of the corrupted Earth and quencheth its wrath whereby in the Astrall Birth or Geniture all standeth in the Life and so the Earth generateth the Life through the Death The Gate of the Mystery 38. But that there is a Firmament between the Waters which Firmament is called Heaven it hath this understanding or meaning 39. The whole Deep from the Moon to the Earth standeth all with its working in the wrathfull and comprehensible or palpable Birth or Geniture for the Moon is the Goddesse of the palpable Birth and so the House of the Devills of Death and of Hell is in the circuit orb or Extent between the Moon and the Earth 40. Where therefore the fierce wrath of God in the outermost Birth or Geniture in the Deep becometh daily kindled and blown up by the Devills and all wicked Men through the Great Sins of Man which still qualifie mix unite or co-operate with the Astral Birth or Geniture in the Deep 41. Now Therefore God hath made the Firmament which is call'd Heaven between the outermost and innermost Birth and that is a Partition or division between the outermost and innermost Birth or Geniture 42. For the outermost Birth of the water cannot comprehend the innermost Birth of the water which is called Heaven and which is made out of the midst or Center of the water Heaven is the Firmament viz. the fire-Sea or Sea-of-Fire out of the seven spirits of Nature out of which the Stars as a Quintessence were concreted incorporated or created by the word FIAT And it hath or containeth both fire and water and hangeth in it self inwardly on the first Principle and shall bring its wonders with or as to the figure of them into the Eternal but its Birth or Geniture fadeth or passeth away 43. Now the innermost Birth of Heaven reflects strongly upon the Earth and holdeth the outermost water upon the Earth together with the Earth also strongly captive 44. And if that were not then with the Revolution of the Globe of the Earth the water would be divided or dissolved again also then would the Earth Crumble break and moulder away in the Deep and all would be a Chaos again 45. But now therefore that Firmament between the outermost palpable water and the Inward holdeth the Earth and the palpable water Captive But now thou mayst Ask What is the fire then a Firmament of that Heaven which I can neither see nor apprehend Answer 46. Yes It is the Firmament between the clear Deity and the corrupt Nature which thou must break through when thou intendest to come to God and it is that very Firmament which doth not quite stand in the wrath neither is it altogether or perfectly pure concerning which it is written the very Heavens are not pure in the sight of God as in Job 15. 15. and at the last Judgment Day the wratn will be purged from them For it is written Heaven and Earth shall passe away but my word shall not passe away saith Christ Matth. 24. 35. Mark 13. 31. 47. Now that impurity in that Heaven is the wrath but the purity is the word of God which he once spake saying Let the water under the Firmament be separated from the water above the firmament Gen. 1. And that Word standeth and is comprised in the firmament of the water and holdeth the outward water together with the Earth captive or fixed The Gate of the Deitie Observe here the hidden Mystery of God 48. When thou beholdest the Deep above the Earth thou oughtest not to say that it is not the Gate of God where God in his holinesse dwelleth No no think not so For the whole holy Trinity God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost dwelleth in the Center under the Firmament of Heaven but that very Firmament cannot comprehend him 49. Indeed all is as it were one Body the outermost and inhermost Birth together with the Firmament of heaven as also the Astrall Birth therein in and with which the wrath of God also qualifieth mixeth and uniteth but yet they are one to another as the Government frame or constitution in Man 50. The Flesh signifieth 1o. The outward Birth or Genitute which is the House of Death 2o. The second Birth or Geniture in Man is the Astrall in which the Life-standeth and wherein Love and wrath wrestle one with another And thus far Man himself knoweth himself for the Astrall Birth generateth the Life in the outermost that is in the dead Flesh 3o. The Third Birth is generated between the Astrall and outermost and that is called the animated or soulish Birth or Geniture or the Soul and is as Large as the whole Man 51. And that Birth or Geniture the outward Man neither knoweth nor comprehendeth neither doth the Astrall comprehend it but every qualifying or fountain spirit comprehendeth only its innate or instant Root which signifieth or resembleth the Heaven 52. And that animated or soulish Man must presse through the Firmament of Heaven to God and live with God else the whole man cannot come into Heaven to God 53. For every Man that desireth to be saved must with his innate instant Births or Genitures be as the whole Deity with all the three Births in this world is 54. Man cannot be absolutely or wholly pure without wrath and sin for the Births of the Depth in this world are not fully pure before the Heart of God Job 15. v. 15. but alwayes Love and wrath wrestle one with another whence God is called an angry zealous God Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9. 55. Now as man is in the Government or Order of his Nativity Birth or Geniture Just so also is the whole Body of God in or of this world but in the water standeth the meek Life 56. As I. First in the outward Body of God in or of this world there is the congealed astringent bitter and Hot Death in which the palpable water is also congealed and Dead 57. And therein now is the Darknesse wherein King Lucifer with his Angels as also all fleshly or carnal wicked Men lye captive even with or in their living Bodies as also the Separated spirits of damned Men. 58. This birth can neither see hear feel smell nor comprehend the Heart of God but is a Foolish Virgin which King Lucifer in his Pride hath caused to be so 59. And II. The second Birth is the Astrall which thou must understand to be the Life of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits wherein now the Love and the wrath is against one another and therein standeth the upper water which is a spirit of the life and therein or between is the Firmament of Heaven which is made out of the midst or Center of the water 60. Now this Birth or Geniture presseth through the outward congealed Birth quite through Death and the Astral Life in the death that is in the congealed Earth Water and Flesh of the Beasts and of Men also of the Fowls Fishes and
Death be severed from it 120. But it hath its Life in its Seat and that cannot be taken from it but Death hangeth to it in the outermost Birth or Geniture as also the wrath in Death for the Wrath is the life of Death and of the Devill and in the wrath standeth also the corporeal Being or the Bodies of the Devils but the dead Birth or Geniture is their Eternall Dwelling House The Depth in the Circle of the Birth or Geniture Now one might Ask What manner of substance hath it or what is the condition thereof that the Astral Birth of the Earth did begin its qualifying operating and generating one Day sooner then the Astral in the Deep above the Earth seeing the fire in the Deep above the Earth is much sharper and easier to be kindled then the fire in the Earth and seeing also that the Earth must be kindled by the fire in the Deep above the Earth else it can Bear no fruit Answer 121. Behold thou understanding Spirit the Spirit speaketh to thee and not to the dead spirit of the flesh Open the Door of thy Astral birth wide and elevate that one Part of the astral Birth in the light and let the other in the wrath stand still and take heed also that thy animated or soulish spirit do wholly unite with the Light 122. And so when thou standest in such a form then thou art as Heaven and Earth is or as the whole Deitie is with its Births or Genitures in this world 123. But now if thou art not thus then thou art blind herein though thou wert the wittiest and wisest Doctor that ever could be found in the world 124. But if thou art Thus then raise up thy spirit and look through thy Art of Astrology thy deep sense and measuring of Circles and see if thou art able to apprehend it It must be born IN THEE Else thou gettest neither Grace nor Art 125. If the Eyes of thy Spirit shall stand open then thou must generate thus else thy Comprehensibility is a Foolish Virgin and it befalls thee as if a Limner should offer to pourtray the Deity on a Table and tell thee It is made right the Deity is just so 126. Then the Believer and the Limner are both alike both of them see nothing but only wood and Colours and the one blind leadeth the other surely thou art not to fight here with Beasts but with Gods Now Observe 127. When the whole Deitie in this world moved it self to the Creation then not onely the one part did Move and the other rest but all stood joyntly in the Mobility Even the whole Deep so far as Lord Lucifer was King and so far as the place of his Kingdom reach'd and so far as the Salitter in the wrath-fire was kindled 128. The motion of the three Births lasted the length of six Dayes and Nights wherein all the seven Spirits of God stood in a full moving Birth or Geniture as also the Heart of the spirits and the Salitter of the Earth turn'd about in that while six times in the great wheel which wheel is the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of God and at each turning about or Diurnal Revolution there was generated a several special fabrick or work according to the innate Instant qualifying or fountain spirits 129. For the First qualifying or fountain spirit is the Astringent cold sharp and hard Birth or Geniture and that belongeth to the first Day in the Astrall Birth or Geniture the Astrologers call it the Saturnine which was performed on the First Day For therein the hard dry sharp Earth and Stones came to be and were incorporated or compacted together moreover then was also generated the strong Firmament of Heaven and the Heart of the seven spirits of God stood hidden in the hard sharpnesse 130. Astrologers appropriate or attribute the Second Day to Sol or the Sun but it belongeth to Jupiter to speak of it Astrologically for on the second Day the Light brake forth out of the Heart of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits through the hard quality of the Heaven and caused a mitigation or allaying in the hard water of the Heaven and the light became shining in that meeknesse and allay 131. And then the meeknesse and the Hard water separated themselves asunder and the hardnesse remained in its hard place as a hard Death and the meeknesse or softnesse penetrated through the Hardnesse in the power of the Light 132. And this now is the water of Life which is generated in the Light of God out of the hard Death And thus the light of God in the sweet water of Heaven brake through the astringent and hard dark Death and thus the Heaven is made out of the midst or Center of the water 133. The hard Firmament is the astringent quality and the gentle Mild or meek firmament is the water in which the Light of Life riseth up which is the Clarity or Bright Light of the Sonne of God And in this manner or form also the knowledge and the light of life riseth up in Man and the whole light of God in this world standeth in such a Form Birth and rising up 134. The Third Day is very rightly attributed to Mars because it is a bitter and a furious raging and stirring spirit In the third Revolution of the Earth the bitter quality rubb'd it self with the astringent Understand this thing rightly 135. When the Light in the sweet water did penetrate through the astringent spirit then the fire flash terrour or crack of the Light when it kindled it self in the water rose up in the astringent and hard dead quality and made all stirring from thence existed the 〈…〉 136. Now I speak here not onely of the Heaven above the Earth but this stirring and Birth or Geniture was also in the Earth and every where 137. But being the heavenly fruits before the time of the wrath sprung up onely in this stirring of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits and vanish'd or passed away again by their stirring and so changed or altered themselves therefore on the third Day of the Birth or Geniture of the Creation they sprung up also through the stirring of the fire-flash in the astringent quality of the Earth 138. And though indeed the whole Deity is in the Center of the Earth hidden yet the Earth could not for all that bring forth heavenly fruit for the astringent quality had shut and barred the hard Bolt of Death upon it and so the Heart of the Deity remained hidden in its meek and Light Heaven 139. For the outermost Birth is Nature and that ought not to reach back into the Heart of God neither can it but is the Body in which the qualifying or fountain spirits generate themselves and shew forth and manifest their Birth or Geniture by their fruits The Two and Twentieth Chapter Of the Birth or Geniture of the Starres and Creation of the Fourth Day 1. HEre now is
burnt 22. Behold I tell thee a Mystery so soon as the Door is set wide open to its Angle all uselesse fastnailed sticking Bolts or Barres will be cast away for the Door will never be shut any more at all but standeth open and then the Four winds will go in and out at it 23. But the Sorcerer sitteth in the way and will make many so Blind that they will not see the Door and then they return Home and say there is no Door at all but that it is a meer Fiction and so they go thither no more 24. Thus men suffer themselves easily to be turn'd away and so live in their Drunkennesse 25. And now when this is done then the Spirit is angry which hath opened the Gates because none will go OUT and IN at its Doors any more and then it flings the Door-Posts into the Abysse and then there is no more Time at all those that are within remain within and those that are without remain without AMEN Now it may be Asked What are the Stars Answer 26. Moses writeth concerning them thus And God said Let there be Lights in the Firmament of Heaven to divide or distinguish the Day from the Night and let them give signs and seasons Dayes and Years and let them be Lights in the firmament of Heaven to shine or give light upon the Earth and it was so done And God made two great Lights the greater Light to rule the Day and the lesser Light to rule the Night as also the Stars And God set them in the Firmament of the Heaven to shine or give Light upon the Earth and to rule Day and Night also to divide or distinguish the Light from the Darknesse and God saw that it was good so out of the Evening and the Morning the fourth day came to be Gen. 1. v. 14 15 16 17 18 19. 27. This description sheweth sufficiently that the Dear man Moses was not the original author thereof for the first writer thereof did not know either the true God or the Stars what they were And it is very likely that the Creation before the Flood was not described in writing but was kept as a Dark word in their memories and so delivered from one generation to another till after the Flood and till people began to lead Epicurean Lives in all voluptuousnesse 28. And then the Holy Patriarchs when they saw that they described the Creation that it should not be quite forgotten and that the swinish Epicurean world might have a Looking-Glasse in the Creation wherein they might see that there is a God and that this Beeing of the world did not so stand from Eternity whereby they might have a Glasse to look into and so fear the Hidden God 29. And it was the Chiefest Iustruction and Doctrine of the Patriarchs before and after the Floud that they led Men to the Creation as the whole book of Job also doth drive at That 30. After these Patriarchs came the wise Heathens who went somewhat deeper into the knowledge of Nature and I must needs say according to the Ground of the Truth that they in their Philosophie and Knowledge did come even before the face or Countenance of God and yet could neither see nor know Him 31. Man was so altogether Dead in Death and so bolted up in the outermost Birth or Geniture in the dead Palpability or else they could have Thought that in this Palpability there must needs be a Divine power hidden in the Center which had so created this Palpability and moreover preserveth upholdeth and ruleth the same 32. Indeed they honoured prayed to or worshipped the Sun and Stars for Gods but knew not how they were created or came to be or out of what â—hey came to be for they Might well have thought that they proceeded from somewhat and that That which created them must needs be Older and higher or Greater then all the Stars 33. Besides they had the Stones and the Earth for an Example to shew that they must proceed from somewhat as also Men and all the Creatures upon the Earth For all give testimony that there must needs be in these things a mightier and greater Power at hand which had so created all these things in that manner as they are 34. But indeed why should I write much of the blindnesse of the Heathens are not our Doctors in their Crowned Ornaments of Hoods and Cornâ—r'd-Caps as blind as they They know indeed that there is a God who hath created all this but they know not where that God is or how he is 35. When they would write of God then they seek for him without and absent from this world onely above in a kind of Heaven as if he were some Image that may be likened to somewhat Indeed they grant that That God ruleth all in this world with a Spirit but his corporeal propriety or habitation they will needs have in a certain Heaven aloft many Thousand Miles off 36. Come on ye Doctors if ye are in the Right then give answer to the Spirit I will ask you a few Questions 1o. What do you think stood in the Place of this world before the Time of the world Or 2o. Out of what do you think the Earth and Stars came to be Or 3o. What do you think there is in the Deep of the Earth Or 4o. From whence did the Deep exist Or 5o. How do you think Man is the Image of God wherein God dwelleth Or 6o. What do you suppose Gods wrath to be Or 7o. What is that in man which displeaseth God so much that he tormenteth and afflicteth man so being he hath created him And 8o. that he imputeth Sinne to Man and condemneth him to eternal Punishment 9o. Why hath he created that wherein or wherewith Man committeth sin Surely that thing must be far worse 10o. Wherefore and out of what is that come to be Or 11o. What is the cause or the beginning or the Birth and Geniture of Gods fierce wrath out of or from which Hell and the Devil are come to be Or 12o. How comes it that all the creatures in this world do bite scratch strike beat and worry one another and yet sin is imputed onely to Man Or 13o. Out of what are Poisonous and venomous Beasts and worms and all manner of Vermine come to be Or 14o. Out of what are the holy Angels come to be And 15º What is the Soul of Man And lastly 16o. What is the Great GOD Himself 37. Give your direct and fundamental answer to this and demonstrate what you say and leave off your Verbal Contentions Now if you can demonstrate out of all your books and writings 1o. that you know the true and onely God and 2o. How he is in Love and Wrath Also 3o. What that God is and 4o. if you can demonstrate that God is not in the Stars Elements Earth Men Beasts Worms Leaves Herbs and Grasse also in Heaven and Earth also that all this
