the preciousness of the Spirit for the Vessels sake wherefore I shall no longer be backward to reveal what is of great weight and importance as being well assured that the Lord Jesus will go along with me till I have fulfilled the Declaration of the whole Mystery I feel the divine Agent that works mightily in holy separated Souls and Minds driving on to make way for what is yet behind in reference to the manifestation of that Kingdom which now the Lord is about to restore in his Saints and therefore gives forth fresh and lively Ideas of it that pure Minds may be excited to look for its coming in their New Earth and Heavens which are to be garnished as with Purity so with Dominion and Power even the rising Body of the holy Spirit which must restore all things which have been in Confusion Now what goeth before to make ready for this hath been already set down by the Golden Pen which is dipped in the springing Unction to which more considerable Revelations are added by him who saith He is come to make all things New being ready to give forth the Promise of the Father in the Ministration of the everlasting Gospel I say the faithful Witness and Ground of all Mysteries minded me of his Charge to his Disciples when he was to disappear to the outward viz. That they should wait at Jerusalem the holy City in Harmony Concord and Oneness of Mind with great confidence and love to each other A deeper search the holy one doth make in them who in this last Age are waiting to be endowed with the full acting Body of the Deity which will be manifested in a different manner than in the days of the Apostles that being by way of Gift coming down as a Shower but now those who shall be endowed with this signal Blessing must have it by way of a Birth in them The Apostles were to wait at Jerusalem which was a figure of the Principle of Light where all Natures and Properties are harmoniz'd to an equal Temperature all Faculties are spiritualiz'd and purged from their Drossiness and reconciled to each other in a sweet Love-accord It is plainly shewed me that the holy Spirit will have his Birth in a peaceable Habitation where the conquering Life of Jesus by his dying and rising hath first made its way by reconciling the Properties of Nature and bringing them to a divine Harmony by which renewing Nature into a soft and sweet Mildness causing all Contrarieties of Spirit to cease by subduing it to the Light-Principle Wherefore it is but in vain to expect the Establishment of that Kingdom which the Birth of the holy Spirit will bring to us till this thorow Work be wrought that we may come to Unity in our selves and with one another which is a very high Perfection And truly from hence I have been informed where the Birth of Power hath stuck and why so many Faculties fruitless Births have been brought forth Wherefore let not our bribed Senses or the Spirit of Unbelief so far delude us to make us believe that the holy Spirit will open its Birth but according to what hath been by the Lord himself revealed But it may be objected That if the Terms be so hard it looks as an Impossibility to obtain it because nothing of the evil Qualities and striving Properties must remain which are not so quite allayed in any but may be stirred up again into Motion Pray therefore let us know what Provision hath been revealed against this that it may beg it a Hope and Belief in those who are yet in the Division and Strife the Good warring against the Evil and the Evil against the Good being divided betwixt the Night and the Day as the greatest Saints are For Answer to this Objection the Spirit of the Lord hath searched and found out a Cure which will bring the broken and divided Estate of the first Adamical Birth into Unity Harmony and pure Liberty I shall as I am able bring it sorth in the same Model it was given to me for a true seeing Glass by which I was directed to fathom the deepest Ground of my eternal Soul and to find out its true essential Properties as they were derived from the unmixed Purity of the one pure Element This pure eternal living Soul thus breathed by God into an Angelical Image and formed into an Organical Body from the one pure Element all which was to be seen in the first Paradisiacal Man But when Lucifer prevailed by darting in his hellish Fire it left such a Sting which hath poysoned all the inward Essences of of the very Immortal part and therefore the Wound is found so deep that no Medicine can be found to reach it but Christ the in-breathed Word who only can reach the Soul 's original Ground and being the Creating Fiat can alone make all Nowagain according to the highest Uniformity of the express Deity And this cometh first to be known in a fiery Ray of Loue-Light that discovers where the Root of sin doth lie and so when the Spirit of the Soul comes by the Word of Life to understand its own Original and by what means it hath been corrupted and captivated it is made full-willing and eager to strike in with that Christ which riseth from the Centre-Light in its own Soul to redeem and reconcile all to himself that was alienated from him in the Birth of Strife Thus Christin us is our Peace indeed who hath made of both and all one New Creature having abolished the Law of Enmity blotting and rcoting out sin by the same degrees as his own righteous Nature enters in which restores all peaceable Concord So that the Spirit who is made Partaker of this Gift of God hath put on Royal Liberty and being clothed with Christs essential Body finds it self unloaded of all sinful weights and moves swifty in the Circle of Light and runs its Races through the unknown Spaces and Christaline Spheres where other Worlds do appear with all their glorious Objects Ranks and Orders which must needs make this World look base and vile to a Soul that is come naked and free out of the original Womb as begotten again from the dead rising in a perfect clarified Body of Light and being quite recovered from that desperate lapsed state that would have sunk the Soul into everlasting Death Thus you see by what means the disagreeing Properties of Nature may come to be harmoniz'd as in the beginning God must become Man and by his consuming fiery Property destroy original Sin which is the first Engine that moves the Wheel of Strife and Division in the Soul which Fire is Gods choice Instrument when set and tuned by his hand who gave it a Beeing out of Eternal Nature into which it must be dissolved again that it may be a meet Instrument for the holy Spirit to play such Tunes and Triumphant Sounds and teach such new Lessons as have not hitherto
