year as the Sun came to enter the first point of Aries on the tenth day of the Month the first or Spring-Quarter of the Worlds growth standeth manifest in the Signs of the Times while Glory ascendeth the three Vernal Signs of the Zodiack in an inward World called Aries Taurus and Gemini and from the eleventh Day of the Fourth Month did the Sun enter the first point of Cancer in its degrees wherein is revealed the Summer-Quarter with the Rays and Beams of scorching Heat dispersed through Leo and Virgo the Heart and Bowels of Nature this being the fifteenth day of the fifth Month from the time that the Power of the Dragon hath been loosed out of the bottomless Pit in the form of those Beasts like unto Goats called Locusts wherein he had given up his Power unto the Beast with seven Heads and ten Horns for the thousand year which is the time he was bound XLII For from thence count thou the beginning of the five months that torment hath rested and seized on a third part of men in this fourth part or North-Quarter of the Worlds that have the mark and name and number of the Beast and the first Wo is manifest therein because the Devil is come down in great rage among men and the Inhabitants of the Earth are therefore terrified and afraid by the sounding of the fifth Trumpet of God after which these evils have followed the Worlds in the casting down out of Heaven the Accuser of the Just to the awakning a sence of what is thus come on and into the fourth part of the same wherein the Beast hath made his Seat but the second Wo followeth what is awakened out of the bottomless Pit whence a sence of torment resteth on those men from the sounding of the sixth Trumpet on that Great River EUPHRATES XLIII Wherein a sence of the destroying Power of God exalted in the Angels of the four Beasts that stand on the four Corners of the Earth to hold the four Corners of the Winds and whose Power is to with-hold those Winds from blowing is come into the renewed World under the Redeeming Power of God through the Sounding of the seventh and last Trumpet of God on the Air from the time that the Commandment of God went forth for the again building up and restoring Jerusalem in which the Mystery of what pertaineth to the Kingdom of God is come to be fulfilled and finished therefore a third Wo cometh and shall stand manifest from the concluding of the fifth month wherein the fourth Beast with the Face of an Eagle shall give up his Power which are the seven last plagues to come on the Earth and Worlds even seven Golden Vials filled with the wrath of God and the Lamb unto the seven Angels of God that are come forth of the Temple to sound LXIV For in the number of Years in thirty two Jubilies since the great Prophet and Minister of a better Tabernacle and Temple than that which is built by Man finished his Testimony therein and in the sixtieth Jubilie since the beginning of those Offerings wherein was the dayly Sacrifice which hath been made to cease in time those seven Angels of God that came forth of the Temple of God with their seven Golden Trumpets have been manifest in the Parts and Quarters over which they have sounded it being the tenth day of the Fourth Month from the awakened sence that came into those Parts of the World over whom the Trumpets had sounded of the torment of those Women that sat weeping in the North Gate over TAMUZ XLV So that counting four minutes of an hour to one degree of the Sun in the Diurnal Motion of the Wheels and fifteen degrees of the Sun for an hour of the DAY wherein the Heavens in Man are brought under fiery Tryals by the sounding of the Trumpets of God in the Angels of his Covenant on all the Glory of Worlds in its third part of Earth and Waters and Sun and Moon and Stars that stand manifest in what thereof is smitten according to the breaking forth of the day it is now 120 degrees of the Sun from the fifteenth Revolution of Years in the Heavens according to the fifteenth Year that the Forms in the Heavens have remained a Testimony of what was finished in the lively Patterns themselves that have their figure in the Tabernacle of Witnesses XLVI And reckoning from the tenth day of that first month wherein the Sun made his appearance in the first degree of the Ascendant from the sixth Hour of the Day which was his hour of rising in three minutes of ARIES to make his Right Ascention over the Heart of the Orient in the fire of the Meridian from the twelfth hour or Mid-day called Noon wherein he gave fourteen degrees to the Succedant it will now appear to be the last hour of the Day that many are called to be Fellow-Labourers and Workers together with God in his Vineyard counting the Suns rising in the degrees of the Meridian from the first degree of the Ascendant in Aries according to the motion of the Moon in her passage through the twelve Signs of the Zodiack XLVII For the Sun encreasing the strength of 22 minutes in ten days of the first month to make his rising to be the fifth hour of the 11th day of the second month in his passage through the Houses of his Ascendant Succedant and Cadent in the Vernal or Spring-Quarter there being thirty degrees in each House of the Heavens according to the Signs they have in the Zodiack of the Moon the Suns setting is made in the seventh hour of the day and further increasing strength for timely rising in his passage through Taurus that is the second House of his Dignities governing the left part of the Meridian in the middle of the Spring wherein the Dominion of the House is in the Neck and Throat of NATURE over Melancholy and the Earth in the Succedant he maketh his rising to be 10 minutes past four in the Cadent on the eleventh day of the third Month. XLVIII And the eleventh day of the fourth Month wherein the Sun entereth the first minute of Cancer to make the Summer-Quarter as he riseth in the degrees of the Meridian 47 minutes past three hours from Midnight he maketh it the longest day in the Year in this Latitude and under the Horizon in which the Works of Wonder are to be finished and fulfilled and then the Sun-setting is as long after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day which is Noon or Mid-day as it riseth before twelve to make an Evening of the day according to the hours wherein many have been bidden and are called and invited to a Feast through the ANGEL of Strength and Prayers of the JUST unto God that He might send forth Faithful Labourers into his Vineyard XLIX For that which is come into and on the Earth and Worlds in its fourth part or North-Quarter will continue to magnifie and
exalt the four destroying Angels of Strength that are loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES by which Europe hath been compassed about until the end of seven Months and five days though in the time of the sounding of those Trumpets the Winds have been suffered to blow on the Earth by those that have held their corners as four Angels standing on the four Corners of the same and the Spirit of God hath and doth yet strive with a Generation and Generations on whom the fierceness of Gods wrath in the Plagues of those Vials is to be poured forth and is come L. And the Creature Mankind imbodyed in this third Principle in which he is called the Microcosm or little World is that third part of the Macrocosm or great World as it standeth divided into its four parts or Quarters wherein the Eagle hath had Power over the North Quarter or fourth part of the Worlds where those Tryals are manifest under which the Lyon came first forth with four Wings of the Foul on his Back in which were Golden Fethers with the names of 36000. Men in each Golden Wing while the striving continued between the four Winds of the Heavens on the great Sea and from the loss of dominion therein in the plucking of the Lions Wings wherein came forth four other Beasts and took head in the Nature of that which separated the Man from the power in which he was first planted and placed the Kingdoms of the Earth and World became dispersed abroad the same LI. Until the great Bear or Leopard who hereby purchased the strength of those four Wings had them also taken away and the Man came to regain his dominion over all the Works of God's Hands as Lord in the substance of what is already communicated to his understanding and through those four first Beasts that now have taken unto them each of them the six Wings of the Cherubims every one in their order calling to come and see the Mystery of what is come forth to the Tryal of the Year Month Day and Hour over which they have Power and Dominion in their Angels the Glory of the Father is hallowed having in each Wing two thousand Fethers and names of Men which makes the Glorious Hoast of God in the Heavens Numerable in their Tribes and according to the Families of those scattered Nations over the face of the whole Earth LII Which are the dispersed Army of God and goodly company of that Mighty Hoast in the four Wings of the living Creature by which they stand figured forth 144000. of the first Body in which God hath his sealed Number of Instruments that are engaged in the Lamb's Battel as the MEMBERS of what hath continued like unto dry Bones in the Valleys And for the exalting their Angels in the Heavens their destroying power over the Earth and Worlds is loosed out of the great River over which the winds of the Heavens have striven and blowed while their destroying Power was bound LIII But now are the Winds in the Hands of the Angels to be with-held from blowing and the Spirit of God from striving any longer with the Creature Mankind by the Prophesie of the Witnesses or sounding of the Trumpets of God committed to the Angels and the whole Worlds shall be smitten with Plagues through that which is thus loosed out of the bottomless Pit wherein the Earth hath been covered with those Beasts called Locusts and they have overspread the same in its third part smitten by the sounding of the five first Trumpets and that which is awakened by the sounding of the sixth Trumpet hath command in and over those four Winds of the Heavens to with-hold them from blowing as oft as they please because God will not alwayes strive with Man who is but flesh LIV. And when the Earth is quiet and still according to the silence that hath been in HEAVEN for the space of half an hour and the Worlds begin to settle in the ease and content of the flesh then remember what I say for before this day there hath come Wars and rumours of Wars and the smoake of the torment of those Men on whom Judgment hath rested under the Power of the Beast shall be seen known to be the SEAT of the Beast in a fourth part of the great World that hath yet hitherto escaped Death in what came on that third part thereof in the little World Mankind like the fume of a boyling Furnace whence hath ascended the thick Cloud of Darkness that filleth the Heavens and the Power of the DRAGON who had delivered up his Seat and Throne unto the Beast for the time he remained bound in the bottomless Pit But that now is loosed in the sounding of the three last Trumpets is a Spirit working Miracles in the Earth in the execution of the three last WOES that are come thereinto for the awakening and rising up of three therein that do bear witness for GOD of what hath been crucified and slain in the Streets of the great CITY of the Worlds LV. And into those Kings of the East that have their Power again revived and their Heads healed which is a second Beast come out of the Earth with two Horns of a Ram pushing three ways to wit West and North and South shall enter those three Unclean Spirits of the Beast Dragon and Whore like Frogs through the drying up of the Waters in the great River EUPHRATES in the Worlds Sea they shall come over the same and into the place where God hath settled his glorious City and they shall strive to defile and overcome the Holy Land between the Seas but the end shall come with an over flowing Scourge and great Flood and out of the Mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet shall great things be performed and done LVI Yea all these things have a lively Character of the Truth hereof recorded in the Heavens by the Verity of Just Measure in time and Place for God is not to be limitted to time and place in his Work or to the prescription of men but he hath a time and season for every work according to which he hath determined and decreed an order wherein they are all to be fulfilled and brought to pass according to the measure by which they are measured and weighed in their day and the times and Seasons of their fulfilling have been in the Fathers hands until the hours thereof became made known to the Son of Man who is in Heaven in that which communicateth the sence thereof unto and in the World in whose behalf he came to lay down his Life in the Body of Flesh which he took up for the reconciling of the World unto the good will and pleasure of the Father LVII And the Star that is fallen from Heaven as an Angel that hath the Key of the bottomless-Pit I have beheld and do see the returning of such torment come on those men that have the Beasts mark on his Seat
