his Desire also into the Anger that is into the Austere Might where the Poyson-life Ariseth viz. into the Fiat of the wrathful Property out of which Form are proceeded Vipers Serpents Toads and other venomous worms not that the Devil hath made them That he cannot onely as the Desire was in the Impression of the Fiat such also was the Creature in the Evil and Good 12. For in the Impression of the Fiat in the Original of the outward Mercury viz. of the Life which is manifest to it self internally was the SeVeration where God and the World Sever viz. God inwardly the World outwardly as a Similitude of the Abyss or a Looking-glass of Eternity even there the inward Wrath whence God is called an angry zealous God and a consuming fire manifested it self externally in figures as in a Similitude of the inward Birth in the Center like as the Eternal Lubet which He is himself stirreth up awakeneth and causeth the Desire to the Nature of the eternal Manifestation and gives in it self into the Desire and turneth the Wrath of the Desire into Joyfulness 13. Thus it is also with the Serpents craft in the highest Mercury is the highest sharpest proof of all things the more poysonful a thing is the more sharply it proveth a thing for the sharpest Taste and Smell consists in the great Poyson viz. in a Dying Source 14. And as the Eternal Light is generated out of the Fathers sharpness that it attains the Shine and goeth forth with its own Source through the sharpness out of the Anguish-Source again into the Liberty viz. into the Nothing where the Light by reason of the Fires-Source and Property becomes also a Desire which is the Desire of the Divine Love and Joyfulness in which Desire Mercurius the Eternal Word or the Understanding of Eternity or Deity is rightly Considered and Named and this Efflux from the Fire understand from the Eternal Magical Spiritual Fire is a Procreation viz. of the Word of the Power Colours and Vertue and this Desire of the Same Mercury or Word doth also immodelize the Power into its own Desire and maketh it essential which is the Meekness and the Love which quencheth the Wrath of the Eternal Father viz. of the Eternal Nature-Desire with Love and changeth it into Joyfulness where the Name of God hath its Original from Eternity This immassed Essentiality causeth two Properties viz. one Oleous which is Heavenly Essence a cause of the shining of the Light and also a Powerful Property from the Motion of the Eternal Impression or Desire of the Father after the Birth of the Son whence the Divine Ayr as the Power through the Shine of the Light proceedeth forth out of this Love-fire which is the Spirit of God 15. In like manner know this That the Eternal Love understand the Essence viz. the Heavenly Essentiality hath given it self forth into the Creation with the Verbum Fiat to set the Fathers Anger viz. the form of the Eternal Nature into the highest Joyfulness and to set forth the likeness of the Eternal Generation and where the Nature of the Wrath was most elevated through the Fiat there also the Desire did most incline it self towards the Liberty to be free from the Wrath and to bring it into the Kingdom of Joy whence the great and deep Knowledg is Arisen and also the most precious and highest Tincture understand the Desire of the wrathful Hunger received that into it self after which it hungered viz. the Liberty for all things were created good in the beginning also the Devil was good while he was an Angel so also the Serpent was good in its Creation before the Curse 16. But being the Devil went into the highest Fires-Desire God departed from him as a light that is put out or extinguisheth in a Candle and afterwards he lived according to his own Desire 17. But seeing he knew that there was such a Tincture in the Serpent and the Serpent being created out of the beginning of Time therefore he insinuated with his Desire into the Serpent and took possession of the Serpents Tincture and wrought forth his Desire through the Serpent against Man to introduce him to long after the Serpents Property For the Serpents Tincture was from both Originals viz. out of the deadly Mercury from the Dying in the fire viz from the coldness in the Impression and then also from the Wrathful fiery Property in the Impression The cold Impression is earthly which Ariseth from the Wrath viz. from the Dying in the Wrath in the Impression and the fiery Impression ariseth from the quick Poyson of Mercury in which Property the Spirits life consists 18. Thus Adam and Eve were infected with the Devils Desire through the Serpent viz. through the earthly deadly Property of the Serpent and also through the wrathful poysonful living Property of Gods Wrath according to the Devils own Property and was inflamed in his Divine Oyl that is in the Heavenly Essentiality 19. Even then the Divine Light which shone out of the Divine Body of the Heavenly Essentiality was extinct unto him for the Curse seized upon the Soul Now Gods cursing is a withdrawing viz. the Divine Power which was in the Body departed into its own Principle and his holy Oyl wherein the Power of God dwelt and had made a Kingdom of Joy viz. the Paradise became a Poyson 20. For the Earthly Part according to the mortifying of the water viz. the Cogastrish Property was manifest and forthwith Mercury viz. the coldness in the Deaths Property got he Dominion whereas before he was as it were swallowed up in he divine Power Thus Adam dyed unto God and lived to Death here it was necessary that God should regenerate him and therefore the Serpent was cursed because it had served and willingly obeyed the Devil 21. Thus we understand what lieth hid in the greatest Anguish viz. in the strongest Mercury viz. an Oyl which Cureth and Tinctureth all Diseases but the cold Poyson viz. the Deaths-Source must be done away and put into a fiery property which is desirous of the Light for God created all things good in the beginning but through his Cursing or withdrawing the Evil came in for when Gods Love-desire dwelt in the outward Worlds-Source and Penetrated it as the Sun the Water or the fire an Iron then the outward World was a Paradise and the divine Essence sprang forth and budded through the Earthly the Eternal Life through the Mortal but when God cursed it for mans sake the mortal Life was manifest in man and also in the fruit of which man should eat which property before was only manifest in the Tree of the Knowledg of Good and Evil on which Adam and his wife were Tempted whether their Desire would enter into the Eternity viz. into Gods Essence or into the Essence of Time into the living or mortal Oyl in which Source the
