not be comforted but herein is manifest in the Valleys ACHOR which is given for a Dooâ— of Hope XCV For God was descended into all the Powers of Nature through his destroying Angels changing all Powers and Laws and Customs of the HEATHEN and uncircumcised in the ground wherein destruction wrought and renewing the Created FORMS in Nature into their first lovely Being as into these Kings of the EAST the Nature of the Beast had descended which had his Power renewed in an eighth Head and Mountain and they had the Power of the Beast and false Prophet or Whore wherein they were exalted to hasten the utter ruine and downfal of the DRAGON and Beast and false Prophet yet wrought Miracles in the Earth and incamped about the Beloved City the New Jerusalem which descended from above out of Heaven and they caused fire to come down from Heaven XCVI But the Holy People waxed strong and did exploits although the Foundations of all buildings in the Earthly Principles of Nature suffered great shakings and an utter overthrow wherein darkness filled the Seat of the BEAST and every Mountain was removed out of its place and great BABYLON fell as the nether Milstone that is cast into the Sea and every Island fled away before the Face and Presence of the Lord and were cast into the deeps of Waters that were drying up into their Anihilation and the smoke of the Torment of those Men that had the Mark of the Beast ascended upward as a place of Torment to the Spirit of the WORLD incorporated into the form of the Image CHAP. IX Describing the Glory of the New Jerusalem in the renewing Power of God which wrought up the efficacy of its change in the Forms of Nature XCVII AS all forms in Nature were subjected under the Power of God there was manifest a Spirit of ZEAL in the Qualities wherein the Creature became imbodied through which the change was wrought for the ten Horns of the BEAST did hate the WHORE whose flesh they consumed with fire and the Minstrels were all turned out of Doors because the Damsel was raised and the Bridegroom was come at Midnight wherein the Wise Virgins had prepared Oyl in their Lamps which were lighted and trimed burning in the flame of that which was gathered and reaped in the Earth by the Angel but the Apples of Sodom and Grapes of Gomorrah after which the Souls of many have longed became unpleasant Fruit because of the sound of the Milstone which could not be heard neither was there any Voice of the Turtle or the singing of Birds XCVIII Nor did the Light of any Candle shine therein but the sound of the Tabret and the Viol was departed out of the Land and the Sun ceased any more to shine while there continued a cry for want of Oyl among those that were foolish and at the Voice of the Grashopper the Aged rose up and were afraid as the Pillars of the House were shaken and the Windows grew dim the Grinders failed and the Pitcher that went oft to the FOUNTAIN was broken and the limit of the circumference of the Waters which were bound in that great River was loosed and inlarged and the Streams of Corruption dryed out of the same wherein it had compassed about the frame of the WORLDS like unto the Arms and Legs of a Man for every thing perished in its corruptible state and course until the form of the World became thus changed and the Dragon and Beast and false Prophet who had deceived the Nations of the Earth were laid hold on and bound down by the Chain in the Hand of the strong Angel of God never to rise again XCIX And Death and Hell was cast into the Lake of fire and a Seal was set on the power thereof that it never more should appear in the Worlds to marr the Workmanship of God and form of his Image and all forms of Nature shined out of the Glassy Sea on which the redeemed of God stood Harping and Singing and Praysing God which was sprakling like fire for the Heavens were rolled up together like a Scrole and the Elements were consumed with servent heat wherein was no more Sea but that Sea of Glass or first Waters in which was a new Heaven and new Earth and therein did Righteousness dwell for ever and ever C. For former things were remembred no more but the former Heaven and Earth was passed away and there was a Voice from the New Heavens Behold the Tabernacle of God is among Men and he is come to dwell in them and to walk among them for ever and ever who hath wiped away all Tears from their Eyes and sorrow and sighing is gone into perpetual silence and beautiful was the Countenance of him that came from Mount TIRZAH clear as the Sun and bright as the Moon and terrible like an Army with Banners whereby the power of the second Death was Conquered and came not into the new Heavens and new Earth CI. And there was the CITY of God which was placed between the SEAS in which was no need of the Sun by day nor of the Moon by Night nor was there any need of the light of a Candle to shine therein but the light of the Moon was as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun as the light of seven dayes and all labour in the Earth ceased to be neither did it Travel and bear its former burdens but the Lamb the Lord were the Light thereof for ever and ever and all things brought forth as in the beginning wherein the WOMAN was redeemed from sorrow and labour of Child-bearing and brought forth her SEED as Angels of God nourished in the Womb of Health wherein saving blessings were sprung up to heal the Nations and from the place of Conception from whence sorrow was removed did life break forth into being and the birth thereof was glorified in the sight of GOD but time and place were no more CII Sing therefore O ye Heavens and let the Inhabitants of the EARTH rejoyce because time is changed into Eternity and the WOES are removed out of its Quarters Death and Hell are Conquered in its dominions and the Sea and Grave have given up their slain the dead are come forth out of the secret Chambers of LEVIATHAN and the BEHEMOTH is overcome by him that sitteth on his WHITE Throne and rideth on his White Horse and the Walls of Brass and Iron are broken down and the Word by which every thing was created saith unto the hard Rocks Be ye soft and unto the high Hills Be ye bended down CIII The strength of the strong is bound in CHAINS and the Power of Mighty binders is loosed from Iron Fetters and the King over NATIONS hath said unto the Power of FIRE Be thou kindled into a burning flame to consume until Consumation become reproved and devouring flames are quenched the forms of Nature are comprehended under the renewing Power of God in
are in the way of Reconciliation to God and their Brother and have their Sacrifice salted with Salt and do find Acceptance before God without any loud Cry to the World 's BAAL or Lord as did the Priests in Days of old and they awaken nothing before its time but are wayting on the Power of what is already kindled and awakened against Self which is Gods Displeasure wherein the ENEMY hath been strengthened for a time XIX Thus desiring if it be possible to live in peace with all Men no Spirits can be awakened in the wrathful Principle to their hurt because such things are not easily allayed again in their heat and sting for the Executioners of Gods Displeasure as destroying Angels in God rejoyce in the Power of Death taking occasion by Sin to tempt and then to accuse as sin hath taken occasion by the LAW once ordained in the hand of Angels to revive a strength of Condemnation under the Power of Death wherein the Devourer and Destroyer imployeth his Instruments in the Working of Concupisence like a roaring Lyon seeking to betray under his Baits and Snares as a ground of Enmity and Revenge in which he lurketh with accusations after he hath once conquered under the Power of his Dominion and to condemn before God that the Patient in Spirit may be delivered into his hand for torment the time he hath to sift and try them XX. For I have always desired of the Lord to keep out of the ground and Cause of Just Offence to any and to avoid occasions of Enmity which is so ready to spring up in the distempered and discomposed Mindes of Men of unruly Passions who have let in the SEED of Discontent against the Dealings and Proceedings of God either in Themselves or Others wherein many are both seeking and