of this devoration and maketh another Beginning for the first beginning is Gods who introduceth himselfe from the Abysse into Bysse to his owne Contemplation but this Beginning which proceedeth againe out of the devoration is a Spirituall Beginning and maketh three worlds namely 1. The darke fire-world in heat and cold a Rawnesse wholly Austere devoid of Essence 2. The other world is the Spirituall light or Angelicall world 3 And the third began with the beginning of time when God moved both the inward worlds he thence brought forth and created this outward visible world into a forme of time 13. Now the Separation in the fire of devoration is thus to be understood the Powers which the first impression made essentiall are in the fire reduced into a Spirituallnesse viz 1. From the free Lubet proceedeth forth a Spirituall Mysterium which is as to the Deity viz. the Eternall understanding Spirituall and it is the angelicall light and Life and also the reall humane Life and so of all whatsoever is like unto them for they are Powers of God therefore the Angells beare in them the Great Name of God and likewise all true men who have the divine Power 14. From the Essence of the free Lubet there proceedeth forth in the fire an oyly Power which is the body or Essence of the understanding therein the fire burneth and thence the shining Lustre or Glance ariseth Thirdly from the Understanding and Spirituall Oyle there proceedeth forth a moving Lubet like an Element and it is also the Divine Element 15. Fourthly out of the Element there proceedeth forth a watry Property and yet it iâ— onely to be understood Spiritually this is the water of which Christ said he would give us to drinke and whosoever should drinke thereof it should spring up in him to a fountaine of Eternall Life it is the water above the Firmament of which Moses speaketh that God hath separated from the externall waters under the Firmament This watry and Elementall Property proceedeth from the Essence of the Free Lubet which is conâ—umed in the Fire and the Word of the understanding which hath now manifested it selfe in the fire doth expresse these Powers from it selfe as a living and moving Essence and heerein the Angelicall world is understood 16. In the Separation which is from the dark Property there proceedeth forth through the Speaking Word in the Separation out of the fire viz. out of the Astringent harsh Impression 1. An hellish thirsty wrathfull Source being as another Principle or beginning of another Property which Source is wholly Rough like the cold or hard stones a minde which is horrible like to the fire-blaze 2 ly There proceedeth forth from this fiâ—ry Spirit from the darknesse an Oyle which is of a poysonfull Property for it is the Evill Mercurius arising from the Compunction in the anxious Astringency 17. 3 ly The Anguish likewise maketh a moving minde like the Element but altogether in an exceeding wrathfull very piercing Property in which the great fires might and will in the Anger of God or the wrath of God ariseth which Lucifer desired to be and to rule therein and therefore he is a Devill that is one spewed out of the Love-fire into the Darke fire 4 ly There proceedeth forth also from the wrathfull Property through the Devoration in the fire viz. from the first darke impression a watry Property but it is much rather a poysonfull Source in which the n n n Text the daâ—k life burneth life of darknesse consisteth 18. But my writing heere of the Oyle and water is thus to be understood in the enkindling of the fire in the Flagrat both in the Flagrat of Joy in the Ens of the free Lubet and in the Flagrat of the wrathfullnesse in the impression of the darke Spirituall Ens the Essence which the first desire hath Coagulated or amassed is Consumed in the fire-Flagrat that is it doth as t' were dye to it selfe-good and is taken into the Onely Spirit which heere hath manifested it selfe in the fire of the wrathfulnesse and in the light-fire of the Kingdome of Joy which Spirit doth now re-expresse it or breath it forth again out of it selfe as two Spirituall worlds 19. Understand it aright there proceedeth forth out of the fiery Property in the Spiration the vitall Source which according to the Free Lubet is holy and joyfull and according to the darknesse painfull and wrathfull the wrathfullnesse and painfull Source is the root of joy and the joy is the root of the enmity of the darke wrathfullnesse so that there is a contrarium whereby the good is made manifest and known that it is good 20. And the Mortifyed Essence in the fire which the first desire in the free Lubet hath Coagulated and made darke proceedeth forth through the Fires-mortification as a Spirituall Oyle which is the Property of the fire and light and from the mortification there proceedeth a water viz. a mortified Sencelesse Essence being a house of the oyle wherein the fire-Source or Spirit hath its vitall Region which oyle is the food of the fire Source which it draweth againe into it selfe and devoureth and thereby allayeth the fire-Source and introduceth it into the greatest meeknesse in which the life of the great Love ariseth viz. the good taste so that the fire-Source becometh an humility or meeknesse in the oyle through the mortification in the water-Source 21. For no fire-Spirit can be meeke without the mortification of its owne naturall Propriety or peculiar Essence but the water which before was an Essence amassed out of the free Lubet and yet mortified in the fire that can change the Essence of the fire into a meeke desire CHAP. V. Of the five Senses Love-fire ♀ Venus 1. THe fift Forme or Property is the Love-desire viz. the holy life or the displayed
he receiveth an Eteernall beginning in the will with the wills owne Conception 8. Now the will speaketh forth it selfe by the Conception out of it selfe as a Spiration or manifestation and this Egresse from the will in the Speaking or Spiration is the Spirit of the Deity or the third Person as the ancients have called it 9. And the Spirate is the wisdome viz. the Power of the Colours and the Vertue of the will which it Eternally conceiveth to a Lifes-Center or Heart for its habitation and doth again Eternally speake it forth out of the Conception as from its owne Eternall forme and yet eternally conceiveth or Comprehends it for his Hearts Centre 10. Thus the Conception of the will viz. of the Father is from Eternity to Eternity which conceiveth his Speaking Word from Eternity and speaks it forth from Eternity to Eternity the Speaking is the mouth of the wills manifestation and the Egress from the Speaking or Generation is the Spirit of the Formed Word and that which is spoken forth is the Power Colours and Vertue of the Deity viz. the Wisdome 11. Heere we cannot say with any ground that God is three Persons but he is threefold in his Eternall Generation he begetteth himselfe in Trinity and yet there is but onely one Essence and Generation to be understood in this Eternall Generation neither Father Son nor Spirit but the onely Eternall Life or Good 12. The Trinity is first rightly understood in his Eternall Manifestation where he manifesteth himselfe through the Eternall Nature through the Fire in the light 13. Where we understand three properties in one onely Essence viz. the Father with the fire-world and the Son with the Love-desire in the light viz. with the light-world or with the great Meeknesse in the fire and the holy Spirit with the moving life in the Tincture in the oyly and watry life and Dominion who is manifest in the fire and light viz. according to the Property of the free Lubet that is the Divine property he is manifest in a great fiery flame of light and Love and then according to the property of the darke fire-world in a wrathfull painefull Sourcive property and yet he is the onely one in the light he is the Love-fire-flame and in the enkindled fire in nature he is a Consuming fire according to which God is called a Consuming fire and in the darke wrathfull Source he is an angry zealous avenger in which property the Spirits of the darke world consist 14. The Father is onely called an holy God in the Son that is in the power of the light in the divine Kingdome of joy viz. in the great meeknesse and Love for that is his proper manifestation wherein he is called God in the fire he is called an angry God but in the light or Love-fire he is called the holy God and in the darke nature he is not called God 15. We must make distinction each world hath its Principle and Dominion indeed All is from one Eternall Originall but it severizeth it selfe into a twofold Source a Similitude whereof we have in the fire and light where the fire is painefull and Consuming and the light meeke and Giving and yet the one were a nothing without the other 16. The fire receiveth its Originall in nature but the light hath its Originall from the free Lubet viz. from the Powers of the Deity the will of God doth therefore introduce it selfe into a fire that he might manifest the light and the powers and introduce them into Essence 17. Albeit I have written heere of the formes of nature understand the etetnall nature yet it must not be understood as if the Deity were circumscribed or limited his wisdome and Power in divine property is devoid of limit or measure innumerable infinite and unspeakable I write onely of the properties how God hath manifested himselfe through the internall and externall nature which are the chiefest formes of his manifestation 18. These seven Properties are to be found in all things and he is void of understanding that denyeth it these seven properties make in the internall world the holy Element viz. the holy naturall life and motion but this onely Element severizeth it selfe in this externall world into foure manifest properties viz. into foure Elements and yet it is but one onely but divides it selfe into foure head-Springs viz. into fire aire water and earth 19. From the fire ariseth the aire and from the aire the water and from the water the earth or a Substance which is earthly and they are onely the manifestation of the one internall Element and are in t t t Or before respect to the internall as an enkindled smoake or vaprous steame so also the whole u u u Or Constellations Astrum is nothing else but Powers breathed forth from the inward fiery darke and light world from the Great Minde of Divine Manifestation and is onely a formed Modell or Platforme wherein the great minde of divine Manifestation beholds it selfe in a time and playeth with it selfe CHAP. VIII Of the Creation of Angells and their Dominion 1. THe Creation of Angells had a beginning but the Powers out of which they are created never had any beginning but were concomitant in the birth of the Eternall beginning not that x x x Viz. The Powers they are the holy Trinity or in the same but they were conceived of the desire of divine manifestation out of the Eternall darke fiery and light-nature out of the Manifested Word and introduced into creaturely formes and shapes 2. God who is a Spirit hath by and through his manifestation introduced himselfe into distinct Spirits which are the voices of his Eternall pregnant harmony in the Manifested Word of his Great Kingdome of joy they are Gods Instrument in which the Spirit of God melodizeth in his Kingdome of joy they are the flames of fire and light but in a living understanding Dominion 3. For the Powers of the Deity are in them in like manner as they are in men as John saith Chap. 1. the life of men was in the word so also the life of the angells was in the word from Eternity for Matth. 22. ver 30. it s written in the Resurrection they understand men are as the Angells of God in Heaven 4. And as we understand principall-formes in the divine manifestation through the Eternall nature so likewise we are to understand Arch-angells or Angelicall Principalities with many legions but especially in three Hierarchies according to the property of the holy Trinity and also the three Principles as cannot be denyed 5. As 1. One Hierarchy is to be understood according to the darke world with the Kingdome of Lucifer who hath plunged himselfe thereinto and the other is understood with the light fiery and darke world and the third is understood with the Mystery of the outward world wherewith the internall hath made it selfe manifest 6. Each Hierarchy hath its princely dominion and Order
things consist in the Assimulate Every thing may be introduced into its Assimulate and if it comes into its Assimulate it rejoyceth in its Property be it Good or Evill and beginneth effectually to worke as is to be seen both in Good and Evill 14. As for example let a man take downe a little poyson it will presently receive with great desire the poison in the body which before rested and therein strengthen it selfe and begin to worke powerfully and corrupt and destroy the Contrary viz. the Good and that now which the Evill is able to doe in its property that likewise the Good can doe in its property when it is freed from the wrath it may also introduce its Assimulate into the reall true joy 15. The Essence of this world consisteth in Evill and good and the one cannot be without the other but this is the greatest iniquity of this world that the Evill overpowreth the Good that the Anger is stronger therein then the Love and this by reason of the Sin of the devill and men who have disturbed nature by the false desire that it mightily and effectually worketh in the wrath as a poyson in the Body 16. Otherwise if nature in its formes did stand in the Property in Equall weight and in equall Concord and Harmony then one property were not manifest above the other heat and cold would be equally poyzed in the operation and qualification and then Paradise would be still upon the Earth and though it were not without man yet it would be in man if his properties were in equall weight number and measure if they did yet stand in the Temperature then he were incorruptible and immortall 17. This is the Death and misery of man and all creatures that the Properties are divided and each aspiring in it selfe and powerfully working and acting in its own will whence sicknesse and paine ariseth and all this is hence arisen when the one Element did manifest and put forth it selfe into foure properties then each property desired the Assimulate viz. an Essence out of and according to its selfe which the Astringent Fiat did impresse and Coagulate so that Earth and Stones were produced in the properties 18. But now we are to consider of the greatest Mystery of the outward world between the Elements and the Astrum the Elementall Spirit is severized from the Astrall Spirit and yet not parted asunder they dwell in each other as body and Soule but the one is not the other the Astrall Spirit make thits bodies as well as the Elementall and that in all Creatures in Animalls and Vegetables 19. All things of this world have a twofold body viz. an Elementall from the fire aire water and Earth and a Spirituall body from the Astrum and likewise a twofold Spirit viz. one Astrall the other Elementall 20. Man onely among all the Earthly Creatures hath a threefold body and Spirit for he hath also the internall Spirituall world in him which is likewise twofold viz. light and darknesse and also corporally and Spiritually this Spirit is the Soule but this body is from the water of the holy Element which dyed in Adam that is disappeared as to his life when the divine Power departed from him and would not dwell in the awaked vanity 21. Which holy body must be regenerated if his Spirit will see God otherwise he cannot see him except he be againe borne anew of the water of the holy Element in the Spirit of God who hath manifested himselfe in Christ with this same water-Source that his disappeared body may be made alive in the holy water and Spirit else he hath no sense nor sight in the holy life of God 22. This twofold outward body is now punctually to be pondered and considered of if we would understand nature and without this understanding let none call himselfe a master or Learned for in these bodies the dominion of all externall creatures and Essences is couched they oftentimes are contrary one unto another whence Sicknesse Corruption and death ariseth in the body that one severeth from the other 23. The Sydereall body is the highest excepting the divine in man the Elementall body is onely its Servant or dwelling-house as the foure Elements are onely a body or habitation of the dominion of the Stars 24. The Elementall Spirit and body is inanimate and void of understanding it hath onely Lust and desire in it vegetation is its right life for the aire hath no understanding without the Astrum the Astrum giveth the distinct understanding of the knowledge of all Essences in the Elements 25. But the inward light and power of the light giveth in man the right divine understanding but there is no right divine apprehension in the Sydereall Spirit for the Astrum hath another Principle the Sydereall body dwelleth in the Elementall as the light-world in the darknesse it is the true rationall life of all Creatures 26. The whole Astrum is nothing else but the externall expressed Word in the Sound it is the instrument whereby the holy Eternall Speaking Word Speaketh and formeth externally it is as a Great Harmony of unsearchable manifold Voices and Tunes of all manner of instruments which play and melodize before the holy God 27. For they are meere Powers which enter into and mutually embrace each other whence ariseth the Sound in the Essence and the desire viz. the Fiat receiveth this Sound and maketh it Substantiall this Substance is a Spirit of the Stars which the Elements receive into them and Coagulate it in them and hatch it as an Hen her Eggs whence the true rationall life is in the Elements and thus also the Sydereall Spirit is hatched and Coagulated in all Creatures 28. For the Male and Female doe mutually cast a Seed into one another which is onely a Sulphur of the Astrum and foure Elements afterward it is hatched in the Matrix and Coagulated to a living Spirit 29. And when the fire is enkindled in the Seed which is sowne in the Matrix the Spirit severs it selfe againe from the body as a Propriate as the light from the fire according to the right of the Eternall nature and two become manifest in one viz. a Spirituall body from the Astrum and a fleshly body from the foure Elements 30. And this Sydereall Spirit is the Soule of the great world which depends on Punctum Solis and receiveth its light and life from it as all the Stars doe take light and power from the Sun so likewise their Spirit 31. The Sun is the Centre of the Astrum and the Earth the Centre of the foure Elements they are to one another as spirit and body or as man and wife albeit the Astrum hath another wife where it hatcheth its Essence viz. the Moone which is the wife of all the Stars but especilly of the Sun I meane it in the Essence of operation 32. Not that we meane that the Astrum is wholly arisen from the Punctum of Sol in that I call
