Head which was healed up again by the coming forth of the Ram from the EAST who pushed three wayes after I had beheld five Horns fallen from a fourth Head that stood in the midst of five and unto this Beast did the Dragon give up his Power and also the first Beast and the WHORE which were the three Ribs in the Mouth of the Bear in the NORTH and they became three unclean Spirits like Frogs that entred this second Beast who caused the Image of the Beast to be again revived and to be worshiped that all men might receive his Mark else were they not to buy and sell with the Nations of the Earth who received his Mark and Names and Number on their right Hand or forehead and they were angry with those that could not bow down with them LIX And this was the Spirit of Devils working Miracles in the Name of God and thereby they caused the Generations of the World to fear and dread for the Nations of the Earth repented them not of their great evil and wickedness and sorceries and thefts and murders and worshiping of Devils and bowing down unto Graven Images and of all Idolatry and Uncleanness notwithstanding those afflictions that were come into the Worlds But a second Thunder also thundred from the Throne of God and the Lamb which came into the Temple of God wherein God had placed a Government over Nature in those four forms of the Beast and all Foundations in HEAVEN and EARTH were shaken for the preparing and raising up a Ground for that immoveable Rock and Foundation of many Generations LX. And a third Thunder also thundered from the great River Euphrates out of which those four destroying Angels of God were loosed by which those afflictions came on a third part of those Men who had not on them the Seal and Mark of God and the Lamb in whom a ground was awakened and raised up which made sensible of that which was come into those parts of the Worlds And a fourth Thunder thundered also from the Wilderness in which the Woman had remained travelling in sorrow for the forty two Months wherein the Holy CITY was given into the Gentiles hands to be troden under foot wherein the great DRAGON stood before her ready to devour that for which she was in Travel which was a Man-Child who was to Rule the Nations of the Earth in a Rod of Iron whom he sought to destroy CHAP. VI. Describing the Nature of the WORLDS in their raised and renewed state through a Restauration of the Heavens c. LXI AS I came to behold the daughter of the NORTH returning from the Wilderness in which was her travel and hard labour I saw TWINS of which she was delivered therein and the Children were nourished for the space of forty dayes by the WOLF who had fled thereinto wherein they became great And the Queen of the SOUTH who was come out of her own Land wherein she had been fruitful and was exalted in the Bulls Eye being delivered of a FEMALE Child her Seed was dispersed into the North and over the four Quarters in the World wherein the Waters had prevailed over the Earth LXII And as she came to settle her self in the pleasure and ease of the Flesh and to delight her self in the Worldly Spirit wherein she sought satisfaction she overlaid and slew the Fruit of her Womb in the Seed of Life through a drousiness and carelesness that came over her Spirit whereby she became dead while she lived and there appeared the form of two Children sporting themselves in the Field of the World for they vvere scattered from the House of NATURE vvhom the EAGLE beheld from his Nest and the one of them vvas caught by the Eagle who envied the Eye of the Child and by his Bill vvhich vvas renevved he pierced the sight of the BABE and made it blind but he vvas frighted avvay vvhile there vvas yet life in the Child LXIII And the Women met in the Wilderness vvherein the Queen of the South sought to compass a Man in the Seed of Life under the Povver of the North Wind because of the Brass Belly in vvhich the ETHIOPIAN vvas separated that had cured the Wound of those that had looked upon it the Remnant of vvhose SEED vvere multiplyed over the Quarters of the World that had escaped the sting of the Serpent in that WILDERNESS vvherein Generations had perished and the Face of God vvas tovvards his Israel to gather and deliver them from the Hand of the ASSYRIAN the second time LXIV For as those Women were sound striving about the living Child who had escaped the fury of the EAGLE though it grew blind under the same there arose the wisdom of a King in Israel to decide the matter through sound JUDGMENT that divided things aright for the distinguishing of the true Mother whose Bowels yearned in tenderness over the Birth in the time it stood under the censure of Separation wherein the HARLOT manifested her cruelty And the venom rested in the Eye of the Eagle like unto the poyson of Asps though therein he grew sharp and quick-sighted while his Wings overspread the Body of Nature in the Heavens from whence I beheld him exalted in the Air with two Heads in which the Seed of the North prevailed though the Daughter of the South enlarged the dominion of what proceeded from the Female Child and she was established Queen in that strange Land LXV And I beheld how the Image that had fallen in the Earth grew secretly invisible under the power of Corruption which increased its strength in the changeable wayes and courses of the WORLD wherein the Head of the RAM stood exalted in the fiery triplicity of the Aerial Heavens compassed about under the Waters that suffered the Power of Corruption over which the Heavens were moved while from the Neck downward the Body of the Earth strove to reign in dominion over its Head and in the Heart of the Earth was inkindled a flame from the Fiery Heavens as it stood moved about in the midst of the Body of Nature which had the lower parts of the BEAST downward but the Legs of a Man which stood at a distance in the form of the Letter A as from the Shoulders upward there did reach toward the Heavens the form of the Arms of a Man and both Arms and Legs were partly Iron and partly Clay LXVI And among the forms of all buildings which I had seen erected from the Heavens and standing in the Nature of the WORLD I beheld until the Temple that in its first appearance was very glorious was defiled with the Nature and Spirit of the WORLD and it became the seat of the Beasts which inlarged its power in that which overspread the Foundation of the Earth wherein the great City that I had seen had begun to rest and settle its first glory in which the Worlds were planted and the weight thereof was the structure of the Temples
the Heavens I beheld a prepared Ground unto which the Gates of Eternity were opened and from the Elemental being in which four Gates were opened into the Worlds whence strove the four Winds of the Heavens I beheld the coming forth of the four Beasts in the seven forms of Nature wherein their Power was first manifest after whom arose those other four Beasts in the dispersing abroad of the powers of Nature through the plucking of the Wings from the LYON XXXVIII Wherein the Power of the RAM in Nature who came forth first exalted through the plucking off the LYONS Wings and dispersing abroad of the power of five Kings that were fallen had his HORNS first broken in the separated power of the Heavens under the striving of their four Winds and he is the last Power in Nature under which the Heads of the Beast have been healed XXXIX For through the appearance of the ANGEL of God in the forms of Nature I beheld how the whole Earth was lighted with the Glory of that which is broken forth into the Worlds and there came unto me one of those seven Angels of God who had the Golden Vials that were filled with the seven last Plagues even the wrath of the Lamb ready to be poured forth on the wicked and ungodly world and he talked with me as doth a Man with his Friend and said unto me This is the Mystery of that first Beast thou sawest come forth with five Heads and nine Horns XL. These are nine Kings five against four who served and were subject to one King twelve years and in the thirteenth year they rebelled and in the fourteenth year his power was again revived in what had received that deadly wound wherein was broken the first five Horns from the fifth Head of the BEAST whose Seat was in MALE called ELAM in the Hebrew Tongue which you read backward and his Name is KEDORLEOMAR in SHINAR of BABYLON where is the VOICE of an ANGEL I-AM-RAPHEL revealed in TIDAL LAD it KING of Nations XLI This therefore is the Mystery of all those Beasts and of what thou hast seen come forth according to the times in the Vision for which it hath wrought the LYON is the Heart of that Nature in which the first ADAM was Created from whence the RAM in Nature hath Head and Face which is the first House among the Mansions in the Heavens of the Father's Glory and the CALF is the Neck and Throat of Nature which is the second House of the Fathers MANSIONS in the Heavens whence the scape GOAT took form through the bended KNEES of what descended from the Heavens in the state of subjection under which Nature was framed XLII And in those two first Houses of the Heavens wherein the Glory of the Sun and Moon of the Son of Man in the FIRST ADAM was exalted the fiery Heavens had tinctured the forms of Nature in the double Bodied being through a separation made between Day and Night wherein the Man was oppressed that bore the weight and burthen of the wrong in the Fall on the shoulders of the created Body over-ruled through its two great Lights whereby his ARMS were spread abroad as the appearance of his form wrought in the Clouds of the Heavens whence those Beasts did both ascend and descend XLIII Which stood manifest on the EARTH whence the HEE-GOAT ascended through the Mans sufferance who had the face of the third Beast among those forms in Nature for the Arms and Shoulders of Nature is the third House of MANSIONS in the Heavens as the fourth BEAST in the forms of Nature with the face of an EAGLE wherein the four Angels are exalted on the Earth in the sounding of those Golden Trumpets out of the TEMPLE by their ANGELS in their forms of Nature CHAP. VIII Describing the Ground in Nature wherein other BEASTS took Form then those FOUR in which the Creation of God was FIRST planted in its Government over the BODY wherein Man hath a Being XLIV THe IMAGE of God in which was the Mans Dominion had power over all those Earthly FORMS in Nature though as ADAM was created an earthly Man he was of the Earth earthly for that was first which is earthly and yet in the similitude he bore of his Maker there was a Government settled to rule and have authority over the Nature of the BEAST which made subject to Vanity and a Power of Corruption through a Generation and Generations that liked not to retain the KNOWLEDGE of God in their MINDS XLV Therefore did they change the Image of God into Gold and Silver and four-footed BEASTS and creeping things with Wood and Stone and things graven out of the Invention of Man which they have fallen down unto and worshipped because after they knew God or rather were known of Him this MYSTERY of Iniquity began to work HIDDENLY wherein they were given up to a reprobate sense in the UNBELIEF of the Truth that caused the Condemnation XLVI And their DAMNATION slumbereth not who believe a Lye to the marring of that Form in which the MAN was an Image of his Maker This therefore is prefigured forth to thee that thou mayest apprehend the Generation of MEN on whom God hath set a Mark according to the IMAGE they bare to distinguish them in their NATURE And as the LION whose Government is in the HEART of Nature and CALF whose government in Nature is the Neck and Throat of the untamed Will that acteth the BODY are the FIFTH and SECOND Houses of those Mansions from whence the SUN is moved and wherein the MOON is EXALTED so the RAM and HE-GOAT who are the FIRST and TENTH Houses among the FORMS in Nature are those BEASTS in Nature wherein a falsified Glory entred those FORMS in which the MAN lost Dominion though the Light of the SUN of his day was and is Exalted in that FIRST House as it fell in the TENTH XLVII And therefore in the sinking State under which those forms of Creation continued Light was Exalted in the Reins of Nature which is the SEVENTH House whence came forth and appeared the Face of that THIRD BEAST like a MAN with the BALANCES in his Hands whereby every thing was weighed and tryed by just Measure though under him lurked the Form of a Leopard or great Bear with four wings of a Fowl on his Back and through him sprung up FOUR notable HORNS on the HEAD of the GOAT in the dispersing abroad KINGDOMS of the EARTH under the FOUR Winds of the HEAVENS XLVIII But in the dividing of the Heavens whence came to be exalted the Spirit of Sound and Tone uttering its Voyce in the sound of seven golden Trumpets as the WOLF or little BEAR that hath for his Seat the Breast of Nature which is the fourth House among the MANSIONS in the Heavens got before the LYONS Face who is the Heart of Nature in that fifth House of Mansions wherein the SUN hath its seat the Moon came to exalt