Head which was healed up again by the coming forth of the Ram from the EAST who pushed three wayes after I had beheld five Horns fallen from a fourth Head that stood in the midst of five and unto this Beast did the Dragon give up his Power and also the first Beast and the WHORE which were the three Ribs in the Mouth of the Bear in the NORTH and they became three unclean Spirits like Frogs that entred this second Beast who caused the Image of the Beast to be again revived and to be worshiped that all men might receive his Mark else were they not to buy and sell with the Nations of the Earth who received his Mark and Names and Number on their right Hand or forehead and they were angry with those that could not bow down with them LIX And this was the Spirit of Devils working Miracles in the Name of God and thereby they caused the Generations of the World to fear and dread for the Nations of the Earth repented them not of their great evil and wickedness and sorceries and thefts and murders and worshiping of Devils and bowing down unto Graven Images and of all Idolatry and Uncleanness notwithstanding those afflictions that were come into the Worlds But a second Thunder also thundred from the Throne of God and the Lamb which came into the Temple of God wherein God had placed a Government over Nature in those four forms of the Beast and all Foundations in HEAVEN and EARTH were shaken for the preparing and raising up a Ground for that immoveable Rock and Foundation of many Generations LX. And a third Thunder also thundered from the great River Euphrates out of which those four destroying Angels of God were loosed by which those afflictions came on a third part of those Men who had not on them the Seal and Mark of God and the Lamb in whom a ground was awakened and raised up which made sensible of that which was come into those parts of the Worlds And a fourth Thunder thundered also from the Wilderness in which the Woman had remained travelling in sorrow for the forty two Months wherein the Holy CITY was given into the Gentiles hands to be troden under foot wherein the great DRAGON stood before her ready to devour that for which she was in Travel which was a Man-Child who was to Rule the Nations of the Earth in a Rod of Iron whom he sought to destroy CHAP. VI. Describing the Nature of the WORLDS in their raised and renewed state through a Restauration of the Heavens c. LXI AS I came to behold the daughter of the NORTH returning from the Wilderness in which was her travel and hard labour I saw TWINS of which she was delivered therein and the Children were nourished for the space of forty dayes by the WOLF who had fled thereinto wherein they became great And the Queen of the SOUTH who was come out of her own Land wherein she had been fruitful and was exalted in the Bulls Eye being delivered of a FEMALE Child her Seed was dispersed into the North and over the four Quarters in the World wherein the Waters had prevailed over the Earth LXII And as she came to settle her self in the pleasure and ease of the Flesh and to delight her self in the Worldly Spirit wherein she sought satisfaction she overlaid and slew the Fruit of her Womb in the Seed of Life through a drousiness and carelesness that came over her Spirit whereby she became dead while she lived and there appeared the form of two Children sporting themselves in the Field of the World for they vvere scattered from the House of NATURE vvhom the EAGLE beheld from his Nest and the one of them vvas caught by the Eagle who envied the Eye of the Child and by his Bill vvhich vvas renevved he pierced the sight of the BABE and made it blind but he vvas frighted avvay vvhile there vvas yet life in the Child LXIII And the Women met in the Wilderness vvherein the Queen of the South sought to compass a Man in the Seed of Life under the Povver of the North Wind because of the Brass Belly in vvhich the ETHIOPIAN vvas separated that had cured the Wound of those that had looked upon it the Remnant of vvhose SEED vvere multiplyed over the Quarters of the World that had escaped the sting of the Serpent in that WILDERNESS vvherein Generations had perished and the Face of God vvas tovvards his Israel to gather and deliver them from the Hand of the ASSYRIAN the second time LXIV For as those Women were sound striving about the living Child who had escaped the fury of the EAGLE though it grew blind under the same there arose the wisdom of a King in Israel to decide the matter through sound JUDGMENT that divided things aright for the distinguishing of the true Mother whose Bowels yearned in tenderness over the Birth in the time it stood under the censure of Separation wherein the HARLOT manifested her cruelty And the venom rested in the Eye of the Eagle like unto the poyson of Asps though therein he grew sharp and quick-sighted while his Wings overspread the Body of Nature in the Heavens from whence I beheld him exalted in the Air with two Heads in which the Seed of the North prevailed though the Daughter of the South enlarged the dominion of what proceeded from the Female Child and she was established Queen in that strange Land LXV And I beheld how the Image that had fallen in the Earth grew secretly invisible under the power of Corruption which increased its strength in the changeable wayes and courses of the WORLD wherein the Head of the RAM stood exalted in the fiery triplicity of the Aerial Heavens compassed about under the Waters that suffered the Power of Corruption over which the Heavens were moved while from the Neck downward the Body of the Earth strove to reign in dominion over its Head and in the Heart of the Earth was inkindled a flame from the Fiery Heavens as it stood moved about in the midst of the Body of Nature which had the lower parts of the BEAST downward but the Legs of a Man which stood at a distance in the form of the Letter A as from the Shoulders upward there did reach toward the Heavens the form of the Arms of a Man and both Arms and Legs were partly Iron and partly Clay LXVI And among the forms of all buildings which I had seen erected from the Heavens and standing in the Nature of the WORLD I beheld until the Temple that in its first appearance was very glorious was defiled with the Nature and Spirit of the WORLD and it became the seat of the Beasts which inlarged its power in that which overspread the Foundation of the Earth wherein the great City that I had seen had begun to rest and settle its first glory in which the Worlds were planted and the weight thereof was the structure of the Temples
without any consideration of a dividual Will in Creatures though sinking fallen from the glory of the Creator of all forms in Nature so subjected under a state of Corruption XLI And as the FIFTH day became subjected unto the Government of that under whose power all forms in Nature were brought forth I saw a THIRD PART of the Stars in the Heavens moved from the WEST to the EAST for the Glory of the Sun in the midst of the Heavens suffered the Motion of what drew TWO and as it were both WAYES as the Clouds of Darkness came to intermix their darkning quality in the Air between the Original Cause and Center of such Glory in its shining Properties and Virtues and the Creatures sence wherein the Lustre became apprehensive XLII And God beholding all Forms in Nature in the state of Subjection wherein they were placed in Creation as labour came to be felt coming up into the Body of Nature after Gods forming and finishing of Work on all that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity he became moved for his Creatures sake that second time which creature remained subject in the ground of the Lifes first motion to the unmoveable power from which SELF could not separate him without the yielding of his own WILL. XLIII But the MAN in divided qualities who was thus made Keeper of the Vineyard of his Brethren came forth as a WAY-FARING Man and Pilgrim in the Earth whose Face was exalted in the Principle and Region of AIR and in the World was his Body afflicted wherein he lost his way as a stranger to his Journeys end though attainable and sought it with Tears for Rests-sake XLIV Yet for FORTY DAYES was he tryed in that state whether or not he could live without the food of that which drew the LIFE under the power of corruption And for FORTY WEEKS was the form of Nature subjected for Generations sake after it became thus degenerated into its Principle for the replenishing the Earth anew in the state under which the Worlds were fallen XLV For all that came forth from the Womb of Eternity in FIVE DAYES took form from the Womb of Nature on the FIFTH day of Gods Glory in the Body of Creation and came forth imbodied in the Creaturely form whereby it was separated in its own Region and being as a peculiar SOURCE in the SPHERE wherein it was brought forth thus imbodied in form over which the WHEELS moved in their SEVEN TURNS and overturnings XLVI And all properties in the outward Wheel came forward in the Annual Motion thereof but that which came forth in its DIURNAL Motion went BACKWARD from the first moving cause of all beings in Creatures and things though it was also forward in the course and race which it had to run which in reference to the INWARD WHEEL was SIDEWAYES from EAST to WEST whereby the Wheels came to move through the whole frame of the Heavens both EAST WEST NORTH and SOUTH in its course which was of thirty years of thirty months of thirty dayes and thirty hours XLVII But the course in the Inward Wheel was of TWELVE YEARS making a separation of all that came forth in the twelve hours of the day in the light whereof it was given for man to work and TWELVE HOURS of the night that came stealing on Men and all other Creatures wherein no man can work and of the Twelve MONTHS of the year whereby the hours of the day became multiplied into their number separating between Winter and Summer XLVIII And this was the ground of all ANNUAL Motion in the Wheels which from the fifth day came FIVE YEARS forward wherein God had glory in the work of Separation in its divided Properties and Qualities that made SEVEN REVOLVES in a Week a Month and a Year of a natural Day of TWELVE HOURS divided from the night CHAP. V. Describing the Government of Nature as it was brought forth under the Power of four Forms in the first FOUR BEASTS XLIX THen I saw until the BEAST himself had taken unto him FIVE HEADS and NINE HORNS on each Head was a Horn but on the Head in the midst of the four which was the fifth Head were FIVE Horns and over his Heads and Horns past THIRTY-FIVE DAYES and a course in the Moon was exalted for a season but the Beast was driven EASTWARD and he came forth again and received a Wound on the Head which was in the midst but the Wound was healed up and he was driven from the Face of the Earth and I said Whither is he gone To which the Angel replyed He is gone into the EAST until THIRTY DAYS divide what cometh forth in FIFTEEN YEARS L. But Day and Night being separated in both Worlds in which the Two great Lights were moved about in their over-ruling Power the glory of the Power of Supremacy in GOD became manifest in both grounds to wit the ground and cause of both the DAY and NIGHT for the man whose Face was exalted in the Principle of Air in the Heavens magnified the sufferance of God by his Spirit for a season against the Creature and Creation of God which became a MARR'D IMAGE of the IDEA in all Forms in Nature though it was the Workmanship of his Hands LI. And the Glory and Lustre of all STARS distinguishable in their Operation and Qualities over Coelestial and Terrestrial Bodies became exalted forms which had TINCTURE among the dignified Virtues in Natures Course and Bond of Equality in Government out of which the DRAGON made up his Tail in the division of the Heavens which were moved about and drew the Creature under the power of Destruction LII Though the Body of Light and Glory through which the Suns Lustre came thus to shine was and is UNMOVEABLE except thus in its suffering wherein it did move as it was MOVED and no otherwise for it was not moveable from the Eternal CENTRE in all beings which is unalterable but from or in Nature whereby the fulness of all glory remained incomprehensible but the WORKER was therein apprehended in a shaddow and the glory of God seen darkly as in a Glass LIII For after all forms in the work of Creation were finished according to what I saw come forth out of the Womb of Eternity the WHEELS came to move over these forms in Nature which stood subject to the Power of God in the CHANGE which was come into the WORLDS and the name of the FIFTH DAYES work in God was in the Heavenly Language the ORB of MAHALALEEL in which the QUINTESSENCE of life strove in a Mystery among the forms of Nature LIV. But as the Worlds continued sinking in their state and condition wherein I beheld all things and Creatures thus brough forth that THIRD which aboad exalted in the Region of Air could not come into form in that creaturely being without great hurt and wrong to the Body of Nature therefore were all forms in Nature corrupted into MONSTROUS SHAPES