Element whence the foure were expressed and understand the outward man for the outward world with the Stars and foure Elements viz. fire aire water and Earth and also for the outward Tincture which is lincked with the inward in the holy expressed Word and is onely Severed by a Principle where also the inward putteth forth an externall life the inward is holy and the outward life or Principle in the Tincture were likewise holy if the Curse were not come into it by reason of the awaked vanity yet if the vanity be Severed * * * Or from by the Tincture then it is holy and a Paradise which shall open it selfe at the End of this world 14. And Moses saith further God breathed into man the breath of life and he became a living Soule this signifyeth the living Speaking understanding Spirit out of all the three Principles viz. out of the inward fire-world which is manifest through the darke world and out of the holy light-world and out of the outward Aeriall world this is the Soule 15. The inward fire-breath is the true Eternall Creaturall Soule and the Lights-breath is the true understanding Spirit of the soul wherein it is an Angell and the outward air-breath is the rationall Soule in the vegetative bestiall life wherewith man ruleth over all the Creatures of this world 16. As the onely understanding of the Abyssall unsearchable Deity hath manifested it selfe with three Principles so likewise he hath breathed in the true life out of all the three Principles into the Created Image the body is a limus of all beeings and the Soule is the expressed Word viz. the Power and understanding of all Essences viz. the manifestation of the divine Understanding 17. The Spirit of God hath inspired or given in it selfe from the properties of all the three Principles into the Created Image viz. the Father of all Essences hath breathed or spoken forth the Spirit out of all the three Principles through his Eternall Speaking Word out of the whole Essence of the Powers or as I might set it down he hath inspoken it viz. the Egressed Sound or expressed voice of the understanding which through the motion of God did Educe and manifest it self through the Eternall and Temporall nature the same Spirit God did again in Speake or as the Text in Moses hath it breath in to this onely Image for a Ruler of the body and all other Creatures 18. And the Soul in its reall life and understanding consists in three Kingdomes the first is the Eternall nature viz. the Potent might of Eternity the dark and fire-world according to which God calleth himself a strong zealous Angry God and a consuming fire in which the Devill hath wholly plunged and diabolized himself 19. The Second is the holy light-world where the Eternall understanding hath displayed it self through the fires-sharpness in the light of the great fiery Love-desire and turned the wrathfuâ—l dark and fiery property to a Kingdome of joy which is the true manifestation of the Deity and it s called the holy heaven of the Angelicall delight and blisse 20. The third Kingdome or world is the outward Astrall and Elementall Kingdome viz. the aire with its domineering Constellation wherein all the five outward Constellations rule viz. the Superiour and the inferiour of the foure Elements out of which constellation the five Senses take their Originall wherein the vegetable and reasonable life consisteth this is the animall or bestiall Soule which ruleth over all the creatures of this world so also over all the outward heavens or Constellations and over all the Earth or Essences of the outward world 21. Understand it thus the fire-breath out of the first Principle ruleth in its Originall viz. in its own mother whence the Spirit of God amassed or moulded it viz. in the Centre of the Eternall nature in the Might of the darke-and fire-world and it is the Cause of the light life and also of the air-fire if that were not none of the other would be neither 22. And the lights-breath ruleth in the Second Principle viz. in the holy Kingdome of the manifested Power of God which is the Mansion of the holy Spirit of God the Temple of God viz. in the heavenly holy Essence understand in the holy Spirituall body of the holy Pure Element which with its properties standeth in equall weight and measure as a fit prepared Instrument of the Spirit wherein he manifesteth Gods wonders out of the Eternall wisdome and introduceth them into the melody of joy viz. into the holy harmony of the Eternall Speaking Word of God into the divine Kingdome of joy viz. into the manifestation of the divine Powers in which the holy Spirit is the true Musician 23. And the air-Spirit hath dominion also in its mother whence it ruleth over the outward world over the figure and Similitude of the inward world viz. over the outward Mystery of time and manifesteth its mother which is brought forth out of Eternity into a time to the Contemplation of the Wonders of the wisdome of God 24. And yet they are not three Souls but onely one yet it standeth in three Principles viz. in the Kingdome of Gods Anger and in the Kingdome of Gods Love and in the Kingdome of this world and if this were not then it could not be said the soule went into heaven or hell if a a a Heaven or Hell they were not in it when the Air viz. the outward Kingdome of time doth leave it then is the Soule manifest either in the dark fire-Kingdome of God or in the holy Kingdome of light in the love-Love-fire of the Power of God whereunto it hath given up it selfe in this life-time therein it standeth when it foregoeth the outward life 25. And we are in no wise to thinke that the soule is God himsâ—lfe who is neither nature nor Creature also dwelling in nothing save onely in himselfe and yet dwelleth through all things and is neither fâ—r off or nigh unto any thing but b b b The soule it is the expressed Word the Formed Word it is the Spirit and the life of the three Principles of divine manifestation but if it were God then it were immoveable uncontrouleable and no judgement could passe upon it 26. But a judgement may passe upon it if it departeth out of that Order wherein God introduced it in the beginning if it goeth out of the divine harmony out of the Order of the manifested word of Gods Power if it doth manifest or produce another will in it selfe viz. other properties out of the Strong Might of the Eternall nature 27. The whole man with body and Soul is threefold and yet but one onely man the body is out of a threefold Essence and the Soul is out of a threefold property of the Spirit an example thereof you have in the fire light and aire the fire hath another property then the light and aire have the fiery body is the Eternall
grossness of all Essences of the Dark desire where the other six Properties alwayes became co-material as we may conceive of Metals and Powers good and bad The Air existeth from the motion of the Magnetick Impression The Water from the abruption breaking off of the Impression where Heat and Cold are in Strife the Fire of the spiritual fire The cold is Perceived in the Magnetick sharpness as in the right root to Fire Before the seven Properties above the Table standeth Ground of Nature distributed in the three first Forms And in the fourth and fift Form or propertie is divided the word Pure Element With the word Ground of Nature is understood the root of the 4. Elements The Pure Element is the â—quality in the Elements and is called the Quint-essence of the Elements as the Tinctur of the equality of Nature both are that occult Arcanum so much sought for as the four causes of Motion and Sensibility By the word Pure Element is understood the Temperature or the equalitie of Nature and the four Elements where the Light also is sensible Moving and Elemental Thus is understood how the Eternal Element as the motion of Divine Power is accuated by the ground of Nature and revealed in the Light where the pure Element is the motion of the inward Spiritual world and at the Creation of the world went forth into a Being and is understood of the fift Essence The word Paradise in the 6. and 7. Properties signifieth the spiritual work in the Lights Essence as a springing up or spiritual growth which at the beginning of the world sprung up through all the 4. Elements and out of the Earth formed it self into all manner of fruits and changed all the properties of wrathfulness into a Temperature But when those fierce properties with the 4. Elements were awakned by the alienated desire and false will in Adam and attain'd the Dominion then the Greening springing forth retyr'd back that is it remayned in the Tincture of the inward Ground and is yet in the 4. Elements but in the Inward Pure Element only and may not be attain'd but in the New-birth of the inner man and in the material Tincture wherein the Paradisical working is also manifest to our understanding This Table sheweth from whence all Essences or Beings in this world did arise and what the Creator is namely that the Creator hath been the divine power-world which the (b) Monas Unity as the Eternal will hath moved which will is God himself But the Separator or Divider Einheit God made first the Angelical light world which in this place after the Devills Apostacie separated into this external visible essâ—nce was the owt flown will in the spiritual world in such motion he issued out of himself and made him a subject for his working in which motion one subject issued out of another continually untill the external matter of the Earth through the divine motion was drawn into a Mass or Chaos and this drawing of the Motion standeth thus still all things therefore fall in the deep towards the Earth and that is the reason that all Power of motion even to this day and to the end of Time continueth so The seven Dayes and seven Planets signify the seven Properties of the spiritual world The three Principle in Spiritu Mundi as Sal Sulphur and Mercurius signifie the Trinity of the divine Revelation as an everlasting Spring or Fountain whereout all external Creatures are flown do flow and will flow even to the end of this time and therein the Separator with the 7 Properties is understood In this Table we see what proceeded from the 7 Properties and how the Spiritual power hath brought it self into a Material one as in the seven spaces downwards appears whereby we may understand whence Good and Evill sprung up in this World IV TABLE MICROCOSMUS In this Table MAN is held forth What he hath been in Paradise as also how the Properties in him without assuming Selfdefire equally stood in the Image of God and what he is become through Satan's Deceits what that Monster of the Serpent whereby he is become earthly and mortal is in him And then how Gods Word and LOVE came in to help him again new born in CHRIST daily destroying that Serpen tine Image also in what danger misery he standeth in such an Image either on the ground of Hell or Heaven Also a similitude of Divine Revelation and Knowledg in the seven Properties according to Time and Eternity formed out of all the Three Principles for a further understanding how he is wisely to regulate his Life and unto what driving impulsion he should yield himself Humane Ground before and after the FALL 1 T S 2 I OU 3 N L 4 C E S 5 T PIR 6 U IT 7 R BODY ♄ Saturday ☿ Wednsday ♂ Tuesday ☉ Sunday ♀ Friday ♃ Thursday ☽ Monday Adam in Paradise .... Erring sp Christ Desire ... Sharpness ... Gods word Motion ... Anger ... Life Sensibility ... Pain ... Acceptance Seeing ... Bitter woe ... Sweet Loving ... Hating ... Glorie Rejoycing ... Despair ... Power Heavenly flesh ... Passion ... Divine Essence Adam in Paradise ... Sathan ... Christ Similitude ... self-seeking ... Gods unity Out going Spirit ... Self-knowl .... Resignation Heating ... Self-will ... Suffering High ... Dominiering ... Yielding Humble Will ... Pride ... Desire Praising ... Reproaching ... Equality of Power Unity ... Folly ... Wisdom Adam in Paradise ... Sathan ... Christ Tasting ... Desire of division ... Baptism Thinking ... Lying ... Law Mind ... Anguish ... Breaking Understanding ... Doubting ... Hopeing Spirit ... Fall ... Humility Speaking ... Stinck ... Believing Evestrum of Nature ... Extruding ... Genius or Type Adam in Paradise ... Sathan ... Christ Strength ... Lord ... Humility Pentrating ... Potent ... Obedience Might ... Malice ... Mercy Holy ... Thirsty ... Forgiving Modest ... Wanton ... Going Powerfull ... Mad ... Generating Throne ... Self honor ... reverence Adam in Paradise ... Sathan ... Christ Angel ... Devill ... Christ Officious ... Perverse ... returning Mild ... Theevish mind ... repentance Friendly ... Murther ... New life Beauty ... Belial 's Whore ... Holy Vertue ... Poyson ... Restoring Diligent ... Earthly flesh ... Sophia Adam in Paradise ... Sathan ... Christ Heaven ... Hell or Perdition ... Christs Calling Child like ... Strife .... Teaching Secret .... Torment ... Dissolving Manifest ... Ever falling ... New-mind Singing ... Fantasie .... Rejoicing Sounding ... Changing ... Praying Paradise ... A Den of the Deep ... Springing An Explanation of the fourth Table MICROCOSMUS IN this Table Man is held forth as a similitude of the Three worlds What Man is in his Trinity as first according to Paradise Secondly according to the Spirit of Error Thirdly according to the New-birth which Christ reacheth and will have John 3. according to the Soul Spirit and Body What he hath been in the beginning according to his
Creation What he is become in the fall by the Spirit of Error and What he will be in the new birth through the Spirit of Christ which is a true Essential Image out of the three Principles of the Divine Revelation as from the outflown Word of the Divine will Man according to the Soul is an Eternal Nature of the firing quality as a spark out of the Center from whence the fire existeth If this ground cannot reach into the divine Light then is it a Darkness of the Magnetick attractive desiring power but if he reacheth out of the fire unto the light that his Magnetick desire feeds on the out-flown Unity of Gods Love the ariseth from that fire the good true Spirit even as light shineth out of a Candle These are now two Principles the Soul in the fire of Eternal Nature and the Spirit in the light of Divine Power But the Body is the third Principle as an Essence of the visible world from the Starrs and Elements formed into an Image out of the seven Properties of Nature The Soul hath the seven Properties of the inward Spiritual world N. B. The Difference between the Soul and the Spirit of the Soul which without God is but a dead Image according to Nature But the Spirit of the Soul is without these Properties for it standeth out of Nature in Gods unity but through the Souls firie Nature is manifested in the Soul for it is the true Image of God as an Idea in which God himself worketh and dwelleth so far as the Soul brings her desire into God and submits unto Gods Will if that be not done then is this Idea or Spirit of the Soul dumb and actless not working standing like an Image in a Looking-Glass which soon vanisheth and hath no being as it befell Adam in the Fall But if the Soul submits to God and bringeth its Magnetick hunger into Gods Love the Soul then attracteth divine Essence namely the Essential Wisedom of God then her Idea or Spirit becometh Essential in the Lights power and obtaineth a pious life as being then the true Temple of God wherein Gods Unity is revealed and operative But if the Soul herself with her desire bring in self-love and with her desire turn herself into the seven Properties to try them and feedeth on the vain delights of the seven Properties then she extolls herself and maketh to herself an (a) Evestrum is a continued Astral Influence in the 4. Elements and lâ—kewise an Astral Spirit in Man Evestrum as an Astrall Object which Evestrum presently hungreth after the vanity of the false delight even as it befell Lucifer and Adam where the Evestrum of Lucifer imagined it self into a Phantasie and the Evestrum of Adams Soul into the Animalish Properties of the External world whereby the Soul was poysoned and the Body out of the Earth's Limus was suddenly infected that the Animalish properties awakened in him and longed after Earthly Beastly sustenance as Heat Cold Sharp Bitter How the holy similitâ—â—â— of God in Man becamâ— quenched a monstroâ—â— Image assumed Sweet and Sour and with these Properties introduced it self into a springing fountain of such delights and so with the desire Fed on Good and Evill whereby the Image of God as the Idea became obscure and unactive Thus the true Spirit as the active Idea became dumb and dead even as an Image in a Looking-glass and so was the Soul cut of from God and stood in a Naturall will but Gods will in the Spirit worked work'd no more and the will of the Evestrum as the Opposite Image of the dark eternal world began to work for the holy Genius was changed At the head of this Table standeth TINCTUR divided into the seveâ—â—â— Properties which signifieth the Equalitie of the seven Properties according to the Soul Body that in the first man before the fall the properties or inclination to separation (b) Acceptabilitie Annehmligkeit and Acceptation stood in a like will and all its desires were brought into God Unitie thus were they the true Paradise for the Essential Spirit with the Unity of God was revealed in them who were to work through Gods love in all things But the Devill envied them and with his false Lust deceived the seven Properties of life and perswaded them it would be good for them and they should become wise if the Properties each one according to its kinde would introduce themselves into self-Acceptance then should the Spirit tast and know what was Good and Evill but then it could not subsist in Gods Unity of that he told them nothing But no sooner had they brought themselves in their own lusts than such a strife and contention awakned in them thaâ—â—ll the Properties began to be formed in their self-hood Thus the Unity as the Element was broken or divided and the four Elements strove for predominance whereupon suddenly from without fell in the Inequality as Heat and Cold and the Astral division working in the Body and Gods wrath according to the Dark worlds propertie in the Soul which caused in them according to the Soul Thus was our Nature first corrupted which ground was never before so plainly discovered Horror Anguish Necessity and Eternal despair and in the Body arose Heat Cold Woes Sickness and a Mortal life Thus Gods Image the whole man fell from his Ordinance and became a disguised monster and the awakened Properties presently began to set up their Government with Envying Murthering Raging Tearing and Tormenting Love was changed into Pride and self-love Desire into Covetousness Sensibility into Envy and the lifes fire into wrath Thus was the Hellish foundation in the whole Man revealed and ruled both in Soul Body Now this Hellish Foundation is the Spirit of Errour for which man must have been damned had not the Divine mercy the Serpent-treader aâ— the efflux of Gods love after the fall been presently (c) Origin is in-spoken promised to the New birth in the Holy Name Jesus Which holy Name hath in meer mercy and great humility for mans soul body given it self forth assumed humanity broken the power of the diabolical Spirit of Error killed the lives self-will brought again the Properties into Gods Unity There the true Spirit as the human Idea and Gods Image is renewed again and filled with the Divine Love-Essence And thus the human Soul through Christs Soul and Spirit in that love and divine Essence hath again attain'd an open Gate unto God Thus in this Table is held forth or drawn to the life what Adam hath been what through the Fall he is become and how he is again Redeemed and what is his New-birth out of Christ Spirit And these are delineated in the seven Properties under the Word TINCTUR Souls ground 1 2 3. first Princip Souls Spirit out of God 4 5 6. second Princip the 〈◊〉 7. 〈◊〉 now â—â—â—thly In which Properties the Soul hath its Center and in which the Spirit and in which the Body have their Centers also of which the Reader may further consider for under them stand the seven Dayes of the week intimating that Man is even the same This Table sheweth what Man is internally and externally first according to the good Adam and then according to the corrupted Adam and also what he is again in Christ. Whereby we may understand how Evill and Good is man and whence exist the Propertie of good and evill both in the mind and senses By the word Sathan signifying the Spirit of Errour is not understood a Creaturely-Devill but the Spring or fountain of the Spirit of Error And by the word Christ is understood the New-Man according to the internal in the Spirit of Christ. The other spaces are understood as in the other Tables wherein is understood the cause of mutation FINIS