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
year as the Sun came to enter the first point of Aries on the tenth day of the Month the first or Spring-Quarter of the Worlds growth standeth manifest in the Signs of the Times while Glory ascendeth the three Vernal Signs of the Zodiack in an inward World called Aries Taurus and Gemini and from the eleventh Day of the Fourth Month did the Sun enter the first point of Cancer in its degrees wherein is revealed the Summer-Quarter with the Rays and Beams of scorching Heat dispersed through Leo and Virgo the Heart and Bowels of Nature this being the fifteenth day of the fifth Month from the time that the Power of the Dragon hath been loosed out of the bottomless Pit in the form of those Beasts like unto Goats called Locusts wherein he had given up his Power unto the Beast with seven Heads and ten Horns for the thousand year which is the time he was bound XLII For from thence count thou the beginning of the five months that torment hath rested and seized on a third part of men in this fourth part or North-Quarter of the Worlds that have the mark and name and number of the Beast and the first Wo is manifest therein because the Devil is come down in great rage among men and the Inhabitants of the Earth are therefore terrified and afraid by the sounding of the fifth Trumpet of God after which these evils have followed the Worlds in the casting down out of Heaven the Accuser of the Just to the awakning a sence of what is thus come on and into the fourth part of the same wherein the Beast hath made his Seat but the second Wo followeth what is awakened out of the bottomless Pit whence a sence of torment resteth on those men from the sounding of the sixth Trumpet on that Great River EUPHRATES XLIII Wherein a sence of the destroying Power of God exalted in the Angels of the four Beasts that stand on the four Corners of the Earth to hold the four Corners of the Winds and whose Power is to with-hold those Winds from blowing is come into the renewed World under the Redeeming Power of God through the Sounding of the seventh and last Trumpet of God on the Air from the time that the Commandment of God went forth for the again building up and restoring Jerusalem in which the Mystery of what pertaineth to the Kingdom of God is come to be fulfilled and finished therefore a third Wo cometh and shall stand manifest from the concluding of the fifth month wherein the fourth Beast with the Face of an Eagle shall give up his Power which are the seven last plagues to come on the Earth and Worlds even seven Golden Vials filled with the wrath of God and the Lamb unto the seven Angels of God that are come forth of the Temple to sound LXIV For in the number of Years in thirty two Jubilies since the great Prophet and Minister of a better Tabernacle and Temple than that which is built by Man finished his Testimony therein and in the sixtieth Jubilie since the beginning of those Offerings wherein was the dayly Sacrifice which hath been made to cease in time those seven Angels of God that came forth of the Temple of God with their seven Golden Trumpets have been manifest in the Parts and Quarters over which they have sounded it being the tenth day of the Fourth Month from the awakened sence that came into those Parts of the World over whom the Trumpets had sounded of the torment of those Women that sat weeping in the North Gate over TAMUZ XLV So that counting four minutes of an hour to one degree of the Sun in the Diurnal Motion of the Wheels and fifteen degrees of the Sun for an hour of the DAY wherein the Heavens in Man are brought under fiery Tryals by the sounding of the Trumpets of God in the Angels of his Covenant on all the Glory of Worlds in its third part of Earth and Waters and Sun and Moon and Stars that stand manifest in what thereof is smitten according to the breaking forth of the day it is now 120 degrees of the Sun from the fifteenth Revolution of Years in the Heavens according to the fifteenth Year that the Forms in the Heavens have remained a Testimony of what was finished in the lively Patterns themselves that have their figure in the Tabernacle of Witnesses XLVI And reckoning from the tenth day of that first month wherein the Sun made his appearance in the first degree of the Ascendant from the sixth Hour of the Day which was his hour of rising in three minutes of ARIES to make his Right Ascention over the Heart of the Orient in the fire of the Meridian from the twelfth hour or Mid-day called Noon wherein he gave fourteen degrees to the Succedant it will now appear to be the last hour of the Day that many are called to be Fellow-Labourers and Workers together with God in his Vineyard counting the Suns rising in the degrees of the Meridian from the first degree of the Ascendant in Aries according to the motion of the Moon in her passage through the twelve Signs of the Zodiack XLVII For the Sun encreasing the strength of 22 minutes in ten days of the first month to make his rising to be the fifth hour of the 11th day of the second month in his passage through the Houses of his Ascendant Succedant and Cadent in the Vernal or Spring-Quarter there being thirty degrees in each House of the Heavens according to the Signs they have in the Zodiack of the Moon the Suns setting is made in the seventh hour of the day and further increasing strength for timely rising in his passage through Taurus that is the second House of his Dignities governing the left part of the Meridian in the middle of the Spring wherein the Dominion of the House is in the Neck and Throat of NATURE over Melancholy and the Earth in the Succedant he maketh his rising to be 10 minutes past four in the Cadent on the eleventh day of the third Month. XLVIII And the eleventh day of the fourth Month wherein the Sun entereth the first minute of Cancer to make the Summer-Quarter as he riseth in the degrees of the Meridian 47 minutes past three hours from Midnight he maketh it the longest day in the Year in this Latitude and under the Horizon in which the Works of Wonder are to be finished and fulfilled and then the Sun-setting is as long after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day which is Noon or Mid-day as it riseth before twelve to make an Evening of the day according to the hours wherein many have been bidden and are called and invited to a Feast through the ANGEL of Strength and Prayers of the JUST unto God that He might send forth Faithful Labourers into his Vineyard XLIX For that which is come into and on the Earth and Worlds in its fourth part or North-Quarter will continue to magnifie and
exalt the four destroying Angels of Strength that are loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES by which Europe hath been compassed about until the end of seven Months and five days though in the time of the sounding of those Trumpets the Winds have been suffered to blow on the Earth by those that have held their corners as four Angels standing on the four Corners of the same and the Spirit of God hath and doth yet strive with a Generation and Generations on whom the fierceness of Gods wrath in the Plagues of those Vials is to be poured forth and is come L. And the Creature Mankind imbodyed in this third Principle in which he is called the Microcosm or little World is that third part of the Macrocosm or great World as it standeth divided into its four parts or Quarters wherein the Eagle hath had Power over the North Quarter or fourth part of the Worlds where those Tryals are manifest under which the Lyon came first forth with four Wings of the Foul on his Back in which were Golden Fethers with the names of 36000. Men in each Golden Wing while the striving continued between the four Winds of the Heavens on the great Sea and from the loss of dominion therein in the plucking of the Lions Wings wherein came forth four other Beasts and took head in the Nature of that which separated the Man from the power in which he was first planted and placed the Kingdoms of the Earth and World became dispersed abroad the same LI. Until the great Bear or Leopard who hereby purchased the strength of those four Wings had them also taken away and the Man came to regain his dominion over all the Works of God's Hands as Lord in the substance of what is already communicated to his understanding and through those four first Beasts that now have taken unto them each of them the six Wings of the Cherubims every one in their order calling to come and see the Mystery of what is come forth to the Tryal of the Year Month Day and Hour over which they have Power and Dominion in their Angels the Glory of the Father is hallowed having in each Wing two thousand Fethers and names of Men which makes the Glorious Hoast of God in the Heavens Numerable in their Tribes and according to the Families of those scattered Nations over the face of the whole Earth LII Which are the dispersed Army of God and goodly company of that Mighty Hoast in the four Wings of the living Creature by which they stand figured forth 144000. of the first Body in which God hath his sealed Number of Instruments that are engaged in the Lamb's Battel as the MEMBERS of what hath continued like unto dry Bones in the Valleys And for the exalting their Angels in the Heavens their destroying power over the Earth and Worlds is loosed out of the great River over which the winds of the Heavens have striven and blowed while their destroying Power was bound LIII But now are the Winds in the Hands of the Angels to be with-held from blowing and the Spirit of God from striving any longer with the Creature Mankind by the Prophesie of the Witnesses or sounding of the Trumpets of God committed to the Angels and the whole Worlds shall be smitten with Plagues through that which is thus loosed out of the bottomless Pit wherein the Earth hath been covered with those Beasts called Locusts and they have overspread the same in its third part smitten by the sounding of the five first Trumpets and that which is awakened by the sounding of the sixth Trumpet hath command in and over those four Winds of the Heavens to with-hold them from blowing as oft as they please because God will not alwayes strive with Man who is but flesh LIV. And when the Earth is quiet and still according to the silence that hath been in HEAVEN for the space of half an hour and the Worlds begin to settle in the ease and content of the flesh then remember what I say for before this day there hath come Wars and rumours of Wars and the smoake of the torment of those Men on whom Judgment hath rested under the Power of the Beast shall be seen known to be the SEAT of the Beast in a fourth part of the great World that hath yet hitherto escaped Death in what came on that third part thereof in the little World Mankind like the fume of a boyling Furnace whence hath ascended the thick Cloud of Darkness that filleth the Heavens and the Power of the DRAGON who had delivered up his Seat and Throne unto the Beast for the time he remained bound in the bottomless Pit But that now is loosed in the sounding of the three last Trumpets is a Spirit working Miracles in the Earth in the execution of the three last WOES that are come thereinto for the awakening and rising up of three therein that do bear witness for GOD of what hath been crucified and slain in the Streets of the great CITY of the Worlds LV. And into those Kings of the East that have their Power again revived and their Heads healed which is a second Beast come out of the Earth with two Horns of a Ram pushing three ways to wit West and North and South shall enter those three Unclean Spirits of the Beast Dragon and Whore like Frogs through the drying up of the Waters in the great River EUPHRATES in the Worlds Sea they shall come over the same and into the place where God hath settled his glorious City and they shall strive to defile and overcome the Holy Land between the Seas but the end shall come with an over flowing Scourge and great Flood and out of the Mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet shall great things be performed and done LVI Yea all these things have a lively Character of the Truth hereof recorded in the Heavens by the Verity of Just Measure in time and Place for God is not to be limitted to time and place in his Work or to the prescription of men but he hath a time and season for every work according to which he hath determined and decreed an order wherein they are all to be fulfilled and brought to pass according to the measure by which they are measured and weighed in their day and the times and Seasons of their fulfilling have been in the Fathers hands until the hours thereof became made known to the Son of Man who is in Heaven in that which communicateth the sence thereof unto and in the World in whose behalf he came to lay down his Life in the Body of Flesh which he took up for the reconciling of the World unto the good will and pleasure of the Father LVII And the Star that is fallen from Heaven as an Angel that hath the Key of the bottomless-Pit I have beheld and do see the returning of such torment come on those men that have the Beasts mark on his Seat