taking occasions unjustly against those they are out of Charity with because of a mind filled with prejudice and gainsayings though to me such things are no whit strange in that I know there is no temptation suffered to work against the life of God in any but what was common to the Saints in days of old who with the Temptation have found out a way to escape the evil and danger thereof XXI Yet am I clear herein that I have not sought to hide the Counsel of God from any by delivering forth the truth of what I have received from GOD in an UNKNOWN Tongue wherein I could keep my Conscience void of offence towards GOD and Man but there is a Spirit which is Worldly wise and subtil yet covered with Religious pretences which is at this day seeking Preheminence in the House and Temple of God and that is it which I desire to live and act out of the reach of in what form or by what name soever they may be called therefore from such I keep in the Clouds and from thence must I in the Truth hereof and the Truth in me descend to their Capacities as way is made therein through the fulfilling of the Prophecy XXII But though this is and hath been my Care and Conscience towards God and love to the Creation of him that formed his Workmanship in the Womb of Nature and curiously wrought the form wherein he rejoyceth in the Mothers Belly not to seek or give any just occasion of offence to Jew or Greek or cast a stumbling Block in the way of the Gentiles in which the House of Israel remaineth under sufferings yet as far forth as I am redeemed out of the ground of hurt which worketh in the excess of Love or Fear of the Creatures I question not but my LIFE will be preserved through all in my Way and out of the reach of evil Tongues in the bewitching faculty of prejudice that swelleth with Envy XXIII My Bow 's bent being wholly drawn against the persecuting Spirit of the World about Religion and Worship of God under what name or pretence soever such are covered who seek to keep the Innocent under the sufferings of Cruelty in the Holes and Dens of the Earth that are filled with a People more righteous before God than themselves though it was Israels Choice to have that Dominion established wherein they might be like unto other Nations of the Earth which is given them in the Ministration of Wrath and Fury and in all Forms of Government he hath come forth higher than the common People by the Head as King in Nature and though he hunt for his Prey as a Partridge on the Mountains yet doth God watch over and preserve his own through all conspiracies of ACHITOPHEL which shall come to nought XXIV Notwithstanding many are hereby given into the Hands of the Tormentor for the destruction of the Flesh whose Spirits are saved alive in this day of the Lord and they are now coming forth in that Power which hath conquered the strength of the old Deceiver which is ready to betray with a Kiss of Flattery and they are made able to trample on the Dominion of Death and Hell in the worldly Spirits Excommunications and Banishments and sensual Separations having not the Spirit of God in a patient suffering and bearing Principle that cannot rejoyce to see and behold any evil in others but mourneth over such that are left to themselves and the pernicious ways of that Will which is deserted by God in the ground and Principle of the Lifes operation though in his Sufferance they live and move and have their Being while they grow in that which is past feeling of his Love and are dead to the apprehension of his Power in the motion of which they were first quickned as given up to a reproved and reprobate sence XXV Therefore let the goodness of God to his Creature lead to Repentance as that which shall leave all Men without Excuse before him which is the only way to bring out of a perishing Estate under which the Worlds are fallen wherein his LOVE and MERCY maketh sensible of the Danger concerning which they are forewarned that as God cometh to leave any to themselves in the danger of their own Pernicious Ways so in like manner they be dealt withal by them that profess his Name and Truth and none to continue contending with the World in the wrathful Principle for it is not lawful striving with any People out of the Power of God in the Ministration of his Love because all wrathful furious drivings and strivings are under the Power of the Destroyer and it is the Devils strength to lead into the same though therein Divine Justice cometh to be exalted over the Creature in the execution of Vengeance that repayeth double to all the Rebellious XXVI Let the stiff-necked consider therefore why many have been given up unto Satan and delivered into the Tormentors hands for a season while Destruction and Contempt hath come on the Glory of the Flesh which is stained for the Hunter after mischief shall fall in his own Snare and Gin and the Trap he hath layd for
I beheld the Worlds moved two wayes for the bringing forth of those two Nations for which the Woman was in Labour in Her two dayes Travel and there were two dayes difference between them as they thus came forth in that which brought all forms in Nature under a power of Corruption and Destruction CXVI Of the One she was delivered on the tenth day of that fourth Month and of the Other on the twelfth day of the same Month which through a backward drawing in the Worlds did cause the Month to be divided in the account of dayes for he that came first forth drew the power of the Heavens Northward whereby the second who came under the power of the Awakened South wind and whose Face was Southward drew the Worlds under the power of the Waters through which that second Man was exercised in his Dominion by the Increase and Decrease of the Waters for the full term of a Year which I beheld in the accomplishment of that sixth Year CXVII And in a Month and twelve dayes did they increase to their height though they continued prevailing on the Earth for five Months and for seven Months did they fall backward the conflict of which Year I beheld in which time I saw the form of the two Men in their Nations awakened in the Worlds and wandering in that Wilderness both under the Denomination of VAGABONDS for they appeared like Wanderers and Wayfaring Men in the Earth and there was a third Man in form that came forth in the condition of a Wanderer or Vagabond CXVIII The one of them I beheld flying from those Wild Beasts of PREY that possessed that desolate Place and that which he fled from was the danger of pernicious wayes under the Beasts power who made hast to flee out of Babylon lest he should partake of her Plagues and thus flying he sought another and better Countrey and City but the other by means of a discontent with the pleasure and delight in the state of the glory in which that City and Countrey was first Planted hunted after another and better state then that in which was the first blessing of God and so wandred from and lost its first Habitation which was defaced under the Enemies power and become fallen under the workings of corruption and darkness and thus by conforming to and complying with the Enemies Power he became really a VAGABOND from the Lord and from the Glory of his City and Habitation though in the World he may have a Habitation very Glorious and be Lord of a City in the Earth CXIX But the third that I saw bore the AFFLICTIONS and abode in the CAUSE thereof until he became hardned under the Enemies Power and suffered the sting of that which overtook him in the Wilderness which rested in the GROUND of DESTRUCTION to the first Beauty and Glory of God in the Work of Creation for having neglected his own VINEYARD whereby his BROTHER was SLAIN who was made keeper of his VIRGIN and his Garden being thereby overgrown with WEEDS and Nettles and Bryers the Thorns of Corruption he was made Keeper of the VINEYARD of his BROTHER and the Keeper of the Living LAMB of GOD and SHEEP of that everlasting sold having his Life made a Sacrifice unto GOD as Inquisition came to be made for Blood when the Voice came Where is thy Brother and he replyed Am I my Brothers Keeper CXX And so came the Man that was thus made a Steward over that which was his Brothers right as his Birth-right therein was lost and forsited over which