light-fire which is awakened or raised up in the wrathfull Consuming fire that is it receiveth its lustre and shine from the fire a similitude whereof we have in all outward fires where we see that the light ariseth in the fire but yet hath far nother Source then the fire for the fire is painfull but the light is meeke pleasant Lovely and yeeldeth Essence 2. The Fire causeth light and aire and out of the aire cometh the water by reason of the meekness of the light for the Lubet to the fire is mortified in the fire-blaze and so that which is mortified in the fire is a meeke Essence yet it s only a Spirit but when it proceedeth from the fire in the light it Coagulateth and is the death of the fire whereby the fire goeth out but if it be of a spirituall nature it is the food and refreshment of the fire and we see plainely that every burning fire putteth forth an aire and out of the aire a water which aire and watry Spirit the fire draweth againe into it selfe for its owne life and lustre else if it cannot have it it is soone extinct and goeth out that is it smothers for the aire is its life and yet it begetteth the aire 3. Thus likewise we are to consider of the divine Beeing how the Eternall Understanding of the Abysse introduceth it selfe into the Bysse and Essence viz. into an Eternall Generation and Devoration wherein the manifestation of the Abysse consists and is an Eternall Love-play that the Abysse doth so wrestle sport and play with it selfe in its owne conceived or amassed Bysse it gives it selfe into the something and againe takes the something into it selfe and thence brings or gives forth another thing it introduceth it selfe into a Lubet and desire moreover into Power Strength and Vertue and mutually produceth one degree from the other and through the other that so it might be an Eternall Play and Melody in it selfe 4. And this we are to consider of in the fifth Forme of Nature when the Powers of the Eternall Word or understanding are made manifest through the Eternall spirituall fire in the Eternall light of the Majesty that each Power or property is manifest in it self and entreth into a Feeling Tasting Smelling Hearing Seeing Essence which is effected through the fire where all things become Spritfull quick and full of life even then one Property entreth mutually into another for they are all proceeded out of one viz. out of the free Lubet therefore also this free Lubet is yet in all and they all joyntly desire to enter again into this free Lubet viz. into the One and there when one tasteth smelleth feeleth heareth and seeth the other in the Essence they doe embrace each other in their holy Conjunction wherein then the reall divine Kindome of joy consisteth so likewise the growing and flourishing life of this world as may be understood by way of Similitude in the Seven Properties and the light and power of the Sun 5. The divine Kingdome of joy in the Heaven of God viz. in God manifested in his Expressed or Spirated Essence as I might speake it to the understanding consisteth in the Love-desire viz. in the Power which hath manifested it selfe through the fire in the light for the fire giveth unto the meeke free Lubet Essence and Source that it is Severized and moved and becomes a Kingdome of joy 6. And thus we are to consider of the darknesse whatsoever is a desiring Love in the light wherein all things rejoyce and melodize in Love that in the darknesse is an enmity for the fire is cold and burning hot in the darknesse moreover bitter astringent Compunctive the Properties are wholly rigorous and full of enmity and opposition they seeke not the One but onely the advancement of their own might and the greater their Elevation and inflammation is the Greater is the o o o The Kingdome of joy joy in the light 7. That which is good and holy in the p p p Or light of power powerfull light that in the darknesse is anxious and adverse the darknesse is the greatest enmity of the light and yet it is the cause that the light is manifest for if there were no Black then white could not be manifest to it selfe and if there were no Sorrow then joy were also not manifest to it selfe 8. Thus the joy doth triumph in it selfe that it is not as the Sorrow and the Sorrow triumpheth in it selfe that it is a Might and strength of the fire and light hence arise Pride and Selfe-will because the darke fires Might giveth the Essence and motive Source to the light which did so affect and move King Lucifer that he exalted himselfe in the roote of the fire to rule and domineere over the fire and light and therefore was cast out of the light into darknesse and the light withdrew from him 9. Therefore understand us well heere what Hell and the darke world or the Anger of God is of which the holy Scripture speaketh plainly that there is an hell that is a Gulfe of Desperation or pitt devoid of the hope of God and all good now we are not to understand it to be any locall Place apart but it is the first ground to the Eternall Nature the place is between the Kingdome of God and this world and maketh a peculiar Principle dwelling in it selfe and hath neither place nor locall abode and is every where but inhabiting it selfe onely and yet it giveth Essence to the light-and outward-world that is it is the Cause to the Source viz. the Fire and is the whole Beeing of all Gods Beeings 10. In the darknesse he is an Angry zealous God and in the fire-Spirit a Consuming fire and in the light he is a mercifull Loving God and in the Power of the light he is especially above all other Properties called God and yet 't is all but God manifested who manifesteth himselfe through the Eternall Nature in ingredient Properties else if I would say what God is in his Depth then I must say that he is wholly without Nature and Properties being an understanding and Originall of all Beeings the Beeings are his manifestation and thereof we have onely Ability to write and not of the unmanifested God who also were not known to himselfe without his manifestation The Originall of Life ♃ Jupiter 11. THe sixt Property of Nature and of all beeings ariseth also out of all the rest and is manifest in the fire through the light in the Love-desire it is Natures understanding voyce Sound speech and all whatsoever soundeth both in things with life and without life its true Originall is from the Astringent desire or impression of the first second and third Forme whence the motion and hardnesse ariseth the Essence of the Coagulation is Consumed in the fire and from the Devoration there proceedeth such a spirit both according to the property of the light in the Love and
it selfe to a body viz. a root or the like from which roote there groweth forth in this hungry desire such a body or hearb as the first Power was thus likewise the manifested Powers of God doe forme themselves into an externall Degree viz. into an Essence or Corporallity to speake in reference to the Spirit whereas we must onely understand a Spirituall Essence but yet Corporeall or Essentiall in reference to the Spirit of the Powers as the water is a thicker substance then the Ayre for the ayre penetrates the water the like is to be understood concerning the divine Powers and Essence 5. The Powers stand manifest in an oyly Property but the oyly is manifest in a watry Property therefore the Essence of the divine Powers consisteth in a Spirituall water viz. in the holy Element whence this world with the foure Elements as a degree more externall was brought forth and created into a Substantiall Forme 6. And in this holy Element or Spirituall water we doe understand holy Paradise in which the manifested Powers of God doe work which holy Element in the beginning of this outward world did Penetrate and pullulate through the foure Elements in which Power there grew such fruit wherein the vanity of the wrath was not manifest which man negligently lost so that the lively buddings of the holy Element through the foure Elements and the Earth did cease for the Curse of vanity was manifest and did effectually worke and spring forth out of the earth 7. Thus by the seventh Forme of the Eternall Nature we understand the Eternall Kingdome of Heaven wherein the Power of God is Essentiall which Essence is tinctured by the Lustre and Power of the fire and light for the Lustre of the Spirituall fire and light is the working life in the Spirituall water viz. in the holy Element for this water being the amassed or congealed Essence of the divine Powers is moving but yet it is as an Essence voide of understanding in reference to the divine Powers for it is a degree more externall as every Substance or body is inferiour to the Spirit the oyly Essence is the Spirit of the water viz. of the watry Spirit and the manifested Powers of God are the Spirit of the oyle or oyly Spirit and the Eternall Vnderstanding of the Word is the beginning of the manifested Powers and one degree goeth forth mutually from another and All r r r Or Beeings or all the Universall created Substance is onely God revealed God manifested God expressed Essence is nothing else but the manifested God 8. When we consider what kinde of life Motion and Dominion was before the times of this outward world in the place of this world and what Eternity is then we finde that it was and is unto Eternity such a life motion and Dominion as is above mentioned 9. The outward world with the foure Elements and Stars is a Figure of the internall Powers of the Spirituall world and was expressed or breathed forth by the motion of God when he moved the internall Spirituall world and amassed by the divine desire of the inward Powers and introduced into a creaturall Beeing both out of the internall spirituall dark-world and also out of the holy light-world 10. This outward world is as a smoake or vaprous steame of the fire-Spirit and water-Spirit breathed forth both out of the holy and then also out of the dark world and therefore it is evill and good and consists in Love and anger and is onely as a smoke or misty exhalation in reference and respect to the spirituall world and hath againe introduced it selfe with its Properties into formes of the Powers to a Pregnatresse as is to be seen in the Stars Elements and creatures and likewise in the growing Trees and hearbs it maketh in it selfe with its birth another Principle or beginning for the Pregnatresse of time is a Modell or plat-forme of the Eternall Pregnatresse and time coucheth in Eternity and it is nothing else but that the Eternity in its wonderfull birth and manifestation in its Powers and strength doth thus behold it selfe in a forme or Time 11. And now as we doe acknowledge that in the Spirituall holy world there is an Essence viz. a comprehensive Essence which consisteth in the Spirituall Sulphur Mercurius and Sal in an oyly and watry Bysse wherein the divine Powers play and worke so likewise in the darke world there is such a Property but altogether adverse odious opposite spitefull envious bitter and compunctive it hath also Essence s s s Or of according to its desire but altogether of a fell raw indigested watry Nature wholly sharp and harsh like to the Property of the rough hard stones or wild earth of a cold and scorching dark and fiery Property all which is a contrarium to Love that so it might be knowne what Love or Sorrow is 12. That the fullness of joy might know it selfe in it selfe the Keen Tartnesse of the Source must be a cause of the joy and the darknesse a manifestation of the light that so the light might be manifestly known which could not be in the ONE 13. But to answer the Readers desire briefly and fully concerning the seven Properties of the Eternall nature which make three Principles or worlds I will out of Love for the sake of the simple yet once more set downe the formes in briefe as an A. B. C. for his further Consideration and meditation I. Forme Astringent Desire 14. LO the Desire of the Eternall Word which is good is the beginning of the Eternall Nature and is the Congealing of the Eternall Nothing into Something it is the Cause of Essences also of cold and heat so likewise of the water and aire and the formation of the Powers and a cause of the taste a mother of all Salts II. Forme bitter Compunctive 15. THe motion of the Desire viz. the attraction is the other Forme of Nature a cause of all life and Stirring so also of the Senses and distinction III. Forme Anguish Perceivance 16. THe Anguish viz. the Sensibility is the the third Forme a Cause of the Minde wherein the Senses are moved and acted IV. Fire Spirit Reason Desire 17. THe fire is a cause of the true Spirituall life wherein the holy Powers of the free Lubet are delivered from the Astringent undigested roughnesse for the fire in its Essence devoureth the darke Substance of the Impression and works it forth out of it selfe out of the light into Spirituall Powers V. Forme Light Love 18. THe holy Spirituall Love-desire where the holy will of God hath exacuated it selfe in the harsh impression and manifested it selfe through the fire with the Power of the Omnipotence that now brings it selfe forth through the fire in the light and so in the Powers it is introduced into life and motion in the desire and herein the Holy Generation and the Triumphant Kingdome of the great Love of God doth consist and is
the Spirit of the Grossenesse is in the poysonfull life in which Lucifer is a Prince of this World 31. But the heavenly part holds the grossenesse and poysonfull Source captive so that the Devill is the poorest Creature in the Essence of this world and hath nothing in this world for his owne possession save what he can cheat from the living Creatures which have an Eternall beeing that they enter with the desire into the wrath of the Eternall viz. consent unto his jugling Incantations 32. If we would rightly consider the Creation then we need no more then a divine light and Contemplation it is very easie unto the illuminated minde and may very well be searched out let a man but consider the degrees of nature and he seeth it very clearly in the Sun Stars and Elements the Stars are nothing else but a crystalline water-spirit yet not a materiall water but Powers of the Salnitrall Flagrat in the fire 33. For their Orbe wherein they stand is fiery that is a Salnitrall fire a Property of the Matter of the Earth metalls trees hearbs and the three Elements fire aire and water what the Superiour is that is also the inferiour and that which I finde in the Compaction of the Earth that is likewise in the * * * Or Constellation Astrum and they belong both together as body and Soule 34. The * * * Or Constellation Astrum betokeneth the Spirit and the Earth the Body before the Creation all was mutually in each other in the Eternall Generation but in no Coagulation or Creature but as a Powerfull wrestling Love-play without any such Materiall Substance 35. But it was enkindled in the Motion of the word viz. the Verbum Fiat and therewith the inflammation in the Sal-nitrall Flagrat each Property did divide it selfe in it selfe and was amassed by the awakened Astringent impression viz. the first forme of Nature which is called the Fiat and so each became Coagulated in its Property the Subtle in its Property and the gross in its Property all according to the Degrees as the Eternall Generation of Nature derives it selfe from the unity into an infinite multiplicity 36. Good and Evill is manifest in the * * * Or Constellation Astrum for the wrathfull fiery Power of the Eternall nature so also the power of the holy Spirituall world is manifest in the Stars as an essentiall Spiration and therfore there are many obscure Stars all which we see not and many light Stars which we see 37. We have a likenesse of this in the matter of the Earrh which is so manifold whence divers sorts of fruit grow viz. according to the Properties of the Superiour Sphears for so is the Earth likewise being the grossest Substance where the mortall water is Coagulated 38. The Earth was Coagulated in the Seventh forme of Nature viz. in the Essence for it is that same Essence which the other six Properties doe make in their desire it chiefly consisteth in seven Properties as is above mentioned but the unfoldment or various explication of the Properties is effected in the Salnitrall fire where each Property doth againe explicate it selfe into seven where the Infinitenesse and great q q q Or Potency possibility ariseth that of one thing another can be made which it was not in the beginning 39. The Beeing of all Beeings is onely a Magicall birth deriving it selfe out of one onely into an infinitenesse the one is God the infinite is time and Eternity and a manifestation of the One where each thing may be reduced out of one into many and againe out of many into one 40. The Fire is the chiefe workmaster thereunto which putteth forth from a small Power a little Sprout out of the earth and displayeth it into a great Tree with many boughes branches and fruits and doth againe consume it and reduceth it againe to one thing viz. to ashes and Earth whence it first proceeded and so also all things of this world doe enter againe into the One whence they came 41. The Essence of this world may easily be searched out but the Centre or Point of motion will remaine darke unto reason unlesse there be another light in it it supposeth that it hath it in the r r r Or Mathematically describe and demonstrate it Circle and can measure it but it hath it not in the understanding 42. When we consider the Hierarchy and the Kingly Dominion in all the Three Principles in the place of this world so far as the Verbum Fiat reached forth it selfe to the Creation of the outward world with the Stars and Elements then we have the ground of the s s s Centrall fire or radicall heat the Point of motion the vertue of the light Punctum and the Royall Throne of which the whole Creation is but a Member 43. For the Stars and foure Elements and all whatever is bred and Engendred out of them and live therein doth hang or appertaine unto one punctum where the divine Power hath manifested it selfe from it selfe in a forme and this Punctum standeth in three Principles viz. in three worlds nothing can live in this world without this Punctum it is the onely Cause of the life and motion of all the Powers and without it all would be in the t t t Or Eternall Silence Stillnesse without motion 44. For if there were no light then the Elements would be unmoveable all would be an Astringent harsh Property wholly raw and cold the fire would remaine coucht in the cold and the water would be onely a keen Spirit like to the property of the Stars and the aire would be hid in the water-Source in the Sulphur and be a still unmoving Essence 45. We see in very deed that the light is the onely Cause of all Stirring Motion and life for every life desireth the power of the light viz. the disclosed Punctum and yet the life is not the Punctum but the forme of Nature and if this Punctum did not stand open then the Kingdome of darknesse would be manifest in the place of this world in which place of wrath Lucifer is a Prince and possesseth the Princely throne in the wrath of the Eternall Nature in the place of this world 46. Therefore oh man consider with thy selfe where thou art at home viz. on one u u u Viz. As to thy body and outward carkasse of clay thou art a guest for a while in this outward world travelling in the vanity of time part in the Stars and foure Elements and on the other x x x Viz. As to thy soule in its own selfe and creaturall beeing without the divine light or re-generation in the Abysse of Hell part in the darke world among the Devills and as to the third y y y As to thy divine Image and Spirit of Love in the Eternall light part in the Divine power in heaven that Property which is master in thee
