they drink and forget the Ancient Unalterable Law and pervert the Judgment of the Afflicted who bears the Form of a Servant in the humane Gate Give this intoxicating Drink to him that is ready to perish in Eternal Misery And the Wine of Spewing and Ebriety to them that have heavy Hearts in the hellish Chambers Let them drink and forget their Poverty and want of the means of Refreshment and let them try whether by Guzling and Tipling they may remember their Misery no more But swim thou O Man this is the Injunction in Rivers of Pleasures and Christaline streams of Nectar Yet thou art forbidden upon pain of Eternal Deâ—th or an Imprisonment in Deaths Bonds during the Life of thy Eternity to drink of the sowr harsh property of Pain opposed to Pleasure or of the Poyson of the Creation which will cause a Commotion in thy griping Bowels and a Rebellion of one Property against another in thy disturbed Conscience that thou shalt never feel Ease and Refreshment Rejoyce O Man therefore and continue young Eternally And let thy Heart chear thee in the Endless days of thy renovated Youth and walk in the ways of thy heart and in the sight of thine Eyes affording to thy Soul his Will and Desire all that which he longs after But know thou that for all these things God will bring thee to Judgment to clear or condemn thee yea and if thou neglectest this to banish thee for ever to thy own desired Country where Pain is known § 6. It is no indifferent thing THerefore remove sorrow from thy Heart and put away evil and pain from thy flesh for the Childhood of Folly and fading Youth are Vanity and the source of Death Be not Righteous over-much and wise in thy own Conceit thinking thou canst find a place of Superity above this Heavenly Joy Why shouldst thou destroy and cast thy self into an Abyss of never attaining thy aim Be rot over-much wicked having treacherous thoughts in thee that thou mayest Dethrone God Neither be t cu foo ish in not apprehending the way and means of satisfying the Soul Why shouldst thou dye before the appointed time For thou wast never appointed to die except thou drawest Death upon thee and swallow up thy self by thy babling and foolish self-accusation in thy accusing Conscience It is good thou shouldst take hold of this Counsel Yea also from this Obedience withdraw not thy Hand For he that feareth and loveth God's Law shall come forth out of all the foresaid dangers Now observe It is no indifferent thing this Law must be fully obeyed that is thou must afford all the delight and Pleasure to thy Soul that he is capable of There is nothing better for thee than that thou shouldst eat of the Tree of Life and drink the Wine of Pleasure and play in the Coelestial Dance and fill thy Soul and make him enjoy good in thy Labour This is the Ancient Unalterable Law which will continue to all Eternity This also I saw that it was from the Hand of God to do thus For who can eat and drink and sport in this Angelical Scene And who else can hasten hereunto more than I who am nearest to God For God giveth a Man that is good in his sight Wisdom and Knowledge and Joy But to the Sinner against this old Law he giveth Travel to gather and heap up that he may provide for and give to him that is good before God but he shall never reap the Fruit of his Labour because he had not the Fear of God before his Eyes when he plotted to undermine him § 7. Mans Portion from God BElieve it O Man I know there is no good in all thy Labour except thou doest rejoyce and do good in thy Life and enjoy the Fruits of thy Travail This is the Gift of God And this is thy Portion which God hath appointed thee and every man If thou dost not so who will deliver thee out of the Jaws of Death to see what Pleasures shall be after thee in the next World This is a sore Evil which I have seen under the Sun of Time and Vanity namely Treasures and Riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt But those Riches perish by evil Travel And he begetteth a Son or Fool like himself in his own Metamorphosed Form whereinto his Soul by Transmigration doth enter And he carrieth nothing in his Hand to the Infernal Shades As he came forth out of his Infernal Mothers Womb or the Original Matrix and cause of every Property Naked shall he return or go as he came and shall take nothing of his foolish Labour and hunting after Vanity which he may carry away in his Hand And this also is a sore Evil that it must be thus God cannot be blamed That in all Points as he came having nothing of his own but what God gave him so shall he go again with his empty Vessel And what Profit hath he that hath laboured for the Wind And will Eternally Labour and yet find nought but a Shadow of Vanity All his Days also be eateth in Darkness and he shall have much Sorrow and Wrath with never-ceasing Pain and Sickness Behold that