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A63812	A treatise of dreams & visions wherein the causes, natures, and uses, of nocturnal representations, and the communications both of good and evil angels, as also departed souls, to mankind. Are theosophically unfolded; that is according to the Word of God, and the harmony of created beings. To which is added, a discourse of the causes, natures, and cure of phrensie, madness or distraction. By Tho. Tryon, student in physick.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1689 (1689)	Wing T3197A; ESTC R221812	87,971	320

the wrathful evil part of the world but not in the humane friendly or good part for that is separated from his Principle beyond the Sphear of his Activity so that he hath there no power And although nothing can be more prompt and ready than these dark spiritual Beeings to assist and carry on all evil designs in the hearts of men that incline to do the works of their principle yet still they cannot annoy nor injure any but only such as draw near unto or a waken their fierce wrathful Fountain by means of Uncleanness Superfluity and Intemperance which are the grand Inletts of the Devil that give him power over the Soul and Spirit whence arise innumerable vain Thoughts Imaginations corrupt Words and Works and all kind of Violences and Oppression Nay further a secret Compact or Confederacy between the evil Genius and mans Soul in an insensible way so that many are Drown'd and as it were totally captivated into this dead Sea or Fountain of wrath●ul Darkness and they knew it notthemselves but others who have adhered unto the voice of Wisdom in themselves and live in the power and Vertue of Temperance do clearly perceive and know it for those that are afflicted and inslaved do make demonstrations of their wretched condition and what Angels or Spirits are their Guardians by their Vile and Blasphemous Words Wicked Works Cruel Violences and Oppressions to those of their own kind and also to all the inferiour Creatures which does sufficiently manifest whose Children they are and what Angel is their Captain and Conductor to wit he who in the Scripture is stiled Abbadon or Apolyon the Serpent the Enemy of all Goodness and Righteousness the False Accuser and the Destroyer And as their daily practises are so also suitable are their nightly Visions that is to say Vain Turbulent Lascivious Hideous or Frightful For the Thoughts Imaginations Ideas Figures Shapes Forms and the like that proceed or are generated from the dark Centre or wrathful Kingdom are Impertinent Lewd or Monstrous For this cause some Saturnine and Martial people are Afflicted with Hideous Frightful Malancholy Dolorous Dreams especially if they do not vigorously Endeavour through the Vertue and Power of Wisdom and Temperance to moderate the Inequality of those Astreal Forms which hath had the chief Government in the Complection The like is to be understood of the Shapes or Forms wherein deceased Souls appear or represent themselves for the same are either hideous and frightful or pleasant and humane according to what Property or Principle they are fallen into or captivated under Therefore those that have precipitated themselves into the divided Forms into Beastiallity and the savage Nature having cast off and abondon'd the humane Property and grown Hardhearted Cruel and Sordid without Mercy Compassion and Innocency such I say as live and dye in this Savage Brutish State do fall into the dark Fierce Hellish Principle which had already in their Life time captivated the Soul as may be understood by the unclean Words and Works that Proceeded from them Now according to what Property or Form has gotten the chief dominion in the Soul such a Shape and Form is the Soul and Spirit Cloathed with For in the Dark Wrathful or Hellish Fountain there is as great a Variety of Shapes Forms and Figures as there is in the Paradisical or Divine Principle of the Light-Kingdom of Love for every Soul shall be capable to reinvest and attract matter out of all things of the nature of the property that carries the upper dominion in the Spirits for such seed as men do sow such a Body Viz. of that Nature is generated and of a suitable Shape and Form for so the great and illuminated Apostle speaks of the Resurrection God giveth to every Seed it s own Body Wherefore if men sow hellish Seeds in their Lives no wonder if they be cloathed with sutable shapes in the next World But on the contrary those that in earthly Pilgrimage have freed their Souls and Spirits from Oppression Violence Uncleanness and Intemperance and seperated themselves from the giddy Croud and vain Wayes of the Multitude and introduced their Wills and Desires into the Friendly Principle of Gods Eternal Love and Light and have been guided by its Counsel their Souls shall after Death arise and be cloathed with a more Perfect Beautiful and Glorious