Souls spirit would live that is burn 22. Thus by Gods Curse or withdrawing the Heavenly Body was shut up and the Anger-Source set open and so the Heavenly Body lieth still shut up but seeing Man by the Eternal Mercury that is by the Word of Divine Power was in one part formed out of Eternity into Body and Soul none could disclose the Poyson-death and destroy the mortal Mercury and change it again into the Lights-Source viz. into the Source of the divine Joyfulness save only the very divine Mercury viz. the Power and the Word of Life it self for the Serpents poysonful earthly property was manifest and stirred up in man therefore when Gods Word did pity the Corruption of man and did again embrace him he said The Seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head and thou understand the Serpents poyson or fire shalt sting him in the Heel 23. Herein now lieth the Philosophers Stone to know how the Seed of the Woman bruiseth the Serpents Head which is done in the Spirit and Essence Temporally and Eternally the sting of the Serpent is Gods Anger-fire and the Womans Seed is Gods Love-fire which must be again awakened and illustrate the Anger and deprive the Wrath of its might and put it into the divine Joyfulness and then the dead Soul which lay avalled in Gods Curse doth arise when the poysonful Mercury which resembleth Gods Anger is Tinctured with Love then the Deaths Anguish in Mercury is changed into the highest Joyfulness and Desire of Love which doth again make a Love-essence in it self viz. an heavenly Body out of the earthly when Mercury is changed into an heavenly Source it desireth no longer or more the earthly mortal Life it desireth not the four Elements but only the One wherein the four are contained as it were avalled as the Light holdeth the Darkness avalled in it self and yet the Darkness is in it but not manifest in the Light as God dwelleth in Time and the Time comprehends him not unless it be translated and wrapt up into Eternity that the divine Light doth again shine in its Source and then the Time is manifest with its Wonders in the Eternity 24. On this wise also is the Process of the Wise men with the Precious Stone There is no nearer Consideration of the same then to consider and know how the Eternal Word viz. the heavenly divine Mercury in the divine Power is become man and slain Death and the Anger in man viz. changed the Mercury into the divine Joyfulness whereby the humane Mercury which before lay shut up in Gods Anger viz. in the Source of Death doth with its new enkindled Desire which now is called Faith in the Holy Ghost attract divine Essentiality viz. Christs Body unto it self and setteth it self in divine Power and Light above the Anger of God and the Poyson of the Serpent and bruise the head of the Anger viz. the poyson of Death with the Life of divine Joyfulness that is the Anger was Master but in the Light it became a Servant which now must be a cause of the Joyfulness as it is most plain clear and manifestly made known and shewn unto us in the Mercurial Life 25. Now observe the Process and meditate thereon ye dear Children of Wisdom and then ye shall have Enough Temporally and Eternally do not as Babel doth which tickleth and comforteth it self with the Philosophers Stone and boasteth of it but keepeth only a gross Masons-Stone shut up in Poyson and Death in stead of the precious Philosophers Stone what is it for Babel to have the Stone when as it lieth wholly shut up in Babel It is as if a Lord bestowed a Country upon me which indeed was mine but I could not take possession of it and remained still á poor man for all that and yet I boasted of the Dominion and so had the Name and not the Power Even thus it goeth with Babel about the precious Stone of the New-birth in Christ Jesus 26. In the Sweet Name Jesus Christ the whole Process is contained what and how the New-birth is out of Death into Life which is very clearly understood in the language of Nature for the Name Jesus is the property of the free Lubet of Eternity which yeelds it self into the Centre of the Pregnatress viz. into the Fathers property and figurizeth it self in the Centre in the Fathers property viz. in the Fathers Fire to a word of Eternal Power 27. Understand the Father viz. the Fathers fiery Forms do figurate shape this divine Voyce essentially in it self in the Lubet of the Liberty that is the Fathers fiery property maketh it self in the divine Essence of the eternal Love to a Mercury of Ioyfulness for the Fathers property is the Fire-source and the Sons viz. the eternal Lubets property is the Love-source and yet also there would be no Desire of Love if the Fathers Fire did not enkindle it and make it moveable viz. denrous from the Fire ariseth the Desire 28. The Father of all Essences begetteth this holy Desire through his Fire-source which is now his heart of Love which giveth in his Fire the shining Lustre and Splendor even there the Wrath in the Fires-property dyeth from Eternity to Eternity and is changed into a Love-desire 29. Thus observe it the free Lubets property is here in the Fires property called Christ which signifieth in the language of Nature a Potent Champion depriving the Wrath of its Power a Shine of the Light in the Darkness a Transmutation where the Love-Lubet ruleth over the Fire-Lubet viz. over the Wrath the Light over the Darkness Here the Seed of the Woman understand of the free Lubet in which there is no Source bruiseth the Head of the Wrath of the Eternal Nature viz. of the Eternal Desire for the Fires property is rightly called the Head for it is the Cause of the Eternal Life and the Liberty viz. the free Lubet or the Nothing is rightly called the woman for in the Nothing viz. in the Liberty of all Source consists the Birth of the Holy Trinity of the Deity 30. Now the Fire giveth Life and the free Lubet giveth Essence into the Life and in the Essence is the Birth where the Father viz. the Eternal Ground begetteth his Essence viz. his Heart out of the Abyss in Himself that is out of the Abyss in Himself into a Byss the Son is the Fathers Byss Thus the Father remaineth in Himself as touching his own property only the Byss of the Eternal Nature and the Son remaineth in the Father the Byss of the Power and Kingdom of Ioy a resemblance whereof you see in the Fire and Light And thus the Son Tinctureth the Father with the Liberty viz. with the Nothing and the Father Tinctureth the Son the Nothing that there is an Eternal Life therein and no more a Nothing but a Sound or Voyce of the Manifestation of the