on the Earth The Elect shall reap and long enjoy the creating Works of their own Hands for with no less Power shall the Representatives of Christ the Lord be invested This declared must be throughout all Worlds that Christ will appear in his Saints that are risen again to bear the Tropky of a Death-Conquering Power Now the next enquiry is When is the time that this may be expected because hitherto there is but very small appearance of any such thing that is Who is it qualified in such a high degree as this heavenly Kingdom requires Who are willing to be Beheaded and through Death to be made partakers of this Reign But yet notwithstanding all these Objections of Fear Unbelief and the whole throng of discouraging Spirits of the sensible Life whose cry is Who is able to suffer all this Faith and Love are given to the worthy pretenders to this Kingdom whereby they are carried as with Wings over all the Floods of Fear and Discouragement neither shall they want either Resolution or Valour to wade through the greatest opposing Difficulties who are designed for it and found in the Lamb's Roll. A double and trebble portion of his Spirit the Lord hath said he will add to them who first shall abrogate the Law of Sease which hath been the chief hinderance of his Kingdom which therefore is to be made void because it diverts the Soul from fetching all its Supplies from the Rock neither can Faith arrive to its full strength till Sense be led into captivity and cast into a dead Sleep Now as to the time of the Lord's Reign when it shall be you will be apt to say That this is an unknown thing and that none can prefix the time It is true that many have Calculated and puzled their Spirits about it in vain But if we will know how near the time is we must not look without us but in the unsealed Book of Life within us there you will find the fore-going Signs which are first to be accomplished in your own Heavens and Earth We may try and prove our selves by what hath been already revealed from the seven Seals and Thunders how near the Kingdom of our Lord is approached unto us Let each of us examin our selves how far the preparative work is advanced in us We see what the Beast and Dragon's Kingdom must suffer in us to make way for this Reign which cannot be established till all this Trash be taken out of the way Therefore we shall only know the time by such an one who shall give the first deadly stroke and come forth a Conqueror over the whole sensitive Life and this outward Kingdom which stands divided between Good and Evil in such an Overcomer as this my Jesus expressed he would appear and personate a Kingly Reign and that we are not to look out for any other Sign at this time but the Manifestation of this conquering Life And further said There would go forth an Arrow from the Word of Revelation which should so closely stick in some as to pierce through the Heart of the Beast who hath warred to hinder the Lord's triumphant Reign in his Saints By all which it is clear that there is no surer sign of the approaching Personal Reign of Christ than to see the Beast wounded to the Heart for no sooner will the Beast be removed but his Kingdom will appear whose right it is to rule in Heaven and Earth Who is it now that will suck in the Marrow of these precious things which is the dropping Oyl which distills from the Olive-Tree to make our way smooth light and clear and to preserve us from being daunted though our Portion should be a draught of Blood for the life of the Beast must be taken away before the Lord appear in us like himself in Power Glory and Majesty Oh! what Drawings and Desires may these weighty sayings from the Lord enkindle in us from his coming to reign in absolute dominion within us The Word came to me Run hard there is a rich Prey to be taken by treading down of the Beast which may be taken if pursued to the Victory Wherefore be valiant in the Faith for all Might is in God to overcome whatsoever opposeth his Reign and Personal Kingdom Much and free Communication I had with the Lord this Night and a Cloud of Light appeared in me which raised my hope higher I had also many Queries satisfied Then there appeared to me a pitched Standard which reached from the Earth to the Heavens where its top was hid it resembled a strait ascending Flame and it was signified that this was the Standard of overcoming Power which no earthly Warrior would venture to engage with for its Dominion reached from the Earth to the Heavens and this Word was added Stick close to it and move not from under it for it will be a shelter from the Storm which is coming on with a flowing Sea of Troubles raised by the wrathful One whose Kingdom is Division This Motto and Inscription was given out from the sealed Book within as follows In Christ I live in Christ I dye that I may cease from Sin and beastly Properties that so the first Ground of Life may rise over all to immortalize the Reign of Christ. Words no more as empty Sails spread out shall be but become the thundering Air