Humane Shape and Form of whom our Lord Jesus Christ was the first For after He had Vanquisht Death by his Resurrection He Appear'd in the same Shape Form and Body as he had before in his Life Likewise the good Angels and all separated Souls of Saints have in all Ages appeared to the Prophets and holy men in humane Shapes and Forms exceeding beautious For it is not to be doubted but that in the beginning the blessed Creator made Man in this very Form and Shape as to his Body which he does retain though not now altogether so beautifull by reason of his Degeneration and sordid Intemperances which have in some degree defaced the lovely Majesty of his Body and Countenance for though Man through Transgression and giving way to vain Imaginations hath lost the Government of the divine Principle and so is faln from his first illustrious and innocent Estate yet nevertheless he has in some measure preserved still his outward original shape or form of Body for the Lord endued every Body with a Seed in it self to beget and produce its own Species in all particulars and if it had not been for this great and undefeazable Law of the Creator Man by his great Lusts Intemperances Violence Oppression Cruelty Vanities and other evil Courses would long since have destroyed and lost his beautifull humane shape and form as well as that Angelical form of his Soul But it was not in the power of his will to alter Shapes and change one Form into another so long as his Soul is cloathed with Humane Nature for the truth is he hath done what he could to be a Beast outwardly as well as inwardly nay he is become far worse than any of the savages of the Desert internally in the Spirit and therefore the illuminated Prophets called men by the names of the worser sort of Beasts in whom the fierce cruel wrathful nature is most predominant as Generation of Vipers Lions Foxes Wolves c. and also the evil separated Spirits or Souls of Men as well as faln Angels have always been resembled and likened unto savage Beasts and sented accordingly when ever they appeared in brutish or fierce hideous forms Therefore when departed Souls shall appear to their surviving Friends either cloathed with sideral thin Bodies or in Dreams in beastial shapes and hideous frightfull forms it is but a bad sign or token of their Condition and State in the other World and that they have not retained the humane property in the time of the Souls being in the Body for according to what property of the wrathfull Principle man has suffered

includes our Love to God the supream Good for his own sake and to all the rest of the Creation in obedience to his Commands but particularly giving of Almes which is but one and one of the lowest Branches of the sublime tho most lowly Vertues which as it does wonderfully abate Pride Covetousness and such swelling Vices so it does advance the Soul in all kind of Vertue causes it to draw near the supream Good who in his boundless mercy giveth all things freely receiveth naught from any but his own the Truth tells us Give Almes and all things shall be clean unto you and the wise man saith As Water exting●ishes Fire so Almes doth Sin and Daniel taught the King of Babylon that he should Redeem his Sin by Almes and the Angel Raphael testifieth to Tobias that Almes freeth from Death so our Lord Christ commands us to pray to the Father Forgive us as we forgive and by analogy Give us as we give to others but for our further encouragment to Charity and Almes-Giving he adds not only that you shall receive an hundred fold but possess eternal Life and the Scriptures declare that when he comes to judge the Quick and the Dead he shall upbraid the wicked above all things for their neglect of Almes and works of Mercy Furthermore all that have obtained the knoweldge of themselves and the gifts of the mind and the communicati●ns of good Spirits and Angels by dreams or any other ways ought above all things to keep silent and constantly conceal and lock up such sublime secrets in their religious Breasts for nothing drives away and offend the divine Powers good Angel Guardians more then to publish mysteries to the profane multitude for this cause our Saviour Christ when he lived on Earth spoke after such a manner and fashion that only the more intimate Disciples should understand the Word of God but the multitude should only perceive the parable he likewise on the same ground commanded that holy things should not be given to Dogs nor Pearls be cast before Swine therefore well saith the Prophet I have hid thy Word in my heart that I might not sin against thee and it is said of Mary the Mother of Christ that after the Angel had informed her that she had found favour in the sight of the Lord and should bring forth the Saviour of the World she laid all these things up in her heart and she did not divulge what was discovered to her by the Angel. The thrice Great Hermise or