that shall fill it with Pangs and many shall blaspheme God because of those Pangs that are come on them that have defiled the Temple of God created to be his House of Praise though now made that over which the Great Whore hath reigned that sitteth on the Kings of the Earth and this shall be known in the time that the beloved City becometh encamped about by the great Armies of the Aliens LVIII And concerning all these things the times are coming that they are to be fulfilled and in Europe will FALL suddenly a great Prince but England be thou still in thy Dominions until GOD come to exalt and set up His TRUTH over all the Powers of Darkness for thy striving for Conquest by the Sword and to get into Dominion is but vain LIX In that the Powers of the Air must heighten their glory before it can be seen what is smitten therein under the Power of the Eagle or King of the North that hath reigned more years than the King of the South and therein remaineth the Holy Seed and let him that hath Wisdom number and count those days past and yet observe that which is to be fulfilled to make up the expiration of the time and let it not be hard to believe well of that which crosseth thy expectations that thou shouldest be filled with the distrust of GOD and his Goodness and put an evil Construction upon that which answereth not thy Opinionatedness LX. And in the reading hereof the God of Life and Peace open your Understandings and bless and keep all in his Fear that those Sparks that have been raked under the Ashes of what was once enkindled in a consuming Flame may be blown up into a second Flame the Light of which I desire never more to see extinguished and put out as it keeps burning in and against Self for it is nothing else that burns up the Combustible Matter that hath been brought into the Temple of God And in this doth my SOUL continue praying to GOD Amen and Amen saith Thy Friend in all Love R. B. A TABLE Of the Contents of the CHAPTERS The First Part Describing Chap. 1. The Vision of the Wheels Chap. 2. The Diurnal Motion in the Wheels Chap. 3. The Mystery of the four large Hours in the Day and the four Watches of the Night Chap. 4. The degeneration of all Forms in Nature Chap. 5. The Government of Nature under the Power of four Beasts Chap. 6. The seven Nations of the World as they came forth imbodyed in the Forms of Nature Chap. 7. The manner how they became thus imbodyed Chap. 8. The operation of the Vision in the opening of the Heavens Chap. 9. The exercise of the Power of God over the mind wherein the Vision of these things wrought Chap. 10. The power of the Waters in the Vision of the Wheels Chap. 11. The nature of the World in its Principles Chap. 12. The manner wherein those Vessels were beheld unburdened that arrived from off those Waters separated into four Heads The Second Part. Greeting to the FOUR CHURCHES in EUROPE Describing Chap. 1. The coming forth of those four Beasts Chap. 2. The motion of the Wheels in their seven turns Chap. 3. The Forms of Nature under the renewing Power in God Chap. 4. The effect of the descending of Angels into the Forms of Nature Chap. 5. The order of those four Angels loosed out of the great River Euphrates Chap. 6. The Restauration of the Heavens in the Worlds Chap. 7. 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IN the year 5594 according to the most just and true account of the Creation of the Worlds in Adam and in the thirty-second year after the thirty-second JUBILE since the finishing of the Testimony of that great Prophet in his Body of Flesh who came forth into appearance and manifestation from the Worlds account 1664. being the year of his Incarnation who was the Glory Welbeloved of the Fathers Soul conversing with men in the substance of that Power in which all the Works of God were finished from the beginning the perfection of whose Nature had glory in what was effected in the SIX dayes work of Creation through the glorifying cause of all beings in Nature II. In the year aforesaid the REVELATION of JESUS the Son of the living God came unto me even unto me a Native of England sojourning among the scattered Nations and ungathered Families of the Captivity of Judah waiting for the Earths return to bring forth new fruit unto God throughout the four Quarters thereof which I am commanded of God to communicate to the Generations of the Worlds amongst which I am fallen III. Unto whom be Greeting and Salutation from your Brother in Tribulation and Companion in all afflictions for the Seeds sake whom Bonds have daily attended both inward and outward while for the sake of many and great Nations the travel of my Soul continueth that my groanings and labour in the Lord may procure the joy and rejoycings of as many as have a heart open to receive the benefit of what is brought forth through great conflicts IV. And from the Spirit of Jesus is my Souls enlargement to the disconsolate Babe of Hope and in the Authority of
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
and sought ease by weeping and mourning and coming to sit down by the side of a Wall I was awakened in a sence of the Agony which was upon me after which the glory of the SUN through which I beheld the Wonders of God in the Vision came out of the HEAD of Natures Government descending towards its HEART which was like the Heart of a LYON the Glory of which SUN was exalted in the Head and Face of a RAM amongst the forms of Nature XCIV And in the night season being perfectly awakened I was brought into an inclosed ground which was very dark wherein boisterous storms and tempests were arisen for I was led somewhat out of my way in the conflict and drew towards a little Town near my way wherein I was cruelly dealt withal and though it was late in the night yet I gave up in patience and drew towards a heap of straw in the way-side whereon I lay down to rest me XCV And by the excess of Rain which began to fall I was driven to leave that place also and went into the Fields again where there brake forth before me a WHITE LIGHT in the shape of a SHEEP so far as I could discern it which being round about me in a flame did surprize me with fear whereby the form of the ANGEL vanished and before him went a noise like the crackling of the rotten Hedge which left me much in amazement so that I could not find the way out of the Field or Inclosure in two hours time till I had given up in my mind and forgiven those that thrust me out after which I found my way and came quietly to the Journeys end XCVI After which the Angel of God led me about the circumference of the Worlds to behold the surface thereof and he brought me into a green Field where I saw the frame and form of the HEAVENS and of the Natures of all Creatures in the Worlds and the WHOLE was like unto WATER And there were a THOUSAND Hills and a Thousand Springs of Water And in the same manner as I was acted under the exercise of the Vision so appeared the form of the Worlds wherein came forth a great Number of WOMEN who at last were reduced into SEVEN and each of them sought to lay hold on me but I fled in great fear and lost the sight of the Angels Glory for a time CHAP. IX Declares how I was exercised under the Power of the Vision XCVII AS I was carried by the Spirit of the Lord into a great WILDERNES the Angel of God by whom the Forms of Nature were thus awakened in me brought up the appearance of that Wilderness-state into manifestation in which the Woman continued labouring in the Heavens which Heavens did multiply all forms in Nature into their number and order in which the power of Creation in individual Bodies was separated in its being into two third parts of such forms and the seventh part of the Worlds became corruptible Earth XCVIII From which one THIRD PART thereof was dryed up on the third day wherein Nature had its operation over all Bodies brought into Form in the Work of CREATION which was the TENTH PART of that which remained under the exercise of TRYALS both by FIRE and by WATER and the two third parts of those WATERS were comprehensible in their Qualities from the fiery Heavens whence the circumference of the out-spread Firmament was filled with Airy Bodies and the Earth and Waters were replenished with living Creatures which came under the refining power of those renewing Faculties and Virtues in the forms of Nature imbodied from those WATERS XCIX But what came thus forth in seven natural dayes came under tryal in the operation of three essential days wherein the power of God was manifest for the recovering of a SENCE in the Creature of that work wherein God doth glory and is praised which is the Resurrection of the Just in the first and last power of Creation wherein Majesty is Exalted and therein was manifest A restauration to all forms in NATURE fallen in the WORLDS wherein the MAN who had caused destruction to the Body of Nature was called to account in the Tryal while suffering remained in that third PRINCIPLE in which he was imbodied C. And as the WATERS were gathered together in their Course into the seventh part of the WORLDS which had form in the Earth those two living Creatures called BEHEMOTH or HENOCH Leviathan were separated into their being because it was so ordered in Wisdoms Counsellings that they could not both live together in one place But according to the operation of the day in Nature in which they were brought forth they possessed each part of the Worlds wherein the great WHALE had dominion in the moist part thereof and the Behemoth caused the Image of Giants in the forms of Nature brought forth in Woman in the coming down of the Watchers into the Creaturely conceivance through that which possessed the Earth CI. For in the Firmament placed between Waters and Waters living Creatures were multiplied in Airy Bodies from those Fiery Heavens which Creatures possessed that third part of the Worlds in which the Waters were dryed up from the Earth sixty thousand furlongs in its circumference which is the fourth part of what remaineth measurable in the forms of Nature wherein one third part of the Waters is comprehended CII And as the way and course of what was Generated from the HEAVENS above and Earth beneath was traced in the HEIGHTS and DEPTHS of the WORLD there appeared pourtraied forth through the motion of the Wheels in the Vision a GREAT CITY built on seven Mountains which were seven Foundations on which it setled and the Mountain in the Midl of the Seven which was the Seventh stood higher then the rest on which was built and founded the tenth part of the City which I thus beheld CIII In which place it was compassed about with Fowls of the Air and wild Beasts of Prey wherein the Enemy who is the power of Destruction went about continually seeking to betray and devour but I could not conceive that those BRUIT Creatures did build and rear up the Foundation of that City therefore I concluded in my mind that some Men had been there to build its Foundation though their Houses were left unto them DESOLATE And as I was thus musing in my mind concerning these things I came to apprehend my self a wayfaring Man and a wanderer in the World groaning in Spirit to see the issue of what was thus visioned for I came again to behold the form of the Woman in the Heavens that continued in labour and travel in that Wilderness-state until the time of her deliverance was come CIV And as she had conceived the Birth of Life under the power of contrariety that wrought in the HEAVENS through two Nations on which the blessing of God began to rest the Woman prevailed in the World for their bringing forthout of the
