solitary place XXVI The separation in the Heavens being made betwixt the two great Lights by which the day night was ruled the first that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity into the Womb of Nature had slain his Keeper for he was a monstrous shape and form of the Beast in Nature with the Head and Face of a RAM the Neck and Throat of a BULL the Wings of an EAGLE the Breast of a CRAB-FISH the Heart of a LYON the Bowels of both MAN and BEAST but downwards like a SCORPION XXVII And he sat on all the FORMS in Nature which became this Beasts seat who went THIRTY DAYES backward in the Rings of the outward Wheel after he had slain his Keeper for by the strugling of TWAIN the VIRGIN in Nature was slain which the man should have kept alive who was made Keeper of his Virgin that had the Face of Man both Male and Female XXVIII And by him was slain the Face of a Man who was exalted in the Principle of Air in the glory of Angels in an Angelical Paradisical being and state After the Virgin in Nature was thus lost and became slain in the place of Conception and Field of Nature whereby the Creature Mankind became as made a little lower then the Angels subjected in that state wherein the Creation of God was brought forth XXIX So that as NECESSITY came to work in a Mystery through the ground of what was brought forth in the created Forms in Nature it became a LAW in Nature under the power of which every Creature was brought for the grounds sake that thus stood under subjection to the Power of God and that a man might be brought forth to till and tear up the ground under which I beheld the subjection of all forms in Nature after all the works of God were seen to be good XXX And then as the Keeper of the living had the glory of the Life of God in Nature subjected in hope the groanings and waitings of the Creation became a longing expectation of God afterwards to be revealed whereby he that remained with his Face exalted in the Air was made the Keeper of the Vineyard of his Brethren XXXI For as the Work of God became imbodied in the Creaturely being from the Womb of Nature I beheld the form of a Man who was that GOOD Man that smote me on my Head casting SEED into a Ground in which I saw the working form and frame of all these things and he afterwards fell asleep And a SECOND man also came forth and he likewise cast in Seed into a GROUND scattering it in the Air towards the NORTH Wind of which some fell on the good Ground XXXII Whereby the Face and form of a Man who came forth out of the Womb of Eternity became the SECOND who was embodied from the Womb of Nature and was slain in the Field of Conception by the FIRST and LAST that became thus imbodied from the Womb of Nature by which means the Face of FOUR Beasts in Nature became exalted in the Heavens and the WOMAN was taken from him whilst he fell asleep though like a good man he had first sown his Seed before the envious man came XXXIII Yet was it not then good that the Man should be alone under the workings of that NECESSITY in the LAW of Nature for he had neglected his own Vineyard that was over-grown with Nettles Bryars Thorns and Weeds whereby sin and the concupiscence of the Flesh took occasion to work in the Members of him who was the Tiller and tearer up of the ground of Corruption into which Death entered who came first forth out of the Womb of Nature because of his need for the MEET HELP XXXIV And this became the FOURTH day in Nature but it was the first day in the work of Creation in Coelestial Bodies called TREM for it was FULL time and tide in turning the Worlds about backward wherein all that came forth imbodied from the Womb of Eternity took form from the Womb of Nature in the changeable being through a Government that God had setled over all that should come forth thus imbodied in form XXXV For the night came over all glory in the first Creation of God so that the FIFTH day of the Work of God in all forms of Nature was the SECOND DAY of God's Holy Weeks concluding a cessation from all labour in what was brought on the Creation of God by means of the Curse come over mankind in his Exercise of these the Creatures of God XXXVI And there arose a WEST-Wind out of which flamed a Sword of the Cherub which drove the form of the Man that I saw EASTWARD and he went his way so that the FIRST which came forth out of the Womb of Nature in which the Creature became thus imbodied into form took being on the FIFTH day in such state as the Creature and Creation was fallen under in that form wherein he came forth CHAP. IV. How all forms in Nature began to degenerate into the monstrous shapes of deformed Beasts XXXVII AND the ANGEL of God said Come up hither and I will shew thee the MYSTERY of all those WATERS and of that which came forth out of the Womb of Eternity from whence all those Waters came and whither they shall return and until the end of the FIVE dayes I beheld the working-frame of what stood manifest from the Womb of Eternity And I saw all the Earth overspread with Creatures and things yet nothing was moved out of the ground under which it was subjected by the Creating power that wrought for manifestations sake until the end of FORTY DAYES XXXVIII And there was also from the THREE that bare Record on Earth a SECOND great LIGHT that ruled the Night in the glory of the Terrestrial Body borrowing a lustre from the Suns clarity For as I travelled through a great trance of the minds perplexity I beheld the whole frame of the works of God from the beginning to the END of time and place as of TWO and TWENTY dayes labour wherein I saw the Sun and Moon stand in a distance of course two and twenty Degrees of the Suns Motion that wrought up their glory in and through all the Powers of Nature unto which the life of the Creature was subjected under a change in time and place XXXIX Which became the Glory of the Sun of the day of the Son of Man in and through all Coelestial Bodies comprehended in the forms of Nature as a great Light whereby the great and LAST day was ruled and over-ruled in which God is working up his Eternal Glory through what is come forth into manifestation in time and place dignifying the Creator of all forms into being that is able to reveal the Mystery of satsfaction to Divine Justice through what appeareth magnificent in works of Wonder XL. For all Motion in Wisdom from the beginning of FORM through the WORD of Life was the Creators Glory
the Vegitative Being wherein the TREE of LIFE came to bear twelve sorts of FRUITS changing its Fruit every Month until its Leaves came to heal the NATIONS CXXXIV For that which divided between Principle and Principle in the Worlds said let there be light in the Firmament of the Heavens wherein the Waters are gathered together unto their own PLACE and Light shined from the Firmament of the Heavens in those Waters in the Seperation of all darkening Qualities into its NIGHT of Obscurity which notwithstanding was over-ruled in the hour of Darkness until the second great Light broke forth in the subjected Qualities of that Spirit in the Body of Nature by which the Night hath been ruled CXXXV And those VESSELS that were fitted and prepared for the use of the Creator from the Heavens were ordained to the service of the LORD and MASTER by whom they were imployed and it was the Creators Glory to suffer them to be raised up whatever dishonourable uses they were imployed to which falling under the rage and fury of the ENEMY that first prevailed over the World by those Waters the Vessels in which were God's Tents were notwithstanding preserved and discharged of their Burdens in the manner following through all opposition in the fury of what the Waters were raised unto CXXXVI And whatever the body of Nature travelled under the WOMAN was eased of in the discharge of what was carried on the Waters to a HAVEN of REST of the burthen whereof the Heavens were discharged in the strength of the Storm or according to the decrease of the Waters wherein a third part of those Vessels which were drawn towards the SOUTH came under a Tryal by fire and the seventh part of the Earth was tryed by Waters but that other third part that was drawn towards the NORTH was reserved to a Tryal in the third and last day by the strength of Judgment in both CXXXVII Of the first Vessel the Heavens were eased and unburdened on the first day of the ninth Month whereby the World was first planted in that which hath overspread its QUARTERS and the time wherein I beheld the Heavens to be discharged was two dayes after the last quarter of the Moon in the eight month whereby the Work of God in the seven dayes wherein it was finished and setled recovered the Ides of that Month after new Moon and on the last day of the ninth month which was the first day after the first quarter of the Moon the Heavens were unburdened of a Second NATION in bodily Form into that second Vessel And in the conclusion of the ninth Month called KISU because it did bring Tempests before it the Waters were fallen back in the Degrees whereunto it overflowed by measure CXXXVIII And on the third day of the eleventh month vvhich vvas the third day after new Moon the Heavens vvere unburdened of a third Vessel but the tenth month being concluded vvhich vvas called THEBET because of comfort in bad times Israel began to forget the dayes of her MOURNING for the name of the Angel of God vvas called HEBER that had the conduct of that third Vessel and the name of that eleventh month vvas called SHEBAT because a Judge vvas brought up in that Vessel in the midst of the seven that svvayed the Scepter in ISRAEL CXXXIX And on the second day of the twelfth month vvhich vvas two dayes after new Moon the Earth and Worlds became divided in the dispersing abroad of the Waters vvhich continued decreasing until the end of seven months vvhereby the tops of the Mountains vvere beheld and the Worlds came forward to their day of Tryal vvherein the WATERS setled about the form of the Earth CXL For from the time that the WATERS decreased I measured them up to the Neck of the GIANT in the Forms of Nature after the measure of a Man which is the Angel And I observed their order in the falling back wherein the first Head of the River called PISON compassed about the Land of HAVILAH into which fell the Golden Head of the Image after the River was divided into four Heads And thence came forth the ASSYRIAN in the dispersing abroad of those seven Nations that came out of the seven Vessels according to the seven Months of the YEAR in which the WATERS decreased wherein the Revolution of all Powers in Nature thus imbodied came under a second Tryal by Fire CXLI And according to the NATURE of the EARTH in which the Worlds were setled in their sinking condition there was GOLD and BDELLIUM and the ONIX STONE and that Gold was good for it was Gold of OPHIR wherein was discovered the Beauty and Luster of what first fell in the WORLDS backward course and now was come forward for manifestation sake And under the second Head of the River called GIHON which compasseth about the Land of Ethiopia that hath its Spiritual signification among the Names in Nature fell the Silver Breast of the Image CXLII But on the fifth day of the first month which was five days after new of the Moon a fifth Vessel came forward in which the Heavens were unburdened of that which came forth manifest in the Line of Blessing to the discharge of the Powers of NATURE in God for whom the Bowels of the Earth were torn up that the replenishing forms in Nature might over-spread it in the New Created Being and the name of the twelfth month was called ADAR because of an excelling Governour that came forth to sway the Scepter in Israel CLXIII And on the fourth day of the second month which was five dayes after new Moon a sixth Vessel was unburdened in the Heavens through the discharge of the Power of God in the Body of Nature and he came forth under the conduct of a strong ARM wherein was displayed from the Heavens a Banner flying and the name of the first month was called JEHOVAH NISSAN but among the forms in Nature it had a name in the Earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of the Green Ear. CXLIV For on the third day of the third month which was the fourth day after new Moon there was beauty on the new Created EARTH among the Forms in Nature because of the Flowers that did shine bright in the finishing of that second month which was called ZIV. because of the lustre in the Heavens but in the Earth it is Jar because of the Vail and Covering preceeding And I turned me towards the place in which I beheld the Form of the Image and I beheld the falling of the BRAS BELLY under the third Head of the River called HIDEKEL and there was nought remaining but the stumps of the Image which fell under the fourth HEAD of the River called EUPHRATES in which it was bound down in my sight with an Iron Bond for the stumps remained in the Earth until seven times past over my Head in which the Wheels were moved about in their seven Turns and overturnings THE SECOND PART With
expected to befall NATIONS in such a Case though his displeasure may be AWAKENED against a People or Nation and in his sufferance are destroying ANGELS loosed out of the great River of the WORLDS Sea and often is he stirred up to that which he delighteth not in even to appear like unto a LYON roused up before he please and as a Giant disturbed from his sleep yet will great Alterations and changes come into the World and they will happen unto the secure like Events determined from an over-ruling Power THE THIRD PART CHAP. I. Wherein is opened the Mystery of what came forth in the Worlds in the form and frame of the Heavens from whence the Vision had power to work up its discoveries I. THE principles of ETERNITY in God or God in his eternal existence is the fire of Life burning in jealousie over his own Honour and Glory that gave being to Love in which remaineth â—he Original Center of all good from whence his preheminence is mainâ—ained in and over his Creature through that which he first inkindled â—n the Ground and Center of Nature in which is both a good and an evil But Waters are the first and all Principle in NATURE through the sinking frame of the WORLDS into and under palpability wherein EARTH took form as a third Principle in Nature separated into being on the third day from whence all Creatures became imbodied in the substantial form of Palpability II. And all separated qualities remain in the ground of substantiality while time place endureth wherein the Life of the Creature centereth in that which is come forth into its individual being among the forms of Nature according to the source it possesseth and inhabiteth for these beings are formed in and from the Earthly Principles which are separated from the Heavens in what remaineth sinking under a power of Corruption wherein threâ—… do bear record for God which are the glory of Terrestrial Bodies Essentially forming Nature into being in that which continueth breathing through the out-spread Firmament of the Atry Heavens under the Waters III. As also from the fiery Heavens from whence a third part of the Waters was dryed up from the Earth in their Principle on the third day and by a third dayes work of God therein manifest the three Glories of the Father do shine through all Celestial Bodies to wit one Glory of the SUN which is a great LIGHT to rule the DAY and another of the MOON which is the lesser LIGHT to rule the NIGHT and another of the STARS according to their differing Glories in which the over-ruling Power of the Heavens subjecteth the forms of Nature in their several Constellations that gives life to the Creatures being in the Earth IV. In this respect God is considered and become the cause of all causes in ETERNITY and ground of all being in NATURE as Palpability is the ground of Corruptibility wherein he is called a consuming and everlasting FIRE and yet as substantiality is not without the Creature he is absolutely the cause of nothing as well as of all things where nothing without God is God without Nature which is a cause of both good and evil wherein the Worlds do remain unmanifest but in Nature and wherein the work of God is comprehended in the forming qualities of that which is brought forth in the effect of labour in seven Natural days V. Therefore said the ANGEL of God these WATERS that thou sawest are those on which the multitude of the WORLDS and great Nations are moved and carried to and fro according to the course of time and tide the WOMAN remained exalted on them who allured many into those Vessels that begin to swim pleasantly over the streams of Corruption singing a Requium to their Souls that they might not remember the danger in their way wherewith they are daily beset and they are called the PEOPLE and Tongues and Nations of the Kindreds of the Earth that are divided under the four WINDS of the Heavens tossed up and down through the boysterous Storms and swelling Tempests that are again gathered together in HEAPS over the main Sea and Ocean of Trouble in which is the Lake and Bottomless Pit from whence all Monstrous shapes in Creatures are come forth to cover the Earth VI. And the Vessels that thou sawest carried thereon are those which were first built and erected from the Heavens into which the Patrons of all Earthly forms were gathered in one and were again distributed through many according to the Nature of the BEAST wherein wrought the confusion of Languages in the prevailing of the MOON over Woman in the changeable wayes and course of the WORLD under which the Heavens stand thus divided VII In seven they took Head and in ten was each Horn exalted over nine which is an intricate number among the Figures in forms of Nature wherein those seven that thou sawest come forth into the Creaturely being first imbodied under the power of Corruption are the seven forms of Nature subjected under a power in which the Heavens and Earth are multiplyed in and according to their Generations generating Nature and name to the being of each form Corporal CHAP. II. Describing the Nature of the degeneration of the WORLDS in those Principles wherein the Creature became imbodied in time and place VIII FOR answerable to the time and place wherein all Created Prinples in the forms of Nature remained sinking under a Power of Corruption working properties in the Heavens prevailed over the bodily frame to afflict it with labour according to the motion in the Wheels in which those Principles suffered and were acted and that which suffered the glory of the frame of the WORLDS to work up the gross form of Palpability in the way and course the Body of Nature became acted by a motion in the Heavens was subject to Corruption that came into time and place through the change of the frame in the Worlds IX And agreeable to the Name and Nature of those Men that were FATHERS in their Generations through whom palpability prevailed in the Waters whereby the Worlds were first overwhelmed in the deluge and overflowing scourge the glory of the World imbodied a form in Nature for the Seed of Life to work up the first Beauty of CREATION according to what was manifest in time and place wherein each day had its year multiplyed in Nature from the Heavens as each Month hath its Hour in what is divided to every particular state and condition of the Creature under which Death and Afflictions have increased their dominion over the ends of the Worlds X. And as from the Womb of Eternity the BEAST in the forms of Nature prevailed in a backward course under which the Heavens were subjected for the manifesting of each day in Nature wherein the Principles of the World were acted and wrought in a frame that discovered its revolutions so according to the years wherein the multiplicity of such forms increased the WATERS
raised up for the making known the Power of God and the Vessels fitted for destruction know that thy time is numbred to fill up the TWELVE years wherein the King was subject to K'DORLAOMER XVIII I counsel thee therefore in the Seed capable of gathering that thou come forth from among the Robbers and Spoilers of my People and let not thy horn be exalted because of the King of the North that is delivered into thy hands for a season for both your hearts have been set to do mischief and ye have spoken lies at one TABLE but that little space that is given thee to repent is to humble thee that thy Soul may live and thou not die in thy Iniquity XIX Now let him that is hungry come and let all that are thirsty come and drink a mighty draught at the Fountain of endless Mercy for this is the day of Mercy proclaimed towards a stiff-necked People a Rebellious House This is your day and hour to repent and return to God and there is not another season for Mercy or to mend that which is amiss for ye are become a wicked People but he that hath an Ear may hear though the hardned must remain in their guilt and the unclean be unclean still XX. For the spot of the LEOPARD cannot be washed off nor the skin of the Aethiopian changed and the filthy must have time to fill up their measure that it may be known that they are left without excuse who have slighted timely warning when the hour is come that they are concluded in the WILL of that which continueth filthy still The FIRST PART CHAP. I. The beginning of the REVELATION describing the Vision of the WHEEL in its Motion I. ACcording to the space of time before mentioned as I was waiting upon the Lord with my heart deeply exercised in his fear and dread the glory of what for a long season I had been visited with descended upon me in a Tempest and WHIRLWIND and I beheld until the Tempest was over yet the Whirlwind remained whilst I was taken into the Habitation of Wonders and the Glory of the Angel of God compassed me about in the form of TWO WHEELS moving one within the other as a Wheel within a Wheel II. By which means I came to the sight of TWO WORLDS standing the one in the other in the manner and form of the Wheels moving the one in the other as a World within a World And while I was thus beholding the Vision thereof the Power of the LIVING CREATURES that moved in the Wheels overcame me for the Spirit of the Living Creatures that moved in the Wheels was in the Wheels and it rested on my left Arm in form of a STAR and quivered in the Blood of my Body betwixt the skin and flesh of my left Arm for many dayes continuing thus upon me III. For in that in which the Worlds were setled and sought rest there was a continuance and abiding under subjection to such Power though faln from what it was in the first work of Gods Creation of all FORMS into being for the first FIVE dayes I thus beheld it and in every of these five dayes I saw a change and alteration in the Face of the HEAVENS which was like unto WATERS IV. Whose way and course I observed until the whole frame of the Worlds became like unto a SEA of GLASSE mingled with Fire and in the midst of these Waters broke forth a CLOUD which moved up and down like a Mans HAND and the Form of a Man was wrought up through the Cloud travelling in the Heavens with his Hands on his Loyns in whom was a sence of pangs and hard labour from whence I beheld a strugling and striving on the Face of the Waters as from the WOMB of ETERNITY of TWO NATIONS to come forth into appearance and manifestation V. And from the Heavens I heard a cry of pangs and hard suffering because of the labour and travel which the Body of NATURE was subjected under for such sufferings sake which was like to the sorrow of a Child-bearing-WOMAN who had brought to the Birth but had not power to bring forth until the appointed time of deliverance from the Father was come VI. But as the Womb of Eternity became eased of its suffering and hard labour the strugling and striving rested and seized on the Body of Nature wherein the Travel remained and continued until the END of TIME and PLACE For on the Face of the Waters on which the SPIRIT of God did breath while a Cloud of darkness was over and covered the face of the mighty Deeps was hidden the form of all CREATURES thus come forth VII And the Womb of NATURE was also opened in and before me in which instant was made intelligible to my understanding the working of all forms in Nature that strove to come up in the bodily Frame and Temper that stood in the ground and cause of such suffering VIII And the NAME of the FIRST DAY was called LIGHT because in it the Light and Darkness were separated and divided and in this day came forth all that stood hidden in the Womb of Eternity in the form and likeness of WATERS that were of a distinct quality and operation in the creaturely being until the Word of God had commanded them into form through the work of Creation IX For as the division and separation of such Powers-work through the WORD of God wrought up the Will of the Worker into appearance and manifestation the WATERS had their enlightning quality and property in the separated beings shining out from the Face of that which gathered together in the Heavens from the three that therein bare Record yea and in the work of the first dayes separation which was betwixt Light and Darkness in these Waters on which the Spirit of God breathed in the light-part of the Waters which was the Face of the Heavens therein there became exalted the HEAD and FACE of a Man for a season and in the darkness or dark parts which is the dark parts thereof I saw working hiddenly the form of a FIRE-DRAKE or Serpent called Satan and the Dragon the old deceiver of mankind who was got behind God in the coming forth of his Glory in his Son or Image X. And the Waters that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity out of which sunk all forms in Nature that took being in the earthly frame and form being gathered together into one PLACE became an overflowing scourge and inundation of miseries and were like unto a great SEA which was the gathering together of all that came forth out of many Fountains and Rivers of Water XI Which thus I beheld until the SECOND DAY was passed over wherein was made a separation betwixt Waters and Waters that thus came forth out of the Womb of Eternity in a Mystery And in the Womb of Nature was the MATRIX of conception brought into a working frame wherein the SPERMATIC Vessels of the