property and giveth also a Water-Source understand such a property 32. Now the Flash when it is enkindled by the Liberty and by the cold Fire doth make in its Rising a Cross with the Comprehension of all Properties for here ariseth the Spirit in the Essence and it standeth thus If thou hast here Understanding thou needest ask no more it is Eternity and Time God in Love and Anger moreover Heaven and Hell 33. The lower part which is thus marked is the first Principle and is the Eternal Nature in the Anger viz. the Kingdom of Darkness dwelling in it self and the upper part with this figure is the Salniter the upper Cross above the Circle is the Kingdom of Glory which proceedeth forth in the Flagrat of Joy in the Will of the free Lubet in it self out of the Fire in the Lustre of the Light into the Power of the Liberty and this spiritual Water which also ariseth in the Flagrat of Joy is the Corporality or Essentiality in which the Lustre from the Fire and Light maketh a Tincture viz. a budding and growing and a manifestation of Colours from the Fire and Light 34. And this form of Separation between the living and the dead Essentiality is the fifth Form and is called the Love-desire its Original is from the Liberty which in the Fire hath introduced it self into a Desire viz. out of the Lubet of the Liberty into the fair and fiery Elevation of Joy being a flame of Love which also doth imprint in its Love-desire the Property of that which it hath conceived in the Will of the Eternal Mind which bringeth itself through the Fires-sharpness again into it self viz. into the first Properties which arise in the first Impression viz. from the motion and stirring and the Joyfulness ariseth out of the Anguish for this is Joy that the Will to Nature is delivered and freed from the dark Anguish for else there would be no knowledg what Joy were if there were not a painful Source and in its Love-desire it conceiveth the first Properties in the first Impression which divide themselves in this Desire into five Forms viz. from the Fire-flash into Seeing for the Water of Love reacheth the Lustre of the Tincture wherein the Sight consists and from the Hardness viz. from the Penetration of the Sting in the Hardness into Hearing so that in this same Nothing viz. in the Liberty there is a Sound which the Tincture catcheth and brings it forth in the Water of the Desire and from the Raging Sting into Feeling so that one Property doth feel another for if all Properties were only one there would be no Seeing Hearing or Feeling also no Understanding and from the Assimulation that one property doth arise in the other but with another property cometh the Taste and from the out-going Spirit of the properties in that the Egress of each property entereth into the other ariseth the Smell 35. Now these five Forms do all of them together make in the Love desire viz in the fifth Form the sixth that is the Sound or Voyce as a manifestation of all the Forms in the Spirits property which the fiery Lights-desire doth enclose with the spiritual Water as one onely Essence which is now the fiery Wills own Essence which hath brought it self forth in the Light wherein it worketh and maketh the seventh Form as an Habitation of the sixth whence the Essence and Dominion of this World was Generated and introduced into a Form according to the Right of the Eternal Birth 36. Now understand us aright we do not hereby understand a beginning of the Deity but the manifestation of the Deity the Deity is herein known and manifested in Trinity the Deity is the eternal Liberty without all Nature viz. the eternal Abyss but thus it bringeth it self into Byss for its own Manifestation eternal Wisdom and Deeds of Wonder 37. The eternal Father is manifested in the Fire and the Son in the light of the Fire and the Holy Spirit in the Power of the Life and Motion proceeding from the Fire in the Light of the Kingdom of Joy being the Egressive Power in the Love-flame we speak only by parts of the Universal as a Creature 38. The Deity is wholly every where All in All but he is only called God according to the Light of Love and according to the proceeding Spirit of Joy but according to the dark Impression he is called Gods Anger and the dark World and according to the eternal Fire-spirit he is called a Consuming Fire 39. We give you only to understand the Being of all Beings whose Original in it self is only one eternal Essence but with its own manifestation it cometh into many Beings unto its own Honour and Glory and now we will shew you what the Creatures Life and Dominion is in this All essential Being 40. Now therefore understand us aright what we mean by these three words Sulphur Mercury and Sal In the Eternity all is Spirit but when God moved himself with the eternal Nature wherein his own manifestation doth consist he did produce out of the spiritual Essence a palpable and manifest Essence and introduced it into a Creatural Being according to the eternal Properties which also consists of Spirit and Essence according to the Right or Law of Eternity 41. And now I will speak of the outward Kingdom viz. of the third Principle or Beginning for in this World there is also Light and Darkness in each other as in the Eternity God hath given this World a Sun as a Nature-god of the outward Powers but he ruleth therein as Lord the outward Kingdom is only his prepared Work which he ruleth and maketh with the Assimulate as a Master maketh his work with an Instrument 42. Sulphur is in the outward World viz. in the Mystery of the Great Gods Manifestation the first Mother of the Creatures for it doth arise out of Darkness Fire and Light it is on one part according to the dark Impression astringent bitter and anxious and on the other part towards the Deity as a Similitude of the Deity it is fire light and water which in the Fire doth Sever it self into two Forms viz. according to the Mortification into Water and according to the Life into Oyl in which the true Life of all the Creatures of the outward World doth consist 43. Mercury is the Wheel of Motion in the Sulphur He is on one part according to the dark Impression the stinging Rager and the great Unquietness and severs it self also in the Fire in its Mother viz. in the Sulphur into two Properties viz. into a twofold Water for in the Mortification of the Fire all is turned to Water understand into a living pleasant Water according to the Light which produceth Silver in the Brimstone viz. in the seventh Property of Nature which is the powerful Body and in the Fire its Water is Quick-silver and in the Astringency viz. in the Anguish of
