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A49980	The temple of vvisdom for the little world in two parts. The first philosophically divine, treating of the being of all beeings, and whence everything hath its origins as heaven, hell, angels, men and devils, earth, stars and elements. And particularly of all mysteries concerning the soul, and of Adam before and after the fall. Also, a treatise of the four complexions, and the causes of spiritual sadness, &c. To which is added, a postscript to all students in arts and sciences. Second part, morally divine, containing abuses stript and whipt, by Geo. Wither, with his description of fair virtue. Secondly. A collection of divine poems from ... Essayes and religious meditations of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight. Collected, published and intended for a general good. By D.L.	Leeds, Daniel, 1652-1720.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Abuses stript, and whipt.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1688 (1688)	Wing L915; ESTC R224149	138,032	220

and Jupiter as also Mars by reason of their great Orb cir●…umference cannot do it because they stand so high above and far distant from the Sun. The other Planets are peculiar Bodies of their own which have a Corporeal Propriety of themselves and are not bound to any fixed place but only to their Circles Orb or Sphere wherein they run their Course but the Sun is not such a Body but is only a place or Locality kindled by the Light of God. Understand the place where the Sun is is such a place as you may chuse or suppose any where above the Earth And if God should kindle the Light by the Heat then the whole World would be such a meer Sun for the same Power where the Sun standeth is every where all over and before the time of Wrath it was every where all over the place of this World as light as the Sun is now bu●… not so intolerable For that Heat was not so great as in the Sun and therefore the Light also was very meek So that man should not dare to say that the Sun is an open Gate of the L●…ght of God but is as the light in a man's Eye whereas also the place of the Eye belongs to the Body but the Light is distinct from the Body The Stars are 〈◊〉 Powers of the seven Spirits of God for when the 〈◊〉 of God was kindled by the Devil in this world then the ●…ole House of this world in Nature or the outermost Birth or Geniture was as it were benumed or chilled in Death from whence the Earth and Stones came to be The Stars are arisen or proceeded out of the kindled House of God's wrath for the whole House is ●…enumed in Death as the Earth is whence the Stars also subsist in Wrath and Love. Before the times of the created Heavens ●…he Stars and Elements and 〈◊〉 the creation of Angels there was no such Wra●…h of God no Death no Devil no Earth nor Stones neither any Stars but the Dei●…y generated it self very meekly and lovingly and formed ●…gured and framed it self in Ideas Shapes and Images which were incorporated 〈◊〉 to the qualifying or fountain Spirits in the generating Of the Earth c. THe Earth is come from the corrupt Saliter of the outermost Birth or Geniture For on the first Day God drove together or compacted the corrupt Saliter which came to be so in the kindling of ●…he Wrath. In this driving 〈◊〉 or compaction of the corrupt wrath S●…liter was King Luc●…r also as an impotent Prin●…e together with ●…is A●…ls driven into the hole of the WrathSaliter into that place where the outward half dead Comprehensibility is generated which is the place or space in upon above the Earth up to the nature Goddess the Moon So far reacheth their extent now ●…ill the last Day and then they will get a House in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where the Earth now is and 〈◊〉 that is in the 〈◊〉 Birth in the Darkness and this will be called the ●…urning H●…ll For Nature w●… very 〈◊〉 and thin or transparent and all stood meerly in Power and was in a very pleasant ho●… temper But as soon as 〈◊〉 Fight began in Nature with 〈◊〉 proud Devil Nature got a two-fold Source and the outer most Birth or Geniture in Nature was kindled in the wra●… Fire which is called the Wrath of God or the Burning Hel●… But Now when this was done the Deep became clear an●… with the hidd●…n or concealed Heaven th●… Light was seperate from the Darkness and the Globe of the Earth in the grea●… Wheel of Nature was roled or turned once about and th●… p●…ssed the time of one Revolution or of one Day In the duration of the second Day began the sharp 〈◊〉 tion and the incomprehensible 〈◊〉 between the Wra●…h an●… the Love or Light was made And so King Lucifer sirmly strongly or fast bolted up into the House of Darkness and wa●… reserved to the final Judgment And so also the Water of Life was separated from the Water of Death yet in that manner as that they hang to gether in this time of the World as Body and Soul and 〈◊〉 neither of them comprehend the other the Firmament is th●…●…liff or gulf between Time and Eternity But that God calleth it Heaven and maketh a division of the Waters gives us to understand that Heaven is in the world and the world is not in Heaven the VVater above the Firmament is in Heaven and the VVater under the Firmament is the external material Water the palpable water is Death