without any consideration of a dividual Will in Creatures though sinking fallen from the glory of the Creator of all forms in Nature so subjected under a state of Corruption XLI And as the FIFTH day became subjected unto the Government of that under whose power all forms in Nature were brought forth I saw a THIRD PART of the Stars in the Heavens moved from the WEST to the EAST for the Glory of the Sun in the midst of the Heavens suffered the Motion of what drew TWO and as it were both WAYES as the Clouds of Darkness came to intermix their darkning quality in the Air between the Original Cause and Center of such Glory in its shining Properties and Virtues and the Creatures sence wherein the Lustre became apprehensive XLII And God beholding all Forms in Nature in the state of Subjection wherein they were placed in Creation as labour came to be felt coming up into the Body of Nature after Gods forming and finishing of Work on all that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity he became moved for his Creatures sake that second time which creature remained subject in the ground of the Lifes first motion to the unmoveable power from which SELF could not separate him without the yielding of his own WILL. XLIII But the MAN in divided qualities who was thus made Keeper of the Vineyard of his Brethren came forth as a WAY-FARING Man and Pilgrim in the Earth whose Face was exalted in the Principle and Region of AIR and in the World was his Body afflicted wherein he lost his way as a stranger to his Journeys end though attainable and sought it with Tears for Rests-sake XLIV Yet for FORTY DAYES was he tryed in that state whether or not he could live without the food of that which drew the LIFE under the power of corruption And for FORTY WEEKS was the form of Nature subjected for Generations sake after it became thus degenerated into its Principle for the replenishing the Earth anew in the state under which the Worlds were fallen XLV For all that came forth from the Womb of Eternity in FIVE DAYES took form from the Womb of Nature on the FIFTH day of Gods Glory in the Body of Creation and came forth imbodied in the Creaturely form whereby it was separated in its own Region and being as a peculiar SOURCE in the SPHERE wherein it was brought forth thus imbodied in form over which the WHEELS moved in their SEVEN TURNS and overturnings XLVI And all properties in the outward Wheel came forward in the Annual Motion thereof but that which came forth in its DIURNAL Motion went BACKWARD from the first moving cause of all beings in Creatures and things though it was also forward in the course and race which it had to run which in reference to the INWARD WHEEL was SIDEWAYES from EAST to WEST whereby the Wheels came to move through the whole frame of the Heavens both EAST WEST NORTH and SOUTH in its course which was of thirty years of thirty months of thirty dayes and thirty hours XLVII But the course in the Inward Wheel was of TWELVE YEARS making a separation of all that came forth in the twelve hours of the day in the light whereof it was given for man to work and TWELVE HOURS of the night that came stealing on Men and all other Creatures wherein no man can work and of the Twelve MONTHS of the year whereby the hours of the day became multiplied into their number separating between Winter and Summer XLVIII And this was the ground of all ANNUAL Motion in the Wheels which from the fifth day came FIVE YEARS forward wherein God had glory in the work of Separation in its divided Properties and Qualities that made SEVEN REVOLVES in a Week a Month and a Year of a natural Day of TWELVE HOURS divided from the night CHAP. V. Describing the Government of Nature as it was brought forth under the Power of four Forms in the first FOUR BEASTS XLIX THen I saw until the BEAST himself had taken unto him FIVE HEADS and NINE HORNS on each Head was a Horn but on the Head in the midst of the four which was the fifth Head were FIVE Horns and over his Heads and Horns past THIRTY-FIVE DAYES and a course in the Moon was exalted for a season but the Beast was driven EASTWARD and he came forth again and received a Wound on the Head which was in the midst but the Wound was healed up and he was driven from the Face of the Earth and I said Whither is he gone To which the Angel replyed He is gone into the EAST until THIRTY DAYS divide what cometh forth in FIFTEEN YEARS L. But Day and Night being separated in both Worlds in which the Two great Lights were moved about in their over-ruling Power the glory of the Power of Supremacy in GOD became manifest in both grounds to wit the ground and cause of both the DAY and NIGHT for the man whose Face was exalted in the Principle of Air in the Heavens magnified the sufferance of God by his Spirit for a season against the Creature and Creation of God which became a MARR'D IMAGE of the IDEA in all Forms in Nature though it was the Workmanship of his Hands LI. And the Glory and Lustre of all STARS distinguishable in their Operation and Qualities over Coelestial and Terrestrial Bodies became exalted forms which had TINCTURE among the dignified Virtues in Natures Course and Bond of Equality in Government out of which the DRAGON made up his Tail in the division of the Heavens which were moved about and drew the Creature under the power of Destruction LII Though the Body of Light and Glory through which the Suns Lustre came thus to shine was and is UNMOVEABLE except thus in its suffering wherein it did move as it was MOVED and no otherwise for it was not moveable from the Eternal CENTRE in all beings which is unalterable but from or in Nature whereby the fulness of all glory remained incomprehensible but the WORKER was therein apprehended in a shaddow and the glory of God seen darkly as in a Glass LIII For after all forms in the work of Creation were finished according to what I saw come forth out of the Womb of Eternity the WHEELS came to move over these forms in Nature which stood subject to the Power of God in the CHANGE which was come into the WORLDS and the name of the FIFTH DAYES work in God was in the Heavenly Language the ORB of MAHALALEEL in which the QUINTESSENCE of life strove in a Mystery among the forms of Nature LIV. But as the Worlds continued sinking in their state and condition wherein I beheld all things and Creatures thus brough forth that THIRD which aboad exalted in the Region of Air could not come into form in that creaturely being without great hurt and wrong to the Body of Nature therefore were all forms in Nature corrupted into MONSTROUS SHAPES
the BOOK and on the day of the first Beast in Nature I beheld the coming forth of the great LYON that stood Rampant in the WHEELS among the forms in Nature and he called to his DAY Come and see And I beheld on the back of the LYON four Wings of a Fowl in which were thirty six thousand Fethers in each Wing and therein were written so many names of Men for the Wings were of Golden Feathers and his Face was towards the WEST VI. But on the coming forth of this first BEAST the Winds were moved and greatly strove on the face of the WATERS which were gathered together in heaps on the great SEAS And in the Night season there broke forth flashes of Lightning and Fire under the Roof of the House wherein I was exercised with the Vision of the WONDERS of God and his Glory which the PEOPLE saw but understood not the Mystery thereof and great fear fell upon them being not usually exercised with things of that Nature but I laid up all these things in my Heart until I came to know the meaning thereof VII And I cryed unto the Lord with a loud Voice What is the Mystery of all these things that I have seen For loe I am become weak and feeble like a little Child and have beheld until nought was remaining in the Heavens but a Sealed Book under the Power of a Strong Angel of God and it hath been taken to the Learned to Read but they said Lo it is Sealed and we cannot read nor open the Book or loose the Seals thereon and also to the hands of the unlearned it hath been communicated and they say We are not learned so that through the power of the Lyon it hath been shut up for a long season that hath caused weeping in the Heavens VIII And through the loosing of the Seals of God from off the Book of Wonders that was taken out of the Angels Hand at the appearance of the Lamb of God that taketh away sin from the WORLD and that was slain from the Foundations thereof that in the Fathers time he might come forth a Witness of the fulfilling of the daily Sacrifice unto God I beheld the Lamb with his seven Horns full of Eyes as the seven Spirits of God that walketh among the seven Golden CANDLESTICKS and are like unto seven Lamps of fire burning which are seven Stars in the Angel of God whose form is like unto the Son of Man and who travelled among the Churches who are saluted in their seven Angels until a second Seal on the Book became loosed in my sight IX And the second Beast with the Face and in the form of a Cherub or Calf called to his day Come and see and I beheld on the EARTH the form of a great BULL and he came at his Liberty and came towards me with Violence breaking over all bonds in his way and though I had by me a Weapon of Defence yet had I not power to use it to that end but was otherwise preserved from hurt of that Wild Beast But as the West Wind was reproved as the Waters were moved on the great SEAS by the striving of the Winds the second Beast roared rearing himself on his hinder Legs whereby he stood upright which was terrible to behold X. And I said unto the Angel of God How long shall this continue Then I beheld the BULL cast into a deep and dark Pit in Nature while the fourth Beast in the forms of Government in the Body of Nature was set to watch over him by the third Beast with the Face of a MAN for as the third Seal on the Book came to be loosed and taken off the third Beast called to his day Come and see And I beheld from the Face of the Heavens wherein a course of Glory in the Sun of the day of the Son of Man was comprehended in the Heart of the Lyon that night which was come into the Body of Nature was dispersed and the power of the Heavens over the forms in Nature were divided into four Parts in the coming forth of the Worlds into manifestation XI Then appeared the form of a little BEAR that arose on the LYONS side and he took three Ribs out of the Lyons side and held those three Ribs in his Mouth for a long season And from the Tail of the little Bear among the Signs in the Heavens the Power of the DRAGON was loosed and appeared among the Forms in Nature who made up his Tail out of a third Part of the Stars in the Heavens which were drawn towards the NORTH XII And I beheld until the LYONS Wings were pluckt from him and he stood on the EARTH like a Man and a Mans HEART was given unto him for out of the EAST came the form of a RAM with two Horns and his pushing was three wayes to wit WEST and NORTH and SOUTH and when he had lifted up the BULL out of the PIT he was caught by his Horns in the Thickets of the Earth And in the Heavens was the form of the WOMAN exalted in the Bulls Eye called Oculus Tauri And she had in her Hand a Crown of twelve Stars which was taken from her Head and put on the Head of the Lyon CHAP. II. Describing the Motion of the Wheels in their seven turnings over all that came forth into manifestation in the loosing of the seven Seals on the the Book c. XIII BUT as the fourth Beast called to his day Come and see through the loosing of the fourth Seal on the Book I saw the Face of an EAGLE in the Heavens in whose right Eye the form of the VIRGIN in Nature was exalted among the Forms and the second great light in the Heavens was comprehended in the Breast of a great Bear who had also the four WINGS of a Fowl on his Back And the Winds again strove on the great Seas wherein the WATERS were greatly moved in the coming forth of this fourth Beast XIV And as the MAN prevailed in the Heavens I beheld all consumed which stood under the Power of the Waters and the Name of the third Month was called SIVAN in the Nature of what was produced from the Heavens whence came a Voice from the Heart of the LYON in the fiery Heavens Let the Light shine into the Earth that that which is done may appear and be seen And the form of the Heavens stood divided in a double Relation of that which is comprehended in Day Night wherein the Day in Nature had its two-fold Operation over all forms subjected into being in that State and the Clouds of the Heavens were folded up together wherein I saw the form of the RAM coming down out of the Head of Nature descending the right Arm of the Man in the forms of Nature and there went up towards his Head the form of a HEE GOAT mighty and strong and there was labour in the Heavens for the space of sixty one
BEAST I beheld the pleasant Field and fruitful Garden working up the form of what indured and continued patient under those fiery Tryals until they became past over though many therein did dwell on a barren Heath who could not see when good comes whereby they perished in the Night of Obscurity and worldly sorrow that overtook them in their way wherein the power of DEATH wrought and became strong in the WORLDS CXIII And in the place of the fifth Head of the Beast in the midst of four which I had beheld Wounded as it were unto death were sprung up three other Heads And the Horns on that fifth Head which had received that deadly Wound were increased through the healing up of the Wound wherein a little Horn that sprung up between the Eyes of the Beast received Voice and began to speak great swelling words against the God of Heaven and his SAINTS that dwell on the Earth and the little Horn waxed strong towards the four Winds of the Heavens wherein the BEAST appeared with seven Heads and ten Horns which had Power in in the Beast to reign with him as Kings for their hour CXIV And whereas after I had seen the fall of five Horns on that fifth Head of the Beast I beheld remaining four Heads from whence sprung up four Horns in the dispersing abroad the Kingdom and Power of the BEAST under the four Winds of the Heavens so in the reviving of his power that which became exalted in the reducing of four to its first subjection ruled over five in which the wound was received and wherein the Beast came forth first manifest and in the discovery of both the rise and fall of the BEAST though through the great Horn of the Hee-Goat who did not touch the ground until he had accomplished his design after he had power given him in the awakened fury of the West-Wind the two Horns of the RAM from the EAST were broken and stampt in pieces that great Horn was also broken when its fury was accomplished CXV Yet was the power of the four Horns on those four Heads of the BEAST bound down in the four Heads of the great River until the time of the loosing of their four Angels that stood on the four Corners of the EARTH to hold the four Corners of the WINDS from blowing on the EARTH while the little Horn was magnified whereby the third Head which sprung up in the midst of the seven recovered four Horns from that which was dispersed under those four Winds of the Heavens and on the other six Heads were manifest six Horns CXVI Thus was the BEAST more monstrous then all those other Beasts that passed before him with Iron Teeth by which he did break and stamp in pieces And his Face was like unto a Leopard with the form of a third part of the Stars in the constellation of the HEAVENS on his Back but he had the Feet of the great Bear and discovered his power through the four Heads of the great River EUPHRATES in the loosing of those destroying Angels who came first out from the WATERS but the reviving of his strength from those deceitful healings proceeded out of the Earth through the power of the RAM in Nature CXVII And in the time of the sounding of the sixth Trumpet this BEAST came forth through the loosing of those destroying ANGELS out of the great River and through those earthquakes and shakings that were come into the WORLD wherein fell that tenth part of the great City God had returned unto himself his Tenths to be eaten as a Teyl-Tree and as an Oak whose substance was in it these were the remnant of the Holy Seed who worshipped the Lord with a pure Heart even in Spirit and in Truth and whose Garments were washed White in the Blood of the Lamb. CXVIII For they came to pass through great tribulations and Tryals in their WAY because they could not Worship the BEAST nor receive his Mark but they were preserved blameless before the Lord in that hour wherein Iniquity was not found in their HEARTS neither was there guile in their MOUTHS to be uttered with their Tongue And I beheld until the sin of MANASSEH became ripened and was filled up and the high Altars in both Courts whereon had been offered Sacrifice to IDOLS and Incense burnt to strange Gods which neither we nor our Fathers have heard of were pulled down because of the God of FORCES who was worshipped neither was the desire of Women regarded CXIX And after I came to see the WOMANS deliverance from the rage and fury of the great Red DRAGON who had cast his floods of Water after her in the time and times wherein she had been helped by the EARTH and sheltered by the Wings of the EAGLE with which she had fled into the Wilderness as the Dragon came to give up his Power to this monstrous Beast the remnant of her Seed was persecuted in the World for the space of full forty dayes And wherein the Sun had gone back ten Degrees for the prolonging of Life in the Just after he came to discover and reveal the glory in which was his safety before Babylons King who wrought by subtilty and much craft whereby fifteen dayes were added to his dying state CXX Those dayes were again doubled in the renewed Zeal wherein the Favour of God was multiplyed to the purging his House and Sanctuary according to the fifty-five dayes wherein Manasseh had caused the Israel of God to err in following after Idols And for ten days the Devil had power to cast many into Prison that they might be tryed and sifted by his cunning devices until their Garments became thus made white in the Blood of the slain Lamb of God CHAP. XI Describing the Form of the WHEELS in the VISION according to their MOTION wherein are numbred the dayes that the BEAST hath yet to reign and continue on the Earth CXXI AS to the form of the Wheels as they wrought and moved one within the other as a Wheel within a Wheel like unto the form of the Worlds which are moved the one within the other the WHEELS never rested but went streight forward towards Eternity wherewith they were tinctured and moved in the power thereof as though they crossed each other and yet there was no crossness in the Will and Wisdom of Eternity from whence they were moved in the power of him that first wrought and laboured in the motion thereof CXXII For all crossness that appeared in the motion thereof wrought in the Earthly ground wherein the World 's laboured to Center in a Glory below the power of Eternity from whence every thing first proceeded and was brought forth to a day of Tryal in the FRAME under which the Body of Nature was constituted to exercises from the Glory of the HEAVENS wherein the Will of the Creature was subjected to a change through vanity that entered the WORLD in a state of corruptible Glory which was
of moveability because God is the unchangeable being of Love Delight in REST in the Center of all that is good and Nature is that into which good and evil hath entered from whence its TREE hath sprung up and doth grow which the Creature who is the cause of work and labour in God hath fed on that hath brought the sence of pangs and misery into the World where is the worldly sorrow that worketh and bringeth under the power of Death and all other afflictions they meet with in their way CHAP. V. Describing the Form and Order of the WHEELS in their MOTION XXV FOR God is the cause of nothing without NATURE though in the Wheels there appeared two Motions whereby the cause of moveability was kept from centering in the ground of Corruption and Mortality under the power of which the Creature of God was thus fallen in a NATURAL Body through that which was sown in Weakness therefore in what ever the Creature was betrayed under the power of its guidance it was a CROSS to all proneness and adiction of Motion that did arise from the ground of Corruption XXVI And about the CENTER in which stood a Heart inflaming was made a Diurnal Motion in the Wheels which moved at a distance in two Rings of the inward Wheels wherein the third and inward Principle moved equally with the ground of Motion from the first CENTER and the two outward Principles of the inward World acted according to what was formed in a third Principle by which those three Principles came to manifest their CENTER in Nature XXVII But in the WHEELS there was also an Annual Motion that moved round that which stood fixed in the Center and this caused a ground without the Center as it stood manifest through the inward Motion to be corruptible and to Center under a power of Corruption though in those inward Rings of the Wheels there were kept and preserved a tincture of the first Motion XXVIII Yet having let in another Tincture from the power of Corruption under which the Worlds were labouring to Center what ever came forward under its motion must again be brought back into the sence and feeling of that which it reacheth after through DEATH to the cause of all labour and pangs wherein the Body of Nature standeth afflicted XXIX For there was neither East West North nor South from the Center in the inward Rings of the Wheels though it appeared to me in the ground whereon I lay for the beholding of the Vision that as the outward Rings in the Wheels were moved in a power of the four Winds of the Heavens the inward motion was from East to West and the Wheels went side wayes in all courses of the World XXX In which the three Rings of the outward Wheels did move and were moved according to the frame of the Worlds wherein centered the Principles of the whole but the inward Wheels moved by reflection the CENTER being unmoveable wherein two Rings only were discerned at a distance in that inward Wheel though in the Principles of each and both Worlds there were moved about three Rings in each Wheel XXXI And though in the outward Ring of the Inward Wheel in its Diurnal Motion the Heavens did move and were moved in what stood fixed toward the CENTER yet the outward Ring of the outward Wheel standeth 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 distance of years from the motion in the 〈◊〉 as doth the inward Ring of 〈◊〉 inward Wheel from the revolution of the Moon in the Annual Motion of the Wheels And in the second Ring of the outward Wheels the Heavens were moved about in their Annual Motion at the same distance from the Center as they were in the second Ring of the inward Wheel in their Diurnal Motion CHAP. VI. Describing the MYSTERY of the sounding of the seven Golden TRUMPETS and the seven THUNDERS that are for the preparing a ground in which the Judgement of God is manifest XXXII ON the Ground and Principles of a third part of the Worlds into which the DRAGON drew a third part of the Stars of Heaven after him did five of these Golden Trumpets sound forth the Judgment of God in what is loosed and unsealed from the BOOK of WONDERS in the Heavens wherein the four BEASTS were manifest each in their day calling to come and see what lay slain under the ALTAR of God in his Temple and House wherein the Sun Moon and Stars of Heaven did shine through that which was smitten in its third part XXXIII And herein is discovered the seat of the BEAST in Nature whose torment is awakened out of the bottomless Pit though as yet the number of Horsemen and Riders do multiply on the Earth through that which is awakened from the sounding of the sixth Trumpet on the great River EUPHRATES in which hath been bound the four Angels that were prepared according to the time in which standeth the Execution of their destroying Power in with-holding the Winds from blowing on the EARTH as they are seen come up exalted on the four Corners of the same holding the four Corners of those Winds XXXIV Wherein each of those four Beasts in the forms of Nature recovereth six Wings according to the six Spirits of God in which the seventh unchangeable Spirit of Rest in him is begotten into the Creature and Creation that are become his Workmanship and they cover the living Creatures who day and night are crying HOLY unto the Lord and by the lifting up and letting down of their WINGS is the whole Earth and Worlds darkned or inlightned with GLORY XXXV And the Mansions or twelve Houses of the Fathers GLORY in the Heavens have their form defended with the WALL that is raised up on its antient Foundations wherein are twelve Pearls on its twelve Gates and under it are the twelve Foundations setled in the Refining Power through which are to be brought other three parts of a new World in its Heaven Earth in the destruction of a fourth part over which the fourth BEAST hath ruled with the Face of an Eagle who is come forth on his PALE HORSE like unto Death and Death and Hell follows him XXXVI Whose Power is by Famine Pestilence and Sword with WILD Beasts of Prey in all that lives in or moves on the GROUND and PRINCIPLES over which the seven THUNDERS are awakened to Thunder from those Places wherein Life doth strive to break forth and come into the CENTER of the creaturely being where every Birth hath its SIGNIFICATOR and the twenty four Wings of the four Beasts are the Army of the HEAVENS according to what came forth first MANIFEST in the four Wings of the FOWL that was stretched forth over the LYON in what strove to come up under the four Winds of the HEAVENS wherein the Heavens contended CHAP. VII Describing the MYSTERY of the four Beasts in the seven Forms of NATURE and of the Beast himself who is the Eighth XXXVII FRom the THUNDERS in