wilt Dissemble with Him and adorn or magnifie thy Birth then I suppose thee to be a very fine Angel indeed But He that hath Love in his heart and leadeth a mercifull meek and lowly-minded life and fighteth against malice and hatred and presseth through the wrath of God into the Light he liveth with God and is One Spirit with God 57. For God needeth no other Service but that his creature which is in His Body do not slide back from Him but be Holy as He is 58. Therefore also God gave the Law to the Jews that they should diligently study and endeavour after meek Holinesse and Love that thereby all the world might have them for their Looking-Glasse But when they grew proud and boasted in their Birth instead of entring into Love and turn'd the law of Love into the sharpnesse of wrath then God removed their Candlestick and went to the Heathens 59. Secondly II. There is this Difference betwixt the Christians Jews Turks and Heathens that the Christians know the Tree of Life which is CHRISTUS CHRIST who is the Prince of our Heaven and of this world and ruleth in all Births or Genitures as a King in God his Father and Men are his Members 60. And now Christians know how they may by the power of this Tree presse out from their Death through his Death to him into his life and raign and live with him wherein they also with their pressing through with their new birth out from this Dead Body may be and are with him in Heaven 61. And though the dead Body is in the midst or Center of Hell among all the Devils yet for all that the new Man reigneth with God in Heaven and the Tree of life is to them a strong Gate through which they do enter into Life But of this thou shalt find more largely in its proper Place Now Observe 62. Moses writeth that God said Let there be Lights in the Firmament of Heaven which should therein give a Light to the Earth and divide or distinguish Day and Night also make Years and Times or Seasons 63. This description sheweth that the first writer did not know what the Stars are But He took hold on the Deitie at the Heart and look'd upon or had respect to the Heart to consider what the Heart and kernel of this Creation is and the Spirit kept the Astral and outermost Dead Birth or Geniture hidden from him and did onely drive him in Faith to the Heart of the Deitie 64. Which is also the Principal Point most necessary for Man For when he layeth hold on true Faith then he presseth through the Wrath of God through Death into life and reigneth with God 65. But being Men now at the End of this time do listen and long very much after the Root of the Tree through which Nature sheweth that the time of the discovery of the Tree is at hand therefore the Spirit will shew it to them and the whole Deitie will reveal it self which is the Day-spring dawning or Morning-Rednesse and the breaking forth of the great Day of God in which whatsoever is generated from Death to the Regeneration of Life shall be Restored and Rise again 66. Behold when God said Let there be light then the light in the powers of Nature or the seven spirits of God rose up and the Firmament of Heaven which standeth in the Word in the Heart of the water between the astrall and outermost Birth or Geniture was closed or shut up by or with the Word and Heart of the water and the Astral birth is the Place of the parting-mark or Limit which standeth half in Heaven and half in the Wrath. 67. For from or out of that half Part of the wrath the Dead Birth generateth it self continually and out of the other half Part which reacheth with its innermost Degree even into the innermost Heart and light of God generateth it self now continually through Death and yet the Astrall Birth or Geniture is not two but One Body 68. But when in these two Dayes the Creation of Heaven and of Earth was compleated and that the Heaven was made in the heart of the water for a difference or distinction between the Light of God and the Wrath of God then on the Third Day through the terrour or crack of the fire-Flash which rose up in the heart of the water and pressed through Death incomprehensibly as to Death there sprung up all manner of Ideas Forms and Figures as was done before the time of the kindled wrath 69. But being the water which is the Spirit of the Astral Life stood in the midst or Center of wrath and also in Death thereupon also every Body formed it self as the Birth or Geniture to Life and mobility was Of the Earth 70. But now the Earth was the Salitter which was cast up out of the innermost Birth and stood in Death but when the fire-flash through the Word rose up in the water then it was a terrour or crack from which existed the mobility in death and that Mobility in all the seven spirits is now the Astrall Birth or Geniture The Depth Understand this aright 71. Now when on the the Third Day the fire-flash in the water of death had kindled it self then the Life pressed forth quite through the dead body of the water and of the Earth 72. But yet the Dead water and Earth comprehend no more then the flash or terrour or crack of the Fire where-through their mobility existeth But the Light which riseth up very softly Gently or meekly in the fire-flash that neither the Earth nor the dead water can comprehend 73. But it retaineth its Seat in the kernel which is the unctuosity or fatnesse or the water of life or the Heaven for it is the Body of Life which the Death cannot comprehend and yet it riseth up in the Death 74. Neither can the wrath take hold of it or apprehend it but the Wrath remaineth in the terrour or crack of the Fire-Flash and maketh the Mobility in the dead body of the earth and the water 75. But the Light presseth in very gently after and formeth the Birth which through the terrour or crack of the fire-flash hath gotten its compacted Body Of the Growths or Vegetables of the Earth 76. When now the Wrathfull fire-flash awakened and rouzed up the spirits of Nature which stand in Death in the Earth by its fierce terrour or crack then the spirits began according to their peculiar Divine Right to generate themselves as they had done from eternity and form figure or frame a Body together according to the innate instant qualities of that Place 77. Now that kind of Salitter which in the time of the kindling of the wrath dyed in Death and as it did qualifie or operate at that time in the innate instant Life of the seven spirits of God so also it did rise again in the Time of the Regeneration in the Fire-Flash and is not
one must look after and hear him and reverence him Whereby they built their Palaces and great Houses and served in secrecie their Idol Mammon whereby the Lay people were troubled and caused to offend and so lived in carnal pleasures in the desire of the wild Nature and served their belly in wantonnesse confiding in the fruit of the tree which moved over them all though they fell into misery that thereby they might be healed 53. And in the mean while they served the prince of darknesse according to the impulse of the wild nature and the pretious tree stood there onely for a May-game or mocking stock and many lived like wild beasts and did lead a wicked life in Pride Pomp Statelinesse and Lasciviousnesse the rich consuming the labour and sweat of the poor forcing them thereunto 54. All evill actions were approved of for Bribery the Lawes issued forth out of the evill in Nature and every one strove after riches and goods after pride pomp and statelinesse there was no deliverer for the poor scolding railing cursing and swearing were not disapproved nor held vitious and so they defiled themselves in the wrathful or fierce Quality even as a swine tumbleth in the dirt and Mire 55. This did the Shepherds with the sheep they retained no more but the bare name of the noble tree its fruit vertue and life was only a cover to their Sins Thus the world lived at that time saving a small remnant or number which were generated in the midst among the Thorns in great tribulation and contempt out of all Nations upon the Earth from the East to the West 56. There was no difference they all lived upon the impulse of the wild nature in faintnesse even unto a little number which were delivered out of all Nations as it was before the Deluge and before the growing of the noble tree in Nature and thus it was also at that time 57. But why men in the end did long so eagerly after the Root of the tree is a Mystery and hitherto it was concealed from the wise and prudent neither will it rise up to the height but in the Deep in great simplicity 58. As indeed the noble tree with its kernel and heart hath alwayes been concealed from the worldly wise though they supposed they stood some at the root and some at the very Top of the tree yet this was no more then a shining Mist before their eyes 59. But the noble tree from the beginning till now strove in Nature to its utmost that it might be revealed to all people Tongues and Languages against which the Devil in the wild nature raged and fought like a fierce Lyon 60. But the noble tree bore the more and the sweeter fruit and revealed it self more and more against all the fury and madnesse of the Devill even unto the end and then it was light For there grew a green twigg at the Root of the noble Tree which gat the sap and life of the root to which was given the Spirit of the Tree so it encreased and multiplyed the noble tree in its glorious vertue and power and nature also in which it grew 61. Now when this was done then both the Gates of Nature were opened the knowledge of the two Qualities of good and bad and so the Heavenly Jerusalem was manifested and the Kingdom of Hell also to all men upon Earth And the Light and voice was heard in the four Winds and the false Merchant in the South was quite revealed and his own hated him and rooted him out from the whole earth 62. This being done the wild tree toward the North withered and all people beheld the holy tree even in forraign Islands with admiration And the Prince in the darknesse was revealed and his Mysteries were discovered and his shame ignominy and perdition the men upon earth did see and know for it was Light 63. And this lasted but a little time for men forsook that light and lived in carnal pleasures to their own perdition for as the gate of light had opened it self so did also the gate of darknesse and from them both went forth all manner of powers and Arts that were therein 64. For as men had lived from the beginning in the growth of the wild nature and hunted only after earthly things so in the end things were not mended but rather worse 65. In the middle of this time were raised many great stormy winds from the West toward the East and North but from the North there went forth a great stream of water toward the holy tree and in the midst of the stream it was light and so the wild tree toward the North withered 66. And then the Prince in the darknesse was enraged in the great motion of Nature For the Holy Tree moved in Nature as one that would by and by be elevated and kindled in the glorification of the holy Divine Majestie and cast the wrath or fiercenesse from it which had so long stood against it and had wrestled with it 67. In like manner the tree of darknesse wrath fiercenesse and perdition moved furiously as one that would be kindled by and by and therein the Prince with his Legions went forth to spoyl the noble fruit of the good tree 68. And it stood horribly in Nature in the fierce quality in that quality wherein the prince of darknesse dwelt to speak after the manner of men even as when men see terrible weather coming on which maketh a horrible appearance with lightening and tempestuous winds at which men stand amazed 69. On the other side in the good quality in which the holy tree of life stood all was pleasant sweet and delightful like an heavenly joyfulness These two moved furiously one against another till the whole nature was kindled of both qualities in one moment 70. And the tree of life was kindled in its own quality by the fire of the Holy Ghost and its quality burnt in the fire of heavenly joyfulness in an unsearchable light and glory 71. All voyces of the heavenly joyfulnesse qualified mixed or harmonized in this fire which have been from eternitie in the good qualitie and the Light of the holy Trinity shined into the tree of life and replenished or filled the whole quality in which it stood 72. And the tree of the fierce quality which is the other part in Nature was kindled also and burnt in the fire of Gods wrath in a hellish flame and the fierce source rose up into eternity and the Prince of darknesse with his Legions did abide in the fierce wrathfull quality as in his own Kingdom 73. In this fire were consumed the Earth Starres and Elements for all were on fire at once each in the fire of its own quality and all was separable For the Ancient of Dayes moved himself in it wherein every power and all the Creatures and whatsoever can be named even the powers of Heaven of the Stars and of the Elements became thin
relish for food nor do they rot and grow stinking as those in this world do but all consist in holy Divine power 49. Their Constitution or composition is from Divine power from the Salitter and Mercurius of the divine pomp and are the food of the holy Angels 50. If mans abominable Fall had not spoiled it he would have been feasted in such a manner in this world and have eaten such fruit as indeed they were presented to him in Paradise in a twofold manner 51. But the infectious Lust longing and Malady of the Devil who had infected and spoiled the Salitter of which Adam was made that brought Man into an Evil Longing or Lust to eat of both the Qualities the Evil and the Good whereof I shall write clearly here following and demonstrate it Of the Creation of Angels 52. The Spirit sheweth plainly and clearly that before the Creation of the Angels the Divine Being with its rising and qualifying was from eternity and remained so in the Creation of Angels as it is also at this day and will so continue in and to Eternity 53. And the Space Room or place of this world together with the creaturely heaven which we behold with our eyes as also the Space or Place of the Earth and Stars together with the Deep was in such a form as now at this day it is in aloft above the Heavens in the Divine Pomp. 54. But was the Kingdom of the Great Prince Lucifer in the Creation of the Angels Understand according to the second Principle out of which he was thrust forth into the outermost which also is the very innermost of all 55. Who by his proud elevation in his Kingdom â—indled the qualities or the divine Sâ—litter out of which he was made Understand the Center of his Nature or the first Principle and set it on fire 56. Supposing thereby he should grow hugely and highly light and qualifying above the Sonne of God but he became a Fool therefore this place or space in its burning quality could not subsist in God whereupon the Creation of this world ensued 57. But this world at the End in Gods appointed Time will be set again to its first place as it was before the Creation of Angels and Lord Lucifer will have a hole or dungeon for his eternal habitation therein and he will remain eternally in his kindled quality which will be an eternal base filthy reproachful Habitation an empty void dark valley or dungeon a hole of fiercenesse or wrath Now Observe 58. God in his moving created the holy Angels at once not out of a strange matter but out of himself out of his own power and eternal wisdom 59. But the Philosophers had this opinion as if God had made the Angels only out of the light but they erred therein for they were made not only out of the light but out of all the Powers of God 60. And as I have shewed before there are two things especially to be observed in the Deep of God the Father first the power or all Powers of God the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost are very lovely pleasant and various and yet are all One in another as one power 61. And as the powers of all the stars rule in the Ayre so also in God but every power in God Sheweth it self with its operation severally and distinctly 62. Then afterward the Sound is in every power and the Tone or tune of the Sound is according to the quality of every power and therein consisteth the total Heavenly Kingdom of Joy and so from this divine Salitter and Mercurius all Angels are made viz. out of the Body of Nature Question 63. But thou mayest here ask How are they made or generated or in what way and manner Answer 64. If I had the tongue of an Angel and thou hadst an Angelical understanding we might very finely discourse of it But the Spirit only doth see it and the tongue cannot advance towards it For I can use no other words then the words of this world but now the Holy Ghost being in thee thy Soul will well apprehend it 65. For behold the totall holy Trinity hath with its moving Composed compacted or figured a Body or Image out of it self like a little God but not so fully or strongly going forth as the whole Trinity yet in some measure according to the extent and Capacity of the Creatures 66. For in God there is neither beginning nor end but the Angels have a beginning and end but not circumscriptive apprehensive palpable or conclusive for an Angel can sometime be great and suddenly little again their alteration is as swift as mans thoughts are All qualities and powers are in an Angel as they are in the whole Deity 67. But thou must rightly understand this They are made and compacted together or figured out of the Salitter and Mercurius that is out of the exit or excrescence 68. Consider this Similitude Out of the Sun and Stars go forth the Elements and they make in the Salitter of the Earth a living spirit and the stars remain in their Circle or Sphear and that Spirit likewise getteth the quality of the starres 69. But now the Spirit after its compaction is a severed distinct thing and hath a substance of its own as all the Stars have and the stars also are and remain severed and distinct things each of them is free to it self 70. Neverthelesse the quality of the Stars reigneth in the Spirit yet the Spirit can and may raise or demerse it self in its own qualities or may live in the influences of the stars as it pleaseth for it is free for it hath gotten the qualities which it hath in it self for its own 71. And though it had them at the beginning from the stars yet they are now its proper own Just as a mother when she hath the seed in her self as long as she hath it in her and that it is a feed it is hers but when the seed is become a child then it is no more the mothers but is the childs proper own 72. And though the child be in the mothers house and the mother nourisheth the child with her food and that the child could not live without the mother yet both the Body and the Spirit which are generated out of the mother are the Child 's proper own and it retaineth its corporeal right to it self 73. And in this manner it is with the Angels they are also all composed framed or figured out of the Divine Seed but every one hath his own Body to it self though they are in Gods house and feed on the fruit of their mother out of which they were made yet their Bodies are their proper own 74. But the quality Externally without them or externally without their Bodies viz. their mother is not their propriety as also their mother is not the childs propriety also the mothers food is not the and then we shall get the Angelical Clarity