that fourth part of the WORLDS wherein the whole Earth had corrupted its way before the Lord that which bound the Nature of the Heavens from striving any more with mankind gave way to the power of destruction in a Mystery to increase its swelling Tempests over a third of the Earth out of which the forms of Nature were imbodied in the divided quarter or fourth part of the Worlds XXXIII And I beheld until the seventh year past over my Head and there appeared an Angel of the Waters whose power began to be prevalent over the South Wind and seven Kings of the South fell and the KING himself under whom the South Winds wrought was subjected by the dispersing abroad of those seven Nations of the Worlds through whom the Generations of the Heavens were multiplyed but two dayes before the expiration of the seventh year the Hands of the Angel grew weak for he went backward unto the parting of the great SEAS and brought up the Vessel that stood in the midst of the six in the front of the seventy which was born about by twelve Bulls six on the one side and six on the other XXXIV And the Sun recovered the strength and glory of that which stood still in the Heavens to manifest judgment over a backward course in its Worlds according to the degrees therein by which the Enemy prevailed over the Body of Nature to move the frame thereof under the Power of Destruction And from the expiration of the seventh year was fifteen dayes that the Vessel was subjected in the strength of the Angel for after I beheld the appearance of a second Angel with the Garment of the high Priest on whose Head was a Crown and on the Crown a Cross the form of the Crown was turned about like the Moon in its second Quarter and had two Horns like unto the Letter X wherein the Leter X stood in the midst of the Crown like unto two V A or V and A and I did read it one hundred and ten as though I had read in a Book XXXV For from the beginning of the appearance of the second Angel was seventeen dayes After which I beheld raised up out of the Earth a Wall of Brass and its Foundations rested on two and twenty Pillars that had on them two and twenty names of Men and the two and twenty Letters in the Hebrew Alphabet And on that WALL were twelve Towers on which Towers were placed twelve Angels each Tower stood between two Pillars and the Wall stood four square wherein there were three Gates on each side of the WALL But the Tower on the North-side of the Wall towards the East Corner thereof whereon was exalted an Angel who sat on a Beast in the form of an EVENING WOLF had no Pillars for its Foundations for its foundations fell in the raising up the structure of the WALL and I beheld until the Foundation of the whole was removed XXXVI And an Angel came down from his Tower on the East side of the WALL towards the South Corner thereof who was exalted on the first Beast in the forms of Nature like unto a RAM and he had made a breach on the WALL against whom an Angel who was exalted on the form of a Beast like unto an ASS smote his Foot And the Glory of the Angel on the North Corner of the Wall EASTWARD who was exalted on that Beast in the form of an Ass couching down between two burdens saw that rest was good to the heavy laden and they alighted from off those Beasts whereon they were exalted CHAP. IV. The effect of the descending of ANGELS into the Forms of Nature XXXVII FRom the middle Tower on the Wall Eastward did the Angel prevail in the HEAVENS who was exalted on a BEAST in the form of a LYON until the Angel that came from the South Corner of the Wall was held in a dark place because that self-will slew a man to dig down the Wall of Separation to ISRAEL from those Nations of the Earth that were fallen into Idolatry whereby they caused their Seed to pass through the Fire to Molech and Ashtaroth and followed the invention of the HEATHEN who thus continued worshiping in the Fire XXXVIII For wherein the West-wind prevailed I beheld the form of the Cherub set up to be Worshiped in the WILDERNES whereby the TABLES were broken that were wrote therein by the FINGER of God that his Hand might more eminently appear through that which was engraven the second time for the Angel that was exalted on this Beast came off from his Tower and there appeared another Angel that came off from his Tower on the East Corner of the Wall Southward that was exalted on a little Lyon that roared towards the North and the Woman that had on her Head a Crown of twelve Stars cast it down at the Foot of the Angel that rode on the Beast in the form of a CALF and I beheld until it was put on the Head of the Lyon XXXIX And the Woman was exalted QUEEN of the South but the Virgin Daughter of the NORTH stood afflicted in her Seed sixty one weeks and three dayes while the Daughter of the SOUTH made her self great towards the four Winds And for sixty eight weeks and four dayes I beheld the four Winds striving in the behalf of the Daughters of the North and the form of the Temple that God had builded and finished in the HEAVENS descended in a Cloud into the City that I saw erected under the Power of Destruction and in seven dayes was its Foundation setled therein in which time I beheld the form of the Wolf who was got before the Lyons Face enlarging himself in the power of the Lambs suffering whose Angel prevailed therein until I beheld the form of the Beast driven into the Wilderness in which time I saw the linnen EPHOD Worshiped XL. And an eighth Angel came off from his Tower sailing towards the Land of Rest to a Haven of Ships and there was also a ninth Angel who had in his right Hand a Cup filled with goodly dainties with which those that travelled over the Deeps were refreshed after which appeared a tenth Angel exalted on a ROE-BUCK who came leaping and skiping over the Mountains with glad Tydings to them that dwelt in the Valleys for he proved a good Hind and came home betimes giving goodly words And I beheld until there stood only TWO Angels exalted on their middle Towers North and South and I looked towards the Fields of the Earth which were white unto Harvest and ripe for the gathering XLI And the Angel led me into a Garden inclosed which was the Garden of my Beloved and I beheld how the Spiknard budded and grew up and how the Vines put forth their tenders Branches and the Pomegranet and all Spices flourished as the North Wind came thereon after the South Wind had blowed and the Daughter of the South had wandred from the Garden after the
Nature and those Beasts guided the Chariot of Nature wherein the ANGEL was exalted according to the time for which they were prepared and wherein they were loosed an hour a day a month a year L. For in the year for which those Angels were loosed I beheld seven Months wherein the dead were left to bury the dead And from the expiration of those five months was thirty dayes wherein the Angel that was loosed for his Month prevailed under the power of Destruction and the name of the sixth month was called ELIL because of the Fields that were Reaped wherein there was nought found And I beheld the ANGEL who was exalted through the appearance of the first Beast in the form of a Lyon that came forth on his White Horse on which he rode in the form of a MAN with a BOW in his Hand conquering and to conquer LI. And the afflictions that followed came over that third part of the Worlds that the Dragon prevailed in and had power over through the Stars of Heaven that he drew after him wherein he made up his Tail from a third part of the Heavens And the Angel that was raised up in form through that second Beast with the face of a Cherub rode on a red Horse wherein he came forth exalted in the Heavens and he had a SWORD in his Hand and came to take Peace from the Earth through the occasion of the fall of that first Star on the Rivers and Fountains of Water which made a sharpness in the Springs of VIRGIN Earth in the Bowels of Nature LII And through the fall of this second Star the face of a MAN became exalted in the Heavens in which third Beast the Angel of God came forth riding and exalted on his Black Horse with his Ballances in his Hand wherewith the Fruits of the Earth were weighed and measured forth to the Inhabitants thereof who were found labouring therein under the power of Corruption by just weight and measure according to every Mans works and doings in the Earth a measure of Wheat for a Penny and three measures of Barley and the Wine and the Oyl was not hurt until a fourth Angel of God who was exalted through a fourth Beast in the forms of Nature with the Face of an EAGLE had finished his work that he had to do in the WORLDS LIII Who had power over a fourth part of the Earth and he came forth on his Pale Horse like unto Death and Death and Hell followed him wherein his power was executed by Pestilence Famine and Wild Beasts of Prey on that fourth part of the Worlds until the whole power of the Heavens became subject to the first former And I said unto the Angel of God How long shall this continue and the power of this Beast prevail in the HEAVENS To which the Angel replyed Until the EAGLES Eye be pluckt out and he be made blind as in the day that he was created LIV. Then shall the Accuser of the Just be cast down out of the Heavens and all Power in Heaven and Earth shall be delivered up unto the FATHER And I beheld until that fourth Beast came to deliver up his Power unto the seven Angels of God vvhich vvas seven Golden Vials filled vvith the Wrath of God and the Lamb to vvit the seven last Plagues to come on the WORLDS and they came forth out of the Temple of God in the sounding of the seventh Angel on the AIR whereby were finished the Mysteries of God's Kingdom And therein I beheld in the Vision an apparition of the Horses very dreadful and terrible with Brest-plates of fire and Jacinth and their breaking down was as with an Iron Rod breaking and stamping in pieces strong Nations mighty and great and out of their Mouths and Nostrils streamed forth fire and Brimstone and smoke and their Power was in their Mouths and in their Tails which had Heads like the stings of Serpents wherewith they came to hurt and destroy LV. For they had Wings like a flying FOWL and did fly along in the AIR making a great noise like unto the ratling of Chariot Wheels and on their Heads were Crowns of Gold and they had Teeth like unto Lyons who were called DAN'S Horses through a sence of the bruise on the WOMANS Heel but their Riders were like unto Sagitarius or men that had lost their shape and were fallen backward for they had not the use of their Legs and the Captain of the ARMY that I beheld in the Vision