was opened out of the Anguish in the outward worlds Property and yet there is no anguish to be understood untill the fire but onely a sencelesse forth-driving life viz. a growth for the fire-blaze ariseth out of the anguish viz. out of the third forme of nature and this is the Salnitrall Flagrat which Severizeth the Powers in the Properties which was moved in the third dayes worke where the Properties opened themselves and were mutually unfolded in the Salnitrall Flagrat each out of it selfe which the Impression did againe receive into it selfe and made them Corporeall in the water and thence arose and proceeded trees hearbs and grasse each Property became g g g Or putting or budding forth excressive in the Salniter and did manifest it selfe with fruit as we see plainely how the Property of the darke world did mightily force it selfe along in the outward Power whereupon some hearbs and plants are so venemous and malignant for the Earth proceeded out of both the inward worlds into a Compaction 37. Now Mars on Tuesday hath the first houre of the day in * dominion which day is the third in the Creation and this Salnitrall fire flagrat is even the Property of Mars as he is wrathfull and fiery so is likewise this Property in the Sulphur where we then doe understand the Salnitrall flagrat for the poysonfull Mars which is the Cause of motion and Stirring and the Compunction in the first Impression in the Eternall nature viz. in the darke world 38. In the third dayes worke God moved the third Property of nature viz. the Sulphrous Source in which the fire Enkindled and in the fire Flagrat is the division of the powers where each Property became manifest in it selfe now when God said Let the Earth bring forth grasse hearb and trees that is nothing else but that when he moved the expressed Word of the Powers in the properties the properties found and felt the light of nature in them whereupon they became hungry and were impressed that is amassed and Compacted or Coagulated now when as the light of nature found it selfe in a Perceivance and the nature did feele it selfe in the sweet light thereby arose in the Coagulation the dominion of joy viz. the pullulation and growth for all growth consisteth in the light and water when the light penetrateth the Sulphur and water-Source then Mars springeth up for great joy in the Sulphur 39. This Opening began on the third day and continueth unto the End of the world on the first day the Earth was desolate and voide for the * * * Or Ability Possibility to the growth was not yet opened heere the earth was moved and the Properties opened and not onely the Earth but the whole deep in the Centre of the outward nature the inward nature made it selfe externall and yet remained also internall CHAP. XIII Of the Creation of the fourth Day 1. THe fourth day Mercurius hath the first houre of the day who causeth the Sensitive life heere we understand very fully and exactly the ground of the manifestation of the inward nature into the externall for on the fourth day the Sun and Stars were created which are the right Mercuriall life heere the fires property opened it selfe in the Sulphrous Source through the water and the fift Essence became manifest through the light of nature which is a Mercurius Salnitri an incentive Mercurius a quick perceptive Mercurius 2. In the third forme of nature there is a Sencelesse life in Sulphur and Mercurius but in the fourth there is a feeling life for the Properties are made painefull in the fire and in the oleous life they become meeke pleasant and full of joy therefore now the motion in the oyly is feeling from the painefullnesse 3. Heere we now understand very fundamentally how the Separation in the fire of the Eternall nature hath manifested it selfe in the Essence of the outward world with forme and shape for in the Enkindling of the fire in the Salnitrall Flagrat two Essences doe Severize viz. one watry from the Devoration in the fire where the fire devoureth the rough harsh Source of the Impression in it selfe then out of the Consuming there proceedeth a great Meeknesse which is mortified to the fire and is unsensible and giveth the water-Source 4. Secondly the fire-Source doth sever it selfe likewise into its Principle viz. the properties to the fire-Source which now with the Enkindling of the fire are full of paine and sence this fire-Source could not subsist unlesse it did againe devoure or take the water into it selfe whereby it doth strengthen it selfe whence also the Salnitrall Flagrat ariseth where the wrath is dismayed at the Essence of the waters meeknesse whence the feeling so also the Lustre of the fire ariseth 5. For that water which is devoured in the fire is dissolved into a Spirituall oyle in which the fire shineth and out of the oyle proceedeth the Aire viz. the moving Spirit of the fire which is motive in the fire 6. The Aire is nothing else but the moving life where the Speaking Word doth diffuse it selfe in the water-Source through nature through the powers of nature through the fire in the oyle of the nature of the light it is the fires life but it is mortified to the fire and yet it is made manifest by the fire it is the life of nature according to the property of meeknesse 7. Thus h h h Or by or with in the enkindling of the fire in the light of the fire which is the light of nature foure Properties are to be understood viz. a fiery an airy and an oyly wherein the light is manifest and a watry all which doe originally spring forth out of the first desire to nature in that the free Lubet introduceth it selfe into a desire and nature and they all display themselves through the fire into a moving life and yet there is no intellective life but onely Properties to the true life the intellectuall life is the Spirated Word which manifesteth it selfe through the properties these properties are impressed in the CreaT that is in the Verbum Fiat and brought into an Essentiality wherefrom is come a Sulphur Salnitri that is a Magicall Astrum in manner and mode as the Minde of man is which also hath thence its Reall Originall 8. This Salnitrall and Sulphureous property was brought forth out of the third dayes worke viz. out of the fire flagrat and thence the fourth motion is arisen viz. the Mercuriall which the Fiat hath amassed and impressed it into it and made it visible which are the Starres which are nothing else but properties of the powers of nature whatsoever narure is in a little Sparke in it selfe that the whole Astrum is in its Circle and what nature is in its hiddennesse and Secretnesse the same the Astrum is in an open working life understand it thus 9. Each Star hath the property of all Stars in it but hidden in
Constellation viz. the Magicall Constellation the Great Mystery out of which the outward Constellation was produced and brought into a creaturall Beeing 28. The fire-Spirit viz. the fiery Soul dwelleth in the fiery Spirituall body And in the lights body which is from the holy Element viz. from the true heavenly Image which consisteth in a Spirituall Sulphur Mercurius and Sal dwelleth the holy Soule viz. the true Spirit of the soul which is of a Temple of God and in the outward Body which is a limus of the Earth and the other Elements viz. in the outward Constellation of the five Sences the outward Soule viz. the reall Spirit of the outward world doth dwell 29. Each Property of the Soule hath a Corporeall property in it self which may be called an heaven viz. a Sundry Speciall Magicall Astrum As the fiery Property of the soul hath a body from the inward Constellation of the darke and fire-world which is a Spirituall Body 30. And the c c c Or light Lucid Property of the Soul hath a spirituall oleous and watry Body wherein the two properties of the highest Tincture of the fire and light doth open the Lustre and beauty of the Colours wonders and vertue of the divine wisdome this water is the water above the Firmament of which Moses speaketh and this oyle is the holy Oyle of the divine Powers and this was a usuall Type in the old Testament in that the reall oyly body of the heavenly property did disappeare in Adam in the awaked vanity God ordained the Type of the new Regeneration with an unction of Oyl wherein he powerfully wrought through the promised Covenant as in a Type 31. The Third outward Property of the Soul hath likewise every way such a body of many Constellations in it as the inward properties all which multiplicity of properties may be called heavens for each property of the outward body hath a Magicall Constellation as there is a body of the Sulphurean Constellation of the Earth also a Body or Constellation of the Mercuriall poysonfull life also a body of the Salt-Powers of Bodies also a body of the soul of the outward world viz. of the upper Created Constellation all according as the outward Powers of the outward soul are thus each Power hath a Corporeall property in it and thus also the inward Powers of the Spirituall Property are to be understood with the inward body CHAP. XVI Of the difference of the Heavenly and Earthly Man 1. WHen we consider the Image of God which God created in Paradise unto the Eternall uncorruptible life then we can in no wise say of the grosse fleshy Image that the grosse property of the earthlinesse is the Image of God which can possesse the holy world for it is not of the same Essence and Ens whereof also Christ speaketh John 6. The Spirit is life the flesh profiteth nothing also flesh and bloud shall not inherit the Kingdome of Heaven and yet verily the true Body is coucht in this bestiall grosse property as the Gold in the Oare 2. All that is Earthly on man that is bestiall and corruptible and not man Albeit God created Man an externall body out of the limus of the Earth yet it is not to be considered of us as now it is for the true humane Body according to the inward world is a Spirituall Sulphur a Spirituall Mercurius and a Spirituall Sal each property of the Soul hath a Coporeall or Essentiall quality on it 3. God created such a Body as the Soul was in its Essence viz. in the Spirated Word of the understanding and breathed the Soule thereinto for the Understanding also the outward Sulphurean body is in no wise the Grosse Beast which passeth away and returneth not againe the true reall body which is hidden in the Grosseness is a spirituall body in comparison to the Grossenesse it is created in deed in flesh and bloud but in a fixed stedfast uncorruptible flesh and bloud 4. By the Lust and Imagination of Adam the Grosseness was manifest the True outward body is a Sulphureous Mercuriall and Saltish Property a pure Essentiall Power according to the nature of the Soul That which the Soule is in the Spirit the same is the true humane body in the Essence as a mansion of the Soul 5. All the Properties of the inward holy Body together with the outward were in the first man composed in an equall harmony none lived in selfe-desire but they all gave up their desire unto the Soul in which the divine light was manifest as in the holy heaven the light shone through all the Properties and made an equall Temperature in the properties all the properties gave their desire into the light viz. into the manifested sweetness of God which penetrated all the properties in which Penetration they were all Tinctured with the Sweet Love so that there was nothing but meer pleasing relish Love-desire and delight betwixt them 6. The inward holy Corporallity * * * Of. from the pure Element penetrated through the foure Elements and held the limus of the Earth viz. the outward Sulphureous body as it were swallowed up in it selfe and it was really there but in manner as the darkness dwelleth in the light and yet its darknesse cannot be manifest for the light but if the light extinguisheth then the darknesse is manifest 7. Thus the inward man held the Outward captive in it selfe and penetrated it as a fire through-heats an Iron that it seemes as if it were all fire but when the fire goeth out then the dark swart Iron is manifest 8. Thus likewise was the first man when he stood in Paradise in his fixed condition in manner as time is before God and God in the time and they are distinct but not parted asunder as the time is a play before God so also the outward life of man was a play * * * Before unto the inward holy man which was the reall Image of God 9. The outward Spirit and Body was unto the inward as a wonder of divine manifestation according to the fire-darke-and light world a mirror of the Great Omnipotence and Omniscience of God and the inward was given unto it for a Ruler and Guide 10. As God playeth with the time of this outward world so likewise the inward divine man should play with the outward in the manifested wonders of God in this world and open the divine wisdome in all Creatures each according to his Property so likewise in the Earth in stones and metalls in which also there is a twofold Essence viz. one from the originall of the fire-dark-world and one of the Originall of the holy-light-world 11. All this was given him for his play he had the knowledge of all Tinctures all was subject to him he ruled in heaven and earth and over all the Elements so also over all the Constellations and that because the divine Power was manifest in him no heat nor cold
Word where he educeth himself through the fire in the light in the love-desire viz. in the holy Fiat and resteth Eternally with his manifested Word therein his Rest therein is a Dominion of joy where the Anguish-Source of Gods wrath of the Eternall nature is changed into a divine Kingdome of joy 25. And this Rest is the holy heaven in the Naturall heaven where time worketh in it self and setteth forth its operate for the day of Rest viz. the day of Separation where at the end of the dayes of this world the evill shall be Separated from the good and each thing shall possess its owne heaven viz. the property of its originall or sourcive Spirit whence it was Generated 26. But in this time Gods Love and Anger must mutually work in one another and manifest the Wonders of God both according to the fire and light world and the Verbum Domini resteth in the Seventh manifestation of the properties and shineth with its i i i And vertue power into the operation of the Six dayes viz. into the six properties and affordeth ayd and help to every life 27. In the seventh property all things are brought into their End viz. into the first day of the beginning of all Essences for the Seventh day viz. the Seventh property of the Eternall nature is the transparent Glassy Sea before the throne of the Ancient in the Revelation whence as out of k k k Ex Mysterio Magno the Grand Mystery this world was created into sundry Peculiar heavens and formes and Formed in the Verbum Fiat the Seventh day was from Eternity without and beyond all Time for it is the Formed Word of the Divine understanding in it the Eternall wisdome of God is manifest viz. the Powers and Wonders of the divine understanding in which the Deity worketh CHAP. XVII Of Paradise 1. MOses saith that when God had made man that he planted a Garden in Eden and there he put man to till and keep the same and caused all manner of fruits to grow pleasant for the Sight and good for food and planted the Tree of Life also and the Treee of knowledge of good and evill in the midst 2. Heere lyeth the vaile before the face of Moses in that he had a bright shining Countenance that Sinfull Israell cannot look him in the face for the man of vanity is not worthy to know what Paradise is and albeit it be given us to know it according to the hidden man yet by this description we shall remaine as dumb to the Beast but yet be sufficiently understood by our fellow-schollars 3. The Garden Eden was a place upon the Earth where man was Tempted and the Paradise was in heaven and yet was in the Garden Eden for as Adam before his Eve was made out of him before his sleep was as to his inward man in heaven and as to the outward upon the Earth and as the inward holy man penetrated the outward as a fire through-heats an iron so also the heavenly Power out of the Pure Element penetrated the foure Elements and sprang forth through the Earth and bare fruits which were heavenly and Earthly and were qualifyed sweetly Tempered of the divine Power and the vanity in the fruit was held as it were swallowed up as the day hideth the night and holdeth it captive in it self that it is not knowne and manifest 4. Paradise was nothing else but the Seventh dayes property the heavenly Essentiality of the second Principle is couched or shut up in the Earth the curse of God hath hidden it it budded in the