such a Joyful Love-fire that for great joy they sing and ring forth Praises and that which neither I nor any other Creature is able to expresse 36. With this Song I would have the Reader cited into the other life where he will have experience thereof I am not able to set it down in Writing 37. But if thou wilt have experience of it in this world give over thy Hypocrisie Bribery and Deceit and thy Scorning and turn thy heart in all seriousnesse to God Repent thee of thy Sins with a true intention and resolution to live Holily and pray to God for his holy Spirit 38. Wrestle with him as the Holy Patriarch Jacob did Who wrestled with him all night till the dawning of the Day or Morning Radius brake forth and would not give over till God had blessed him Gen. 32. Do thou so like wise with him and the Holy Ghost will get a form in thee 39. If thou holdest on in thy earnestnesse and wilt not give over then will this fire come suddainly upon thee like lightning and shine into thee and then thou wilt well experiment that which I have here written and wilt easily beleeve that which is in my Book 40. Thou wilt also become quite another man and wilt think thereon all the dayes of thy life thy delight will be more in Heaven then on Earth 41. For the conversation of the Holy Soul is in Heaven and though indeed it converseth in the body on earth yet it is alwayes continually with its Redeemer JESUS CHRIST and eateth as a guest with him Note this The Seventh Chapter Of the Court Place and Dwelling also of the Government of Angels how it stood at the beginning after the Creation and how it is become as it is 1. HEre the Devil will oppose like a Snarling Dogg for his shame will be discovered and he will give the Reader many a sore stroake and alwayes put him in doubt that these things are not so 2. For nothing doth torment him more then when his Glory is upbraided to him by signifying what a Glorious King and Prince he hath been when this is objected to him then he is in a rage and madnesse as if he would storm and overthrow all the world 3. If this Chapter should be lighted upon by a Reader in whom the fire of the Holy Spirit should be somewhat weak I fear the Devil would be very busie to set upon him tempting him to doubting whether the things set down here be so or no that his kingdome might not stand so very naked nor his shame be so quite discovered 4. Now if he can but suppose he shall bring it to pass to be doubted of in any heart he will not fail to use his utmost skill pains and labour therein I see very well already that he hath it in his purpose 5. Therefore I would have the Reader warned that he be diligent in the reading hereof and patient so long till he cometh to the reading of the Creation and of the Government of this world and then he will find it plainly and clearly demonstrated from Nature Now Observe 6. When God Almighty had Decreed in his Counsel that he would make Angels or Creatures out of himself then he made them out of his eternal power and wisdom according to the form and manner of the Liberty in his Deity and according to the Qualities in his Divine Being 7. At first he made three Kingly Governments or Dominions answerable to the number of the Holy Trinity and each Kingdom had the Order or Ordnance power and quality of the divine Being 8. Now elevate thy Sense Thoughts and Spirit into the Deep of the Deity for here a Gate is opened The Place or Space of this world the Deep of the Earth and above the Earth even to Heaven as also the created Heaven which was made out of the midst of the Waters which moveth above the Stars and which we behold with our Eyes whose depth we cannot sound or reach with our sense all this place or room together was one Kingdom and Lucifer was King therein before his being thrust out 9. The other two Kingdoms that of Michael and that of Uriel those are above the created Heaven and are like that other Kingdom 10. These three Kingdoms together contain such a Deep as is not of any humane Number nor can be measured by any thing 11. Yet you must know that these three Kingdoms have a Beginning and End But that God who hath made these three Kingdoms out of himself is infinite and hath no End 12. Yet without and beyond and besides these three Kingdoms there is likewise the power of the Holy Trinity for God the Father hath no End 13. But thou art to know this Mystery that in the Center or Midst of these three Kingdoms is generated the splendor or Sonne of God 14. This needs explanation Read the Second and Third part of these writings where it is described more fundamentally for nothing that is divisible measurable or circumscriptive is here meant or understood oâ—ly it was in simplicity and plainnesse set down so at the first because of the slow and dull apprehension 15. And the three Kingdoms are circular round about the Sonne of God neither of them is further or nearer to the Sonne of God for the one is equally as near about the Sonne of God as the other 16. From this fountain and from all the powers of the Fether goeth forth the Holy Ghost together with the Light and power of the Sonne of God in and through all Angelical Kingdomes or Dominions and without beyond and besides all the Angelical Kingdoms which no Angel or man is able to dive or search into 17. Neither have I any purpose to consider of it further much lesse to write but my Revelation reacheth even into the three Kingdoms like an Angelical Knowledge 18. But not in my Reason or apprehension or in perfection like an Angel but in part and so-long only as the Spirit tarrieth in me further I know it not 19. When he parteth from me I know nothing but the Elementary and earthly things of this world but the Spirit seeth even into the depth of Deity Question 20. Now one may ask what manner of Substance or thing it is that the Sonne of God is Generated in the Center or midst of these Three Kingdoms Surely one Angelical Hoast must needs be nearer unto him then the other seeing their Kingdom hath so great a Deep 21. Also then the Glory Clarity or brightnesse and power of the Sonne of God would not be so great without beyond or besides those Kingdoms as in with and among those that are near him and as in the Angelical Circuit or Court Answer 22. Answ. The holy Angels were made to be creatures from God that they should praise sing ring forth and Jnbilate before the Heart of God which is the Sonne of God and tncrease the heavenly
they generated such a violent moving spirit and so the sweet water which before the times of the wrath was very rarified and thin and incomprehensible grew very thick and elevated and swelled and the astringent quality grew very sharp and Cold-firie or fierce-cold for it got a strong attracting together like Salt 10. For the Salt-water or Salt which still to this Day is found in the Earth hath its original and descent from the first kindling of the Astringent Quality and so the Stones also have their beginning and descent from thence as also the Earth 11. For the astringent quality now attracted the Salitter very strongly together and dryed it whence the bitter Earth is proceeded but the Stones are from the Salitter which at that Time stood in the power of the Tone or Tune 12. For as Nature with the working wrestling and rising up of its Birth or Geniture stood in the time of the kindling Just such a Matter attracted it self together Now it may be Asked How then is a comprehensible or palpable Sonne come to be out of an incomprehensible Mother Answer 13. Thou hast a Similitude of this in that the Earth and Stones are proceeded out of the incomprehensibility 14. For behold the Deep between Heaven and Earth is also incomprehensible and yet the Elementary Qualities at sometimes generate living comprehensible flesh therein as Grashoppers Flyes and Worms or creeping things 15. Which is caused by the strong attracting together of the qualities in which attracted Salitter the life is suddenly generated For when the heat kindleth the astringent Quality then the life riseth up for the Bitter quality stirreth it self which is the original of life 16. So in like manner the Earth and Stones have their descent for when the Salitter kindled it self in Nature then all became very rugged thick and dark like a thick dark Mist or Cloud which the astringent quality dryed up hard with its coldnesse 17. But being the Light in the outermost Birth was extinguished the Heat also was captivated in the Comprehensibility or palpability and could no more generate its Life from thence Death did come into Nature so that Nature or the corrupt Earth could no more help it and thereupon another creation of Light must needs follow or else the Earth would have been an Eternal undissolvable Death but now the Earth generateth or bringeth forth fruit in the power and kindling of the created Light Now one might ask What is the condition then of this Two-fold Birth or Geniture Is God then extinguisht in the kindling of the wrath-fire in the place of this world so that nothing is there else but a meer wrath-fire or is the One onely God become a Twofold God Answer 18. Thou canst not better comprehend apprehend or understand this then in and by thy own Body which through the first fall of Adam with all its Birth or Geniture fitnesse faculties and will is become just such a House 19. First thou hast the Beastial Flesh which is come to be so through the Lustfull longing Bit of the Apple for it is the House of Corruption For when Adam was made out of the corrupted Salitter of the Earth that is out of the Seed or Masse or Lump which the Creator extracted out of the corrupted Earth he was not then at first such flesh else his Body had been created Mortall but he had an Angelicall powerfull Body in which he should subsist Eternally and should eat Angelical fruit which did grow for him in Paradise before his fall before the LORD cursed the Earth 20. But being the Seed or Masse or Lump out of which Adam was made was somewhat infected with the corrupt disease or malady of the Devill Adam therefore long'd after his Mother that is to eat of the fruit of the corrupted Earth which then in its outward comprehensibility was become so Evil and in the wrath-fire was become so hard palpable and comprehensible 21. But being Adams spirit long'd after that fruit which was of the Quality of the corrupted Earth therefore also Nature formed or framed such a Tree for him as was like the corrupted Earth 22. For Adam was the Heart in Nature and therefore his animated or soulish spirit did help to Image fashion or frame this Tree of which he would fain eat 23. But when the Devill saw that the Lust was in Adam then he stung lustily and briskly at the Salitter in Adam and infected the Salitter out of which Adam was made yet more and more 24. And now then it was time that the Creator should frame a wife for him which afterward set the Sinne on work and did eat of the evill or corrupt fruit Else if Adam had eaten of the Tree before the woman had been made out of him then it would have been far worse then it is 25. But being this requireth a high and deep Description as also requireth much Room therefore seek for it concerning the Fall of Adam where you will find it largely described So now I return to the forementioned Similitude 26. Now when Adam did eat of the fruit which was Good and Evill then he suddenly gat such a Body also The fruit was corrupt or perished and palpable as to this day all fruits now on Earth are and so such a flesly and palpable or comprehensible Body Adam and Eve gat instantly 27. But now the flesh is not the whole Man for this flesh cannot comprehend or apprehend the Deity else the flesh were not Mortal and corruptible or fading and transitory for Christ saith John 6. 63. It is the Spirit that quickneth the flesh profiteth nothing 28. For this flesh cannot inherit the Kingdom of heaven neither but is only a Seed which is sowen into the Earth out of which will grow an impalpable or incomprehensible Body such as the first was before the Fall But the Spirit is eternal life which uniteth qualifieth or mixeth with God and comprehendeth the internal Deity in Nature 29. Now as Man in his outward Being is corrupted and as to his fleshly Birth or Geniture is in the wrath of God and is moreover also an Enemy of God and yet is but one Man and not Two and on the other side in his spiritual Birth or Geniture he is a Child and Heir of God which ruleth and liveth with God and qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the innermost Birth or Geniture of God Thus also is the Place of this world come to be 30. The outward comprehensibility or Palpability in the whole Nature of this world and of all things which are therein standeth all in the wrath-fire of God for it is become thus through the kindling of Nature and Lord Lucifer with his Angels hath his dwelling now in the same outward Birth or Geniture which standeth in the wrath-fire 31. But now the Deity is not separated from the outward Birth or Geniture so as if they were Two things in this world if so Man could
stand ready for an encounter so much hath the Devill set himself against this 9. But when I perceived that my Eternal Salvation was concerned therein and that through my negligence the Gates of the Light would be shut against mee which yet was the very Firmament and Fort of my Heaven wherein my soul did hide it self from the storms of the Devill which I took in and gained with great toyle and many hard assaults and stormings through the Love of God by the breaking through of my Redeemer and King JESVS CHRIST and therefore I leave my care to God and will take my fleshly Reason Captive 10. And I have chosen the Gate of knowledge of the Light and will follow after the impulse and knowledge of the spirit though my bestial Body should be brought to beggery or quite fall to the ground I regard none of these things but will say with the royal prophet David Psa. 73. 26. though my Body and Soul should faint and faile yet thou O God art my Salvation my comfort and the refuge of my Heart 11. In thy Name I will venture it and will not strive against thy Spirit though the flesh be troubled and must endure miserie yet faith in the knowledge of the Light must move and soare above Reason 12. And I know also very well that it is not fit for the disciple to fight against his Master and I know that the high experienced Masters of Astrologie do far exceed me in their way But I labour in my calling and they in theirs lest I should be found a Lazy Idle Servant to my Lord at his coming when he shall demand the Talent he hath entrusted me withall but that I may present into him with usury or profit and gaine 13. Therefore I will not bury his Talent in the Earth but lend it out upon usury or interest lest he should say to me at that time of his requiring it of me Thou wicked sloathfull Servant why hast thou hid my Talent in the Darknesse and did'st not put it out upon use and so now I might have received it with usury gain and profit and so then he will take it quite away from me and give it to another who hath gained many Talents with his one Therefore I will sow let him water it I leave the care to him Now Observe 14. The whole House of this World which standeth in a visible and comprehensible or Palpable being is the old House of God or the Old Body which stood before the time of wrath in a Heavenly claritie and brightnesse But when the Devill stirred up the wrath therein then it became a House of darknesse and of Death 25. Therefore then also the holy Birth or Geniture of God as a special Body of it selfe separated it self from the wrath and made the Firmament of Heaven between the Love and the Wrath so that the Birth or Geniture of the Stars standeth in the middle understand it thus viz with its outward comprehensibility and visibility it standeth in the wrath of Death and with the New Birth rising up therein which standeth in the middle or central seate where the closure of Heaven is it standeth in the meeknesse of the Life 16. For Meeknesse moveth against the wrath and the wrath against the Meeknesse and so both are distinct Kingdoms in the one onely Body of this World 17. But being the Love and Meeknesse of God would not leave the Body or place of this kindled wrath world sticking in eternal wrath and ignominie therefore he generated the whole old Body of this world againe into a rectified reformed Body wherein life did rule in a divine manner and way though in the kindled wrath yet it must subsist according to the Right of the Deitie that out of it a New Body might be generated which should subsist in holinesse and purity in Eternity 18. For which cause there is appointed in God a Day of separation on which Life and Wrath shall be separated asunder 19. Now when thou beholdest the Stars and the Deep together with the Earth then thou seest with thy bodily Eyes nothing else but the old Body in the wrathfull Death thou canst not see Heaven with thy Bodily Eyes for the Blew or Azure Sphere which thou seest aloff is not the Heaven but is only the old Body which may be justly called the corrupted Nature 20. But that there seemeth to be a Blew or Azure Sphere above the Stars whereby the place of this world is closed and shut out from the holy Heaven as Men have thought hitherto yet it is not so but it is the superiour water of Nature which is much brighter then the water below the Moon And now when the Sun shineth through the Deepe then it is as it were of a Light-Blew or Azure colour 21. But how deepe or how large the place of this world is no Man knoweth though some Natural Phylosophers Mathematicians Astronomers or Astrologers have undertaken to measure the Deepe with their Measures of Circles their measuring is but conjecturall or a measuring of somwhat that is comprehensible or Palpable as if a Man would grasp the wind in his Fist. 22. But the true Heaven is every where all over to this very time and till the last Judgment Day and the Wrath House of Hell and of Death is also in this world every where even to the last Judgment day 23. But the dwelling of the Devills is now from the Moon to the Earth and in the deep Caves and Holes thereof especially in Wildernesses and Desart Places and where the Earth is full of Stones and Bitternesse 24. But their Kingly Regiment or Government is in the Deep in the four Coasts or Quarters of the Equinoctial Line or Circle of which I will write in another place 25. But here I will shew thee 1o. How the Body of this World came to be and 2o. How it is at present and then 3º how the Regiment or Government therein is 26. The whole Body of this world is as a Mans Body for it is surrounded in its utmost Circle with the Stars and arisen powers of Nature and in that Body the seaven spirits of Nature Governe and the Heart of Nature standeth in the Midst or Center 27. But the Stars in generall are and signifie the wonderfull proportion or changing variety of God For when God Created the Stars he created them out of the rising up of the infinity out of the Old-Body of God then further kindled 28. For as the seaven spirits of God had before the time of the wrath generated themselves infinitely by their rising up and Effectings whence rose up so many several varieties of figures and Heavenly Ideas or vegetations So also the Holy God formed his old body of this corrupted Nature into as many and various powers as ever stood in the Birth or Geniture in the Holynesse Understand this high thing rightly 29. Every Star hath a several peculiar propertie which thou maist