of the Heavens had a name which signifyeth a POWER in the DESTROYER or a POSION wherein I beheld his Followers a great number being thousands of thousands which no man could number and until the end of those months they were not to hurt any Herb or green thing for four Woes were past and two were yet remaining LVI And there was also of the LAMBS Followers sealed a great number which could not be counted who came through those two WOES to the Inhabitants of the Earth in its fourth part wherein the Eagle had power of which he was discharged And the Angel that I saw had in his Hand the Keyes of the Covenant of Love and Mercy to the Faithful and Chosen of God who took unto them their Golden Harps and stood on Mount Zion with their Harps harping and singing and praising God who had brought them out of great Captivity whereby their Garments were made white that were washed in the Blood of the Lamb whose names were written in Heaven in the Book of the Lambs Life for they were preserved from the hurt of what was come into the Earth And the Angel had also in his Hand the CHAIN wherewith the great Red DRAGON had been bound down for this thousand years out of which Pit those living Creatures were loosed LVII And as I beheld the BODY of Nature in its afflicted state I came to hear the Voice of seven Thunders thundering and their thunderings were to prepare a ground in which the sence of things wrought the first Thunder was from the unconceivable WOMB of Eternity which prepared a ground for the sence hereof in the WOMB of Nature which continued everlastingly thundering over the cursed Ground in which the â—eed of Enmity had entered the Creation of God And there appeared the form of a VIPER who had gnawed his way out of the Womb of Eternity to come into the Womb of Nature yet was he shut up in the place of Conception as a third Principle of the Man imbodied in the Creaturely being of whose birth was made a Separation in one hour wherein came forth a Generation of VIPERS at once in Mans form LVIII And the Angel of God led me aside into the great Wilderness and I there beheld the WHORE magnifying her self for a season and she rode on the scarlet coloured Beast with seven Heads and ten Horns which were ten Kings who had power with the Beast for an hour because of the Wound on his
BEAST I beheld the pleasant Field and fruitful Garden working up the form of what indured and continued patient under those fiery Tryals until they became past over though many therein did dwell on a barren Heath who could not see when good comes whereby they perished in the Night of Obscurity and worldly sorrow that overtook them in their way wherein the power of DEATH wrought and became strong in the WORLDS CXIII And in the place of the fifth Head of the Beast in the midst of four which I had beheld Wounded as it were unto death were sprung up three other Heads And the Horns on that fifth Head which had received that deadly Wound were increased through the healing up of the Wound wherein a little Horn that sprung up between the Eyes of the Beast received Voice and began to speak great swelling words against the God of Heaven and his SAINTS that dwell on the Earth and the little Horn waxed strong towards the four Winds of the Heavens wherein the BEAST appeared with seven Heads and ten Horns which had Power in in the Beast to reign with him as Kings for their hour CXIV And whereas after I had seen the fall of five Horns on that fifth Head of the Beast I beheld remaining four Heads from whence sprung up four Horns in the dispersing abroad the Kingdom and Power of the BEAST under the four Winds of the Heavens so in the reviving of his power that which became exalted in the reducing of four to its first subjection ruled over five in which the wound was received and wherein the Beast came forth first manifest and in the discovery of both the rise and fall of the BEAST though through the great Horn of the Hee-Goat who did not touch the ground until he had accomplished his design after he had power given him in the awakened fury of the West-Wind the two Horns of the RAM from the EAST were broken and stampt in pieces that great Horn was also broken when its fury was accomplished CXV Yet was the power of the four Horns on those four Heads of the BEAST bound down in the four Heads of the great River until the time of the loosing of their four Angels that stood on the four Corners of the EARTH to hold the four Corners of the WINDS from blowing on the EARTH while the little Horn was magnified whereby the third Head which sprung up in the midst of the seven recovered four Horns from that which was dispersed under those four Winds of the Heavens and on the other six Heads were manifest six Horns CXVI Thus was the BEAST more monstrous then all those other Beasts that passed before him with Iron Teeth by which he did break and stamp in pieces And his Face was like unto a Leopard with the form of a third part of the Stars in the constellation of the HEAVENS on his Back but he had the Feet of the great Bear and discovered his power through the four Heads of the great River EUPHRATES in the loosing of those destroying Angels who came first out from the WATERS but the reviving of his strength from those deceitful healings proceeded out of the Earth through the power of the RAM in Nature CXVII And in the time of the sounding of the sixth Trumpet this BEAST came forth through the loosing of those destroying ANGELS out of the great River and through those earthquakes and shakings that were come into the WORLD wherein fell that tenth part of the great City God had returned unto himself his Tenths to be eaten as a Teyl-Tree and as an Oak whose substance was in it these were the remnant of the Holy Seed who worshipped the Lord with a pure Heart even in Spirit and in Truth and whose Garments were washed White in the Blood of the Lamb. CXVIII For they came to pass through great tribulations and Tryals in their WAY because they could not Worship the BEAST nor receive his Mark but they were preserved blameless before the Lord in that hour wherein Iniquity was not found in their HEARTS neither was there guile in their MOUTHS to be uttered with their Tongue And I beheld until the sin of MANASSEH became ripened and was filled up and the high Altars in both Courts whereon had been offered Sacrifice to IDOLS and Incense burnt to strange Gods which neither we nor our Fathers have heard of were pulled down because of the God of FORCES who was worshipped neither was the desire of Women regarded CXIX And after I came to see the WOMANS deliverance from the rage and fury of the great Red DRAGON who had cast his floods of Water after her in the time and times wherein she had been helped by the EARTH and sheltered by the Wings of the EAGLE with which she had fled into the Wilderness as the Dragon came to give up his Power to this monstrous Beast the remnant of her Seed was persecuted in the World for the space of full forty dayes And wherein the Sun had gone back ten Degrees for the prolonging of Life in the Just after he came to discover and reveal the glory in which was his safety before Babylons King who wrought by subtilty and much craft whereby fifteen dayes were added to his dying state CXX Those dayes were again doubled in the renewed Zeal wherein the Favour of God was multiplyed to the purging his House and Sanctuary according to the fifty-five dayes wherein Manasseh had caused the Israel of God to err in following after Idols And for ten days the Devil had power to cast many into Prison that they might be tryed and sifted by his cunning devices until their Garments became thus made white in the Blood of the slain Lamb of God CHAP. XI Describing the Form of the WHEELS in the VISION according to their MOTION wherein are numbred the dayes that the BEAST hath yet to reign and continue on the Earth CXXI AS to the form of the Wheels as they wrought and moved one within the other as a Wheel within a Wheel like unto the form of the Worlds which are moved the one within the other the WHEELS never rested but went streight forward towards Eternity wherewith they were tinctured and moved in the power thereof as though they crossed each other and yet there was no crossness in the Will and Wisdom of Eternity from whence they were moved in the power of him that first wrought and laboured in the motion thereof CXXII For all crossness that appeared in the motion thereof wrought in the Earthly ground wherein the World 's laboured to Center in a Glory below the power of Eternity from whence every thing first proceeded and was brought forth to a day of Tryal in the FRAME under which the Body of Nature was constituted to exercises from the Glory of the HEAVENS wherein the Will of the Creature was subjected to a change through vanity that entered the WORLD in a state of corruptible Glory which was
expected to befall NATIONS in such a Case though his displeasure may be AWAKENED against a People or Nation and in his sufferance are destroying ANGELS loosed out of the great River of the WORLDS Sea and often is he stirred up to that which he delighteth not in even to appear like unto a LYON roused up before he please and as a Giant disturbed from his sleep yet will great Alterations and changes come into the World and they will happen unto the secure like Events determined from an over-ruling Power THE THIRD PART CHAP. I. Wherein is opened the Mystery of what came forth in the Worlds in the form and frame of the Heavens from whence the Vision had power to work up its discoveries I. THE principles of ETERNITY in God or God in his eternal existence is the fire of Life burning in jealousie over his own Honour and Glory that gave being to Love in which remaineth â—he Original Center of all good from whence his preheminence is mainâ—ained in and over his Creature through that which he first inkindled â—n the Ground and Center of Nature in which is both a good and an evil But Waters are the first and all Principle in NATURE through the sinking frame of the WORLDS into and under palpability wherein EARTH took form as a third Principle in Nature separated into being on the third day from whence all Creatures became imbodied in the substantial form of Palpability II. And all separated qualities remain in the ground of substantiality while time place endureth wherein the Life of the Creature centereth in that which is come forth into its individual being among the forms of Nature according to the source it possesseth and inhabiteth for these beings are formed in and from the Earthly Principles which are separated from the Heavens in what remaineth sinking under a power of Corruption wherein threâ—… do bear record for God which are the glory of Terrestrial Bodies Essentially forming Nature into being in that which continueth breathing through the out-spread Firmament of the Atry Heavens under the Waters III. As also from the fiery Heavens from whence a third part of the Waters was dryed up from the Earth in their Principle on the third day and by a third dayes work of God therein manifest the three Glories of the Father do shine through all Celestial Bodies to wit one Glory of the SUN which is a great LIGHT to rule the DAY and another of the MOON which is the lesser LIGHT to rule the NIGHT and another of the STARS according to their differing Glories in which the over-ruling Power of the Heavens subjecteth the forms of Nature in their several Constellations that gives life to the Creatures being in the Earth IV. In this respect God is considered and become the cause of all causes in ETERNITY and ground of all being in NATURE as Palpability is the ground of Corruptibility wherein he is called a consuming and everlasting FIRE and yet as substantiality is not without the Creature he is absolutely the cause of nothing as well as of all things where nothing without God is God without Nature which is a cause of both good and evil wherein the Worlds do remain unmanifest but in Nature and wherein the work of God is comprehended in the forming qualities of that which is brought forth in the effect of labour in seven Natural days V. Therefore said the ANGEL of God these WATERS that thou sawest are those on which the multitude of the WORLDS and great Nations are moved and carried to