and the impalpable is the Life Moses saith God created Heaven and Earth and all Creatures in six days and rested on the seventh yet God needed no Rest for he hath wrought from Eternit●… and he is a meer working Power and Virtue the understanding li●…th ●…idden in those Words could not 〈◊〉 ●…ve made all his Works in one day Neither can we properly say there was any Day before the Sun was for in the Deep there is but one day in all Therefore the meaning lieth hidden 〈◊〉 understandeth by each days workings the manifestation of the seven Properites for 〈◊〉 saith In the beginning God created H●… and ●…arth This visible World is sprung from the spiritual World and is only an Effluence of the seven Properties for it proceedeth out of the six working Properties but in the seventh that is in Paradise it is in rest and that ●…s the eternal Sabboth of Rest wherein the divine ●…ower and Virtue resteth for the seventh day was the ●…rue Paradise understand it spiritually That is the Tincture of the divine Power and Virtue ●…hich is a temperament this pi●…rced through Properties and wrought in the seventh that is in the substance of all the other Now it may be asked Why did not God bolt up the Devil instantly and then he had not done so much Mischief Answer This was Gods purpose and that must stand which is he would re-edifie out the corrupted Nature of the Earth or build again to himself an ange●…ical Host or Army viz. a true Body which should subsist eternally in God It was not God's intention at all to let the Devil have the whole ●…arth for an eternal dwelling-House but only the death and fierceness of the Earth which the Devil had brought into it Now if he should have instantly left it to the Devil for an eternal dwelling House then out of that place a new Body could not have been built Now what Sin had that space place or room committed against God that it should stand in eternal shame Sure none and therefore that was unequal to be so Also the purpose of God was to make a curious excellent Host or Army out of the Earth and all manner of Images Ideas and ●…orms for in and upon that all should spring and generate themselves a new as we see in Minerals Oars Stones Trees Herbs and Grass and all manner of Beasts after a heavenly

forty D●…ys just so long as Christ was tempted in the Wilderness and that also by all the three Principles When a Twig groweth out of a Tree the form of it is like the Tree indeed it is not the S●…k and the Root but yet it is like the Tree So also when a Mother bringeth forth a Child it is an Image of ●…er So we mu●…t understand that the Soul is in the form of a r●…nd Globe according to the Eye of God through which the Cross goeth and which divideth it self in two p●…rts viz. 〈◊〉 t●…o Ey●…s standing B●…ck to Back viz. a holy divin●… Eye and a wrathful hellish Eye in the Fire t●…is it s●…ld shu●… an●… secretly reign therewith through the Anguish viz. through Death in the second Principle in Love. We mean the 〈◊〉 in the Fist Principle according to the original hath the form of an Eye and yet two-fold like a Heart wherein there is a C●…ss And in the second Principle it is a Spirit and a whole Image as the outward m●…●…s And in the third P●…inciple it is a Glass of the whole VVorld all whatsoever is contained in Heaven and Earth every Prop●…ty of every Creature lieth therein for that Glass is like the Firmament and Stars Of the Power and Ability of the Soul. WE know that what soever cometh out of the 〈◊〉 and is the ground of it s●…lf can 〈◊〉 it self 〈◊〉 things But though the Soul be a Twig out of the Tree 〈◊〉 now it is become a Creature and is its own it is an Ima●… of the whole for when a Child is born then the Mothe●… and the Child are two VVe mean thus God's Spirit an●… the Spirit of the Soul are two Persons each is free from 〈◊〉 other and yet both stand in the first beginning each hath 〈◊〉 own Will. The Soul originally is greatly powerful it can do much but its Power is only in that Principle wherein it is for the Devil cannot reign over God. The First Power of the VVill of the Soul is it frameth its own form in the Spirit also it can frame another Image in the Spirit out of the centre of Nature it can give another Form to the Body according to the outward Spirit for the inward is Lord of the outward it can change the outwar●… into another Image but not durable For Adam's Soul having let in the Turba of this VVo●…ld that if the Turba see a strange Child it riseth up against it instantly and desiroyeth it it continueth to endure only so long as the inward Spirit can subdue and over-power the outward And this Form is called Negromancy a Transmutation where the inward over-powereth the outward for it is natural and we understand that when we shall be changed that change will be made thus by the same Turba which hath the first Fiat in it Secondly if the Spirit were an Angel the similitude of God yet the VVill can make it a proud Devil and also make a Devil an Angel if it sink it self into Death into Humility under the Cross and cas●… it self into the Spirit of God and so submit to his Government then it sinketh into Eternity out of the Source into the still nothing which is yet all Thirdly The Spirit of the Soul hath power to ent●… ●…other man into his Marrow and Bones viz. the Sulpher and to bring