Vineyard he was appointed as a Keeper and Dresser as a Servant in the Minority of the Heir and owner thereof in the Resurrection of that which was first and is last the Elder Brother of all that believe in the Spirit of the JUST to Challenge a SELF-INTEREST PROPRIETY therein and refused to give the Owner Due and Right but did beat the SERVANTS that were sent for the Last Fruits thereof and sent them empty away and in the end slew the Lamb and Son himself and scattered his Sheep from the Flock and Fold of Everlasting Rest which became a daily Sacrifice unto God in the suffering State and Principle to reconcile the WORLD unto himself through the destruction of the evil therein in that Nature that saith SECRETLY Come let us kill the Heir that the Inheritance may be ours CHAP. XI Describing the Nature of the World in its faln Principles through the Bondage of the Power of Corruption CXXI FOR while I beheld both these Wayfaring Men in that WANDERING conditon the WATERS did MULTIPLY in abundance and became a GREAT SEA and the Angel of God shewed me a VESSEL that was erected and built in the Heavens in four Months in which was the Pattern of that Heavenly Form which through the Government of God was manifest in the Heavens of an Angelical World in that all forms in Nature fell under the Power of Corruption and Destruction while I beheld Gods and Lords many concerned in the dominion of those THREE PRINCIPLES in Nature because of dishonorable USES in which their LORD imployed them though the whole three were comprehended in that which was built and erected in the HEAVENS CXXII And the Lord-like Mind and Spirit that could not suffer any thing to be equal with it or to ballance that self-conceit through which he sought to subject all to his own Will was betrayed and is the Betrayer from the lovely TENT of the Plain Man whereby he weighed and measured in that selfish-will what was proper to his state that would rule alone and purchase an Authority and Dominion that was absolute that he might be chief in the WORLDS though for preheminence sake he ventured the destruction of Glory in that state under the workings of which the FIRST PRINCIPLE in Nature led the Man that was first brought forth under a suffering condition CXXIII For the MAN who was become PLANTER of a Vineyard under the Power of Corruption grew slothful therein and as he was surfeited with the Fruit thereof I beheld his nakedness in the TENT wherein he was placed though self was exalted and rejoyced because of what was brought forth from the Ground of CORRUPTION that was thus tilled and torn up under the power of the Enemy for Materials wherewith the CITY was built thus pourtraied forth in the Vision therefore was that CITY called by his Name HENOCH or the Son of Man in those fallen Principles who was become a discoverer of the nakedness of that and of himself therein which was by Nature his FATHER and a Revealer of the SECRETS thereof in the Forms of Creation possessing a REGION in the Seventh Part of the WORLD that is separated from the MOYST CXXIV And this Third Principle in Man and Third Man in those three Principles who were in the cause of Destruction to the GLORY of the CITY which I saw through whom notwithstanding it became Built under that POWER of
greeting to the four Churches in EUROPE I. SInce the WORLD is faln under the power of Corruption and Affliction hath overtaken the Inhabitants of the Earth in its divided Quarters let this Epistle be sounded throughout thy Borders O ASIA wherein is Power communicated to an Instrument in the Hand of God to raise up and awaken the sence of what hath overtaken thee in the Glory of thy seven Churches now dispersed abroad over the Earth that it may be known throughout the whole Land of JUDEA that our God is King in Israel who is come to Rule and Reign in RIGHTEOUSNES and is arisen as a Giant refreshed with WINE for he hath taken unto him VENGEANCE for a Cloathing and is cloathed with ZEAL as with a Cloak before his face goeth a consuming Fire and it is very tempestuous round about him II. For he hath raised up unto himself a Horn of Salvation which is a Witness awakened out of the Dust and from the Holy Place wherein it hath slept in the Earth and hath commended his love unto us while we were yet sinners having laid down his Life for his Enemies that he again might come to take it up in as many as are willing to joyn to his SPIRIT in the Work of Redemption and Reconciliation of the WORLDS to himself III. Whereby the Worlds are convinced of their SINS and their RIGHTEOUSNES in that Life of Sufferance wherein the Spirit of Reconciliation is manifested as a witness against the Spirit God and Spirit of the World in several sorts of Judgment for which the World is reproved that remains in unbelief and continues joyned to that cursed Spirit of Enmity being subject to sore Tryals of Bondage and Captivity to the Spirit of Darkness in which the Curse first wrought and therein is caused the groaning and waiting of the whole Creation of God IV. And thou O Europe let this have its free passage throughout thy quarters lest I tear thy flesh with Thorns saith the Mighty One that is High and Holy in the midst of this the day of his Exaltation as his Beloved becometh raised out of the dust a beautiful Daughter of dejected Zion whose glory hath been covered with Ashes while she hath sat mourning on the Floar of Corruption and all that are Enemies to my WORK and stand in my WAY shall be made like unto ZEBA and ZELMANA saith the FORMER of great Nations mighty and strong for by the Breath of his NOSTRILS and through the BRIGHTNES of his Appearance he will consume and destroy the Man of Sin and where will the WICKED appear since the Day of God is come on all the pleasant PICTURES and upon all that is lifted up above its SPHEAR and ORB to the staining of the beauty and glory of all FLESH that all high Oaks and sturdy Cedars in LEBANON may be made to bend to the Power of God which is the subjecter of all forms in Nature to their first servitude V. And unto the ANGEL of the Churches in EUROPE write these things saith the first born of every Creature under the Heavens The day and hour of thy Tryals is come therefore let thy Rulers hear and let thy Priests give ear for their Sacrifice hath been defiled while their Hands are full of Blood in the right Hand of thy Prophets is a lie and they feed upon Ashes Remember therefore the Day of God that hath measured the Ground in which thou hast been exalted in a time of prosperity because of the night that hath overtaken thy Glory and say no more I am prosperous in that strength which is the help of Nations VI. For because of transgression in JUDAH the Land doth mourn and through the iniquity of BENJAMIN they are scattered in ISRAEL and the ten Tribes have lost their name wherein the Glory of SAMARIA is rooted out of the Earth Hear therefore you that can for if your breaking off was that which made way for the reconciling the World unto God in the Life of the Sons Glory what will be your reconciling again but life from the dead Oh alas that I am born to see your Rebellion ye stiff-necked people and gainsaying house VII Ye have cast others out of your Synagogues and places of Worship and now are you cast off by all and made a scorn to the Inhabitants of the Earth and are become a Song of the Prophane for wherein you have despised the Servants of the Lord and slighted his Messengers that were sent unto you rising up early because the Lord did send them God hath given you up to be tormented by that Spirit of despite Yet are his Bowels again turned towards you and though you could not come up unto him nor receive him that came down unto you to suffer your contempt in a Servants state yet in the last day of the Worlds visitation he hath taken notice of your calamity and hath prepared a way for your return through the everlasting Gates of Glory set open that the Nations of the EARTH might enter in thereby VIII And unto the Angel of the Churches in ROME saith the searcher of all Hearts what hast thou done for thy nakedness is discovered and thy shame is seen though thou hast imboldned thy self in the calamity of Nations and in the destruction of mighty People great in their Generations