and fro according to the course of time and tide the WOMAN remained exalted on them who allured many into those Vessels that begin to swim pleasantly over the streams of Corruption singing a Requium to their Souls that they might not remember the danger in their way wherewith they are daily beset and they are called the PEOPLE and Tongues and Nations of the Kindreds of the Earth that are divided under the four WINDS of the Heavens tossed up and down through the boysterous Storms and swelling Tempests that are again gathered together in HEAPS over the main Sea and Ocean of Trouble in which is the Lake and Bottomless Pit from whence all Monstrous shapes in Creatures are come forth to cover the Earth VI. And the Vessels that thou sawest carried thereon are those which were first built and erected from the Heavens into which the Patrons of all Earthly forms were gathered in one and were again distributed through many according to the Nature of the BEAST wherein wrought the confusion of Languages in the prevailing of the MOON over Woman in the changeable wayes and course of the WORLD under which the Heavens stand thus divided VII In seven they took Head and in ten was each Horn exalted over nine which is an intricate number among the Figures in forms of Nature wherein those seven that thou sawest come forth into the Creaturely being first imbodied under the power of Corruption are the seven forms of Nature subjected under a power in which the Heavens and Earth are multiplyed in and according to their Generations generating Nature and name to the being of each form Corporal CHAP. II. Describing the Nature of the degeneration of the WORLDS in those Principles wherein the Creature became imbodied in time and place VIII FOR answerable to the time and place wherein all Created Prinples in the forms of Nature remained sinking under a Power of Corruption working properties in the Heavens prevailed over the bodily frame to afflict it with labour according to the motion in the Wheels in which those Principles suffered and were acted and that which suffered the glory of the frame of the WORLDS to work up the gross form of Palpability in the way and course the Body of Nature became acted by a motion in the Heavens was subject to Corruption that came into time and place through the change of the frame in the Worlds IX And agreeable to the Name and Nature of those Men that were FATHERS in their Generations through whom palpability prevailed in the Waters whereby the Worlds were first overwhelmed in the deluge and overflowing scourge the glory of the World imbodied a form in Nature for the Seed of Life to work up the first Beauty of CREATION according to what was manifest in time and place wherein each day had its year multiplyed in Nature from the Heavens as each Month hath its Hour in what is divided to every particular state and condition of the Creature under which Death and Afflictions have increased their dominion over the ends of the Worlds X. And as from the Womb of Eternity the BEAST in the forms of Nature prevailed in a backward course under which the Heavens were subjected for the manifesting of each day in Nature wherein the Principles of the World were acted and wrought in a frame that discovered its revolutions so according to the years wherein the multiplicity of such forms increased the WATERS
the Heavens I beheld a prepared Ground unto which the Gates of Eternity were opened and from the Elemental being in which four Gates were opened into the Worlds whence strove the four Winds of the Heavens I beheld the coming forth of the four Beasts in the seven forms of Nature wherein their Power was first manifest after whom arose those other four Beasts in the dispersing abroad of the powers of Nature through the plucking of the Wings from the LYON XXXVIII Wherein the Power of the RAM in Nature who came forth first exalted through the plucking off the LYONS Wings and dispersing abroad of the power of five Kings that were fallen had his HORNS first broken in the separated power of the Heavens under the striving of their four Winds and he is the last Power in Nature under which the Heads of the Beast have been healed XXXIX For through the appearance of the ANGEL of God in the forms of Nature I beheld how the whole Earth was lighted with the Glory of that which is broken forth into the Worlds and there came unto me one of those seven Angels of God who had the Golden Vials that were filled with the seven last Plagues even the wrath of the Lamb ready to be poured forth on the wicked and ungodly world and he talked with me as doth a Man with his Friend and said unto me This is the Mystery of that first Beast thou sawest come forth with five Heads and nine Horns XL. These are nine Kings five against four who served and were subject to one King twelve years and in the thirteenth year they rebelled and in the fourteenth year his power was again revived in what had received that deadly wound wherein was broken the first five Horns from the fifth Head of the BEAST whose Seat was in MALE called ELAM in the Hebrew Tongue which you read backward and his Name is KEDORLEOMAR in SHINAR of BABYLON where is the VOICE of an ANGEL I-AM-RAPHEL revealed in TIDAL LAD it KING of Nations XLI This therefore is the Mystery of all those Beasts and of what thou hast seen come forth according to the times in the Vision for which it hath wrought the LYON is the Heart of that Nature in which the first ADAM was Created from whence the RAM in Nature hath Head and Face which is the first House among the Mansions in the Heavens of the Father's Glory and the CALF is the Neck and Throat of Nature which is the second House of the Fathers MANSIONS in the Heavens whence the scape GOAT took form through the bended KNEES of what descended from the Heavens in the state of subjection under which Nature was framed XLII And in those two first Houses of the Heavens wherein the Glory of the Sun and Moon of the Son of Man in the FIRST ADAM was exalted the fiery Heavens had tinctured the forms of Nature in the double Bodied being through a separation made between Day and Night wherein the Man was oppressed that bore the weight and burthen of the wrong in the Fall on the shoulders of the created Body over-ruled through its two great Lights whereby his ARMS were spread abroad as the appearance of his form wrought in the Clouds of the Heavens whence those Beasts did both ascend and descend XLIII Which stood manifest on the EARTH whence the HEE-GOAT ascended through the Mans sufferance who had the face of the third Beast among those forms in Nature for the Arms and Shoulders of Nature is the third House of MANSIONS in the Heavens as the fourth BEAST in the forms of Nature with the face of an EAGLE wherein the four Angels are exalted on the Earth in the sounding of those Golden Trumpets out of the TEMPLE by their ANGELS in their forms of Nature CHAP. VIII Describing the Ground in Nature wherein other BEASTS took Form then those FOUR in which the Creation of God was FIRST planted in its Government over the BODY wherein Man hath a Being XLIV THe IMAGE of God in which was the Mans Dominion had power over all those Earthly FORMS in Nature though as ADAM was created an earthly Man he was of the Earth earthly for that was first which is earthly and yet in the similitude he bore of his Maker there was a Government settled to rule and have authority over the Nature of the BEAST which made subject to Vanity and a Power of Corruption through a Generation and Generations that liked not to retain the KNOWLEDGE of God in their MINDS XLV Therefore did they change the Image of God into Gold and Silver and four-footed BEASTS and creeping things with Wood and Stone and things graven out of the Invention of Man which they have fallen down unto and worshipped because after they knew God or rather were known of Him this MYSTERY of Iniquity began to work HIDDENLY wherein they were given up to a reprobate sense in the UNBELIEF of the Truth that caused the Condemnation XLVI And their DAMNATION slumbereth not who believe a Lye to the marring of that Form in which the MAN was an Image of his Maker This therefore is prefigured forth to thee that thou mayest apprehend the Generation of MEN on whom God hath set a Mark according to the IMAGE they bare to distinguish them in their NATURE And as the LION whose Government is in the HEART of Nature and CALF whose government in Nature is the Neck and Throat of the untamed Will that acteth the BODY are the FIFTH and SECOND Houses of those Mansions from whence the SUN is moved and wherein the MOON is EXALTED so the RAM and HE-GOAT who are the FIRST and TENTH Houses among the FORMS in Nature are those BEASTS in Nature wherein a falsified Glory entred those FORMS in which the MAN lost Dominion though the Light of the SUN of his day was and is Exalted in that FIRST House as it fell in the TENTH XLVII And therefore in the sinking State under which those forms of Creation continued Light was Exalted in the Reins of Nature which is the SEVENTH House whence came forth and appeared the Face of that THIRD BEAST like a MAN with the BALANCES in his Hands whereby every thing was weighed and tryed by just Measure though under him lurked the Form of a Leopard or great Bear with four wings of a Fowl on his Back and through him sprung up FOUR notable HORNS on the HEAD of the GOAT in the dispersing abroad KINGDOMS of the EARTH under the FOUR Winds of the HEAVENS XLVIII But in the dividing of the Heavens whence came to be exalted the Spirit of Sound and Tone uttering its Voyce in the sound of seven golden Trumpets as the WOLF or little BEAR that hath for his Seat the Breast of Nature which is the fourth House among the MANSIONS in the Heavens got before the LYONS Face who is the Heart of Nature in that fifth House of Mansions wherein the SUN hath its seat the Moon came to exalt
her borrowed Light from that fourth House which is become her seat in the second House which is her House of Exaltation CHAP. IX Describing the Properties of the IMAGE in the FORMS of Nature that fell in the WATERS XLIX THe Head of the IMAGE which was Gold was the LYONS four first Golden Wings wherein the strength of ASSYRIA was broken the first time in what was pluck'd from the LYON according to that which fell in the WATERS and the Silver Brest which was the two Horns of the RAM in Nature is the strength of the MEDES and PERSIANS that were broken by the Power of GREECE whereby BABYLON spread abroad her Kingdoms in the rising up of the little BEAR on the LYONS side wherein was that second great LIGHT comprehended L. But from the NORTH did he move about the Heavens through his TAYL wherein Centred the Meridian point thereof holding in his Mouth those three Ribs that were taken out of his Side in his rising up to devour much Flesh Furthermore said the Angel of God The great BEAR or LEOPARD that thou sawest is that in which a third part of the Stars of Heaven are comprehended that have fallen unto the Earth which is the brazen Belly of the IMAGE in the FORMS of Nature even the Power of GREECE in that which is dispersed under the Four Winds of the Heavens LI. This is a Power of the South Wind wherein the brass Belly of the Image remained bound down with an Iron Bond of the NORTH Strength from which it could not be loosed in the four destroying ANGELS of God until that was ripened to the Day of Destruction wherein the Wound of the BEAST had been healed up deceitfully though three Horns were plucked up by the Roots while the stumps of the IMAGE continued fallen in ASIA for the discovering of the four Heads of the Beast in which he bore the form of a Leopard or GREAT Bear but the LITTLE Horn waxed strong and became GREAT towards the four Winds of the Heavens LII For as I beheld the Throne of God placed in his Holy Habitation the Ancient of Dayes was sat thereon wherein appeared his burning Wheels and the signs in the WATERY HEAVENS discovered that which rested in their TRIPLICITY from the Zodiack whence those Houses of Mansions have their Constellations And though the RAM in Nature had the first Form in the Fiery Triplicity and was the first House of those twelve Mansions as is the CALF the first Form in the Earthly Triplicity and second House in those Mansions yet