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
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
the BOOK and on the day of the first Beast in Nature I beheld the coming forth of the great LYON that stood Rampant in the WHEELS among the forms in Nature and he called to his DAY Come and see And I beheld on the back of the LYON four Wings of a Fowl in which were thirty six thousand Fethers in each Wing and therein were written so many names of Men for the Wings were of Golden Feathers and his Face was towards the WEST VI. But on the coming forth of this first BEAST the Winds were moved and greatly strove on the face of the WATERS which were gathered together in heaps on the great SEAS And in the Night season there broke forth flashes of Lightning and Fire under the Roof of the House wherein I was exercised with the Vision of the WONDERS of God and his Glory which the PEOPLE saw but understood not the Mystery thereof and great fear fell upon them being not usually exercised with things of that Nature but I laid up all these things in my Heart until I came to know the meaning thereof VII And I cryed unto the Lord with a loud Voice What is the Mystery of all these things that I have seen For loe I am become weak and feeble like a little Child and have beheld until nought was remaining in the Heavens but a Sealed Book under the Power of a Strong Angel of God and it hath been taken to the Learned to Read but they said Lo it is Sealed and we cannot read nor open the Book or loose the Seals thereon and also to the hands of the unlearned it hath been communicated and they say We are not learned so that through the power of the Lyon it hath been shut up for a long season that hath caused weeping in the Heavens VIII And through the loosing of the Seals of God from off the Book of Wonders that was taken out of the Angels Hand at the appearance of the Lamb of God that taketh away sin from the WORLD and that was slain from the Foundations thereof that in the Fathers time he might come forth a Witness of the fulfilling of the daily Sacrifice unto God I beheld the Lamb with his seven Horns full of Eyes as the seven Spirits of God that walketh among the seven Golden CANDLESTICKS and are like unto seven Lamps of fire burning which are seven Stars in the Angel of God whose form is like unto the Son of Man and who travelled among the Churches who are saluted in their seven Angels until a second Seal on the Book became loosed in my sight IX And the second Beast with the Face and in the form of a Cherub or Calf called to his day Come and see and I beheld on the EARTH the form of a great BULL and he came at his Liberty and came towards me with Violence breaking over all bonds in his way and though I had by me a Weapon of Defence yet had I not power to use it to that end but was otherwise preserved from hurt of that Wild Beast But as the West Wind was reproved as the Waters were moved on the great SEAS by the striving of the Winds the second Beast roared rearing himself on his hinder Legs whereby he stood upright which was terrible to behold X. And I said unto the Angel of God How long shall this continue Then I beheld the BULL cast into a deep and dark Pit in Nature while the fourth Beast in the forms of Government in the Body of Nature was set to watch over him by the third Beast with the Face of a MAN for as the third Seal on the Book came to be loosed and taken off the third Beast called to his day Come and see And I beheld from the Face of the Heavens wherein a course of Glory in the Sun of the day of the Son of Man was comprehended in the Heart of the Lyon that night which was come into the Body of Nature was dispersed and the power of the Heavens over the forms in Nature were divided into four Parts in the coming forth of the Worlds into manifestation XI Then appeared the form of a little BEAR that arose on the LYONS side and he took three Ribs out of the Lyons side and held those three Ribs in his Mouth for a long season And from the Tail of the little Bear among the Signs in the Heavens the Power of the DRAGON was loosed and appeared among the Forms in Nature who made up his Tail out of a third Part of the Stars in the Heavens which were drawn towards the NORTH XII And I beheld until the LYONS Wings were pluckt from him and he stood on the EARTH like a Man and a Mans HEART was given unto him for out of the EAST came the form of a RAM with two Horns and his pushing was three wayes to wit WEST and NORTH and SOUTH and when he had lifted up the BULL out of the PIT he was caught by his Horns in the Thickets of the Earth And in the Heavens was the form of the WOMAN exalted in the Bulls Eye called Oculus Tauri And she had in her Hand a Crown of twelve Stars which was taken from her Head and put on the Head of the Lyon CHAP. II. Describing the Motion of the Wheels in their seven turnings over all that came forth into manifestation in the loosing of the seven Seals on the the Book c. XIII BUT as the fourth Beast called to his day Come and see through the loosing of the fourth Seal on the Book I saw the Face of an EAGLE in the Heavens in whose right Eye the form of the VIRGIN in Nature was exalted among the Forms and the second great light in the Heavens was comprehended in the Breast of a great Bear who had also the four WINGS of a Fowl on his Back And the Winds again strove on the great Seas wherein the WATERS were greatly moved in the coming forth of this fourth Beast XIV And as the MAN prevailed in the Heavens I beheld all consumed which stood under the Power of the Waters and the Name of the third Month was called SIVAN in the Nature of what was produced from the Heavens whence came a Voice from the Heart of the LYON in the fiery Heavens Let the Light shine into the Earth that that which is done may appear and be seen And the form of the Heavens stood divided in a double Relation of that which is comprehended in Day Night wherein the Day in Nature had its two-fold Operation over all forms subjected into being in that State and the Clouds of the Heavens were folded up together wherein I saw the form of the RAM coming down out of the Head of Nature descending the right Arm of the Man in the forms of Nature and there went up towards his Head the form of a HEE GOAT mighty and strong and there was labour in the Heavens for the space of sixty one
that fourth part of the WORLDS wherein the whole Earth had corrupted its way before the Lord that which bound the Nature of the Heavens from striving any more with mankind gave way to the power of destruction in a Mystery to increase its swelling Tempests over a third of the Earth out of which the forms of Nature were imbodied in the divided quarter or fourth part of the Worlds XXXIII And I beheld until the seventh year past over my Head and there appeared an Angel of the Waters whose power began to be prevalent over the South Wind and seven Kings of the South fell and the KING himself under whom the South Winds wrought was subjected by the dispersing abroad of those seven Nations of the Worlds through whom the Generations of the Heavens were multiplyed but two dayes before the expiration of the seventh year the Hands of the Angel grew weak for he went backward unto the parting of the great SEAS and brought up the Vessel that stood in the midst of the six in the front of the seventy which was born about by twelve Bulls six on the one side and six on the other XXXIV And the Sun recovered the strength and glory of that which stood still in the Heavens to manifest judgment over a backward course in its Worlds according to the degrees therein by which the Enemy prevailed over the Body of Nature to move the frame thereof under the Power of Destruction And from the expiration of the seventh year was fifteen dayes that the Vessel was subjected in the strength of the Angel for after I beheld the appearance of a second Angel with the Garment of the high Priest on whose Head was a Crown and on the Crown a Cross the form of the Crown was turned about like the Moon in its second Quarter and had two Horns like unto the Letter X wherein the Leter X stood in the midst of the Crown like unto two V A or V and A and I did read it one hundred and ten as though I had read in a Book XXXV For from the beginning of the appearance of the second Angel was seventeen dayes After which I beheld raised up out of the Earth a Wall of Brass and its Foundations rested on two and twenty Pillars that had on them two and twenty names of Men and the two and twenty Letters in the Hebrew Alphabet And on that WALL were twelve Towers on which Towers were placed twelve Angels each Tower stood between two Pillars and the Wall stood four square wherein there were three Gates on each side of the WALL But the Tower on the North-side of the Wall towards the East Corner thereof whereon was exalted an Angel who sat on a Beast in the form of an EVENING WOLF had no Pillars for its Foundations for its foundations fell in the raising up the structure of the WALL and I beheld until the Foundation of the whole was removed XXXVI And an Angel came down from his Tower on the East side of the WALL towards the South Corner thereof who was exalted on the first Beast in the forms of Nature like unto a RAM and he had made a breach on the WALL against whom an Angel who was exalted on the form of a Beast like unto an ASS smote his Foot And the Glory of the Angel on the North Corner of the Wall EASTWARD who was exalted on that Beast in the form of an Ass couching down between two burdens saw that rest was good to the heavy laden and they alighted from off those Beasts whereon they were exalted CHAP. IV. The effect of the descending of ANGELS into the Forms of Nature XXXVII FRom the middle Tower on the Wall Eastward did the Angel prevail in the HEAVENS who was exalted on a BEAST in the form of a LYON until the Angel that came from the South Corner of the Wall was held in a dark place because that self-will slew a man to dig down the Wall of Separation to ISRAEL from those Nations of the Earth that were fallen into Idolatry whereby they caused their Seed to pass through the Fire to Molech and Ashtaroth and followed the invention of the HEATHEN who thus continued worshiping in the Fire XXXVIII For wherein the West-wind prevailed I beheld the form of the Cherub set up to be Worshiped in the WILDERNES whereby the TABLES were broken that were wrote therein by the FINGER of God that his Hand might more eminently appear through that which was engraven the second time for the Angel that was exalted on this Beast came off from his Tower and there appeared another Angel that came off from his Tower on the East Corner of the Wall Southward that was exalted on a little Lyon that roared towards the North and the Woman that had on her Head a Crown of twelve Stars cast it down at the Foot of the Angel that rode on the Beast in the form of a CALF and I beheld until it was put on the Head of the Lyon XXXIX And the Woman was exalted QUEEN of the South but the Virgin Daughter of the NORTH stood afflicted in her Seed sixty one weeks and three dayes while the Daughter of the SOUTH made her self great towards the four Winds And for sixty eight weeks and four dayes I beheld the four Winds striving in the behalf of the Daughters of the North and the form of the Temple that God had builded and finished in the HEAVENS descended in a Cloud into the City that I saw erected under the Power of Destruction and in seven dayes was its Foundation setled therein in which time I beheld the form of the Wolf who was got before the Lyons Face enlarging himself in the power of the Lambs suffering whose Angel prevailed therein until I beheld the form of the Beast driven into the Wilderness in which time I saw the linnen EPHOD Worshiped XL. And an eighth Angel came off from his Tower sailing towards the Land of Rest to a Haven of Ships and there was also a ninth Angel who had in his right Hand a Cup filled with goodly dainties with which those that travelled over the Deeps were refreshed after which appeared a tenth Angel exalted on a ROE-BUCK who came leaping and skiping over the Mountains with glad Tydings to them that dwelt in the Valleys for he proved a good Hind and came home betimes giving goodly words And I beheld until there stood only TWO Angels exalted on their middle Towers North and South and I looked towards the Fields of the Earth which were white unto Harvest and ripe for the gathering XLI And the Angel led me into a Garden inclosed which was the Garden of my Beloved and I beheld how the Spiknard budded and grew up and how the Vines put forth their tenders Branches and the Pomegranet and all Spices flourished as the North Wind came thereon after the South Wind had blowed and the Daughter of the South had wandred from the Garden after the