turneth round viz. the Desire for this World is round so also the Birth when as the Liberty hath given its highest Lubet as a golden Hunger unto Saturn and placed Mercury for Work-master then it betaketh it self into it self into its Defire according to the property of Meekness for the first Conception to the golden Child is effected according to the property of Joyfulness but this out of goodness and meekness resigneth it self to Luna for it is a pleasant demission by reason of the meekness which Mercury doth apprehend and worketh therein also this Body is Silver and cometh from the first Impression where the yellow and white separate in the Fire viz. the Colours of the Vertue then Luna ariseth out of the yellow and turneth into white by reason of the divine Meekness and because its Original is from Sols Colour therefore it hath a perpetual Hunger after Sol and receiveth the Suns Lustre into it putteth it on and shineth therewith 30. Now as the Superior is so is likewise the Inferior namely Metals therefore Silver is the next degree to Gold and as Gold is generated so is also Silver Venus clothes it which Mercury cannot endure being he is the Master-worker and he gives his garment also but the Silver hath neither the property of Venus nor Mercury for it retaineth the property of its Mother viz. the meekness in the Liberty and is hatched as the Gold by reason of the Sun The Moon hath an Heavenly Property but in reference to its own proper Form from the property of the Desire it is of a very earthly property it is a Cabinet and Keeper of the earthly and heavenly Essence As the outward body of Man which before the fall in Adam was comparable to Silver but when he dyed in the Lubet then the earthly property only lived in him and therefore he continually hungreth after Sols glance and glory he would fain take again his splendor with Luna from the Sun but he getteth only an earthly Lunatical Lustre wherein he acts and exerciseth Pride unless he be born again out of Sols splendor that is out of Gods Power in the Heavenly Mercurius and so he becomes again the golden filver-child in divine Essentiality only covered and clothed this life-time with the Earthly Moon that is with Earthly Flesh. 31. Saturn also is the House of silver he is likewise the Cause of the first Conception but he turneth his Desire onely upon the golden Childe and leaveth the silver its garment and takes it into his stony Earthly Property and lets Mercury hatch it 32. The Desire of the Free Lubet is fixt and stedfast as concerning the Property of the Desire onely which bringeth its Will again from the Body into the Combate in the Senses and maketh Jupiter that is on the Orb upwards under Saturn under the Saturnine Power its metal is Tin and it is the third degree for the Lubet of the Liberty in the Desire proceedeth forth into the Desire of the Austereness and so gives it self into the Fiat 33. We must understand it thus The Lubet of the Liberty goeth forth out of it self as a Plant and maketh one degree after another in order but Mercury maketh the Sphere for he is the Work-master And as the Eternal Birth is in it self in the Heavenly Mercury viz. in the Eternal Word in the Fathers Generation so likewise with the Motion of the Father it came into a Creatural Being and so proceedeth in its Order as may be seen in the Wheel of the Planets for the Order is just so placed as Man is in his Order 34. First there is in him the true golden divine man which is the likeness of God Next there is in him the man of heavenly Essentiality viz. the inward holy body generated from the Fire and Light in the Tincture which is like to the pure Silver if it were not corrupted Thirdly there is in him the Elemental man from the pure Element resembling Jupiter Fourthly the Mercurial which is the growing or Paradisical man Fifthly the Martial from the fire viz. the Soulick man according to the Fathers property Sixthly the Venerine man according to the outward Desire and the waters property Seventhly the Solar according to the Suns property viz. according to the outward World as a Seer and Knower of the wonders of God and yet it is but the one onely man yet is both in the inward and outward World Thus likewise is the similitude or form of the Seven Metals with one property according to the inward World and with another visible palpable property according to the outward World 35. From Jupiter the Sphere turneth round and out of the Severation Mercury proceedeth forth with a broken metal according to his spirits property externally quicksilver and internally he is a Paradisical working he is in his spiritual property the Distinguisher or Articulator of the words voyces and speeches It is written God hath made all things by his Word The heavenly Eternal Mercurlus in his Word which the Father expresseth in the Enkindling of his Light and the Expressed is his Wisdom and the Word is the Worker Framer and Maker of the Formings in the Expressed Wisdom Now what the inward Mercurius doth internally in Gods Power that likewise the outward Mercurius effecteth in the outward Power in the Created Essence He is Gods Instrument wherewith he worketh extrinsecally to death and to life in each thing according to its property he buildeth and breaketh down 36. According to Saturns property he buildeth and according to his own property he distinguisheth and dissipateth the hardness in Saturn viz. the Enclosed and openeth it to life He openeth the Colours and maketh Forms and shapes and carryeth in him an Heavenly and also an Earthly Property in the Earthly he carryeth out of the first Desire to Nature viz. out of Saturn Mars viz. the wrathfulness of the Impression for he is his Soul wherein Mercury liveth he giveth him the fiery Essence and standeth under Jupiter in the order upwards on the Sphere for he carryeth the fire-spirit in Sulphur into all Planets and forms and giveth to each thing its Source and true spirit of life 37. Mars in the first Impression is the great Anguish and causeth the Love-will of the Liberty to separate from him and the Severed is called God and the Anguish or Fire-Source is called Gods Anger viz. the Wrath of the Eternal Nature And as internally Gods Love Severs from Gods Anger that is from the wrathful Property of the Eternal Nature viz. Heaven from Hell God from the Devil so also it is effected in the Birth of the outward Nature 38. Love proceedeth out of the Wrath and is an Humility or Submission Thus likewise it came in the Creation into Order therefore Venus standeth in the Sphere on the line of Mars under the Sun for so is the Separation in Nature and so one proceeds forth from another Its Metal is Copper the