the Turba into him if he ●…se so far as every one is not armed with the 〈◊〉 of God but is found naked in the Spirit of this ●…rld as may be seen by Witches Fourthly It hath such power if it be the Child of 〈◊〉 that it can lead the Turba captive and can pour out upon the House of the Wicked as Elias did 〈◊〉 Fire and Moses before Pharaoh for it can throw own Mountains and break Rocks This you must understand to be so far as that thing capable of the Turba by awakening the Wrath then 〈◊〉 is possible but if not and that the Spirit of God be 〈◊〉 a thing then it cannot be for it would pour Water ●…pon the Turba of the Fire which would then be as it were dead and its power would lie in Derision And therefore Heaven is a middle between God and Hell viz. between Love and Anger and was created out of the midst of the Waters so that the Devil cannot rule with his Turba the VVater turneth his purpose into derision as the false Magick and blinded Inchantment are drowned in the VVater The Fifth Power of the VVill or Spirit of the Soul is that it may or can seek all VVonders that are in Nature viz. all Arts Languages Buildings Plantings Distraction Knowledge it can command the Starry Heaven as Joshua did when he commanded the Sun to stand still and Moses the Sea that it stood up also he commanded the Darkness and it came it can make an earthly Life as Moses made the Lice and Frogs also Serpents and other Wonders It hath Death in its Power so that it can over●…ower that if it ride in the Charriot of the Bride viz. the VVill of the holy Ghost it can bridse and overcome the Devil if its VVill be in God there is noth●…ng can be named that it cannot subdue The Souls power was so potent before the Vanity that it was not subject to any thing and so it is powerful if the understanding were not taken awa●… from it it can by Magick alter all things whatsoever are in the world's Essence and introduce them into another Essence but the vanity in the outward Airs dominion hath brought a 〈◊〉 thereinto so that it doth not know it self it must in this Life time be it●… own Enemy that it may learn to be humble and continue in the divine Harmony and not become a Devi●… And so the Dev●…l can do nothing to it for he is proud Spirit and would be above the VVonders 〈◊〉 God but an humility can bind him after this ma●… ner every man may escape the false Magician an●… also the 〈◊〉 for no Po●…er can touch him i●… whom God 〈◊〉 Whether the Soul be Corporeal or not Corporeal THe Tincture is the tr●…e Body of the Soul for the Soul is ●…ire and the Tincture ariseth from the Fire and draweth it again into it self and allayeth it self therewith so that the wrathful Source is quenched and then the Tinct●…re subsisteth in me●…kness For the Soul hath no Essence nor Power in it self but the Fire and thus VVater proceedeth from the me●…kness of the Tincture The Fire is desirous and where there is a desiring of the original there is a finding of the original Thus the ●…ire findeth VVater in the Tincture and turneth it into Sulpher according to the Power of all the seven Spirits of Nature and this is a VVater of Life And so we see that the Blood is the House of the Soul but the Tincture is its Body The Soul only beside the Spirit is a Globe of Fire with an Eye of Fire and an Eye

one according to his gift for his benefit one more than another according as the Spirit hath its property in him For the spirit of God is often subject to the spirits of men if they will that which is good or well and seeth or looketh af●…er what man willeth that his good work be not hindred but that every where above all Gods will or willing or desiring be done Of the two Qualities in one TVvo Qualities a good one and an evil one are in one another as one thing in this World in all powers in the Stars and the Elements as also in all the Creatures and no Creature in the ●…esh in the natural Life can subsist unless it hath the two Qualities 2. For from the two fold Source every thing hath its great mobility running springing driving and growing for meekness in Nature is a still Rest but the fierceness in every Power maketh all things moveable running and generative for the driving Qualities cause a Lust in all Creatures to evil and good 3. In every Creature in this World is a good and evil Will and Source which is caused by or proceedeth from the Stars for as the Creatures in the Earth are in the●…r Qualities so are the Stars there is nothing in Nature wherein there is not good and evil in Men Beasts Fowls Fishes Worms and in all that which is upon the Earth or in the Earth or Gold Silver Copper Tinn Lead Iron VVood Herbs and Grass in the Earth in Stones in t●…e VVater and all whatsoever can be thought upon Eve●… thing moveth and liveth in this double impulse working or operation be it what it will. 4. But the holy Angels and fierce wrathful Devils are here to be excepted the holy Angels live and qualifie in the Light and Meekness in the good Quality but the Devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful Quality in fierceness destruction and perdition 5. And though Moses writes I am an angry zealous God Yet the meaning of it is not that God is angry in himself and that there ariseth a ●…ire of Anger in the holy Trinity No that cannot be for it is written Against those that hate me In that same Creature the Fire of Anger riseth up For if God should be angry in himself then the whole Nature would be on fire which will come once to pass in 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 6. 