bewitching Vanities and Pleasures of the WORLD as one charmed among Wild Beasts of prey and stung by fiery flying Serpents and the devouring Creatures of that Field which afterward became healed by the lifting up of the BRAS and those Women came forth to reap the Fruits of the Earth XLII And from the Captivity of the South Wind did deliverance spring up to the Daughter of the North on whose back rested the two WINGS of an EAGLE wherewith she had fled into the Wilderness wherein she had a place prepared from the rage and fury of the DRAGON for time times and the dividing of times for as the North Wind came to prevail the Queen of the South was removed out of her own Land who wrought by craft and much subtilty to corrupt the Seed in the North for therefore was the Daughter of the SOUTH given to the King of the NORTH wherein the Enemy prevailed over the Daughter of the North forty and two months that the Holy City was troden under foot in which time the TWO WITNESSES finished their Testimony of one thousand two hundred and threescore dayes wherein they prophesied in Sackcloath XLIII Yet the King of the SOUTH did not retain the Arm for one of his Princes was exalted above him a man of fierce speech and dark countenance though a vile Person who stood up in his stead but the Hearts of both those Kings to wit of both North and South WINDS of the Heavens were set to do mischief and they spoke lies at one Table whereby the fourth part of the Worlds came under fiery Tryals through this fourth turn of the WHEELS which I beheld over the forms in Nature thus brought forth under the Power of Corruption wherein the Waters had prevailed that were smitten by those Tryals XLIV And through the sounding of the Trumpets the Earth was smitten in its third part wherein a third part of its Fruits withered and died And I beheld until the form of that third part became like unto a burning Mountain cast into the Sea which made its Waters like unto Blood and there was Thundering and Lightning and Tempest while the Mountain continued burning with Bounds placed about it so that no Beast could come near it but if he touched it he was struck through with an Iron Dart that he died neither was any to gaze thereon while the fury continued XLV And on the Rivers and Fountains of WATER also which did run in the several Streams and Channels of the Courses in the Worlds in their renewing state fell a STAR called COR LEONIS the Heart of a Lyon or WORMWOOD and those Waters were made BITTER and darkness came on all Celestial Glory in the Heavens wherein both Sun and Moon and Stars of Heaven were smitten in their third part which became black like Cloth of Hair and Fire mingled with Blood and those Lights shined not in their third part XLVI And there fell from Heaven a second Star called Sagitarius who descended on the bottomless Pit in which the Power of the great Red Dragon and old deceiver of mankind Satan and the Devil had been bound by the Chain in the Hand of the Angel and the Seal on the Pit which a strong Angel of God had put thereon who had bound him down for a thousand years was taken off in which time I beheld the Resurrection of the first Fruits of the Work of the Spirit of God which followed those that were made partakers of that first Resurrection over whom the second death had no Power though the Devil went about to deceive those Nations of the Earth that he had power over And the WHEEL moved about its fifth time and turn over those properties of Life wherein the forms of Nature remained imbodied subjected to a Power of Corruption in which those four Angels remained bound in that great River EUPHRATES XLVII Then came up on the Earth the form of Beasts like unto GOATS and their Faces were like unto the Faces of Men and their Hair like unto the Hair of Women and they had Tails like Scorpions and Stings in their Tails and their Power was over a third part of men imbodied in the Creaturely Being and forms of Nature the exercise of which Beasts was for the cleansing Gods Sanctuary and therefore had they power to exalt to Horn that the Wound of the Daughter of ZION which had been healed up deceitfully daubed with untempered MORTER might be throughly searched into for the separation of that and those over whom the Beasts had Power on whom was his Mark into their Mystery in reference to what was effected in those five Months through which the Wheels came again to move about in their SIXTH time and turn for the loosing of their Angels out of that great EUPHRATES and the name of that fifth Month was called A B XLVIII Yet had not the BEASTS power to kill those men in whom their dominion was exercised but to Torment them for those five Months whose Wound was like unto the biting of an ADDER in the Way or sting of a Serpent as when a Scorpion striketh a Man wherein the bruise on the WOMANS Heel was felt for as the Horse Heels the Beast on whom the destroying Power of God in the Heavens was exalted became bitten by the SERPENT its Rider fell backward and they lost the first shape of Men and through the Pangs of those Men a night of sorrow came over all their WORLDLY Glory and I beheld their Wound like unto a Plague-sore which came on the THIGH of Nature whereby many were made to seek Death because of their PANGS but it fled from them and they could not find the way of Dissolution though they sought it for the Darkness that was on the SUN and on the AIR was like unto the smoak of a Furnace and it was the Fume of the Bottomless Pit out of which the Nature of those BEASTS called Locusts was imbodied in FORM. CHAP. V. Describing the order of those four Angels that were loosed out of the great River Euphrates and came forth exalted on the four Horses of several Colours in those forms of Nature XLIX THrough the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES the power of those four Angels became loosed on the Earth towards the four Winds as it stood divided in its four Quarters and the destroying Power thereof in which Death became Potent was a strength in the North Winds of the Heavens over that fourth or North Quarter of the Worlds as it stood thus separated in its continent over which those Winds were withheld from blowing or striving therein with his Creature and through the loosing of those four destroying Angels I beheld wherein their Power was bound in that fourth part or quarter of the WORLDS compassed about by the great River Euphrates for the space of five years and five months and five dayes and five hours wherein each ANGEL became exalted on his Beast in the forms of
Nature and those Beasts guided the Chariot of Nature wherein the ANGEL was exalted according to the time for which they were prepared and wherein they were loosed an hour a day a month a year L. For in the year for which those Angels were loosed I beheld seven Months wherein the dead were left to bury the dead And from the expiration of those five months was thirty dayes wherein the Angel that was loosed for his Month prevailed under the power of Destruction and the name of the sixth month was called ELIL because of the Fields that were Reaped wherein there was nought found And I beheld the ANGEL who was exalted through the appearance of the first Beast in the form of a Lyon that came forth on his White Horse on which he rode in the form of a MAN with a BOW in his Hand conquering and to conquer LI. And the afflictions that followed came over that third part of the Worlds that the Dragon prevailed in and had power over through the Stars of Heaven that he drew after him wherein he made up his Tail from a third part of the Heavens And the Angel that was raised up in form through that second Beast with the face of a Cherub rode on a red Horse wherein he came forth exalted in the Heavens and he had a SWORD in his Hand and came to take Peace from the Earth through the occasion of the fall of that first Star on the Rivers and Fountains of Water which made a sharpness in the Springs of VIRGIN Earth in the Bowels of Nature LII And through the fall of this second Star the face of a MAN became exalted in the Heavens in which third Beast the Angel of God came forth riding and exalted on his Black Horse with his Ballances in his Hand wherewith the Fruits of the Earth were weighed and measured forth to the Inhabitants thereof who were found labouring therein under the power of Corruption by just weight and measure according to every Mans works and doings in the Earth a measure of Wheat for a Penny and three measures of Barley and the Wine and the Oyl was not hurt until a fourth Angel of God who was exalted through a fourth Beast in the forms of Nature with the Face of an EAGLE had finished his work that he had to do in the WORLDS LIII Who had power over a fourth part of the Earth and he came forth on his Pale Horse like unto Death and Death and Hell followed him wherein his power was executed by Pestilence Famine and Wild Beasts of Prey on that fourth part of the Worlds until the whole power of the Heavens became subject to the first former And I said unto the Angel of God How long shall this continue and the power of this Beast prevail in the HEAVENS To which the Angel replyed Until the EAGLES Eye be pluckt out and he be made blind as in the day that he was created LIV. Then shall the Accuser of the Just be cast down out of the Heavens and all Power in Heaven and Earth shall be delivered up unto the FATHER And I beheld until that fourth Beast came to deliver up his Power unto the seven Angels of God vvhich vvas seven Golden Vials filled vvith the Wrath of God and the Lamb to vvit the seven last Plagues to come on the WORLDS and they came forth out of the Temple of God in the sounding of the seventh Angel on the AIR whereby were finished the Mysteries of God's Kingdom And therein I beheld in the Vision an apparition of the Horses very dreadful and terrible with Brest-plates of fire and Jacinth and their breaking down was as with an Iron Rod breaking and stamping in pieces strong Nations mighty and great and out of their Mouths and Nostrils streamed forth fire and Brimstone and smoke and their Power was in their Mouths and in their Tails which had Heads like the stings of Serpents wherewith they came to hurt and destroy LV. For they had Wings like a flying FOWL and did fly along in the AIR making a great noise like unto the ratling of Chariot Wheels and on their Heads were Crowns of Gold and they had Teeth like unto Lyons who were called DAN'S Horses through a sence of the bruise on the WOMANS Heel but their Riders were like unto Sagitarius or men that had lost their shape and were fallen backward for they had not the use of their Legs and the Captain of the ARMY that I beheld in the Vision of the Heavens had a name which signifyeth a POWER in the DESTROYER or a POSION wherein I beheld his Followers a great number being thousands of thousands which no man could number and until the end of those months they were not to hurt any Herb or green thing for four Woes were past and two were yet remaining LVI And there was also of the LAMBS Followers sealed a great number which could not be counted who came through those two WOES to the Inhabitants of the Earth in its fourth part wherein the Eagle had power of which he was discharged And the Angel that I saw had in his Hand the Keyes of the Covenant of Love and Mercy to the Faithful and Chosen of God who took unto them their Golden Harps and stood on Mount Zion with their Harps harping and singing and praising God who had brought them out of great Captivity whereby their Garments were made white that were washed in the Blood of the Lamb whose names were written in Heaven in the Book of the Lambs Life for they were preserved from the hurt of what was come into the Earth And the Angel had also in his Hand the CHAIN wherewith the great Red DRAGON had been bound down for this thousand years out of which Pit those living Creatures were loosed LVII And as I beheld the BODY of Nature in its afflicted state I came to hear the Voice of seven Thunders thundering and their thunderings were to prepare a ground in which the sence of things wrought the first Thunder was from the unconceivable WOMB of Eternity which prepared a ground for the sence hereof in the WOMB of Nature which continued everlastingly thundering over the cursed Ground in which the â—eed of Enmity had entered the Creation of God And there appeared the form of a VIPER who had gnawed his way out of the Womb of Eternity to come into the Womb of Nature yet was he shut up in the place of Conception as a third Principle of the Man imbodied in the Creaturely being of whose birth was made a Separation in one hour wherein came forth a Generation of VIPERS at once in Mans form LVIII And the Angel of God led me aside into the great Wilderness and I there beheld the WHORE magnifying her self for a season and she rode on the scarlet coloured Beast with seven Heads and ten Horns which were ten Kings who had power with the Beast for an hour because of the Wound on his