the Heavens I beheld a prepared Ground unto which the Gates of Eternity were opened and from the Elemental being in which four Gates were opened into the Worlds whence strove the four Winds of the Heavens I beheld the coming forth of the four Beasts in the seven forms of Nature wherein their Power was first manifest after whom arose those other four Beasts in the dispersing abroad of the powers of Nature through the plucking of the Wings from the LYON XXXVIII Wherein the Power of the RAM in Nature who came forth first exalted through the plucking off the LYONS Wings and dispersing abroad of the power of five Kings that were fallen had his HORNS first broken in the separated power of the Heavens under the striving of their four Winds and he is the last Power in Nature under which the Heads of the Beast have been healed XXXIX For through the appearance of the ANGEL of God in the forms of Nature I beheld how the whole Earth was lighted with the Glory of that which is broken forth into the Worlds and there came unto me one of those seven Angels of God who had the Golden Vials that were filled with the seven last Plagues even the wrath of the Lamb ready to be poured forth on the wicked and ungodly world and he talked with me as doth a Man with his Friend and said unto me This is the Mystery of that first Beast thou sawest come forth with five Heads and nine Horns XL. These are nine Kings five against four who served and were subject to one King twelve years and in the thirteenth year they rebelled and in the fourteenth year his power was again revived in what had received that deadly wound wherein was broken the first five Horns from the fifth Head of the BEAST whose Seat was in MALE called ELAM in the Hebrew Tongue which you read backward and his Name is KEDORLEOMAR in SHINAR of BABYLON where is the VOICE of an ANGEL I-AM-RAPHEL revealed in TIDAL LAD it KING of Nations XLI This therefore is the Mystery of all those Beasts and of what thou hast seen come forth according to the times in the Vision for which it hath wrought the LYON is the Heart of that Nature in which the first ADAM was Created from whence the RAM in Nature hath Head and Face which is the first House among the Mansions in the Heavens of the Father's Glory and the CALF is the Neck and Throat of Nature which is the second House of the Fathers MANSIONS in the Heavens whence the scape GOAT took form through the bended KNEES of what descended from the Heavens in the state of subjection under which Nature was framed XLII And in those two first Houses of the Heavens wherein the Glory of the Sun and Moon of the Son of Man in the FIRST ADAM was exalted the fiery Heavens had tinctured the forms of Nature in the double Bodied being through a separation made between Day and Night wherein the Man was oppressed that bore the weight and burthen of the wrong in the Fall on the shoulders of the created Body over-ruled through its two great Lights whereby his ARMS were spread abroad as the appearance of his form wrought in the Clouds of the Heavens whence those Beasts did both ascend and descend XLIII Which stood manifest on the EARTH whence the HEE-GOAT ascended through the Mans sufferance who had the face of the third Beast among those forms in Nature for the Arms and Shoulders of Nature is the third House of MANSIONS in the Heavens as the fourth BEAST in the forms of Nature with the face of an EAGLE wherein the four Angels are exalted on the Earth in the sounding of those Golden Trumpets out of the TEMPLE by their ANGELS in their forms of Nature CHAP. VIII Describing the Ground in Nature wherein other BEASTS took Form then those FOUR in which the Creation of God was FIRST planted in its Government over the BODY wherein Man hath a Being XLIV THe IMAGE of God in which was the Mans Dominion had power over all those Earthly FORMS in Nature though as ADAM was created an earthly Man he was of the Earth earthly for that was first which is earthly and yet in the similitude he bore of his Maker there was a Government settled to rule and have authority over the Nature of the BEAST which made subject to Vanity and a Power of Corruption through a Generation and Generations that liked not to retain the KNOWLEDGE of God in their MINDS XLV Therefore did they change the Image of God into Gold and Silver and four-footed BEASTS and creeping things with Wood and Stone and things graven out of the Invention of Man which they have fallen down unto and worshipped because after they knew God or rather were known of Him this MYSTERY of Iniquity began to work HIDDENLY wherein they were given up to a reprobate sense in the UNBELIEF of the Truth that caused the Condemnation XLVI And their DAMNATION slumbereth not who believe a Lye to the marring of that Form in which the MAN was an Image of his Maker This therefore is prefigured forth to thee that thou mayest apprehend the Generation of MEN on whom God hath set a Mark according to the IMAGE they bare to distinguish them in their NATURE And as the LION whose Government is in the HEART of Nature and CALF whose government in Nature is the Neck and Throat of the untamed Will that acteth the BODY are the FIFTH and SECOND Houses of those Mansions from whence the SUN is moved and wherein the MOON is EXALTED so the RAM and HE-GOAT who are the FIRST and TENTH Houses among the FORMS in Nature are those BEASTS in Nature wherein a falsified Glory entred those FORMS in which the MAN lost Dominion though the Light of the SUN of his day was and is Exalted in that FIRST House as it fell in the TENTH XLVII And therefore in the sinking State under which those forms of Creation continued Light was Exalted in the Reins of Nature which is the SEVENTH House whence came forth and appeared the Face of that THIRD BEAST like a MAN with the BALANCES in his Hands whereby every thing was weighed and tryed by just Measure though under him lurked the Form of a Leopard or great Bear with four wings of a Fowl on his Back and through him sprung up FOUR notable HORNS on the HEAD of the GOAT in the dispersing abroad KINGDOMS of the EARTH under the FOUR Winds of the HEAVENS XLVIII But in the dividing of the Heavens whence came to be exalted the Spirit of Sound and Tone uttering its Voyce in the sound of seven golden Trumpets as the WOLF or little BEAR that hath for his Seat the Breast of Nature which is the fourth House among the MANSIONS in the Heavens got before the LYONS Face who is the Heart of Nature in that fifth House of Mansions wherein the SUN hath its seat the Moon came to exalt
year as the Sun came to enter the first point of Aries on the tenth day of the Month the first or Spring-Quarter of the Worlds growth standeth manifest in the Signs of the Times while Glory ascendeth the three Vernal Signs of the Zodiack in an inward World called Aries Taurus and Gemini and from the eleventh Day of the Fourth Month did the Sun enter the first point of Cancer in its degrees wherein is revealed the Summer-Quarter with the Rays and Beams of scorching Heat dispersed through Leo and Virgo the Heart and Bowels of Nature this being the fifteenth day of the fifth Month from the time that the Power of the Dragon hath been loosed out of the bottomless Pit in the form of those Beasts like unto Goats called Locusts wherein he had given up his Power unto the Beast with seven Heads and ten Horns for the thousand year which is the time he was bound XLII For from thence count thou the beginning of the five months that torment hath rested and seized on a third part of men in this fourth part or North-Quarter of the Worlds that have the mark and name and number of the Beast and the first Wo is manifest therein because the Devil is come down in great rage among men and the Inhabitants of the Earth are therefore terrified and afraid by the sounding of the fifth Trumpet of God after which these evils have followed the Worlds in the casting down out of Heaven the Accuser of the Just to the awakning a sence of what is thus come on and into the fourth part of the same wherein the Beast hath made his Seat but the second Wo followeth what is awakened out of the bottomless Pit whence a sence of torment resteth on those men from the sounding of the sixth Trumpet on that Great River EUPHRATES XLIII Wherein a sence of the destroying Power of God exalted in the Angels of the four Beasts that stand on the four Corners of the Earth to hold the four Corners of the Winds and whose Power is to with-hold those Winds from blowing is come into the renewed World under the Redeeming Power of God through the Sounding of the seventh and last Trumpet of God on the Air from the time that the Commandment of God went forth for the again building up and restoring Jerusalem in which the Mystery of what pertaineth to the Kingdom of God is come to be fulfilled and finished therefore a third Wo cometh and shall stand manifest from the concluding of the fifth month wherein the fourth Beast with the Face of an Eagle shall give up his Power which are the seven last plagues to come on the Earth and Worlds even seven Golden Vials filled with the wrath of God and the Lamb unto the seven Angels of God that are come forth of the Temple to sound LXIV For in the number of Years in thirty two Jubilies since the great Prophet and Minister of a better Tabernacle and Temple than that which is built by Man finished his Testimony therein and in the sixtieth Jubilie since the beginning of those Offerings wherein was the dayly Sacrifice which hath been made to cease in time those seven Angels of God that came forth of the Temple of God with their seven Golden Trumpets have been manifest in the Parts and Quarters over which they have sounded it being the tenth day of the Fourth Month from the awakened sence that came into those Parts of the World over whom the Trumpets had sounded of the torment of those Women that sat weeping in the North Gate over TAMUZ XLV So that counting four minutes of an hour to one degree of the Sun in the Diurnal Motion of the Wheels and fifteen degrees of the Sun for an hour of the DAY wherein the Heavens in Man are brought under fiery Tryals by the sounding of the Trumpets of God in the Angels of his Covenant on all the Glory of Worlds in its third part of Earth and Waters and Sun and Moon and Stars that stand manifest in what thereof is smitten according to the breaking forth of the day it is now 120 degrees of the Sun from the fifteenth Revolution of Years in the Heavens according to the fifteenth Year that the Forms in the Heavens have remained a Testimony of what was finished in the lively Patterns themselves that have their figure in the Tabernacle of Witnesses XLVI And reckoning from the tenth day of that first month wherein the Sun made his appearance in the first degree of the Ascendant from the sixth Hour of the Day which was his hour of rising in three minutes of ARIES to make his Right Ascention over the Heart of the Orient in the fire of the Meridian from the twelfth hour or Mid-day called Noon wherein he gave fourteen degrees to the Succedant it will now appear to be the last hour of the Day that many are called to be Fellow-Labourers and Workers together with God in his Vineyard counting the Suns rising in the degrees of the Meridian from the first degree of the Ascendant in Aries according to the motion of the Moon in her passage through the twelve Signs of the Zodiack XLVII For the Sun encreasing the strength of 22 minutes in ten days of the first month to make his rising to be the fifth hour of the 11th day of the second month in his passage through the Houses of his Ascendant Succedant and Cadent in the Vernal or Spring-Quarter there being thirty degrees in each House of the Heavens according to the Signs they have in the Zodiack of the Moon the Suns setting is made in the seventh hour of the day and further increasing strength for timely rising in his passage through Taurus that is the second House of his Dignities governing the left part of the Meridian in the middle of the Spring wherein the Dominion of the House is in the Neck and Throat of NATURE over Melancholy and the Earth in the Succedant he maketh his rising to be 10 minutes past four in the Cadent on the eleventh day of the third Month. XLVIII And the eleventh day of the fourth Month wherein the Sun entereth the first minute of Cancer to make the Summer-Quarter as he riseth in the degrees of the Meridian 47 minutes past three hours from Midnight he maketh it the longest day in the Year in this Latitude and under the Horizon in which the Works of Wonder are to be finished and fulfilled and then the Sun-setting is as long after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day which is Noon or Mid-day as it riseth before twelve to make an Evening of the day according to the hours wherein many have been bidden and are called and invited to a Feast through the ANGEL of Strength and Prayers of the JUST unto God that He might send forth Faithful Labourers into his Vineyard XLIX For that which is come into and on the Earth and Worlds in its fourth part or North-Quarter will continue to magnifie and
exalt the four destroying Angels of Strength that are loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES by which Europe hath been compassed about until the end of seven Months and five days though in the time of the sounding of those Trumpets the Winds have been suffered to blow on the Earth by those that have held their corners as four Angels standing on the four Corners of the same and the Spirit of God hath and doth yet strive with a Generation and Generations on whom the fierceness of Gods wrath in the Plagues of those Vials is to be poured forth and is come L. And the Creature Mankind imbodyed in this third Principle in which he is called the Microcosm or little World is that third part of the Macrocosm or great World as it standeth divided into its four parts or Quarters wherein the Eagle hath had Power over the North Quarter or fourth part of the Worlds where those Tryals are manifest under which the Lyon came first forth with four Wings of the Foul on his Back in which were Golden Fethers with the names of 36000. Men in each Golden Wing while the striving continued between the four Winds of the Heavens on the great Sea and from the loss of dominion therein in the plucking of the Lions Wings wherein came forth four other Beasts and took head in the Nature of that which separated the Man from the power in which he was first planted and placed the Kingdoms of the Earth and World became dispersed abroad the same LI. Until the great Bear or Leopard who hereby purchased the strength of those four Wings had them also taken away and the Man came to regain his dominion over all the Works of God's Hands as Lord in the substance of what is already communicated to his understanding and through those four first Beasts that now have taken unto them each of them the six Wings of the Cherubims every one in their order calling to come and see the Mystery of what is come forth to the Tryal of the Year Month Day and Hour over which they have Power and Dominion in their Angels the Glory of the Father is hallowed having in each Wing two thousand Fethers and names of Men which makes the Glorious Hoast of God in the Heavens Numerable in their Tribes and according to the Families of those scattered Nations over the face of the whole Earth LII Which are the dispersed Army of God and goodly company of that Mighty Hoast in the four Wings of the living Creature by which they stand figured forth 144000. of the first Body in which God hath his sealed Number of Instruments that are engaged in the Lamb's Battel as the MEMBERS of what hath continued like unto dry Bones in the Valleys And for the exalting their Angels in the Heavens their destroying power over the Earth and Worlds is loosed out of the great River over which the winds of the Heavens have striven and blowed while their destroying Power was bound LIII But now are the Winds in the Hands of the Angels to be with-held from blowing and the Spirit of God from striving any longer with the Creature Mankind by the Prophesie of the Witnesses or sounding of the Trumpets of God committed to the Angels and the whole Worlds shall be smitten with Plagues through that which is thus loosed out of the bottomless Pit wherein the Earth hath been covered with those Beasts called Locusts and they have overspread the same in its third part smitten by the sounding of the five first Trumpets and that which is awakened by the sounding of the sixth Trumpet hath command in and over those four Winds of the Heavens to with-hold them from blowing as oft as they please because God will not alwayes strive with Man who is but flesh LIV. And when the Earth is quiet and still according to the silence that hath been in HEAVEN for the space of half an hour and the Worlds begin to settle in the ease and content of the flesh then remember what I say for before this day there hath come Wars and rumours of Wars and the smoake of the torment of those Men on whom Judgment hath rested under the Power of the Beast shall be seen known to be the SEAT of the Beast in a fourth part of the great World that hath yet hitherto escaped Death in what came on that third part thereof in the little World Mankind like the fume of a boyling Furnace whence hath ascended the thick Cloud of Darkness that filleth the Heavens and the Power of the DRAGON who had delivered up his Seat and Throne unto the Beast for the time he remained bound in the bottomless Pit But that now is loosed in the sounding of the three last Trumpets is a Spirit working Miracles in the Earth in the execution of the three last WOES that are come thereinto for the awakening and rising up of three therein that do bear witness for GOD of what hath been crucified and slain in the Streets of the great CITY of the Worlds LV. And into those Kings of the East that have their Power again revived and their Heads healed which is a second Beast come out of the Earth with two Horns of a Ram pushing three ways to wit West and North and South shall enter those three Unclean Spirits of the Beast Dragon and Whore like Frogs through the drying up of the Waters in the great River EUPHRATES in the Worlds Sea they shall come over the same and into the place where God hath settled his glorious City and they shall strive to defile and overcome the Holy Land between the Seas but the end shall come with an over flowing Scourge and great Flood and out of the Mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet shall great things be performed and done LVI Yea all these things have a lively Character of the Truth hereof recorded in the Heavens by the Verity of Just Measure in time and Place for God is not to be limitted to time and place in his Work or to the prescription of men but he hath a time and season for every work according to which he hath determined and decreed an order wherein they are all to be fulfilled and brought to pass according to the measure by which they are measured and weighed in their day and the times and Seasons of their fulfilling have been in the Fathers hands until the hours thereof became made known to the Son of Man who is in Heaven in that which communicateth the sence thereof unto and in the World in whose behalf he came to lay down his Life in the Body of Flesh which he took up for the reconciling of the World unto the good will and pleasure of the Father LVII And the Star that is fallen from Heaven as an Angel that hath the Key of the bottomless-Pit I have beheld and do see the returning of such torment come on those men that have the Beasts mark on his Seat