of an Almighty Power which is Christ in his essential Spirit who wanders from the Heights above and Depths below will in his time show Look and read the circle Line and the most marvelous things may further know and find Upon some inward Conference with my Lord about the Shipwracked-Bark of Nature which still upon the forreign Coast doth lie and is often in Jeapordy by reason of some Tides which might make the Vessel spring-a-Leek the Lord did immediately come in with these Words saying Make reflection and ponder well my Grace and Love which hath been so great as to lay in my Life so deep with thine that thou canst suffer nothing but I do call it mine Thy broken Vessel shall be renewed into its Original when all of sinsul Properties shall be drowned in the Alpha and Omega who is the beginning and end of Time and who will open the sealed Mine where the unsearchable Riches shall freely abound as in the state of Innocency where nothing of necessity or want was known All this is going on und advancing in the moving Circle of the Duty all that is required of thee is to be steady in the highest float of Earth My Spirit was let down into the deep Center and Circumserence where the personal Glory met me with whom I had great Felicity to behold the Shepherd with his Fold who friendly faluted me for though a naked Spirit I was not despised by such dignified Bodies though I was made very sensible of the want of such a glorious Body and as soon as I desired it I was forthwith imbodyed as
or Female for she may assume either according to her good pleasure for she is both Male and Female for Angelical Generation But here it may be asked What is this Virgin Whence is she How can she introduce her self into that Nature where her pure chastity hath been violated This last indeed may be accounted a wonder above our hopes and expectation which yet she is in a rendiness to do as is well known to them who have understood her and preferred her above all things as being well assured that like as all Bliss and Peace sted away with her so upon her return all good will come back with her again As to her Nativity it is from everlasting before the Creation of Heaven or Earth She was before all as being the Co-essential creating Power in the Deity which formed all things out of nothing and hath given a dignified existency to all those Seraphick Glories which move within her own Sphear who are the product of an unsearchable Wisdom for the replenishing of those superior Worlds which are little known in this where we are out-casts neither can we be acquainted with much glories till we be born again out of her Virgin-Womb for so it must be before ever we come to be Christs in conformity with Christ our Head A Marvelous thing the Lord hath revealed to me concerning this Woman which holy John saw viz. that she represents Gods Spouse and Mate from whom the highest Birth the Eternal Word of Wisdom did go forth as the mighty Alpha and Omega in a distinct glorious personality known to himself in God and the Everlasting Virgin before any thing of the heavenly Hosts were created For he stood equally in the Counsel of the Father and Virgin for the bringing of the whole Creation into a figurative manifestation Now for what is all this but to discover the mystery of this Woman that she is the eternal Virgin who will essentially introduce her self into those who are prepared and appointed to enjoy her She will confer her Sun and Crown of Stars upon her Representatives Here will be brought down the one elemental Robe and the quint Essential Root will again be found which will give a most glorious Luster and all renew the gross vile matter as heing the acting Wisdom to shew forth Gods wonders all which reserved are until her day She is looked for as Gods fruitful Bride to bring forth Christs personality in plurality as so many immaculate Princes ruling in God Just cause will be found if we consider this Principle wherein the Serpent with so much bitterness wars against the Virgin and her Seed why her Off-spring as soon as born is caught up to Heaven from whence the Dragon is cast out and where the Iron Rod will crush him and be too hard for him and his adherents Her Off-spring will appear all Virgins with her own lustrous Son who is the first-born amongst the Kings of the Earth and Heavens Oh the high and majestical Glory which shall proceed from the Virgins Womb with whom is the blessing that will abound in fruitful Gifts and high working Powers from the Magia ground Eve's Conception in Sorrow shall not here be known for this Virgin never was disobedient or broke Faith with God who is her Husband the fruit of whose travel is Blessing and Joy through the whole Generation that shall be Born of her She shall be the Mother of the true Virgin-Church wherein no mixture of Will-Worship or False Doctrine shall be found But it may be queried How can this heavenly Virgin endure to come down upon this defiled Earth for to multiply her Off-spring in it For without doubt the Serpent and Dragon will violently rage against her which we have experience of in our selves when he crowds into our very Heavens with all evil Beasts at his Heels waging War against us Yet nothing of all this shall be able to prevent God's purpose who will appear with his Virgin in the divine Body and cover her with the one Element which will torment all evil-Spirits and wear them out who can as little endute her Virgin-Purity as the Virgin-Spirit can bear their Poyson Therefore a separation is made as we read that the Woman had a Place prepared for her in the Wilderness which signifies the Spirit of Faith which carries it from off the sensual Ground where the Concourse of fluttering Spirits of all kinds are wherefore this is no place for God's Virgin to stay in she may be in danger of