Mercury of Egypt avers that to publish to the knowledge of the Rabble a Speech filled with the Mysteries and Majesty of the Deity is a sign of a irriligious Spirit and Plato Commandeth that holy Secrets and Religious things should not be divulged to the Common People Pythagorus injoyned his Followers to a Religious silence for so many years Orpheus also did with a certain Authority of Religion exact an Oath of silence from those whom he innitiated in holy Rites and in Esdras we read this precept concerning the Cabalistical Secrets of the Hebrews Thou shalt deliver these Books to the wise Men of the People whose hearts thou 〈◊〉 can comprehend them the Antient Egyptiaens had certain Characters for their secrets and mysteries which might not be easily known to the vulger and these are therefore called Hieroglyphicks and Tertullian saith that the promise of silence is due to Religion so we Read of a certain Greek Tragedian that when he would have Transfered somewhat out of the Jews Laws to supply one of his Fables with was struck Blind And Theopompus who beginning to Translate somewhat out of the divine Law into the Greek Tongue was presently troubled in mind and afterwards earnestly desiring God to let him know the occasion of that Judgment received answer in a Dream that it was because he had poluted divine things by Setting them forth in publick Thus the Indian Brachmans the Persians Magi the British Druids the Greek Phylosophers Pythagoras Socrates Plato c always were nice and diligent in keeping secrets to themselves and their qualified Sectatores and never to discover Mysteries without a vail Certain it is that as in Heaven there is an everlasting Stilness and sweet Harmony so all heavenly wisdom is strengthened by Silence and Concord but publication and discord distroys good Effects and drives away holy powers from us Therefore such as would reap Fruit by what we have before taught must hide and lay up those secrets in their religious breasts for the prating of Fools and incredulity are the two grand hinderances that disturb and obstruct the good effects in every thing that tends towards the Illumination of mans Soul for those sublime vertues require in a man a wonderful dignification self-denial and that we should leave ●arnal Affections frail Sences and mater●l Passions for mens souls when freed from the gross Fumes of the body and evil dispositions have wonderful power being not distempered but i●●luenced by divine Li●ht whereby they are rendered compleat in Intrinsecal and Extrinsecal Perfection Let us therefore remove all Impediments possible and wholy apply our selves to Contemplation and innocency of Life that is doing unto the whole Creation as we would be done unto and turn our Eyes inwards for there is even in our own selves the apprehension of all things but most men are prohibited by Self-conceit prejudices of Education Custom vain Conversation and the like from enjoying the benefit of this in-born Light so as few enjoy those Heavenly Gifts for Opinions Customs and Passions do continually oppose us even from our birth but if those vain Imaginations immoderate Affections violent Desires after what is not needful be once Expelled the divine Knowledge and power presently takes place and obtains the Government over the Soul. But for the further accomplishment furnishing and fitting a mans Soul for the fore-mentioned subline converse and also for the abtaining the Knowledge and Conversation of the Good Genius before treated of let these following Rules be observed 1st Let your Meats and Drinks be Clean and of a simple Nature and Operation 2d Have a care the quantity be not too great 3d Remember to let your quality be sutable and agreable to your Nature and Constitution 4th Let none of your food be attended with the dying Groans of of the innocent Creatures 5th Consider the first state of man and what Foods were ordained for him viz none but innocent Herbs Seeds Fruits and Grains 6th B●think your self and understanding from what Principle Killing and Eating of Flesh did first arise and do proceed 7th Consider also the Nature Shapes and Forms of these Creatures that by Nature incline to eat Flesh. 8th Note that all the Wilde Savages of the Desart in whom the Principle of the fierce Wrath does predominant are formed by the same Principle which the fierce Spi●its are f●●med and look also with Teeth and Claws like so many terrible Weapons of War to Prey upon