through the WHEELS the HEAVENS and EARTH were moved toward a Change throughout the seven forms of Nature in EACH Triplicity LIII Wherein the Lyon hath the Face of the first Beast among the FORMS in Nature though in his fifth House that which shineth from his Seat is exalted in the Head and Face of the Ram. But both the Created and Uncreated Beings having their generated Forms in the Body of Nature the first Form in the Airy Triplicity hath the Face of an EAGLE exalting that which is generated into the Double-Bodied-Being to be his House that is sheltered under the Wing of Favour in that fourth Beast through whom Death strengtheneth those Accidents that are drawn from the FIRST Form in the WATERY Triplicity from whence all changeable Courses do work up Life in the Brest of Nature wherein the SPIRIT of the Creature doth move which is the Candle of GOD through which Glory is put forth in those borrowed QUALITIES of Light LIV. Though from Barenness in the worldly Nature wherein the Glory of the Virgin hath been stained cancered crabbed Qualities have infected the Body whereby it hath sprung up and grew until from the second Form in the Earthly Triplicity the VIRGIN who hath sat in a dark place even the Bowels of Nature which is the sixth House in the Heavens came to put off her night Robes for the Glory of the Birth exalted in the separation of all mixt Qualities which is HEIR of everlasting Renown LV. Yet in the Watery Triplicity where in the Bodies Courses have been defiled through that which hath lain secretly lurking in the Members whereby the FORMS of Nature have power to generate an IMAGE of the Minds Delight the Womb hath opened to the Power of Death and letting in Sorrow into that which is possessed in the Eighth House whence the WORLDS are generated under a Power of Corruptian the Nature of the SCORPION stingeth in the Habitation of that second Form in the Watery Triplicity through the Pleasure under which its Subjects are allured for the multiplying of what is generated to secret content CHAP. X. Describing the MYSTERY of the Four Horses of four several Colours on which the four ANGELS that are loosed c. are come forth exalted LVI THrough the coming forth of the Son of MAN in the CLOUDS of Heaven who was cloathed with a Rain-Bow in which are all the colours of the Heavens in their pure Element as the Powers of Nature became subject to the exalted of God he rod on those CLOUDS that were dispersed abroad under the Four Winds of the Heavens as on the Rain-Bow in the Firmament whence every Angel of God is seen in his Beauty and Glory bending to the Son of his Love and Favour through whom he manifesteth the Life of Delight according to the source they possess and inhabit from the eleventh House of Mansions in the third Form of the Airy Triplicity like unto HORSE men that guide the Chariot of Nature LVII For the preparing of which DAY in its time those Goats have been suffered to come forth imbodyed in that which is loosed out of the bottomless Pit whereby the Earth hath been covered with Locusts wherein pangs have rested on those Men that have the Mark of the Beast Therefore saith the Angel of God In that third Being in the FIERY Triplicity wherein the form of the Son of Man is come forth exalted in the Clouds of Heaven through that which smiteth the EARTHLY Triplicity in its third part among the Forms of Nature the BOW Man is riding on his White Horse and over the White Clouds of the Heavens he hath spread his Glory from the North because of those flying Goats in his Way whose ratlings are like the Chariot-Wheels of the FURIOUS Drivers LVIII And in the Watery Triplicity the burning Mountain continueth in flaming from that which is cast into the Sea which doth rage and swell because of the disquiet that is come into its part of the Triplicity in that Watery Form over whom the Glories of the Heavens do not shine in that third part and wherein both Earth and Waters and all that live therein or move thereon are smitten in the aforesaid third part that resteth its torment on the seat of the BEAST into which Glory hath shined from the Heavens in the operation of those Signs of the Times LIX From whence I see great Alterations and Changes attending the
WORLDS in their Generations where wild BULLS of Bashan are reared up to push and devour each other and from DAN there is in mine Ear the snorting of Horses and ratling sound of the Chariot Wheels like rumblings in the Air hurling up and down for REST from noise And what is herein written is of things past present and to come which are all to be fulfilled in their place and order according to the Dayes and Hours for which the VISION doth work and is made to speak in what is narrowed to the Creaturely Capaciiy through him that hath cut the Work short in Righteousness that is manifested throughout this la lâ— and Age of the WORLD LX. For from the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about EUROPE in its fourth part and Quarter is the destroying Power of God loosed for the Execution of Divine Justice on those Men that have the Mark of the Beast on whom the torment of those Months is accomplished to the finishing the work in which Death hath Dominion over that Nature wherein the WORLDS are imbodied in its Quarters therefore is the time near at hand wherein the Worlds will suffer very great shakings and Earthquakes will break forth in divers parts thereof to the overturning of many Foundations and changing of Laws and Governments of Men whereby coldness of Spirit and deadness hath over-taken the Multitude in a dull and secure state and afterwards will follow a great Power of HEAT in kindling its FLAMES of DESTRUCTION throughout the BODY of the ELEMENTS CHAP. XI Describing the MYSTERY of Time for which the Vision is set c. LXI Concerning the TIME for which the VISION is set it is now near the expiration of one hundred and twenty days since the finishing of the fifteen years wherein I beheld the prevailing of the Waters over the Earth in the fifth year that I saw the fall of the Worlds under a Power of Corruption through which the Waters became smitten in their third part under which the WORLDS stand divided in their four Quarters in the dispersing abroad of the FLOODS on which the People were moved and tossed up and down as the Waters fell BACKWARD into their four Heads by which every thing hath been tryed and carried into its appointed Place through the Tempests and swelling Waves of awakened Storms that are come into the Worlds LXII For from those TWELVE Years wherein the Nations of the Earth were subject to one KING a Spirit of Rebellion against the Power of the Beast entered four Kings of the four Winds of the Heavens who fell before five in the Vale of Siddim that is full of slime-pits whereby the remainder of those that escaped were reduced to the Mountains on their flight yet the thirteenth year which was the year of their Rebellion was it in which the Power of the BEAST stood dispersed in the striving of the four WINDS of the Heavens on the great River EUPHRATES out of which their Power is again revived and loosed though from the Seat of the Beast which is the BOTTOMLESS-PIT from whence proceeded those living Creatures called LOCUSTS that I beheld in the Vision in the form of Goats c. Life again entred that on which rested the First Wound in Nature LXIII And as the LEOPARD or Great BEAR came forth manifest with four Wings on his Back like the Wings of a FOWL his Kingdom stood dispersed abroad the Earth and Worlds and in the place of the Great Horn of the RUFF GOAT of GREECE which was broken by the power under which the Worlds stood divided those Four notable Horns were seen that became exalted towards the four Winds of the Heavens which are the Power of four KINGS and four Heads of the Beast that did spring out of the first Breach whose Kingdoms are not so mighty as the first wherein the Little Horn came forth between the Eyes of the Goat c. LXIV And that little Help through which the fifth Head in the midst of four on which sprung up five Horns that were broken and fell in the first King received that deadly Wound c. is a Power in the North Wind of the Heavens under which the Wound is become again healed up that is the Feet of the Image which is partly to break and partly to be broken for it is both Iron and Clay And this is the King of the NORTH who may be manifest in the Person of a Man of fierce Speech and dark Countenance as he is indeed manifest through many in whom a Power of the North Winde hath been dignified as Kings in that REGION wherein is a cold binding Climat of dark Air. LXV For since the fourteenth year wherein the South Winds of the Heavens were reproved and corrected for their Rebellion in those four Kings whose Kingdoms were enlarged in the dispersing abroad of the Power of four that sprung out of one who retained not the ARM that which grew up towards its tryal by FIRE was separated into its Mystery in what was effected through the fifteenth year from whence the Worlds have been warned one hundred and twenty days according to the days of the Life of Man of that destruction and desolution by the over-flowing Scourge wherein the Waters have exercised a Dominion that is ome under the smiting of the four Winds of the Heavens LXVI And wherein both the HEADS and HORNS of the Beast are KINGS and POWERS in Nature that have their Form in and on Men yet the King himself of that North Wind is not the Person of any ONE Man but a Power in One as well as in Many that are wholly under the Dominion of the Beast or that have his Mark c. according to the Power of the Constellations under which the period of all Signs in the Heavens are moved and do work over such that have their concern therein in a mystical and spiritual sence to all NAMES in Nature but now is it manifest that the MYSTERY of Time is compleat in the Figure of the FORMS in Nature wherein every thing that is either past present or to come remaineth MEASURABLE and DISTINGUISHABLE according to that Spirit under which all Powers in Nature doth WORK and and whereby all that is wrought in its BEING is come forth into FORM. LXVII Yet Nature that is Creatable suffereth through all Changes and REVOLUTIONS that are MANIFEST on and in the BODY of ELEMENTS subject to Vanity and a Power of Corruption both the Good and the Evil of which the MAN hath tasted in the exercise of his Sence according to the operation of Qualities that are predominate in his BIRTH though nothing is absolute in time and place to the MAN but in the Power under which his Life is concerned operating in all the faculties of Nature in which is the holy and glorious Land whence tidings shall come out of the North and from the East which will trouble the NATIONS and Inhabitants of the Earth who are yet to