SEEDS ingendrings opened the Gates of Glory into an inward world where the Kings Daughter was whom I saw all Glorious within XII And the separation that was made betwixt those Waters was a Power of firm glory in its working frame as a FIRMAMENT placed in the out-spread Air wherein every thing came forth in its DUALL number through divided qualities and the name of the SECOND DAY was called EXPANSUM or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of what came thus forth in the out-spread Firmament CHAP. II. A Description of the DIURNAL Motion in the Wheels in the coming forth of all forms in Nature into manifestation XIII THus beheld I the form of the Heavens like unto WATERS but of a more CHRISTALLINE and transparent brightness than the SUBLUNARY Waters for they were not Waters of such a gross and terrene Body as is centered in and on the EARTH in the harshness and astringency of depraved Nature fallen under the power of Corruption but they had a peculiar quality in the HEAVENS through the work of Separation in the Principles of the WORLDS being of an enlightning Nature in which the POWERS of all Caelestial Bodies were moved and BURNED over me as an inkindled flame mentained in the UNCTUOSITY of the lifes Operation in the Body of Nature XIV For the ground of all being in the Creature and Creation of God in its sinking condition became corruptible EARTH in the fallen state and condition of the imbodied being of Creatures and Things wherein the Earth centered and setled its rest in the Creature of God in what stood in and out of the WATERS and out of the Bowels of the Earth issued FOUNTAINS and Rivers of Waters which ran in the several Streams and Channels of the Earths 〈◊〉 thus faln under the power of Corâ—â—â—â—…on And the whole returned and met in the Ocean Seas which became the Womb of Nature in that they stood in the wide and open courses of the Earth and Worlds which notwithstanding was drawn up into the Heavens through a purgation by fire XV. But as all PROPERTIES and Principles came into the Womb of Nature in which the contest wrought betwixt THREE that laboured to come forth imbodied in form in the creaturely being I beheld the Womb of Eternity shut against the Third and LAST that was in the cause of such strife and contest who notwithstanding wrought up his way to come first forth out of the Womb of Nature XVI And in the Heavens I beheld the form of a great RED DRAGON sucking into his Belly the HEART of these Waters which was their Fatness and Unctuosity like a River of OYL wherein was an inkindled fire that burnt inwardly and was mentained and strengthened by the oyliness and fatness thereof together with the combustibleness of the material qualities ingendred under the Power of Corruption for destructions sake XVII And in the light of what continued thus burning and inflaming I beheld an innumerable company of divided ESSENCES which shined in the Heavens like STARS above and PLANTS beneath wherein was a tincture that wrought and moved in the Essence of each the one in and by the other as the Wheels wrought one in the other for TWO DAYES XVIII For in the contest in the Heavens were THREE though onely TWO came forth imbodied in the creaturely being out of the Womb of Nature so incorporated into form under the power of corruption fallen and sunk that wrought up their way out of all the powers of the Heavens so to come forth XIX And after the finishing of the third DAY which was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 BEGOYM because of what came forth in the Dual number I beheld a perfect separation made in the WHEELS motion betwixt that which is DIURNAL and NOCTURNAL which was the motion in and of the inward Wheels for in the Wheels was both a Diurnal Annual Motion and in the Power that wrought up its way and work through the course in and of Nature All Principles of Nature came forth in their separated and divided being XX. In which I beheld FOUR large hours in the day each hour containing three computed hours of the natural day And in the NIGHT were FOUR Watches in the which the ANGEL and the Watcher came down and the order of the Night-Watch I beheld from the evening of the Day until the first Cock-Crow which was after the conclusion of the FIRST WATCH XXI At length I beheld until a perfect separation was made in the Wheels and between PRINCIPLE Principle in the WORLDS And in the SECOND WATCH of the Night which was Mid-night an ANGEL and a WATCHER came down before me in the form and appearance of a MAN and with an Iron Instrument he smote me on the HEAD with both Hands for he had the Face of a good man and lifted up both hands to smite me XXII And I submitted to the Hand and stroak of the Watcher and lay DEAD IN MY BLOOD until the Night-watch was over wherein the HOLY ONE came down for it was the hour of the Bridegrooms awakening and the coming of the Son of Man and the conclusion of the second Watch was when the COCK had crowed TWICE and in the DAWNING of the DAY the Womb of the MORNING was opened in and before me and after the THIRD Cock crow all Powers in the Heavens were shaken and the Body of Nature was taken in a trembling state and condition for it was the conclusion of the Third Watch. XXIII Wherein all self-confidence became judged to be the TRUTHS denyal and resistance after the Cock had crowed Thrice because the day began to DAWN the DAY-STAR to arise in the Heart of the inward Worlds whereby the stumblings had been raised by that which became a ROCK of OFFENCE to both the Houses of ISRAEL XXIV And the FOURTH COCK-CROW was after the Dayes breaking forth wherein the Rock and Foundation of true confidence in God was raised up by turning Satan behind the back of God's Glory in the renewed day of the Son of Man which brought forth the Keys of him that unlocked the Treasury in the Heavens After the building of the CHURCH of God became setled on that raised Rock on which the LYON was made to tremble by the Crowing of the Cock before the Day dawned CHAP. III. Wherein the effects of the four large Hours of the Day and the four Watches of the Night in the inward Worlds are described XXV AND in the HEART of the WATERS which became like an inkindled flame burning in the order of the Eternities holy Will and working Power was HARSHNES in what wrought for Separations sake like unto Fire mingled with Blood in a Mystery which became bound in the form of the Heart of a LYON under which I saw the Bowels of Creation also comprehended in a state of Darknesse to the VIRGIN in Nature who sat mourning as one disconsolate with an EAR of WHEAT in her right Hand and the cry was from a
through the striving and strugling which I saw in the Air. LV. And as that which came forth out of the Womb of Eternity was brought FIVE DAYES forward for manifestations sake I beheld a Principle of Corruption and Destruction that came to be allowed to work up its Power in a Mystery through and over all forms that were come into being in the OLD WORLD which remained suffering under those THREE and under that through which these Two became imbodied from the Womb of Nature in the Creaturely form and being in that FIFTH DAY who were separated into the Principles of AIR and WATER thus made distinguishable LVI For of the THREE that strove to come forth out of the Womb of Eternity imbodied in the Creaturely form and being there were but only Two that became incorporated from the Womb of Nature though there was the MULTIPLICITY of FORMS and the variety of ESSENCES concerned therein And as I beheld the effect of what came forth through the contest in the place of Conception the BEHEMOTH possessed the SEVENTH PART of the Worlds in which the WATERS were held even as LEVIATHAN possessed the Waters themselves LVII Yea through the drying up of the THIRD PART of the corruptible Waters on the THIRD DAY that which aboad in the Air in which the Firmament was placed became a mighty and Potent PRINCE and GOD of the WORLDS which impregnated on blew up the stern-harsh-FIRE in the enkindled qualities of Divine Justice against the Creature by whom SIN took occasion to work up the power of Death over the Body of Nature through a Law in the Members wherein the concupiscence wrought against the Law of the Mind under which the Nature of all Creatures was brought forth and subjected through the contrariety of the Spirit of Enmity that tinctured the ELEMENTAL qualities of the Worlds with the harshness thereof against the regulating power of order LVIII For that which sunk in the fall became imbodied again in form anew after I had beheld the dispersing abroad of all that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity in its fallen Properties and Qualities which setled in the Created being of all powers of Nature in the imbodied form which was brought forward into BEING under the power of Corruption over which I beheld the motion of the WHEELS until it became EQUINOCTIAL LIX And it was SIX DAYES forward and six dayes backward in what was wrought up into FORM through the operation in Properties and Qualities of what was endless in the WORLDS wherein the FOUR BEASTS which I beheld came forth into manifestation and these four had the Face of a LYON and the Face of a CHERUB or Calf and the Face of a MAN and the Face of an EAGLE and they moved in the WHEELS over all that came forth imbodied in FORM while place and time endured LX. And thus did I behold until all that came forth thus FALLEN in the bodily frame was again returning and centring in an Eternal Rest and Quiet IN THE LORD where it became immoveable stedfastly abounding in the good Fruit of Joy and Rejoycing wherein the Creator of all forms in NATURE had first planted it and therein had God finished all work and labour in the beginning of CREATION which is become the Seventh DAY in NATURE to that which remaineth capable of entring into Rest that is formed therein which is the ground of torment and disquiet to the Spirit of the WICKED ONE CHAP. VI. Describing the coming forth of the first Seven Nations of the Worlds into the forms of Nature LXI THese are the Generations of the the WORLDS in the day that God created the HEAVENS and the EARTH when he beheld it without form and void for it was an Emptiness and dark NOTHING before he Created it into FORM through the power of the Word of LIFE in which God willed the coming forth of that which was to replenish it in time and place LXII Wherein all that was brought forth in the Dominion of Innocency In ADAM was a subjection to the forming part of the IMAGE that mankind was stated in according to the Mind and Will of the Spirit of GOD in him REVEALED whose conditions for Good or Evil are concerned in what he ruleth in and over LXIII For the Earth was not now without form nor in its voidness and emptiness but was filled and replenished with Creatures and Things which were created beautiful in their place and season and the World was set in their Hearts the beauty and glory of which did wither and pass away as the flowers of the Field And all that stood IMBODIED under the power of corruption in time and place was consumed so that the Works of God in that STATE could not be beheld from the beginning to the end thereof LXIV And the Government of God through the power of all Properties in the ELEMENTAL WORLDS was manifest in those Four forms of the BEAST in Nature wherein the effect of all produced from the FIERY HEAVENS was comprehended for Governments-sake in the form of a LYON and there came a Voice from the HEART of the fire as from the Heart of the LYON let the Earth keep silent while the Islands renew their strength LXV For darkness came over all that stood manifest in form wherein the Creature sought to glory in the imbodied will of SELF-EXCELLENCY which was moved towards the PIT of perpetual SILENCE to inhabit the NOTHINGNES through such a REVOLVE in the turning about and overturning of the Worlds in the motion of the WHEELS LXVI And over the face of the mighty deeps was a thick Cloud and over the PEOPLE who are the unstable Waters was the gross thick darkness and the Nations of the Earth were angry and moved at this coming forth of the Lord. And I beheld the Worlds in their divided Qualities and Properties wherein was preparation for a NEW Heaven and a NEW Earth and the Face and form of the MAN whom I saw went both forward and backward in the Heavens according to the form and frame of the Worlds in the VISION of the Wheels from those FIVE DAYES wherein I beheld the MOON striving to encrease her recovered strength towards NEW MOON to the reducing of that which was lost in the KALENDS of the Months LXVII And until the end of NINE and TWENTY dayes I saw the IDES of the Month in a Mystery working up a form to the new created being of all things substantial in an eternal existence And the Face and form of the Man whom I beheld exalted in the Heavens was turned towards the South For he was not able to behold the illustrious breaking-forth of the glory of the DAY that was risen upon the Earth LXVIII And the form of the Man whom I had seen placed in the GARDEN was divided into TWAIN to wit into Masculine and Feminine through whom the Heavens came to multiply their forms in the Dual number over the Earth whereby the strivings in the
Earthly Womb came to be through these Two NATIONS LXIX For by reason of a setled subjection in the ground of Nature from which the Man took being to wit out of the LIMUS of the Earth there had not come forth a Man to till and tear it up until a Second motion from God did work and operate after all his works were finished in the DIURNAL MOTION which became the NIGHT of the FOURTH DAY in Nature or FIRST DAY of God's glory in the Coelestial Body betwixt the Principles whereof a Separation was made which had a great LIGHT to rule its darkening qualities LXX And through the working properties in Nature which had the Annual Motion the preparation of a SECOND separated day in NATURE came up in the Resurrection of Glory in the JUST wherein the partakers of glory in a FIRST Resurrection were planted together in what the SON of MAN wrought up into the World through suffering LXXI And the Motion of Separation in the Turns of the WHEELS came forward until the midst of FIVE DAYES And I numbred the dayes of the continuance of the FIRST MAN that came forth imbodied from the Womb of Eternity to keep and dress the Vineyard wherein he was placed which were 930 days or Two years and Seven MONTHS which work was setled among the forms in NATURE and therein made destinguishable LXXII And I beheld the course of the SUN of the Glory of the Day of the SON of MAN moved FIVE MONTHS backward to bring forward the SEVEN MONTHS under which the BODY of NATURE stood subjected for a change sake in the separation of the THREE PRINCIPLES that became imbodied in the Two NATIONS that strove in the WOMB of NATURE to bring into appearance and manifestation the WORKS of WONDER through which the man traâ—…l all the two YEARS and SEVEN MONTHS under the workings and motions of the power of DEATH CHAP. VII Describing the manner how those seven Nations came forth thus imbodied in FORM. LXXIII AND those SEVEN NATIONS that strove in a Mystery came forth in the Two GENERATIONS that degenerated from the glory of his DAY in which day his Sun was divided after that of ONE the MAN was become TWAIN standing in the midst of that wherein he was brought forth wherein I beheld the course of the Sun of his Day steared through Two WORLDS and the MOON became exalted thereby in the changeability of her way and course by which the Body of Nature was afflicted to the subjecting the Womans will and desire to BODILY PANGS in which was indurance and suffering to the Creature of God And as the ORDER of Nature grew under corruptible courses in the WORLDS the shining of Glory in both WORLDS was a lustre in the frame standing still TEN DEGREES to bring back and recover what was lost in the course of Degeneration LXXV And on the Suns coming into Virgo which is the Virgins Night-house in the BOWELS of GLORY in the HEAVENS of an INWARD WORLD I beheld the form of Two SUNS placed in the Firmament of the Fathers Glory for the ECLIPS of the Sun was very great while this LABOUR continued in the Body of Nature wherein that which was divided from the Man came forth in the midst of the FIFTH MONTH after the Works of God were finished but counting those days wherein the Sun stood at a stay and the five dayes wherein the Virgin in Mans form was slain it was the concluding of five MONTHS under that which moved neither forward nor backward for a day LXXVI And as the forms of NATURE stood thus divided and separated I beheld the Woman travelling in the Heavens to bring forth into being what became imbodied from the WOMB of NATURE and the Body of Nature came under SUFFERINGS by the twain with whom she was in labour in the production of which the one came forty five dayes before and the other forty five dayes after her forty weeks under which the course of Nature was subjected LXXVII And for SEVENTY DAYES did the Moon prevail again in the Womans labour for strength towards a Second Birth which was thirty dayes after the Sun had recovered strength in the course under which the WORLDS were subjected in the frame of all forms in Nature for it was the expiration of the FIRST YEAR and FORTY DAYES after the Woman again conceived a MAN whose glory came forth in the SECOND YEARS WORK LXXVIII But in the conclusion of labour to the Creature In the first year the Body of Nature stood divided in the Creaturely Form wherein I came to the Sight of the Mystery of what stood unrevealed to the World under Characters of Blood the wonderful frame of the Works of God in the Book of Life wherein he is well pleased was thereby written in the sealed Testimony of the Spirit of Prophecy committed to the Hand of the Angel of Strength And the course of the Sun wrought in a MYSTERY of distance from the MOON in the changeability of what it effects over the Body of NATURE LXXIX But the exaltation of Beauty in the lustre of what the Creature was Planted in according to the Seed of its Birth was a moveability in its GLORY towards the Head of NATURE which broke forth in the Head and Face of a RAM for after the Seal of God on the day of the FOUR BEASTS in NATURE came to be taken off the Book of Life in which sence stood manifest the virtue of the Wonderful and Miraculous frame of his Spirits working in its various dispensations yet the destroying power of the four Angels that stood on the four corners of the Earth was bound in the great River EUPHRATES until their Year Month Day and Hour came to be revealed to the Glory of a Wonder-working-God LXXX And on the tenth day of the first Month of the second Year the Sun came up again in his course and entered the first Point of ARIES and as the Woman also recovered her strength she was delivered of that for which she traveled on the second day of the second Month as the Moon was entring her House of Exaltation for that which she laboured to bringing forth was five Nations which stood separate among the forms in Nature in the second years Revolution which was thirty dayes onward in the year and from the ground of destruction to the first FORM in the Woman was Seventy dayes it being effected Forty dayes before the Revolution of the first Years LXXXI This was a fifth Man in his Nation come forth into Form in the Creaturely being And on the first Day of the fourth Month the Woman was again delivered of a SIXTH MAN formed in his Nation in the Creaturely being as the Sun came towards Cancer the Breast of Nature in which the Moon stood exalted nine degrees in Taurus before the Sun entred the first point of Cancer in which the Sun was greatly Eclipsed LXXXII But the last day of the ninth Month the Woman was delivered
of a seventh Man in his Nation wherein the Bow-man was concerned for he rode in the Chariot of NATURE as a great PROPHET who continued a just year and was not for God took him to himself in the Revolution of the Heavens until the times of Restitution came for the delivering up of what had been retained in a Mystery and through the loosening of the Angels in the great River Euphrates the Bow-Man came forth manifest in the house of the Angels Exaltation to wit the ninth House of Mansions in the HEAVENS LXXXIII And the eighth Day of the eleventh Month the Woman again conceived and brought forth an Eighth Man formed in his Nation who saw the end of the old and first Worlds And after the revolution of the Second Year I beheld the Moon regaining strength and glory from the course of the Sun from which she borrowed her light And on the second day of the fifth Month of the third year the Moon was strong in her own House of Exaltation whereby the Sun suffered a third Eclipse on his coming into the Heart of Nature which is the House wherein he glorieth as his own LXXXIV And the Woman was delivered of a ninth Man in his Nation for the bringing forth of whom the first seven were destroyed in their Nations yet in him was a Seed preserved to replenish the Earth anew and into the renewed Habitation of Wonders in the Translations of the Body of Nature working among the forms of Creation the substance was taken and gathered but from the Heavens was a Voice The young Mans wound hath cured my hurt CHAP. VIII Describing the wonderful operation of the Vision in the opening of the Heavens testified through the Judgement of God against what came forth imbodied in Form in those seven Nations LXXXV THrough the striving of three Nations from the Womb of Eternity two Generations of Men continued labouring under what was degenerated into the imbodied FORM for Generations-sake And between those three was two Months for the separation of each in their Revolution wherein the Virgin in Nature suffered by the power of Death that entred the Creation of God LXXXVI On the last day of the Seventh Month of the third year died the first Man that became imbodied in FORM from the Womb of Nature as the Virgin in Nature lost her Crown and the Woman also come to suffer Death in Two Generations of Men concerned in the contest in the Heavens but the cause of such pangs and sufferings that rested on the Body of Nature was a fallen ground in the Earthly Principle which stood in and out of the WATERS as a fourth part of the Elemental Worlds and it was the last FORM under the power whereof the Life of the Creature remained suffering LXXXVII For the Seventh FORM in Nature that became imbodied in the Creaturely being was exalted on the Earth which proceeded from the FIERY Heavens from whence the Man took his dominion who was taken up unto God and was not on the last Day of the ninth Month of the third Year And the THIRD that proceeded from the Man imbodied from the Womb of Eternity and that took being amongst the Forms in Nature died in that FIRST Principle after the conclusion of the Eleventh Month and was dissolved in the Earth LXXXVIII But those Two by whom the Woman in Nature came to suffer Death who were slain by the hard labour under which the Creature and Creation of God remaineth groaning died also in the Earth in the Fourth Year The One on the Sixteenth day of the Second month The Other on the sixteenth day of the Fourth month And a Fifth Man imbodied in Form died on the Thirteenth day of the Twelfth month The Sixth on the nineteenth day of the Seventh month of the Fifth year And the Seventh on the Twenty-fourth day of the Seventh month which from the finishing of God's Work into that wonderful frame in the Generation of the Heavens was the Seventeenth day of the seventh month LXXXIX For that which came Seven dayes and seven years Forward in the motion of the WHEELS was brought under five months tryal both by WATER and by FIRE being that which came forth manifest in five Dayes and grew up under the Revolution of Seven Months as the forms of Nature were moved backward under the power of Destruction that through the dissolution of that which came into being fallen under the power of Corruption that which is Heir of Immortality might arise and come to possess a Crown of Rejoycing in God through the work of Restauration of those forms in Nature into their Eternal Existence that have a substantial being in the first forming cause of an IMAGE to the work of Creation XC And while the VISION of God was on me and the ANGEL of God was talking with me I saw the Man that was driven out of the Garden of God which is the Glory of the World in its Paradise came again onward in the way from which he went towards the rest of SELFS Annihilation that had caused the bodily form to come under the power of death who notwithstanding that he remained imbodied in Principles fallen and sunk under the power of Corruption and Destruction in the forms of Nature did yet abide in the WORLD and the World in him until Paradise that was lost and died from him and he from it began again to spring up in the place and condition wherein he was put as considered in that state XCI And from the Heavens I heard a Voice Death and Destruction I am become thy Grave and O Grave I am become thy Plague But dread and fear compassed me about as with a Garment for the miraculous workings of the Power of God in the Vision had bended me until all faculties of my mind became subject to that invisible sence from whence my Spirit received the Illuminations of that which sought to come forth though for a tryals sake to my patience the understanding of that which came up in the MOTION was oft-times sealed before me after I began to write thereof XCII For as I was amongst a number of people assembled to wait upon the Lord I was taken in a TRANCE and my knees smote together trembling because of the fear of God in my Heart and the terror of his Judgments on my Spirit But on that same night as I lay on my Bed I saw the form of a GREAT MAGISTRATE and the Honour and Respect which he had was different from all the powers of the Earth for before him went the form of DEATH as a man walking on his Feet and about him were great Attendance sounding Bells on every side and they continued thus to ring these little Bells till he ascended a place of Judicature where he had great reverence and respect XCIII And amongst the crowd that bended to his power I was acted in the like posture and being otherwise convinced in my Spirit I was smote with great dread