morning and found them sad and enquired the reason they told him we have dreamed a Dream and there is no Interpreter thereof To which he did not reply as many of the People that would be counted wise men in our Day would probably have done in such a Case viz. All Dreams are Vanities and Fancies you should never regard them they signifie nothing and therefore never trouble your heads about the Interpretation c. But on the contrary he tells them Do not Interpretations belong to God Tell me your Dreams I pray you verse 8. And having heard them proceeds to give a true Interpretation thereof That the Butler should be Restored and the Baker Hanged in three dayes space which was exactly accomplished In the next place Gen. 14. 1. We read of a Dream that Pharaoh King of Egypt had first of seven fat Kine devoured by seven lean ones And afterwards of seven full ears of Corn devoured by seven thin and blasted ones which the aforesaid illuminated young servant of God Ioseph interpreted to be a Vision from God for saith he verse 25. God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do there shall be seven Years of Plenty and afterwards seven Years of Famine Therefore he advised to lay up the fifth part of all the increase during the seven fruitfull Years by which secret admonition of the good Angels of the Lord King Pharaoh was put into a way to preserve himself and his people and particularly to be a shelter and maintianer of the Patriarks of Iacob and all his off-spring And as well this Dream of Pharaohs as the o●●er of Iosehps was doubled or set forth 〈◊〉 under several representations but still to one and the same purpose for which Ioseph gives the reason vers 32. For that the Dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice it is because the thing is established by God and God will shortly bring it to pass whence we may learn that when Dreams are represented to us under several Forms we ought to take more especial notice of them and may be assured both of a certain and speedy coming to pass of the things thereby signified Dreams and Vision were the usual Wayes whereby the Lord revealed his Councels to his Servants and Prophets to be communicated to his people for which there is a plain express word of promise Numb 12. 6. If there be a prophet among you I the Lord will make my self known unto him in a Vision and will speak to him in a Dream So Saul Sam. 28. 15. complains to the deceased spirit or soul of Samuel whom he had caused to be raised up when he asked him why he had disturbed him from his stilness and quiet rest Saul answered him saying I am in great distress for the Philistines make war against me and God is departed from me and answered me no more by prophets nor by Dreams which shews that Dreams were one of the most usual ways whereby God was wont to signifie his pleasure to the Sons of men When Gideon warred with the Amalekites and was somewhat dismayed at their vast multitudes he was incouraged by over hearing one of them relate his Dream and ano●ther giving the interpretation as you may read in Iudges 7. in these words And it came to pass the same Night that the Lord said unto Gideon Arise get the down unto the host of the Amalekites for I have deliverd 〈◊〉 into thine hands and thou shalt hear hear what they say and afterwards shall thy hands be strengthened Then he went down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the Armed men that were in the Host and the Midianites and Amalekites and all the Children of the East lay along in the Valey like Grass-hoppers for multitude and their Camels were without number as the sand by the Sea side And when Gideon was come behold there was a man that told a dream unto his Fellow and said Behold I dreamed a dream and loa Cake of Barly bread tumbled into the Host of Midian and came into a Tent and smote it that it fell and overturned it that the Tent lay along And his Fellow answered and said This is nothing else save the Sword of Gideon the son of Joash a man of Israel for into his hand hath God delivered Middian and all the Host And it was so when Gideon heard the telling of the Dream and the Interpretation thereof that he worshipped and returned into the host of Israel and said Arise for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the Host of Midian It was in a Dream that God was pleased to Grant Solomon a promise of Wisdom and Understanding ● King. 3. 5. In Gideon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a Dream by Night and god said Ask what I shall give thee And Solomon said Now O Lord my God thou hast made thy servant King instead of David my Father and I am but a young child I know not how to go out or come in and thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen a great people that cannot be numbred or counted for multitude Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to Iudge thy people that I may discern between Good and B●d for who is able to judge this thy so great people And the speech pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing and God said unto him Because thou hast asked this thing and hast not asked for thy self long Life nor Riches nor the life of thy Enemies but has asked for thy self understanding to discern judgement of things Behold I have done according to thy word loe I have given thee a wise and understanding Heart so that