beginning of the world through the Earthly Essentiality as the Eternity is in the time and the divine Power is through all things and yet is neither comprehended or understood of any earthly thing in selfehood 5. But in Paradise the Essence of the divine world penetrated the Essence of time as the Sun penetrates the fruit upon a tree and effectually works it into a pleasantnesse that it is lovely to looke upon and good to eat the like also we are to understand of the Garden in Eden 6. The word ‖ ‖ ‖ Ede expounded according to the Language of Nature Ede is nothing else but what Moses saith of the Earth that it was * * * Void eed and empty that is it should not manifest its Might according to the wrath of vanity it should be still as a mother to bring forth for the internall would rule through the externall as the Spirituall world through time heaven through the Earth the Earth was empty without fruit but the heaven was its husband which made it fruitfull and bare fruit by it untill the Curse where heaven did hide disappeare or withdraw it self from the Earth 7. The whole world would have been a meer Paradise if Lucifer had not corrupted it who was in the beginning of his Creation an Hierarch in the place of this world but seeing God knew well that Adam would fall therefore Paradise sprang forth and budded onely in one certaine Place to introduce and confirme Man therein whom albeit God saw that he would again depart thence he would againe introduce thereinto by Christ and establish him anew in Christ to Eternity in Paradise 8. For Lucifer poysoned the first Paradise with his false and wicked desire therefore God promised to regenerate it anew in Christ for the seventh day which God appointed for Rest is nothing else but Paradise regenerate anew in the Spirit of Christ in the humane property wherein the poore soul shall rest Eternally from the Source of the six dayes-workes viz. of the six properties of the life 9. Also it is the Seventh time or manifestation of God in which the Mystery of Gods Kingdome shall be finished when it shall be againe Pure in the place of this world when heaven shall be again manifest in the world and the Devill driven out with his l l l Text evill Essence wickednesse whereinto no unclean thing shall any more enter for this world in which Adam was before his Eve must againe returne as it was before the Curse in which Righteousnesse shall rule but the vanity shall be purged away through the fire of Gods Anger and given to the dark world 10. But that Moses saith the Tree of life stood in the midst of the Garden and presently next after setteth down and the Tree of Knowledge of good and Evill Heere lieth the vaile before his eyes that the earthly Sinfull man cannot behold him for he is not worthy of it for his earthliness in the Curse of the bestiall vanity shall not inherit Paradise 11. The precious Pearl lieth in the knowledge of the difference of the two Trees and yet it is but onely one but manifest in two Kingdomes for the Tree of life standeth wholly in the midst of the Garden for it standeth in two Principles in the midst viz. in the holy world between the Eternall dark world of Gods
see by Adam and Eve when the wrath did awaken in their Essence and the Fiat did Impress the beastiall properties and formed them in the Essence that when the soul viz. the Image of God did experimentally know this it was ashamed of the beastiall deformity and of its beeing in a beastiall vessell viz. in another Principle 11. For the outward part of the Soul viz. the Aire with its Astrum did arise and obtaine the upperhand as we may plainly see that amongst the greatest part of men the outward part of the Soule beareth the sway and domination over the whole body in that the beastiall man doth onely seek and labour after the pleasure of this world viz. after externall honours authority and beauty and also how to pamper fill and gluttonize the Beast and so to vapour and proudly pranck with the beast as with a God and yet it is onely a Corruptible Evill Beast in which the reall true man lieth shut up without life 12. Also this Gross Beast shall not possesse the Kingdome of God and also it profiteth not at all John 6. but the Hidden man which lyeth shut up in this beast as the Gold in the gross Oare which hidden inward man the grosse beast scarce regardeth or gives any respect unto save onely that it doth sometimes a little play the hypocrite with it and comforteth it with devout words but exalteth it selfe in its place as a proud Peacock and bravely trimmeth adorneth and fatneth his beast that the Devill may have an horse to ride upon and thereby mock God and he rideth thereupon in the vanity of this world in the Kingdome of Gods anger as upon a false Whore which desireth to live in its own selfefull might and wit 13. For such a beast the Serpents craft did awaken and stir up in Eve in her awakened beastiall monstrous property that now every man almost carrieth a beast in the body which doth plague molest and burthen the poore captive soul whereby it doth make it selfe also Monstrous and amuse it selfe on the beast and brings it selfe into a beastiall figure which so long as it hath this Image and figure in it cannot see or feele the Kingdome of God it must be againe transmuted into an Angells forme or else there is no remedy for it therefore saith Christ unlesse ye be borne anew you shall not see the Kingdome of God 14. The enclosed body of the heavenly part must be again borne anew in the water of the heaven viz. in the Pure Elements-water in the Matrix of the water and in the Spirit of Christ out of the heavenly Essence that the Soules holy part of the Angelicall world may be revived and quickned and live and worke in its disappeared and again new-borne body in the divine heavenly Essence and therein receive its food from the divine Power of the Second Principle otherwise the heavenly Image which God created in Adam is not capable of the Kingdome of God and without the same also it cannot possess it no glistering shewes of devout hypocrisie flattery seeming holiness or soothing the minde with an outward application of Christs merits or tickling consolations doe availe any thing it must be borne anew or quite forlorne for the Pearle-tree is withered in Adam and Eve it must re-obtaine divine Essence and Dye to the Beast or else it cannot spring forth and beare fruit for the soule to eat 15. Now when Adam and Eve were awakened in the beastiall property the beast stood then naked and bare for before the heavens Image did wholly penetrate the outward man and cloathed it with divine Power for the beast was not afore manifest this property lay hidden in the temperature as likewise it is so without the creature but now when the Image of the heavenly Essence did disappeare then the beast viz. the beastiall property was manifest so that now the poor soule which vvas from the first Principle stood forth encompassed with this beast wholly naked and bare 16. But if the Beast had been manifest in the beginning of man then it had also brought its cloathing along with it from its Essence as other Beasts did but the man was not created unto the beastiall life and though God knew that it would so come to pass for which end he created so many kindes and sorts of beasts for his Food and Rayment yet he created man in and unto the true Image of God out of the heavenly Essence so that if this Image fell he might againe bring it through a new motion and Regeneration into its first state as it is brought to pass in Christ. 17. The Scope and eye-marke of our writing is to search out the Image of God how it was created and how it is corrupted and how it shall come againe into its first estate thereby to understand aright the new-birth out of Christ and to knovv the inward and outward man even what the mortall and immortall man is and how he is become mortall and what he is to doe that he may come againe into his first estate CHAP. XXII Of the Originall of Actuall Sin and of the * * * Enkindling stirring up or provocation Awakaning of Gods Anger in the humane Property THe Scripture saith God hath made all things by his word and without the same nothing was made which is made John 1. out of his Expressed Word which was Essentiall in the Verbum Fiat all things came forth into formings first into an Ens or desire of a property and out of the same propriety into a compaction of Sulphur Mercury and Salt as into a formed nature and out of the same Ens in the formed nature the word becomes a creatarall life and brings it selfe forth out of the Cumpaction of Sulphur Mercury and Salt d d d Or into a body out of the Body that is it manifests it selfe in a plaine visible beeing to which end God hath created nature and creature 2. Thus each creature hath a Centre to its re-expressing or breathing forth of the formed word in it selfe both the Eternall and temporall creatures the unrationall as well as man for the first Ens was spoken forth out of Gods breath through the wisdome out of the Center to the fire and light and taken into the Fiat and brought into a Compaction 3. This same Ens is out of the e e e Or eternall beeing Eternity but the compaction of the foure Elements are out of Time thus an Eternall Ens lyeth hidden in every thing in the Time in all things with life or without life in Elements and creatures in vegetative and un-vegetative The first Ens is in every thing whence the forme of Compaction which is arisen from the time was Spoken forth out of the spirituall worlds being as an Eternall Ens out of the Eternall-Speaking Word through the wisdome into a time viz. into a formed Essence according to the Spirituall Ens which Ens cannot be destroyed by any
desire and cast away the Whores-Image or Bastard and over-povver and allay the Enkindled anger of God in this virgin-like matrix with the deepest Love of God and wholly kill and q q q Or doe away null the Monster of the Serpent in flesh and bloud and this is that which God said the Seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head 38. Understand it aright the virgin-like Seed of Eve in the word of God should doe it in the Name and sweet power of Jesus the Seed included in the Covenant of God whereout the Virgin-child is borne as the dew out of the morning that I say should and must doe it 39. For the childe which is from the bloud of the man and woman shall not inherit the Kingdome of Heaven but that which is borne of the virgin-like Ens in the Ayme of the Covenant out of the promised Word of God the childe of the man and woman is a Monstrum and must dye and putrifie and rot in the earth but the virgin-like Ens which lyeth hidden in this Monstrum is the true Seed of which the children of Christ are borne yea even in this life time for the life of this childe is the true Faith and great divine desire 40. This virgin-like childe doth live in Christs children in the Spirit and flesh of Christ in a spirituall body outwardly covered with the Monstrum in the childe of the whore and Serpent there is no man which doth not outwardly carry on him the Serpents childe 41. But the virgins-childe borne of the divine virgin-like Ens of Jesus doth not live in all there is indeed in many an one a glimmering incentive thereunto viz. a Weak Faith and r r r Or godly divine desire but the true holy and pretious life of the virginity is not borne it standeth captivated in the judgement of God 42. Yet well for those who have but an incentive in them to those we give this direction that their Soules desire should in the Spirit of Christ s s s dip plunge or baptize dive it selfe into the divine Incentive and with the fire-desire enkindle that Incentive and also forsake and hate the Serpents Monster and bastard and introduce their great hunger and thirst into the virgin-like Ens into the Word of Gods Covenant and into the fulfilling of the Covenant viz. into the humanity of Christ and ever mortifie and trample under foot the Whores Monster in the will of the desire as a venemous stinging evill Serpent a false bastard that cannot inherit the Kingdome of God and is onely an hinderance to the Virgins childe 43. For the word of the promise in the Covenant would not incorporate it selfe into the mans Tincture viz. in the Souls-fire Ens but into the womans viz. into the Lights Tincture into the virgin-like Centre which should have brought forth magically in Adam even into the heavenly Matrix of the holy pregnatresse in which lights Tincture the fiery Soules Ens was weaker then in the Mans Fire Ens. 44. In this Lights Ens God would araise the Fire Ens viz. the true Soule and as it were beget it anew as may be seen in the person of Christ according to the humanity who in this virgin-like Ens did assume a manly fire-soul from the womans property from the female virgin-like Seed wholly contrary to natures proper and peculiar Ability for the Image of God is a Man-like virgin neither woman nor man 45. And if a man will rightly consider both properties according to the divine property then let him ascribe the male to God the Father viz. to the first Principle where Gods word doth manifest it selfe with the fireworld which is the first Centre of the Creature and the Female let him ascribe to God the Son viz. to the Second Principle where the divine eternall word doth manifest it selfe in the light of Love and openeth another Centre in the Love-desire and cometh into the Fires-Centre in manner as the fire produceth a light and the light is a great meeknesse of an oyly watry and aëry property which property the fire draweth in again whence it receiveth its shining Lustre and also its life to burne else it would smother and suffocate 46. And as these three viz. the fire light and aire have one onely Originall yet they give a very evident distinction in their property the like also we are here to minde into this property in the life of mans Soul the most sweet name JESVS hath incorporated it selfe in the word of promise as into the likenesse which stood in the lights Centre of the heavenly matrix viz. in the Right virgin-like Ens inspired out of the lights property into Adam and hath awaked it selfe in the same limus as a true Centre of the Second Principle viz. of the Angelicall world a â—eall Temple of the Spirit of God an open and t t t Or stirring wide Gate of the divine wisdome in the highest beauty excellency and love wherein the holy Angelicall life consists and beareth therein the Name of the great holy God viz. the holy word of the Deity 47. Into this property the word of God did betroth and espouse it selfe in the Covenant for it was opened out of the holy Word in Adam God would not forsake his holy Manifested Word which had introduced it selfe with the Creating of Adam into an Ens which the Devill obscured and darkned in the Serpents Ens from the Anger but would againe open the same and thereby bruise the head of the Serpents Ens and beget the humane Soule out of this divine Ens to a manlike virgin viz. to an Angell Servant and childe of God 48. We doe not meane that this holy Ens did receive the Serpents desire into it selfe when Adam and Eve became monstrous no but it disappeared yet the soul according to the first Principle took it into the fires property viz. into the Fiat and introduced the Serpents Ens with the desire of the Fiat into the Earthly Limus whereupon out of the One onely Element foure Elements were manifest in man 49. Therefore the virgin-like Ens of the One onely Element must now bruise the head of the introduced Serpents Ens in the foure Elements and the man of the foure Elements must dye and putrifie and the first man must returne at the last Day cloathed with the Virgin-like Ens in the One onely Element wherein all things lye in equall weight or perfect harmony 50. For this virgin-like Ens new-born in the Spirit of Christ dyeth not any more although the foure Elements man viz. the Image of this world dyeth but it liveth in Gods Kingdome and shall in the Resurrection of the dead embrace and put on the limus of the earth Note what shall rise againe at the last Day vix the third Principle as a Garment of the wonder-deeds of God but the Serpents Ens remaineth in the Earth and shall be burnt away at the last
Spirit did continue and then the Turba in all flesh shall perish or be thrown down for this Sorrow was nothing else but that the Word in the Covenant did grieve at the misery and vanity of man and would comfort mankinde by the Covenant through Noah which comfort did first open it selfe in Abraham viz. in Enos his manifestation 24. For the comfort went forth in the Love of the Covenant and opened it selfe with its branch at its right Limit or juncture of time for God hath confined all things into a certain limit when every thing shall come to passe and from the comfort of the Moving Word in the Covenant proceeded forth the judgement that the old Adamicall man with all his desires concupiscences and lusts should in the Covenant when the same should open it selfe in the flesh be drowned and mortified in the same New humanity of Christ and out of the comfort of the Covenant a new humane Spirit and will should arise which should live in righteousnesse and purity of which the Deluge was a type 25. For the griefe or Repentance came out of the Covenant upon the formed word in the life and therefore seeing the same word Repented of the vanity thereupon the vanity of the creature must be drowned for the will in the Covenant went forth from the vanity and grieved the life of God and moved the matrix of Nature in the waters birth and drowned the fiery wrath in the fires Nature 26. But the Spirit in Noah doth especially complaine here against man for their Sodomiticall beastiall Concupiscence and filthy lusts of the flesh viz. Against unchastity and unclean lascivious wantonnesse and also against the High Oppressours and Tyrants who put forth and advanced themselves in their own lust and would rule and domineere and no longer suffer the Spirit of God to rule in them and reprove them that they had intruded themselves to compell and tyrannize over one another without Command all this was an abomination before God and it grieved the Spirit in the formed Word that it had brought forth such Evill Beasts and would no longer endure them 27. Even this same propheticall Spirit whose root did open and display it selfe in Enoch which also by Enoch did propagate and put forth its Line with its branches which also by Noah did grieve at the wickednesse and iniquitie of mankinde and drowned them with the Deluge even this is he which now also doth grieve at the Great Sins and vanity of Men for his mouth is at present opened he hath been translated in the Spirit of Christ Now this word which became man doth Repent at the vanity and wickednesse of men that its children of the new Covenant will not * * * Suffer the Spirit of Christ to draw them give willing obedience to the Spirit of Christ therefore this propheticall Mouth doth now disclose and put forth it selfe for it is the Time of its manifestation and proclaimeth the Great Deluge of Gods Anger and the Flaming