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
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
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
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
and sought ease by weeping and mourning and coming to sit down by the side of a Wall I was awakened in a sence of the Agony which was upon me after which the glory of the SUN through which I beheld the Wonders of God in the Vision came out of the HEAD of Natures Government descending towards its HEART which was like the Heart of a LYON the Glory of which SUN was exalted in the Head and Face of a RAM amongst the forms of Nature XCIV And in the night season being perfectly awakened I was brought into an inclosed ground which was very dark wherein boisterous storms and tempests were arisen for I was led somewhat out of my way in the conflict and drew towards a little Town near my way wherein I was cruelly dealt withal and though it was late in the night yet I gave up in patience and drew towards a heap of straw in the way-side whereon I lay down to rest me XCV And by the excess of Rain which began to fall I was driven to leave that place also and went into the Fields again where there brake forth before me a WHITE LIGHT in the shape of a SHEEP so far as I could discern it which being round about me in a flame did surprize me with fear whereby the form of the ANGEL vanished and before him went a noise like the crackling of the rotten Hedge which left me much in amazement so that I could not find the way out of the Field or Inclosure in two hours time till I had given up in my mind and forgiven those that thrust me out after which I found my way and came quietly to the Journeys end XCVI After which the Angel of God led me about the circumference of the Worlds to behold the surface thereof and he brought me into a green Field where I saw the frame and form of the HEAVENS and of the Natures of all Creatures in the Worlds and the WHOLE was like unto WATER And there were a THOUSAND Hills and a Thousand Springs of Water And in the same manner as I was acted under the exercise of the Vision so appeared the form of the Worlds wherein came forth a great Number of WOMEN who at last were reduced into SEVEN and each of them sought to lay hold on me but I fled in great fear and lost the sight of the Angels Glory for a time CHAP. IX Declares how I was exercised under the Power of the Vision XCVII AS I was carried by the Spirit of the Lord into a great WILDERNES the Angel of God by whom the Forms of Nature were thus awakened in me brought up the appearance of that Wilderness-state into manifestation in which the Woman continued labouring in the Heavens which Heavens did multiply all forms in Nature into their number and order in which the power of Creation in individual Bodies was separated in its being into two third parts of such forms and the seventh part of the Worlds became corruptible Earth XCVIII From which one THIRD PART thereof was dryed up on the third day wherein Nature had its operation over all Bodies brought into Form in the Work of CREATION which was the TENTH PART of that which remained under the exercise of TRYALS both by FIRE and by WATER and the two third parts of those WATERS were comprehensible in their Qualities from the fiery Heavens whence the circumference of the out-spread Firmament was filled with Airy Bodies and the Earth and Waters were replenished with living Creatures which came under the refining power of those renewing Faculties and Virtues in the forms of Nature imbodied from those WATERS XCIX But what came thus forth in seven natural dayes came under tryal in the operation of three essential days wherein the power of God was manifest for the recovering of a SENCE in the Creature of that work wherein God doth glory and is praised which is the Resurrection of the Just in the first and last power of Creation wherein Majesty is Exalted and therein was manifest A restauration to all forms in NATURE fallen in the WORLDS wherein the MAN who had caused destruction to the Body of Nature was called to account in the Tryal while suffering remained in that third PRINCIPLE in which he was imbodied C. And as the WATERS were gathered together in their Course into the seventh part of the WORLDS which had form in the Earth those two living Creatures called BEHEMOTH or HENOCH Leviathan were separated into their being because it was so ordered in Wisdoms Counsellings that they could not both live together in one place But according to the operation of the day in Nature in which they were brought forth they possessed each part of the Worlds wherein the great WHALE had dominion in the moist part thereof and the Behemoth caused the Image of Giants in the forms of Nature brought forth in Woman in the coming down of the Watchers into the Creaturely conceivance through that which possessed the Earth CI. For in the Firmament placed between Waters and Waters living Creatures were multiplied in Airy Bodies from those Fiery Heavens which Creatures possessed that third part of the Worlds in which the Waters were dryed up from the Earth sixty thousand furlongs in its circumference which is the fourth part of what remaineth measurable in the forms of Nature wherein one third part of the Waters is comprehended CII And as the way and course of what was Generated from the HEAVENS above and Earth beneath was traced in the HEIGHTS and DEPTHS of the WORLD there appeared pourtraied forth through the motion of the Wheels in the Vision a GREAT CITY built on seven Mountains which were seven Foundations on which it setled and the Mountain in the Midl of the Seven which was the Seventh stood higher then the rest on which was built and founded the tenth part of the City which I thus beheld CIII In which place it was compassed about with Fowls of the Air and wild Beasts of Prey wherein the Enemy who is the power of Destruction went about continually seeking to betray and devour but I could not conceive that those BRUIT Creatures did build and rear up the Foundation of that City therefore I concluded in my mind that some Men had been there to build its Foundation though their Houses were left unto them DESOLATE And as I was thus musing in my mind concerning these things I came to apprehend my self a wayfaring Man and a wanderer in the World groaning in Spirit to see the issue of what was thus visioned for I came again to behold the form of the Woman in the Heavens that continued in labour and travel in that Wilderness-state until the time of her deliverance was come CIV And as she had conceived the Birth of Life under the power of contrariety that wrought in the HEAVENS through two Nations on which the blessing of God began to rest the Woman prevailed in the World for their bringing forthout of the
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