there was none like thee before thee neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee and I have also given unto thee that which thou hast not asked both Riches and Honour so that there shall not be any amongst the Kings like unto thee in all thy dayes And if thou wilt walk in my wayes to keep my Statutes and my Commandements as thy Father David did walk then I will lengthen thy days and Solomon awoke and behold it was a Dream Hear we see what a large communication or converse the Lord is pleased to hold with the Spirit of Soloman in a Dream and as the request was nevertheless real on Solomans part nor less acceptable to God then if it had been made waking nay probable was more acceptable because the more pure free and undisturbed desire of his Soul not then seduced by the senses or beclouded with corporeal objects so what the Lord promised him in this vision was punctually made good and performed But though God speaketh frequently in Dreams yet many times man by his Dulness Corruptions and Depravedness renders himself insensible of those illuminations whence holy Iob affirms God speaketh once yea twice yet man perceiveth it not in a Dream in a Vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in slumberings upon

the bed then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction Job 33. 14 15 16. And as those Dreams and Visions are sometimes matter of joy and comfort so at other times they are terrible and frightful and therefore the same pious Author complains Iob. 7. 14. When I say my bed shall comfort me my couch shall ease me then thou scarest me with Dr●ams and terrifiest me through Visions 'T is the duty of the Prophets and Servants of God to have a due regard to their Dreams and though some pretended Dreams when they had none or made use of them to seduce the People to Idolatry yet still the true Prophets were not to slight Visions and Dreams because of Idolatrous Impostures and such as were guilty of the latter were by Mose's Law to be put to death Deut. 8. 1. If there arise amongst you a Prophet or a Dreamer of Dreams and giveth thee a sign or a wonder and the sign or the wonder came to pass whereof he speakes unto thee saying Let us go after other Gods and let us serve them thou shall not hearken unto the voice of that Prophet or that Dreamer of Dreams for the Lord your God proveth you to know whether you Love the Lord your God with all your Heart and with all your Soul And that Prophet or that Dreamer of Dreams shall be put to Death So the Prophet Zachariah chap. 10. 2. complains The Idols have spoken Vanity and the Diviners have spoken a Lye and have told false Dreams they comfort in vain And so Ieremiah chap. 23. 25. I have heard what the Prophet said that Prophecy lyes in my Name saying I have Dreamed I have Dreamed How long shall this be in the Heart of the Pr●phets that Prophecy Lyes Yea they are Prophets of the deceit of their own hearts which think to cause my People to forget my Name by their Dreams which they tell every man to his Neighbour as their Fathers have forgot my Name for Baal All these Texts against the Abuse of Dreams when they are forged wickedly made use of to promote Idolatry but make nothing against the lawful humble pious and most profitable use of Dreams as appears by what follows in the 28 th verse of the same chapter viz. The Prophet thou hath a 〈◊〉 let him tell the Dream and 〈…〉 hath my Word let 〈…〉 faithfully what is 〈…〉 Wheat saith the Lord The knowledge 〈…〉 and Dreams is reckon● 〈…〉 principal Gifts and Graces 〈◊〉 bestowed by the Lord on them that fear him So 't is said of Daniel and his three Companions That God gave them knowledge and skill in all Learning and Wisdom and Daniel had understanding in all Visions and Dreams Dan. 1. 1● And therefore when King Nebuchadnezzar had Dreamed Dreams and his spirit was troubled because the thing was gone from him that is he had forgot what he had seen but only retain'd a general remembrance that he had a strange and wonderful Dream when all the Magicians and Astrologers and Sorcerers and Chaldeans were so far from being able to recall his Dream that they told him There was not a man upon the Earth could do it This holy Prophet Daniel not only shewed the King the Dream but also the Interpretation thereof the same being revealed unto him in a Night Vision Dan. 2. 