WOMB of Nature though the forms in Creation remained fallen sunk under the Image of the Beast on those that have received his Mark or have his Name and number while the Woman remained cloathed with changeable rayments CV And on the tenth day of the fourth month of the fifth year I beheld a great Eclipse of the Moon also which became divided in Cancer the Breast of Nature for the burthen of struglings and strivings in the Heavens that had rested on the imbodied being of the shoulders of Nature wherein the Man took form came into the Breast of the Created being wherein he stood imbodied though driven from the face or first beauty of the Earth in that double-bodied Form against whom the flames of the Cherub turned every way to preserve the way of the Tree of Life CVI. While the Face of the RAM in Nature stood behind the Man who was created LORD in that Dominion that form in Nature became therein a House of Exaltation to the Sun of his dayes Glory and while the Vision hereof continued and that the Angel of God was thus talking with me I was pursued by those living Creatures in the form of Women and I took my flight over the Mountains the entrances of which were wide and very broad at my going forth thereon but in the conclusion they grew very narrow in the World about the circumference of which I was led CVII But the forms of those Women were dispersed and fled into dissolution as I was in a great strait of my mind through which the entrances led me in my passage and they were reduced into one in number as I came through those straits wherein I beheld the parting of the great Seas my way was so narrow that I could not pass any further but in great danger of falling CVIII For the Precipice was very steep as I looked down toward the ground which was like a WALL of Stone And being made sensible of the danger wherewith I was beset in my way and passage I was taken in great fear and trembling seized me because of the terror of the Lord on my Spirit until I came to sit down on the dust of that Hill or great Mountain in that I could not go on any further with security of life and therefore sought to ease me by mourning alone and there broke down and fell on my left HAND the form of a tottering Wall whereby I came to the sight of a Pleasant Field and therein continued for a time CHAP. X. Describing the Power of those Waters in the Vision of the Wheels CIX AND as I continued separated from the comfort and enjoyment of good in the visitation of the Angel there appeared before me a great and deep Pit which was very Green yet like unto WATERS and as I climbed up to the top of these Waters they appeared to be a great Mountain that stood on HEAPS above the Earth though they still bore the form of WATERS whose concavity swelled under me turning its hollowness into that Mountanous shape of Waters as I came to stand upright on the top thereof CX Wherein I beheld my pass ge over all these WATERS and had nothing to support me but a Line in the Hand of the Angel by which I was born up and kept from falling and the Angel of God brought me a LADDER which he lifted up towards me while I came to see my self as on the top of a high House driven thither by the Womans fury and rage whereon I rather chused to dwell then to come down unto the Ground and possess the Pallace with the Brawling Woman yet was there a WO remaining on the World in the state wherein I beheld it overtaken with afflictions CXI But I was to come down on the Ground and the place whereon I alighted was like to a great CITY that stood beyond the Waters and in the night season as I was layed down to take my rest the form of the Woman was again awakened before me and there stood near her the appearance of a Man of fierce countenance with very long Hair whom she instigated to disquiet me from my rest because I lay not streight in the Bed and accordingly by violence I was pulled out of the Bed and was both Naked and Hungry and mourned in Spirit at the sight of her Discourtesy CXII And because she proffered to turn me out of Doors to dispossess me of a Habitation it was very irksom for me to come forth but with yearning Bowels I bemoaned the state under which I was fallen by her dis ourtesie and refused to depart WILLINGLY without leaving the sence of my wrong upon her after which I was brought forth towards the place of my ABOAD and as I came before the Posts of my Door there was inkindled a great flame a fire broke forth in the midst of which was a Brass Pan and under it was a Morsel baked with which my Body was refreshed and I had a place of accomodation suitable to my necessity CXIII Thus was the truth of the Angels Visitation confirmed to me with signs of deliverance though a secret incredulity wrought against my lifes peace and satisfaction in the conflict with the sence of which I was daily beset yet durst not any more ask a sign or tempt the LORD my GOD but I afterwards beheld a great flame towards the South and towards the East and it being at a great distance from me the Angel of God lifted me up from the ground to behold it and my Head was born up as with a Mans Hand and I had the sence given me secretly of great calamities that should come from the South And I again saw the form of a fiery Furnace in which was the Fat of fed Beasts which boiled up with a great scum and it arose over the Furnace and inkindled a great flame in the House which I expected to see consumed but it was miraculously preserved and I had no hurt therein CXIV And the day from whence I beheld the multiplying of all forms in Nature from the Heavens was a day of gloominess and darkness and thick Clouds broke forth from the awakened tempests and storms until the Earth was overwhelmed with the scourge that covered the same in the overflowing of its deluge from the Fountain of great DEEPS that were opened and the great City that I saw was overspread even unto its tenth part wherein the WORLD stood six parts under the WATERS and that sixth part was a tenth from the Heavens in which all forms in Nature became more narrow to the Creaturely sence through a palpability in the WATERS CXV In which time the Waters prevailed over the Earth sixty thousand Furlongs and they abode thereon for the term of five Months and Blood prevailed for sixteen hundred Furlongs unto the Horse-Bridles from the Wine-press of the great City For after I came to see the appearance of two Moons in the Firmament of the Heavens
I beheld the Worlds moved two wayes for the bringing forth of those two Nations for which the Woman was in Labour in Her two dayes Travel and there were two dayes difference between them as they thus came forth in that which brought all forms in Nature under a power of Corruption and Destruction CXVI Of the One she was delivered on the tenth day of that fourth Month and of the Other on the twelfth day of the same Month which through a backward drawing in the Worlds did cause the Month to be divided in the account of dayes for he that came first forth drew the power of the Heavens Northward whereby the second who came under the power of the Awakened South wind and whose Face was Southward drew the Worlds under the power of the Waters through which that second Man was exercised in his Dominion by the Increase and Decrease of the Waters for the full term of a Year which I beheld in the accomplishment of that sixth Year CXVII And in a Month and twelve dayes did they increase to their height though they continued prevailing on the Earth for five Months and for seven Months did they fall backward the conflict of which Year I beheld in which time I saw the form of the two Men in their Nations awakened in the Worlds and wandering in that Wilderness both under the Denomination of VAGABONDS for they appeared like Wanderers and Wayfaring Men in the Earth and there was a third Man in form that came forth in the condition of a Wanderer or Vagabond CXVIII The one of them I beheld flying from those Wild Beasts of PREY that possessed that desolate Place and that which he fled from was the danger of pernicious wayes under the Beasts power who made hast to flee out of Babylon lest he should partake of her Plagues and thus flying he sought another and better Countrey and City but the other by means of a discontent with the pleasure and delight in the state of the glory in which that City and Countrey was first Planted hunted after another and better state then that in which was the first blessing of God and so wandred from and lost its first Habitation which was defaced under the Enemies power and become fallen under the workings of corruption and darkness and thus by conforming to and complying with the Enemies Power he became really a VAGABOND from the Lord and from the Glory of his City and Habitation though in the World he may have a Habitation very Glorious and be Lord of a City in the Earth CXIX But the third that I saw bore the AFFLICTIONS and abode in the CAUSE thereof until he became hardned under the Enemies Power and suffered the sting of that which overtook him in the Wilderness which rested in the GROUND of DESTRUCTION to the first Beauty and Glory of God in the Work of Creation for having neglected his own VINEYARD whereby his BROTHER was SLAIN who was made keeper of his VIRGIN and his Garden being thereby overgrown with WEEDS and Nettles and Bryers the Thorns of Corruption he was made Keeper of the VINEYARD of his BROTHER and the Keeper of the Living LAMB of GOD and SHEEP of that everlasting sold having his Life made a Sacrifice unto GOD as Inquisition came to be made for Blood when the Voice came Where is thy Brother and he replyed Am I my Brothers Keeper CXX And so came the Man that was thus made a Steward over that which was his Brothers right as his Birth-right therein was lost and forsited over which Vineyard he was appointed as a Keeper and Dresser as a Servant in the Minority of the Heir and owner thereof in the Resurrection of that which was first and is last the Elder Brother of all that believe in the Spirit of the JUST to Challenge a SELF-INTEREST PROPRIETY therein and refused to give the Owner Due and Right but did beat the SERVANTS that were sent for the Last Fruits thereof and sent them empty away and in the end slew the Lamb and Son himself and scattered his Sheep from the Flock and Fold of Everlasting Rest which became a daily Sacrifice unto God in the suffering State and Principle to reconcile the WORLD unto himself through the destruction of the evil therein in that Nature that saith SECRETLY Come let us kill the Heir that the Inheritance may be ours CHAP. XI Describing the Nature of the World in its faln Principles through the Bondage of the Power of Corruption CXXI FOR while I beheld both these Wayfaring Men in that WANDERING conditon the WATERS did MULTIPLY in abundance and became a GREAT SEA and the Angel of God shewed me a VESSEL that was erected and built in the Heavens in four Months in which was the Pattern of that Heavenly Form which through the Government of God was manifest in the Heavens of an Angelical World in that all forms in Nature fell under the Power of Corruption and Destruction while I beheld Gods and Lords many concerned in the dominion of those THREE PRINCIPLES in Nature because of dishonorable USES in which their LORD imployed them though the whole three were comprehended in that which was built and erected in the HEAVENS CXXII And the Lord-like Mind and Spirit that could not suffer any thing to be equal with it or to ballance that self-conceit through which he sought to subject all to his own Will was betrayed and is the Betrayer from the lovely TENT of the Plain Man whereby he weighed and measured in that selfish-will what was proper to his state that would rule alone and purchase an Authority and Dominion that was absolute that he might be chief in the WORLDS though for preheminence sake he ventured the destruction of Glory in that state under the workings of which the FIRST PRINCIPLE in Nature led the Man that was first brought forth under a suffering condition CXXIII For the MAN who was become PLANTER of a Vineyard under the Power of Corruption grew slothful therein and as he was surfeited with the Fruit thereof I beheld his nakedness in the TENT wherein he was placed though self was exalted and rejoyced because of what was brought forth from the Ground of CORRUPTION that was thus tilled and torn up under the power of the Enemy for Materials wherewith the CITY was built thus pourtraied forth in the Vision therefore was that CITY called by his Name HENOCH or the Son of Man in those fallen Principles who was become a discoverer of the nakedness of that and of himself therein which was by Nature his FATHER and a Revealer of the SECRETS thereof in the Forms of Creation possessing a REGION in the Seventh Part of the WORLD that is separated from the MOYST CXXIV And this Third Principle in Man and Third Man in those three Principles who were in the cause of Destruction to the GLORY of the CITY which I saw through whom notwithstanding it became Built under that POWER of
Corruption was acted in and under the POWER of both Good and Evil while the World continued in that State wherein was Winter and Summer and Seed-time and Harvest But in the State under which the Worlds were FALN and under which all Principles in Nature were subjected in the Dominion of the BEAST over mankind thus degenerated from the Image in which he was planted there remained a Second WO on the Creature who being found flying away fled on and from the Sabbath Day and Rest of God through that which sought to avoid afflictions and shunned to keep in the Way wherein a sence of sufferings grew on that which was come on the Body of Nature CXXV And a THIRD WOE remained on the WOMAN that was with Child and upon her that was giving SUCK though the time had been wherein the SHEPHERD carried his Lambs in his Arms and gently drove those that were with young until he became SMITTEN for the sake of his Flock from whom he durst not fly in the Winter or because of the WOLF and through the Life which he laid down for his SHEEP prevailed with the Father against that which had hindred the Creature from its entring into the REST of God whereby a DART was struck through his SOUL that every Man might be driven to his OWN and that the thoughts and secrets of many HEARTS might be REVEALED for he could not draw back in a time of DANGER but indured the contradiction of sinners CXXVI And as I came to behold a strong ANGEL of God with a Sealed Book in his Hand he placed one Foot on the Earth and the other on the Waters and stood on both between the Banks of HIDDEKEL and the great River EUPHRATES and he lifted up the little Book unto the Heavens and went backward to the parting of the great SEAS where were two great PROPHETS cloathed in Sackcloth whose Prophecy was one thousand two hundred and threescore dayes a TESTIMONY of what remained under suffering to the preparing the way of the JUST that the Son of Man might come to inherit the Glory of his Temple and unseal the Mysteries of the Lambs Power in opening the Book of Wonders written in the Heavens while I beheld the prevailing of the Waters until a third part of the EARTH was covered thereby CXXVII In which time the WATERS were decreased from off the Earth and the Angel of God gave me a Reed of a measuring Line to measure the Waters and the Earth over which they prevailed in the World and I measured the Waters at the highest ten Cubits over the Earth and five Cubits under the Earth in the circumference of which a Man might Swim as in a great RIVER And from the Heavens as all forms in Nature were multiplyed I beheld on the great Seas until there appeared the number of seventy Vessels sayling over the same in the front they were seven and in each row ten and in the midst of the six stood that seventh Vessel which was the first into which was gathered the Patterns of all forms in the Heavens where the Creation of God did multiply CXXVIII And the VESSELS that I saw were born up above the rage and fury of the WATERS from whence the out-spread Firmament was inlarged in the Air seven Cubits upward and ten Cubits from the Waters downwards to the Earth on which it centered which was sventeen Cubits to the Head of the Image which I beheld that stood before the seventh Vessel which was in the midst of the six in the front of the seventy And behind the Vessel was the form of a DOVE with golden Wings stretched abroad in the Airy Firmament and the Image glistered like the Sun and had the tincture of fine Gold where the property of the Heavens beautified the Feathers that took form in Nature on the living Creature CXXIX And from the face of the Waters as they prevailed over the Earth was fifteen Cubits to the Center of the Earth in its sinking state and it was two and twenty Cubits in the circumference of the height wherein the WATERS prevailed for the space of these five months that they covered the Face of the EARTH after which I beheld them divided into four HEADS as they came to be dispersed by an East-Wind which compasseth about the whole EARTH in its divided QUARTERS CXXX And as the Vessels thereon became eased and delivered of their Burthen in that which fell under the Power of Corruption in the contrariety of all Elemental Properties imbodied in the Forms of Creation wherein I beheld the perishing of the first WORLDS glory in natural MAN through that faln state the Heavens also were discharged of Labour and Travel under which the BODY of NATURE suffered in those forms wherein that which caused the Sun to go back ten Degrees became manifest among those forms in Nature through the corruptible Ground CXXXI And in the separation of the WORLDS over which the Waters that were driven in HEAPS Westward prevailed for the space of their five months the falling back of those WATERS driven by an EAST WIND was North and South wherein the VESSELS arrived in their order place and number but every thing that the Enemy had power over in that Corruptible state perished in the WATERS yet was a SEED preserved through all those Storms and Tempests the strength of which continued a Month and twelve Dayes to replenish the Earth in its renewed state which was five dayes backward to the Months Nones and seven dayes forward in its IDES from the seventeenth day of that seventh month to the twenty fourth day of the Month. CXXXII For from the New of the MOON in that seventh month wherein the Waters brake first forth to the new of the MOON in the eighth month was twenty nine dayes which month called BUL or a BUBLING because of what again sprung up in the WORLD after the falling back of the WATERS under the Power of Corruption through which the Fruits of the EARTH perished was the Month from whence the Heavens began to manifest the multiplyed Forms in Nature under a corruptible State which is MARCHESHUAM in the falling away but in the bubling up of all forms of Nature in the New-created-Being and renewed State of the WORLDS in that same place it is the springs of the WORLD that are refreshing and restorative through the open Fountain of an everlasting good CHAP. XII Describes the manner how those Vessels were discharged of their burden among the created Forms in Nature as also the Four Heads of the River in the dividing of the Waters CXXXIII FRom the Tempests and Storms that I beheld in the increase and prevailing of those WATERS whereby the World was overspread and overwhelmed in its old corruptible State the Heavens were darkned and all forms in Nature remained under a Cloud until each month in the year had finished its COURSE in the Bodily frame through the Revolution and change that is wrought up in
was working to take away your Place And therefore cast out you have and cast out you are which is the ground of your fear but you are not in that Power which can separate any from God and excommunicate such from the injoyment of his presence who have seen the end of Mans dayes Glory though by continuing in the Ground of Hardness you may be in that which may separate your selves from the injoyment of good in that God which you profess XXI But oh ye hard-hearted that have waited for the destruction of the Innocent that for Conscience-sake cannot bow to your Haman-like wills what have you to answer before God in this kind that have caused any to stumble and turn aside through your cruelty I am burdened and grieved hereat saith the LORD and my Soul is weary with waiting to do good to such an unthankful people therefore shall distress come on distress and captivity will follow captivity until ISRAEL come to know her self to be the WOUNDED that is fallen among THIEVES wherein the Priest and Levite have passed by but a poor Samaritan hath proved the good Physician as a healer of the Breach and restorer again of a Path to dwell in XXII For in the coming forth of all forms in Nature I have seen thy state and standing thou poor and distressed People over the face of the whole Earth and though there is a Ground wherein a fourth Beast with the face of an Eagle hath exalted power in the fourth Angel of God that hath stood on the North corner of the Earth in that which hath called to his day Come and see yet a DANITE hath slain the Lion that was found in the way of the Philistines wherein I have seen awakend in all the powers of Nature a sence of such Labourers under the Power of Corruption who have swarmed together unto the dead Carcass until it hath been filled with the sweetness of the Conquest yet lest self should thereby become imboldned a greater glory is raised up in the LYONS day and an Angel of the Sun hath proclaimed the Summons to all Fowls in the Heavens in the Tryal of that which is brought out of the Heavenly Ark. XXIII And from the Heavens is inkindled a fiery Constellation flaming in that which is sunk into the Creaturely perspection from the highest Heavens that causeth a burning discovery of that which dissolves the Excremental properties ingendered as a Star among the Powers of Nature and through a discovery of the Evening Wolf or little Bear who is got before the LYONS Face all shall be effected which pertaineth to the Ministration of Severity in the appearance of Glory by the second Resurrection of what hath slept its time And where the Carcass is thither do the Eagles resort let not Ephraim therefor envy Manasseh though she be not called to go up to Battel against the Midianites for the Gleanings of Ephraim shall be better than have been the green Fruits of Manasseh XXIV Neither ought Israel to quarrel by the way for before God hath effected the glory of the work he hath begun every one that maketh mention of his NAME shall know himself what he hath been in his own strength and there will not need any fierce drivings in the Camp to scatter every one to his own for before Light shall shine out of any Vessel the Pitcher must be broken in which Case it will be Israels safety to take out a Lot from the URN wherein are three hundred bended Instruments before thou aspire to put forth thy Torch for so did Israel of old whom the Father drew through the catching of the Foxes that were tied Tail to Tail that the fire-brands which are between might be the Executioners of Gods fury on his Enemies a great WOLF grew up in their stead as a Constellation in which three hundred STARS are commanded from the little BEARS Tail in the Motion of the Heavens This therefore is the Sentence of the Angel of God to thy Northern Quarters and inhabited Islands of Europe and Asia God hath beheld your state and you must be tryed yet under the SOUTH Wind but the glory of the day will return to the KINGS of the EAST it is done saith the Lord and their work shall end in that which prepares the way before my Face THE SECOND PART CHAP. I. Wherein is described the coming forth of the FOUR BEASTS in the Forms of Nature in the loosing of the Seven Seals from off the Book c. I. NOW that seventh Vessel which had the fourth place among the forms in Nature was that from whence sprung the Glory of the Heavens in the created being whence ASIA took ROOT through what fell in the Earth And as the Worlds became overspread the Waters which compassed about ASIA on the left hand inlarged their course whereby the Land of EUROPE in the same Continent was compassed about on the right hand by the great River EUPHRATES which became manifest in the decrease of the WATERS II. And I beheld on the four Corners of the Earth the appearance of four Angels of God that held the four Corners of the WINDS and they had power to with-hold the Wind from blowing and to smite the Earth with Plague but their Power had been bound down in the great River EUPHRATES until the loosing of the Dragons Power out of the bottomless Pit who had been also bound therein for the space of a thousand years in which the Holy Nations did arise in their Glory and Order and those four Angels were prepared for an hour a day a month and a year III. And from Assyria in whose fall arose the Mede and Persian which are the two Horns of the RAM in Nature the Ishmalite took root in the fall of the Silver Breast of the Image for there was substance in the Neck of Nature in that which descended from its Head wherein the Face of the RAM was seen but the Yoak being cast off the Spirit of God was made to suffer that which rested as a BURDEN on the Shoulders of the imbodied Form the sence of which came downward in his Creature and Creation and entred the Breast of the Created Being IV. For from the Heavens of an inward World descended into the Bodily Frame a pierced HEART and from the multiplyed Forms in Nature there was moving on the Waters the great VESSEL that I saw which rested in the EAST where the Waters first prevailed wherein was the seventh part of all forms in Nature brought forth in that middle Row to replenish the new Created Earth And in the Hand of the Lyon was the Sealed Book and the Seal of God was on his day to wit the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah while the strong Angel of God proclaimed with a loud Voice Who is worthy to open the BOOK and loose the Seals thereon wherein the Wonders of God were written within and without V. And in the opening and loosing of the first Seal on