Sword of Elias who also was Translated into the Mystery for he must draw forth his Sword in the Turba 28. Let this be told thee Babel he complaineth mightily against thy beastiall unchastity and Tyranny Against thy own usurped power force and violence wherewith thou art proud and wanton and hast thereby set up thy selfe in Gods Government he will drown thee with thy Tyranny and beastiall wantonnesse in the fire of Anger Seeing thou wilt not repent thee of thy vanity therefore he repenteth through thee vvith the Turba and will drown thy Turba that so His Repenting may be made manifest in his children and also his refreshing Comfort and consolation might be manifested out of his Repentance 29. For without Gods repenting there is no true Sorrow or repentance for the vanity for the naturall spirit desireth not to Repent yea if it could be more wrathfull malicious Evill and vaine it would please Love and delight it selfe therein for it is Nature's spirits Strength and Might but the Word of God which in the creation did Impresse and give it selfe into the humane Ens for a Soverain powerfull and holy life the same incorporated engrafted Word of life if it be stirred and moved doth repent and grieve that it hath such an Evill Beast in Nature on it that saith it repenteth me that I have created the evill beast in nature 30. But this Sorrow is not a Sorrow to annihilation as if he would have no more to doe with the creature but it is a Sorrow which saddeth and moveth Gods Heart viz. the holy divine word and setteth the naturall spirit a time for to repent that so it might enter into divine Sorrow but if it doth not then he will drown the Naturall Spirit in its Evill will and wayes as came to passe in the Deluge 31. God said the Earth is corrupt and full of perversness Vers. 11. and the End of all flesh is come before me I will destroy them Here is againe a great Mystery in that God said the Earth was corrupt before him that all flesh had corrupted its way and that the Earth was filled with * * * Violence perversness through them and lo he would destroy them The Earth was afore with Cain accursed according to the vanitie's property but now he saith also in this place all flesh hath corrupted its way the end of all flesh is come before mee This is not so mean and slight a thing as one would looke on it to be for the Spirit complaineth against all flesh that all things were become vaine in his Sight and full of perversness 32. Now saith Reason a Beast doth not Sin it doth according to its Natures property how can any perversness be attributed to it so far doth reason goe and further it knowes not also it understands nothing of the divine mystery It understands nothing of the formed Word that hath formed it selfe through the Nature of time It saith onely God hath created and made and considereth not that all things are created in the word that the Word hath introduced and compacted it selfe into an Ens Also it will know nothing of the Eternall Spirituall Nature of divine Manifestation it understands nothing of the Ground or Originall of the outward visible world with its creatures when it saith God hath made all things out of Nothing then it meaneth that he hath so spoken it forth and yet it is wholly blinde and Senseless in it it looketh onely upon the outward Colour and knoweth not from whence it taketh its Originall thus it is onely learned in the externall Colour and prateth of the painted worke of the outside and shell and concerning the Ens whence the Colour ariseth it is dumb and senseless 33. The Spirit complaineth against all flesh upon the face of the Earth even * * * Text liveth in the aire and fire whatsoever hath breath and Sence the outward Nature had corrupted it selfe in Every kinde of
fighting but that we wage war we doe thereby testifie and declare that we are onely children of this world and fight for a strange Inheritance which yet we must forgoe and thereby we serve the God of Anger as obedient Servants for no warriour or Souldier shall inherit the Kingdome of God while he is such a one but he that is a child new-borne of the Spirit of God which forsaketh this world 25. And God said further to Noah and to his Sons with him saying Lo I Vers. 8 9 10 11 c. even I establish my Covenant with you and with your Seed after you and with every living creature that is with you of the fowle and of the Cattle and of every Beast of the Earth that is with you even of all that came forth out of the Arke that hence forth all flesh shall not any more be cut off by the waters of a floud neither shall there any more come a floud to destroy the Earth And God said this is the token of the Covenant which I have made between me and you and every living creature that is with you from henceforth for ever I have set my Bow in the Clouds the same shall be for a Token of a Covenant between me and the Earth and it shall come to passe when I bring a Cloud over the Earth the Bow shall be seen in the Cloud and then I will remember the Covenant which is between me and you This Covenant with man is a type of the Three Principles of the divine Being viz. of the Being of all beings 26. For the Rain-bow is the Signe and token of this Covenant that God doth here minde and very intimately looke upon that man was created out of Three Principles into an Image and that he should live in all Three and beheld now the unability and great perill of mankinde and set the Signe of this Covenant before him as a representation that his wrath should not any more be stirred so to destroy every life 27. For the Rain-bow hath the Colour of all the three Principles The Colours of the three Principles in the Rain-Bow viz. the Colour of the first Principle is red and darkish-brown which betokens the darke and fire-world that is the first Principle the Kingdome of Gods Anger the Colour of the Second Principle is white and yellow this is the majestaticall Colour Signifying as a type of the holy world Gods Love The third Principles Colour is Green and blew blew from the Chaos and green from the water or Salt-peter where in the flagrat or Crack of the fire the Sulphur and Mercury doe sever themselves and produce distinct various and Severall Colours which betoken unto us the inward spirituall * * * Or world worlds which are hidden in the foure Elements 28. This Bow is a figure of the last judgement shewing how the inward Spirituall world will againe manifest it selfe and swallow up or Avall into it selfe this outward vvorld of four Elements 29. And this is even the Signe or token of the Covenant of Grace which Signe in the Covenant betokeneth the Judge of the world viz. Christ who at the end of Dayes will appeare in all the three Principles viz. according to the fire-signe as a Severe Judge over the Turba and all whatsoever shall be found therein he will manifest the fiery judgement and enkindle the Turba so that the first Principle shall appeare in its fiery property for all things of this worlds being must be tried or purifyed in the fire of the first Principle viz. in the Centre of the Eternall nature and even then the Turba of all beings shall be swallowed up in the fire 30. And according to the lights Signe he shall appeare as a pleasant visage to all the Saints even in the midst of the fire and defend his in his Love and meekness from the flames of the fire 31. And according to the Kingdome of the outward nature of this world he shall appear in his assumed humanity and the whole outward Mystery of the foure Elements according to Sulphur Mercury and Salt even according to all the properties of the Wonders of the Expressed and formed Word even all shall be made manifest before him according to light and darknesse viz. according to their Good and Evill 32. Of this the Rain-bow is a type and figure for it is a reflex Antitype or contra-glance of the Sun shewing what kinde of property or vertue there is in the deep the Sun casteth its shining Lustre into the foure Elements towards the Chaos and then the Chaos whence the foure Elements doe proceed doth manifest it selfe according to the Principles with its Colours and it denoteth and pointeth out the hidden or mysticall Ground of the foure Elements viz. the hidden world and also the hiddennesse of the humanity for in this hiddenness or Secret Mystery of the Creation God did set forth his Covenant that he would not destroy its Image any more with water that the fountaines of the deep should not be any more opened in the Chaos as came to passe in the Floud and in the Creation of the world 33. The Rain-bow is an opening of the Chaos in nature and it may very well if the Sun be in a Good Aspect in the Elements produce and bring forth a wonderfulll birth both in the vegetables and Animalls also there may thereby be a creaturall Living Being produced in the deep even according to the property of the Suns powerfull influence according as it findeth in the Elements a properry from the Astrum or Constellations either to Evill or good as oftentimes to wormes flies grashoppers and the like and also to a good life according as Saturne and Mercury are enkindled in their desire 34. For when the Chaos doth open it selfe then the harsh-Astringent Saturnine property doth attract as an hunger or desire unto it selfe and taketh the property of the Chaos wherein the hidden Powers are contained into its desire and coagulates the same and forthwith Mercury becomes quick in Sulphur for the Sun enkindleth the fiery Mars in its property whereupon Mercury is stirred up or becomes active this Saturne frameth Amasseth into a body viz. into an Ens now the Salt-peter cannot agree or unite it selfe with Mars and therefore there is a Severation or motion and being that they cannot * * * Or eskape get rid of Saturne viz. the Fiat of the outward world it becomes a flying life or creature according to the property of that same constellation 35. Saturne hath such a power or property in it as that it may if the Sun be in a good Aspect take in the distilling dew out of the Rain-bow into it selfe understand into the Saturnine property which afterwards falls upon the water which some fish doe eat down and Coagulate in them whence pretious Pearles may arise 36. Eor the Paradisicall property doth open it selfe all along in the Chaos if it be not
new assumptions and formings are effected and wrought forth in the divine will in Resignation and they are the heavenly Images and formings which are formed and shaped in the holy Ghost to the honour of God 78. For if the holy Name of God be not in its power in the forming of the words viz. in the spirits of the Letters which are the formed word and helps to forme the word in the Sensuall tongue then the false Antichrist speaketh onely from his own selfe assumption of the literall forme 79. For the Spirit of God doth form and imprint into the word of the mouth when as the Sensuall tongue takes it righteousnesse truth faith Love and patience viz. divine power and vertue but the Antichristian childe doth co-forme in the conception of the word out of the Serpents Ens lies falsehood Tales unfaithfulnesse pride coveteousnesse bitter stinging envy anger backbitings revilings and all whatsoever is against God and maketh the formed word of the letter to a Beast and wicked Bastard which is rejected from the face of God upon which the Judgement passeth 80. The like is also to be understood concerning the externall wisdome and Art if the divine wisdome worketh therein then the understanding and Art is very good and grounded in the divine wisdome but if it be otherwise it standeth in meere antichristian false Image and Phancy to the Judgement of God Note 81. Therefore Let a man prove and try himselfe what falls in and suggests it selfe into the Sensuall tongue in the formation of his words if it be truth righteousnesse faith in hope Love in patience an earnest full unfeigned desire to speak and doe the truth and that for Gods sake in hope of Eternall life then it is well with him let him continue stedfast in such exercise and work more and more effectually and powerfully therein and his pretious Pearl Tree stands in its growth and encrease 82. But if the contrary be found in him that when he will speake that then lying a proud look great words for pomp and ostentation also envious bitternesse false speaking against his neighbour falsehood Anger a revenging desire false and evill interpretings and wrong harsh censurings doe fall in and imprint themselves into the formings and Phancy of his words then he may ceratinly and really know that he hath the antichristian babilonicall whore together with the false wicked Dragon-Beast sitting in his Heart which doth introduce and insinuate and imprint such will and desire in his words for the forming and building up of the Hellish Images for these false insinuations and suggestions are all brought to Substance in the formation of the Sensuall tongue 83. Therefore know O man Note and prove thy selfe that thou art the Image of God according to the divine word and understanding if thou speakest willest and dost righteously then thou art that same Image of God wherein God dwelleth speaketh willeth and worketh but if otherwise and the contrary is found in thee then thou art the apostate rebellious Lucifer in his Generation and traine and dost willest and desirest even that which he willeth and doth 84. And though thou desirest not hell-Hell-fire Lucifer also did not desire it but there is no other reward for the false Image being it formes it selfe out of the Abysse it must verily enter into its Fathers countrey 85. For the speech and understanding of man doth not befall him from the Stars and Elements for then other creatures could also speak and understand Man hath the same Originally from the incorporated formed word of God it is the Name of God which he must not abuse upon paine of eternall punishment This incorporated word man hath out of all the Three Principles in himselfe and hath a free own-peculiar-will to forme a Substance out of which Principle he will and thereupon also followes the Separation and reaping in of every thing into its receptacle or appointed place CHAP. XXXVII Of Abraham and his seed and of the Line of the Covenant in its Propagation and also of the Heathenish Gods IF we look upon the Hystory of the Acts of the Ancient holy Patriarcks with right eyes of understanding then we see therein meere wonders for the lines or Races of the children of God are like unto a tree which groweth into boughes and branches untill it bears fruit thus also the line of Christ grew in the Stem of the promised word in the Covenant from branch to branch even into the height of the twigs unto its right Age untill the Power of the Tree that is the word in the Covenant put forth it selfe with the glorious Soverain fair blossome 2. Out of which blossome the holy Image of God is again growne in flesh and bloud viz. in a holy Body we see its boughes and branches so fair and excellent that the soul doth most exceedingly rejoyce at this contemplation and truly desires to bud and grow forth along with these boughes and branches to the great Praise of God in our Angelicall Tree of the Hierarchies of Christ * * * Text of in the holy Paradise 3. God made a Covenant with Adam after his fall when he dyed to the heavenly Ens in him that he would quicken him againe and regenerate him anew and this Covenant was the root in the disappeared Ens which grew in this line of Adam from Seth and his children and posterity even unto Noah in one * * * In the Stock or body of the tree Stem of the tree and with Noah God renewed the Covenant 4. For the undivided Sensuall tongue wherein the spirits of the letters did rule in one harmony continued untill the floud so that all men spake in one Tongue in which Tongue the divine Spirit of the five vowells viz. the divine understanding moved 5. But being they had introduced the Image and Beast of vanity into the sensuall tongue and fell wantonly in Love with the babylonicall whore of self-hood therefore God complained against them that they would not suffer his spirit any more to rule them and said that it repented him that he had made man 6. For as the Sorrow to destruction did manifest and open it selfe even so also the sorrow of repentance to the new regeneration out of the Covenant thus the sorrow of the formed word in the onely Sensuall tongue destroyed every life and being which lived in the Aire that is in the manifested Spirit of God viz. in the third Principle and the word of the Sensuall tongue did after the floud put it selfe forth in a compaction of the spirits of the Letters 7. For God said to Noah the men are flesh and moreover vaine and wicked even from their youth thus the holy Spirit would not any more manifest himselfe in the evill contrived Sensuall tongue but left them to follow their own Phancy seeing they refused to follow him he suffered the power and force of nature to manifest its wonders out of evill and good
