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
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 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
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
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
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
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
bewitching Vanities and Pleasures of the WORLD as one charmed among Wild Beasts of prey and stung by fiery flying Serpents and the devouring Creatures of that Field which afterward became healed by the lifting up of the BRAS and those Women came forth to reap the Fruits of the Earth XLII And from the Captivity of the South Wind did deliverance spring up to the Daughter of the North on whose back rested the two WINGS of an EAGLE wherewith she had fled into the Wilderness wherein she had a place prepared from the rage and fury of the DRAGON for time times and the dividing of times for as the North Wind came to prevail the Queen of the South was removed out of her own Land who wrought by craft and much subtilty to corrupt the Seed in the North for therefore was the Daughter of the SOUTH given to the King of the NORTH wherein the Enemy prevailed over the Daughter of the North forty and two months that the Holy City was troden under foot in which time the TWO WITNESSES finished their Testimony of one thousand two hundred and threescore dayes wherein they prophesied in Sackcloath XLIII Yet the King of the SOUTH did not retain the Arm for one of his Princes was exalted above him a man of fierce speech and dark countenance though a vile Person who stood up in his stead but the Hearts of both those Kings to wit of both North and South WINDS of the Heavens were set to do mischief and they spoke lies at one Table whereby the fourth part of the Worlds came under fiery Tryals through this fourth turn of the WHEELS which I beheld over the forms in Nature thus brought forth under the Power of Corruption wherein the Waters had prevailed that were smitten by those Tryals XLIV And through the sounding of the Trumpets the Earth was smitten in its third part wherein a third part of its Fruits withered and died And I beheld until the form of that third part became like unto a burning Mountain cast into the Sea which made its Waters like unto Blood and there was Thundering and Lightning and Tempest while the Mountain continued burning with Bounds placed about it so that no Beast could come near it but if he touched it he was struck through with an Iron Dart that he died neither was any to gaze thereon while the fury continued XLV And on the Rivers and Fountains of WATER also which did run in the several Streams and Channels of the Courses in the Worlds in their renewing state fell a STAR called COR LEONIS the Heart of a Lyon or WORMWOOD and those Waters were made BITTER and darkness came on all Celestial Glory in the Heavens wherein both Sun and Moon and Stars of Heaven were smitten in their third part which became black like Cloth of Hair and Fire mingled with Blood and those Lights shined not in their third part XLVI And there fell from Heaven a second Star called Sagitarius who descended on the bottomless Pit in which the Power of the great Red Dragon and old deceiver of mankind Satan and the Devil had been bound by the Chain in the Hand of the Angel and the Seal on the Pit which a strong Angel of God had put thereon who had bound him down for a thousand years was taken off in which time I beheld the Resurrection of the first Fruits of the Work of the Spirit of God which followed those that were made partakers of that first Resurrection over whom the second death had no Power though the Devil went about to deceive those Nations of the Earth that he had power over And the WHEEL moved about its fifth time and turn over those properties of Life wherein the forms of Nature remained imbodied subjected to a Power of Corruption in which those four Angels remained bound in that great River EUPHRATES XLVII Then came up on the Earth the form of Beasts like unto GOATS and their Faces were like unto the Faces of Men and their Hair like unto the Hair of Women and they had Tails like Scorpions and Stings in their Tails and their Power was over a third part of men imbodied in the Creaturely Being and forms of Nature the exercise of which Beasts was for the cleansing Gods Sanctuary and therefore had they power to exalt to Horn that the Wound of the Daughter of ZION which had been healed up deceitfully daubed with untempered MORTER might be throughly searched into for the separation of that and those over whom the Beasts had Power on whom was his Mark into their Mystery in reference to what was effected in those five Months through which the Wheels came again to move about in their SIXTH time and turn for the loosing of their Angels out of that great EUPHRATES and the name of that fifth Month was called A B XLVIII Yet had not the BEASTS power to kill those men in whom their dominion was exercised but to Torment them for those five Months whose Wound was like unto the biting of an ADDER in the Way or sting of a Serpent as when a Scorpion striketh a Man wherein the bruise on the WOMANS Heel was felt for as the Horse Heels the Beast on whom the destroying Power of God in the Heavens was exalted became bitten by the SERPENT its Rider fell backward and they lost the first shape of Men and through the Pangs of those Men a night of sorrow came over all their WORLDLY Glory and I beheld their Wound like unto a Plague-sore which came on the THIGH of Nature whereby many were made to seek Death because of their PANGS but it fled from them and they could not find the way of Dissolution though they sought it for the Darkness that was on the SUN and on the AIR was like unto the smoak of a Furnace and it was the Fume of the Bottomless Pit out of which the Nature of those BEASTS called Locusts was imbodied in FORM. CHAP. V. Describing the order of those four Angels that were loosed out of the great River Euphrates and came forth exalted on the four Horses of several Colours in those forms of Nature XLIX THrough the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES the power of those four Angels became loosed on the Earth towards the four Winds as it stood divided in its four Quarters and the destroying Power thereof in which Death became Potent was a strength in the North Winds of the Heavens over that fourth or North Quarter of the Worlds as it stood thus separated in its continent over which those Winds were withheld from blowing or striving therein with his Creature and through the loosing of those four destroying Angels I beheld wherein their Power was bound in that fourth part or quarter of the WORLDS compassed about by the great River Euphrates for the space of five years and five months and five dayes and five hours wherein each ANGEL became exalted on his Beast in the forms of
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
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
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
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