Alas for thee that hast been cast out of the fellowship and community of a People that were more antient in Name to God then thy self and in like manner hast thou been found casting out of thy Temples and excommunicating from thy Church-Fellowship such that for Conscience sake could not conform to thy invented and superstitious Ceremonies IX But now what is come upon thee that art rejected by thy lovers For although the time is come that God will laugh at thy calamity and mock when thy fear cometh yet is there pitty to a handful of People that are in thee and the yearning Bowels are towards that which is ready to die under such Oppressors that are found in the cause of what hath stained the Day of thy Excellency my Heart my Bowels I am pained for thee in whose currant are centring all the divided streams that have been boasting themselves in what hath caused the breaking off the Branches from the Root in which they were first planted but they run in that wide and open way that leads to everlasting destruction that are boasting against the Root which first bore them Oh that thou mightest be yet helped X. But you have hardned your selves in the way that leadeth thither and therein you are become blind and cannot see the danger before you Is Italy strong enough to support thee or what defence is the House of Austria to that which is broke forth against thee See you not the flames the flames thereof in the Heavens and the glory of its brightness amongst the Stars in their Constellations I am weary I am weary of your ways saith the Lord but what shall
I do unto such a People as this And therefore let the German Princes prepare for he is come forth that hath measured thy day the glory of Imperial Support cannot any longer defend the PAPAL Throne on which Foundation thou hast been raised up in great Excellency and exalted in mighty Pomp. Oh! how hath thy practice clouded the Glory of thy Profession and because of a Spirit of Cruelty that hath possessed the strength of thy Zeal in a mis-informed mind how hast thou laid a stumbling block in the WAY of the simple and caused the Ignorant to despise the truth of sound Doctrine XI Dost thou believe Purgation of the Body of Nature from the cause that hath held it down under the Power of Death wherein the Souls of the Righteous have remained crying and groaning under the Altar of God Why then continue ye in the enmity and Spirit of Cruelty to the life of the Just both in your selves and others for where that Life is not refreshed and nourished it dieth for want of strength because it is the Souls strengh to be fed with the Bread of Comfort in God wherein it receives all blessing from him and the Body also without that Spirit is dead XII It is the living therefore that can praise God aright in that power that entereth the Ear of the Dead for whom they stand in Jeopardy every hour making their Supplications unto God in his Spirit that breaketh open the Prison Doors and is come to Preach to the Spirits in Prison comforting the sick and weak that lyeth languishing under the Power of Death and visiting the needy in the day of its distress and calamity through which the dead becometh again raised up to life and immortality in GOD. XIII Many things I have to say unto thee because thou mixest thy inventions with the Doctrine of Truth and hast exalted thy self in the superstition of those gain-sayers that perished before thee great are the Tryals that have overtaken thee and that which is come upon thee cannot be parallel'd because of the end of all things that is come up before the LORD Have I not seen the going down of thy Glory among the Stars of the Night surely it is set in the WEST and it hath a SOUTH Cloud over its Beam but from the EAST is the Morning broke forth and towards the NORTH doth the Star shine that hath burning flames mentained in the dissolution of such forms of Nature that have caused an exhaling in the excremental parts of the fiery Heavens XIV And unto the Angel of the Churches in the separated Islands in the North the transplantation of Europe thy Names are many and divers art thou in the perswasion of thy Judgement in the Doctrinal part of Truth And these are become the Horns on the Heads of the BEAST in Nature which shall hate the WHORE that hath exalted SELF in the destruction of the glory of two Tribes for ten Tribes shall return to behold that which hath been healed up deceitfully in the appearance of the RAM from the EAST whose coming forth is to ex lt his Horns wherewith he shall be found pushing three wayes to wit WEST and NORTH and SOUTH XV. And there will be striving in the EARTH until a HOLY PEOPLE cometh to sit down in their own Land for God is come down into the forms of Nature and will work as in the dayes of old and every on that seeeth him shall be affected with his LOVE and shall mourn bitterly over him as his beauty cometh to be seen in the Earth and overspreadeth the Worlds but none shall be able to awaken his displeasure against others though he will cut off great and strong Nations in his way in his own time and not for the sake of the Wishers of mischief that may inkindle a fire in the Center of the ground from whence their life doth spring XVI But the Angel of my BELOVED hath given in charge unto the Daughters of SION that they awake not Gods displeasure neither stir up the Beloved desire of the welfare of all Nations before he please for you that profess zeal against Superstition see that you stand not above the ground of Humility from whence charity doth spring unto the distressed which worketh the WILL of God in the manifestation of Glory through the LIGHT of his countenance that is lifted up over the Nations by the arising of the Sun of Righteousness with healing in his WINGS XVII For I am well assured of the love of God to his despised Remnant and handful of little Ones trampled on by all and now set in the Front of the BATTEL in which Gods Cause hath engaged them though by the Mighty they are deserted as left to the rage and fury of the Devouring Enemy And I have beheld also such that have plenty in their own Houses yet are they found covetously lusting after one EWE-LAMB of the POOR And shall they prosper saith the LORD since his Sword which he hath not drawn in vain shall not depart from their House until Jerusalem become a quiet Habitation for evermore for an exercise hath sprung from their own Bowels through a Rebellious Seed that flattereth in the WAY XVIII But the ground of all this awakened Fury did break forth in the Spirit of the WORLD in the Nature of sensual Separations in the dispersed forms of the Apostatizing Spirit from its first Love by which the Faith of Gods Elect worketh But Gods intention is to purge his own House and Sanctuary first that his People may be white and clean from the Worldly Spirit of enmity and bitterness which springeth from the covetous Root that standeth in the lusting ground wherefore the BEAST hath power to exalt his HORN for a season XIX Therefore cease Oh cease ye MIGHTY of the EARTH to strive against the Lord for ye have been contending with one another in selfs concernment until your time of healing is well nigh spent in controversies and now hath God taken his own cause into his HANDS and hath it in consideration which he will plead for the Meek of the Earth in the Heart of their Enemies And notwithstanding many things are suffered for a Tryal of their FAITH to God who profess his Name and Truth yet is it not to destroy them but to purifie and refine them wherein Judgement is still strengthened against that part which hath given way to the power and work of the Enemy either in the Particular or General And I am assured deliverance will come in Gods time which is when his People are so sitted thereby that God can get himself a Name in their Salvation XX. And alas you Professors of Cristianity that are quarrelling with each other about the formal part of your Worship how have you lost your day until you are overtaken with a power of Darkness have ye not been afraid of those that should change your Laws and Customs and bring in contrary Orders wherein the ROMANS Power