confirmed the Covenant of Righteousness he then sent these two Angels viz. Gods truth and judgement to Sodom to blott out and destroy the children of Ham viz. the malicious vile rebellious halfe-Devills men that so the Devills Kingdome might be lesned and not grow so great upon the earth and hinder his Kingdome The inward Figure stands thus 24. It rained brimstone and fire from the Lord from Heaven saith Moses This was not the inward hellish fire which at the End of dayes shall purge the Floar otherwise the foure Elements would have been changed it was onely a figure of the future The Originall of the brimstone and fire was generated in Turba magna in the third Principle it was onely a Sword of vengeance The inward fire consumes earth and stones and all Elements but this was onely a fire as is generated in the * * * Thunder-clap Tempest in Turba magna in the * * * Or Excrement Egest which the Constellation casteth forth from it selfe which is a materia thereunto although it be no palpable matter or substance yet it is a spirituall substance in which Mercurius doth enkindle it selfe in the Salniter viz. in the fire crack where then also the flagratt or fire crack doth fix it selfe into a Substance or Essence which is Brimstone 25. For the Three first properties viz. Sulphur Mercurius and the Salt-sharpnesse are in the Originall as they are yet a spirit onely one Thing but when Mercurius viz. the Sound of the formed word doth move it selfe in the Principle viz. in its first Originall by an Opposition or Contrary Aspect then he is terrified in himselfe that is the motion stirreth the Originall of the heat and cold viz. the Originall of the first Principle according to the cold and hott fire which is the beginning of the Contrariety and horror from whence the fire-flash or Salnitrall flagratt doth arise where also the Three first viz. the heat the cold and the Sound do each impresse and introduce it selfe into a peculiar substance in the Flagrat viz. the heat into Brimstone and the cold into a saltish property and Mercurius into a watry property and yet they were not wholly separated and each of them of another or sundry substance by it selfe but fixt together according to one property 26. The like also we are here to understand concerning the Brimstone-fire the wrath of the first Principle viz. Gods Anger according to the eternall nature did behold the outward nature in the third Principle with an * * * Or Darâ—ing flash Aspect which is called Turba magna being a Turba in the Soul of the outward world in the spirit of nature whence the outward nature doth enflame and enkindle it selfe and the * * * The prime Ternary of nature three first properties do fix themselves into a Substance viz. into Brimstone Salt and into a Mercuriall poysonfull water in which the flagrat or flash of the fire did enkindle and impress it selfe and so being enkindled did rain upon Sodom and Gomorrah and upon the Plain of the Countrey and destroyed all this is it which is said The Lord rained brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven 27. Not that this matter of the Brimstone and fire came from the inward heaven but the wrath came forth from the inward into the outward Principle so that the outward in the Might of the inward did impress and enkindle it selfe out of the properties of the inward and this is a reall Type of the inward dark world if the same nature doth move it selfe then it is even so in spirituall property which God calleth his wrath and Anger and a consuming fire for if this inward spirituall dark World did move it selfe the outward World with the four Elements would forth with be swallowed up in this same spirit-fire which shall come to passe at the End of Dayes 28. And here we have a figure of this in Lots wife who was turned to a Pillar of Salt that the three First properties had moved themselves for she after that she had looked back into the Turba was apprehended or taken in the Salts-spirit in its Impression which denoteth that she was * * * Or that property was most predominant in her most of that very property viz. Covetous in the desire in which she also was taken and apprehended in the sifting Probation of the Angel 29. And though the Angel had defended her from the fire-wrath yet she was taken in the wrath of nature of her own peculiar property viz. the Turba magna laid hold of the Body viz. the substance of the third Principle and changed it into its own peculiar property viz. into the might of the first which was chiefly predominant in her Body according to which property also she was apprehended in the Turba 30. And we ought not to account this a strange thing for we have very much hereof in the Scripture Let us look upon Vzza who was apprehended and smitten by the Ark of the Covenant when he did onely touch the same when the wrath of God was moved but in the * * * That is awakened and stirred up and not atoned Sound Let us see also how it seized on the Philistins when they had the Ark of the Covenant with them also how it devoured Chorah Dathan and Abiram by Moses in the Wildernesse all these have but one Originall but each is peculiarly manifest in its own matter and manner according as the Turba is enkindled among the Three First properties 31. But if Lots wife had apprehended and laid hold of the word of Truth and Mercy in the Message of the Angel it had well protected her but shee did not beleeve what the Angel said and very like shee loved her Temporall goods all which shee must forsake and looked back again and earnestly longed after the Temporall and the Turba of Time did also apprehend her so that she according to the substance of the Body must remain in the first matter out of which God had extracted the Limus of the earth and formed it into a spirituall living Image untill the Lord shall again transmute the same substance into a spirituall Essence 32. And it was don to the End that man should yet see what he is according to the outward Body if God withdraweth his Spirit therefrom and that he requireth the ground of the heart and not onely a mouth-hypocrisie and flatteries of a seeming holy devout lip-labour that a man should onely comfort himselfe with the Grace tendered feeding himselfe with an outward apprehension or application thereof and receive the same onely as a free gift of grace from without and yet remain an Evill Beast in the spirit and will 33. As the present Babylonicall Christendome doth which also with Lots wife receiveth the grace onely externally or by a strange Imaginary Imputation and comforts it selfe with the grace but remaineth in the heart in selfehood and the lust
world committed adultery with Gods Concubine through whom * * * God he bringeth forth his fruit and gave up himselfe to the Woman viz. to the Mother of the Outward Nature and lay with her and committed whoredome with her and defiled the holy heavenly Marriage-bed of Chastity thus also stood this figure of Reuben with his Fathers Concubine pourtrayed before the figure of Christ for Christ should bring this Adamicall whoredome into the heavenly marriage-Bed againe and cover the Incest of Man and therefore it is heere prefigured together with the figure of Rachel viz. with the New Regeneration The figure of Christendom †††Or is thâ—â— to be understood stands thus 36. This Concubine in Christendom signifieth nothing else but the * * * Or Temples built with Materialls Stone Churches which are indeed Gods Concubine wherein his Word and Testaments are handled in which God generateth his children in which a Man should work together with God and turne his heart to God But Reuben viz. the Adamicall Man forsakth God and committeth fornication and whoredom with the Stone Churches and hath embraced her in his Armes of Love and goeth in unto her and playeth the hypocrite with her and thinketh it is enough if he doe but goe thither and heare Sermons Preached and make use of Absolution and the Sacraments and beleeve that all is true which is there taught and comforts himself with this that he goes cheerfully willingly and constantly thither esteems that for right good and approveth and assenteth to all that is there performed thus covering himself with the purple Mantle of Christ and goeth out of the Church just as he entered in and goes twenty or thirty yeares together and so to his very End and committeth whoredome with the Churches and thinketh he doth God good service when he appeares there among others sitting and hearing the Preachers Sermons and when he cometh forth knoweth nothing of what hath been don there 37. Also in that Auditory he had his heart at Home or about his trade and busines or casteth his Eyes upon the Beauty of faire Women and Men and upon their brave cloathes and fine fashions of Pride and filleth his heart with Imaginations of Lascivious Lust and broadly commits whoredome with these or in these Concubines the Churches 38. And that which is yet more when the Preacher often reproveth sins abhominations and often indeed out of passion soweth Thornes that is catched up presently and he tickleth himselfe the whole weeke therewith and contriveth how to finde fault with and Censure others and to backbite and blemish them how they may scoffe at people and gall them with cutting and stinging words pricking like Thistles and Thornes and holds that for the best of what he hath heard and so setteth this Lucifer in the place of God and constantly committeth fornication in the whoredome viz. in the burning Lust of these Concubines 39. And the greatest whoredome of all in this Concubine is this that Men so quite take their hearts off from God and set them upon the Ministers of these Concubines and commit whoredom with them and honour them with presents and Gifts so that they many times in their Encomiums praise evill malicious proud wicked covetous people who doe but squeese the miserable and oppresse them with power and authority they make great Epitaphes and Elogies and give them high and stately Titles with high respect and reverence ascribing to them great devotion with the feare and love of God and doe highly advance their †††Or Pedegree Genealogy and Stock and so set up the trade of Juggling for money as a common Juggler so reproach the Concubine of God viz. the Church with hypocrisie and lyes Of this it is rightly sayd Reuben is climbed up to his fathers Concubine and hath committed whoredom with her for they are they that dwell by this Concubine and are her Curates and Bishops or Overseers but they fill this Concubine full of their false fleshly seed and generate Bastards in Gods Concubine that so the false lust of the flesh may wholly bring their heart into her and thinke it availeth before God and is very right their sinnes are thus covered by the venome and poyson of money and this hypocrisie filleth their Imagination so that they think they are better then others and live thus in such proud lofty thoughts continually in such Church whoredom 40. And thus Ruben begets of his Fathers Concubine the Churches a Company of Bastards proud stately boasting covetous people which defile the poore Mother of the Humility and simplicity of JESUS CHRIST viz. the Line of Christ which lyeth hid in this Concubine and shall be generated and manifested and cast the whoredome upon her and thus Gods Concubine viz. the Church is made to be a whore and so very much deflowred that her reproach is come before Israel viz. before the Eyes of all the Children of God who cry fie upon her and accompt her for an uncleane deflowred whore wherein such whoredome as also all pomp pride and pagintry is exercised that the Devill with the Imagination and false Lust doth more teach and governe in such Lust then the Spirit of Christ and it is more a proud whore and a darke valley and Dungeon then a Temple of JESUS CHRIST 41. And that which is yet more abominable many very vaine affectations scornings and derisions are therein managed and taught where for an Opinions sake which every one frames to himselfe they disgrace and persecute one another and cry out against one another for Hereticks and sow abroad such poyson and venome in this Concubine the Church whereby simplicity is seduced and such poyson of defamation riseth up and groweth in their hearts that in the Churches nothing but contention disputation scorne and blasphemy is exercised and taught that one brother despiseth the other calleth him heretick and damneth him to hell-Hell-fire for an Opinions sake whereby all Love Truth Unity and Concord is vanished 42. The Grossest Impudence at which the Heavens and the Elements at present stand amazed which is practised in this Concubine is this that Men take the writings of the Holy children of God viz. of the Prophets and Apostles and their Successours and make use of them falsly putting them on for a Cloake to cover such whoredome corrupting and embittering them and making meere Sects and Swarmes of Schismes of them and thereby reproach slander and persecute one another giving thereby cause of Warrs and Bloudshed and so they make a meere impudent whore of the Bible wherewith every one exerciseth and manageth their whoredome and sucketh Opinions out of it and therewith dispise the Opinion of another and scorneth and condemneth it and yet take all their matters out of the Bible thus they make their fathers Concubine viz. the holy Prophets Apostles all whores and falsly commit whoredome with them practise impudence unchastity and pride
neere to him buyeth for his Grace his whole Nature with all the †††Affections properties or faculties formes conditions and qualities thereof and bringeth all whatsoever is in Man againe into the house of the Great Pharaoh that is of God and maketh it a subject to God his Father againe 21. For in Adam all Men are become untrusty and perfidious and are entered into the Selfishnes of the Will but Christ hath bought this humane owne selfe to be his own againe and giveth this up againe to God his Father and it pointeth directly at Christendome which Christ hath bought with his Grace by the Treasure of his pretious Bloud and made it his owne and hath now distributed his Offices wherein the Christians serve him and are his owne 22. But that the Priests fields were not sold and that Pharaoh would not buy them but leave them for their owne pointeth at the inward Man who is the Priestly Temple of Christ this God buyeth not back againe he willeth that Man should have it for his owne he desireth onely to have the Kingdome of Nature for his owne servant but the incorporated ground of Grace viz. the Temple of Christ he leaveth to the Soule for a Dowrie for it is the place and Citty of God wherein God dwelleth in Man No Man can sell it againe pawne it or engage it by oaths for it belongeth to the Eternall One and not to the possession of the Creature but it is a bestowed Ground of Grace wherein Christ manageth his Office it is his habitation and dwelling house 23. * * * Gen. 47.23 24 25 26. Then sayd Joseph unto the People Behold I have this day bought you and your fields for Pharaoh behold there you have seede sow your fields and of your Corne you shall give the fift to Pharaoh fower parts shall be yours to sow your field for your food for your house and Children and they sayd now let us live and finde Grace before thee wee shall willingly be Pharaohs bondslaves Thus Joseph made them a Law unto this day concerning the fields to give the fift to Pharaoh except the Priests fields which were not Pharaohs owne 24. This figure is a true Type and Image of Christendom which Christ hath bought with his Love in his Bloud having proffered to give Christendom his Grace and righteousnes for their Earthly †††Images Imagibility or Phansies Imaginations that it should give them only up to him and when that is done then sayth Christ behold I have this day that is from this time forth to Eternity bought all your Earthly †††Images Imagibility or Phansies Images as also Body and Soule I have bought you for my Eternall Bondslave Servants and Ministers with my Grace from the hunger of Gods Anger behold there you have seede that is there you have my Word wherewith you may sow the Ground of your Conscience in Body and Soule that this seede may bring forth fruit and of this fruit you shall returne the fift to Pharaoh that is to God for fower parts shall be your foode that is this seede shall quicken and cherish the fower Elements of the Body as also the fower properties of the Soules fire-Life and ye shall keepe this seede of the divine Word fowerfold for the cherishing of your Life but the fift ye shall give to God 25. The fift signifieth heere very secretly and Mystically the fift forme of the Naturall Life viz. the Love-fire in the Light which is borne out of the fower properties and Manifest wherein the uncreaturely and Supernaturall God is manifested This forme generateth now the divine Joy and the Praise of God wherein the Soule is an Angell and thanketh and praiseth God because he hath delivered it out of the Fire-Source of Torment and hath given himselfe with this Love and Grace into its Fire-source and changed it into a Love-fire and divine Light 26. This Source of Love viz. the fift property of Life wherein the Soule is an Angell it giveth now to God againe with great praise and thanksgiving for it giveth this fift forme to Christ againe for a habitation for that is the habitation of his Word wherein * * * Or consisteth Luk. 17.21 is the Kingdome of God in us and wherein wee are the Temples of the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in us and this fift forme in the prayse of God Christ requireth againe from his Christendome that it should give this to him that he may gather in the prayse of God that is the fruit of Love for his Father into the house of the Divine power 27. But the Priests fields that is the inward Ground of the heavenly Worlds Substance he buyeth not with his bloud for that never received the Turba of destruction but in the fall of Adam it went out and faded and went into the Abysse so that the soule had it no more in its owne possession for it was in the soule as it were dead although in God nothing dyeth but the soule was blinde concerning it in that manner as God viz. the Eternall one is in and through all things and yet nothing apprehendeth it but that which introduceth it selfe into its substance wherein he will manifest himselfe 28. This faded Image or Substance is the Priestly Ground whereinto God againe in spake or did sow his Word and Seed againe in Paradise that is not bought with Christs Bloud as the averted soule is but it is filled with the heavenly Ens with Christs flesh and bloud so that it is or becometh Christs flesh and bloud wherein the High Priest Christ dwelleth it is his Eternall seate and possession wherein God is manifested in Man for it is the branch on Christs vine which is Gods proper owne and not Mans. 29. It is indeed in Man but not in the possession of the fiery Soules Essence it hath another Principle then the soule and yet is in the soule and through the soule and from the soule after the manner as the light is from the fire which is through the fire and in the fire and hath its manifestation from the fire out of which fire and light Aire proceedeth and out of which aire dewy water proceedeth and that same dewy water denoteth the substance of this inward Ground which giveth to the fire againe Nourishment foode lustre and life 30. So also it is to be considered and understood concerning the soule when it extinguished as to the Divine Light then this substance was generated no more from it nor in it but remained faded extinguished or quenched and then the soule had no divine foode more for its source of fire for it had turned its desire forth into the third Principle and was overcome by the Earthly Lucifer and by Sathan viz. by the property of the wrath of the dark worlds property in the place of this world 31. This Grace came to help this averted soule which was bought through Christs