having her Chastity violated or of being drowned with the wrathful Floods of the Dragon The Serpent will not cease to make his attempts with more subtilty than eyer because by this introduced Virgin-Spirit his Head-power shall be crushed and his Seed dis-inherited but the Virgin-Spirit shall mount like an Eagle and so escape the Dragon's deluge A Fountain is opened in the Desart of which the Soul which is in union with the Virgin shall drink instead of the muddy Waters of the Earth which she loathes Pleasant Food is provided in this Wilderness by God himself and his Christ. The Lord affords these Dainties to the abstracted Life where the Virgin-Spirit is a stranger to sensitive Self within as well as to the enchanting World without Here it wants no good company for its never without heavenly Visitants because it reserves it self chiefly for converse with the Deity from whom she expects all her Blessing and Encrease And thus the Soul shall spring and multiply where the Virgin hath realized her self Her Wilderness shall become a rich Sharon-Pasture a Land of unknown Plenty where Gold Silver and precious Stones shall be as the Dust under the Feet of these holy separated Virgins Also within and without their feeding shall be on Power Joy and Peace till the division of Time shall come to an end in which a further Mystery will be understood But oh let all this be first sully witnessed Here follows a further Advertisement from him who is come to fulfill old Prophesies in the substance of his own Person that is Born of the Virgin from whom we may expect the perfecting of that which all fore-going Ministrations and Manifestations have left short in regard of those wonders which shall be effected in this latter Age. To which end Christ hath opened the Center-Eye that can pierce as deep as the Deity where this Virgin lies with all her Glory who ever since Adam's day hath been obscured because she would not trust her self with any Mortal only some of her shining Rays have now and then been scattered into holy Souls a taste of which hath been given as the first Fruits of what is reserved for Christ the Lord's second Birth-day where shall be provided a Penticost-Feast according to the royal and heavenly state of Jehovah's Bride and Mate Oh! how unable am I to bring forth in Words what hath been shewed me of the later Fruits that Wisdom's Children shall feed upon in that day
its never fading Beauty and Glory By which means the Deity may be invited to renew his Walks with Men as at the beginning who will take great delight to see the Children of Paradise acting Magically under the Conduct and Government of the Eye of the holy Ghost For no work or action is so agreeable to the Trinity as that which is wrought from the Magical seeing Eye where God beholds and views himself in his manifold Wonders of Wisdom in Nature's Virginity But now the great Question of those who are willing to be Wisdom's Disciples is Which way they may ascend up to this Globe-Eye to become Magicians in the holy Ghost's Property This Question is deep and weighty and shall be answered according to the Gift of Revelation received Know then that the way to ascend to the Globe-Eye is through its descending down into the Root-Essence of the Soul and contracting with it Philosophically turning it into a Magick Eye where then it may most easily ascend and fly to be an Eye in the Globe-Eye before which all stands naked and open whatsoever hath proceeded from the Center Ground of God's Globe of Eternity Therefore they who shall find such favour as to be introverted and environed with this Eye may well come to understand the grounds of the divine Magia and be able to exert it from the Co-essential Power of the holy Ghost without which all attempts for it will lie in Scorn and Derision Hence we may understand where the Ground-work for divine Philosophy doth lie whereby great Overturns and mighty Changes may be effected in this Worlds Region where God will have great occasions for divine Magia to act in his behalf And truly somewhat begins to work in order hereunto for the Magick Eye hath cast forth an enticing Glance to draw up unto it and there to stand a while as locked up in it as a close working Philosopher that carefully tends his Furnace where the Coelestial Fire burns softly to bring forth a transparent Stone in which the first-born Magick of the holy Ghost doth consist But here we may be said to lanch so deep into the Abyssal Eye as to lose our selves whilst vve are seeking this one precious thing that can make this old wrinkled Face of the Creation to become young and fresh as Paradise in its first springing But who will grieve at the loss of this gross Matter the true Philosopher well knows that this is the gross Body which the Fire is to kindle upon being of that penetrating Nature as to dissolve the whole bulk of Sensuality with the strong twisted band of Rationality For when the great Artificer the holy Ghost comes to set his Furnace at work in very deed in the Soul all gross thick matter does by degrees transpire For what is so great an Enemy to the divine Magia as the rational Wisdom which is in strong Combination with the humane Sense It is as an Inundation of Waters which hath prevailed like Noah's Flood to drown the Fire-spark of Faith so that it is scarce to be found alive in any ones Earth All Furnaces have hitherto been too weak the strong Tide of the rational Mind hath broke in like a Sea to chill and damp what the Spirit of God would have still blown up unto Victory For whosoever shall attain to be an Adiptist in the Magical Eye of Sophia must watch the Mouth of the Furnace continually that the Spirit of Faith may work high through the gentle heat and constant supply of that Matter which maintains the heavenly Fire which can only