gave his Humanity Gall and Vineger to drink and when he tasted it he would not drink it 66. Here is again the outward Type shewing how it went inwardly The name Iesus viz. the Love of God which was entered into the Humanity and had espoused it self thereunto did thirst in the Love-desire after the corrupt Humanity and would fain tast the pure water of the Humanity in it self but the wrathful Anger of God which was enkindled in the Humane property did give it self in with the Humane property unto the thirst of the Love desire and when the Love-desire tasted of it it would not drink it but sank down into it as wholly resigned or freely yeelded and did unite and very essentially incline it self into the Anger of God as a full and perfect obedience and fully and freely given over as a peculiar propriety thereinto 67. This was now the Flagrat of the wrath that the Love should so come into it whereupon the Earth trembled and the Rocks clove asunder for so the Death was dismayed at the Life and here the Awakened Wraths property did SeVer it self into the Centre viz. into the First Principle into the Fireâ—root and now from the Centre there proceeded forth the hunger to the New-birth in the Humane property of the hunger unto Death was made an hunger unto Life for the Love tinctured the Anger that the Fireâ—desire to the dark Impression became a desire of Life 68. Understand it here aright God the Father who gave his dear Heart into the Humanity to help mankind did now thirst after the Humanity viz. after his heart or word of Power and the Deity in the Humanity viz. the heart of the Father did thirst after the Father and the Love or the Essence of the Light did thirst after the Fires Essence for the Fires or Souls Essence in Adam was departed out of the Love-essentiality wherein the Paradise did consist into a Selfness and was become disobedient unto God and thereupon the Essence life and being of the Light and Love did dye in its Growing that is it did wither as to the Vegetative life or Heavenly growth blooming and Sense of the Paradissal Source and did awake and arise to the Earthly World 69. Here the Father brought the Soul which was entered into his Wrath and had manifested its self in his Anger again into the Love viz. into the disappeared Paradisical Image and here the dark World was dismayed in Deaths Flagrat at the Fire-Flagrat which arose up in Love in the Death as a joyful Flagrat which Joy-Flagrat entred into the dead Bodies of the Hopers of Israel who did hope upon the Messiah as a sound of the power of God and did awaken them from death 70. This Flagrat rent in twain the Vail in the Temple viz. the Vail of Moses which hung before the clear face of God so that man could not see God and therefore he must serve him with an Offering and Type of this Final Discovery in which God did manifest himself again in the Humanity This Flagrat broke the Type in the Offerings and Sacrifices and manifested the clear face of God and united the Humane Time with Eternity 71. All whatsoever the Jews did outwardly unto Christ the same was a Type of the inward viz. how it went between God and the Humanity viz. between the Eternity and Time the Jews gave Jesus Gall and Vineger in his Thirst both these properties are a Mercury in the Sulphur of Saturn viz. in the Impression this is even the Type and full resemblance of the Souls property as it is in it self alone devoid of the other Love-properties 72. God gave this property of the Soul again into his Love the Death into the Life the disappeared Love-essence which the Word of God had assumed to it self in the Essence and Seed of Mary and quickned to life he gave into the Anger 's property into the Souls essence viz. into the Centre of the Fire and dark World whereupon the Soul-like Fire and dark world became an exceeding Triumphant joyful Paradisical life and here the Champion upbraided Death and Hell viz. the dark World in the Soul and said Death where is thy Sting now in man Hell where is now thy victory in the Wrath of the poyson-Source in the expressed Word or Mercury all is now dead O Death I am to thee a Death Hell I am to thee a Conquerour thou must serve me for the Kingdom of joy Thou shalt be my Servant and Minister to the Kingdom of joy thou shalt enkindle the flames of Love with thy Wrath and be a Cause of the Spring in Paradise 73. Thus we give the Philosopher to understand our sence and deep ground in Nature who desireth to seek and open the disappeared Essence of the Earth which lyeth shut up in Death viz. in the Curse of God the Vail of Moses hangeth also before him and a very right earnestness is requisite for to rend the Vail in twain that he may be able to see the face of Nature otherwise he is not fitted thereunto 74. And as it went in the Humanity of Christ betwixt Gods Love and Anger and both were transformed into One so likewise it is in his Work of Nature the poysonful Mercury in the Sulphur of Mars and Saturn giveth its Lunar Menstruum viz. the greatest poyson of the dark Source into Venus's property when Venus thirsteth after the Fire of Love then Mercury giveth his poyson into the thirst of Venus and Venus's thirst giveth it self wholly unto the poyson as if it dyed it wholly yeeldeth up its desiring life whereupon ariseth the great darkness in the Philosophick Work for the Materia becometh as black as a Raven for Venus hath resigned its life whence the glance or splendor doth arise as it is to be seen by Christ that the Sun lost its light and there was a great darkness contrary to the common Course of Nature 75. For when the inward Sun gave in it self unto the Anger viz. into the darkness of God then the outward Sun which receiveth its power and lustre from the inward as a glass or resemblance of the inward could not shine for its root from whence it shineth was entered into the darkness in the place of this World and would turn the darkness in the Curse of God into light viz. it would make the place of this world again Paradise 76. Thus likewise the Sun of the outward World which is a Figure of the inward all essential Sun must stand still with its Splendor in the darkness from the sixth hour unto the ninth which is even the time of Adams sleep when he entered with the desire into the Centre of the Eternal Nature viz. into the Birth where the Love and Anger do part themselves into two Centres and would prove the cold and hot Fire which took him and did powerfully work in him Here are three hours according to the Ternary and in the Grave three days