was working to take away your Place And therefore cast out you have and cast out you are which is the ground of your fear but you are not in that Power which can separate any from God and excommunicate such from the injoyment of his presence who have seen the end of Mans dayes Glory though by continuing in the Ground of Hardness you may be in that which may separate your selves from the injoyment of good in that God which you profess XXI But oh ye hard-hearted that have waited for the destruction of the Innocent that for Conscience-sake cannot bow to your Haman-like wills what have you to answer before God in this kind that have caused any to stumble and turn aside through your cruelty I am burdened and grieved hereat saith the LORD and my Soul is weary with waiting to do good to such an unthankful people therefore shall distress come on distress and captivity will follow captivity until ISRAEL come to know her self to be the WOUNDED that is fallen among THIEVES wherein the Priest and Levite have passed by but a poor Samaritan hath proved the good Physician as a healer of the Breach and restorer again of a Path to dwell in XXII For in the coming forth of all forms in Nature I have seen thy state and standing thou poor and distressed People over the face of the whole Earth and though there is a Ground wherein a fourth Beast with the face of an Eagle hath exalted power in the fourth Angel of God that hath stood on the North corner of the Earth in that which hath called to his day Come and see yet a DANITE hath slain the Lion that was found in the way of the Philistines wherein I have seen awakend in all the powers of Nature a sence of such Labourers under the Power of Corruption who have swarmed together unto the dead Carcass until it hath been filled with the sweetness of the Conquest yet lest self should thereby become imboldned a greater glory is raised up in the LYONS day and an Angel of the Sun hath proclaimed the Summons to all Fowls in the Heavens in the Tryal of that which is brought out of the Heavenly Ark. XXIII And from the Heavens is inkindled a fiery Constellation flaming in that which is sunk into the Creaturely perspection from the highest Heavens that causeth a burning discovery of that which dissolves the Excremental properties ingendered as a Star among the Powers of Nature and through a discovery of the Evening Wolf or little Bear who is got before the LYONS Face all shall be effected which pertaineth to the Ministration of Severity in the appearance of Glory by the second Resurrection of what hath slept its time And where the Carcass is thither do the Eagles resort let not Ephraim therefor envy Manasseh though she be not called to go up to Battel against the Midianites for the Gleanings of Ephraim shall be better than have been the green Fruits of Manasseh XXIV Neither ought Israel to quarrel by the way for before God hath effected the glory of the work he hath begun every one that maketh mention of his NAME shall know himself what he hath been in his own strength and there will not need any fierce drivings in the Camp to scatter every one to his own for before Light shall shine out of any Vessel the Pitcher must be broken in which Case it will be Israels safety to take out a Lot from the URN wherein are three hundred bended Instruments before thou aspire to put forth thy Torch for so did Israel of old whom the Father drew through the catching of the Foxes that were tied Tail to Tail that the fire-brands which are between might be the Executioners of Gods fury on his Enemies a great WOLF grew up in their stead as a Constellation in which three hundred STARS are commanded from the little BEARS Tail in the Motion of the Heavens This therefore is the Sentence of the Angel of God to thy Northern Quarters and inhabited Islands of Europe and Asia God hath beheld your state and you must be tryed yet under the SOUTH Wind but the glory of the day will return to the KINGS of the EAST it is done saith the Lord and their work shall end in that which prepares the way before my Face THE SECOND PART CHAP. I. Wherein is described the coming forth of the FOUR BEASTS in the Forms of Nature in the loosing of the Seven Seals from off the Book c. I. NOW that seventh Vessel which had the fourth place among the forms in Nature was that from whence sprung the Glory of the Heavens in the created being whence ASIA took ROOT through what fell in the Earth And as the Worlds became overspread the Waters which compassed about ASIA on the left hand inlarged their course whereby the Land of EUROPE in the same Continent was compassed about on the right hand by the great River EUPHRATES which became manifest in the decrease of the WATERS II. And I beheld on the four Corners of the Earth the appearance of four Angels of God that held the four Corners of the WINDS and they had power to with-hold the Wind from blowing and to smite the Earth with Plague but their Power had been bound down in the great River EUPHRATES until the loosing of the Dragons Power out of the bottomless Pit who had been also bound therein for the space of a thousand years in which the Holy Nations did arise in their Glory and Order and those four Angels were prepared for an hour a day a month and a year III. And from Assyria in whose fall arose the Mede and Persian which are the two Horns of the RAM in Nature the Ishmalite took root in the fall of the Silver Breast of the Image for there was substance in the Neck of Nature in that which descended from its Head wherein the Face of the RAM was seen but the Yoak being cast off the Spirit of God was made to suffer that which rested as a BURDEN on the Shoulders of the imbodied Form the sence of which came downward in his Creature and Creation and entred the Breast of the Created Being IV. For from the Heavens of an inward World descended into the Bodily Frame a pierced HEART and from the multiplyed Forms in Nature there was moving on the Waters the great VESSEL that I saw which rested in the EAST where the Waters first prevailed wherein was the seventh part of all forms in Nature brought forth in that middle Row to replenish the new Created Earth And in the Hand of the Lyon was the Sealed Book and the Seal of God was on his day to wit the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah while the strong Angel of God proclaimed with a loud Voice Who is worthy to open the BOOK and loose the Seals thereon wherein the Wonders of God were written within and without V. And in the opening and loosing of the first Seal on
from the power of all Motion in the WHEELS which came on the ground of all Principles formed in Terrestrial Bodies and beings wherein all powers of Nature were shaken and moved about in the Wheels which carried every thing about swiftly to its appointed place And there was a great Earthquake through which the foundation of the City was shaken and a tenth part of the City fell wherein were slain the names of seven thousand Men that those who escaped might give glory to God on high LXXVII And on the seventh Mountain which had on it the name of the seventh month called ATNIM was manifest the Angel of strength over new Wines that were in the Cluster And I beheld until the EAGLE had given up his power which were the seven last Plagues to come on the Earth and the power which that fourth Beast gave up rested in the Angel of strength wherein there came forth TWO WITNESSES of God which are the two Olive Branches and two Candlesticks who prophesied before the Kings of the Earth cloathed in Sackcloath for the space of one thousand two hundred and threescore dayes and their power was to open and shut Heaven until the dayes of their Prophecy were finished LXXVIII Whereby the way of God was prepared into the HOLIEST of all and the Witnesses were cloathed in White signifying that God was come into his TEMPLE and all sorrow was fled away yea the times of mourning were come to an end and all Tears were wiped away from their Eyes neither was sighing to be heard in that land but there was a separation made between the Courts thereof where was both inward and outward glory according to its course wherein the Witnesses had prophesied for the time that it was given into the Gentiles Hands to tread under foot accomplished in those forty two months LXXIX And as the Towers were shaken in which