master and get dominion over all the thick dark Body of Mortal Sense which hath long been the grand Adversary of Virgin-Wisdom's Magicians and hath kept them from attaining the Gate of Projection Now what is there to be considered further to help us forward in this high point of Magical Philosophy seeing the Benefits are of so great import and serve for the repairing of a ruinous state of things within our selves and every where round about us We are to observe these Orders and Rules which go along with Faith 's Magia First There must be an absolute trust reposed in Christ the essential Deity as contacting and coagulating with our soulish Essence and thereby recover our unipotency The depth of those Sayings of our Lord when personally upon the Earth who still invited and called upon all to believe on him as Co essential with the Father and thereby entrusted with all that Power and Sufficiency which can be called God's Now here is given us to understand a deep and mystical Sense how that the Lord did not limit or shut up the Faith to his particular Personality and appearance on the Earth for that was not to abide but directed to the exerting forth of our Faith to the Lo I am in whom there is no change to the end of all Worlds He is now therefore to be believed on as introduced into our soulish Essence for there he brings in the Globe-Eye as the sure Ground-work for all the various operations of the holy Ghost to act out the great Magical Powers from Thus our Faith is directed to a God like Almightiness within our selves If we can but find the Incarnation of Christ the Lord in us we then have a sure and steady Anchor for our Faith to hold by and work out our freedom Magically having somewhat of subtle pure Matter to work upon we may go on forward to Projection Another Rule is the going forth in the prerogative Royal of the Will that is immerced into and become one with the Power of the holy Ghost We may remember that Christ the Lord upon doing any great or marvellous Cure put forth the soveraignity of his Will as when he said to the Leper I will be thou clean And sometimes he put it to those who he perceived had Faith in him saying What will ye that I should do unto you And no less was effected for them than they desired the Lord should do for them These expressions of our Saviour may be a grand Rule for us to follow and ought well to be regarded by us for in the Will is the highest Magick when it is united with the Will of the Highest when these two Wheels meet in one they are the swift running Charriot which nothing can cross or stop in which the Bridegroom with his Bride Sophia ride most triumphantly together over all things viz. over Rocks Mountaints and Hills which are all made a Plain before them and Seas dryed up What is able to resist a Will that is united with God's Will before which every thing must stoop and bow which Will when ever it goes forth alwayes accomplisheth its Enterprise It s not a naked Will that wants its Garment of Power impregnable Almightiness is with it to pluck up to plant to kill and to make alive to bind and to loose to save and destroy All which Power will be centred in the royal freeborn-will
the true working bubling Spring that maintains a divine clearness with wonder in which God the holy Ghost will make himself manifest in a more full and perfect manner than what ever in former Ages hath been witnessed Where-ever this powerful and piercing anointing shall first work through it will do no less than produce those creating Powers that shall another World renew God yet once more is to move himself in this Mystery from which such a Conflagration is expected that nothing more of the old Earth or Heavens shall remain For there is a Day that must burn as an Oven blessed are those in whom it shall have its enkindling wherein all dead fruitless Works shall be burnt up which makes room for the seven governing Powers of the holy Ghost to go forth whether in the Arch-Angel Trumpet-Sounds or Lightning-Voices Earthquakes Bindings Loosings Shuttings Openings working on this and on that hand as unperceiveable yet all things effecting through the impregnable motion of this invisible Operator Of this sort will be the New heavenly Hosts that created are again by the holy Ghost all lively sparkling Stones that are in their invisible Nature as fiery Flames that can go hither and thither to act according to the will of the great Elohim This is now the thing that we are day by day looking out for its all-powerful springing all other flourishings in the very Courts of Holiness in the use and exercise of divine Ordinances and solemn Convocations they are not to be staid in though they seem to be as the goodly Tents of Jacob. God the holy Ghost comes to move higher from his own essential creating Word by which he makes New Heavens that shall forever remain and no more subject be to vanishing It will be the last and greatest proving to the Saints themselves to have their Heavens not only shaking but melted all away which may be compared to an out spreading Garden of various Flowers which look pleasant and delightful but they are what must fade and dye these Garnithings are not to be trusted to for as Grass they will wither Something else that is stable and durable Iam taught and made to look for which is nothing less than the Creating Word of the holy Ghost that may be as a New Coyn'd Mint that will an ever alting Treasure renew which the Sun and Moon of these visible Heavens must bow unto All the Glory of Flesh rejected is when pure Breath and Spirit in a Body of Air shall as out of the Valley of dry Bones appear and move as a Coelestial Wheel both upward and downward carrying and bearing up as an anointed Cherub that may mount and ascend and face the supream Glory of the Lord Almighty This