according to the time viz. according to the Humanity 77. When Adam was in the Image of God and was neither Man nor Woman but both He stood forty days in Paradise without wavering and when he fell he stood even untill the third day viz. forty hours in the Sleep even till God did make or build the Woman out of him Thus Israel must be tempted forty days on Mount Sinai whether it would live in the obedience of God under the Wonders and mighty Acts and when as it could not be God gave them the Law of His Covenant as a Looking-glass of that which was promised in the Covenant therefore the temptation of the body was upon them forty years that the body must eat Manna to try whether Man could be remedied when as the body or outward person could not stand then Joshuah brought them through the water with the Covenant of the Type where Israel must serve with Sacrifices in the Covenant in the Type of the Final accomplishment until the time of Restitution came in and then the Valiant Champion in Battel stood 40. days in the Wilderness of the temptation and stood out the first Tryal of Adam in Paradise and the three hours of darkness on the Cross are the three hours of the Temptation of Christ when the Devil tempted him And again the forty hours of Christ in the Grave are the forty days of Adam in Paradise and the forty days of Moses upon the Mount and the forty years in the Wilderness and the forty days after the Resurrection before the Ascention are even one and the same and now when the Champion had stood out Adams Tryal the Soul was tempted forty days in the Humane property whether it would eat of Gods Word and live in full Resigned obedience in the Will of God and be a true Image Likeness and Similitude of the Divine Power in the Unsearchable Eternity according to the Trinity of the Deity 78. In the like manner let the Philosopher observe us that the essence of time doth also stand in such a property for man was created out of the Essence of time into an Image as an extract of all essences a compleat Image and likeness according to Time and Eternity ruling and standing in the Time and in the Eternity as an Instrument of the great infinite God with whom by and with his Spirit he would make and do what he pleased 79. Now man is the Instrument of God with or by whom he doth manifest his hiddenness both in his own Humane property viz. in the Essence and Image of God and then also through man as with the Instrument in the Mother of all Beings as in the Grand Mystery viz. in the Soul of the great world 80. Man hath power so far as he goeth as an instrument of God in Divine obedience as his Spirit doth guide and lead him that he can introduce the Earth which standeth in the Curse of God into the Benediction and make of Deaths-anguish the highest triumphant joy in the outward Pregnant Mother but he himself doth it not only his will doth labour with the understanding therein and doth conjoyn the Compacta which belong together as Life and Death which stand opposite to one another these he must joyn together and bring them into one by such an art as Time and Eternity are united by and in the man Christ and by him all those which give their will thereinto 81. He will see in his work all whatsoever God did in the Humanity when he brought it again into the Universal viz. into Paradise He will see how the Wrath devours and swallows up the fair Venus into his pricking thorny essence and how Venus doth fully yeeld in her self and how the Wrath also dyeth away in Venus and becometh wholly dark and black as a Coal for death and life do lie together both in the Death viz. in the obedience of God they both hold still unto him and suffer the Spirit of God to make of and with them what it pleaseth who introduceth them again into the Eternal will of God whereto he at first created them and thus the Essence standeth again in the beginning in the Order as God created it It must only stand in its Impression in the Verbum Fiat viz. in the Divine making until the day of Gods Separation when God will change the Time again into the Eternity 82. And when Jesus had drunk the cup and tasted the Vinegar mixed with Gall in the outward man and inwardly in the Love-property viz. in the Virgin the wrathful Anger of God then said the whole man Christ My God my God wherefore hast thou forsaken me For Gods Speaking Word stood still now in the Humane property and the new-born essentiality which was dead in Adam and was again quickned in Christ did cry with the same My God my God wherefore hast thou forsaken me For the Anger of God was by the Souls property entred into the Image of the Divine Essentiality and had devoured the Image of God 83. Here now the Image in the Creature of the Soul cryed My God my God wherefore hast thou for saken me for the Humane Image which disappeared in Adam and was again revived in Christs Incarnation should bruise the head of Gods Anger in the Fire-soul and change its Fire-might into Sol and now the Speaking Word of God did here forsake it and it fell into its souls wrath where it felt Gods Anger for the Speaking Word did so bring it through the Anger into Death and out of the Death again into the Solar life understand into the Eternal Sun 84. Like as the Candle dyeth in the Fire and out of that death the light power proceedeth viz. the great painless life so out of Christs dying and death the eternal Divine Sun should and must arise in the Humane property but the Selfness of the Humane property viz. the Souls own Self will to live in the Fires might must here dye and be drowned in the Image of Love and the Image of Love must also resign and give it self in unto the Wrath of Death that so all might fall down into death and arise in Gods will and mercy through death in the Paradissal Source in the Resignation that Gods Spirit might be all in all Hells eye must see through the Love as the light shineth out of the Fire and the Fire from the Darkness and the Darkness taketh its Original from the Eternal desire 85. And as Adam changed the likeness of God into the dark Deaths form so God did again change the likeness through his Fire-wrath out of Death into the Light he drew forth the likeness again out of death as a blossome groweth from the harsh Earth 86. Thus it goeth likewise in the Philosophick work Venus is forsaken when she receives the three wrathful properties into her self in wrath their wrath viz. the death doth devour her life whereupon she loseth