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 out of the Powers of God are the Heavens proceeded out of the Heavens are the Stars out of the Stars are the Elements out of the Elements are the Earth and the Creatures come to be 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 the Earth were proceeded Now Hell and the dark World or the anger of God is a Gulf of desperation devoid of the Hope of God and all good it is the first ground to the eternal Nature the place is between the Kingdom of God and this World and maketh a peculiar Principal dwelling in it self and hath neither place nor local abode and is every where inhabiting it self only and yet it giveth Essence to the Light and outward 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is it is the cause of the Source viz. the Fire 〈◊〉 the whole Beeing of all God's Beeings 7. In the Darkness he is an ang●…●…ealous God in the fire Spirit a consuming ●…ire and 〈◊〉 the Light ●…he is a merciful loving ●…od and in the Power of the Light he is especially above all other Pro●…rties called God and yet 't is all but God manifested●… who manifesteth himself through the eternal Na●…ure in ingredient Properties 8. The Essence of this VVorld 〈◊〉 in evil and good and the one cannot be with●…t the other But this is the great Iniquity of this ●…Vorld that the evil over powereth the good that 〈◊〉 Anger is stronger then the Love and this by re●…n of the Sin of the Devils and Men who have dist●…bed Nature by the false Desire that it mightily and effectually worketh in the wrath as a Poyson in the Body 9 VVe see very clearly that there is nothing in this VVorld so evil but it hath a good in it the good hath its rise originally out of the heavenly Property or light VVorld and the evil hath its Property out of the dark VVorld for both VVorlds are in each other as one Of the Seven Forms or Properties of the Eternal Nature which make three Principles or VVorlds I. Form Astringent Desire IT is the beginning of the eternal Nature the cause of Essences as also of harshness sharpness hardness Cold and Substance ●…a Mother of all Salts II. Form Bitter Compunctive The motion of the Desire it cutteth asunder the hardness and attracted Desire the true Root of Life a cause of the stirring so also of the Senses and the ground of the bitter pain III. Form Anguish Perceivance It is a cause of the Mind wherein the Senses are moved and acted the ground of the natural VVill wherein the eternal VVill desireth to be manifested that is it will be a Fire or Light In these three first Properties consisteth the foundation of Anger and of Hell and of all that is wrathful IV. Fire Spirit Reason Desire In the Fire the unity appeareth and is seen in the Light that is in a burning love and the wrath in the Essence of Fire In Fire and Light consisteth the Life of all things viz. in the Will thereof let them be ●…nsensible vegetable or rational things every thing as the Fire hath its ground either from the Eternal as the Soul or from the Temporary as Astral Elementary things for the Eternal is one Fire and the Temporary is another V. Form Light Love. This Property is the ●…ire of Love or world of Power and Light which in the Darkness dwelleth in it self and the Darkness comprehendeth it not in the Light the eternal Unity is substantial that is an holy spiritual Fire an holy Light an holy Air which is nothng else but Spirit also an holy Water which is the over-flowing Love of the unity of God and an holy Earth which is all powerful virtue and working It is the true spiritual angelical world of the divine Joy which is hidden in this visible world VI. Form Sound Voice Word Proceeding from the divine Powers which is formed in the Love the Sound is the understanding wherei●… all the Properties understand one another VII Form Essence Beeing Mansion This seventh Property is rightly and truly called the ground or place of Nature wherein the other Properties stand in one only ground the

Contents of the other six in which they work as the Life doth in the Flesh also it is a Food of the Fire where the Fire draweth Essence for its sustenance wherein it burneth and the seventh is the Kingdom of the divine Glory Not that the seventh Property is the Tincture but it is the Body of it the Power and Virtue of the Fire and Light is the Tincture in the substantial Body It is especially to be noted that alwayes the first and seventh Properties are accounted for one and the second and sixth also the third and fifth and the fourth is only the dividing mark or bound And yet all seven are but one the last is the Body of the first They are altogether only the manifestation of God according to Love and Anger Eternity and Time. In the Desire is the original of Darkness and in the Fire the eternal Unity is made manifest with the Light in the fiery Nature Out of the fiery Property and the property of the Light the Angels and Souls have their Original The Darkness becometh substantial in it self and the Light becometh also substantial in the fiery Desires these two make two Principles viz. God's anger