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
BEAST I beheld the pleasant Field and fruitful Garden working up the form of what indured and continued patient under those fiery Tryals until they became past over though many therein did dwell on a barren Heath who could not see when good comes whereby they perished in the Night of Obscurity and worldly sorrow that overtook them in their way wherein the power of DEATH wrought and became strong in the WORLDS CXIII And in the place of the fifth Head of the Beast in the midst of four which I had beheld Wounded as it were unto death were sprung up three other Heads And the Horns on that fifth Head which had received that deadly Wound were increased through the healing up of the Wound wherein a little Horn that sprung up between the Eyes of the Beast received Voice and began to speak great swelling words against the God of Heaven and his SAINTS that dwell on the Earth and the little Horn waxed strong towards the four Winds of the Heavens wherein the BEAST appeared with seven Heads and ten Horns which had Power in in the Beast to reign with him as Kings for their hour CXIV And whereas after I had seen the fall of five Horns on that fifth Head of the Beast I beheld remaining four Heads from whence sprung up four Horns in the dispersing abroad the Kingdom and Power of the BEAST under the four Winds of the Heavens so in the reviving of his power that which became exalted in the reducing of four to its first subjection ruled over five in which the wound was received and wherein the Beast came forth first manifest and in the discovery of both the rise and fall of the BEAST though through the great Horn of the Hee-Goat who did not touch the ground until he had accomplished his design after he had power given him in the awakened fury of the West-Wind the two Horns of the RAM from the EAST were broken and stampt in pieces that great Horn was also broken when its fury was accomplished CXV Yet was the power of the four Horns on those four Heads of the BEAST bound down in the four Heads of the great River until the time of the loosing of their four Angels that stood on the four Corners of the EARTH to hold the four Corners of the WINDS from blowing on the EARTH while the little Horn was magnified whereby the third Head which sprung up in the midst of the seven recovered four Horns from that which was dispersed under those four Winds of the Heavens and on the other six Heads were manifest six Horns CXVI Thus was the BEAST more monstrous then all those other Beasts that passed before him with Iron Teeth by which he did break and stamp in pieces And his Face was like unto a Leopard with the form of a third part of the Stars in the constellation of the HEAVENS on his Back but he had the Feet of the great Bear and discovered his power through the four Heads of the great River EUPHRATES in the loosing of those destroying Angels who came first out from the WATERS but the reviving of his strength from those deceitful healings proceeded out of the Earth through the power of the RAM in Nature CXVII And in the time of the sounding of the sixth Trumpet this BEAST came forth through the loosing of those destroying ANGELS out of the great River and through those earthquakes and shakings that were come into the WORLD wherein fell that tenth part of the great City God had returned unto himself his Tenths to be eaten as a Teyl-Tree and as an Oak whose substance was in it these were the remnant of the Holy Seed who worshipped the Lord with a pure Heart even in Spirit and in Truth and whose Garments were washed White in the Blood of the Lamb. CXVIII For they came to pass through great tribulations and Tryals in their WAY because they could not Worship the BEAST nor receive his Mark but they were preserved blameless before the Lord in that hour wherein Iniquity was not found in their HEARTS neither was there guile in their MOUTHS to be uttered with their Tongue And I beheld until the sin of MANASSEH became ripened and was filled up and the high Altars in both Courts whereon had been offered Sacrifice to IDOLS and Incense burnt to strange Gods which neither we nor our Fathers have heard of were pulled down because of the God of FORCES who was worshipped neither was the desire of Women regarded CXIX And after I came to see the WOMANS deliverance from the rage and fury of the great Red DRAGON who had cast his floods of Water after her in the time and times wherein she had been helped by the EARTH and sheltered by the Wings of the EAGLE with which she had fled into the Wilderness as the Dragon came to give up his Power to this monstrous Beast the remnant of her Seed was persecuted in the World for the space of full forty dayes And wherein the Sun had gone back ten Degrees for the prolonging of Life in the Just after he came to discover and reveal the glory in which was his safety before Babylons King who wrought by subtilty and much craft whereby fifteen dayes were added to his dying state CXX Those dayes were again doubled in the renewed Zeal wherein the Favour of God was multiplyed to the purging his House and Sanctuary according to the fifty-five dayes wherein Manasseh had caused the Israel of God to err in following after Idols And for ten days the Devil had power to cast many into Prison that they might be tryed and sifted by his cunning devices until their Garments became thus made white in the Blood of the slain Lamb of God CHAP. XI Describing the Form of the WHEELS in the VISION according to their MOTION wherein are numbred the dayes that the BEAST hath yet to reign and continue on the Earth CXXI AS to the form of the Wheels as they wrought and moved one within the other as a Wheel within a Wheel like unto the form of the Worlds which are moved the one within the other the WHEELS never rested but went streight forward towards Eternity wherewith they were tinctured and moved in the power thereof as though they crossed each other and yet there was no crossness in the Will and Wisdom of Eternity from whence they were moved in the power of him that first wrought and laboured in the motion thereof CXXII For all crossness that appeared in the motion thereof wrought in the Earthly ground wherein the World 's laboured to Center in a Glory below the power of Eternity from whence every thing first proceeded and was brought forth to a day of Tryal in the FRAME under which the Body of Nature was constituted to exercises from the Glory of the HEAVENS wherein the Will of the Creature was subjected to a change through vanity that entered the WORLD in a state of corruptible Glory which was
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
of moveability because God is the unchangeable being of Love Delight in REST in the Center of all that is good and Nature is that into which good and evil hath entered from whence its TREE hath sprung up and doth grow which the Creature who is the cause of work and labour in God hath fed on that hath brought the sence of pangs and misery into the World where is the worldly sorrow that worketh and bringeth under the power of Death and all other afflictions they meet with in their way CHAP. V. Describing the Form and Order of the WHEELS in their MOTION XXV FOR God is the cause of nothing without NATURE though in the Wheels there appeared two Motions whereby the cause of moveability was kept from centering in the ground of Corruption and Mortality under the power of which the Creature of God was thus fallen in a NATURAL Body through that which was sown in Weakness therefore in what ever the Creature was betrayed under the power of its guidance it was a CROSS to all proneness and adiction of Motion that did arise from the ground of Corruption XXVI And about the CENTER in which stood a Heart inflaming was made a Diurnal Motion in the Wheels which moved at a distance in two Rings of the inward Wheels wherein the third and inward Principle moved equally with the ground of Motion from the first CENTER and the two outward Principles of the inward World acted according to what was formed in a third Principle by which those three Principles came to manifest their CENTER in Nature XXVII But in the WHEELS there was also an Annual Motion that moved round that which stood fixed in the Center and this caused a ground without the Center as it stood manifest through the inward Motion to be corruptible and to Center under a power of Corruption though in those inward Rings of the Wheels there were kept and preserved a tincture of the first Motion XXVIII Yet having let in another Tincture from the power of Corruption under which the Worlds were labouring to Center what ever came forward under its motion must again be brought back into the sence and feeling of that which it reacheth after through DEATH to the cause of all labour and pangs wherein the Body of Nature standeth afflicted XXIX For there was neither East West North nor South from the Center in the inward Rings of the Wheels though it appeared to me in the ground whereon I lay for the beholding of the Vision that as the outward Rings in the Wheels were moved in a power of the four Winds of the Heavens the inward motion was from East to West and the Wheels went side wayes in all courses of the World XXX In which the three Rings of the outward Wheels did move and were moved according to the frame of the Worlds wherein centered the Principles of the whole but the inward Wheels moved by reflection the CENTER being unmoveable wherein two Rings only were discerned at a distance in that inward Wheel though in the Principles of each and both Worlds there were moved about three Rings in each Wheel XXXI And though in the outward Ring of the Inward Wheel in its Diurnal Motion the Heavens did move and were moved in what stood fixed toward the CENTER yet the outward Ring of the outward Wheel standeth 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 distance of years from the motion in the 〈◊〉 as doth the inward Ring of 〈◊〉 inward Wheel from the revolution of the Moon in the Annual Motion of the Wheels And in the second Ring of the outward Wheels the Heavens were moved about in their Annual Motion at the same distance from the Center as they were in the second Ring of the inward Wheel in their Diurnal Motion CHAP. VI. Describing the MYSTERY of the sounding of the seven Golden TRUMPETS and the seven THUNDERS that are for the preparing a ground in which the Judgement of God is manifest XXXII ON the Ground and Principles of a third part of the Worlds into which the DRAGON drew a third part of the Stars of Heaven after him did five of these Golden Trumpets sound forth the Judgment of God in what is loosed and unsealed from the BOOK of WONDERS in the Heavens wherein the four BEASTS were manifest each in their day calling to come and see what lay slain under the ALTAR of God in his Temple and House wherein the Sun Moon and Stars of Heaven did shine through that which was smitten in its third part XXXIII And herein is discovered the seat of the BEAST in Nature whose