is the high Adoption that the Spirit in the living Creatures do move from the earthly Center up straight forward being circled about with the unfadeable Body of the immutable Heavens to whom the Heaven of Heavens will open and descend to take in such Royal clothed Priests that have put off their changeable Heavens and are all clothed with substantial Power If any one ask How this shall be and when VVe can only direct you to wait at the High-Priest's Gate by whom our inlet into all of this high inconceiveable working Powers in the holy Ghost which will the separating Description make and show by real Evidence who it is that from men and the Earth are in truth all fully redeemed Before we can give over this subject we are to make known for the Priestly Election sake that they may be strengthened supported and encouraged in their process from the knowledge of these special Royalties which to them do belong it having been specified what are the high Qualifications of this high Priesthood who must no more look down towards the creeping things of this Earth for here you must consider the Enochian translation these Priests being designed for the company of God the most holy separated Beeing for there is a real taking into God to be experienced and a ceasing from the Life of Sin Now for the bringing up hereunto there must be a passing through until the Holiest of all be entred into But now come we to describe what this holy Function stands chargeable withal as also the Dignity Power and Pre-eminence which doth attend it Every High-Priest taken from men is ordained in things pertaining to God that he may offer Gifts and Sacrifices for Sin This is a Charge which to this New Covenant Priesthood doth still belong for whoso meet to deal with God and to make intercession as the Pure and Merciful who have themselves been encompassed with Infirmity and passed through divers Temptations who but these can know how to have Compassion of the Ignorant and Knowing also that have turned aside from the Sanctuary of Gods Presence and Walks and thereby have lost their peace and joy therefore God hath as well provided in this case Priests and Mediators on the Earth as he hath provided that great High-Priest who is entred into the Heavens for the self-same Prevailency and Power will be found in and amongst this holy and undefiled Priesthood because where-ever Christ in his spiritual Body is present with the breathing Power of the holy Ghost it implies great Efficacy in every Oblation and Prayer which in their behalf shall be put up Thus a Spirit of attoning is appropriated unto the Melchizedeck-Pristhood from whom more fruitful Powers must branch forth for further service in their Place and Office There is also an Absolving Commission given That whosoever's Sins they remit they are from all Guilt discharged as pronouncing it in the Person and Power of him to whom the holy Ghost was given without Measure and who after his Resurrection breathed forth this Power upon his Disciples That whatever they bound on Earth should be bound in Heaven Hereby communicating his Priestly Power and Authority that as he the Son of Man had power to forgive sins so might they also have on Earth after his Departure to carry on their Apostolical Dispensation which only lasted for a while and being lost a feigned Form was set up in stead of it without any sealing Effects of Spirit or Power Thus the Shadow hath held up without any living presence in Babel which boasts of a Key which never yet could open nor give Enlargement to those who were bound in the Cords of Iniquity for how should they who are not purified themselves help or succour their Brethren And though this true thing hath been abused by the Arrogant and Self-exalting Spirit that with this Priestly Robe covers all manner of filch and Uncleanness all of which will come to bear its shame and have its Overthrow as this True and Royal Priesthood shall rise in Power in the true Tabernacle where the holy Ghost will present the Priestly Offerings and this is that which upon sure grounds we know is now reviving again the most Holy will bring forth his Priestly
find it self in another form of Life and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Principality before Jehovah's Throne attend 〈◊〉 to know the counsel and decrees of the Soveraign Majesty under whom is mannaged all inferior Government which shall be committed to those who reign with Christ the Lord Oh! this will be a wonderful time indeed For while the Lord is opening these things to me I am as one sunk into the Abyssal Ground where I am as nothing till he put forth a piercing Ray from his flaming Eye to fetch my Spirit up again who thus spake unto me Stand thou up and hear and declare the new Model of my Reign and let it be published for it is time to awaken those who are ordained for the first Resurrection that they may no longer sleep in the day break of my appearance And do thou solemnly see thy Heart to the great Immunities that are revealed not only for speculation 〈◊〉 for sulfilling where great Earnestness shall be found Thus the 〈◊〉 One set home his Word and causeth it to pass through a Vessel that is nothing to be accounted of whereat my self stands amazed what should move the Lord thus to appear and hold such a free Converse and leave such weighty things in trust with me Oh! What can be said but that it is the Good-will and Pleasure of my Christ and King who will change Tin and Dross into Gold as it pleaseth him The Fifth Property of the Holy Ghost is that whereby the Soul gets free from the striving Elements and comes to Rest and Peace all Wars and Combates ceasing The Soul having got up these four ascending Steps towards the Throne can now look down like a Tower of strength terrible to all the lower Inhabitants round