the colour and yet becomes a Death to the three forms in the Wrath for she drowneth Death with Love Thus the Life is made a death to death viz. to the Wrath and now they both do lie in the will of the Eternal Nature viz. in the Verbum Fiat which proceedeth with them the Divine way in manner as it proceeded forth into Essence in the beginning of the Creation for in the beginning Paradise viz. the Universal was manifest and the Love shone through the Death or Anger Even so it must be again Venus must become the Eye or Sight in the Wrath and then of Saturn Mars and Mercury there will be a Jupiter Mars becomes Sun and Saturn Moon and so Mars shineth with the Sun out of Saturn in Luna from Venus's eye and all Seven are only one Thus the strife hath an end and all is accomplished until the Resurrection of the body 87. And when Jesus had drunk the Cup and said My God why hast thou forsaken me then he said All is finished understand the work of mans Redemption and said further Father into thy hands I comit my Spirit and towed his head and gave up the Ghost Here the whole life of Christ resigned it self into the Fathers desire viz. into the Will of the Eternal Nature and fully gavein the Will of his Self-hood viz. his creatural will again into the Centre viz. into the first Mother whence the Soul-like Creature was produced that is into the grand Mystery of Eternity the Self-will must again enter into Natures End so that the selfness may wholly dye that Gods Eternal Will and Spirit may be and do only All in All in the Humanity and that the Creature might afterwards be alone his Instrument wherein he might do and work according to his good pleasure and thus God the Father hath in Christs death and entrance into our Humanity again received our self-hood into his Will and that this might be he first tinctured the Humanity with the Deity that the Humanity might be a pleasant sweet savour and offering to him in his power for afore death lay before it 88. Here the Love destroyed Death and opened the fast Seal that the Will might again enter into that which it was before it was the creature and even so we all must follow him upon the path which he hath made open for us none can see God unless God become first man in him which is brought to pass in Faiths desire and even then the Corrupt Will which is apprehended in the Death and Anger of God and which bloometh in the earthly essence and bringeth forth fruit unto death be wholly mortified and fall into the free Resignation into the Will and mercy of God and then the own will is with and in Christ at Natures end in the Grand Mystery of God viz. in Gods hands Gods hands are the Eternal desire or the Eternal will which is Unchangeable thus the Creatural Self-will dyeth it entereth wholly into the Nothing that it might no more live to it self but unto God 89. Thus it falleth out also in the Philosophick work when the Artist hath first seen great wonders which the Creatural and Natural will hath wrought in the power of Venus insomuch that he supposeth that he is nigh thereunto Even then Nature doth first dye in his work and becomes a dark night unto him the property and power of all the forms must give forth themselves from their Centre and fall unto Natures End all do freely yeeld over themselves as one dead Essence and there is no longer any effectual working therein all is divided in the Crown into the Thousand number and then it is again in the mystery at Natures End as it was before it came into the Creatural Being understand the Essential desire viz. the expressed Mercuty must again come unto the End of its selfness and resign it self into the Speaking Word 90. The Corporall Essence remaineth in the Centre of the four Elements until the judgment of God which now at Death standeth in the Centre of Sol viz. in the Compaction of Venus and Mercury which Compaction at Death falleth wholly into one thing viz. into one power of Jupiter that is into the Centre of the Liberty for here the desire to cold and heat goeth out all Earthly will and desire of the properties dyeth and there is no more any hunger after the Earthly or Deaths property CHAP. XII Of the Seventh form in the Kingdom of the Mother how the Seventh Kingdom viz. the Kingdom of the Sun is again opened and made alive set forth in Parable or by way of Similitude of Christs Resurrection 1. WE are not to think that when Christ dyed the natural Death in the Humane property that he dyed as to his creatural Soul much less as to the Deity also he did not disappear or dye in the Heavenly Essentiality and in the Heavenly Tincture this cannot be only the Will and Dominion of Self viz. of the outward World which domineered in man unto the own Will and own powers of the Selfish creature wherein man was disobedient to God I say he gave that wholly into the Fathers hands viz. into the End of Nature into the Fathers great Mystery not that it should be dead but that Gods Spirit might alone be the life thereof that the Divine Dominion might be in Christs Person that the Eternal Father might Rule and Reign with his Eternal Spirit in his Image and therefore God hath determined to keep the last judgment by this Jesus 2. Now the Creature of Christ doth not it alone but God in his Image through the Creature in the Dominion of his Eternal Spirit of all the three Principles which is the life and Dominion of every Being in each thing according to its property 3. And understand us aright when Christ dyed on the Cross the Name Jesus did not also dye which destroyed Death and Tinctured the expressed Word viz. the Form of the Deity or the Formed Word viz. the Soul with Love No it cannot be the Eternity doth not dy only the Spoken Word which standeth again in the desire of the Speaking viz. in the Fiat which changeth it self in its own Speaking viz. in the Self-desire and bringeth its own Sound into another form and Source then the Speaking Word had spoken it set it forth with the Verbum Fiat into a Form Signature and Will as Lucifer with his Royal throne and Adam also did when they both departed out of Resignation into Self hood the Instrument would be Master 4. The outward working Sensitive life wherein the Anger of God was set on fire did wholly dye away not that it should be a Nothing but it fell into the Nothing viz. into Gods Will into Gods working and feeling quite from the Will of the outward World which is evill and good so that it might no longer live to the World viz. to the Astrum in the walm of the