perceive by the curious Ornament of the budding blossoming Earth And the Creator hath therefore rebuilt and revived againe the old kindled Body into so many various powers that through this Old Life in the wrath such a new life might generate it self therein through the closure of Heaven that that New Life might have all the powers operations that ever the old had before the times of wrath that it might qualifie mixe or unite with the pure Deitie distinct from this world and that it might be One holy God together with the Deitie without distinct from this World 30. Also the New Birth blossom'd in the time of the Creation when Man had not spoiled or corrupted it but by him Nature was still more corrupted and so God cursed the Ground But being Man took hold of the fruit of the old Body thereupon the fruit of the new Body was hidden in its Heaven and Man must now behold it with the new Body and cannot partake of it with the natural Body 31. Of which I have a great longing to eate but I cannot reach to it for Heaven is the closure or Firmament between the old and new Body And therefore I must let it alone till I come into the other Life and must give my bestial Body Mother Eve's Wrath-Apples to Eate Concerning The kindling of the Heart or Life of this World 32. When God had brought the Body of this world in two Dayes into a right forme and had made the Heaven for a Partition betweene the Love the Wrath then on the Third Day the Love pressed through the Heaven and through the wrath and then instantly the old Body in Death stirr'd and moved it selfe to the Birth or Geniture 33. Eor the Love is hot and that kindled the fire-source or quality and that rubb'd it selfe in the astringent and cold quality of benumm'd Death till the astringent qualitie was heated on the third Day whereby the mobilitie or the astringent Earth became moveable 54. For all stood in the fire-crak till the fourth Day and then the Light of the Sun kindled it self for the whole Body stood in anguish or Paine in the Birth as a woman in Travell 35. The Astringent qualitie was the encompasser or incloser of the life in it now the Heat was anxious which was kindled through the Love of God and did thrust forth the astringent qualitie as a dead Body but the Heat reteined its seat in the mid'st or center of the Body and so presâ—'d through 36 But when the Light of the Sun kindled it self then the nex Circle or Orb above the Sun stood in the fire-crak for the Sun or the Light was shining in the Water and the bitternesse ascended also in the fire-crack out of the water But the light made very great haste after it and laid hold on the fire crak and there it remained standing as a Captive and became corporeal 37. In this Revolution the Planet Mars came to be whose power standeth in the Bitter fire-crak for it is a Tyrant Rager Raver and Stomer like a fire-crak moreover it is Hot and a poisonous venomous enemie of Nature through whose rising up and Birth or Geniture in the Earth all manner of Poisonous Venomous evill Wormes and Vermine are come to be 38. Buâ— being the Heat in the middle point or center of the Body was so Mighty Great thereupon it extended it self so very largely and opened the Chamber of Death so wide before its kindling of the Light that it the SUN is the Greatest Star 39. But assoon as the Light kindled it self in the heat so instantly was that Hot place caught in the Light and then the Body of the Sun could grow no bigger For the light mitigated the Heat and so the Body of the Sun remained there standing in the mid'st or center as a Heart for the Light is the Heart of Nature not the Heat But here thou must observe exactly 40. As far as the middle point or center hath kindled it selfe Just so bigg is the Sun for the Sun is nothing else but a kindled poinâ— in the Body of Nature 41. Thou must not thinke that there is any oother power or vertue in it or belonging to it then there is in the whole Deep of the Body every where all over 42. For should the Love of God through its Heaven kindle the whole body of this world through the Heate it would be every where all over as Light as it is now in the Sun 43. And now if the great Heat were taken away from the Sun then it would be One Light with God but seeing that cannot bee in this time therefore it remaineth a King and Regent in the old corrupted and kindled Body of Nature and the clear Deitie remaineth hidden in the meek Heaven 44. But the light of the meeknesse of the Sun qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the pure Deitie but the Heat cannot comprehend the light and therefore also the place of the Sun remaineth in the Body of Gods wrath and thou must not worship pray to or honour the Sun as God for its place or Body cannot apprehend the water of Life because of its Fiercenesse The Highest ground of the SUN and of ALL the PLANETS 45. And here I shall have adversaries enough who will be ready to censure mee for they will not have regard to consider the Spirit but will mind their old Rules and say Astrologers understand it better who have written of such matters and they will look On this Great open Gate as a Cow looks on a new Barn Doare 46. Deare Reader I understand the Astrologers meanings and sayings full well and I have perused their writings also and taken notice how they describe the course of the Sun and Stars neither do I despise it but hold that for the most part to be good and right 47. But that I write otherwise then they in some things I do it not out of self will or conceipt and supposition doubting whteher it be so or no I dare not make any doubt herein neither can any man instruct mee herein 48. I have not my knowledge by Study indeed I have read the order and Position of the Seaven Planets in the Books of Astrologers and find them to be very right but the Root how they came to be from what they are proceeded I cannot learne it from any Man for they know it not neither was I present when God created them 49. But being the Doores of the Deep and the Gates of wrath and the Chambers of Death also are set open in my spirit through the Love of God the spirit therefore must needs look thorough them 50. And accordingly I find that the Birth or Geniture of Nature standeth to this Day and generateth it selfe just fo as it first took its beginning and whatsoever riseth up in this world whether Men Beasts Trees Herbs Grasse Minerall Oars or what it will all riseth up in such a
the Heart of God and qualified mixed or united with the same and the astringent spirit drew the Masse together and there was cleerely a Birth or a will or desire to the producing of a whole creature just as the Seede in Man is 116. But now the Firmament of Heaven that is between the Heart of God and the kindled hard Chamber of Death was closed or shut up else the Life in the Masse had suddenly kindled it selfe 117. For the firmament was within in the Masse as well as without distinct from the Masse which is the parting mark or limit of separation between the Heart of God and the fierce Devills 118. Therefore the word or Heart of God must blow up the movingâ—spirit in the Masse which was first done but on the sixt Day for very assured causes 119. For if Heaven had not as a Firmament been shut up in the Masse between the Heart of God and the corporeal qualifying or fountaine spirits of the Masse then the Masse might have kindled the Soul from or by its own power as it was with the Holy Angels 120. But it was to be feared that it would come to passe as it did with that faire little Son Lucifer being the corporeal qualifying or fountain spirits in the Masse were kindled in the wrath-fire 121. Therefore Heaven must be a Firmament between the sparkle which had conceived from the Heart of God in the first Glance that though the Body might happen to perish yet the holy Seed might remaine which is the Soul which qualifyeth mixeth or uniteth with the Heart of God out of which a new Body might come to be when the whole God should kindle againe the Deepe of this world in the Light of the Heart of God and just so it is come to be with the Body The Love of God have mercy and take pitty on it 122. The deare man Moses writeth that God made Man out of a Clod of Earth as the Learned have rendred it But Moses was not present when it was done 123. But this I must needs say that Meses hath written very right but the true understanding or meaning out of what the Earth proceeded remained hidden to Moses and them that have come after him in the Letter and the spirit hath kept it hidden to this very time 124. It was also hidden from Adam while he was yet in Paradise but now it will fully be revealed for the Heart of God hath set upon or assaulted the Chamber of Death and will shortly breake quite thorough 125. And therefore in these our present times some Beames of the Day will more and more break thorough in the hearts of some men and make known the Day 126. But when the Dawning or Morning Rednesse shall shine from the East to the West or from the rising to the setting then assuredly time will be no more but the SUN of the Heart of God riseth or spriugeth forth and RA. RA. R. P. will be pressed in the Wine Presse without the Cittie and therewith to R. P. 127. These are hidden mystical words and are understood onely in the Language of Nature 128. Mises writeth very right that Man was created out of the Earth but at that time when the Masse was held by the word then the Masse was not Earth But if it had not been held or kept by the word then at that very houre it had become Black Earth but the cold wrath-fire was in it already 129. For at the very houre when Lucifer elevated himselfe the Father was moved to wrath in the qualifying or fountain spirits against the Legions of Lucifer and the Heart of God hid it selfe in the Firmament of Heaven where the Salitter effect product or Fabrick of the corporeity was burning already for without or distinct from the Light is the dark Chamber of Death 130. But the Masse was held or kept in the Firmament of Heaven that it might not be congealed for when the Heart of God Glanced on the Masse with its hot Love then the unctuositie or oyle in the Masse which rose up out of the water through the fire out of which the Light riseth up and out of which the Love-Spirit riseth up caught hold of the Heart of God and was impregnated with a young Sonne 131. And that was the Seed of Love for one Love embraced the other the Love of the Masse embraced and conceived from the Love out of the Glance of the Heart of God and was thereby impregnated and this is the Birth or Geniture of the Soule and as to this Sonne Man is the Image of God 132. But the qualifying or Fountain spirits in the Masse could not presently be kindled thereby from the Soul for the Soul stood only in the seed in the Masse hidden with the Heart of God in its Heaven till the Creator blew upon the Masse and then the qualifying or Fountain spirits kindled the Soule also and then both Body and Soul lived equally together 133. Indeed the Soul had its Life before the Body but it stood in the Heart of God hidden in the Masse in Heaven and was a kind of holy Seed qualifying mixing or uniting with God which is Eternal incorruptible and undestroyable for it was a new and pure Seed for an Angel and Image of God 134. But the Fabrick effect or product of the whole Masse was an extract or attraction of the word of God out of the Fabrick or effect of the qualifying or fountain Spirits or of the Salitter out of which the Earth came to be 135. This extract was not yet become Earth though it was the Salitter of the Earth but was held or kept by the word 136. For when the Love-Spirit out of the Heart of God Glanced on the Salitter of the Masse then the Salitter did catch hold of it and conceive from it and was impregnated in the Center of the Soul and the word stood in the Masse in the Sound but the Light abode in the Center of the Masse in the Firmament of Heaven standing hidden in the unctuous oile of the heart and did not move it selfe forth out of the Firmament of Heaven in the Birth of the qualifying or fountain Spirits 137. Else if the Light had kindled it selfe in the Birth or Geniture of the Soul then all the seaven qualifying or fountain Spirits according to the eternall Birth-Right of the Deitie had triumphed and qualifyed mixed or united in with the Light and had been a Living Angel but being the wrath had cleerely already infected the Salitter therefore that danger was to be feared which befell Lucifer Now it may be Asked 138. Why were not many Masse's Created at this time out of which instantly at once there might have been a whole Angelical hoast or Army instead of fallen Lucifer 139. Why should there be so long a time of stay in the wrath 140. And why should the whole Hoast or Army be generated out of that one Masse in so very long a
blessed friendly and Mercifull Love of God The Divine Mystery Page 159 What remains hidden since the Beginning of the world Page 161 The Wrath the Original of Hell-fire Page 164 Chapter X. Of the Sixth Qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power The Sound Page 176 What in Men shall arise in Heavenly Joy or in Hellish Torment The Salitter Page 184 How a Man may Quench the kindled Wrath of God in this Life in himself Page 190 How neer God and the whole Trinity is to us Page 195 196 Chapter XI Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power The Divine SALITTER Page 200 The Holy Gate What the Father the Sonne and the Holy Spirit is Whom We Christians worship Page 206 207 What the Law of Nature is Page 208 Why He only that sinneth shall be punished Page 209 The Prerogative of Christians Page 210 Of the Word SALITTER Page 218 How the Imaging in Nature is Page 220 How our Life is a perpetual warfare with the Devil Page 224. Chapter XII Of the Birth or descent of the Holy Angels as also of their Government Order and heavenly joyous Life Page 230 What the Angels do when they sing not What do they Talk of Who they are like Page 238 239 What Heaven it self is Page 244 What the Angels walk upon Page 254 Of MICHAEL Page 256. Of LUCIFER Page 259 Of Lucifer's Creation Page 260. Of URIEL Page 261 The Beauty of Heavenly Forms Likened to Pretious Stones Page 263 Why Baptisme Instituted in the water Page 265 How the Wisdom of God is Incomprehensible Page 266 Chapter XIII Of the Horrible Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer Page 268 What the fountain of the First Sin of the Angels is Page 269 Where the fault lyeth that Lucifer is become a Devill Page 280 The Eternal Geniture of the Deity Page 290 The Beginning of Sinne. Page 293 Chapter XIV How Lucifer who was the Beautifullest Angell in Heaven is become the most horrible Devil Page 302 The cause that God Created Angels Page 305 Of the Eternal Enmity Page 316 Seven sources of Sinne and the Eighth the house of Death Page 318 Of the first source Page 320 What the Eternal Sport of God was before the Time of the Creation of the Angels Page 322 Of the second source of Sinne 's beginning Page 327 How God possesseth all and yet no Creature is He. Page 334 Chapter XV. Of the Third Species or spirit of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer Page 336 What Lucifer knew before his Fall Page 339 When the End of this Time will be Also of the Fourth Species of Sins beginning Page 342 Of the Sting of Death Page 345 What the Comprehensibility is Page 346 Of the Fifth manner of Sin 's beginning Page 348 Of the Sixth Form of Sin 's beginning Page 352 Of the Old Serpent Page 354 Chapter XVI Of the Seventh Kind of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer and his Angels Page 357 Of Sorcerers and Witches Page 358 Wherein Naturality consisteth Page 359 Of the mourning house of Death Page 364 That God willeth not Evil nor can do Page 365 Of Pride Covetousnesse Envy and Wrath. Page 378 to 380. The final Condemnation Also of the last Fight and Expulsion of Lucifer and all his Angels Page 381 What will be called the Burning Hell Page 385 Chapter XVII Of the miserable state and Condition of the Corrupt perished Nature and Original of the four Elements instead of the holy Dominion of God Page 386 What is called the Wrath of God Page 387 How a Comprehensible is come out of an Incomprehensible Page 389 How the Devil still presents the Swine-Apples of Paradise before the Soul Page 393 Chapter XVIII Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth And of the first Day Page 394 Why Man in this World so loveth Gold Silver and Pretious Stones Page 398 How shall I understand My self according to the Threefold Geniture in Nature Page 399 An Exposition of the first Verse of the first Cha. of Genesis according to the Language of Nature Page 405 Into what the Soul Goeth when we Dye Page 411 Of the Creation of the Light in this world Page 413 Whence fightings among all Creatures have their Original Page 418 What Light was before the Sun and Stars Page 423 Chapter XIX Concerning the Created Heaven And of the Form of the Earth and of the Water is also concerning Light and Darknesse Page 424 From what Light this Authour hath his Knowledg Page 428 How it was that Jesus Christ could take the Devil Death and Hell captive Also in what Heaven he sitteth at the Right hand of God Page 433 Where shall the wrath of God become at the End Page 435 Concerning the Form of the Earth Page 438 Why the Earth is so Hilly Rocky Stony and Uneaven Page 441 Of Day and Night Page 443 Of Morning and Evening Page 446 Chapter XX. Of the Second Day How God separated the Waters beneath the Firmament from the Waters above the Firmament Page 456 We should strive against the Malice and Wickedness that is in our Hearts Page 460 What the Moon or Luna is Page 465 How the Heavens are not pure in Gods sight Page 466 In what Heaven the Man that feareth God dwelleth Page 470 How Christ could go through the Doors being shut Joh. 20. 19. Page 474 Chapter XXI Of the Third Day Page 479 The Diurnal Motion of the Earth Page 479 Man is made out of the Seed of the Earth Page 485 How Man's hope standeth in God Page 488 How Sins are the Cause that the Deity is hidden from us Page 494 Of the Seven Spirits of God and of their Operation in the Earth Page 496 Why the Astral Birth of the Earth did begin a Day sooner then the Astral Birth in the Deep above the Earth Page 506 Whence Mercy Existed Page 509 Chapter XXII Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars and Creation of the Fourth Day Also the Reason of the Title Dawning or Morning-Rednesse Page 510 511 Why the Spirit of Nature it self will open the Door Page 515 What the Stars are Page 517 Sixteen Questions asked the Doctors Page 519 How this work is the Holy Ghost's Dear Revelation Page 523 Of the Earth Page 529 Of the Vegetations of the Earth Page 530 Of the Mettals in the Earth Page 531 Chapter XXIII Of the Deep above the Earth Page 538 Of the Astral Birth or Geniture and of the Birth or Geniture of God Page 541 The Severe Geniture of the Wrath of God cannot be accensible nor Elevable in God Page 542 What is called the Animated or Soulish Birth Page 548 Of the Beeing of the Deity and of the Three Persons Also whence the Living and Rationall Spirit existeth Page 551 What is the Water of Life Page 553 The Gate of the Holy Trinity Page 555 Of the Kindled Nature Page 565 Chapter XXIV Of the Incorporating or Compacting the Stars Page 565 Out of what the Stars are come to be Page 568