the dayes of the week were multiplyed into number and order there was manifest the substance of time wherein was the Week in which the Witnesses thus fulfilled and gave up their Testimony to the Father and in the midst of the Week they came to seal their finished Testimony and ascended to Heaven in the sight of their Enemies and great fear came on all flesh but from those Mountains in which a third part of the Earth was separated in the tryal by fire there sprung Flowers of Virginity from the bowels of TERAH in that created form in which the WORLDS were planted whence the frame of the WORLDS were overspread in those seven Nations that were multiplyed from the Heavens in that vvhich escaped the rage and fury of the WATERS as they came to prevail over the Earth until a barren Wildernesse was become again a fruitful Field unto God and a fruitful Field suffered barrenness in such that savv not the danger in their vvay vvherein they vvere overtaken LXXX For vvhere I had seen the Angel of God vvith a Golden CUP in his hand filled vvith goodly dainties he suffered the WOMAN that vvas gloriously decked on the Scarlet-coloured Beast in Nature to take from him the CUP vvhich she took into her Hand and filled vvith Fornications all abominations of filthiness with vvhich she made her self drunk and there vvas mixed with her Sorcerers the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of God vvho vvere slain for the Word of God and Testimony that they held and the Angel of God said Come up hither I will shew thee the judgement of this great Whore who sitteth on many Waters with whom the Kings of the Earth have committed Fornication and with the Wine of her silthiness have made themselves drunken from the Golden Cup which she reacheth to their Head LXXXI And there came a Voice from the HEAVENS unto the Mountains on which the Whore sat exalted Arise and stand on your feet and they appeared like unto a MAN standing on the great River EUPHRATES and from thence moving about the form and frame of the Heavens in the Worlds and the seven Angels of God came out of the Temple and took the seven last Plagues which were the seven Vials filled with the wrath of God c. and they poured them forth on the whole frame of the Worlds and there was a great noise in the Heavens which became divided into three parts and she came into the remembrance of God and the Whore that was exalted in the midst of her was discovered and her skirts seen LXXXII And there was joy and rejoycing in the Heavens and thence proceeded Thunders and Lightnings and Earthquakes and great Hail the weight whereof slew those on whom it rested and such an Earthquake was not since the World began to the moving and removing of all Foundations And the appearance of the Angels that came out of the Temple was sparkling like the fiery Heavens and they were cloathed as with fire and their Rayment shined like unto fine Gold and on their Heads were Crowns and their Paps were girded as with golden Girdles LXXXIII But the seventh Thunder sounded through the AIR the efect of which descended on that great CITY in which Babylon was erected wherein the seven Angels of God that had sounded the seven Golden TRUMPETS and who had power over the Worlds came forth from the holy Place cloathed with Heavenly Glory for an Angel of the Sun who was manifest in the fiery TRIPLICITY of the Heavens together with all the glories of the Father until the Clouds of HEAVEN became dispersed in that which was manifest in three Principles of the WORLD wherein the glory of the Womans return from her travel through the WILDERNES was revaled among the WONDERS of Heaven to be the Coelestial beauty of a third Principle in which she was cloathed with the Sun and had the Moon under her Feet and on her Head was the Crown of Twelve Stars that are moved about in the ZODIACK of the Heavens of an Inward World LXXXIV For TWO WOES are past in the diveing of the Worlds in their six Principles into two third parts wherein five are comprehended in one third part of that which is past and they are fallen for the revealing of the SAMARITAN in that which is come forth against ASIRIA the second time in which the Woman continued joyned to one that had buried five yet was he not the HUSBAND to the five wise VIRGINS but he remained married unto her in that foolish state wherein the Law had dominion over the MAN as long as he lived in whom the foolish Virgins are concerned to reveal a sixth that is past and seventh that is come for the bringing forth of whom the Creature suffereth death all the day long CHAP. VIII Describing the Power of God manifested in the execution of the seven last Plagues to come upon the Earth LXXXV THE BEAST himself who is the Eighth and who is the Son of Perdition is now revealed in her that shall bury SEVEN wherein the Harlot hath lurked unto whom the Man
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
prevailed in the months thereof until the seven Mountains could be seen on which the great CITY was erected through the decreasing of the Waters in what remained falling backward for the space of seven Months XI And the CITY that thou sawest built and setled on those Mountains and high Hills which became the Foundations of all that fell into and under the palpability of WATERS is the City HENOCH which the first born of Nations erected under the power of Corruption from the ground which he became the Tiller and tearer up of when driven Eastward from the Face of the Earth and Presence of God into that Land where he took his Wife that he might call the name of his Buildings after the name of his Son for whom it was built XII For he possessed the seven forms of NATURE the number of years according to which the year increased its dayes and hath all the properties of the Heavens through a Translation wrought on the Body of Nature in what came forth mamfest in each line of the Fathers resting in LAMECH whence two Wives prevailed over the Man five years short of a sight into the destruction which prevailed over the Worlds in the state it was first planted CHAP. III. Describing the property of Enochs Prophecies XIII THose seven forms of Nature whose Characters are Figures in Hieroglyps have the property of Prophecy among the Works of Wonder which cannot be understood in the Creaturely Capacity but through the translations of ENOCH for whom the ground of conceiveability was torn up and no less power is requisite herein than that which smiteth the World in its third part of both Earth and Waters and all that lives therein or moves thereon wherein the Beast hath had his Seat as a Temple in which hath shined the glory of Sun and Moon and Stars XIV And for the revealing the true ground from whence all those glories may come again to shine in the Principles of Nature as in the beginning consumption and darkness must come before his Face who rideth in the Chariot of Nature wherein those glories are smitten in the third part until the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about the fourth part of the WORLDS over which the EAGLE hath prevailed XV. And though as those Angels stand manifest in the Heavens they are seven in number according to the seven forms of Nature through which are sounded the Mystery of God's Works of Wonders from the seven Golden TRUMPETS yet is their destroying power bound down in the four last forms only in which the Elements of Nature have spheared into Corruption for the discovery of the Lake of Fire that is hidden in the great River EUPHRATES from what is thence loosed XVI But the Witnesses hereof are only two manifested in each three Principles of both Heavenly and Earthly being in which the AIR is commanded until FIRE and WATER is become united in its ANGEL that hath one Foot on the Earth and hath his other on the great Seas for the Angel of the Waters saith It is done but an Angel of the Fire who continueth alwayes ministring before the ALTAR hath touched my Tongue with a live Coal he hath brought from thence wherein I am made able to declare of what he hath flung on the Earth XVII And beholding the seven Mountains of the Earth on which is setled the Foundations of that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Worlds in the in kindled Fire