four Elements but to the Eternal Fathers Nature in the walm of the pure Divine Element the life of the outward world dyed 5. Thus the true Humane Life fell forth-with again into that place whence Adam had brought it viz. into Paradise whereupon Christ said to the Thief To day thou shalt be with me in Paradise it fell into Adams death whereby he dyed unto Paradise and sprang up in Adams Death as a new creature out of the old like as the branch springeth from the Corn and this it did from the might and power of the Speaking Word which of grace was entered with living essentiality into the disappeared Heavenly Essentiality of man and had freely given it self into the Centre of the Soul-like nature and also into the wrath of the Anger and Death in the Flesh and changed the Anger into Love and tinctured the corrupt blood in the Anger with the Love 6. The Divine Tincture Tinctured the Humane the Divine Sun entered into the Humane the Divine Sun entred into Adams night viz. into Adams sleep Gods Sun with the Name Jesus entred with Adams Soul and Humanity in Christs person into death understand into Adams sleep 7. When Christ dyed then Adam dyed also to his Self-hood in Christs death the Name Jesus was in Christ the Serpent-stroyer in Adams Humanity Christ entered into the Image of the first Adam so that the first Adam in the Humanity of Christ did become the same Christ and Serpent-stroyer indeed not in the same Creature but in the same Souls and Bodies property 8. The first Adam fell into Sleep viz. into the impotence of the Divine World and dyed in the death of Death the second Adam entered into the death of Death and took the death of Death captive in Himself viz. in the Humanity of Adam He was a death to Death and brought forth the Life out of Death into the Eternal Liberty He arose in the Divine Omnipotence in the Essence of the first Adam Gods Spirit in the Speaking Eternal Word brought forth Adam out of death in Christs Humanity Adam did arise in Christs Humanity and all the Children of Adam which are partakers of Christs Kingdom do arise in Christ all in Christs Flesh and Blood Soul and Spirit but every one in his Creature which he hath had here and mortified in Christs death 9. Every one is a particular twig but there is only one Tree which is Christ in Adam and Adam in Christ only One not two only one Christ in all Christians so that I may say If I be dead in Christ unto the World I am the same Christ viz. a branch on the same Tree 10. But seeing that I in the outward man do yet live in my Self-hood therefore I must also dye with the outward man in Christs death and arise and live in him Now therefore I live with the Will of Faith in the mind in Christ and am a Christian in the Will of the Mind in the desire of Faith and receive Christ with his Humanity into my Will and cast my Will into his death and thus my inward man is also dead in Christs death and liveth no longer to Self-hood but I am resigned in him and lie buried in his death but being He is arisen in Gods Will I also live in His Resurrection in Him but my Earthliness in its Selfness liveth to the Earthly World until it also dyeth quite to Self-hood and entereth into the Resignation and Putrifaction and then Christ will awaken it through my inward man which now liveth in Him 11. Like as he is arisen from the Dead even so shall I who shall dye to the Earthliness in Him viz. in my first Father Adam in the Name Jesus as a Christian in Christ my twig withered in Sin on the Tree shall obtain strength and sap in the Name Jesus to life I shall and must spring forth afresh with my Humanity in Him as in my Stem who is become a Heart and Power in my Father Adam and bring forth fruit to the praise of God 12. My Will-spirit which now is in Christs Humanity and liveth in Christs Spirit that shall in Christs power give Sap to the dry tree that it shall again arise at the last day in the sound of the Trumpet of the Divine Breath in Christs voyce which also is my voyce in his Breath and spring afresh in the Tree Christ viz. in Paradise the Paradise shall be in me all whatsoever God hath and is shall appear in me as a Form and Image of the Divine Worlds being all colours powers and vertues of his Eternal Wisdom shall be manifest in me and on me as on his likeness I shall be the manifestation of the Spiritual Divine World and an instrument of Gods Spirit wherein he maketh melody with Himself with this Voyce which I my self am as with his Signature I shall be his Instrument and Organ of his expressed Word and voyce and not only I but all my fellow-members in the glorious Tuned Instrument of God we are all strings in his Joyful Consort the spirit of his mouth doth strike the tune and note on our strings 13. And therefore God became Man that he might again repair his glorious Instrument which he has made for his praise which perished as to him and would not sound according to the desire of his joy and Love and did introduce again the true Love-sound into the strings yea he hath introduced the voyce which soundeth in his presence again into us viz. into his Instrument he is become that I am and hath made me that which he is so that I may say that I am in my Resignation in him his Trumpet and the sound of his Instrument and Divine voyce at which now I do rejoyce in all my fellow-strings and voyces which with me are tuned and set as an Eternal work unto the praise and glory of God 14. Thus know ye now my Fellow-voyces in the praise of God that I sound with my string played upon in the Spirit upon and in your Note and thus sing I unto you that whatsoever Jesus hath done through the Christ viz. through his and my Humanity the same he doth yet to day in me and in all my fellow-members he dyed to my Self-hood in his death and I also dye to my self-hood in his death He is given up to his Resignation in God his Father and God his Father hath araised him up with the spirit of his mouth in him and set him forth for the Royal Image according to the holy Trinity through and with whom God will judg all things in the place of this World 15. Thus God also hath awakened in him my Spirit and Soul through his Spirit in the great Name Jesus in Christ so that I in my Resignation in him need not to dye for he dyed in me and for me his death in that he is arisen from death is become my Eternal life so that now I live in his