Weeks from the time that I beheld the prevailing of those Waters on the Earth XV. For as the Heavens were discharged of this third Man in the Forms of Nature there was a great change and revolution in the Worlds wherein the Winds came again to strive and the Storms and Tempests prevailed on the great Seas and I beheld until there arose an uncontroulable Wind called EOLUS which caused the Foundations of the House wherein I lay to shake and the Fowls of the Heavens made a groaning noise like a young Child for the place was beset with terrors of the Night but the sound of the Voice was like unto the Ringing of BELLS under my Head as I was laid down to rest And I was charged by the Angel of God not to move from the PLACE where I lay in which I was preserved from hurt until I beheld the Tempest over XVI Then I was led by the ANGEL of God to a very high Mountain on which I beheld my self riding over the Land and in the bottom thereof stood a great CITY at some distance towards which I was travelling and there came forth the Hee Goat of a year old who was driven towards the WEST in which I beheld him a scape Goat for the yearly Sacrifice and behind the form of the Man that I saw in the Heavens the RAM prevailed that was caught by his Horns in the Thickets of the Earth who became a daily Sacrifice for the Sins and Transgressions of the first Covenant which were committed in the times of Ignorance wherein God winked at them XVII And the scape Goat also grew and became mighty and strong and came forth out of the WEST pushing three wayes to wit East and North and South and he broke and stampt in pieces those two Horns of the RAM whereby the BULL was lifted up out of the dark Pit in Nature and as I was enquiring of the Angel of God how long also this should continue He replyed Until the Heifer be yoaked and hath learned to tread out the Corn that it may be known the House of Jacob is like a fire and that the House of Joseph is the flame and the House of Esau the stubble whom God will leave nor Root nor Branch for Ephraim shall learn to tread out the Corn as one that is taught to Plow and Judah shall be inlarged in him while God doth ride and is exalted but Jacob shall break the Clods in pieces XVIII And while I was beholding the Glory of the ANGEL I was dismounted from the BEAST whereon I Rode and sought to turn it down before me as I apprehended my self walking down the steep of the Hill but the Beast could not go any further either up or down and striving to turn him about he fell to the bottom of the Hill which was very steep and terrible to behold yet he came to the ground without hurt which was much more Admirable and he ran towards the CITY that I saw with great speed leaving me for a season to wander on the Mountain which was on the fourth Month of the seventh year for which the Vision was set and there did sit the form of Women weeping for TAMUZ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the Name of the month in the discharge of the Heavens but in the Earth it is called Mazah XIX But through the opening and loosing of a fifth Seal on the Book of Wonders taken out of the Hand of the Angel of God which was on the Temple or House of God which had been made the seat of the BEAST in Nature I saw and heard from the Throne of God and the LAMB a great cry and lamentation How long Lord God holy and true wilt thou suffer the Members of Christ to be joyned to an Harlot and the Temple of thy Holy Ghost to be defiled that our Blood may be avenged on the Inhabitants of the EARTH for from the Blood of Righteous ABEL until the Blood of Zacharias the Prophet who was slain between the Temple and the Altar Blood hath cryed in thine EAR to be avenged on such a wicked Generation XX. And there was also a Seal on the Sun of the Day of the Son of Man which was taken off in the opening and loosing of a sixth Seal of the Book And all that was in the Temple of God was smitten thereby until I beheld the Sun turned into Darkness and the Moon into Blood and the Stars of Heaven withdrew their Light being shaken as with a mighty Wind and they fell unto the Earth as a Fig-tree that casteth her Leaves and all dominion in the Powers of Nature was terrified by which that subdued the Government of all Authority in the Kingdoms of the Earth wherein is the signification of the Birth of Kings and Captains and mighty Men and Noble Men and Bond and Free that fled to the Rocks and Mountains of the EARTH to hide them and crept into the Clifts and Dens for shelter XXI Then saw I the first turn of the WHEELS which made a perfect division between property and property of all SPIRITS thus fallen under the Power of Corruption in the imbodied being of what standeth manifest in three Principles of Government over Nature in time and place for after I had beheld destinction of Motion in the Rings of the WHEELS and the separation of each I beheld their order in their turns over all that became imbodied in the Ground of Corruption as it came forth out of the WOMB of Nature XXII And in this sirst turn of the Wheels all that came out of the Womb of Eternity rested in the Womb of Nature though therein was a continual Motion while time and place indured whereby the VIRGIN in the Forms of Nature came under the sufferance of the Power of Death and indured the bodily pangs that were opened through the way and course of Corruption which caused the FIELD of Nature and Place of Conception to become a field of Blood through that which strove there in which state was placed the Man that was formed to be Keeper of the Vineyard that he possesses in that corruptible state so that in the second Turn of the Wheels all came forth distinguishable in that separated being of fire Air and Water that had received a tincture of Glory in each Principle XXIII Which according to those three PRINCIPLES was in the Forms of Nature wherein the Man had both Soul Spirit and Body formed under the Workings and Motion of an incorruptible and immortal Power to the renewing of all faculties of the Mind wherein Man is imbodied And as it sought to settle under a Power of Corruption I saw wherein it became a ground of all Motion though a stilness and silence was in the Original Center of all Creaturely beings whereby the four destroying Angels of God were bound down under a course of Corruption in which the Enemy prevailed to ripen and hasten the day of everlasting Tryals in the sufferance
of God's Spirit and they were prepared in time that came up in the Hours of the day and dayes of the Month and months of the year into Number and Order wherein the substance of what Nature was ordained to manifest is become measurable and intelligable XXIV For herein is made manifest a Government springing up from the Head and Heart and Womb of Nature through which the Body of Nature was placed in subjection to an unchangeable and everlasting Power of renewing in God whereby I came to discern of those three in Heaven that bear Record to wit the FATHER and Creator of all Spirits and Principles of Nature into being and the WORD through which the Creature was brought into the lovely form of Sonship and the Holy Ghost which is the Power of the Word in the Creature as he is acted in the Will of the Creator and these three are one witness for God in the Heavens as a Sun of that Glory whereby the Creation of God is enlightned CHAP. III. Describing the Forms of Nature as they are wrought up in the the changings of the renewing Power in God XXV AND this was manifest in Terrestrial Bodies through the three that bear Record on EARTH to wit the Spirit of God which first breathed on the WATERS which is a power of all individual Spirits in Natural Bodies formed and the Waters themselves on which it thus breathed and the BLOOD inkindled in the fire of Life through which those Waters do ebb and flow to the Creature that hath the imbodied being of Soul and Spirit And those three also agree in one and are one Witness for God in Terrestrial Bodies wherein the MOON hath prevailed to dignifie her course that turneth Waters into the Blood of the Spirit of Life in that borrowed light wherein she hath exercised her dominion under the Power of Corruption XXVI This therefore did I observe in the Motion of the WHEELS that the ground of their Motion was everlasting whereby that which had not any beginning in the Will and Wisdom of Eternities Power of Existence took being in time and place wherein every thing that was created into Form became conceiveable and comprehensible in the imbodied being of NATURE as it stands thus fallen under the Power of Corruption wherein the Work of God hath been narrowed to the sence of the Creaturely capacity and from the CENTRE in which is an eternal stilness will every man receive his reward according to his WORKS and to what he hath sown in the Body of Nature thus fallen under the tryals of a cross to the Creaturely affection XXVII Though every thing is brought forth in its order which is again to be reduced into its Center as all Powers of Nature come to run their race in what is awakened and come forth in time and place to the judgment of Eternity against all such Powers of Darkness wherein I beheld the EARTH standing in and out of the Waters from whence the Light shined in each principle in which the separation was made between the Darkness which was expelled from the new Created Forms in Nature and driven into its Center wherein the Creation remained groaning under its NIGHT of sorrow as in the fallen Properties that proceeded out of the Womb of Nature in which Self became imbodied in the Creature of God which was and is the cause of the fall and of all degeneration in Spirits and Properties of Nature in those Principles XXVIII And out of this EARTH sprung up all that lay hid under the Power of Corruption thus formed into being in time and place which was a fourth part of the WORLDS in form as its two third parts were separated into the Waters above and under the Firmament resting under the Government of those four Beasts in the forms of Nature over which the Wheels moved their third turn separating between all Creatures that abode in the Region of Air and those that rested on the EARTH and in those Waters under the Firmament who were enlightned by the three Glories of the Father that shined from the Heavens above the Firmament wherein the Worlds stood manifest in their renewed Principles after this third turn of the Wheels XXIX For the Seal of God being on his peculiar Number of faithful Ones though little in the Eye and esteem of the World a Cloud of Darkness remained over the day in which they had glory until the seventh Seal of God was taken off from the Book of Life in which their names were written among the WONDERS of God whereby I beheld each Beast in the Forms of Nature take unto him six Wings in which were six thousand Feathers and six thousand Names of Men on each Wing and on each Beast were thirty six thousand Feathers and names of Men which became a great Army in the Heavens of one hundred forty four thousand names of Men according to the four Wings of what came forth first manifest on the Back of the LYON wherein each Wing of the Army in the Heavens was dispersed to its Quarters on the Earth And the Wheels were moved about in their fourth turn over all Principles in Nature thus come forth into form in its time of Tryal XXX Which was very miraculous to behold that through all this striving and contest in the Heavens not one Fether of those Beasts was diminished though the Wings of the Beasts in those forms of Nature were suffered to be pluckt and were taken from off the Back of those living Creatures on which they sought to rest and settle And after an Angel of the Sun came forth in the Glory of the Son of Man there stood a second Angel of God who daily ministreth at the Altar of God hath power over FIRE and he rode on a WHITE Cloud and I heard a voice from the Heavens the number of Gods chosen are Sealed and they are faithful Witnesses and Followers of the LAMB and I beheld out of the Temple of God Trumpets sounding forth Praises and Hallelujahs to him that Rules and sits on high until the four Angels of God became loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES and stood on the four Corners of the Earth and held the four Corners of the Winds from blowing XXXI But the Earth was exercised with great afflictions and the Waters also and all that lived therein and moved thereon were come under sore Tryals in one third part thereof and the cry was very grievous because of the burning Coals that were taken from the Altar of God and flung on the Earth which caused Tempests therein and from the Heavens proceeded Thunders and Lightnings and great Hail after all motion therein began to cease and that I had beheld a silence in the Heavens for the space of half an hour XXXII For as the WINDS of the Heavens were at rest wherein the Spirit of God ceased to strive any more with his Creature neither suffered the breath of its Almighty Power to blow any more on
that fourth part of the WORLDS wherein the whole Earth had corrupted its way before the Lord that which bound the Nature of the Heavens from striving any more with mankind gave way to the power of destruction in a Mystery to increase its swelling Tempests over a third of the Earth out of which the forms of Nature were imbodied in the divided quarter or fourth part of the Worlds XXXIII And I beheld until the seventh year past over my Head and there appeared an Angel of the Waters whose power began to be prevalent over the South Wind and seven Kings of the South fell and the KING himself under whom the South Winds wrought was subjected by the dispersing abroad of those seven Nations of the Worlds through whom the Generations of the Heavens were multiplyed but two dayes before the expiration of the seventh year the Hands of the Angel grew weak for he went backward unto the parting of the great SEAS and brought up the Vessel that stood in the midst of the six in the front of the seventy which was born about by twelve Bulls six on the one side and six on the other XXXIV And the Sun recovered the strength and glory of that which stood still in the Heavens to manifest judgment over a backward course in its Worlds according to the degrees therein by which the Enemy prevailed over the Body of Nature to move the frame thereof under the Power of Destruction And from the expiration of the seventh year was fifteen dayes that the Vessel was subjected in the strength of the Angel for after I beheld the appearance of a second Angel with the Garment of the high Priest on whose Head was a Crown and on the Crown a Cross the form of the Crown was turned about like the Moon in its second Quarter and had two Horns like unto the Letter X wherein the Leter X stood in the midst of the Crown like unto two V A or V and A and I did read it one hundred and ten as though I had read in a Book XXXV For from the beginning of the appearance of the second Angel was seventeen dayes After which I beheld raised up out of the Earth a Wall of Brass and its Foundations rested on two and twenty Pillars that had on them two and twenty names of Men and the two and twenty Letters in the Hebrew Alphabet And on that WALL were twelve Towers on which Towers were placed twelve Angels each Tower stood between two Pillars and the Wall stood four square wherein there were three Gates on each side of the WALL But the Tower on the North-side of the Wall towards the East Corner thereof whereon was exalted an Angel who sat on a Beast in the form of an EVENING WOLF had no Pillars for its Foundations for its foundations fell in the raising up the structure of the WALL and I beheld until the Foundation of the whole was removed XXXVI And an Angel came down from his Tower on the East side of the WALL towards the South Corner thereof who was exalted on the first Beast in the forms of Nature like unto a RAM and he had made a breach on the WALL against whom an Angel who was exalted on the form of a Beast like unto an ASS smote his Foot And the Glory of the Angel on the North Corner of the Wall EASTWARD who was exalted on that Beast in the form of an Ass couching down between two burdens saw that rest was good to the heavy laden and they alighted from off those Beasts whereon they were exalted CHAP. IV. The effect of the descending of ANGELS into the Forms of Nature XXXVII FRom the middle Tower on the Wall Eastward did the Angel prevail in the HEAVENS who was exalted on a BEAST in the form of a LYON until the Angel that came from the South Corner of the Wall was held in a dark place because that self-will slew a man to dig down the Wall of Separation to ISRAEL from those Nations of the Earth that were fallen into Idolatry whereby they caused their Seed to pass through the Fire to Molech and Ashtaroth and followed the invention of the HEATHEN who thus continued worshiping in the Fire XXXVIII For wherein the West-wind prevailed I beheld the form of the Cherub set up to be Worshiped in the WILDERNES whereby the TABLES were broken that were wrote therein by the FINGER of God that his Hand might more eminently appear through that which was engraven the second time for the Angel that was exalted on this Beast came off from his Tower and there appeared another Angel that came off from his Tower on the East Corner of the Wall Southward that was exalted on a little Lyon that roared towards the North and the Woman that had on her Head a Crown of twelve Stars cast it down at the Foot of the Angel that rode on the Beast in the form of a CALF and I beheld until it was put on the Head of the Lyon XXXIX And the Woman was exalted QUEEN of the South but the Virgin Daughter of the NORTH stood afflicted in her Seed sixty one weeks and three dayes while the Daughter of the SOUTH made her self great towards the four Winds And for sixty eight weeks and four dayes I beheld the four Winds striving in the behalf of the Daughters of the North and the form of the Temple that God had builded and finished in the HEAVENS descended in a Cloud into the City that I saw erected under the Power of Destruction and in seven dayes was its Foundation setled therein in which time I beheld the form of the Wolf who was got before the Lyons Face enlarging himself in the power of the Lambs suffering whose Angel prevailed therein until I beheld the form of the Beast driven into the Wilderness in which time I saw the linnen EPHOD Worshiped XL. And an eighth Angel came off from his Tower sailing towards the Land of Rest to a Haven of Ships and there was also a ninth Angel who had in his right Hand a Cup filled with goodly dainties with which those that travelled over the Deeps were refreshed after which appeared a tenth Angel exalted on a ROE-BUCK who came leaping and skiping over the Mountains with glad Tydings to them that dwelt in the Valleys for he proved a good Hind and came home betimes giving goodly words And I beheld until there stood only TWO Angels exalted on their middle Towers North and South and I looked towards the Fields of the Earth which were white unto Harvest and ripe for the gathering XLI And the Angel led me into a Garden inclosed which was the Garden of my Beloved and I beheld how the Spiknard budded and grew up and how the Vines put forth their tenders Branches and the Pomegranet and all Spices flourished as the North Wind came thereon after the South Wind had blowed and the Daughter of the South had wandred from the Garden after the
Nature and those Beasts guided the Chariot of Nature wherein the ANGEL was exalted according to the time for which they were prepared and wherein they were loosed an hour a day a month a year L. For in the year for which those Angels were loosed I beheld seven Months wherein the dead were left to bury the dead And from the expiration of those five months was thirty dayes wherein the Angel that was loosed for his Month prevailed under the power of Destruction and the name of the sixth month was called ELIL because of the Fields that were Reaped wherein there was nought found And I beheld the ANGEL who was exalted through the appearance of the first Beast in the form of a Lyon that came forth on his White Horse on which he rode in the form of a MAN with a BOW in his Hand conquering and to conquer LI. And the afflictions that followed came over that third part of the Worlds that the Dragon prevailed in and had power over through the Stars of Heaven that he drew after him wherein he made up his Tail from a third part of the Heavens And the Angel that was raised up in form through that second Beast with the face of a Cherub rode on a red Horse wherein he came forth exalted in the Heavens and he had a SWORD in his Hand and came to take Peace from the Earth through the occasion of the fall of that first Star on the Rivers and Fountains of Water which made a sharpness in the Springs of VIRGIN Earth in the Bowels of Nature LII And through the fall of this second Star the face of a MAN became exalted in the Heavens in which third Beast the Angel of God came forth riding and exalted on his Black Horse with his Ballances in his Hand wherewith the Fruits of the Earth were weighed and measured forth to the Inhabitants thereof who were found labouring therein under the power of Corruption by just weight and measure according to every Mans works and doings in the Earth a measure of Wheat for a Penny and three measures of Barley and the Wine and the Oyl was not hurt until a fourth Angel of God who was exalted through a fourth Beast in the forms of Nature with the Face of an EAGLE had finished his work that he had to do in the WORLDS LIII Who had power over a fourth part of the Earth and he came forth on his Pale Horse like unto Death and Death and Hell followed him wherein his power was executed by Pestilence Famine and Wild Beasts of Prey on that fourth part of the Worlds until the whole power of the Heavens became subject to the first former And I said unto the Angel of God How long shall this continue and the power of this Beast prevail in the HEAVENS To which the Angel replyed Until the EAGLES Eye be pluckt out and he be made blind as in the day that he was created LIV. Then shall the Accuser of the Just be cast down out of the Heavens and all Power in Heaven and Earth shall be delivered up unto the FATHER And I beheld until that fourth Beast came to deliver up his Power unto the seven Angels of God vvhich vvas seven Golden Vials filled vvith the Wrath of God and the Lamb to vvit the seven last Plagues to come on the WORLDS and they came forth out of the Temple of God in the sounding of the seventh Angel on the AIR whereby were finished the Mysteries of God's Kingdom And therein I beheld in the Vision an apparition of the Horses very dreadful and terrible with Brest-plates of fire and Jacinth and their breaking down was as with an Iron Rod breaking and stamping in pieces strong Nations mighty and great and out of their Mouths and Nostrils streamed forth fire and Brimstone and smoke and their Power was in their Mouths and in their Tails which had Heads like the stings of Serpents wherewith they came to hurt and destroy LV. For they had Wings like a flying FOWL and did fly along in the AIR making a great noise like unto the ratling of Chariot Wheels and on their Heads were Crowns of Gold and they had Teeth like unto Lyons who were called DAN'S Horses through a sence of the bruise on the WOMANS Heel but their Riders were like unto Sagitarius or men that had lost their shape and were fallen backward for they had not the use of their Legs and the Captain of the ARMY that I beheld in the Vision of the Heavens had a name which signifyeth a POWER in the DESTROYER or a POSION wherein I beheld his Followers a great number being thousands of thousands which no man could number and until the end of those months they were not to hurt any Herb or green thing for four Woes were past and two were yet remaining LVI And there was also of the LAMBS Followers sealed a great number which could not be counted who came through those two WOES to the Inhabitants of the Earth in its fourth part wherein the Eagle had power of which he was discharged And the Angel that I saw had in his Hand the Keyes of the Covenant of Love and Mercy to the Faithful and Chosen of God who took unto them their Golden Harps and stood on Mount Zion with their Harps harping and singing and praising God who had brought them out of great Captivity whereby their Garments were made white that were washed in the Blood of the Lamb whose names were written in Heaven in the Book of the Lambs Life for they were preserved from the hurt of what was come into the Earth And the Angel had also in his Hand the CHAIN wherewith the great Red DRAGON had been bound down for this thousand years out of which Pit those living Creatures were loosed LVII And as I beheld the BODY of Nature in its afflicted state I came to hear the Voice of seven Thunders thundering and their thunderings were to prepare a ground in which the sence of things wrought the first Thunder was from the unconceivable WOMB of Eternity which prepared a ground for the sence hereof in the WOMB of Nature which continued everlastingly thundering over the cursed Ground in which the â—eed of Enmity had entered the Creation of God And there appeared the form of a VIPER who had gnawed his way out of the Womb of Eternity to come into the Womb of Nature yet was he shut up in the place of Conception as a third Principle of the Man imbodied in the Creaturely being of whose birth was made a Separation in one hour wherein came forth a Generation of VIPERS at once in Mans form LVIII And the Angel of God led me aside into the great Wilderness and I there beheld the WHORE magnifying her self for a season and she rode on the scarlet coloured Beast with seven Heads and ten Horns which were ten Kings who had power with the Beast for an hour because of the Wound on his