torment is awakened out of the bottomless Pit though as yet the number of Horsemen and Riders do multiply on the Earth through that which is awakened from the sounding of the sixth Trumpet on the great River EUPHRATES in which hath been bound the four Angels that were prepared according to the time in which standeth the Execution of their destroying Power in with-holding the Winds from blowing on the EARTH as they are seen come up exalted on the four Corners of the same holding the four Corners of those Winds XXXIV Wherein each of those four Beasts in the forms of Nature recovereth six Wings according to the six Spirits of God in which the seventh unchangeable Spirit of Rest in him is begotten into the Creature and Creation that are become his Workmanship and they cover the living Creatures who day and night are crying HOLY unto the Lord and by the lifting up and letting down of their WINGS is the whole Earth and Worlds darkned or inlightned with GLORY XXXV And the Mansions or twelve Houses of the Fathers GLORY in the Heavens have their form defended with the WALL that is raised up on its antient Foundations wherein are twelve Pearls on its twelve Gates and under it are the twelve Foundations setled in the Refining Power through which are to be brought other three parts of a new World in its Heaven Earth in the destruction of a fourth part over which the fourth BEAST hath ruled with the Face of an Eagle who is come forth on his PALE HORSE like unto Death and Death and Hell follows him XXXVI Whose Power is by Famine Pestilence and Sword with WILD Beasts of Prey in all that lives in or moves on the GROUND and PRINCIPLES over which the seven THUNDERS are awakened to Thunder from those Places wherein Life doth strive to break forth and come into the CENTER of the creaturely being where every Birth hath its SIGNIFICATOR and the twenty four Wings of the four Beasts are the Army of the HEAVENS according to what came forth first MANIFEST in the four Wings of the FOWL that was stretched forth over the LYON in what strove to come up under the four Winds of the HEAVENS wherein the Heavens contended CHAP. VII Describing the MYSTERY of the four Beasts in the seven Forms of NATURE and of the Beast himself who is the Eighth XXXVII FRom the THUNDERS in
WORLDS in their Generations where wild BULLS of Bashan are reared up to push and devour each other and from DAN there is in mine Ear the snorting of Horses and ratling sound of the Chariot Wheels like rumblings in the Air hurling up and down for REST from noise And what is herein written is of things past present and to come which are all to be fulfilled in their place and order according to the Dayes and Hours for which the VISION doth work and is made to speak in what is narrowed to the Creaturely Capaciiy through him that hath cut the Work short in Righteousness that is manifested throughout this la lâ— and Age of the WORLD LX. For from the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about EUROPE in its fourth part and Quarter is the destroying Power of God loosed for the Execution of Divine Justice on those Men that have the Mark of the Beast on whom the torment of those Months is accomplished to the finishing the work in which Death hath Dominion over that Nature wherein the WORLDS are imbodied in its Quarters therefore is the time near at hand wherein the Worlds will suffer very great shakings and Earthquakes will break forth in divers parts thereof to the overturning of many Foundations and changing of Laws and Governments of Men whereby coldness of Spirit and deadness hath over-taken the Multitude in a dull and secure state and afterwards will follow a great Power of HEAT in kindling its FLAMES of DESTRUCTION throughout the BODY of the ELEMENTS CHAP. XI Describing the MYSTERY of Time for which the Vision is set c. LXI Concerning the TIME for which the VISION is set it is now near the expiration of one hundred and twenty days since the finishing of the fifteen years wherein I beheld the prevailing of the Waters over the Earth in the fifth year that I saw the fall of the Worlds under a Power of Corruption through which the Waters became smitten in their third part under which the WORLDS stand divided in their four Quarters in the dispersing abroad of the FLOODS on which the People were moved and tossed up and down as the Waters fell BACKWARD into their four Heads by which every thing hath been tryed and carried into its appointed Place through the Tempests and swelling Waves of awakened Storms that are come into the Worlds LXII For from those TWELVE Years wherein the Nations of the Earth were subject to one KING a Spirit of Rebellion against the Power of the Beast entered four Kings of the four Winds of the Heavens who fell before five in the Vale of Siddim that is full of slime-pits whereby the remainder of those that escaped were reduced to the Mountains on their flight yet the thirteenth year which was the year of their Rebellion was it in which the Power of the BEAST stood dispersed in the striving of the four WINDS of the Heavens on the great River EUPHRATES out of which their Power is again revived and loosed though from the Seat of the Beast which is the BOTTOMLESS-PIT from whence proceeded those living Creatures called LOCUSTS that I beheld in the Vision in the form of Goats c. Life again entred that on which rested the First Wound in Nature LXIII And as the LEOPARD or Great BEAR came forth manifest with four Wings on his Back like the Wings of a FOWL his Kingdom stood dispersed abroad the Earth and Worlds and in the place of the Great Horn of the RUFF GOAT of GREECE which was broken by the power under which the Worlds stood divided those Four notable Horns were seen that became exalted towards the four Winds of the Heavens which are the Power of four KINGS and four Heads of the Beast that did spring out of the first Breach whose Kingdoms are not so mighty as the first wherein the Little Horn came forth between the Eyes of the Goat c. LXIV And that little Help through which the fifth Head in the midst of four on which sprung up five Horns that were broken and fell in the first King received that deadly Wound c. is a Power in the North Wind of the Heavens under which the Wound is become again healed up that is the Feet of the Image which is partly to break and partly to be broken for it is both Iron and Clay And this is the King of the NORTH who may be manifest in the Person of a Man of fierce Speech and dark Countenance as he is indeed manifest through many in whom a Power of the North Winde hath been dignified as Kings in that REGION wherein is a cold binding Climat of dark Air. LXV For since the fourteenth year wherein the South Winds of the Heavens were reproved and corrected for their Rebellion in those four Kings whose Kingdoms were enlarged in the dispersing abroad of the Power of four that sprung out of one who retained not the ARM that which grew up towards its tryal by FIRE was separated into its Mystery in what was effected through the fifteenth year from whence the Worlds have been warned one hundred and twenty days according to the days of the Life of Man of that destruction and desolution by the over-flowing Scourge wherein the Waters have exercised a Dominion that is ome under the smiting of the four Winds of the Heavens LXVI And wherein both the HEADS and HORNS of the Beast are KINGS and POWERS in Nature that have their Form in and on Men yet the King himself of that North Wind is not the Person of any ONE Man but a Power in One as well as in Many that are wholly under the Dominion of the Beast or that have his Mark c. according to the Power of the Constellations under which the period of all Signs in the Heavens are moved and do work over such that have their concern therein in a mystical and spiritual sence to all NAMES in Nature but now is it manifest that the MYSTERY of Time is compleat in the Figure of the FORMS in Nature wherein every thing that is either past present or to come remaineth MEASURABLE and DISTINGUISHABLE according to that Spirit under which all Powers in Nature doth WORK and and whereby all that is wrought in its BEING is come forth into FORM. LXVII Yet Nature that is Creatable suffereth through all Changes and REVOLUTIONS that are MANIFEST on and in the BODY of ELEMENTS subject to Vanity and a Power of Corruption both the Good and the Evil of which the MAN hath tasted in the exercise of his Sence according to the operation of Qualities that are predominate in his BIRTH though nothing is absolute in time and place to the MAN but in the Power under which his Life is concerned operating in all the faculties of Nature in which is the holy and glorious Land whence tidings shall come out of the North and from the East which will trouble the NATIONS and Inhabitants of the Earth who are yet to
be disquieted and unsettled from their Lees whereby Destroyers have been suffered in the Way that are come on the Holy People where they are scattered in the North Country situated between the Seas CHAP. XII Describing the MYSTERY of Time according to the end for which the FORMS of Nature came forth into Manifestation on which Consumption and Desolution hath over-taken the Abominations for which the WORLD is made desolate in this last day and Age c. LXVIII AS to the Time for which the VISION is made to speak it is from and of the Beginning and to the End of Time and Place whereby every thing standeth manifest under a Figure according to the Days and Years under which all FORMS in Nature do labour and work which have their Hours and Months in the measure of Time c. wherein the Frame and Form of the Work of God in the power of Creation was laid in the Line of ADAM in his Generations answerable to the Years of his Life in which the Days of the VISION do manifest the whole WORK raised up from that in which it was sown LXIX For as from the Creation of the Worlds according to the most just and true accompt of Men is three thousand years to the finishing of the TEMPLE which SOLOMON built in which the first Glory of the Work of God stood manifest and from the finishing of that Temple which was built and erected in seven years to the Birth and Incarnation of the Son of Man through the Power of the SECOND ADAM a quickning Spirit c. was nine hundred and thirty years so doth all things stand manifest in NUMBER under the same figure in the coming forth of the WORLDS which in seven days was brought into form according to the sence of the first Man ADAM through whom the Works of GOD was comprehended in Natural Body wherein the seed of Life was known by which his living Soul became apprehensive in the breathings of the SPIRIT and Breath of GOD. LXX Whereby NATURE multiplied in its Forms according to the course they were subjected under in that Dominion wherein the MAN was made LORD over all the Works of GOD's Hands answerable to the sensibility that was wrought up through the seventh Form descending in which HENOCH continued imbodyed as many years as are days in the year and all the days of YEARS wherein Adam continued imbodyed in that first Form are reckoned nine hundred and thirty which is two years and seven months according to the accompt of Time wherein the Forms of Nature do stand numbred in a figure under which they are multiplied a year for a Day LXXI And concerning the Time for which the VISION is made to speak in what is formed for a conclusion of the matter and wherein the Nature of that which worketh standeth figured forth to the bringing the WHOLE under its Day of Tryal as it was one thousand six hundred fifty and six years from the Creation of the Worlds into time and place to the over-flowing Scourge that followed them therein and over-took the Forms whererein they were created with the Deluge and from thence until the dayes wherein Moses became manifest in flesh c. was seven hundred seventy and seven years who continued therein one hundred and twenty years so it was twenty eight Jubilies from the beginning of those Services which rested under the Goverment of JOSHUA that succeeded him in that sixth YEAR to the anoynting of CHRIST to his Office that put an end to all those Offerings and Sacrifices c. thus typified out in JOSHUA which signifieth JESUS or SAVIOUR LXXII From which time there is past the number of YEARS in thirty two Jubilies and thirty two years to this year of the Worlds accompt 1665. And as from the finishing of the Temple in which