solitary place XXVI The separation in the Heavens being made betwixt the two great Lights by which the day night was ruled the first that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity into the Womb of Nature had slain his Keeper for he was a monstrous shape and form of the Beast in Nature with the Head and Face of a RAM the Neck and Throat of a BULL the Wings of an EAGLE the Breast of a CRAB-FISH the Heart of a LYON the Bowels of both MAN and BEAST but downwards like a SCORPION XXVII And he sat on all the FORMS in Nature which became this Beasts seat who went THIRTY DAYES backward in the Rings of the outward Wheel after he had slain his Keeper for by the strugling of TWAIN the VIRGIN in Nature was slain which the man should have kept alive who was made Keeper of his Virgin that had the Face of Man both Male and Female XXVIII And by him was slain the Face of a Man who was exalted in the Principle of Air in the glory of Angels in an Angelical Paradisical being and state After the Virgin in Nature was thus lost and became slain in the place of Conception and Field of Nature whereby the Creature Mankind became as made a little lower then the Angels subjected in that state wherein the Creation of God was brought forth XXIX So that as NECESSITY came to work in a Mystery through the ground of what was brought forth in the created Forms in Nature it became a LAW in Nature under the power of which every Creature was brought for the grounds sake that thus stood under subjection to the Power of God and that a man might be brought forth to till and tear up the ground under which I beheld the subjection of all forms in Nature after all the works of God were seen to be good XXX And then as the Keeper of the living had the glory of the Life of God in Nature subjected in hope the groanings and waitings of the Creation became a longing expectation of God afterwards to be revealed whereby he that remained with his Face exalted in the Air was made the Keeper of the Vineyard of his Brethren XXXI For as the Work of God became imbodied in the Creaturely being from the Womb of Nature I beheld the form of a Man who was that GOOD Man that smote me on my Head casting SEED into a Ground in which I saw the working form and frame of all these things and he afterwards fell asleep And a SECOND man also came forth and he likewise cast in Seed into a GROUND scattering it in the Air towards the NORTH Wind of which some fell on the good Ground XXXII Whereby the Face and form of a Man who came forth out of the Womb of Eternity became the SECOND who was embodied from the Womb of Nature and was slain in the Field of Conception by the FIRST and LAST that became thus imbodied from the Womb of Nature by which means the Face of FOUR Beasts in Nature became exalted in the Heavens and the WOMAN was taken from him whilst he fell asleep though like a good man he had first sown his Seed before the envious man came XXXIII Yet was it not then good that the Man should be alone under the workings of that NECESSITY in the LAW of Nature for he had neglected his own Vineyard that was over-grown with Nettles Bryars Thorns and Weeds whereby sin and the concupiscence of the Flesh took occasion to work in the Members of him who was the Tiller and tearer up of the ground of Corruption into which Death entered who came first forth out of the Womb of Nature because of his need for the MEET HELP XXXIV And this became the FOURTH day in Nature but it was the first day in the work of Creation in Coelestial Bodies called TREM for it was FULL time and tide in turning the Worlds about backward wherein all that came forth imbodied from the Womb of Eternity took form from the Womb of Nature in the changeable being through a Government that God had setled over all that should come forth thus imbodied in form XXXV For the night came over all glory in the first Creation of God so that the FIFTH day of the Work of God in all forms of Nature was the SECOND DAY of God's Holy Weeks concluding a cessation from all labour in what was brought on the Creation of God by means of the Curse come over mankind in his Exercise of these the Creatures of God XXXVI And there arose a WEST-Wind out of which flamed a Sword of the Cherub which drove the form of the Man that I saw EASTWARD and he went his way so that the FIRST which came forth out of the Womb of Nature in which the Creature became thus imbodied into form took being on the FIFTH day in such state as the Creature and Creation was fallen under in that form wherein he came forth CHAP. IV. How all forms in Nature began to degenerate into the monstrous shapes of deformed Beasts XXXVII AND the ANGEL of God said Come up hither and I will shew thee the MYSTERY of all those WATERS and of that which came forth out of the Womb of Eternity from whence all those Waters came and whither they shall return and until the end of the FIVE dayes I beheld the working-frame of what stood manifest from the Womb of Eternity And I saw all the Earth overspread with Creatures and things yet nothing was moved out of the ground under which it was subjected by the Creating power that wrought for manifestations sake until the end of FORTY DAYES XXXVIII And there was also from the THREE that bare Record on Earth a SECOND great LIGHT that ruled the Night in the glory of the Terrestrial Body borrowing a lustre from the Suns clarity For as I travelled through a great trance of the minds perplexity I beheld the whole frame of the works of God from the beginning to the END of time and place as of TWO and TWENTY dayes labour wherein I saw the Sun and Moon stand in a distance of course two and twenty Degrees of the Suns Motion that wrought up their glory in and through all the Powers of Nature unto which the life of the Creature was subjected under a change in time and place XXXIX Which became the Glory of the Sun of the day of the Son of Man in and through all Coelestial Bodies comprehended in the forms of Nature as a great Light whereby the great and LAST day was ruled and over-ruled in which God is working up his Eternal Glory through what is come forth into manifestation in time and place dignifying the Creator of all forms into being that is able to reveal the Mystery of satsfaction to Divine Justice through what appeareth magnificent in works of Wonder XL. For all Motion in Wisdom from the beginning of FORM through the WORD of Life was the Creators Glory
not be comforted but herein is manifest in the Valleys ACHOR which is given for a Dooâ— of Hope XCV For God was descended into all the Powers of Nature through his destroying Angels changing all Powers and Laws and Customs of the HEATHEN and uncircumcised in the ground wherein destruction wrought and renewing the Created FORMS in Nature into their first lovely Being as into these Kings of the EAST the Nature of the Beast had descended which had his Power renewed in an eighth Head and Mountain and they had the Power of the Beast and false Prophet or Whore wherein they were exalted to hasten the utter ruine and downfal of the DRAGON and Beast and false Prophet yet wrought Miracles in the Earth and incamped about the Beloved City the New Jerusalem which descended from above out of Heaven and they caused fire to come down from Heaven XCVI But the Holy People waxed strong and did exploits although the Foundations of all buildings in the Earthly Principles of Nature suffered great shakings and an utter overthrow wherein darkness filled the Seat of the BEAST and every Mountain was removed out of its place and great BABYLON fell as the nether Milstone that is cast into the Sea and every Island fled away before the Face and Presence of the Lord and were cast into the deeps of Waters that were drying up into their Anihilation and the smoke of the Torment of those Men that had the Mark of the Beast ascended upward as a place of Torment to the Spirit of the WORLD incorporated into the form of the Image CHAP. IX Describing the Glory of the New Jerusalem in the renewing Power of God which wrought up the efficacy of its change in the Forms of Nature XCVII AS all forms in Nature were subjected under the Power of God there was manifest a Spirit of ZEAL in the Qualities wherein the Creature became imbodied through which the change was wrought for the ten Horns of the BEAST did hate the WHORE whose flesh they consumed with fire and the Minstrels were all turned out of Doors because the Damsel was raised and the Bridegroom was come at Midnight wherein the Wise Virgins had prepared Oyl in their Lamps which were lighted and trimed burning in the flame of that which was gathered and reaped in the Earth by the Angel but the Apples of Sodom and Grapes of Gomorrah after which the Souls of many have longed became unpleasant Fruit because of the sound of the Milstone which could not be heard neither was there any Voice of the Turtle or the singing of Birds XCVIII Nor did the Light of any Candle shine therein but the sound of the Tabret and the Viol was departed out of the Land and the Sun ceased any more to shine while there continued a cry for want of Oyl among those that were foolish and at the Voice of the Grashopper the Aged rose up and were afraid as the Pillars of the House were shaken and the Windows grew dim the Grinders failed and the Pitcher that went oft to the FOUNTAIN was broken and the limit of the circumference of the Waters which were bound in that great River was loosed and inlarged and the Streams of Corruption dryed out of the same wherein it had compassed about the frame of the WORLDS like unto the Arms and Legs of a Man for every thing perished in its corruptible state and course until the form of the World became thus changed and the Dragon and Beast and false Prophet who had deceived the Nations of the Earth were laid hold on and bound down by the Chain in the Hand of the strong Angel of God never to rise again XCIX And Death and Hell was cast into the Lake of fire and a Seal was set on the power thereof that it never more should appear in the Worlds to marr the Workmanship of God and form of his Image and all forms of Nature shined out of the Glassy Sea on which the redeemed of God stood Harping and Singing and Praysing God which was sprakling like fire for the Heavens were rolled up together like a Scrole and the Elements were consumed with servent heat wherein was no more Sea but that Sea of Glass or first Waters in which was a new Heaven and new Earth and therein did Righteousness dwell for ever and ever C. For former things were remembred no more but the former Heaven and Earth was passed away and there was a Voice from the New Heavens Behold the Tabernacle of God is among Men and he is come to dwell in them and to walk among them for ever and ever who hath wiped away all Tears from their Eyes and sorrow and sighing is gone into perpetual silence and beautiful was the Countenance of him that came from Mount TIRZAH clear as the Sun and bright as the Moon and terrible like an Army with Banners whereby the power of the second Death was Conquered and came not into the new Heavens and new Earth CI. And there was the CITY of God which was placed between the SEAS in which was no need of the Sun by day nor of the Moon by Night nor was there any need of the light of a Candle to shine therein but the light of the Moon was as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun as the light of seven dayes and all labour in the Earth ceased to be neither did it Travel and bear its former burdens but the Lamb the Lord were the Light thereof for ever and ever and all things brought forth as in the beginning wherein the WOMAN was redeemed from sorrow and labour of Child-bearing and brought forth her SEED as Angels of God nourished in the Womb of Health wherein saving blessings were sprung up to heal the Nations and from the place of Conception from whence sorrow was removed did life break forth into being and the birth thereof was glorified in the sight of GOD but time and place were no more CII Sing therefore O ye Heavens and let the Inhabitants of the EARTH rejoyce because time is changed into Eternity and the WOES are removed out of its Quarters Death and Hell are Conquered in its dominions and the Sea and Grave have given up their slain the dead are come forth out of the secret Chambers of LEVIATHAN and the BEHEMOTH is overcome by him that sitteth on his WHITE Throne and rideth on his White Horse and the Walls of Brass and Iron are broken down and the Word by which every thing was created saith unto the hard Rocks Be ye soft and unto the high Hills Be ye bended down CIII The strength of the strong is bound in CHAINS and the Power of Mighty binders is loosed from Iron Fetters and the King over NATIONS hath said unto the Power of FIRE Be thou kindled into a burning flame to consume until Consumation become reproved and devouring flames are quenched the forms of Nature are comprehended under the renewing Power of God in