from the power of all Motion in the WHEELS which came on the ground of all Principles formed in Terrestrial Bodies and beings wherein all powers of Nature were shaken and moved about in the Wheels which carried every thing about swiftly to its appointed place And there was a great Earthquake through which the foundation of the City was shaken and a tenth part of the City fell wherein were slain the names of seven thousand Men that those who escaped might give glory to God on high LXXVII And on the seventh Mountain which had on it the name of the seventh month called ATNIM was manifest the Angel of strength over new Wines that were in the Cluster And I beheld until the EAGLE had given up his power which were the seven last Plagues to come on the Earth and the power which that fourth Beast gave up rested in the Angel of strength wherein there came forth TWO WITNESSES of God which are the two Olive Branches and two Candlesticks who prophesied before the Kings of the Earth cloathed in Sackcloath for the space of one thousand two hundred and threescore dayes and their power was to open and shut Heaven until the dayes of their Prophecy were finished LXXVIII Whereby the way of God was prepared into the HOLIEST of all and the Witnesses were cloathed in White signifying that God was come into his TEMPLE and all sorrow was fled away yea the times of mourning were come to an end and all Tears were wiped away from their Eyes neither was sighing to be heard in that land but there was a separation made between the Courts thereof where was both inward and outward glory according to its course wherein the Witnesses had prophesied for the time that it was given into the Gentiles Hands to tread under foot accomplished in those forty two months LXXIX And as the Towers were shaken in which the dayes of the week were multiplyed into number and order there was manifest the substance of time wherein was the Week in which the Witnesses thus fulfilled and gave up their Testimony to the Father and in the midst of the Week they came to seal their finished Testimony and ascended to Heaven in the sight of their Enemies and great fear came on all flesh but from those Mountains in which a third part of the Earth was separated in the tryal by fire there sprung Flowers of Virginity from the bowels of TERAH in that created form in which the WORLDS were planted whence the frame of the WORLDS were overspread in those seven Nations that were multiplyed from the Heavens in that vvhich escaped the rage and fury of the WATERS as they came to prevail over the Earth until a barren Wildernesse was become again a fruitful Field unto God and a fruitful Field suffered barrenness in such that savv not the danger in their vvay vvherein they vvere overtaken LXXX For vvhere I had seen the Angel of God vvith a Golden CUP in his hand filled vvith goodly dainties he suffered the WOMAN that vvas gloriously decked on the Scarlet-coloured Beast in Nature to take from him the CUP vvhich she took into her Hand and filled vvith Fornications all abominations of filthiness with vvhich she made her self drunk and there vvas mixed with her Sorcerers the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of God vvho vvere slain for the Word of God and Testimony that they held and the Angel of God said Come up hither I will shew thee the judgement of this great Whore who sitteth on many Waters with whom the Kings of the Earth have committed Fornication and with the Wine of her silthiness have made themselves drunken from the Golden Cup which she reacheth to their Head LXXXI And there came a Voice from the HEAVENS unto the Mountains on which the Whore sat exalted Arise and stand on your feet and they appeared like unto a MAN standing on the great River EUPHRATES and from thence moving about the form and frame of the Heavens in the Worlds and the seven Angels of God came out of the Temple and took the seven last Plagues which were the seven Vials filled with the wrath of God c. and they poured them forth on the whole frame of the Worlds and there was a great noise in the Heavens which became divided into three parts and she came into the remembrance of God and the Whore that was exalted in the midst of her was discovered and her skirts seen LXXXII And there was joy and rejoycing in the Heavens and thence proceeded Thunders and Lightnings and Earthquakes and great Hail the weight whereof slew those on whom it rested and such an Earthquake was not since the World began to the moving and removing of all Foundations And the appearance of the Angels that came out of the Temple was sparkling like the fiery Heavens and they were cloathed as with fire and their Rayment shined like unto fine Gold and on their Heads were Crowns and their Paps were girded as with golden Girdles LXXXIII But the seventh Thunder sounded through the AIR the efect of which descended on that great CITY in which Babylon was erected wherein the seven Angels of God that had sounded the seven Golden TRUMPETS and who had power over the Worlds came forth from the holy Place cloathed with Heavenly Glory for an Angel of the Sun who was manifest in the fiery TRIPLICITY of the Heavens together with all the glories of the Father until the Clouds of HEAVEN became dispersed in that which was manifest in three Principles of the WORLD wherein the glory of the Womans return from her travel through the WILDERNES was revaled among the WONDERS of Heaven to be the Coelestial beauty of a third Principle in which she was cloathed with the Sun and had the Moon under her Feet and on her Head was the Crown of Twelve Stars that are moved about in the ZODIACK of the Heavens of an Inward World LXXXIV For TWO WOES are past in the diveing of the Worlds in their six Principles into two third parts wherein five are comprehended in one third part of that which is past and they are fallen for the revealing of the SAMARITAN in that which is come forth against ASIRIA the second time in which the Woman continued joyned to one that had buried five yet was he not the HUSBAND to the five wise VIRGINS but he remained married unto her in that foolish state wherein the Law had dominion over the MAN as long as he lived in whom the foolish Virgins are concerned to reveal a sixth that is past and seventh that is come for the bringing forth of whom the Creature suffereth death all the day long CHAP. VIII Describing the Power of God manifested in the execution of the seven last Plagues to come upon the Earth LXXXV THE BEAST himself who is the Eighth and who is the Son of Perdition is now revealed in her that shall bury SEVEN wherein the Harlot hath lurked unto whom the Man
suffered to work in a hidden ground to manifest the deceit of the TEMPTER CXXIII And Nature had not a Will of its own to move about the Wheels in the Power of the Heavens that wrought on and over Creatures that took being in time and place according to the form and frame of the Worlds in which all Glory wrought without the ENEMY neither was the Enemies power any thing prevalent but through a subjection in the Will of the Creature in that Power wherein he was made able to resist him but time and place became measurable from the Heavens wherein the comprehensible course of all forms in Nature had their end come up in the World in that which was manifest through distinction CXXIV But Number and Order remaineth manifest among the forms in Nature in which every thing cometh forth into being according to the Figure of its Birth constituted in the power of the Heavens in respect to the dignification of the Mind in the thing wherein it delighteth through which the Man cometh to sow the Seed from whence he expecteth to reap Fruit answerable thereunto though in the flesh of Creatures there is that already sown and spred abroad which worketh in the Members against that which dignifieth the mind that remaineth as a Thorn in the flesh to make sensible of its pricking pangs when the Creature goeth forth into self-exaltation beyond or above the measure of power and ability which he hath received from God CXXV And this is to humble the Creature and make him sensible of the need he hath of the preserving Power of God in that which keeps open the Eye of the MAN at all times to see himself upon the Watch for every Principle of Nature hath a contrariety attending that which is formed in its Birth according to the Diurnal and Annual motion in the Wheels wherein that which causeth a change in the state of the Creature multiplyeth dayes and hours in the course through which it is manifest according to the sufferance or according to the delight of SPIRIT in which he is attended CXXVI This do I see in each Birth and moreover I observe how Nature ripeneth that which the Man reacheth after in the number of hours or dayes according to which the mind standeth afflicted thereby wherein nothing can exceed the number thirty in the course of Nature for that which is changeable returneth to the beginning of the WORK by which it is Judged to be manifest in its Birth And thirty years are the largest extent of motion in the Rings of the outward Wheel as thirty dayes accomplish the race of the swiftest motion in the Wheel's Rings according to their Orbs in the Heavens CXXVII And in like manner as in twelve hours a day in Nature is compleat in that which divideth it from the night so in twelve years that which moveth in the most equal ORB among the forms in Nature returneth to the Center from which it was moved though it be streight forward that the Wheels are moved in the Heavens for all that hath its Period in time Centereth and endeth its course in the Will and under the power of God in that which is suffered to labour and work up the form over which Death and Dissolution hath had power CXXVIII But the Inward Heavens being tinctured with the love and delight of God all BEAUTY and glory centereth therein and shineth therefrom as from the FIRE of Gods Jealousie whereby his honour is mentained in that which hath kindled and inflamed a desire burning after the highest good which hath its similitude in the WATERS wherein Nature is moved in its Principles according to the several ORBS and Sphears in which the Power of the Heavens doth labour and work CXXIX Wherein the Heart of Eternity inflameth through the forms of Nature in a yearly course under which the Heavens have doubled the effect of that which riseth up inkindled in the ORB which breaketh all essences in form and maintaineth War in the source in which the RAM hath taken Head distributing power under the four Winds of the Heavens in which the Elements of Nature stand divided and under the same came forth the faces of the four Beasts according to the third Ring in the Wheels through which the fourth BEAST is become exalted in his dominion over a fourth part of the WORLDS CXXX For the course of motion in this Ring of the WHEEL is forty nine Weeks to regain that which is lost in form through the Beauty Glory of what was finished in seven dayes from whence the Heavens have multiplyed all forms in Nature until the day and hour under which Death is dispossessed in its dominion for the separation of day and night in Nature met in the Power of the Heavens through that which discovereth the Period of all changeable Courses in which the Moon hath strengthened her Revolutions while Winter and Summer and Seed time and Harvest continue CXXXI And while I thus beheld the motion in the Wheels there came forth out of the Heart of FIRE in Nature an ANGEL of the Sun cloathed with the Rain-bow of the Heavens and he rode on all the Powers of Nature proclaiming with a loud Voice a Feast that was prepared for the Fowls of the Air which were gathered together under the conduct of the EAGLE and they were a great Multitude and very numerous and on my other Hand stood the ARK of God which was taken in BATTEL by his Enemies wherein Glory was departed out of the Tents of those that God had first chosen to be his own CXXXII For the Aged departed in Sorrow and the Old Man died full of Grief and pained in Heart until there came a Voice from the Heavens Behold the result of Israels deliverance from their Enemies Hands wherein the Servant in Gods House in his good Old Age hath his Eye open to see the Salvation of God and is inabled to depart in Peace And henceforth shalt thou no more count an Infant of dayes nor Old Man full of years because of the sinner that dyeth accursed but a Child shall die a hundred years old where the Hoary Head is not reverenced nor the tenderness of youth respected CHAP. XII Wherein the substance of the VISION is concluded in a PROPHECY of that which is yet to come to pass directed in an Epistle to all that are separated into several Fellowships concerning the third part of the Book CXXXIII AS I beheld the Ark of God's COVENANT which was made with many People and great Nations brought up from the Waters in the new Created HEAVENS wherein the forms of Nature stood MANIFEST in their Figure and order of Number Among three hundred URNS or earthen PITCHERS that were broken that Light might spring forth from the Power of the Heavens whereby the Enemies of God were discomfited there remained onely two of those Vessels in the forms of Nature wherein every thing in being was doubled and the Heavens were drawn both
prevailed in the months thereof until the seven Mountains could be seen on which the great CITY was erected through the decreasing of the Waters in what remained falling backward for the space of seven Months XI And the CITY that thou sawest built and setled on those Mountains and high Hills which became the Foundations of all that fell into and under the palpability of WATERS is the City HENOCH which the first born of Nations erected under the power of Corruption from the ground which he became the Tiller and tearer up of when driven Eastward from the Face of the Earth and Presence of God into that Land where he took his Wife that he might call the name of his Buildings after the name of his Son for whom it was built XII For he possessed the seven forms of NATURE the number of years according to which the year increased its dayes and hath all the properties of the Heavens through a Translation wrought on the Body of Nature in what came forth mamfest in each line of the Fathers resting in LAMECH whence two Wives prevailed over the Man five years short of a sight into the destruction which prevailed over the Worlds in the state it was first planted CHAP. III. Describing the property of Enochs Prophecies XIII THose seven forms of Nature whose Characters are Figures in Hieroglyps have the property of Prophecy among the Works of Wonder which cannot be understood in the Creaturely Capacity but through the translations of ENOCH for whom the ground of conceiveability was torn up and no less power is requisite herein than that which smiteth the World in its third part of both Earth and Waters and all that lives therein or moves thereon wherein the Beast hath had his Seat as a Temple in which hath shined the glory of Sun and Moon and Stars XIV And for the revealing the true ground from whence all those glories may come again to shine in the Principles of Nature as in the beginning consumption and darkness must come before his Face who rideth in the Chariot of Nature wherein those glories are smitten in the third part until the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about the fourth part of the WORLDS over which the EAGLE hath prevailed XV. And though as those Angels stand manifest in the Heavens they are seven in number according to the seven forms of Nature through which are sounded the Mystery of God's Works of Wonders from the seven Golden TRUMPETS yet is their destroying power bound down in the four last forms only in which the Elements of Nature have spheared into Corruption for the discovery of the Lake of Fire that is hidden in the great River EUPHRATES from what is thence loosed XVI But the Witnesses hereof are only two manifested in each three Principles of both Heavenly and Earthly being in which the AIR is commanded until FIRE and WATER is become united in its ANGEL that hath one Foot on the Earth and hath his other on the great Seas for the Angel of the Waters saith It is done but an Angel of the Fire who continueth alwayes ministring before the ALTAR hath touched my Tongue with a live Coal he hath brought from thence wherein I am made able to declare of what he hath flung on the Earth XVII And beholding the seven Mountains of the Earth on which is setled the Foundations of that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Worlds in the in kindled Fire burning under its Foundations I see terrible shakings that are yet to pass through the Worlds over all buildings therein after the tenth part of the CITY is seen become fallen in the assending up of the Witnesses unto Heaven in the sight of their Enemies wherein the ten Horns of the BEAST shall hate the Whore and burn her flesh with FIRE XVIII Then shall be seen the seven Horns of the LAMB full of Eyes which are the seven Spirits of God which do walk among the seven Golden Candlesticks and the Books shall stand open on which hath been put those seven Seals that he may be known come into the Worlds that holdeth in his right Hand a Crown of seven Stars as seven golden Lamps burning before the Throne of God and the Lamb and lighting the whole Earth with his Glory in the form of the Pleiades for the seventh Trumpet shall sound forth the Mystery of what is thus unsealed over the mighty deeps which have filled the Worlds XIX And in the finishing of this great Mystery all Nations of the Earth shall be gathered to their appointed place that the Spirit and God of the World may bear the wrath of Indignation of what is poured forth on the frame of all created Principles into form without mixture which is the second Death executed in the seven last Plagues wherewith the seven Golden Vials are filled wherein God will appear in ten thousand of his Saints CHAP. IV. Describing the ground in Nature from whence the Wheels are moved about the frame of the WORLDS XX. THe seven spirits of God are moved about the frame of the WORLDS according to what doth operate and work up the way and course he is manifest through in the Seven forms of Nature which are become the Seven heads of the BEAST and the Seven Mountains of the WORLD on which the City is built wherein the WHORE doth sit exalted and therefore is God manifest in the Spirit of Judgement in those Forms of Nature that every thing may come forth tryed undeâ— the motion of the WHEELS XXI But though the BEAST hath taken Head in these forms of Nature Nature is again returning to its firsâ— subjection in the utter consumption and destruction of the power of the Dragon Beast and False Prophet ouâ— of those forms in Nature for now are the Wheels moving over the greaâ— River Euphrates on which the trumpet of God hath sounded and thence are loosed his destroying Angels which cause thunders and lightning in the Heavens XXII And the Clouds of Heaven are already tinctured with that which Ascendeth upward to prepare its motion in the Air whence his appearance is expected who judgeth the Prince thereof and casteth down the Accuser of the Just from those Airy Heavens wherein he hath been exalted though the Seven Forms of Nature which are moved about the heavens of the Worlds attend the first mover wherein the Work of God is manifest in the Seven Spirits of Nature XXIII For this center of the Inward WORLD which was thus unmovable had a power in and over all that was movable and changeable which became a cause in the motion of the WHEELS that was over-ruled by the wisdom and power of the first mover wherein all Glories of the FATHER shined in the Firmament of his POWER in which he remained unalterable and unchangeable the same without any shadow of turning or variation XXIV Yet is it only in Nature that God is become thus a cause
her borrowed Light from that fourth House which is become her seat in the second House which is her House of Exaltation CHAP. IX Describing the Properties of the IMAGE in the FORMS of Nature that fell in the WATERS XLIX THe Head of the IMAGE which was Gold was the LYONS four first Golden Wings wherein the strength of ASSYRIA was broken the first time in what was pluck'd from the LYON according to that which fell in the WATERS and the Silver Brest which was the two Horns of the RAM in Nature is the strength of the MEDES and PERSIANS that were broken by the Power of GREECE whereby BABYLON spread abroad her Kingdoms in the rising up of the little BEAR on the LYONS side wherein was that second great LIGHT comprehended L. But from the NORTH did he move about the Heavens through his TAYL wherein Centred the Meridian point thereof holding in his Mouth those three Ribs that were taken out of his Side in his rising up to devour much Flesh Furthermore said the Angel of God The great BEAR or LEOPARD that thou sawest is that in which a third part of the Stars of Heaven are comprehended that have fallen unto the Earth which is the brazen Belly of the IMAGE in the FORMS of Nature even the Power of GREECE in that which is dispersed under the Four Winds of the Heavens LI. This is a Power of the South Wind wherein the brass Belly of the Image remained bound down with an Iron Bond of the NORTH Strength from which it could not be loosed in the four destroying ANGELS of God until that was ripened to the Day of Destruction wherein the Wound of the BEAST had been healed up deceitfully though three Horns were plucked up by the Roots while the stumps of the IMAGE continued fallen in ASIA for the discovering of the four Heads of the Beast in which he bore the form of a Leopard or GREAT Bear but the LITTLE Horn waxed strong and became GREAT towards the four Winds of the Heavens LII For as I beheld the Throne of God placed in his Holy Habitation the Ancient of Dayes was sat thereon wherein appeared his burning Wheels and the signs in the WATERY HEAVENS discovered that which rested in their TRIPLICITY from the Zodiack whence those Houses of Mansions have their Constellations And though the RAM in Nature had the first Form in the Fiery Triplicity and was the first House of those twelve Mansions as is the CALF the first Form in the Earthly Triplicity and second House in those Mansions yet through the WHEELS the HEAVENS and EARTH were moved toward a Change throughout the seven forms of Nature in EACH Triplicity LIII Wherein the Lyon hath the Face of the first Beast among the FORMS in Nature though in his fifth House that which shineth from his Seat is exalted in the Head and Face of the Ram. But both the Created and Uncreated Beings having their generated Forms in the Body of Nature the first Form in the Airy Triplicity hath the Face of an EAGLE exalting that which is generated into the Double-Bodied-Being to be his House that is sheltered under the Wing of Favour in that fourth Beast through whom Death strengtheneth those Accidents that are drawn from the FIRST Form in the WATERY Triplicity from whence all changeable Courses do work up Life in the Brest of Nature wherein the SPIRIT of the Creature doth move which is the Candle of GOD through which Glory is put forth in those borrowed QUALITIES of Light LIV. Though from Barenness in the worldly Nature wherein the Glory of the Virgin hath been stained cancered crabbed Qualities have infected the Body whereby it hath sprung up and grew until from the second Form in the Earthly Triplicity the VIRGIN who hath sat in a dark place even the Bowels of Nature which is the sixth House in the Heavens came to put off her night Robes for the Glory of the Birth exalted in the separation of all mixt Qualities which is HEIR of everlasting Renown LV. Yet in the Watery Triplicity where in the Bodies Courses have been defiled through that which hath lain secretly lurking in the Members whereby the FORMS of Nature have power to generate an IMAGE of the Minds Delight the Womb hath opened to the Power of Death and letting in Sorrow into that which is possessed in the Eighth House whence the WORLDS are generated under a Power of Corruptian the Nature of the SCORPION stingeth in the Habitation of that second Form in the Watery Triplicity through the Pleasure under which its Subjects are allured for the multiplying of what is generated to secret content CHAP. X. Describing the MYSTERY of the Four Horses of four several Colours on which the four ANGELS that are loosed c. are come forth exalted LVI THrough the coming forth of the Son of MAN in the CLOUDS of Heaven who was cloathed with a Rain-Bow in which are all the colours of the Heavens in their pure Element as the Powers of Nature became subject to the exalted of God he rod on those CLOUDS that were dispersed abroad under the Four Winds of the Heavens as on the Rain-Bow in the Firmament whence every Angel of God is seen in his Beauty and Glory bending to the Son of his Love and Favour through whom he manifesteth the Life of Delight according to the source they possess and inhabit from the eleventh House of Mansions in the third Form of the Airy Triplicity like unto HORSE men that guide the Chariot of Nature LVII For the preparing of which DAY in its time those Goats have been suffered to come forth imbodyed in that which is loosed out of the bottomless Pit whereby the Earth hath been covered with Locusts wherein pangs have rested on those Men that have the Mark of the Beast Therefore saith the Angel of God In that third Being in the FIERY Triplicity wherein the form of the Son of Man is come forth exalted in the Clouds of Heaven through that which smiteth the EARTHLY Triplicity in its third part among the Forms of Nature the BOW Man is riding on his White Horse and over the White Clouds of the Heavens he hath spread his Glory from the North because of those flying Goats in his Way whose ratlings are like the Chariot-Wheels of the FURIOUS Drivers LVIII And in the Watery Triplicity the burning Mountain continueth in flaming from that which is cast into the Sea which doth rage and swell because of the disquiet that is come into its part of the Triplicity in that Watery Form over whom the Glories of the Heavens do not shine in that third part and wherein both Earth and Waters and all that live therein or move thereon are smitten in the aforesaid third part that resteth its torment on the seat of the BEAST into which Glory hath shined from the Heavens in the operation of those Signs of the Times LIX From whence I see great Alterations and Changes attending the