19. whereupon he acquaints the King that there is a God in Heaven that revealeth secrets and maketh known to the King Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the Latter dayes As for thee O King thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy Bed what should came to pass hereafter and he that revealeth secrets maketh known unto thee what shall come to pass and so proceeds to tell him the particulars of his Dream and the meaning thereof being a Declaration of the most eminent Empires and Monarchies that should succeed in the Earth and their Qualities Splendor and Conditions The same King Nebuchadnezzar was premonished in a Dream of the Judgement that was coming upon him for his presumption and forgetfulness of God he was driven out of his Kingdom and from amongst men and did eat Grass with Oxen c. Also in the 7th of Daniel we read how the Lord by his Angel shewed that holy Prophet the things that should come to pass in the world in the Latter days Nor was this Method of God's whereby he revealed his secrets by Dreams peculiar to the legal Dispensation but seems more especially to be extended unto and enlarged under the Gospel according to that prophesie of Ioel chap. 2. 28. And afterwards saith the Lord I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and my Sons and my Daughters shall Prophecy your young men shall see Visions and your old men shall dream Dreams which is repeated and applied to the Illumination of the holy spirit by the Apostle Peter Acts 2. 17. So in the new Testament we read That when Ioseph thought to put away the Virgin Mary whom he had espoused because he perceived her to be with Child The Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a Dream saying Joseph thou son of David fear not to take Mary to thy Wife for that which is conceived in her is of the holy Ghost and she shall bring forth a son and thou shalt ●all his Name Iesus for he shall save his people from their Sins Mat. 1. 20. And in the second Chapter when the wise men came out of the East to visit him that was born King of the Iews and were sent by Herod to Bethlem bidding them when they had found him to bring him word that he also might worship him they were warned of God in a Dream that they should not go again to him and therefore returned into their own Country another way After whose departure vers 13. Behold the Angel of the Lord appeared again unto Joseph in a Dream saying Arise and take the Babe and his Mother and flee into Egypt and be thou there till I bring thee word for Herod will seek the Babe to destroy him And in the same Chapter vers 19. When Herod was dead behold an Angel of the Lord once more appeared to Joseph in Egypt saying Arise and take the Babe and his Mother and go into the Land of ●srael for they are dead that sought the Child's Life CHAP. IX Of Angels Guardian of Countries and particular Persons and their Offices towards men mentioned in Scripture BY the numerous Examples mentioned in the foregoing Chapter we see how common and frequent it was in former Ages for the Lord to appear unto his people in nightly Visions and by Dreams and in that secret way of Comunication to reveal unto them many wonderful things insomuch that they did account themselves as it were abandoned or separated from the presence of the Lord and his holy Spirits and Angels when the Lord did with● draw or supercede this method of Nocturnal Illuminations as is evident by the forementioned Complaint of King Saul

Prophet I have hid thy Word in my Heart that I might not sin against Thee And Mary the blessed amongst women when the Angel Saluted her and told her what glorious things should happen unto her it is said that she laid up the sayings in her heart and pondered them in her religious mind which reverence and serious meditation on these wonderful things which the Angel communicated unto her was well pleasing to the blessed Creator whence every good and perfect gift proceeds For all celestical vertues are wonderfully strengthened by secrecy and the holy powers attracted who de●est publick and profane things and vain bablings Now Dreams are no other then certain discourses and incorporeal Sights of the Soul being in sleep loosed from the heavy Fetters of the Body and sences whereby it hath 〈◊〉 near affinity with the matereal beeings and according to what 〈◊〉 of the sevenfold Nature she is 〈◊〉 unto such and such 〈◊〉 Representations or Dreams 〈◊〉 appre●ends which appears as ●eal as if they were corporeal qualities and the Soul is thereby either tormented and full of perplexity or on the other side filled with Joy and Delight apprehended in the Divine Vision somewhat to this purpose is imitated by Iohn the Divine in the Revelations where 't is said Blessed are they that dye in the Lord for their Works do follow them For the Manners Habbits Temperance Sobriety Innocency of Life doing unto all as they would be done unto and the true illuminated understanding of the Mysteries of God and his great Divine Law in nature are works that may be said to follow a pious Soul after death which then calls to mind those things that it did in its life and still more intently meditates and thinks on them and endeavors to do them again for they being the Souls chief delight in the time of its continuation with the Body it still takes Pleasure in them but in a more perfect and exalted degree For after Death the Soul being deprived and wholy destitute of all the Faculties and