Earth 34. The Flesh signifieth the Earth and is also from Earth 35. The Blood signifieth the Water and is from the Water 36. The Breath signifieth the Ayr and is also Ayr. 37. The Wind-Pipe and Arteries wherein the Ayr qualifieth or operateth signifieth the Deep betwixt the Stars and the Earth wherein fire ayr and water qualifie in an elementary manner and so the warmth the Ayr and water qualifie also in the Wind-Pipe and Arteries as they do in the Deep above the Earth 38. The Veins signifie the powerfull flowings out from the Stars and are also the powerful outgoings of the Stars for the Start with their powers raign in the Veins and drive forth the Forme shape and condition in Men. 39. The Entrails or Guts signifie the operation of the Stars or their consuming of all that which is proceeded from their power for whatsoever themselves have made that they consume again and remain Still in their vertue and power and so the Gutts also are the consuming of all that which man Thrusteth and stuffeth into his Gutts even all whatsoever groweth from the power of the Stars 40. The Heart in man Signifieth the Heat or the Element of Fire and it is also the Heat for the Heat in the whole Body hath its Original in the Heart 41. The Wind-Pipe and Arteries signifie the Element of Aire and the Aire ruleth also therein 42. The Liver signifieth the Element of water and it is also the water for from the Liver cometh the Blood in the whole Body into all the Members The Liver is the Mother of the Blood 43. The Lungs Signify the Earth and are also of the same Quality 44. The Feet Signify near and afar off for near and afar off are all one in God and so man by means of his Feet can come and go near and far off let him be where he will he is in Nature neither near nor afar off for in God these are one thing 45. The Hands signifie Gods Omnipotence for as God in Nature can change all things and make of them what he pleaseth so man also can with his Hands change all that which is grown in Nature and can make with his Hands out of them what he pleaseth he ruleth with his Hands the Work and Being of the whole Nature and so they very well signifie the Omnipotence of God Now observe here further 46. The whole Body to the Neck signifieth and is the round circle or Sphear of the Starres as also the Deep within or between the Stars wherein the Planets and Elements reign 47. The Flesh signifyeth the Earth which is congealed and hath no motion and so the flesh in it self hath no Reason Comprehensibility or Mobility but is moved only by the power of the Stars which raign in the flesh and veins 48. No more could the earth bring forth any fruit neither could there grow any Metals as Gold Silver Copper Iron or stones if the Starrs did not work in them neither could there grow any Grasse without the operation of the Starts 49. The Head signifieth Heaven the same is grown on the Body by the veins passages and going forth of powers and so all the powers come again from the Head and Brain into the Body into the fountain-veins or Arteries of the flesh 50. Now Heaven is a pleasant Pallace of joy wherein all the powers are as in the whole nature in the Starrs and Elements but not so hard working and Springing For every power of Heaven hath but one Species kind or form of power Springing very bright and meek not promiscuously Evil and Good one in another as in the Starrs and Elements but very pure 51. It is made out of the Midst of the waters but not qualifying in such a manner as the water in the elements for fiercenesse or wrath is not therein However Heaven belongeth to Nature because the Stars and Elements have their original and power from the Heaven 52. For Heaven is the Heart of the water as in all creatures and in all that which is in this world the water is the Heart thereof and nothing can Subsist without water be it in the flesh or out of the flesh in the Vegetables of the earth or in Metals and Stones in every thing the water is the kernel or the Heart of it 53. And so Heaven is the Heart in Nature wherein all the powers are as in the Stars and Elements and it is a soft supple and meek matter of all powers as the Brain in mans Head is 54. Now Heaven kindleth with its power the Stars and Elements so that they move and work And so the Head of man is also like Heaven 55. For as in Heaven all powers are meek and full of joy And as Heaven hath a Closure or Firmament above the Starrs and yet all powers go forth from Heaven into the Stars so the Brain also hath a Closure or Firmament between it and the body and yet all the powers go forth from the Brain into the Body and into the whole man 56. The Head Containeth the five Senses viz. Seeing Hearing Smelling Tasting and Feeling wherein the Stars and Elements qualify and therein existeth the Sydereal or Heavenly Starry or Astral and Natural spirit in Men and Beasts in this floweth forth Good and Evil for it is the House of the Stars 57. Such power the Stars borrow from Heaven that they can make in the flesh a Living and moving Spirit in Man and Beast The moving of the Heaven maketh the Stars moveable and so the Head also maketh the Body moveable 58. Now open here the eyes of thy Spirit and behold God thy Creator Question Here Now the Question is From whence hath Heaven or whence Borroweth it this power that it causeth such Mobility in Nature Answer 59. Here you must Lift up your Eyes Beyond Nature into the Light-holy Tryumphing divine power into the unchangeable holy Trinity which is a triumphing Springing moveable Being and all powers are therein as in Nature 60. For this is the Eternal Mother of Nature of which Heaven Earth Stars Elements Angels Devils Men Beasts and all have their being and therein ALL standeth 61. When we nominate Heaven and Earth Stars and Elements and all that is therein and all whatsoever is above the Heaven then thereby is nominated the Totall God which hath made himself Creaturely in these above mentioned Beings in his power which goeth forth from him 62. But GOD in his TRINITY is unchangeable and whatever there is in Heaven and upon Earth and above the Earth hath its Spring Source and Original from the Power which proceedeth from God 63. Yet you must not therefore conceive that in God there is Good and Evil for God Himself is the Good and hath the Name from good which is the triumphing Eternal Joy only all the powers proceed from him which you can search out in Nature and which are in all things Question 64. Now perhaps you may say Is there not
good and Evil in Nature and so seeing every thing cometh from God needs must then the Evil also come from God Answer 65. Behold there is a Gall in mans Body which is poison and he cannot live without this Gall for the Gall maketh the Astral spirits moveable joyous triumphing or laughing for it is the source of joy 66. But if it be inflamed or kindled in one of the Elements then it spoileth the whole Man for the wrath in the Astral spirits cometh from the Gall. 67. That is when the Gall overfloweth and runneth to the Heart then it kindleth the Element of fire and the fire kindleth the Astral spirits which raign in the Blood in the veins and in the Element of Water and then the whole Body trembleth by reason of the wrath and the poyson of the Gall. 68. And such a source hath Joy and from the same substance as also the wrath That is when the Gall in the Loving or Sweet quality is inflamed in that which man is in love withall then the whole body trembleth for joy in which many times the Astrall spirits are affected also when the Gall is overflown and is kindled in the Sweet quality 69. But it hath no such Substance in God for he hath not flesh and blood but he is a Spirit in whom all powers are as we pray in the Lords Prayer Thine is the power John 4. 24. Matth. 6. 70. And as it is written of him in Isaiah 9. He is Wonderful Counsel Power Champion Eternal Father Prince of Peace 71. The Bitter quality is in God also but not in that manner as the Gall is in Man but it is an everlasting power in an elevating triumphing spring or source of Joy 72. And though it be written in Moses I am an angry zealous God Exod. 20. Deut. 4. 24. yet the meaning of it is not that God is angry in himself and that there ariseth a fire of anger in the Holy Trinity 73. No that cannot be for it is written against those that hate me in that same Creature the fire of anger riseth up 74. But if God should be angry in Himself then the whole Nature would be on fire which will come once to passe On the Last Day in Nature and Not in God but in God the triumphing Joy will burn it was never otherwise from eternity nor will it Ever be otherwise 75. But now the elevating springing triumphing joy in God maketh Heaven triumphing and moveable and Heaven maketh the Stars and Elements moveable and the Stars and the Elements make the Creatures moveable 76. Out of the Powers of God are the Heavens proceeded out of the Heaven are the Stars out of the Stars are the Elements out of the Elements are the Earth and the Creatures come to be 77. Thus all had its beginning even to the Angels and Devils which before the Creation of Heaven Stars and the Earth were proceeded out of the same power out of which the Heaven the Stars and the Earth were proceeded 78. This is a short Entrance or Introduction shewing how the Divine and Natural Being is to be considered Henceforth I will describe the true Ground and Depth concerning What God is and how all things are framed in Gods Being 79. Which indeed hath been partly concealed from the beginning of the World to this time and Man with his Reason could not comprehend it 80. But seeing God is pleased to reveal Himself in Simplicity in this last Time I shall give way to his Impulse and Will I am but a very little Spark of Light AMEN The Third Chapter Of the most blessed Triumphing Holy Holy Holy Trinity GOD the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost ONE onely God 1. COurtâ—ous Reader here I would have you faithfully admonished to let go your Opinion and Conceit and not to Gaze after the Heathenish wisdome nor be offended at the simplicity of the Authour for this work comes not from his Reason but from the impulse of the Spirit 2. Onely be thou careful to get into thy spirit the Holy Ghost which issueth forth from God and He will lead thee into all truth and reveal Himself unto thee 3. And then thou wilt see well enough in his Light and Power even into the holy Trinity and understand those things which are written hereafter following Of GOD the FATHER 4. When Our Saviour JESUS CHRIST taught his Disciples to pray he said When ye pray say thus Our Father which art in Heaven Matth. 6. 5. The meaning is not as if Heaven could comprehend encompasse or contain God the Father for itself is made by the Divine power for Christ saith My Father is greater then all Joh. 10. 29. 6. And God saith in the Prophet Heaven is my Throne and the Earth is my footstool Esa. 66. What house would you build for me I compasse the Heaven with a Span and the Earth with three Fingers Esa. 40. 12. Also I will dwell in Jacob and Israel shall be my Tabernacle Psal. 135. 4. Syrac 25. 13. 7. But in that Christ calls his Father a Heavenly Father his meaning is that his Fathers lustre and power appeareth and shineth very bright and pure in Heaven and that above the circle or incloure which we behold with our Eyes and which we call Heaven doth appear the totally Triumphing Holy Trinity The Father Sonne and Holy Ghost 8. Christ also thereby distinguisheth his Heavenly Father from the Father of Nature which is indeed the Stars and the Elements these are our Natural Father out of which we are made and by whose impulse we live here in this world and from whence we have our food and nourishment 9. But God is therefore Our Heavenly Father in that our Soul continually longeth after him and is desirous of him yea it thirsteth and hungreth continually after him 10. The Body hungreth and thirsteth after the Father of Nature which is viz. the Stars and the Elements and that Father also feedeth and nourisheth the Body 11. But the Soul thirsteth after the heavenly Holy Father and he also giveth meat and drink to it feeding it with his holy Spirit and the spring source or fountain of joy 12. Yet we have not two Fathers but only One for Heaven is made by his Power and the Stars out of his Wisdome which is in him and proceedeth forth from him Of the Substance and Property of the Father 13. When we consider the whole Nature and its property then we see the Father 14. When we behold Heaven and the Stars then we behold his eternal Power and Wisdom so many Stars as stand in the whole Heaven which are innumerable and incomprehensible to Reason and some of them are not visible so manifold and various is the Power and Wisdome of God the Father 15. But Every Star in Heaven Differeth in its power and Quality which also maketh so many Distinctions in and among the Creatures upon the Earth and in the whole Creation 16. But all the Powers which
or Pith of Nature to be his Angel and Similitude and God Ruleth in man with his holy Spirit so that Man can Speak discourse distinguish and understand all things 103. But a Beast is made of the wild Nature of this World the Stars and Elements have generated Beasts through their motion according to the will of God 104. And so the spirit in Birds Fowles and Wormes Existeth also and all hath its three-fold source in similitude to the Ternary in the Deity 105. And you see also the Ternarie of the Deity in Wood and Stones as also Herbs Leaves and in Grasse only these are all Earthly 106. However Nature Generateth nothing be it what it will in this World and though perhaps it should stand or continue but scarce a Minute yet it is all generated in the Ternarie or according to the similitude of God 107. Now Observe In either wood stone or herbs there are three things contained neither can any thing be generated or grow if but one of the three should be left out 108. I. First there is the Power from which a Body comes to be whether wood stone or herbs II. After that in the same there is a Sap in that thing which is the Heart of the thing III. And thirdly there is in it a springing flowing Power Smell or Taste which is the spirit of the thing whereby it groweth and encreaseth Now if any of these three fail the thing cannot subsist 109. Thus you find in Every thing a Similitude of the Ternarie in the Divine Being look upon what you will let no man make himself so stark blind as to think otherwise or to think that God hath no Sonne and Holy Ghost 110. I shall make this more plain and clear when I come to write of the Creation for I do not borrow of other men in my Writings And though indeed I quote many Examples and Testimonies of Gods Saints Yet all is written by God in my Mind so that I absolutely and infallibly believe know and see it yet not in the flesh but in the spirit in the impulse and motion of God III. It is not so to be understood that my Reason is greater or higher than all other mens living but I am the Lords Twigg or Branch and am a very mean and little Spark of his he may set me where he pleaseth I cannot hinder him in that 112. Neither is this my Natural will that I can do it by my own small ability for if the Spirit were withdrawn from me then I could neither know nor understand my own Writings and I must on every side fight and struggle with the Devill and lye open to temptation and affliction as well as other men 113. But in the following Chapters you will soon see the Devil and his Kingdom laid naked his Pride and Reproach shall suddenly be discovered The Fourth Chapter Of the Creation of the Holy Angels An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven 1. THe Learned and almost all Writers have very much Cumbred and troubled their Heads mightily to search contrive and conceive in Nature and have brought forth many and sundry Opinions concerning How and Of what the Holy Angels were framed And on the other side what that horrible Fall of the Great Prince Lucifer was or How he became so base a wicked and fierce wrathful Devil From whence that Evil Quality should Spring or What drove him to it 2. And although this ground and great Mystery hath remained hidden from the beginning of the world and that humane flesh and blood is not able to conceive or apprehend it 3. Yet God who created the world will reveal himself now at the End and all great Mysteries will be manifested or revealed to intimate that the great Day of Revelation and the Final Judgment is neâ—â— and daily to be expected 4. On which will be restored again all that which hath been lost through Adam and in which the Kingdome of Heaven and the Kingdom of the Devill shall be severed asunder in this world 5. But How all this will be done God will reveal in the highest plainesse and simplicity so that no man will be able to Oppose Him 6. Therefore every one should lift up his Eyes for his Redemption draweth near And not seek after base covetousnesse pride and wanton luxurious statelinesse supposing it the best life to be Here whereas in their luxury they sit in the midst of Hell to wait upon Lucifer as his Guard 7. Which themselves shall suddenly be sure to see with great terrour anguish and eternal despair as also to their shame and scorn whereof the Devils are a terrible Example who were once the fairest and brightest Angels in Heaven as I shall reveal write and manifest here following I will suffer Gods impulse I am not able to withstand it Of the Divine Quality 8. Since thou hast perceived in the Third Chapter the Ground of the Ternarie in the Divine Being I shall here shew plainly the power and operation as also the Qualities or qualification in the Divine Being or from what the Angels were properly and peculiarly created or what their Body and Power is 9. And as I said before All the powers or vertues are in God the Father and no man with his sense and thoughts can reach to apprehend it But in the Stars and the Elements as also by all the creatures in the whole creation of this World a Man may clearly know it 10. All power and vertue is in God the Father and proceedeth also forth from him as Light Heat Cold Soft Gentle Sweet Bitter Sowre astringent or harsh sound or noise and much more that is not possible to be spoken or apprehended All these are in God the Father one in another as one power and yet all these powers move in his Exit or going forth 11. But the powers in God do not operate or qualify in that maner as in Nature in the stars and Elements or in the creatures 12. No you must not conceive it so For Lord Lucifer in his Elevation made the powers of impure Nature thus burning bitter cold astringent soure dark and unclean 13. But in the Father all powers are mild soft like Heaven very full of joy for all the powers tryumph in one another and their voice or sound riseth up from Eternity to Eternity 14. There is nothing in them but Love meeknesse mercy friendlinesse or courtesie even such a tryumphing rising source or fountain of joy wherein all the voices of Heavenly joyfulnesse sound forth so as no man is able to expresse it nor can it be likened to any thing 15. But if a man will Liken it to any thing it may nearest be Likened to the Soul of Man when kindled or enlightened by the Holy Ghost 16. For then it is thus joyful and tryumphing and all powers rise up in it and tryumph and so raise the Bestial Body that it trembleth this is a true glimpse of the divine Quality as the