in the darkness and God's love in the Light each of them worketh in it self and there is only such a difference between them as between Day and Night and yet both of them have but one only ground and the one is alwayes a cause of the other The visible World is the third Principle that is th●… third ground and beginning this is out-breathed out of the inward ground viz. out of both the first Principles and brought into the Nature and ●…orm of a Creature But according to the manifestation of the Trinity of God there are but three Properties of Nature the first is the Desire which belong●…th to God the ●…ather yet it is only a Spirit but in the seventh Property the Desire is substantial The second is the divine Power and Virtue and belongeth to God the Son in the second Property it is only a Spirit but in the sixth it is the substantial Power and Virtue The third belongeth to the holy Ghost and in the beginning of the third Property it is only a fiery Spirit but in the fifth Property the g eat Love is manifested therein Now these are the seven Properties in one only ground and all seven are equally Eternal without beginning none of them can be accounted the first second third or last but are equally Eternal We must represent this in a Typical way that it may be understood how the one is born of the other The ☿ Seven Forms of Spirits mentioned Revelations Chap. 1. 1. Dark World a Similitude of it is a Candle ♄ ☽ I. Harsh desiring will. ☿ ♃ II. Bitter or stinging ♂ ♀ III Anguish till the flash of Fire 2. Fire World a Similitude of it is the Fire of a Candle ☉ IV. Fire dark Fire light Fire 3. Light World a Similitude of it is the Light of a Candle ♀ ♂ V. Light or Love whence the VVater of Eternal Life floweth ♃ ☿ VI. Noise Sound Mercury ☽ ♄ VII Substance or Nature The first Principle The dark World or Fire of Wrath hence God the Father is called an angry zealous ●…eal us God and a con●…ming Fire The second Princple The Light World or Fire of Love hence God the Son the Word the Heart of God is called a loving and merciful God. The third Principle This World of four Elements which is produced out of the two inward VVorlds above said and is a Glass of them wherein Light and Darkness Good and Evil are mixt it is not Eternal but hath a beginning and an end Of God the Father Son and holy Ghost WHen we consider the whole Nature and its Property then we see the Father When we behold 〈◊〉 and the Stars then we behold his eternal Power and Wisdom So many Stars as stand in the whole Heaven which are incomprehensible to Reason so manisold and various is the Power and ●…Visdom of God the Father If a man would liken the Father to any thing he should liken him to the round Globe of Heaven Thou must not conceive here that the very Power which is in the Father standeth in a peculiar severed part or place in the Father as 〈◊〉 Stars do in Heaven No but the Spirit sheweth that all t●…e Powers in the Father are one in another as one Power VVhen I think with my self what is many hundred thousand Miles above the siary Firmament I find the eternal unchangeable Unity is there the only Eternal God or that only Good which a man cannot express His immensenses●…●…ighth and depth no Creature no not any Angel in Heave●… can search into it But the Angels live in the Power of the Father very meekly and full of Joy and they alwayes sing in the Power of the Father In the Fire God is called an angry God but in the Ligh●… or Love-fire he is called the holy God and in the dark Nature he is not called God. VVe must make distinction each world hath its Principle and Dominion and indeed all is from one eternal Original but it severizeth it self in a twofoid Source a Similitude whereof we have in the Fire and Light where the ●…ire is painful and consuming and the Light meek and giving And yet one were as nothing without the other Of God the Son. YOu must not think that the Son is another God then the Father or that he is without or besides the Father No the Father and Son are not of such a Substance he is eternally in the Father he is the Heart in the Father and the Father generateth him continually from Eternity to Eternity and the Father and Son is one God of an equal Beeing in Power and Omnipotence Now the Heaven and Stars and the whole Deep between the Stars signifie the Father And the seven Planets signifie the seven Spirits of God or the Princes of the Angels among which Lord Lucifer was one before his fali which all were made out of the Father in the beginning of the Creation of Angels before the time of this VVorld Now as the Sun standeth in the midst betwixt the Stars ●…nd the Earth enlightning all Powers and is the Light and Heart of all Powers and is all the Joy in this VVorld Even so the Son of God in the Father is the Heart in the Father and shineth in all the Powers of the Father his Power is the moving springing Joy in all the Powers of the Father and shineth in the whole Father as the Sun doth in the whole VVorld Of God the Holy Ghost THe holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Son and is the third self-subsisting Person in the Deity As ●…he Elements in this World go forth from the Sun and Stars and are the moving Spirit which is in every thing in thi●… world So the Holy Ghost is the moving Spirit in the whole Father and