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The wonders of God's creation manifested, in the variety of eight vvorlds as they were made known experimentally to the author J. Lead.
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Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.
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thy own to Enjoy But this word of Caution to thee is given that thou take heed unto the Laws of Paradise which have been in particular given to thee for this end Observe them and thy JESUS will here frequently talk with thee and shew himself according to the Loves Betrothment that is made afresh with thee in this Paradise This is what many Years ago was to me Communicated and Recommended by the Spirit of Truth § 3. As I was upon the Seventeenth of October in this present Year 1695. watching upon a Deceased Friends account after some time I found she had passed through the Elementary Regions Then Paradise being open'd I search'd for her and after about two Hours I found her in the Third Degree of this Heavenly World who appeared to me of a most Lively and Angelical Countenance As soon as I had met her I congratulated her and said I have been a long while seeking to find you To which she Answer'd very well you might for I have been so taken up with the Variety of the Pleasures of this Place that I had forgot all my Mortal Friends Then she added after a short pause O my Friend the Death which I feared and that kept me in Bondage all my Life long has been my Friend to set me free and its Seing that I dreaded became nothing less than a Living Balsam by which now in Trumph I can say Mortality is swallow'd up in Joy and Glory To which I Replied Did not I often tell you this and that I would venture my own Soul for yours as to the Security of it Upon which she smiling said Now I find it so to be And so seeming to be unwilling to entertain any further Discourse with me as if thereby she was held from a better Enjoyment she left me § 4. Upon which I was exercised in some Meditation and it was thus concluded That Persons who did live very circumspectly and watchfully in all Piety in their Life-time as this Person had done though void of all sensible Assurance and Comfort of God's Favour while they live as if they did not live but are estranged from this Elementary Body while they are in it do when they pass out of it obtain a swift passage through the Elements which are not able to cleave to or detain them long but are swallow'd up and chang'd into the Paradisical Body Which is a good Motive to incite all Persons to live above the Earthly Life that so nothing may stick to them when they go out of this World II. MOUNT SION § 1. Now from hence the Spiritual Man must make another Remove to see what doth lye for him beyond this Region or Principle among the Precious Things that do flow from that Rich Ocean which is betwixt Paradise Mount Sion and the New Jerusalem This is that Glassy Sea that is spoken of by the Beloved John upon which the Conquerors are seen Singing their Songs of Triumph and it doth Compass round the City where is the Residence of the Great King the Throne of the Lamb and the Seven Sealing Powers or Fountain-Spirits of God that do go forth from the most Holy One. Now this burning Sea is for Probation there being none able to pass it but they who have gotten a full perfect and thorough Conquest over this Beast and over his Image so as they no thing more of this Mark do bear They and they only can stand here because they are Signatured from this flaming Glassy Sphere that will make Bodies clear and shining as terrible Chrystal § 2. This Kingdom of Moun Sion where is an Innumerable Company of Angels with the Church of the First-Born and in which are contained all the Originals and living Patterns of what was Copied out by Moses who had a sight of them must open it self and be Established before the Kingdom of the New Jerusalem can come down either Invisibly or Visibly There is a necessity for the Mediatorial and Priestly Kingdom to go before and make way for that § 3. Yet there is such a near intimate Correspondency between these two that they may in some sort bear the Name of One Kingdom For that the Supream Majesty doth often come down hither and the whole Grand Assembly which is here do at certain seasons ascend up into the New Jerusalem so that from the strict Union that is betwixt them it is not to be wondred at if sometimes the Name of the one be applied to the other III. The NEW JERUSALEM § 1. It was further declared to a Spirit caught up here That in the Time of the Accomplishment of the New Jerusalem Glory Below there should be appointed certain Keepers of the Everlasting Gates into it most highly Spirited to let in and shut out according to the Laws of this Kingdom and that every such Angel of these Gates should sound forth his Trumpet For the Holy Breath out of this City shall make them to Proclaim and Sound forth to all parts of the Earth the Glory and the Mighty Name of JEHOVAH SHAMMAH which is the Name of the City that is to be written upon all those who are to be admitted into it Therefore Arise Arise ye Virgin Daughters and draw near having this Name inscribed upon you with the Finger of your God and having your Twelve Foundations according to the number of the Precious Stones of the Holy Oracle made clear and sure in you being all that which is to make up the Honour of your Jerusalem Glory Draw near now ye Virgin Daughters of Sion that lye hid and bring your Glory to this City At which all Gates shall open to you fly As soon as you can here with this come nigh § 2. The Apostolical Name of the Lamb is here written upon every Gate for the surviving Number of Apostolical Spirits to obtain admittance by None can enter through the Gates but these Virgin Spirits who have before stood upon Mount Sion and passed through the Sea of Glass being the Living Jasper Stones that are all covered upon with the flaming of Colours the Covenant-Rainbow Such therefore must ye be Oye Jerusalem-waiters and Children of Wisdom And by her Stone within you ye must come to be touched and changed rhat ye may be joyned to all these Flaming Stones Be of good chear for this Ruby Stone is as a Cherub at work in the Heavenly Spheres of some that are known by Name in order to this great and mighty Transmutation Wherefore it is given me to advise you that you give way to this Live Goal within you that so it may burn away all the Dross and Tin so as nothing but the Golden Matter for Coagulation with the Deity may remain upon this Almighty and most Sublime Thing that is concealed in your Inward Furnace Do ye still wait upon Ministring Fuel to it that your Fire may never go out Do ye still take out from the Pool of Golden Oyl which will then make you