up my whole Heart and Mind as also all my Thoughts and whole will and resolution incessantly to wrestle with the Love and Mercy of God and not to give over unlesse he blessed me that is unlesse he enlightened me with his holy Spirit whereby I might understand his will and be rid of my sadnesse And then the spirit did break thorough 11. But when in my resolved zeal I gave so hard an assault storm and onset upon God and upon all the Gates of Hell as if I had had more reserves of vertue and power ready with a resolution to hazard my life upon it which assuredly were not in my ability without the assistance of the Spirit of God suddenly after some violent Storms made my spirit did break thorough the Gates of Hell even into the innermost Birth or Geniture of the Deity and there I was embraced with Love as a Bridegroom embraceth his dearly beloved Bride 12. But the greatnesse of the triumphing that was in the spirit I cannot expresse either in speaking or writing neither can it be compared with any thing but with that wherein the life is generated in the midst of Death and it is like the Resurrection from the Dead 13. In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all and in and by all the Creatures even in Herbs and Grasse it knew God Who he is and How he is and What his will is and suddenly in that light my will was set on by a Mighty impulse to describe the Beeing of God 14. But because I could not presently apprehend the deepest Births of God in their Beeing and comprehend them in my Reason there passed almost Twelve years before the exact understanding thereof was given me 15. And it was with me as with a young Tree which is planted in the Ground and at first is young and tender and flourishing to the Eye especially if it comes on lustily in its growing But doth not bear fruit presently and though it blossometh they fall off also many a cold wind frost and snow puffe upon it before it comes to any growth and bearing of Fruit. 16. So also it went with this spirit the first fire was but a Seed and not a constant lasting Light since that time many a cold wind blew upon it but the Will never extinguished 17. This Tree was also often tempted to try whether it would bear Fruit and shew it self with Blossoms but the Blossoms were struck off till this very time wherein it standeth in its first Fruit in the growth or vegetation 17. From this Light now it is that I have my knowledge as also my will impulse and driving and therefore I will set down this knowledge in writing according to my Gift and let God work his will and though I should Irritate or enrage the whole world the Devill and all the Gates of Hell I will look on and wait what the LORD intendeth with it 18. For I am too too weak to know his Purpose and though the spirit affordeth in the Light to be known some things which are to come yet according to the outward man I am too weak to comprehend the same 19. But the animated or soulish spirit which qualifieth or uniteth with God that comprehends it well but the bestial Body attains onely a Glimpse thereof Just as if it lightned for this is the posture of the innermost Birth or Geniture of the soul when it teareth through the outermost Birth or Geniture in the elevation of the Holy Ghost and so breaketh through the Gates of Hell but the outermost Birth presently shuts again for the wrath of God bolteth up the firmament and holds it captive in its Power 20. And then the knowledge of the outward Man is gone and he walketh up and down in an afflicted and anxious Birth or Geniture as a woman with child who is in her travel and would alwaies fain bring forth her child but cannot and is full of Throes 21. Thus it goeth also with the bestial Body when it hath once tasted of the sweetnesse of God then it continually hungreth and thirsteth after it But the Devil in the power of Gods wrath opposeth exceedingly and so a Man in such a course must continually stand in an anxious Birth or Geniture and so there is nothing but fighting and warring in his Births or Genitures 22. I write not this for mine own glory but for a comfort to the Reader so that if perhaps he be minded to walk with me upon my Narrow Bridge he should not suddenly be discouraged dismayed and distrustfull when the Gates of Hell and Gods wrath meet him and present themselves before him 23. When we shall come together over this narrow Bridge of the fleshly Birth or Geniture to be in yonder green Medow to which the wrath of God doth not reach or come then we shall be fully requited for all our damages and hurts we have sustained though indeed at present the world doth account us for fooles and we must suffer the Devill in the power of Gods wrath to Domineer Rush and roar over us It should not trouble us for it will be more excellent Reputation to us in the other life then if in this Life we had worn a Royal Crown and there is so very short a time to get thither that it is not worth the being called a Time Now Observe 24. If thou fixest thy Thoughts concerning Heaven and wouldst fain conceive in the Mind What it is and Where it is and How it is thou needest not to swing or cast thy Thoughts many thousand Miles off for that Place or that Heaven is not thy Heaven 25. And though indeed that is united with thy Heaven as one Body and so together is But the One Body of God yet thou art not in that very place which is become a Creature aloft many hundred thousand Miles off but thou art in the Heaven of this world which containeth also in it just such a Deep as is not of any Humane Number or is Circumscriptive 26. For the true Heaven is every where even in that very Place where thou standest and goest and so when thy spirit apprehendeth the innermost Birth or Geniture of God and presseth in through the astral and fleshly geniture then it is clearly in Heaven 27. But that there is assuredly a pure glorious Heaven in all the three Births or Genitures aloft above the Deep of this world in which Gods Being together with that of the holy Angels riseth or springeth up very purely brightly beautiously and joyfully is undeniable and he is not born of God that denyeth it But thou must know 28. That the place of this world with its innermost Birth or Geniture uniteth or qualifieth with the Heaven aloft above us and so there is one Heart one Being one Will one God All in All. 29. But that the place of this world is not called Heaven and that there is a firmament or fast inclosure between the upper Heaven
above us it hath this understanding or meaning as followeth 30. The upper Heaven compriseth the two Kingdoms that of Michael and that of Uriel and of all the holy Angels which are not fallen with Lucifer and that Heaven continueth as it was from Eternity before the Angels were created 31. The Other Heaven is this world in which Lucifer was a King who kindled the outermost Birth or Geniture in Nature and that now is the wrath of God and cannot be called God or Heaven but Perdition 32. Therefore the upper Heaven includeth it self up so far in its outermost Birth or Geniture and reacheth so far as the wrath of God reacheth and so far as the Government or Dominion of Lucifer hath reached for the corrupted or perished Birth or Geniture cannot comprehend the Pure 33. That is the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world cannot comprehend the outermost Birth or Geniture of Heaven aloft above this world for they are one to the other as the Life and the Death or as a Man and a Stone are one to the other 34. And therefore there is a strong firmament or inclosure between the outermost Birth or Geniture of the upper Heaven and that of this world for the firmament between them is Death which ruleth and reigneth every where in the outermost birth in this world and this world is so bolted up therewith that the outermost Birth of the upper Heaven cannot come into the outermost Birth of this world there is a great Cliff or Gulph between them And therefore in our outermost Birth or Geniture we cannot see the Angels neither can the Angels dwell with us in the outermost Birth of this world but in the innermost they dwell with us 36. And so when we fight with the Devill they keep off his Blowes in the innermost Birth and are the Defence and Protection of the holy Soul 37. Therefore we can neither see nor comprehend the holy Angels for the outermost Birth of their Body is incomprehensible to the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world 38. The second Birth of this world standeth in the life for it is the Astral Birth out of which is generated the third and holy Birth or Geniture and therein Love and wrath strive one with the other 39. For the second Birth standeth in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of this world and is in all places and in all the Creatures as also in Man But the Holy Ghost also ruleth and reigneth in the second birth and helpeth to generate the third holy Birth or Geniture 40. But this third Birth or Geniture is the clear and holy Heaven which qualifieth or uniteth with the Heart of God without distinct and above all Heavens as one Heart also they are the one Heart which holdeth and beareth up or sustaineth the place of this world and holdeth the Devil Captive in the outermost birth in the Anger fire as an Almighty incomprehensible God 41. And out of this Heart JESVS CHRIST the Sonne of God in the Womb or Body of the Virgin Mary went into all the three Births or Genitures and assumed them really that He might through and with his innermost Birth or Geniture take the Devill Death and Hell Captive in the outermost Birth and overcome the wrath of God as a King and Victorious Prince and in the power of his Geniture or Birth in the flesh presse thorough all Men. 42. And so by this entring of the innermost Birth of the Heart of the Heaven of this world into the Astrall and outermost is JESUS CHRIST the Sonne of God and of Mary become the Lord and King of this our Heaven and Earth who ruleth and reigneth in all the three Births or Genitures over Sin the Devil Death and Hell and so we with him presse through the sinful corrupted and outermost dead Birth or Geniture of the flesh through Death and the wrath of God into our Heaven 43. In this Heaven now sitteth Our King JESUS CHRIST at the right hand of God and encompasseth or surroundeth all the three Births as an almighty Sonne of the Father who is present in and throughout all the three Births in this world in all Corners and Places and comprehendeth holdeth and beareth up or sustaineth all as a new Born Sonne of the Father in the power and upon the Seat or Throne of the once Great mighty Potent and now expell'd accursed and Damned King Lucifer the Devill 44. Therefore thou child of man be not discouraged be not so timorous and pusillanimous for if thou sowest in thy zeal and earnest sincerity the seed of thy Teares thou dost not sow it in Earth but in Heaven for in thy astral Birth thou sowest and in thy animated or soulish Birth thou reapest and in the Kingdom of heaven thou possessest and enjoyest it 45. While thou livest in this strugling or striving Birth or Geniture thou must Buckle and suffer the Devil to ride upon thee but so hard as he striketh thee so hard thou must strike him again if thou wilt defend thy self For when thou fightest against him thou stirrest up his wrath-fire and destroyest his Nest and this is then as a great combustion and as a great strong Battel maintained against him 46. And though thy Body perhaps is put hard to it and suffers pain in misery yet it is much worse with him when he is vanquished for then he roareth like a Lion which is robbed of her young whelps for the fiercenesse and wrath of God tormenteth him but if thou lettest him Lodge within thee then he groweth fat and wanton and will vanquish thee in Time 47. Thus thou hast a real description of Heaven And though perhaps thou canst not in thy Reason conceive it Yet I can very well Conceive it therefore consider Rationally and seriously upon it What God is 48. Thou seest in this world Nothing but the Deep and therein the Stars and the Birth or Geniture of the Elements now wilt thou say God is not there 'pray then what was there in that place before the time of the world Wilt thou say there was Nothing then thou speakest without Reason for thou must needs say that God was there or else nothing would there have come to be 49. Now if God were there then who hath thrust him out from thence or vanquished him that he should be there no more But if God be there then he is indeed in his Heaven and moreover in his Trinity 50. But the Devil hath kindled the Bath or Lake of wrath whence the Earth and Stones also the Elements are become so fluctuating as also cold bitter and hot and so hath destroyed the outermost Birth or Geniture 51. Whereupon now this Treatise and my whole purpose is to describe how it is come to be living and revived again and how it regenerateth it self again And from thence also in the Creatures the beastial Flesh is come to be but Sin in the Flesh is the Wrath
Worms or Creeping things 61. And the Devil can reach half into this Birth so far as the wrath comprehendeth or reacheth and no deeper and thus far goeth his dwelling and no Deeper therefore the devill cannot know how the other Part in this Birth hath a Root And so far Man is come in his knowledge from the Beginning of the world to this time since his Fall But the other Root called the Heaven the spirit hath kept that hidden and concealed from Man till this Time Left the Devill should have learned it from Man and should have strowed Poison into it for Man beforehis Eyes 62. This other Part of the Astrall Birth which standeth in the Love in the sweet water is the Firmament of Heaven which holdeth the kindled wrath together with all the Devils captive For they cannot enter thereinto and in that Heaven dwelleth the Holy Spirit which goeth forth from the Heart of God and striveth or fighteth against the fiercenesse and generateth to himself a Temple in the midst in the fiercenesse of the wrath of God 63. And in this Heaven dwelleth the Man that feareth God even with and in the living Body for that Heaven is as well in Man as in the Deep above the Earth And as the Deep above the Earth is so is Man also both in love and wrath till after the departure of the soul but then when the soul departeth from the Body then it abideth either only in the Heaven of Love or only in the Heaven of Wrath. 64. That Part which it here hath comprehended in its departure that is now its Eternal permanent incessant dwelling House and from thence it can never get for there is a great * Cliff between them and the other as Christ speaks of the Rich man Luk. 16. 26. 65. And in this Heaven the Holy Angels dwell amongst us and the Devils in the other Part And in this Heaven Man liveth between Heaven and Hell and must endure and suffer from the fiercenesse many hard Blowes Temptations Persecutions and many times Torments and Squeezings 66. The wrath is called the Crosse and the Love-Heaven is called Patience and the spirit that riseth up therein is called Hope and Faith which qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with God and wrestleth with the wrath till it overcometh and getteth the victory 1 John 5. 4. 67. And herein lyeth the whole Christian doctrine He that teacheth otherwise doth not know what he teacheth for his doctrine hath no foot ground or foundation and his heart alwaies tottereth wavereth and doubteth and knoweth not what it should do 68. For his spirit alwaies seeketh for Rest but findeth it not for it is impatient and alwaies seeketh after Novelties or some New thing and when it findeth somewhat it tickleth it self therewith as if it had found some new Treasure and yet no stedfastnesse stability or certainty in him but he seeketh continually for Abstinence or for a Diversion 69. O ye Theologists the Spirit here Openeth a Door Gate for you If you will not now see and feed your Sheep and Lambs on a green meadow but on a dry seare Heath you must be accomptable for it before the severe earnest and wrathfull Judgment of God therefore look to it 70. I take Heaven to witnesse that I perform here what I must do for the spirit driveth me to it so that I am wholly captivated therewith and cannot be freed from it whatever may befall me hereafter or ensue upon it The Holy Gate 71. III. The Third Birth or Geniture in the Body of God in or of this world is under the firmament of Heaven hidden or concealed and the Firmament of heaven qualifieth mixeth or uniteth there with but yet not fully Bodily but creaturely as the Angels and the Soules of Men do 72. And this Third Birth or Geniture is the Almighty and Holy Heart of God wherein our King Jesus Christ with his natural Body sitteth at the right hand of God as a King and Lord of the whole Body or place of this world who encompasseth holdeth and preserveth all with his Heart 73. And this Firmament of Heaven is his Throne or footstool and the qualifying or fountain spirits of his natural Body rule in the whole Body of this world and all is tyed bound or united with them whatsoever standeth in the Astral Birth in the Part of Love The other part of this world is tyed bound and united with the Devill 74. Thou must not think as Johannes Calvus or Calvinus thought which was that the Body of Christ is not an Almighty Being and that it comprehendeth or reacheth no further then a little Circumscribed Place wherein it is 75. No thou child of Man thou errest and dost not rightly understand the Divine Power Doth not every man in his Astrall qualifying or fountain Spirits comprehend the whole place or Body of this world and the place comprehendeth Man it is all but one Body onely there are distinct Members 76. Why then should not the qualifying or fountain spirits in the naturall Body of Christ qualifie mix or unite with the qualifying or fountain spirits of Nature Is not his Body also out of the qualifying or fountain spirits of Nature and his heart animated or become soulish from or out of the third Birth or Geniture which is the Heart of God which comprehendeth all Angels and the Heaven of Heavens even the whole Father 77. Ye Calvinists desist from your Opinion and do not Torment your selves with the comprehensible or palpable Being for God is a Spirit John 4. 24. and in the comprehensibility or palpability standeth Death 78. The Body of Christ is no more in the hard comprehensibility or palpability but in the Divine comprehensibility or Palpability of Nature like the Angels 79. For our Bodies also at the Resurrection will have no more such hard Flesh and Bones but be like the Angels and though indeed all forms and powers shall be therein and all faculties and Members even to the Privy Parts and these shall be in another manner of form and so also the Entralls and Guts and yet we shall not have the hard comprehensibility or Palpability 80. For Christ saith to Mary Magdalen in Joseph's Garden at the Sepulcher after his resurrection Touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my God and to your God Joh. 20. v. 17. As if he would say I have not now the Bestial Body any more although I shew my self to thee in my form or shape which I had otherwise thou in thy bestial couldst not see me 81. And so during the Fourty Dayes after his Resurrection he did not alwaies walk vifibly among the Disciples but invisibly according to his heavenly and angelical Property but when he would speak or talk with his Disciples then he shewed or presented himself in a comprehensible or palpable manner and form that thereby he might speak natural words with them for the corruption cannot comprehend or apprehend the Divine