WORLDS in their Generations where wild BULLS of Bashan are reared up to push and devour each other and from DAN there is in mine Ear the snorting of Horses and ratling sound of the Chariot Wheels like rumblings in the Air hurling up and down for REST from noise And what is herein written is of things past present and to come which are all to be fulfilled in their place and order according to the Dayes and Hours for which the VISION doth work and is made to speak in what is narrowed to the Creaturely Capaciiy through him that hath cut the Work short in Righteousness that is manifested throughout this la lâ— and Age of the WORLD LX. For from the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about EUROPE in its fourth part and Quarter is the destroying Power of God loosed for the Execution of Divine Justice on those Men that have the Mark of the Beast on whom the torment of those Months is accomplished to the finishing the work in which Death hath Dominion over that Nature wherein the WORLDS are imbodied in its Quarters therefore is the time near at hand wherein the Worlds will suffer very great shakings and Earthquakes will break forth in divers parts thereof to the overturning of many Foundations and changing of Laws and Governments of Men whereby coldness of Spirit and deadness hath over-taken the Multitude in a dull and secure state and afterwards will follow a great Power of HEAT in kindling its FLAMES of DESTRUCTION throughout the BODY of the ELEMENTS CHAP. XI Describing the MYSTERY of Time for which the Vision is set c. LXI Concerning the TIME for which the VISION is set it is now near the expiration of one hundred and twenty days since the finishing of the fifteen years wherein I beheld the prevailing of the Waters over the Earth in the fifth year that I saw the fall of the Worlds under a Power of Corruption through which the Waters became smitten in their third part under which the WORLDS stand divided in their four Quarters in the dispersing abroad of the FLOODS on which the People were moved and tossed up and down as the Waters fell BACKWARD into their four Heads by which every thing hath been tryed and carried into its appointed Place through the Tempests and swelling Waves of awakened Storms that are come into the Worlds LXII For from those TWELVE Years wherein the Nations of the Earth were subject to one KING a Spirit of Rebellion against the Power of the Beast entered four Kings of the four Winds of the Heavens who fell before five in the Vale of Siddim that is full of slime-pits whereby the remainder of those that escaped were reduced to the Mountains on their flight yet the thirteenth year which was the year of their Rebellion was it in which the Power of the BEAST stood dispersed in the striving of the four WINDS of the Heavens on the great River EUPHRATES out of which their Power is again revived and loosed though from the Seat of the Beast which is the BOTTOMLESS-PIT from whence proceeded those living Creatures called LOCUSTS that I beheld in the Vision in the form of Goats c. Life again entred that on which rested the First Wound in Nature LXIII And as the LEOPARD or Great BEAR came forth manifest with four Wings on his Back like the Wings of a FOWL his Kingdom stood dispersed abroad the Earth and Worlds and in the place of the Great Horn of the RUFF GOAT of GREECE which was broken by the power under which the Worlds stood divided those Four notable Horns were seen that became exalted towards the four Winds of the Heavens which are the Power of four KINGS and four Heads of the Beast that did spring out of the first Breach whose Kingdoms are not so mighty as the first wherein the Little Horn came forth between the Eyes of the Goat c. LXIV And that little Help through which the fifth Head in the midst of four on which sprung up five Horns that were broken and fell in the first King received that deadly Wound c. is a Power in the North Wind of the Heavens under which the Wound is become again healed up that is the Feet of the Image which is partly to break and partly to be broken for it is both Iron and Clay And this is the King of the NORTH who may be manifest in the Person of a Man of fierce Speech and dark Countenance as he is indeed manifest through many in whom a Power of the North Winde hath been dignified as Kings in that REGION wherein is a cold binding Climat of dark Air. LXV For since the fourteenth year wherein the South Winds of the Heavens were reproved and corrected for their Rebellion in those four Kings whose Kingdoms were enlarged in the dispersing abroad of the Power of four that sprung out of one who retained not the ARM that which grew up towards its tryal by FIRE was separated into its Mystery in what was effected through the fifteenth year from whence the Worlds have been warned one hundred and twenty days according to the days of the Life of Man of that destruction and desolution by the over-flowing Scourge wherein the Waters have exercised a Dominion that is ome under the smiting of the four Winds of the Heavens LXVI And wherein both the HEADS and HORNS of the Beast are KINGS and POWERS in Nature that have their Form in and on Men yet the King himself of that North Wind is not the Person of any ONE Man but a Power in One as well as in Many that are wholly under the Dominion of the Beast or that have his Mark c. according to the Power of the Constellations under which the period of all Signs in the Heavens are moved and do work over such that have their concern therein in a mystical and spiritual sence to all NAMES in Nature but now is it manifest that the MYSTERY of Time is compleat in the Figure of the FORMS in Nature wherein every thing that is either past present or to come remaineth MEASURABLE and DISTINGUISHABLE according to that Spirit under which all Powers in Nature doth WORK and and whereby all that is wrought in its BEING is come forth into FORM. LXVII Yet Nature that is Creatable suffereth through all Changes and REVOLUTIONS that are MANIFEST on and in the BODY of ELEMENTS subject to Vanity and a Power of Corruption both the Good and the Evil of which the MAN hath tasted in the exercise of his Sence according to the operation of Qualities that are predominate in his BIRTH though nothing is absolute in time and place to the MAN but in the Power under which his Life is concerned operating in all the faculties of Nature in which is the holy and glorious Land whence tidings shall come out of the North and from the East which will trouble the NATIONS and Inhabitants of the Earth who are yet to
Glory became manifest in the WOLDS while the STUMPS thereof remained bound down in the Earth with an Iron BAND after seven times had passed over his HEAD which was wet with the Dew of the Night V. Wherefore from the time wherein the dayly Sacrifice was made to cease after the restoring of that breach on the Walls of Jerusalem to the finishing of the outward Court of the Holy City which was given into the hands of the Gentiles to tread under foot those forty two months or an hundred and forty two days being the concluding of a time times and the dividing of times which is seventeen hundred and fifty days wherein the Woman hath been nourished in the place that is there provided for her for the space of one thousand two hundred and threescore days that the two Witnesses have appointed them to finish and fulfil their PROPHECY in sackcloth in which time the Earth doth help the WOMAN It is now eighteen days since the Commandment of God came forth for the rebuilding and restoring those outward Courts of the CITY TIME on a Prophetical account wch is the Language of the holy Scripture is five hundred years according to the life of Noah before he began to build his Family in the EARTH which was saved in the Ark of God and so long is accounted the days of Shem after the Flood of Waters as the mystical Number in which is contained ten Jubiles of years under the Law VI. And after thirty one days it shall be finished then shall be a WEEK to renew the Zeal of God and expiate sin to the sealing and binding down the power of the WICKED for evermore and in the midst of that Week those Witnesses shall seal their Testimony concerning the Life of the Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth who hath been crucified and lain slain in the streets of that great City spiritually called Sodom and Egypt but after three days and a half which is the concluding of the 1290 days they shall be seen to ascend up into Heaven in the sight of all their ENEMIES VII For it is now eighteen dayes since the WOMAN hath regained a sence of her deliverance from her great Captivity in that WILDERNESS-State in which the forty two months of her travel are expired and the Birth is brought forth in the EARTH which hath been preserved and delivered from the fury and rage of the great red Dragon by the Floods of Water which he hath cast out of his BELLY after her in the one thousand four hundred and forty and four thousands that are found standing on Mount Zion with their Harps harping but until the end of two days the Judgment of God set up in ISRAEL shall quicken the sealed number of Gods chosen and holy Ones who have remained as dry Bones in the Valley of Jehosaphat where the spirit of God hath breathed on the slain that from the third day will be found to live in his sight to seal the testimony of that birth which hath thirty days more to accomplish its growth into the power by which it is anoynted to finish that great Work in that Week wherein the dead are made able to stand on their Feet by the sound of the seventh and last Trump VIII And he that hath WISDOM let him count the time and number those days from whence the number of the BEAST which is the number of a MAN is compleat DCLXVI for from that day will the four destroying Angels of God stand loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES according to the hour day month and year for which they were prepared which after a month wherein those five months will be expired will leave seven months for the Dead to bury their Dead in the concluding of the year wherein Destruction is come forth against the WICKED IX Therefore count thou from the year 1656 wherein the Devil did exercise his power for ten days by casting many into Prison since the expiration of the WOMANS Tryals and sore TRAVEL that the forty days wherein the Seed of the Woman was left to be persecuted and tried by the fury and rage of the Devourer and his Angels that great Red DRAGON will make way for the power of God to be glorified after the third day in ten thousand of his SAINTS for from the expiration of those months wherein the striving continued between two Nations the King of BABYLON who had looked into the Glory of the Temple which God hath built in Israel wherein are many goodly Vessels of Gold and Silver hath been letted from spoyling and laying utterly waste the HOUSE in which are appointed those rich Treasuries about his Sanctuary X. Yet the Daughter of the NORTH suffereth Oppression under a strange KING unto whom the QUEEN of the SOUTH is joyned to corrupt their Seed though unto them the Mystery of that which pertaineth to the KINGDOM of GOD is opened in those that run to and fro to increase in knowledge and from the extirpation of the fifteen years from whence the WORLD hath been warned one hundred and twenty days and wherein the EXECUTION of that which was detained from the Earth and WORLDS in their third part to the prolonging of Life in the Government of Nature in which ISRAEL had their choice is to be MANIFEST the substance of what standeth in the end of time and place which is near to be revealed XI Therefore for the purging forth the Sin of MANASSEH through whom the HIGH ALTARS were erected in both Courts of the City for those fifty five days wherein the number seventy was accomplished in the concluding of fifteen years which discovered the Judgement that revived and was come on the Worlds that on whom the Image of JEALOUSY came forth manifest forty five days are yet determined from the midst of the WEEK wherein the Testimony of GOD will receive its everlasting Seal and it shall be the Joy of many to understand the Mystery of what is concluded in one thousand two hundred and ninety days but blessed are those that live attain to the end of those eighty five days which are the concluding of one thousand three hundred thirty and five dayes from those ninety five days before the Sacrifice was offered up wherein the ROMANS obtained their Conquest over JUDEA and throughout ASIA in which the Jews were scattered which was sixty two days before the BABE was brought forth through whom it became accepted XII For from the Conception and Birth of the MAN-CHILD through whom the LIGHT of GOD broke forth with which the NATIONS of the EARTH and REGIONS of the WORLDS that have sat under the SHADOW of Death are ENLIGHTENED on whom is come the GLORY of GOD to the GENTILES Their number is fulfilled and compleat wherein TIME and TIMES are past and HALF A TIME is divided in those Figures 1750 and yet the EXPIRATION of those SIXTY TWO Weeks wherein the GENTILES had power to erect their GLORY in the
OUTWARD COURTS of the CITY in which the holy BUILDINGS were defaced for the FORTY TWO MONTHS is accomptable from the TIME wherein was brought forth a TESTIMONY of that LIFE in which the DAYLY SACRIFICE under the LAW was made to cease THE MEASURE OF TIME Ballancing all Actions in the Hand of the Angel I. THus saith the Angel of God Seal up the Vision according to the appointed time for which it is set and is made to speak For in the fifth month called JULY wherein JULIUS CAESAR was made the first Dictator in ROME will be the finishing of that Roman Monarchy in the year 666 and a great PRINCE will fall in Europe in the first month according to the expiration of the Prophecy of the two Witnesses who then will put off their Robes of Sackcloth and they will stand clothed in WHITE Garments wherein the sixty two Weeks that the Power of the Gentiles prevailed will discover the Mystery of DAYS in the number of Years that the Beast established his Throne in what went before the Face of the God and Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth II. And in the sixth month called August wherein Augustus Caesar was made Consul that Imperial Throne will be made subject to a Power of the Kings of the East but number thou a month of years according to the days of the year whereby the VISION is made to speak forth the Mystery of those forty two years wherein the Seat of his Imperial Dignity was exalted and then propose thy sayings before the Wise counting from the Creation of the Worlds in the Generation of ADAM that which standeth figured forth in the Mystery of the Number 62. according to the WEEKS in which the Power of God wrought in the work of Restoration III. But from the FLOOD of WATERS which prevailed over the Earth are fifty two Generations of men to the birth of him in whom that work of Restoration standeth manifest which are the Number of Weeks in the Year through whom the Worlds have multiplied that which is come forth in time and place And from the days of Abraham whose Seed he took on him rather then the nature of Angels are forty two Generations every Generation signifying the Change that is come into the WORLDS through the operation of the Moon over the Body of Nature wherein the Woman hath stood afflicted in her Seed for the destroying of that which corrupteth the way and courses under which the Worlds are generated until all things become changed into ETERNITY and the everlasting Body recover its first beauty and glory through all those Revolutions and Changes that are come into the World IV. And in the beholding of the glory of the ANGEL of God while he thus talked with me I saw his Eyes sparkle like flames of FIRE and he gave forth his Testimony concerning the Covenant of God that is confirmed with many and great Nations ratified in the BLOOD of that Life which hath entered the WITNESSES of GOD who are made able to seal their Testimony herein after which followeth an utter consumption on all the Enterprises of the ENEMY wherein the end of Time will finish the glory of God in the destruction of that Spirit in which the abomination of Desolation hath wrought in a Mystery and the consummation will make the Worlds desolate in the forms of Nature that will come into dissolution for the recovering Beauty in the Image of the first and last Element like unto the Glassy Sea of Transparent Glory out of which the Power of God will shine in subjected Nature V. For the KING of BABYLON who hath seen into the glory of the House of God wherein are many goodly Vessels shall not be able to remove thy Diadem O thou afflicted Daughter of a Land which God is laying waste out of the place wherein GOD will settle his Delight in the midst of thee until the transgressions of those that have sought to bear rule over thee by rigor and const aint is fully ripened and come to its end wherein God will purge forth all iniquity out of his own HOUSE and TEMPLE on which Judgement is first begun and thou that hast been tributary to KINGS of a strange Land fear not though thou art tossed up and down for thou art not forsaken and God will comfort thee in his due time VI. Who is come to lay all thy stones in fair colours though the House of God hath suffered defacement in its first and primitive beauty but the Glory of the later House shall be greater then the Glory of the first for thy Gates are CARBUNCLES and thy Windows are AGATES and thy inward PARLOUR is paved with LOVE and when I look unto thy Galleries I behold crowned KINGS rejoycing in the upper ROOMS and the best Wine is kept until now because of the last Glory of him that is bringing into the Wine-Cellar in exchange of FLAGONS with which the sick of Love hath been stayed VII And from the Feast in the Wilderness wherein was a Table spread and FAT things prepared MARROW and WINE from the lees well refined he is bringing to the WEDDING and LAST SUPPER of the Marriage of the LAMB where are all the Varieties in the Banquetting House and his Banner over them is LOVE Speak that my Soul may be refreshed and keep thou no longer silence O my Beloved And as the VISION receiveth Voyce let it testifie of thy Authority in the Heart by that which is ready to be fulfilled VIII For the DAY is come and yet cometh that the Power of God will so appear and break forth through his chosen VESSELS in whom he taketh delight to manifest his good pleasure that nothing shall be able to stand before it and obstruct the WAY thereof but IRON BARS and BOLTS shall be broken and snapt asunder as a Thred of Flax and PRISON DOORS shall fly open before them that dwell in the power in which God is enlarging the Hearts of the Poor and Upright yea great Seas shall be divided and stand on heaps when they move forward and the Waters therein shall be dried up for the KINGS of the East to pass over IX And there shall be no need of outward Laws of Men to restrain Vice and Wickedness neither shall any covet high Places of Renown and conditions of that State unto whom Trust in Government is reposed but rather shall say In my House is neither bread nor cloathing make me not a Healer nor let not the breach of Ruines rest under my Hands for I came out of Prison and have the Garments of Captivity how then can I govern Nations but like unto a Child And wo be unto that People because of a KING in Woman that setteth the Beggar on horseback while the PRINCE doth walk on his Feet yet he will raise up the Poor from the Dunghil and exalt him of low degree when the Image of God doth so appear and break forth on the Heads of his Beloved and Chosen that it shall be able to raise a Witness in the worst of Men. X. But under the Anger and Fury thereof they shall not be able to stand though it hath not any other compulsive Power but what is exercised in the Conscience because it will either cast out or conquer the Unclean Spirit that acteth evil and detaineth Right from the Oppressed or destroy the MAN that remaineth joyned thereto though it delighteth not in the Destruction of Creatures or to be avenged on the WORKMANSHIP of GOD but is constrained by the necessity of a LAW in Nature under which Divine Justice seeketh to be magnified when the patience of God hath discovered the end of the work of his Spirit which doth all to praise him even by his own Work out of the Mouth of the Babe XI Which is the Sword in Gods Mouth and Breath of his Nostrils the Word that proceedeth from the holy Lips whereby the Nations shall be consumed and destroyed that stand in his way and remain in opposition to his Power because he is a great and mighty KING and GOD above all LORDS that are many in the Earth who wil conquer and destroy the Power of DEATH and remove the GRAVE into the Land of forgetfulness that his Will may be done in Earth as in Heaven and his Work effected on the BODY of Nature in both outward and inward WORLDS through the power of Redemption and Restoration of all created Principles in Nature unto their first Beauty and Glory where is no more SEA but the SEA of pure Water transparent in the reflection of its Element XII Before which time there shall be seen many signs and Wonders in the Clouds of the Heavens and the work of God will appear and break forth from thence and in that Power shall a People whom God is gathering to himself from the ends of the Worlds dwell for evermore and the firmament of both outward and inward World shall be filled with Stars that remain fixed in their glory and luster as Morning-Stars that sing together and Sons of God that shout for joy and out of all the Glory Pleasure and Profit of the Worldly Spirits Interest their Hearts shall be redeemed and from the Allurements of the same shall be found dayly dying and then dead whereby they will be the Terror of the NATIONS when in the power of God who hath kept the Creature poor and low and weak that God alone might inrich the Soul in his due time the Life ariseth in glory in that sence of Poverty of SPIRIT from whence the Power that is able to make many Rich breaketh forth BLESSED BLESSED and Everlastingly HAPPY therefore are all those that wait for and throughly believe in the redeeming Power of the Work of God by this Spirit that is broke forth and come into the Worlds to the destruction of that Evil One the Man of Sin Lord Let thy Will be done yet hasten thy WORK to cut it short in RIGHTEOUSNESS wherein thy Name may be exalted in Mercy that delighteth not in the destruction of Creatures and Souls of Men. Come quickly saith my Soul that causest Joy in thy holy Way Amen and Amen THE END