those Services stood accepted under the Law c. to the destroying thereof by Fire was four hundred twenty and three years and after six years was the King of BABYLON established in his Kingdom and Throne which made him say Is not this great BABEL which I have built so unto that eleventh year wherein the HOLY ONE and the WATCHER came down to shew him the end of those Visions of the MONARCHIES of the Worlds and the state into which he should be driven among Beasts of prey was four hundred thirty and four years which is the number of sixty and two weeks of days A Conclusion To the whole WORK I. BUt in the time before-mentioned Life was prolonged in the Government over ISRAEL in its dying state as it received in the sence of the Wound come on a third part of its Glory that was smitten and the shadow of the SUN went back ten degrees on the Dyal in which the forms of Nature stand manifest according to the Significator of the Birth concerned therein wherein the SUN hath recovered the first point of ARIES from the tenth day of the first month in this sixteenth year for from the period of fifteen years the Pangs and Sufferings that came into the WORLDS in their third part hath rested in the Seat of the Beast on those MEN that have received his Mark. II. And after the MOON hath passed her Course through the Signs in the ZODIACK of an Inward World wherein she will be descending towards the House of her Exaltation in the year One thousand six hundred sixty and six and will renew her Entrance through ARIES on the concluding of the YEAR the effect of that which hath rested on those Men who are come under the smiting of the Beasts Power for those five Months wherein pangs have proceeded from his Seat will be seen in the WORLDS for from the concluding of that year is thirty days wherein the SUN hath his Passage through LEO the Heart of a Lyon which is his own House who entered the first point of Cancer wherein the Summer Quarter is manifest nineteen days before the concluding of this year 1665. III. And as the number of years for which Jerusalem was rebuilt the second time was sixty two Weeks until the MESSIAH was anoynted to his Office after the finishing of the second Temple in seven weeks which was for a Week and in the midst of that Week was the Prophet and SON of GOD cut off though not for his own transgressions so it was sixty two weeks more or an hundred thirty four days from the birth of JESUS that great PROPHET through whom the partition Wall was broken down between two Nations to the thirtieth year of the Reign and Exaltation of the Kingdom of Mystery BABYLON over the Kings of the Earth IV. Whose King spoyled the Glory of JERUSALEM and led away Captives from thence taking unto himself the VESSELS of Silver and Gold that were in the House of the Lord in the nineteenth year of his Reign over Assyria and in the twenty fifth year of his Establishment in Media and Persia saw the four Kings in whom the Image of
OUTWARD COURTS of the CITY in which the holy BUILDINGS were defaced for the FORTY TWO MONTHS is accomptable from the TIME wherein was brought forth a TESTIMONY of that LIFE in which the DAYLY SACRIFICE under the LAW was made to cease THE MEASURE OF TIME Ballancing all Actions in the Hand of the Angel I. THus saith the Angel of God Seal up the Vision according to the appointed time for which it is set and is made to speak For in the fifth month called JULY wherein JULIUS CAESAR was made the first Dictator in ROME will be the finishing of that Roman Monarchy in the year 666 and a great PRINCE will fall in Europe in the first month according to the expiration of the Prophecy of the two Witnesses who then will put off their Robes of Sackcloth and they will stand clothed in WHITE Garments wherein the sixty two Weeks that the Power of the Gentiles prevailed will discover the Mystery of DAYS in the number of Years that the Beast established his Throne in what went before the Face of the God and Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth II. And in the sixth month called August wherein Augustus Caesar was made Consul that Imperial Throne will be made subject to a Power of the Kings of the East but number thou a month of years according to the days of the year whereby the VISION is made to speak forth the Mystery of those forty two years wherein the Seat of his Imperial Dignity was exalted and then propose thy sayings before the Wise counting from the Creation of the Worlds in the Generation of ADAM that which standeth figured forth in the Mystery of the Number 62. according to the WEEKS in which the Power of God wrought in the work of Restoration III. But from the FLOOD of WATERS which prevailed over the Earth are fifty two Generations of men to the birth of him in whom that work of Restoration standeth manifest which are the Number of Weeks in the Year through whom the Worlds have multiplied that which is come forth in time and place And from the days of Abraham whose Seed he took on him rather then the nature of Angels are forty two Generations every Generation signifying the Change that is come into the WORLDS through the operation of the Moon over the Body of Nature wherein the Woman hath stood afflicted in her Seed for the destroying of that which corrupteth the way and courses under which the Worlds are generated until all things become changed into ETERNITY and the everlasting Body recover its first beauty and glory through all those Revolutions and Changes that are come into the World IV. And in the beholding of the glory of the ANGEL of God while he thus talked with me I saw his Eyes sparkle like flames of FIRE and he gave forth his Testimony concerning the Covenant of God that is confirmed with many and great Nations ratified in the BLOOD of that Life which hath entered the WITNESSES of GOD who are made able to seal their Testimony herein after which followeth an utter consumption on all the Enterprises of the ENEMY wherein the end of Time will finish the glory of God in the destruction of that Spirit in which the abomination of Desolation hath wrought in a Mystery and the consummation will make the Worlds desolate in the forms of Nature that will come into dissolution for the recovering Beauty in the Image of the first and last Element like unto the Glassy Sea of Transparent Glory out of which the Power of God will shine in subjected Nature V. For the KING of BABYLON who hath seen into the glory of the House of God wherein are many goodly Vessels shall not be able to remove thy Diadem O thou afflicted Daughter of a Land which God is laying waste out of the place wherein GOD will settle his Delight in the midst of thee until the transgressions of those that have sought to bear rule over thee by rigor and const aint is fully ripened and come to its end wherein God will purge forth all iniquity out of his own HOUSE and TEMPLE on which Judgement is first begun and thou that hast been tributary to KINGS of a strange Land fear not though thou art tossed up and down for thou art not forsaken and God will comfort thee in his due time VI. Who is come to lay all thy stones in fair colours though the House of God hath suffered defacement in its first and primitive beauty but the Glory of the later House shall be greater then the Glory of the first for thy Gates are CARBUNCLES and thy Windows are AGATES and thy inward PARLOUR is paved with LOVE and when I look unto thy Galleries I behold crowned KINGS rejoycing in the upper ROOMS and the best Wine is kept until now because of the last Glory of him that is bringing into the Wine-Cellar in exchange of FLAGONS with which the sick of Love hath been stayed VII And from the Feast in the Wilderness wherein was a Table spread and FAT things prepared MARROW and WINE from the lees well refined he is bringing to the WEDDING and LAST SUPPER of the Marriage of the LAMB where are all the Varieties in the Banquetting House and his Banner over them is LOVE Speak that my Soul may be refreshed and keep thou no longer silence O my Beloved And as the VISION receiveth Voyce let it testifie of thy Authority in the Heart by that which is ready to be fulfilled VIII For the DAY is come and yet cometh that the Power of God will so appear and break forth through his chosen VESSELS in whom he taketh delight to manifest his good pleasure that nothing shall be able to stand before it and obstruct the WAY thereof but IRON BARS and BOLTS shall be broken and snapt asunder as a Thred of Flax and PRISON DOORS shall fly open before them that dwell in the power in which God is enlarging the Hearts of the Poor and Upright yea great Seas shall be divided and stand on heaps when they move forward and the Waters therein shall be dried up for the KINGS of the East to pass over IX And there shall be no need of outward Laws of Men to restrain Vice and Wickedness neither shall any covet high Places of Renown and conditions of that State unto whom Trust in Government is reposed but rather shall say In my House is neither bread nor cloathing make me not a Healer nor let not the breach of Ruines rest under my Hands for I came out of Prison and have the Garments of Captivity how then can I govern Nations but like unto a Child And wo be unto that People because of a KING in Woman that setteth the Beggar on horseback while the PRINCE doth walk on his Feet yet he will raise up the Poor from the Dunghil and exalt him of low degree when the Image of God doth so appear and break forth on the Heads of his Beloved and Chosen that it shall be able to raise a Witness in the worst of Men. X. But under the Anger and Fury thereof they shall not be able to stand though it hath not any other compulsive Power but what is exercised in the Conscience because it will either cast out or conquer the Unclean Spirit that acteth evil and detaineth Right from the Oppressed or destroy the MAN that remaineth joyned thereto though it delighteth not in the Destruction of Creatures or to be avenged on the WORKMANSHIP of GOD but is constrained by the necessity of a LAW in Nature under which Divine Justice seeketh to be magnified when the patience of God hath discovered the end of the work of his Spirit which doth all to praise him even by his own Work out of the Mouth of the Babe XI Which is the Sword in Gods Mouth and Breath of his Nostrils the Word that proceedeth from the holy Lips whereby the Nations shall be consumed and destroyed that stand in his way and remain in opposition to his Power because he is a great and mighty KING and GOD above all LORDS that are many in the Earth who wil conquer and destroy the Power of DEATH and remove the GRAVE into the Land of forgetfulness that his Will may be done in Earth as in Heaven and his Work effected on the BODY of Nature in both outward and inward WORLDS through the power of Redemption and Restoration of all created Principles in Nature unto their first Beauty and Glory where is no more SEA but the SEA of pure Water transparent in the reflection of its Element XII Before which time there shall be seen many signs and Wonders in the Clouds of the Heavens and the work of God will appear and break forth from thence and in that Power shall a People whom God is gathering to himself from the ends of the Worlds dwell for evermore and the firmament of both outward and inward World shall be filled with Stars that remain fixed in their glory and luster as Morning-Stars that sing together and Sons of God that shout for joy and out of all the Glory Pleasure and Profit of the Worldly Spirits Interest their Hearts shall be redeemed and from the Allurements of the same shall be found dayly dying and then dead whereby they will be the Terror of the NATIONS when in the power of God who hath kept the Creature poor and low and weak that God alone might inrich the Soul in his due time the Life ariseth in glory in that sence of Poverty of SPIRIT from whence the Power that is able to make many Rich breaketh forth BLESSED BLESSED and Everlastingly HAPPY therefore are all those that wait for and throughly believe in the redeeming Power of the Work of God by this Spirit that is broke forth and come into the Worlds to the destruction of that Evil One the Man of Sin Lord Let thy Will be done yet hasten thy WORK to cut it short in RIGHTEOUSNESS wherein thy Name may be exalted in Mercy that delighteth not in the destruction of Creatures and Souls of Men. Come quickly saith my Soul that causest Joy in thy holy Way Amen and Amen THE END