which I have seen It is good and comely for one to Eat and Drink in true Pleasure and to enjoy the Delights of Humane Life and the good of his Labour that he taketh under the Sun of his Lot all the days of his Eternity which God gives him for his Right and Propriety For it is his Portion For he shall not lay to Heart the Days of his Affliction Because God answereth him in the Joy of his Heart There is an Evil which I have seen below the Sun of Purity and is common among Men A Man to whom God hath given Riches and Honour so that he wanteth nothing for his Soul of all that he desireth Yet because of his evil Mind God gives him not Power to eat thereof and enjoy the Fruit of his Labour but a Stranger eateth of it This is a sore Vanity and an evil Disease § 8. The Fool neglecteth IF a Man beget an hundred Images of his evil Mind and live many Years so that the days of his Years be many and yet his Soul be not filled with good and also that he have no Burial but that he be left as a Carkass for the Daemons of the Power of the Air I say that an untimely Birth is better than he as being cut off in the Bud. For this Embryo cometh in with Vanity and departeth in Darkness and his Name shall be covered with Darkness and never known in the light of Life Moreover He hath not seen the Sun of Vanity nor known any Opposition of the Properties This hath more rest than the other Yea though this other live a thousand Years twice told Yet hath he seen no Good So as to find Satisfaction Do not all such as these go to the same Place at last All the Labour of
of the Almighty Creator himself For it cannot be expected that God should or would help Man any more having created him like himself and also created him a new when there was possibility lest of Recovery But if Man becomes his own Creator and a Necromancer in the Hellish Operation a third Relief can never be And why Because God himself cannot work against the Truth or the right Order of Eternity He himself being the Prince of Order And he cannot deny himself and belye his own Nature Neither will he call back a Day that is past §. 3. God alloweth Time NOw now now is the time It may be possible to day to do a thing which cannot be done to morrow Yea the true Hour must be waited upon to do it Go not about a Business against the Hair Because to every thing and business there is Time and Judgment which Man oâ—t times neglecteth therefore his Misery is great upon him Lose not the Tyde of the Eternal Ocean which should carry the Soul to Paradise for it stays for none Now is the time to work with all thy might and to lay up for Heaven the end of thy Labour and Work For in the Grave whither thou goest it cannot be attained Tâ—o ' God promises Forgiveness to Repentants yet he doth not promise to morrow to repent in For many shall strive to enter in at the Gate of Heaven but when the day of Grace is past they shall not be able Whoever he be that sinneth out his Day or despiseth the last Day of his Visitation by Obstinacy slighteth the Holy Ghosts last Reproof rejâ—cts him out of his Company and becomes Reprobate A Man in a Christian Warfare may quarrel with his Reprover oft-times and be reconciled again considering that those Reproofs were for his Good But the Reprobate is past Reproof and hates to be Reformed He shall not be forgiven in this World nor in that which is to come No tho'he Esau-like doth seek to repent for his Repentance is too late And tho' he work at the Hour of Death with all his might what soever his hand sindeth to do towards his New Creation yet the Mystery of the false Nature prevails And it is folly to seek the Living among the Dead It is true God and his benign Powers or Influences wait for an Advantage against the Devils Temptations at all times And therefore the good Genius will not leave the very worst Sinner till the last gasp For according to the Right of the Deity the holy Angels claim the first sifting and searching of the Soul when Man is a dying As a Physitian when he seeth his Patient mortally sick yet he gives him some Cordials to ease him So God may lessen the Punishment and Damnation of one that hath sinned out his Day of Grace offered once to him and now repents heartily that he hath passed by the Gate of Mercy at such and such times which is now fresh in his Memory and is forry by late repentance But he can never enter in at Heavens Gate For the Door will be shut in its right time and â—arries for no Mans lingering And the Tyde of the Eternal Ocean will wait no Mans leasure §. 