burning under its Foundations I see terrible shakings that are yet to pass through the Worlds over all buildings therein after the tenth part of the CITY is seen become fallen in the assending up of the Witnesses unto Heaven in the sight of their Enemies wherein the ten Horns of the BEAST shall hate the Whore and burn her flesh with FIRE XVIII Then shall be seen the seven Horns of the LAMB full of Eyes which are the seven Spirits of God which do walk among the seven Golden Candlesticks and the Books shall stand open on which hath been put those seven Seals that he may be known come into the Worlds that holdeth in his right Hand a Crown of seven Stars as seven golden Lamps burning before the Throne of God and the Lamb and lighting the whole Earth with his Glory in the form of the Pleiades for the seventh Trumpet shall sound forth the Mystery of what is thus unsealed over the mighty deeps which have filled the Worlds XIX And in the finishing of this great Mystery all Nations of the Earth shall be gathered to their appointed place that the Spirit and God of the World may bear the wrath of Indignation of what is poured forth on the frame of all created Principles into form without mixture which is the second Death executed in the seven last Plagues wherewith the seven Golden Vials are filled wherein God will appear in ten thousand of his Saints CHAP. IV. Describing the ground in Nature from whence the Wheels are moved about the frame of the WORLDS XX. THe seven spirits of God are moved about the frame of the WORLDS according to what doth operate and work up the way and course he is manifest through in the Seven forms of Nature which are become the Seven heads of the BEAST and the Seven Mountains of the WORLD on which the City is built wherein the WHORE doth sit exalted and therefore is God manifest in the Spirit of Judgement in those Forms of Nature that every thing may come forth tryed undeâ— the motion of the WHEELS XXI But though the BEAST hath taken Head in these forms of Nature Nature is again returning to its firsâ— subjection in the utter consumption and destruction of the power of the Dragon Beast and False Prophet ouâ— of those forms in Nature for now are the Wheels moving over the greaâ— River Euphrates on which the trumpet of God hath sounded and thence are loosed his destroying Angels which cause thunders and lightning in the Heavens XXII And the Clouds of Heaven are already tinctured with that which Ascendeth upward to prepare its motion in the Air whence his appearance is expected who judgeth the Prince thereof and casteth down the Accuser of the Just from those Airy Heavens wherein he hath been exalted though the Seven Forms of Nature which are moved about the heavens of the Worlds attend the first mover wherein the Work of God is manifest in the Seven Spirits of Nature XXIII For this center of the Inward WORLD which was thus unmovable had a power in and over all that was movable and changeable which became a cause in the motion of the WHEELS that was over-ruled by the wisdom and power of the first mover wherein all Glories of the FATHER shined in the Firmament of his POWER in which he remained unalterable and unchangeable the same without any shadow of turning or variation XXIV Yet is it only in Nature that God is become thus a cause
through the striving and strugling which I saw in the Air. LV. And as that which came forth out of the Womb of Eternity was brought FIVE DAYES forward for manifestations sake I beheld a Principle of Corruption and Destruction that came to be allowed to work up its Power in a Mystery through and over all forms that were come into being in the OLD WORLD which remained suffering under those THREE and under that through which these Two became imbodied from the Womb of Nature in the Creaturely form and being in that FIFTH DAY who were separated into the Principles of AIR and WATER thus made distinguishable LVI For of the THREE that strove to come forth out of the Womb of Eternity imbodied in the Creaturely form and being there were but only Two that became incorporated from the Womb of Nature though there was the MULTIPLICITY of FORMS and the variety of ESSENCES concerned therein And as I beheld the effect of what came forth through the contest in the place of Conception the BEHEMOTH possessed the SEVENTH PART of the Worlds in which the WATERS were held even as LEVIATHAN possessed the Waters themselves LVII Yea through the drying up of the THIRD PART of the corruptible Waters on the THIRD DAY that which aboad in the Air in which the Firmament was placed became a mighty and Potent PRINCE and GOD of the WORLDS which impregnated on blew up the stern-harsh-FIRE in the enkindled qualities of Divine Justice against the Creature by whom SIN took occasion to work up the power of Death over the Body of Nature through a Law in the Members wherein the concupiscence wrought against the Law of the Mind under which the Nature of all Creatures was brought forth and subjected through the contrariety of the Spirit of Enmity that tinctured the ELEMENTAL qualities of the Worlds with the harshness thereof against the regulating power of order LVIII For that which sunk in the fall became imbodied again in form anew after I had beheld the dispersing abroad of all that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity in its fallen Properties and Qualities which setled in the Created being of all powers of Nature in the imbodied form which was brought forward into BEING under the power of Corruption over which I beheld the motion of the WHEELS until it became EQUINOCTIAL LIX And it was SIX DAYES forward and six dayes backward in what was wrought up into FORM through the operation in Properties and Qualities of what was endless in the WORLDS wherein the FOUR BEASTS which I beheld came forth into manifestation and these four had the Face of a LYON and the Face of a CHERUB or Calf and the Face of a MAN and the Face of an EAGLE and they moved in the WHEELS over all that came forth imbodied in FORM while place and time endured LX. And thus did I behold until all that came forth thus FALLEN in the bodily frame was again returning and centring in an Eternal Rest and Quiet IN THE LORD where it became immoveable stedfastly abounding in the good Fruit of Joy and Rejoycing wherein the Creator of all forms in NATURE had first planted it and therein had God finished all work and labour in the beginning of CREATION which is become the Seventh DAY in NATURE to that which remaineth capable of entring into Rest that is formed therein which is the ground of torment and disquiet to the Spirit of the WICKED ONE CHAP. VI. Describing the coming forth of the first Seven Nations of the Worlds into the forms of Nature LXI THese are the Generations of the the WORLDS in the day that God created the HEAVENS and the EARTH when he beheld it without form and void for it was an Emptiness and dark NOTHING before he Created it into FORM through the power of the Word of LIFE in which God willed the coming forth of that which was to replenish it in time and place LXII Wherein all that was brought forth in the Dominion of Innocency In ADAM was a subjection to the forming part of the IMAGE that mankind was stated in according to the Mind and Will of the Spirit of GOD in him REVEALED whose conditions for Good or Evil are concerned in what he ruleth in and over LXIII For the Earth was not now without form nor in its voidness and emptiness but was filled and replenished with Creatures and Things which were created beautiful in their place and season and the World was set in their Hearts the beauty and glory of which did wither and pass away as the flowers of the Field And all that stood IMBODIED under the power of corruption in time and place was consumed so that the Works of God in that STATE could not be beheld from the beginning to the end thereof LXIV And the Government of God through the power of all Properties in the ELEMENTAL WORLDS was manifest in those Four forms of the BEAST in Nature wherein the effect of all produced from the FIERY HEAVENS was comprehended for Governments-sake in the form of a LYON and there came a Voice from the HEART of the fire as from the Heart of the LYON let the Earth keep