words or things 82. Also it sufficiently appeareth that his Body was of an angelical kind in that he went to his Disciples through the Doors being shut John 20. 19. 83. Thus thou must know now that his Body qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with all the seven spirits in Nature in the Astrall Birth in the part of Love and holdeth Sin Death and the Devill captive in its wrath-Part 84. And thus thou now understandest what God made on the Second Day when he separated the water under the Firmament from the water above the Firmament Thou seest also How thou art in this world every where in Heaven and also in Hell and dwellest between Heaven and Hell in great Danger 85. Thou seest also how Heaven is in a Holy man and that every where wheresoever thou standest goest or lyest if thy spirit do but qualifie or co-operate with God then as to that Part thou art in Heaven and thy Soul is in God Therefore also saith Christ My Sheep are in my Hands no man can pull them away from me John 10. 86. In like manner thou seest also How thou art alwaies in Hell among all the Devils as to the wrath if thy Eyes were but open thou wouldst see wonderfull things but thou standest between Heaven and Hell and canst see neither of them and walkest upon a very Narrow Bridge 87. Some Men have many Times according to or in the Sidereal or Astral spirit entred in thither being ravished in an Extasie as men call it and have presently known the Gates of Heaven and of Hell and have told shewed and declared how that many men dwell in Hell with or in their living Bodies or with their Bodies alive And such indeed have been scorned derided or laugh'd at but with great ignorance and indiscretion for it is Just so as they declare which I will describe also more at large in its due place and shew in what manner and condition it is with them 88. But that the water hath a Twofold Birth I will here prove it also with or by the Language of Nature For that is the Root or Mother of all the Languages which are in this world and therein standeth the whole perfect knowledge of all things 89. For when Adam Spake at the first he gave Names to all the Creatures according to their qualities and innate Instant Operations vertues or faculties And it is the very Language of the totall universal Nature but is not known to every One. For it is a hidden secret Mystery which is imparted to me by the Grace of God from the Spirit which hath a Delight and Longing towards me Now Observe 90. The word Wasser water is thrust forth from the Heart and closeth the Teeth together and passeth over the astringent and Bitter qualities and toucheth them not but goeth forth through the Teeth and the Tongue contracteth and rouzeth up it self together with the spirit and helpeth to hisse and so qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Spirit and the spirit presseth very forcibly through the Teeth But when the spirit is almost quite gone forth then the Astringent and Bitter spirit contracteth and rouzeth up it self and afterwards first qualifieth with the word but yet it sitteth still in its seat and afterwards jarreth mightily and strongly in the syllable ser. 91. But now that the Spirit conceiveth it self at the Heart and cometh forth and closeth the Teeth together and hisseth with the Tongue through the Teeth it signifieth that the Heart of God hath moved it self and made a closure round about it which is the Firmament of Heaven Also as the Teeth do shut and close together and then the Spirit goeth through the Teeth so also the spirit goeth forth from the heart into the Astrall Birth or Geniture 92. And as the Tongue frameth it self for the hissing and qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the spirit and moveth therewith so the soul of Man co-Imageth or frameth it self with the Holy Spirit and qualifieth operateth or uniteth therewith and presseth joyntly together in the power thereof through Heaven and ruleth together also therewith in the Word of God 93. But that the Astringent and Bitter qualities awaken behind afterwards and co-image afterwards to the framing of the word it signifieth that indeed all is as it were one Body but the Heaven and the Holy Spirit together with the Heart of God hath its proper Seat to it self and the Devill together with the wrath of God can neither comprehend the Holy Spirit nor the Heaven but the Devill together with the wrath hangeth in the outward Birth in the word and the wrath helpeth to Image all in the outermost Birth in this world whatsoever standeth in the comprehensibility or palpability Just as the astringent and bitter qualities rouze themselves behind afterwards to the framing of the word and qualifie operate or unite therewith 94. But that the spirit first goeth over the astringent and bitter qualities unperceived it signifieth that the Gate of God is every where in this world all over wherein the Holy Ghost ruleth and that the Heaven standeth open every where even in the midst or center of the Earth And that the Devill no where can either see comprehend or apprehend the Heaven but is a grumbling and snarling Hell-Hound which afterwards first cometh out from behind when the Holy Ghost hath built or raised to himself a Church and Temple and destroyeth it in the wrath and hangeth behind at the word as an Enemy who will not endure that a Temple of God should be raised or built in his Land or Country whereby his Kingdom might be lessened or diminished The One and Twentieth Chapter Of the Third Day 1. ALthough the Spirit in the Writings of Moses hath kept the Deepest Mysteries secret hidden and concealed in the Letter yet all is so very regularly described that there is no Defect at all in the Order thereof 2. For when God through the Word had created Heaven and Earth and had separated the Light from the Darkness and had given a place to each of them then presently each began its Birth or Geniture and qualifying or working 3. On the First Day God drave together or compacted the Corrupt Salitter which came to be so in the kindling of his wrath I say God then drave it together or Created it through the strong spirit for the word Schuff created signifieth here a Driving together or Compaction 4. In this driving together or compaction of the corrupted wrath Salitter was King Lucifer also as an Impotent Prince together with his Angels driven into the Hole of the wrath Salitter into that place where the outward half dead comprehensibility is generated which is the place or Space between the Nature-Goddesse the Moon and the Dead Earth 5. Now when this was done the Deep became clear and with the hidden or concealed Heaven the Light was separated from the Darknesse and the Globe of the Earth in the great wheel of Nature was
it had brought forth heavenly fruit which had a holy pure heavenly Body and were the food of Angels so now it brought forth fruits according to its comprehensible palpable hard Evil wrathful poisonous venomous half-dead kind for as the Mother was so were her children 24. Not that the fruits of the Earth are thereupon wholly in the wrath of God for the incorporated or compacted Word which is immortal and incorruptible which was from eternity in the Salitter of the Earth sprung up again in the Body of death and brought forth fruit out of the dead Body of the Earth but the Earth comprehended not the Word but the Word comprehended the Earth 25. And now as the whole Earth was together with the Word so was the fruit also but the word remained in the Center of the Heaven which is also in this place hiddenly and this Birth or Geniture caused the seven qualifying or fountain spirits out of or from the outermost corrupt and dead Birth or Geniture to form the Body and it self viz. the Word or Heart of God remained in its heavenly seat sitting on the Throne of Majestie and filled the Astrall and also the mortal Birth or Geniture but to them was the holy life altogether incomprehensible 26. Thou must not think that thereupon the outermost dead Birth or Geniture of the Earth hath gotten such a Life through the risen word that sprung up so that it is no more a Death No that can never be for that which is once dead in God that is really dead and in its own power can never be living again but the Word which qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Astrall Birth in the Part of the Love that generateth the Life through the astrall Birth or Geniture through the Death 27. For thou seest plainly How all the Fruits of the Earth whatsoever it bringeth forth must putrifie and Rot also they are a Death 28. But that the Fruits get another Body then the Earth is which is much fuller of vertue fairer or more beautifull also of a better taste relish and smell it is because the Astrall Birth or Geniture receiveth power or vertue from the Word and formeth or frameth another Body which standeth half in the Death and half in the Life and standeth hidden between the Wrath of God and the Love 29. But that the Fruits upon the Body are much pleasanter lovelier sweeter and milder and with a Good Taste and relish that is even the Third Birth out of the Earth according to which the Earth shall be purged and cleansed at the End of this time and shall be set or put again into its first Place but the Wrath will abide in Death The richly joyfull Gate of Man 30. Behold thus saith the Spirit in the Word which is the very Heart of the Earth and which riseth or springeth up in his Heaven in the half flash of the Life wherewith my spirit in its knowledge qualifieth mixeth or uniteth and through which I write these words 31. Man is made out of the Seed of the Earth out of an incorporated or compacted Masse or Lump Understand out of the Matrix of the Earth wherein the Eye is twofold the one in God and the other in this world out of Three Principles and not out of the wrath but out of the Birth or Geniture of the Earth and stood in the Astrall Birth or Geniture in the part of the Love but wrath hung to him which he should have put forth from himself as the the fruit putteth forth from it the bitternesse of the Tree 32. And that he did not but reached back from the Love into the wrath and lusted after his dead or mortal Mother to eat of her and to suck her breast and to stand upon her stock 33. Now according to his wrestling so also it befell him and so he brought himself with his outermost Birth or Geniture into the Death or mortality of his mother and with his life he brought himself out from the Love into the Part of the wrathful Astral Birth or Geniture 34. And there he standeth now between Heaven and Hell in the Face of the Devill in his kingdome against whom the Devil warreth fighteth and striveth continually that he might either banish him out of his Country into the Earth or make him a child of wrath in Hell And what is Now his Hope Answer 35. Behold thou blind Heathen behold thou Render Perverter Obscurer and wrester of the Scriptures open thy eyes wide and be not ashamed at this simple plainnesse for God lyeth hid in the Center and is yet much more Simple and plain but thou seest him not 36. Behold thy spirit or thy soul is generated from or out of thy Astral Birth or Geniture and is the Third Birth in thee Just as an Apple upon a Tree is the Third Birth or Geniture of the Earth and hath not its vegetation in from or within the Earth but from above the Earth and if it were a Spirit as thy soul is it would not suffer the Earth any more to tye or bind it to corruption 37. But thou must know that the Apple on its stock or Branch however with its innermost Birth or Geniture qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Word of God through whose power it is grown out of the Earth 38. But being the wrath is in its Bodily or Corporeal Mother therefore it cannot set or put it out from the Comprehensible or palpable Birth but must remain with its Body in the palpablenesse or comprehensibility in Death 39. But in its power in which its life standeth wherewith it qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Word of God it will in its mother in the power of the Word at the last Judgment Day be set or put again into its heavenly Place and be separated from the wrathfull and dead or mortall palpablenesse and spring up in the Heaven of this world in a heavenly form and 〈◊〉 a Fruit for Men in the other LIfe Here understand The power of the Principle out of which the Apple and All groweth shall in the Renovation of the world spring up again in Paradise with the wonders 40. But being thou art made out of the Seed of the Earth Red Earth is Fire and Water conceived with or by the word Fiat out of the Matrix of the Earth but when Man Imagined or set his desire into the Earth he became Earthly and hast set or put thy Body back again into thy Mother therefore thy Body also is become a palpable dead or Mortal Body such as thy Mother is 41. And thy Body hath the same Hope which thy Mother the Earth hath viz. that at the last Judgement Day in the power of the word it shall be set or put again into its first Place 42. But being thy Astral Birth standeth here on Earth in the wrath and qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Love in the Word Just as the Fruit on the Tree doth for the power
of the fruit qualifieth or uniteth with the word Therefore thy Hope standeth in God For the Astrall Birth or Geniture standeth in Love and Wrath and that in this time it cannot prevent in regard of the outermost Birth or Geniture in the Flesh which standeth in Death 43. For the dead or Mortal Flesh hath encompassed the Astrall Birth and Mans Flesh is a dead Carkasse whilest it iâ— yet in the Mothers body or womb and is encompassed with Hell and Gods wrath 44. But now the Astrall Birth generateth the animated soulish Birth viz. the Third which standeth in the word 〈◊〉 the incorporated or compacted word lyeth hiddeâ— in iâ—s Heaven The Sulphur to he production of the Soul is the first Principle in the eternall will-spirit and cometh to Life in the third Principle and so liveth between love and wrath and hangeth to born 45. But now being thou hast thy Reason and art not like the Apple on the Tree but art Created an Angel and the similitude or Image of God instead of the Expulsed Devils and knowest how thou canst with thy Astrall Birth in the part of Love qualifie or unite with the Word of God therefore thou canst in the Center in the Word set or put thy animated or soulish Birth into Heaven and thou canst with thy soul even with thy living Body in this Dead or Mortal palpability rule with God in Heaven 46. For the Word is in thy heart Deut. 30. 14. Rom. 10. 8. and qualifieth or uniteth with the Soul as if it were one Beeing and if thy Soul standeth in the Love then it also is one Beeing And thou mayst say that according to thy soul thou sittest in Heaven and livest and reignest with God Understand according to the spirit of the soul with the Image out of the animated or soulish fire 47. For the soul which apprehendeth the Word hath an open Gate in Heaven and can be prevented by nothing neither doth the Devill see the soul because it is not in his Country or Dominions 48. But being thy Astrall Birth standeth with the one part in the wrath and that the Flesh through the wrath standeth in Death thereupon the Devil in the part of the wrath seeth continually even into thy Heart and if thou lets him have any Room or place there then he teareth that part of the Astrall Birth which standeth in the Love out from the word 49. And then thy Heart is a dark Valley And if thou dost not Labour and work quickly again to the Birth of the Light then he kindleth the wrath-fire therein and then shall thy soul be spewed out from the Word and then it qualifieth or uniteth with the wrath of God and so afterward thou art a Devil and not an Angel and canst not with thy animated or soulish Birth reach the Gates of Heaven 50. But if thou fightest and strivest with the Devill and keepest the Gate of Love in thy Astrall Birth and so departest from hence as to the Body then thy Soul remaineth in the Word quite hidden from the Devil and reiâ—neth with God even unto the Day of the Restitution of that which was Lost. 51. But if thou standest with thy Astrall Birth in the wrath when thou departest from hence as to the Body and thy Soul not comprehended in the word then thou canst never reach the Gates of Heaven but into what thou hast sown thy seed that is thy Soul in that very Part shall thy Body also arise The Gate of the Power 52. But that Soul and Body shall come together again at the Day of the Resurrection thou mayst perceive so much here by the Earth For the Creator said Let the Earth bring forth Grasse and Herbs and Trees bearing Fruit each according to its Kind And then each sprung up according to its kind and grew and as before the time of the wrath it had a Heavenly Body so it got now an Earthly one answerable to its Mother 53. But it is to be considered how all was comprised in the word at the great tumult and uproar of the Devill so that all sprung up in its own Being according to its Power vertue and kind as if it had never been destroyed or altered at all 54. Now if it were thus at that Time when there was such murthering and robbing sure it will be much more so at the Last Judgment Day when the Earth shall be separated in the kindled wrath-fire and shall be living again or revived then surely it will be comprehended in the Word of Love as it hath in the same Word here generated its Fruit of Grasse Herbs and Trees as also all manner of mineral Oras of Silver and of Gold 55. But being the Astrall Birth of the Earth standeth in the Love and the outward in Death therefore will each remain in its seat and so Life and Death will sever themselves 56. And where now would the Soul of Man rather be at the day of Regeneration then with its Father that is †in the Body which hath Generated it 57. But being the Soul all the while the Body had been in Death remained hidden in the Word and being the same Word also holdeth the Earth in the Astral birth in the Love therefore it qualifieth mixeth or uniteth through the Word all the time of its hiddennesse and secreâ—ie also with its Mother the Body according or as to the Astral Birth or Geniture in the Earth and so Body and Soul in the Word were never separated one from another but live joyntly and equally together in God 58. And though indeed the Bestial Body must putrifie and Rot yet its power and vertue liveth and in the mean while there grow out of its power in its Mother fair beautiful Roses Blossoms and Flowers and though it were quite burnt up and Consumed in the Fire yet its power and vertue standeth in the four Elements in the Word and the Soul qualifieth mixeth or uniteth therewith for the Soul is in Heaven and the same Heaven is every where even in the midst or center of the Earth 59. O Dear Man view thy self for a vvhile in this Looking-Glasse thou wilt find it more largely to be read of concerning the Creation of Man this I set down here for this very cause that thou mightest the better understand the power of Creation and that thou mightest the better conceive and fit thy Self for this Spirit and so learn to understand its Language The open Gate of the Earth Now it might be Asked From or Out of what matter or power and Vertue then did the Grasse Herbs and Trees spring forth what manner of substance or condition or Constitution hath this kind of Creature Answer 60. The simple saith God made All things out of Nothing but He knoweth not That God neither doth he know what He is for when he beholdeth the Earth together with the Deep above the Earth he thinketh verily all this is not God or else he