about It is a Palace compacted within it self knowing nothing but a serene Peace and Concord neither Dragon nor Beast do so much as attempt to come here for Love and Peace is their Hell and Torment Christ's personal Reign in his Saints consists of Peace Power Love Joy the holy Ghost moveth in the mild and meek Property from the Water of Life that captivates the Enmity and Strife and shuts up the dark Center with all its Spirits This carries a two-fold meaning for first it is to be understood of that Love and Peace which possesseth the whole inward Hemisphere of the Soul and in the next place of the same Love flowing forth and diffusing it self through all the Subjects of that peaceful Kingdom which Christ will establish in the high Angelical Harmony of Love The Sixth out-flowing Property is the Omnipotence of God exerted in the renewed part in an absolute and Almighty Dominion that admits of no controule Here is no need of going out to borrow Gifts or Powers which are now fixed in the Soul to manifest the Wonders of the Magia which hath been shut up in Wisdom's Principle whose Virgins Crown of Power is sent down as a signal Testimony of the Kingly Reign that must prevail over all the Earth The bright flaming Standard of Christ's Personality will be of that Magnificence as to draw home the dispersed and scattered Flock which hath suffered Violence in this Babylonish Kingdom A Jubile will be proclaimed by them to whom this Dominion shall first come They the Head-Kings and Leaders are appointed to shine forth as Stars that shall bear such sway in God's Omnipotency as shall make all the Elect to haste and fly to this Kingdom as Doves to the Windows where all occasions of complaint about the Necessities of Life shall be cut off because Wisdom's Store-house shall from the Inherent Omnipotency abundantly supply whatsoever is needful of this kind The Paradisical lost Power shall be restored in a higher degree than ever to the end that Self-Love and Propriety may be taken away which cannot enter into Christ's Kingdom for the Lord hath averred That none who are thus spirited shall ever his Kingdom inherit The vast and inexhaustable Treasure of divine Riches cannot be enjoyed in Propriety but only in Loves Communion The Seventh and last Property of the holy Ghost that gives witness to Christ's Reign doth consist in a Life of Praise Exaltation which goeth forth in the Angelical Tongues Powers and Sounds of so many persumed Offerings paying an everlasting Love-Tribute of Joy to the Antient of Dayes by and in whom they are come to reign over all Kingdoms in this World in Christ's personal Power The New Hallelujahs from the Fire-breath of the Holy Ghost shall be the Holy Sport and Coelestial Play of the Children of this Kingdom All their Works shall speak forth the Praises of the Most High for Wisdom's Spirit will act so high and in such a mysterious manner as hitherto hath not been known all which miraculous Powers have been reserved to make up the Glory of Christ's second coming in his Representatives here on Earth For if the Lord should not in this manner demonstrate his god-head-God-head-Power in his Saints they would be set very light by and it would be a vain thing to assume the Title and Name of Kings without anointing Power suitable to it No Dominion whether inward or outward can be maintained without Loves-Omnipotency And truly my Lord hath assured me that he hath made large and full Provision for this Day who upon some private Objections of my own said to me Be thou nothing doubtful concerning all the great Things of my Kingdom which have been opened to thee from the Center of Light they have been revealed for a ground of Faith The Head of the Dyal is moving towards the fixed Hour which will manifest all these working Powers of the holy Ghost Wherefore do not streighten thy self nor any to whom this Word shall come but run out in a spacious large Belief answerable to Loves-Power and the ability of the object to whom the Eye of Faith is directed For wonderful things are upon the Wheel by which you may know it is high time to put forth your Hands to raise and awaken that which hath been so long asleep This was the concluding Word of Counsel from the Lord. The fore-going Properties is that which makes way for the Reign of Christ in personal Power and Glory which is now the great thing to be waited for as the End and Consummation of all that hath been revealed in the bare discovery of which we are not to rest but we are to press forward to enjoy the Fruit or Product of it in the inward Center where Christ will be manifested in his Personal Glory and Power For the driving seeking Spirit will not be at rest till it can put on its Resurrection-Body It knows that hitherto notwithstanding all its Refinings and Dyings to sinful Self and the World it yet remains a naked Spirit which must return into the Virgin-Womb of Eternity there to be regenerated into an heavenly Corporeity from the one holy Element out of which Christ's holy Personality is taken This is the