silent while the Islands renew their strength LXV For darkness came over all that stood manifest in form wherein the Creature sought to glory in the imbodied will of SELF-EXCELLENCY which was moved towards the PIT of perpetual SILENCE to inhabit the NOTHINGNES through such a REVOLVE in the turning about and overturning of the Worlds in the motion of the WHEELS LXVI And over the face of the mighty deeps was a thick Cloud and over the PEOPLE who are the unstable Waters was the gross thick darkness and the Nations of the Earth were angry and moved at this coming forth of the Lord. And I beheld the Worlds in their divided Qualities and Properties wherein was preparation for a NEW Heaven and a NEW Earth and the Face and form of the MAN whom I saw went both forward and backward in the Heavens according to the form and frame of the Worlds in the VISION of the Wheels from those FIVE DAYES wherein I beheld the MOON striving to encrease her recovered strength towards NEW MOON to the reducing of that which was lost in the KALENDS of the Months LXVII And until the end of NINE and TWENTY dayes I saw the IDES of the Month in a Mystery working up a form to the new created being of all things substantial in an eternal existence And the Face and form of the Man whom I beheld exalted in the Heavens was turned towards the South For he was not able to behold the illustrious breaking-forth of the glory of the DAY that was risen upon the Earth LXVIII And the form of the Man whom I had seen placed in the GARDEN was divided into TWAIN to wit into Masculine and Feminine through whom the Heavens came to multiply their forms in the Dual number over the Earth whereby the strivings in the
Earthly Womb came to be through these Two NATIONS LXIX For by reason of a setled subjection in the ground of Nature from which the Man took being to wit out of the LIMUS of the Earth there had not come forth a Man to till and tear it up until a Second motion from God did work and operate after all his works were finished in the DIURNAL MOTION which became the NIGHT of the FOURTH DAY in Nature or FIRST DAY of God's glory in the Coelestial Body betwixt the Principles whereof a Separation was made which had a great LIGHT to rule its darkening qualities LXX And through the working properties in Nature which had the Annual Motion the preparation of a SECOND separated day in NATURE came up in the Resurrection of Glory in the JUST wherein the partakers of glory in a FIRST Resurrection were planted together in what the SON of MAN wrought up into the World through suffering LXXI And the Motion of Separation in the Turns of the WHEELS came forward until the midst of FIVE DAYES And I numbred the dayes of the continuance of the FIRST MAN that came forth imbodied from the Womb of Eternity to keep and dress the Vineyard wherein he was placed which were 930 days or Two years and Seven MONTHS which work was setled among the forms in NATURE and therein made destinguishable LXXII And I beheld the course of the SUN of the Glory of the Day of the SON of MAN moved FIVE MONTHS backward to bring forward the SEVEN MONTHS under which the BODY of NATURE stood subjected for a change sake in the separation of the THREE PRINCIPLES that became imbodied in the Two NATIONS that strove in the WOMB of NATURE to bring into appearance and manifestation the WORKS of WONDER through which the man traâ—…l all the two YEARS and SEVEN MONTHS under the workings and motions of the power of DEATH CHAP. VII Describing the manner how those seven Nations came forth thus imbodied in FORM. LXXIII AND those SEVEN NATIONS that strove in a Mystery came forth in the Two GENERATIONS that degenerated from the glory of his DAY in which day his Sun was divided after that of ONE the MAN was become TWAIN standing in the midst of that wherein he was brought forth wherein I beheld the course of the Sun of his Day steared through Two WORLDS and the MOON became exalted thereby in the changeability of her way and course by which the Body of Nature was afflicted to the subjecting the Womans will and desire to BODILY PANGS in which was indurance and suffering to the Creature of God And as the ORDER of Nature grew under corruptible courses in the WORLDS the shining of Glory in both WORLDS was a lustre in the frame standing still TEN DEGREES to bring back and recover what was lost in the course of Degeneration LXXV And on the Suns coming into Virgo which is the Virgins Night-house in the BOWELS of GLORY in the HEAVENS of an INWARD WORLD I beheld the form of Two SUNS placed in the Firmament of the Fathers Glory for the ECLIPS of the Sun was very great while this LABOUR continued in the Body of Nature wherein that which was divided from the Man came forth in the midst of the FIFTH MONTH after the Works of God were finished but counting those days wherein the Sun stood at a stay and the five dayes wherein the Virgin in Mans form was slain it was the concluding of five MONTHS under that which moved neither forward nor backward for a day LXXVI And as the forms of NATURE stood thus divided and separated I beheld the Woman travelling in the Heavens to bring forth into being what became imbodied from the WOMB of NATURE and the Body of Nature came under SUFFERINGS by the twain with whom she was in labour in the production of which the one came forty five dayes before and the other forty five dayes after her forty weeks under which the course of Nature was subjected LXXVII And for SEVENTY DAYES did the Moon prevail again in the Womans labour for strength towards a Second Birth which was thirty dayes after the Sun had recovered strength in the course under which the WORLDS were subjected in the frame of all forms in Nature for it was the expiration of the FIRST YEAR and FORTY DAYES after the Woman again conceived a MAN whose glory came forth in the SECOND YEARS WORK LXXVIII But in the conclusion of labour to the Creature In the first year the Body of Nature stood divided in the Creaturely Form wherein I came to the Sight of the Mystery of what stood unrevealed to the World under Characters of Blood the wonderful frame of the Works of God in the Book of Life wherein he is well pleased was thereby written in the sealed Testimony of the Spirit of Prophecy committed to the Hand of the Angel of Strength And the course of the Sun wrought in a MYSTERY of distance from the MOON in the changeability of what it effects over the Body of NATURE LXXIX But the exaltation of Beauty in the lustre of what the Creature was Planted in according to the Seed of its Birth was a moveability in its GLORY towards the Head of NATURE which broke forth in the Head and Face of a RAM for after the Seal of God on the day of the FOUR BEASTS in NATURE came to be taken off the Book of Life in which sence stood manifest the virtue of the Wonderful and Miraculous frame of his Spirits working in its various dispensations yet the destroying power of the four Angels that stood on the four corners of the Earth was bound in the great River EUPHRATES until their Year Month Day and Hour came to be revealed to the Glory of a Wonder-working-God LXXX And on the tenth day of the first Month of the second Year the Sun came up again in his course and entered the first Point of ARIES and as the Woman also recovered her strength she was delivered of that for which she traveled on the second day of the second Month as the Moon was entring her House of Exaltation for that which she laboured to bringing forth was five Nations which stood separate among the forms in Nature in the second years Revolution which was thirty dayes onward in the year and from the ground of destruction to the first FORM in the Woman was Seventy dayes it being effected Forty dayes before the Revolution of the first Years LXXXI This was a fifth Man in his Nation come forth into Form in the Creaturely being And on the first Day of the fourth Month the Woman was again delivered of a SIXTH MAN formed in his Nation in the Creaturely being as the Sun came towards Cancer the Breast of Nature in which the Moon stood exalted nine degrees in Taurus before the Sun entred the first point of Cancer in which the Sun was greatly Eclipsed LXXXII But the last day of the ninth Month the Woman was delivered