unlearned Tradesman and gifted him with such a noble endowment of the Universal Knowledge of God and Nature and shewn him the Centre of all Beings How all things arise from God Originally consist in God and again return and flow into him c. thereby to call man to the knowledge of God of himself and all things That he might turn from the corrupt Dark being of this World to Christ the only Light c. This high rare and pretious Gift which hath not been manifested in the like manner and Degree Height and Depth Breadth and Length before these times our Jacob Behmen learned in God hath employed in all faithfulness and simplicity and lay'd it forth as it was given and imparted to him And in all his writings hath lay'd his ground in God and hath reared up his whole Building very deeply founded from Him As Christ speaketh of the wise Master-Builder that he digged deep and layd his foundation on a Rock whereupon he built his Tow'r on High As it is clearly to be seen how he doth all along drive and press at God Christ and his Spirit at Faith and Love at the mortifying of the old and the renovation of the new-man And in brief at the Restauration in Christ of God's Image in us which did disappear in Adam Also he shewâ—th the Order Harmony and Birth of all things and how they subsist by the power of the yet uncessantly working word of Gods FIAT and hold their Analogy and orderly proportion in the wisdom of Gods wonders But he doth not set it forth with words of Scholastick knowledg and contrived Art of VVisdom in Babel and of her Builders but as it was given him according to the knowledge of Nature in his own Gift And though such Tearms and Phrases as he uses seem hard and harsh at first yet the diligence of an observant Reader that earnestly desireth knowledge for his Edification will by the indwelling Grace of God so bring him into a right apprehension thereof that what before seem'd difficult and dark will at length be plain clear and easy as it hath hapned to my self Thus far his own Country-man and Accquaintance Moreover he had the knowledge of that wonderfull Mystery containing the Secrets of the whole Creation The language of Nature and that in his Native tongue whereby the very name of every thing gave him clear Inspection into the Nature of it This Knowledge had Adam in his Innocency but by his Fall lost it Else it had been understood as our Author affirmeth in the Language of every Nation Now to the incredulous if they could but fathom his depths I should only bid them ask themselves this Question VVhether Art or Nature ever did or can produce such sublime Knowledge such pure and distinct knowledge of the highest Mysteries knowing that upon debate with their serious Thoughts they must speak the Negative But there is a malicious Ignorance possesseth many by which they condemn all things above their Sphear and cry down that excellency in others which exceeds the fathom of their own Comprehensions I need not travail for Proof or Instance Istorum plena sunt omnia They are no where not to be found Concerning the following Tractate it contains Four Tables with their Explication wherein may be seen by a spiritual eye the Ground and Foundation of all the Authors Works and profound Mysteries Yea there is also clearly decypher'd that so much sought and so rarely found Secret Cabal of the antient Rabbies These Tables indeed contain the Summe of all the Authors writings of all his Knowledge of all in Heaven and Earth yea of all the highest Mysteries that Man in this life is capable of knowing The First Table as the Radix briefly includes the rest The other three are Branches of the First and all together are properly termed an A.B.C. to all that the Author hath written which when I perceiv'd I could not but much desire their publication and not knowing when or by whom that might be done I furnish'd my self with all necessaries thereunto and so by God's enablement perform'd it with that care and diligence which the Majesty of the matter requires And though I know it a general Expect that the skill of a Translator should illustrate his Author yet that in this and some other of his Writings can not well be done for whoever not perfectly baptised into his Spirit shall render them in the genuine phrase of other language and not punctually verbatim will force his Reader to a double loss both in the significancie of expression and in the mind of the Mystery In a word this following Tractate I have annexed to the Author's Life and both not unfitly to his Mysterium Magnum For the first ten Chapters of that Book are not only introductory to the following Commentary but likewise an excellent illustration of these Tables wherein the pious Reader by a due search may happily find pulsanti dabitur a greater Treasure than the VVorld can afford and that to his infinite satisfaction which I heartily wish him together with the Life Light and Love of Jesus Christ In whom I rest His Servant H. BLUNDEN 1 Table What GOD is without Nature Creature What God without Nature and Creature is and what the Mysterium Magnum is How God by his breathing forth or speaking hath introduced himself into Nature and Creature  Abyss  1 NOTHING ALL  Father 2 VVill of the Abyss JE Sonn 3 Delight or impression of the VVill. HO Spirit 4 Science or Motion VA 5 GOD in Trinitie Thus is GOD without Nature and Creature considered 6 VVORD in GOD. 7 VVisdom  Begining of Mysterii Magni of the Eternal NATURE Here begineth Mysterium Magnum as distinction in speaking the WORD where the WORD by Wisdom is made distinct Natural Sensible Comprehensible and Invenible The Eternal begining of the Principles is here also understood with Gods Love and Anger in Light and Darkness GOD in LOVE GOD in WRATH  9. The First principle Spiri 8 The second Principle  Moving Thinking tual Dark Feeling Mâ—nd Nature V II Angel Light love-Love-fire 10 Tincture or speaking of the Trinity I Desire II. Prick or Science III Angush IV Fire Angelical World Root of the four Elements VI Sound or Distinction VII Essence or essential wisdom Austere Cause of Enmity Fire root of heat  Hard Hellish-life Hell Sub Growing or Greening in the Spiritual World 12 Pure Element 13 Paradise Sharpness cold fire Root Devill stan SAL MERCURIUS SULPHUR tial 14 Begining of the external World Here begineth the external visible World as the out-spoken visible WORD 1 Is understood the good Life of the creature which stands in the Quint-Essence 2 The poison and grossness of the Earth and Earthy Life 3 The Reader understanding these all Doubts and Queries cease in him and Babel is left in Ignominie The third Principle   15 Heaven  Starrs 16 Quint-Essence Good Powers The 17
Sound or Distinction as the sixt Capitall Form signifying that the Naturall manifested Life where the Eternall Divine Word through the Formes of Nature hath infolded it self and where all the Powers of Wisdom stand in (n) Noyse Sâ—halle Sound therein standeth the Understanding Life which in Light is Angelicall and Divine but in Darkness it is Diabolicall As at the right Numb 11. standeth Angell VII Standeth Essence or Essentiall Wisdom of the out-breathed word wherein all other Forms are revealed and is even the Essence of all Forms as good as Divine in the Light but in the Darkness Evill and Devillish And therein is chiefly understood Mysterium Magnum the great Mystery the Angelicall world is also therein understood and likewise the Internall spirituall body of Man which disappeared in Adam when the Souls will departed from Gods will but revived again in Christ that giveth to him for the Essence of this Power-World which is that heavenly flesh Joh. 6. And it is the dry Rod of Aaron which in the Spirit of Christ again springeth up in Man Numb 12. Standeth Puâ—â— Element signifying Motion in the Angelicall world in Essence and is the One Holy Pure Element wherein the four Elements in the Temperature â—ay and is a root of the 4. Elements Numb 13. Standeth Paradise signifying the Eternall springing or spiritual growing in the Spirituall world from which the externall visibile world Thus hath this place been before the fall of Lucifer and Adam namely in an equal temperature or Harmony of the 7. Planets and 4. Elements out of good and evill as out of both Eternall Principles is breathed forth In which Source and Regiment Adam in his Innocency stood when the four Elements harmoniously existed in him as in the holy pure Element Numb 14. Standeth Beginning of the External World signifying how God by his Word hath breathed forth that spiritual Mysterium Magnum as the Eternall Nature of all Spirituall Properties into a visible externall formall Being and through the Fiat as the Divine Desire hath fashioned it into Creatures There standeth the third Principle where 3. Worlds in one another must be understood as the dark world of Gods wrath the Eternall light world of Divine Love and this visible fading world Numb 15. Standeth Heaven signifying the (p) Heaven is the parting-mark out of the spiritual fire and water between the Heavenly and Earthly parting Mark between the internall and externall world as of the visible and invisible Essence which Heaven standeth in Essence of the spirituall firie water Numb 16. Stands Quintessence signifying the spirituall Powers as the Paradise-Ground in the four Elements as well the Astrall breathed forth by internall powers at the beginning of time and is that good in the four Elements wherein the light of Nature shineth as an outbreath'd (q) Or shine Glast fulgor of the Eternall light Numb 17. Standeth four Elements viz. Fire Air Water and Earth as the created world out of the dark and light world which is the framed word spoken out of the Eternall Natures Essentiall power therein did the Devill cast his poyson which after the fall of Man was accursed of God Numb 18. Stands Earthly Creatures signifying that out of the Quintessence and the four Elements were all Creatures of this visible World created Man having 2. Eternalls in him may be saved or damned and only from them have their life But the animated Man hath also in him both inward spirituall worlds according to the internall soul of man therefore may Gods love and wrath be manifested in him for wherein the will impresseth and kindleth it self of that Essence it partaketh and the same is manifest in him as is seen in Lucifer Thus have you a brief Intimation of the first Table and consequently of all the Authors writings faithfully imparted out of a good Christian affection to his loving friends and is as an ABC to beginners II. TABLE In this second Table God is considered according to his Essence in Unity what he is in Trinity without Nature and Creature whereby he filleth all things and yet needs no place AD Father Will IE O Son Delight HO N Spirit Science VA A Power Word Life I Colours Wisdom Vertue TETRAGRAMMATON In this Table is consider'd the efflux of the Eternal Divine WORD how the WORD through Wisedom brings it self from Unity into Separation and Multiplicity as well in the Eternal Nature and Creature according to which God calls himself angry jealous God and a consuming fire as well as a mercifull God wherein is understood the foundation of Angels Soules and how they may receive salvation or damnation Gods The Wrath first or Dark Prin World ciple Gods 〈◊〉 Love or Second Light Prin World ciple Similitude 1 T 2 I 3 N â— C 5 T 6 V 7 R E Desire or Comprehending Science or Drawing Anguish Fire Light Love-fire Sound Essence T Dark Feeling or Moving Wâ—lling Painful Life Love-Life Understanding Working ER Austere Hardnes Enmitie Minde Terror Joy Five Senses Form NAL Sharpness Elevating Wheel of Life Killing Power Love Sperm In the Septcenary without by it self is understood the Mysterium Magnum as the 7. properties of the Eternal Nature In the Novenarie downwards are signifi'd the properties of Life In the fourth Form as in Fire 2. Principles separate themselves from each other as Darkness and Light N Furie Pride Despair Hell Glorie Giving Taking or CoÌ„prehending A Greater Death False will Lesser Death Souls ground Devill Souls Spirit Angell Praising Increasing T Standing still Breaking From Original separating Folly Wisdom Highnes Humility VR Impotent Self-will Robbing Fantasie Knowledge Strength Throne The Second Table Expounded THe word ADONAI signifieth (a) Or expantion opening or free motion of the bottomless Eternal Unity how the Eternal generation expantion and effluence of the Trinity of God is in it self A is a triple I which comprehendeth it self Cross-wise as in a Beginning Entrance and Effluence D is the motion of the triple I as the opener O is the Circumference of the triple I as the birth of Gods place in it self N is the triple Spirit issuing forth of the Circumference out of it self as a triple I. A. This lower A is the object or operation of the threefold I or Spirit from whence eternally spring Motion Colours and Vertue I is the essential Effluence of the triple I where the Trinity floweth forth into Unitie And in this whole word ADONAI is understood the Eternal life of Gods unity The word FATHER is the Eternall beginning of operation and will in the threefold I of the Unitie The word SON is that Operation of Power as comprehension of the will into which the triple 〈◊〉 incloseth it self as a place of the divine (b) Egoitae Ickheit self-hood The word SPIRIT is the living issuing motion in the comprehended power as by comparition may be understood in a Flower where the opening or working of the growth is
the head-spring of the false minde but if it perceiveth Light in it self then is it the spring and ground of the sensible mind and the right root of fire as appeareth in number 3. downwards The fourth Form numb 4. is the Fire of the Eternal Nature understand spiritual Life-fire and that existeth from a continual conjunction or conjoyning of Hardness and Motion Understand that thence ariseth the Painfulness but the Splendor existeth from the Delight of the Free-will where the Unity of the Delight good pleasure is acuated in the properties then like a flash of lightning it shineth through the continued Conjunction of the great meekness of the Unity and the Fierceness and Motion of the three first Properties for then it is in the Essence of the Conjunction as if Steel and Stone were rubb'd together whence the flash ariseth Such a Flash is the true Natural Life of the Eternal for it is the Revelation of Divine Motion and hath the properties of Nature and also the Revelation of the Unity of Gods effluence in it self Now which of these two getteth predominancy in that standeth the Life The splendor of the Fire is the Light from the effluence of Gods Unity and the Essence of the Fire is the out-flown will which hath brought it self with the desire into such Properties Thus in the out-flown firy will we understand Angels and Souls and in the sensible sharpned Lights power from the Unitie we understand the Spirit wherein God is revealed and understood in the spiritual essence and in the Fire two Kingdomes separate themselves as the Kingdom of Glory from the efflux of Gods Unity and the Kingdom of the properties of Nature and yet these two Kingdoms dwell in one another as one The Kingdom of Nature is in it self that great Eternal Darkness but the Light is the Kingdom of God of which S John saith The Light shineth in darkness but the darkness comprehendeth it not As day and night dwell in one another and yet the one is not the other Thus from the Fires own propertie comes the painful life if it break it self off from the Eternal Light and doth as in the propertie of selfhood enter the object then is it only fantastick and foolish even such as the Devills were and the Souls of the Damned are as appears Numb 4. downwards In the fift Propertie of Nature is the second Principle with its foundation understood as the Essence of the Unity in the Light-power where in the out-flown Unity is a fire-flaming-love understood whence existeth the true understanding-Spirit with the five Senses The first three Forms are only the property to Life and the fourth is the Life it self but the fift is the true Spirit When the fift property is revealed out of the Fire then she dwelleth in all the rest and changeth them all into her sweet love that no more painfulness nor Enmity is discerned but even as the day changeth the night In the first 4. Properties is that life like the Devills but when the Lights-power as the second Principle is revealed in the property then is it an Angel liveth in divine power holiness as appeareth in the Num. 5. downwards The sixt Property is the Understanding as the Sound where the properties in the Light stand all in an equality then they rejoyce and the power of the five Senses is manifest and all the properties rejoyce in one another and thus the love of the Unity leadeth it self into working willing sensibility finding and (n) Highness Pochkeit celsitude Thus is there a contrary in the Eternal Nature that the Properties existing therein the love is known and that there might be something to be beloved wherein the Eternal Love of Gods Unity may work and God may be praised For if the properties of life be penetrated with the Divine love-flame then they praise the great love of God yield themselves all again into the Unity of God Such rejoycing knowledge could not be revealed in the Unity did not the Eternal will bring it self into painfull moving properties The Seaventh Property is that Essence wherein all the other are essential wherein they all act as the Soul doth in the Body wherein the Natural Essential Eternal Wisdom of God as the Mysterium Magnum is understood out of which the visible World with its Essence and Creatures did arise Thus by this Table is understood the hidden Spiritual world as the Eternal manifestation of God from whence the Angels and Souls of Men received their existence therefore may they turn themselves to evill or good for both lie in their Center This Spiritual world is no other than Gods revealed Word and hath its being from Eternity to Eternity for therein is Heaven and Hell understood III. TABLE The seven Properties of the visible World or external Nature MACROCOSMUS In this Table is signified how the hidden Spiritual Eternal Word as the Mysterium magnum by the motion of Gods Word issued forth and became visible manifest and Material And how the inward Powers through Gods working have comprehended and fashioned themselves how good and bad in every thing is to be understood and yet there was no evill in Mysterium magnum but existed through the sensibility and assumption of self-desire Here also is shewed what in the working issued forth from every property and which have the predominancy according to which every thing is formed and governed 1 Ground 2 of 3 Nature 4 Pure 5 Element 6 Para 7 dise Cold Earth Snow Original of Air Fire of Essence Heaven Light of Nature Starrs Water Saturn Mercury the planet Mars Sol Venus Soft Jupiter Luna Sal Mercury thunder Sulphur Flash Sal-niter Oyl Power Body Black Gray Mixt-colours Red Yellow Green and white within Blew White without within Red and Green Melancholy Collerick Sanguin Phlegmatick Grossness of Stone Metal Stone Rust Growing Pearls Jewels Menstruum Lead Quick silver Iron Stâ—el Gold Copper Tinn Silver Bone Wood Herbs Resin Tincture in the Earth Sweet Bitter Grass Sour Poyson Woes Opening Healing Srenâ—thning Flesh Stopping Smelling Feeling Seeing Tasting Hearing Loathing of Nature Dying Lying Wrath War Richess Noble Reason Own possession Lord Craft Force Justiâ—e Faithfull Truth Simplicitie Stealing Deceiving Losing Finding Earthly Love being friendly Lightminded Obstinate Sad Confounded Senses Careless Constant Pure Joâ—full Ignorant Earthly Beast'y Evill Heavenly Modest Sensible Low olfe Fox Dogg Lyon Bird Ape Great Beasts Worms Venemous Wormes Evill Beasts Good Beasts Flying Beasts Tame Beasts Fish An Explanation of the third Table MACROCOSMUS IN this Table is understood how the hidden spiritual world hath made it self visible and with its own breathing forth hath made it (a) Gegenwurff an object where the Eternal Principles are out-flown and the powers therein became co-material For the External Nature is no other than an efflux or object of the Eternal Nature The 4. Elements exist from the first 4 Properties of the Eternal Nature as the Earth and