4. And Tallents SEranimis Vita est Câ—asina vive Hodie To Morrow's Life is too late Live to Day Feed on thy true daily Bread to Day or to Morrow thou wilt dye Eternally Post Mortem Aeternam nulla Voluptas Expect not therefore after thou hast eaten thy Morsel in wantonness to have it too when there is need of it to refresh thee in thy Journey Thus Men complain now-a-days of the hardness of the Times not considering how they spend in a Day many times in a Drunken Feast what might naturally supply them with sufficiency as to the maintenance of their Bodies in Health for a Month. This is abusing or rather a Fascination of Gods Blessings Therefore as One said In this World is the Place of Mercy in the Other of Justice and Judgment And The Eeginnings of Things are in our own Power but the End in God's And He that considers what is past may foresee what is to come One scoffingly said to one that lost his Watch or Horary Engine Time will away all the World cannot help it So may it be said to the Fool that lost his spiritual Instrument of discerning Time and Eternity O Man Provide Oyl and Treasures for Heaven before-hand Trimmed Lamps without Oyl are of no real Use Tho' one of thy Feet may be already in the Grave of Hell as being one that came when the Door of Mercy was shut and tho' thou may'st be an old and reprebate Sinner and yet wouldst now repent at the Twelfth Hour after thou hast been working for thy Master the Devil as being one of those that stood idle in the Market-place expecting Work from the Lord of the Vineyard tho' it be too late now Make thy self a Friend in time for old Friends and old Wine are best Thou wilt perhaps hope God will make thee his new Friend at the last Hour but that is too late For saith Christ It is not mine to give you to sit on my Right or Left Hand but to whom it is prepared of my Father according to the condition of the Covenant But whosoever comes to God in time God can in no wise cast out For such a one takes Heaven violently by Force and as one said overcomes God and claims Heaven as his Right as tho' Heaven were his true native Home and God his real Father as indeed he is Tho' it must be confest Mans Fall made Heaven to become a Free Gift §. 5. The Seed sown at Death SOme may object If Man be a small Incarnation wherein God was pleased to multiply himself Or if Man be God's Off-spring and Essence how can God pass Sentence upon his own Essence Answ Here lies the great Mystery The Work of Eternity is the World not yet made and yet ever made by Eternity viz. This World was made in six Days but the World for which this was made will scarce be finished in less than Six thousand Mystical Days or Years The Soul as to the stamp mold or eternal shape thereof will not be finished till the death of the Body Even then the Signature of the Soul's Spirit or else of its Worm will be charactered for Eternity Every wicked Soul is but an Embryo And the Divine Child or Pious Soul is now a forming in the Womb of the outward Body and not perfected in an holy Man till the fall of the Body Therefore whatsoever God doth it shall be for ever established by his Graver the Spirit on the Souls Beast-Plate Consider his Work For who can make straight that which he hath made crooked by the Law which altereth not And say not thou What is the cause that the former Days in the outward Life were better than these dark and gloomy Days nigh Deaths Door For thou dost not
happens according to the Work of the Righteous I said that this is also the result of Vanity §. 4. Retaliation THe Soul that diggeth a Pit for the pure Spirit of the Soul shall fall himself into it And whoso breaks an Hedge the Fence betwixt the two Properties a Diabolical Serpent shall sting and bite him Whoso removeth Stones or the true Land-mark shall be hurt therewith and the building of his false Imagination shall fall upon him And he that cleaveth the Pillars of Heaven shall be endangered thereby If the Iron be blunt and there be no Stone to what the Edge because it is lost by Negligence then thou must put more Strength in the Gate of Purgatory in this Life but Wisdom if in time she had been embraced would have directed thee Surely the Serpent will bite without Inchantment And a Babler or false Accuser of the Spirit of the Soul is no better The Tongue will break a Bone Yet it is the best weapon of Defence if skilfully handled The Words of a Wise Man is Gracious and refresh the Spirit of the Soul with his good News and Story of his Travels and escape in Shipwrack but the Self-accusation of a Fool will condemn and swallow up himself in the Abyss He needs no Bell at his Neck His Bolt is soon shot The beginning of the Words of his Mouth contradicting his Conscience is Foolishness And the end of his talk at the Day of Judgment is Mischief and Madness and an eternal Frenzy Curse not therefore the King O Man no not in thy thought Speak not reproachfully against the Princely Spirit in the Bed-Chamber of thy Whorish Companion For the Angel-Guardians of the Air shall carry the Voice And the winged Cherub shall discover the High-Treason For Rebellion is as the Sin of Witchcraft And as a Witch is a Rebel in Physicks So reversing the Point a Rebel is a Witch in the spiritual Politicks §. 