raigneth with God in his Heaven 68. For the earthly Body which thou bearest is one Body with the whole kindled Body of this world and thy body qualifyeth mixeth or uniteth with the whole body of this world and there is no difference between the Stars and the Deep as also the Earth and thy Body it is all one Body This is the only difference thy Body is a Sonne of the whole and is in it self as the whole Being it selfe is 69. And now as the new Body of this world generateth it selfe in its Heaven so the new man also generateth himselfe in his Heaven for it is all but one Heaven wherein God dwelleth and therein thy new man dwelleth and they cannot be divided asunder 70. But if thou art wicked then thy Birth or Geniture is not capable of Heaven but of the wrath and remaineth in the other part of the Astral Birth or Geniture wherein the earnest and austere fire-source riseth up and bolts it up into Death so long till thou breakest through Heaven and livest with God 71. For instead of thy heaven thou hast the wrath-Devil sitting there but if thou breakest thorough then he must get him gone and the Holy Ghost ruleth and reigneth in that Seat and in the other Part viz. the fiercenesse the Devil tempteth thee for it is his Nest and the Holy Ghost opposeth him and the new man lyeth in his own Heaven hidden under the protection of the Holy Ghosâ— and the Devil knoweth not the New man for he is not in his House but in Heaven in the Firmament of God 72. This I write as a Word which is Generated in its Heaven where the Holy Deity alwaies generateth it self and where the moving spirit riseth up in the Flash of Life even there this Word and this knowledge is generated and risen up in the Love-fire through the Zealous spirit of God 73. I know very well what the Devil intendeth for that Part of the earnest and austere Birth or Geniture wherein Love and wrath are set opposite one to another seeth into his very Heart For when he cometh with his fierce and hellish Temptation like a fawning Dogg then he setteth upon us with his wrath in that part wherein the austere Birth or Geniture standeth and therein the Heaven is set in opposition to him and there the fair Bride is known 74. For he stingeth through the Old Man with an intent to spoyl or destroy the New but when the new riseth against him then the Hell-Hound retireth and then the new Man feeleth very well what device the Hell-hound hath darted or spit into the astral Birth and then is it time to Purge and scour it out 75. But I find that the cunning'st Devill is set against me he will raise scorners and mockers who will say that I intend by mine own conceit to grope dig deep and search out the Deitie Yes Mr. Scorner thou art indeed an obedient son to the Devil thou hast great cause to mock Gods children as if I were able in mine own power to fathom the depth of the Deitie No! but the Deitie searcheth the Ground in me Or dost thou think that I am strong enough to stand against it 76. Indeed thou proud Man God is a very meek simple and quiet still Beeing and groapeth not in the Bottom of Hell and Death but in his Heaven where there is nothing but an Unanimous meeknesse therefore it is not meet for me to do so 77. But behold it is not I that have made way for this but thy desire and highly raised lofty Lust hath moved the Deitie to reveal to thee the desire of thy Heart in the highest simplicity in the greatest depth that it may be a witnesse against thee and denunciation of the earnest severe Day of God 78. This I speak to thee as a word of the earnest Severity of God which is generated or born in the Flash of Life The Five and Twentieth Chapter Of the whole Body of the Stars Birth or Geniture that is the whole Astrologie or the whole Body of this World 1. THe learned and highly experienced Masters of Astrology or the Starry Art are come so high and deep in their understanding that they know the course and Effects of the Stars what their conjunction influence and breaking through of their powers and vertues denoteth and produceth and How thereby wind rain snow and heat is caused also Good and Evill Prosperity and Adversity Life and Death and all the drivings and agitations in this world 2. And indeed it hath a true foundation which I know in the spirit to be so but their knowledge standeth onely in the House of Death in the outward comprehensibility or palpability and in the beholding with the Eyes of the Body but the root of this Tree hath hitherto remained hidden to them 3. Neither is it my purpose to write of the Branches of the Tree and to invert or disprove their knowledge neither do I build upon their Ground but I leave their knowledge to sit in its own seat being I have not studyed it but I write in the spirit of my knowledge concerning the root stock Branches and Fruits of the Tree as an industrious and laborious Servant to his Master in discovering the whole Tree of this world 4. Not with an intent to set any new thing on foote for I have no command to do so but my knowledge standeth in this Birth or Geniture of the Stars in the Midst or Center where the Life is generated and breaketh through Death and where the moving spirit existeth and breaketh thorough and in the impulse and moving thereof I also write 5. Also I know very well that the Children of the flesh will scorne and mock at me and say I should look to my own Calling and not trouble my Head about these things but rather be diligent to bring in food for me and my familie and let those meddle with Philosophy that have studyed it and are called and appointed to it 6. With such an attempt the Devill hath given me so many assaults and hath so wearyed me that I have often resolved to let it alone but my former purpose was too hard for me For when I took care for the Belly and to get my Living and resolved to give over this businesse in hand then the Gate of Heaven in my knowledge was bolted up 7. And then my soul was so afflicted in anxiety as if it were captivated by the Devill whereby reason gat so many checks and assaults as if the Body were presently to fall to the ground and the spirit would not give over till it brake thorough againe through the Dead or Mortall Reason and so hath broke open to peeces the Door of darknesse and hath gotten its seat again in the stead thereof 8. Whereby I understand that the spirit must be tryed through the Crosse Affliction and I have not failed of bodily Temptation but was faine alwayes to
is generated in the hidden Heaven in the water of Life 114. The outward Jupiter is onely the Meeknesse and understanding in the outward comprehensibilitie or palpable things but the holy fountain or well-spring is incomprehensible and unsearchable or unfathomable to outward Reason For the Astral Birthor Geniture standeth with the Roote in the holy Heaven and with the Corporeity in the wrath The Six and Twentieth Chapter Of the Planet Saturnus 1. SAturn that cold sharp austere and astringent Regent takes its beginning and Original not from the Sun for it hath in its Power the chamber of Death and is a dryer up of all powers from whence Corporeity existeth 2. For as the Sun is the Heart of the Life and an original of all spirits in the Body of this world so Saturn is a beginner of all corporeity and comprehensibilitie or palpability and in the power of these two Planets standeth the whole Body of this world and there cannot be any Creature or imaging nor any mobilitie without the power of these two in the natural Body of this world 3. But Saturnes original is the earnest astringent and austere anxietie of the whole Body of this world for as in the time of the kindling of the wrath the Light in the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world was extinct which Birth or Geniture is the Nature or comprehensibilitie or the rising up of the Birth of all qualifying or fountain spirits so also the astringent qualitie stood in its sharpnesse and severest Birth or Geniture and attracted or contracted most strongly and eagerly the whole work or effect of the qualifying or fountain spirits 4. From whence then the Earth and Stones came to be and were very rightly the House of Death or the enclosing or shutting up of the Life wherein King Lucifer was captivated 5. But when on the first day the Light somwhat brake forth again through the word or Heart of God in the Root of the Nature or Body of this world as a choosing or appropriating of the Day or beginning of the mobilitie of Life then the severe and astringent Birth or Geniture obtained againe a glimpse or rising up of the life in the Birth or Geniture 6. And from that time it stood as it were in an anxious Death till after the third Day when the Love of God press'd through the Heaven of the Partition and kindled the Light of the Sun 7. But being the Heart or power of the Sun could not open the anxious Birth or qualitie of fiercenesse and wrath and temper the same especially aloft in that height above Jupiter thereupon that whole circumferenâ—e or sphere stood in a Horrible anxietie just as a woman in travel and yet could not awaken or raise the Heat because of the horrible coldnesse and astringency 8. But being the mobilitie neverthelesse was risen up through the power of the hidden Heaven therefore nature could not rest but was in anguish to the Birth and generated out of or from the Spirit of sharpnesse an astringent cold and austere Sun or Starre which is Saturne 9. For the Spirit of Heat could not kindle it selfe from whence the Light existeth and out of or from the Light through the water the Love and meeknesse exist but it was a Birth or Geniture of an austere cold and severe fiercenesse which is a dryer spoyler and enemie of meeknesse which in the Creatures generateth the Hard Bones 10. But Saturne was not bound to its place as the Sun is for it is not a Corporeal place or space in the roome of the Deepe but Saturne is a sonne which is born or generated out of the Chamber of Death out of the kindled hard and cold anxietie and is only one of the House-hold or family in that space or roome in which it hath its Course and Revolution For it hath its corporeall proprietie to it selfe as a Child when it is born or generated from the Mother Saturne indeed was Created together with the wheele when the FIAT Created the wheele but it doth not goe forth or proceed from Sol. 11. But why it did rise up thus from God out of the austere Birth and what its Office is I will mention hereafter concerning the driving about or revolutions of the Planets 12. But its height or distance cannot be exactly known But I am fully perswaded that it is in the midst in the deepe between Jupiter and the general Sphere of the fixed Stars or constellations for it is the Heart of the Corporeity in Nature 13. For as the Sun is the Heart of Life and a cause of the spirits of Nature so Saturne is the Heart and the cause of all Bodies Imagings formings and framings in the Earth and upon the Earth as also in the whole Body of this world 14. And as in Man the Skull is a contayner or incloser of the Brayne wherein the Thoughts are generated So the Saturnine power is an environer dryer and contayner of all Corporeity and comprehensibilitie or Palpability 15. And as the Planet Jupiter which is an unshutter and Generator of meeknesse and is betweene the fierce Mars and the austere Saturne and generateth the Meeknesse and wisdom in the Creatures so the Life and the Senses of all Creatures are genenerated between these two qualities especially the new Body of this world as also the new Man of which thou wilt finde more concerning the description of Man Of the Planet Venus 16. Venus that gracious amiable and blessed Planet or the kindler of Love in Nature hath its original and descent or proceeding from the Springing up of the Sun also but its condition qualitie being and proceeding or descent is thus Here observe this rightly and exactly 17. When the Love of God kindled the place of the Sun or the SUN then there sprung up first out of the anxietie out of the Place of the Sun out of the seaven qualifying or fountain spirits of Nature the terrible fierce bitter fire-crak whose Birth and principal or first original is the kindled bitter wrath of God in the astringent qualitie through the water 18. And that sprung up first in the kindling of the Sun out of the Chamber of Death and was an awakener or rouser of Death and a beginner of life and climed up aloft very fiercely and trembling till the Light of the Sun layd hold on it and affected or possessed it and there it was caught or captivated by the meeknesse of the Light and stayed from which the Planet Mars came to be 19. After that fire-crack the power of the light which at the beginning had generated it selfe out of the unctuositie or fatnesse of the water behind the fire crack instantly shot forth after it like a mighty potencie or power and took the fierce Fire-crack captive and highly elevated it selfe aloft beyond it as a Prince and subduer of the fiercenesse from whence now existed the sensibilitie of Nature or the Planet Jupiter The Gate
Time 141. Or did not the Creator at this time see and know of the Fall of Man Answer 142. This now is the very Doare of the hidden secret mystery of the Deitie Concerning which the Reader is to conceive that it is not in the power or capacity of any Man to discerne or to know it if the Dawning or Morning-Rednesse did not break forth in the Center in the Soul 143. For they are divine mysteries which no Man can search into by his own Reason and I also esteeme my selfe most unworthy of such a gift and besides I shall have many scorners and mockers against me for the corrupted Nature is horribly ashamed before the Light 144. But for all that I cannot forbeare for when the divine Light breaketh forth in the Circle or Birth of Life then the qualifying or fountain Spirits rejoyce and in the Circle of the Life reflect or look back into their Mother into the Eternity and they also look forwards into the Eternitie 145. But it is not a constant and lafting thing or being clarifying or brightning of the qualifying or fountain Spirits much lesse of the Bestial Body but it is the Ray of the breaking through of the Light of God with a firie impulse which riseth up through the meek water of Life in the Loye and remaineth standing in its Heaven 146. Therefore I can bring it no further then from the Heart into the Braine before the Princely Throne of the Senses and there it is shut up in the Firmament of Heauen and goeth not back againe through the qualifying or fountain Spirits into the Mother of the Heart that it might come on to the Tongue for if that were done I would tell it with my mouth and make it known to the World 147. But for that cause I will let it stand in its Heaven and write according to my gifts and with wonder and admiration expect what will become of it For in the qualifying or fountain Spirits I cannot sufficiently comprehend or apprehend it because they stand in the anxious Chamber 148. As to the Soul I see it very well but the Firmament of the Heaven is between in which the Soul hideth it selfe and there receiveth its Rayes from the Light of God and in that respect it goeth through the Firmament of Heaven as a Tempest of Lightning but very gently in a most amiable and pleasant delight and Joy 149. So that I cannot in the comprehensibility in my innate instant or present qualifying or fountain Spirits or in the Circle of Life discerne or know it otherwise for the Day breaketh forth apace 150. For that cause I will write according to this knowledge though the Devill should offer to assault and storm the world which however he cannot doe Yet his Houre-Glasse is showen to him and set before him 151. Now come on you Electionists and contenders about the Election of Grace you that suppose you only are in the right and esteeme a simple Faith to be but a foolish thing you have danced long enough before this Doore and have made your boast of the Scriptures that they maintaine that God hath of Grace chosen some Men in their Mothers Womb to the Kingdome of Heaven and reprobated or rejected others 152. Here make to your selves many Masse's out of which there may proceed other manner of Men of other qualities and then you may be in the right But out of the one only Masse you can make no more then one only Love of God which presseth forth through the first Man and so presseth through and upon all If God should have permitted Peter or Paul to have written otherwise however look you to the Ground of the Heart 152. If you lay hold on the Heart of God then you have Ground enough 154. If God give me Life for a little while longer I will well shew you Saint Pauls Election of Grace The Seven and Twentieth Chapter Note I advertise the Reader who loveth God that this booke the Aurora or Morning Rednesse was not finished for the Devil intended to put a stop to it and suppresse it when he preceived that the Day would break forth therein And the Day hath cleerly made haste after the Morning Rednesse so that it is become very Light There want yet about Thirtie sheets to the end of it But being the storm hath broken them off therefore it was not finished and in â—heme 〈◊〉 while it is câ—me to be Day so that the Morning Rednesse is passed away and since that time the worke hath gone on by Day And it shall so stand for an eternal Remembrance being the defect herein is supplyed in the other Books Jacob Behme 1620. The Dawning oâ— Morning 〈…〉 Inâ—ancie and Child-hood and 〈…〉 the Creation of all Beeings but very mystically 〈◊〉 not sufficiently cleere but full of Magical Understanding for there are some Mysteries therein which are 〈◊〉 to come to passe Note This is the deepe hidden Magicall Book which the Author at that time might not make clearer but may now doe it through the Grace of God 1621. Note This book is written in a Magicall sense or understanding for the Author himselfe only who knew of no other Readers he supposed he made this work only for himself 〈◊〉 God hath disposed it otherwise Note The Author expressed the first syllable MER in the word MERCURIUS with an A as MAR MARCURIUS not without a speciall Mysticall cause with the first Vowell A But because the selfe conceited wise in Reason dislike it accounting it but a Country vulgar expression Therefore the transcriber of the High Dutch Copie from whence this was translated wrote it according to the common received word MERCURIUS The Corne groweth against the will of the Enemie For that which is sowne by God no Man can prevent or hinder the growing thereof * 1 Cor. 1. 13. †Rom. 8. 3. †Rom. 8. 17. * 1 Cor. 2. 2. †Heb. 6. 6. * Rev. 13. 8. †Eph. 5. 30. * Math. 25. 40. 45 †Joh. 6. 55. * Math. 5. 48. Luk. 6. 32. †Job 1. 1. 2. 3. * James 3. 2. †James 1. 25 * 1 Joh. 3. 9. †Phil. 3. 15. * Phil. 3. 14. †Rom. 3. 10. * 1 King 8. 46. 2 Chron. 6. 36. Prov. 20. 9. Eccles. 7. 22. †James 3. 2. * 1 Joh. 1. 8. †Rev. 19. 10. * Col. 1. 28. †Eph. 2. 8. * Rom. 7. 18. †Rom. 7. 23. * Rom. 7. 19. †Rom. 7. 18 * 1 Joh. 3. 7. †Rom. 8. 14 * Rom. 6. 16 †Ezek. 18. 20. * Ezek. 18. 24. 26. †Ezek 18. 21 22. 27. 28. * Rom. 7. 24. †Rom. 6. 12. * Col. 1. 29. †Gal. 4. 19. * Prov. 23. 26. †1 Sam. 13. 14. * 1 Cron. 28. 9. †Rev. 21. 27 †Joh. 7. 17. * Math. 5. 16 †1 Cor. 14. 25 * Rom. 15. 1 †Luk. 1. 79. * Math. 11. 29. †Col. 3. 4 * 1