come to that Heighth as even to a Perfect Jasper Purity which will whatever it toucheth turn into its own Source Light and Power This is the White Stone to which the Bride of the New Jerusalem will be joyned and which will be hung in her Crown Therefore after nothing less ye beloved ones do ye aspire And say not in your Hearts How can this be Let that be cast upon your God's All-sufficiency that by Wisdom's Stone will do High Mighty and Marvelous things through them with whom it shall be found that only shall have the honour of bringing the Jerusalem down to be seen within this Orb. For in such in whom the Stone of Wisdom is sown and grown up are the Lookers and the Expectors to see this wonderful Time Others who believe nothing of it will stand without this City amongst the Worshippers of the Beast none of whom can Traffick or Merchandize amongst the precious Foundation Stones Which are the Purchase of the Lamb for his Conquering Tribe to follow after him with Palms of Victory over all fears and doubts that spring from Unbelief which hath kept numberless out and stopped their Ascending up hither § 3. Now to you who through the Agate Windows of this walled City are given to look in know that it is granted for no other end but to take your Eye and to draw your whole Spiritual Body herein It is not to Tantalize you or to let you see only the Tree of Vertue and not hereof not touch nor tast but ye are evermore to live upon it When ye as fixed Inhabitants shall no more go out this Tree will be Food of most high Virtual Strength Power and Spirit This Word then I will only drop and leave with you to wait in pure Love Patience till for this last Remove the Stone Within do Compleat you through its All-Tincturing Power The STILL ETERNITY § 1. As I was considering the high and weighty Work whereunto we are called my Spirit was immediately caught up into an High Region that was all Calm and Still where I saw no Figures or Images But there was a wonderful Light which Flowed into me like a River Then it was opened in me that this was the Creating Light from whence all Beings did proceed that what was now expected as a New Creation must be brought forth from the Stilness of this Light with which the Soul's Essence must be Mingled And that from this Union the Variety of the Wonders should be produced in the World § 2. It was further said to me that I had been long driven to hit the furthest Centre of all Centres but the Plummet Line of my Spirit was too short to Fathom that deep Gulf which was in a Visional Figure some Years ago shewn to me This being led by the Spirit to call to mind there came before mine internal Eye a Deep Abyss that opened it self and Streamed forth with such a commixture in all variety of Colours of Precious Stones so dreadfully Sparkling and Glorious that no other but a simple and abstracted Spirit could behold it and much less enter into and so be Mingled with it according as I was both times invited and called to § 3. This Second time it was renewed to me by an Internal Opening from which it was given me to understand that this God-head-Gulf was now broken up for a Streaming forth with that high mixed Matter which would Deify and Tincture the Soulish Essence that had been under the Depravity Then it was said to me by the Spirit that this was the true and right Baptism into the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost by which the Soul would return to its first Original and then would know it self to have Power in GOD as his Virgin Heart and Spouse to do and act agreeable unto so high an Unity This is the Summity of all Depths that can be searched into Do but study this and the Eternal Abyssal World will from its Stilness come to Qualify with and Operate in you in order to the wished-for Transmutation Hereby will you into all Wisdoms's Treasures be admitted and the Walls about your habitation shall be the Rock of Fire-Stones in which Munition Strength your Hiding shall be as in God's ownSecrecy until you go forth to Proclaim another Day of PENTECOST AN ANSWER TO A QUESTION WHICH By a Noble and Worthy Inquirer was upon his own Experience sent to be RESOLVED To Answer a Query Why such Departed Souls that are detained in the Middle Regions do often attract and draw their near Relations and Friends to be with them This you must know proceeds from a most intimate Unity that was betwixt them while Living whence not having Center'd their Loves higher than what was Elementary the Deceased may have much power to draw away the Life of such out of the Body Of which kind some Instances have been known Let this therefore be a good Caution to all dear and near Relations to carry up their Love to one another beyond what is but Creaturely But this know that no Departed Spirit can have any force or power over the Living without they be such as are of Low Birth under the Laws and Rudiments of this World and the Constellations of the Starry World But as for them who are got up higher by the supernatural Birth they are out of danger to be reached by any Departed Spirits For such are above their Influence as making GOD their Centre only It hath been shewed to me also that there is a great Congruity betwixt the highest Degrees of Saints departed into the Mount Sion and Jerusalem Principle with such here as have attained to that high Birth which can reach their Principle Now this sort act quite after another kind they do not so much covet to draw them out of the Body as to Influence and bring down their Gifts and Powers into Manifestation in and through those whom they stand in such Love-Unity with These Perfect Spirits in the Separated order do well know and take notice who are most fitly Qualified though in Bodies Elementary for Immersement vvith them and do thereby communicate and disperse the Light of New Revelations into this Lower Princiciple that so the Inhabitants herein may come hereby to Enlightened and Transformed For these Blessed ones above do with much longing wait for their Kingdom to be Opened and spread among Mortals till Immortality shall swallow up all in its own Everlasting Light and Life This I thought meet to superadd to the foregoing Subject as the Opening renewed in me from Wisdom's Centre As now being under a Commission to keep nothing back that may serve for the Information or Satisfaction of Wisdom's Meek and Lowly Children who are restless Inquirers to learn and understand what in this Her Rising Day is to be Proclaimed to the whole Earth FINIS * The Revelation of Revelations p. 39 to 56. The Enochian Walks p. 26. The Laws of Paradise in the Preface p. II 47. a Laws of Parad conclusion Sep. 13. 1695.