5. The Souls Metamorphosis ALso I said in mine Heart concerning the State of the Sons of Men that God might manifest them and they may see that they themselves are of a Bestial Shape in the inward Signature except they be new-born in the right Humane Shape For that which befalleth Men befalleth the outward Animals Even one thing befalleth them as the one dieth the External Death so doth the other Yea they have all one Breath drawn from the Airs Power So that a Man hath no preheminence above a Beast for all is Vanity which is in the outward Love and vanisheth as a Shadow All Animals Humane and Bestial Sensitive and Rational go unto one Place the Grave of the four Elements the Womb of their first Mother which conceived them swallows them again All are of the Dust or of the hoil of Atoms and all turn into the same Chaos again Now observe this Mystical Ancient Philosophical Point who knoweth the noble Soul or Spirit of a Right Humane Being that goeth upward into his own Heaven and the Spirit of the Bestial Man by the Transmigration of his Soul into an Eternal Brute or rather by the Metamorphosis thereof into a degenerated Viper or Toad or other sensual Animal according as his Soul was inclined in its Nature in this Life that goeth downward into the Opacious Cave of the gross dark Earth in the bottomless Abyss This is not set down here to reproach Mankind but because it is certainly known in the Light of the Eternal Sun O Man consider thy self here §. 6. Work in Time CAst thy Bread into a Ship floating upon the Waters of thy Eternal Ocean as Treasures laid up in Heaven and thou shâ—dt find it after many Days in Eternity Give a Portion to seven thy seven Properties and also to the Eighth hidden in the seven the beginning of a new Harmony For thou knowest not what evil may be hereafter in thy Humane Earth If the Clouds of blessing be full of Rain and Heavenly Dew they empty themselves upon the Earth of Man And if the Humane Tree falleth by Ballance toward the pleasant South or toward the Grim North in the Place where the Tree falleth there it shall be to all Eternity He that observeth the Mystical Original of the Holy Wind or Spirit or Breath of God thinking God will come by force into his Heart to compel him to come to Heaven shall not sow Divine Seed And he that regardeth the Clouds of Darkness thinking the Time of the spiritual Harvest is not yet come shall not reap a spiritual Crop As thou knowest not what is the way of the Spirit of the Soul nor how the Bones do grow in the Womb of the Virgin that is with Child of the Regenerated Birth Fven so God thou knowest not the Works of who maketh all In the Morning of thy Youth betimes while it is called to Day sow the blessed Seed and in the cool of the Evening-Gale of God's pure Breath withhold not thine Hand And commit the Improvement to God by Resignation For thou knowest not whether shall prosper either this or that Or whether they both shall be alike good §. 7. Before the Evil Days come REmember therefore O Man thy Creator and Father in the Days of thy renovated Youth Think of the Ancient of Days in the beginning of thy New Regeneration And he will prolong thy Eternal Days call to mind thy Everlasting State before the evil Days come in which thou shalt say I have to Pleasure in them If thou Love God and the Virgin of Eternal Youth and perpetual Beauty the Evil Days or Years of Sorrow will never draw nigh or overtake thee or if they come they shall not continue For an Everlasting Calm will come after a Storm of true Repentance Therefore remember the kindness of her Youth and the Love of thy Spouse while the Sun of the Eternal Spirit of the Soul or the Mind of the Affections of the Astral Nature be not clouded in blindness nor the Clouds of Darkness return after the Shower of a Purgatory in this Life In the Day when the Keepers of the Humane House and the Maintainers of the Soulish Family tremble and quake for Rottenness in their Bones and the strong Men that carry Provision to the Mill shall bow themselves under their burden And the Milstones cease because they are worn â—ut and the sound of the Mill is low and the Voice that calleth to Repentance is not audible And the Sentinels that keep Watch and Ward at the Windows of true Light be darkned and blinded by false Phantasie And so cannot prevent the Invasion of the Whores Brats which will seize upon the Castle And the Door of the Lips shall be shut in the Streets of the little City and will not be opened to the cries of the miserable Beggar and Wanderer and yet are open from within to utter Blasphemies And Self-accusations in Despair And he shall rise up as being frighted at the noise and terrour of his own Evil Conscience Because he would