no defiled thing can ever enter it Its consistency is an invisible Body as thin as Air as piercing as a Flame an all-moving acting and vigorous Spirit of Power and Life that can go in and out as an invisible Breath which no mortal Eye can see only its force may be felt as a Seraphick Heat that burns as a Refiners Fire in our Corporality to the end that it may tinge it with the holy Ghost's property This is the true and faithful delienation of this perfect thing called by the Apostle Charity Where-ever this comes it makes all imperfect things flee before it but it strengthens and confirms every Plant that is sown by the Spirit and makes them appear above Ground which have long lain buried under it It is the King-flower of the whole Paradisical Spring that protects the whole transmuting all into one entire Body of Love that doth extend and give forth it self in all spiritual Bountifulness according to its high Nature and Property It is not shut up to it self upon any consideration as to what it poslesseth and enjoys for it holds nothing in Propriety whatever its Lot is but all is free to the Disciples of the same descent and birth with himself this Love cannot with-hold from any of their Necessities for it seeks not its own Then it hath also a virtual Power as made to inherit the best of Riches and Substance of the everlasting Kingdom to conveigh and freely distribute of this inexhaustable Treasury to impoverished Souls and to relieve them that are in great Distress which Power can pass in as an high virtual Balsom to heal the Wounded who are under the striking of the Scorpion-Sting of the Serpent For this Love is a ministring Flame where holy Passiveness and Humility are as the open-Door for its access and there cherish and feed it with what its present degree doth require Charity is furnished with all sorts and stores it is God's Steward upon Earth whom he dare trust with the Care of his Houshold who are in spiritual Hunger and Nakedness It is a most infallible truth that God will appoint such holy Overseers in his new-born Church that shall recover the Apostolical Spirit and Power that hath been lost out of the Earth and it shall rise as a more bright Morning Star and multiply it into a Generation that will be all lovely in which God may see himself For which end the Kingdom and Dominion is already come into some and prospering to this expected degree treasuring up now for a full Bank in store against that Day in which our Son of Man will again appear in the Heavens for the delivering up the Kingdom to the Father that so God who is Love may be all in all But in order to the accomplishing of this last and finishing Mystery there shall arise a Melchizedeck Priesthood which shall know the way into the Holiest of all concerning which we shall come to declare after this subject is finished for it springs out of Love's-Root in us For this is the most clear and undeniable witness of Truth when Light and Revelation and Life of Enjoyment meet together then Declaration carries Power and Authority with it But to return to the present thing what can be said sufficiently of it that so if possible the reign of Love might come to spread it self as a Net to gather in for the Priestly Kingdom Some other Motions may be further urged as these Would you be always in a serene quiet and peaceable Frame and Constitution of Mind so as no vicissitude working-Cross or Turbulency towards you whether from Gentiles Barbarians or Israelites all which may give nothing of Disturbance where Charity is predominant and why so This is very marvelous never to be perplexed and never to be put out of Harmony Objection But how can this agree When as our most perfect Pattern was said to be troubled and his Soul was sorrowful unto Death as also that Afflictions are not joyous for the present First We will Answer this main Objection as to Christ our Lord in his Agonies You must know that all this was on this side his Resurrection observe that and it was to shew that he had the sensible Passions of our Humanity and that he was on our behalf to feel a sinless Grief and Sorrow and to be really touched with these kind of Infirmities or else how could he make Provision through and by Love's Conquest If he had not been in Temptation and in Encounter with all Despite and Defamations but yet he maintained his own Peace which was the Fruit of Love through all and was reconciled to all the cross Dispensations that met him in the World For it was this perfect Love that carried him through to bear and suffer all things and was for our Example and Encouragement to express during the time of his humane Minority those sensible Dolours and Passions but he comes of a victorious Champion and tells us That he had overcome and assureth us That in him we shall have a most fixed and firm Peace though in the World exercised with Tribulation So from hence it is to be admitted and allowed that in the time of our Minority before Love is in its perfect degree risen it cannot be otherwise expected but we may be liable to Grief Sorrow Commotion Fears and Jealousies and so up and down in an uncertain Motion tossed to and fro in our Minds and all this because Love is but little weak and low of Stature it is not got up into the Throne of Dominion so as to govern all by the Law of Love yet such are not to be hopeless or of doubtful Mind as desponding ever to see the Resurrection of Love so as to possess its peaceable Immunities Know whoever you be that are made willing to venture the loss of all for to arrive at this Pearl of Charity that you shall most surely find it and great rejoycing there will be at the finding of this lost Groat Indeed the House of the Soul must be first throughly searched and the natural Self-love must be swept out For what is that which we must lose but even all Rubbish Filth and Dross that so our Hearts being emptied and cleansed from all these the King of Love may enter in with his full Train wherein we may know nothing but Concord Tranquility and a springing Treasury of all Goodness Wherefore let all holy and pure Minds be stirred up to wait for the dropping Dews which fall from the one eternal Element to bring this Plant of Loves Kingdom forward even unto its full height of Perfection and be tender of its first Buddings for it hath many subtil Enemies both at home and abroad It is the Heir and therefore is conspired against for can but the envious Spirits find out where its Birth doth spring they will attempt to kill it whilst it is but an Infant for which cause it must be hid in the Clefts of the