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
Beauty which setled that which was therein finished on those seven Mountains or high Hills that became its Foundations and they had an eighth Mountain LXVII These are the Mountains on which descended the Form of what ever was first built and erected in the Heavens setled among the forms in Nature wherein the fashions of all glory in the Worlds are decaying and are ready to pass away though it seemeth to be adorned with magnificence with Towers great and strong and its situation very pleasant and beautiful while the antient breach that hath been made thereon in its ruinated state many are seeking to prop up by worldly inventions the discovery of which is become the torment of the Worldly Spirit that hath sought a Life therein LXVIII And the Angel of God shewed me the whole frame of this building and bid me tell its Towers and count its Foundations and number its Mountains and behold its Situation that it may be said in Generations to come This is she of whom we were forwarned And while the Angel of God was thus talking with me I beheld the appearance of a living Creature that weaved out of his BOWELS the form of the Heavens and it stood in the Firmament placed between Waters and Waters as between the Heavens and the Earth LXIX As to the living Creature he had eight Legs and through the Clouds of the Heavens which were over the face of the Waters he weaved out of his Bowels Coverings like unto the Spiders Web which had their course and motion according to the frame of the Worlds in their Corners and Quarters wherein his labour was in the Night in the distance of Degrees from the Sun of the Glory of the Son of Man formed in the Clouds of the Heavens which went before and came after the Sun of such Glory in which the Creation of God was first formed and brought forth who had his Star called HESPER and VESPER as Morning and Evening Stars And I beheld and hearkened until a Voice came from Heaven like unto those four Thunders which passed before me which had an interpretation among the sounds in Nature and the Voice was Over hundreds they have moved a hundred times as over ten thou movest because of Wages that have been changed ten times but over one I am once moving and the dividing of times hath discovered a time that was Mans glory to see and behold while good followed the WORLD in the state wherein it was planted though times are past in that wherein the Wheels have made a difference LXX And the fifth Thunder thundered from the New Jerusalem that descended from above out of Heaven as a BRIDE that is readily adorned for her Husband the Voice of which did reach into the great CITY that is Spiritually called Sodom and Egypt where our Lord lyeth Crucified and Slain Wherein I saw the fall of that which was setled on five of those Mountains and the sixth Foundation was also shaken that the seventh might come up and be revealed and in that seventh were the seven manifest from whence the WORLDS had bubled through the renewing of all forms in Nature which were tryed by Tempests until Gods goodness came up through that which swayed the Scepter in Israel and brought forth Judgment in the power of the Heavens LXXI For those seven Mountains had the names of seven Months in the Years in which God was manifest in the work of Creation according to the Power of his WORD in Nature by which the works of Wonder in GOD are established through that which wrought in a Mystery And they are the Months in which God discovereth the going forth of the WORLDS as they have their Foundations in the EARTH setled among the forms in Nature and the Towers which setled in that which adjoyned to the Body of that Temple as Heads of the Beast had the name of the seven dayes in the Week LXXII Wherein the beginning of Beauty and Glory revealed through the Foundation in which it setled rested its ruines on ASSYRIA through which the forms of the Towers were put forth as a Banner displayed towards ASIA and the name of that first Mountain was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereon stood a Man with both hands dipt in BLOOD and in his right Hand was a Sword but I beheld until the form of the Man vanished and there was nought left but the Head and Face of the RAM wherein was erected the form of the TOWERS and from the second Mountain which had the name of the second Month called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 proceeded splendor and brightness as the flowers of all increasing properties in the power of Nature and from the third Mountain which had the name of the third Month called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 proceeded the Vail and Covering of Green Leaves CHAP. VII Describing the form of the Temple which setled its Foundations on SEVEN MOUNTAINS of the EARTH LXXIII ON four of those MOUNTAINS rested the Body of the Temple according to its Foundations and the names of the Months by which they were called which stood in the fourth part of the WORLD with its Corners and Quarters East West North and South according to the four Winds of the Heavens that were moved from thence with their four Angels exalted on their Towers from the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES through that which prevailed in the fiery triplicity of the Heavens over the Earth and Waters in their third part LXXIV Wherein the Vernal Quarter was Manifest in a fourth Mountain from whence all Fruits of the Earth came under fiery Tryals to the scorching and consuming all that stood on that foundation in the Ground of such a Nature whence it received the name of the 4th Month called THAMUZ and on the fifth Mountain which had the name of the fifth Month called AB was manifest the Image of Jealousie from whence proceeded the fiery Zeal of that consuming power which prevailed over the Fruits of the Earth until they became reaped after which was nought found through the appearance of a sixth Mountain which had the name of the sixth month called ELVL LXXV And in the Temple there appeared the form of a WOMAN exalted in the Heavens on whose Forehead was written JEZEBEL the Mother of Harlots and I beheld until nought was remaining but the Palms of her hands which the Dogs refused to eat yet did she reign as Queen of Nations and had power over the Kings of the Earth there appeared the Scarlet coloured BEAST on which her form was exalted who was very gloriously decked and adorned with Gold and precious Stones and Pearls and Purple and delicate aray and on her forehead was a name wrote MYSTERY BABYLON the Great the Mother of all Fornication LXXVI And she was carried into the Wilderness whither I was led by the Angel who shewed me her Cities of Refuge and there was a very great City in which the sixth Thunder thundered
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