wayes through a fiery Constellation therein inkindled CXXXIV And in one of those Urns were the Names of the twelve Tribes of ISRAEL but in the other was a party-coloured Blank on which was wrote PREROGATIVE to which the ANGEL said This is Israels desire and therefore hath Benjamin had a Prerogative to be higher then his Brethren by the HEAD and his raving up hath been like an evening Wolf while Israel hath sought the Rule and Dominion of other Nations of the Heathens for from the seven Families of FATHERS the Lot resteth on an eighth Head who is discovered by his ANGEL wandring after the lost Asses who have a month to be tamed in the power over which he is set to be their KEEPER CXXXV After whom came the lowing of the OXEN and bleating of the SHEEP in the restraint of Fodder of the KING of Gods Enemies Then said I What must be done Or hath this fault been in one onely that Iniquity should rest on his TRIBE For lo Israel standeth before the ARK enquiring into the MATTER And there was in the hands of the Angel over whom inquirie was made a Signature in one Hand was a CROWN dipt in Blood and in the other Hand a ROD touched with Hony concerning which the Angel bid me chuse wherein I was covetous of both CXXXVI And while my Tongue touched the Hony it was in my Mouth sweet but immediately was the form of the ANGEL divided and there remained other Signatures in each Hand of the form of the living Creature like unto a suite of tryed Armour and Sheet in which was tyed the form of every living Creature under the HEAVENS according to the Corners of the Heavens from whence they were let down bound And as I was trying the ARMOUR finding it cumbersom as that in which I was not accustomed to wage War therefore thought I hastily to cast it off that I might take hold of the Sheet in which were those living Creatures there came a Voice from the Heavens as from the Angel whose form was again united in a Body Thou hast chosen that which will make thee a Wonder in the World CXXXVII And he yet cryed aloud The bitterness of the Miracle is in thy Belly for know thou assuredly thou hast Part and Lot in this Matter And to my astonishment the Body again revived instantly before me and it was made to stand up before my Face And there came a second Voice from the Angel Is it a time to be delighted with sweetness in the midst of Battel Or to feed on Hony while Enemies are on the pursuit And I was afraid I should die and durst not any more ask any Question in this matter But after the Voice from the Heavens became intelligible wherein an Angel of God said Arise from thy slumber thou that art glutted in that which thou hast killed and eaten for therefore is thy Head filled with Wonders CXXXVIII I beheld until the forms of all those living Creatures were again awakened before me and they came forth to make WARR in my way and before me stood the unsealed Book of Wonders which the LAMB of God had taken out of the Hand of the ANGEL for the loosing of the Seals thereon which was like unto that which I had eaten from what was tendered by the ANGEL And while I beheld the Book lifted up unto the Heavens I was mourning in Spirit and said in my Heart Wherefore hath my life been prolonged for such exercise as this For now I am become the scorn of cruel Enemies CXXXIX And I returned to the Angel of him that I had seen divided and who was again united before my Face and found him cloathed in the Armour as one riding forth to a Battel unto whom I said Boast not thy self in putting on and in thy going forth to War as may he that putteth it off and returns a Conqueror for twice hast thou deceived me let therefore my wrong rest on Thee that coverest a WOLF according to the time I have become a stranger to my own FAMILIARS when driven forth as among the BEASTS of Prey CXL My Hair was like unto the Plumes of a FOWL and my Nails like unto the Tallents of a BIRD and because of the Vow on my Head I was as one forlorn for thou hast counted the hours of my mourning and knowest the dayes wherein pleasant Bread came not into my Mouth under which my Spirit was ready to faint but let the Issue be glory to the Highest Turn again therefore my reproach I pray thee that I may know and be assured that thou hast taken notice of the innocency of my SOUL in thy sight and that thy love is yet towards me CXLI And the Angel of God again took me into the Habition of WONDERS where I heard an interpretation of the Mystery of the seven Thunders and he said unto me These have made way for the preparing a ground wherein is revealed what was opened and loosed from the BOOK in the Hand of the Angel and the time is come that nothing hidden shall remain in its secret Chamber but the Seal of God shall be taken off from the Spirit of Wonders and Truth shall have its common recourse in the fellowship that publisheth abroad the sayings and report of Wisdom Therefore prepare thee to write for thy Prayers are come up before the Lord and thou shalt yet PROPHESIE before the Nobles of the Earth and thy sayings shall terrifie Kings and mighty Men as in their appointed season they become fulfilled CXLII And unto the Angels of all Fellowships of People write these things saith the searcher of all Hearts before whom my desire hath been granted and he answereth daily my request revealing the Mystery of all depths concerning the glory of Gods Kingdom and the sum and substance of all Prophecy in Words is transferred to the sensible Reader in a Figure until the substance thereof become fulfilled on a Generation of Men through which it will be made to speak in an Universal Character of good to Nations in the generous Spirit of that love in which many suffer despite CXLIII I know your Thoughts from the greatest to the least and you all are expecting alterations and changes in the Government of Nations and state of publick affairs but believe it truly it will not come in that way you expect it who would gladly see your Enemies destroyed and utterly confounded that you might not hope in vain Alas the Life of Creatures is pretious in Gods Eye and God hath determined no other Judgment to the Wicked then that which remaineth to be the utter Consumption and Destruction of the Spirit of ENMITY in the Man of SIN by which NATIONS are oppressed under his Power whose destruction cometh to be of themselves in chusing that which leadeth and guideth under that which of necessity must fall on the World in a wicked state CXLIV But God is not the Author of all the evil and mischief that is
prevailed in the months thereof until the seven Mountains could be seen on which the great CITY was erected through the decreasing of the Waters in what remained falling backward for the space of seven Months XI And the CITY that thou sawest built and setled on those Mountains and high Hills which became the Foundations of all that fell into and under the palpability of WATERS is the City HENOCH which the first born of Nations erected under the power of Corruption from the ground which he became the Tiller and tearer up of when driven Eastward from the Face of the Earth and Presence of God into that Land where he took his Wife that he might call the name of his Buildings after the name of his Son for whom it was built XII For he possessed the seven forms of NATURE the number of years according to which the year increased its dayes and hath all the properties of the Heavens through a Translation wrought on the Body of Nature in what came forth mamfest in each line of the Fathers resting in LAMECH whence two Wives prevailed over the Man five years short of a sight into the destruction which prevailed over the Worlds in the state it was first planted CHAP. III. Describing the property of Enochs Prophecies XIII THose seven forms of Nature whose Characters are Figures in Hieroglyps have the property of Prophecy among the Works of Wonder which cannot be understood in the Creaturely Capacity but through the translations of ENOCH for whom the ground of conceiveability was torn up and no less power is requisite herein than that which smiteth the World in its third part of both Earth and Waters and all that lives therein or moves thereon wherein the Beast hath had his Seat as a Temple in which hath shined the glory of Sun and Moon and Stars XIV And for the revealing the true ground from whence all those glories may come again to shine in the Principles of Nature as in the beginning consumption and darkness must come before his Face who rideth in the Chariot of Nature wherein those glories are smitten in the third part until the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about the fourth part of the WORLDS over which the EAGLE hath prevailed XV. And though as those Angels stand manifest in the Heavens they are seven in number according to the seven forms of Nature through which are sounded the Mystery of God's Works of Wonders from the seven Golden TRUMPETS yet is their destroying power bound down in the four last forms only in which the Elements of Nature have spheared into Corruption for the discovery of the Lake of Fire that is hidden in the great River EUPHRATES from what is thence loosed XVI But the Witnesses hereof are only two manifested in each three Principles of both Heavenly and Earthly being in which the AIR is commanded until FIRE and WATER is become united in its ANGEL that hath one Foot on the Earth and hath his other on the great Seas for the Angel of the Waters saith It is done but an Angel of the Fire who continueth alwayes ministring before the ALTAR hath touched my Tongue with a live Coal he hath brought from thence wherein I am made able to declare of what he hath flung on the Earth XVII And beholding the seven Mountains of the Earth on which is setled the Foundations of that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Worlds in the in kindled Fire burning under its Foundations I see terrible shakings that are yet to pass through the Worlds over all buildings therein after the tenth part of the CITY is seen become fallen in the assending up of the Witnesses unto Heaven in the sight of their Enemies wherein the ten Horns of the BEAST shall hate the Whore and burn her flesh with FIRE XVIII Then shall be seen the seven Horns of the LAMB full of Eyes which are the seven Spirits of God which do walk among the seven Golden Candlesticks and the Books shall stand open on which hath been put those seven Seals that he may be known come into the Worlds that holdeth in his right Hand a Crown of seven Stars as seven golden Lamps burning before the Throne of God and the Lamb and lighting the whole Earth with his Glory in the form of the Pleiades for the seventh Trumpet shall sound forth the Mystery of what is thus unsealed over the mighty deeps which have filled the Worlds XIX And in the finishing of this great Mystery all Nations of the Earth shall be gathered to their appointed place that the Spirit and God of the World may bear the wrath of Indignation of what is poured forth on the frame of all created Principles into form without mixture which is the second Death executed in the seven last Plagues wherewith the seven Golden Vials are filled wherein God will appear in ten thousand of his Saints CHAP. IV. Describing the ground in Nature from whence the Wheels are moved about the frame of the WORLDS XX. THe seven spirits of God are moved about the frame of the WORLDS according to what doth operate and work up the way and course he is manifest through in the Seven forms of Nature which are become the Seven heads of the BEAST and the Seven Mountains of the WORLD on which the City is built wherein the WHORE doth sit exalted and therefore is God manifest in the Spirit of Judgement in those Forms of Nature that every thing may come forth tryed undeâ— the motion of the WHEELS XXI But though the BEAST hath taken Head in these forms of Nature Nature is again returning to its firsâ— subjection in the utter consumption and destruction of the power of the Dragon Beast and False Prophet ouâ— of those forms in Nature for now are the Wheels moving over the greaâ— River Euphrates on which the trumpet of God hath sounded and thence are loosed his destroying Angels which cause thunders and lightning in the Heavens XXII And the Clouds of Heaven are already tinctured with that which Ascendeth upward to prepare its motion in the Air whence his appearance is expected who judgeth the Prince thereof and casteth down the Accuser of the Just from those Airy Heavens wherein he hath been exalted though the Seven Forms of Nature which are moved about the heavens of the Worlds attend the first mover wherein the Work of God is manifest in the Seven Spirits of Nature XXIII For this center of the Inward WORLD which was thus unmovable had a power in and over all that was movable and changeable which became a cause in the motion of the WHEELS that was over-ruled by the wisdom and power of the first mover wherein all Glories of the FATHER shined in the Firmament of his POWER in which he remained unalterable and unchangeable the same without any shadow of turning or variation XXIV Yet is it only in Nature that God is become thus a cause