Functions of humane Life as Nourishing Growing Generating and various Occupations of the Senses all the delights of the Body must needs cease and be terminated but their works follow them in the Mystery and become substantial for all things then appear in their real Figures Forms and Shapes as they do in this World but in the greatest Perfection and most Sublime The truth of this St Iohn in the Revelations does demonstrate where the Gate of the Heavenly Paradisical Kingdom of Eternal Happiness being opened and shewed unto him it appeared in most beautiful curious Forms Shapes and Figures of the things of this external World but in a far higher degree of perfection for the Furniture of this World viz. the innumerable and 〈◊〉 variety of Creatures in the Animal Vegative and Mineral Kingdoms ar● gross and as it were half dead in comparison of the Heavenly and Spiritual for all these lower things are but faint dull imperfect corporal Figures and Forms as the Spiritual Kingdom whence they had their original It is therefore to be noted that no man ever dreamed that he saw any Thing Figure or Shape of the Animal Vegative and Mineral Kingdome which he never saw thought or heard of before at least in the parts if not in the whole for though many times things are magnif●ed or diminished and made 〈◊〉 or worse or Heterogeneous 〈◊〉 conjoyned in a representation 〈◊〉 never were in nature yet still 〈◊〉 is nothing that hath not 〈…〉 seen heard or though 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Wrath or Hell such as have by transgression precipitated their souls thereinto their work do also follow them and all Figures Forms Shapes or what ever else is represented unto them is Fearful and Hideous according to what degree they have with their wills entered into the wrathful fierce unclean Principle Their Conditions is like men in terible Dreams who are afraid of Swords killing falling from high places drownings Rocks falling on them or being torn to peices with wild Beasts and the like strange fierce or malancholy imaginations and representations which are all real and most essential and yet no danger of death near them nor any period to their woful condition And therefore the state of the damned is called Eternal death and a worm that never dyeth and therefore no end of their sorrow and misery These strange phansies and yet real apprehensions do follow each Spirit or Soul according to that property which carried the upper dominion in the time of the Body from which predominating property do arise and are generated most frightful hideous representations whi●h put the captivated Soul into unexpressible fears agonies make it desious to die cannot but continuing forevermore in this doleful torture perplexity yea the predominating quality gives the form to the new Body viz. of a Dog Cat Bear Lion Fox Tyger Bull Goat or other savage Beasts according to what degree such persons in their life time entered into any of their respective natures by Cruelty Lust Subtilty or the like for this very cause as was before intimated all the evil Angels Souls that have at any time appeared in Dreams or Visions have been clothed with beastial Shapes Figures Forms but good Angels and blessed Spirit● in human Form and cloathed with the product of clean innocent vegetation as fine Linning and the like for which reason some of the Philosophical Ancients would not wear any other● cloathing or garment then what had an innocent original as pure Linning and the like of their Foods whereby immitating the good Angels they attracted their benevolent Influences Thus every persons Joys or Sorrows in the Worlds to come are of that nature as where the predominant properties and inclinations the will entered into in the time of its corporeal pilgrimage for from the two internal or immaterial Worlds viz. the Good Heavenly and Paradisical and the Hellish Wrathful does proceed is generated this good evil or material World of which external beeings are but a platform or figure Which may afford a very sublime and Philosophical Speculation and he that would truely know the great adorable and ever blessed Creator must with fear and earnestness pray unto him to teach him the knowledg of himself and of the things that are every one of which does in its respective degree contain the true nature and property of the whole for the wonderful all forming Creator is in the midst of his own works and does sustain and uphold and continually generate them and leads the wise Seeker into the knowledg of the two grand Fountains of Good and Evil and whence they proceed whilst the profane tread them under their feet CHAP. XI That these Communications from good Angels by Dreams c. are not wholely ceased the Reasons why the same are now so rare and seldom BUT notwithstanding all those numerous instances we have produced from sacred Scripture of the frequent Apparitions and Communications