Mortal Shame Here Re-aspiring from their humble Vale To meet the inclining vigorous scented Male In their Dewie Fruitful Bed Their Sharon Rose the Virgin Lilies wed Whom as with strict Embrace inwrapt They lock within their Flowery Lap A Stock of Graces numberless proceed A Spring of lesser Beauties breed The clear tralucent Forms all Shade disdain Disclosing freely to be seen The Wonder-World within Each Argent Nerve and ev'ry Azure Vein The beauteous Love-Eye burning in the Heart From whence Loves Centres endless multlply As thick-set Spangles of the Sky Raising a Sting of Joy in ev'ry Part. In ev'ry Point a Venus bright Each Star a World of new Delight Opening an unexhausted Spring of Bliss Each Nymph her self a Paradise So fine so pliant the external Mould That ev'n therein the brighter Soul With all its Graces Train Imprints it self distinct and plain And as in Fabled Streams Where Silver Currents roll On Orient Pearl and Sands of Gold Displays her rich inestimable Gemms Which free exposed to view In their untarnisht native Hue Reflex thrâ—… Bodies Chrystalline In their transparent Mirror shine But deeper yet and more amazing Fair Out-shines out-flames thro' her Express the Only Sons refulgent Character Now now ye Paradisial Nymphs appear The Virgin Queens Attendant Graces Deâ—…r Arise arise and shine Illustrious Brigade Of Heroines Divine In Terrible-Majestick-Gay Parade With Orient Beams of Light Scatter the miâ—…y Gloom of Night And banish every black Infernal Shade Arise and shine Illustricuâ—… Heroines Cherubick Phalanx bright of Amazons Divine Arise Arise and Shine Hast Hast away And let your well-trim'd flowing Tresses fair Waving in wanton Ringlets Gild the Air Ont-beaming Sun-bright with pellucid Ray And as they loosely move Fan'd by fresh Odorous Gales of Love With Heavens warm Gentle-breathing Zephirs Play Hast to Proclaim The Great the Good the Now-Revolving Day Amen Hosanna Hallelujah Hast to Proclaim The Period-Circle Full of Endless Faâ—…e The Great the Good the Now-Revolving Day For this we shout aloud we sing we pray Amen Amen Hosanna Hallelujah Hero's fall back again Lead up the Virgin Train And Hand in hand as Love-pair'd Twins advance In Sacred well-pac't Mystick Dance Tracing on holy Ground Circling Jehovah's Altar round Where Ay Love-Incense burns Goodness and Grace abound Whence Living Coals out-fly Generate and multiply Seraphick Ardors ev'ry way to impart To each bright-flaming and Love-melting Heart The quick Celestial Fire 's Straight their Sweet-warbling Tongues inspire While ev'ry Voice and ev'ry Trumpet sings Glory to the Returning King of Kings Lov 's Golden Aera Now Now Now begins Now Now in ev ry Breath in ev'ry sound The Universe around Loves Everlasting Gospel rings Glory to the Returning King of Kings Loves Glerious Aera Now Now Now begins Fresh springing still th' Inspir'd Harmonious Vein Tunes up to higher Key and loftier Strain In more Inchanting Layes Varying new Hymns of Praise Jointly th' ascending Voice and Soul to raise Ev'n till they both aspire And join with the Seraphick Quire And under Gods bright Eye In Influence serene they lie Dissolv'd in Rapturous Hallelujahs As that sweet little Chorister that flies And singing mounts the Skies Till all his Breath and Song be spent Then down he falls in sweeter Languishment So do Angelick Souls in Sounds aspire They mount and Sing Upon the Doves bright Wing That gently fans and feeds th' Ethereal Fire All Emulous to win the steep Ascent The mighty Mountains Seven Those Lilie-deckt and Rosie-flowring Hills Form'd by th' All-bounteous Hand of Heaven Its Darling Sons with meer Delight to fill Till in Melodious Ravishment Their Powers their Voice their very Soul be spent The Light Becomes too blazing bright The Bliss Unsufferable is Then down with speed they take their humble flight In Adoration deep yet but retire Tâ—… embrace more Near and be exalted higher Now Loves last sweetest Mystick Death to try Rapt in sublime Exstatick Joys Expire Intranc'd and Silent lye Thus in soft languent Slumbers sweet true Sleep That Rests in Gods Abyssal Deep The rest in Visionary Dreams they See They Tast they Feel What is unknown Immense Unspeakable Proclaim Proclaim the Mighty Jubilee That sets each world of Captives free Proclaim Proclaim aloud the Mighty Jubilee O may through me the mighty Trumpet sound And spread its Fame thâ—… Woods and Hills and Plains The Isles and Seas around Let Sportful Eccho's play And dancing all the way Swell and Intune the trembling Sounds anew All well-tun'd Voices raise To great ELCHAJAH's Praise Peace to all Worlds dear Love to Man to God hiâ—… Honour duâ—… O may through me the mighty Trumpet sound And spread his Fame the Woods and Isles and Seas And Heaven and Earth around Too long too long the wretched World Lies wast in wild Confusion hurl'd Unhing'd in ev'ry part each Property Strugling disrang'd in fiercest Enmity The whole Creation Groans And Labouring with Perpetual Toil In Man's Rebellion vile Her own Hard Fate bemoans But now shall Natures Jaâ—…r Cease her Intestine War Now shall the long Six working Days of Strife â—…ttain their Line and to their Crown arrive At last set free In peaceful Rest of Sabbath true Heav'n and Earth created new â—…o Celebrate a Universal Jubilee Concord divine now meets in ev'ry Part. And Love subdues and Reigns in ev'ry Heart Ore all In Summ or Individual Triumphant Harmony Triumphant Love In Sweetest Unity Combin'd together move Ev'n from the Zenith high Of the clear boundless Empyrean Skie The Throne of God â—…own to Earth's inmost Central deep abode â—…ll is Concent and perfect Amity All in Proportion due In Weight and Number true Ev'n from the Zenith high Th' All-radiant Throne of God â—…own to Earths inmost central 〈◊〉 Abode â—…othing but Love but Love and Harmony â—…here every Voice and every Trumpet sings â—…lory to the Eternal King of Kings â—…oes Golden Aera now now now begins Now now in every Breath in every Sound The Universe around Her Everlasting Gospel â—…ings â—…lory to the returning King of Kings â—…ves Glorious Golden Aera now now now begins Now harmless thro the Skie â—…et the sweet whisking treble Lightnings fly Full Base frm Shoar to Shoar Shall in deep Thunders Roar â—…ot Death not Horror now but Melody Now Mighty Bard sing out thy Sonnet free Nor doubt it true shall be Come Thou and joyn Thy loud Prophetick Voice with mine `` Ring out ye Chrystal Sphears `` Now bless our Humane Ears For ye have Power to touch our Senses so `` Now shall your Silver Chime `` Move in Melodious time And the deep Base of Heav'ns great Orb shall Blow From the bright Zenith high Of the clâ—…ar boundless Empyrean Skie From the All-radiant Throne of God Down to Earths inmost central deep Abâ—…de Nothing but pure Concent and Unity All in Proportion due In Weight and Number true All Universal Love and Harmony This Globe Terrene no longer turn'd Askanee Hitch't in her Poles shall now direct advance And thro
restore us perfectly to our Angelical State Even so blessed Dove and Bride break up this in us who are waiting here upon this Ocean shore for this new Spring-Tide Oh let it open upon us wide and we will not be afraid though it shall violate us away from all visible Ties from which we do now see we must be parted and separated For we can never see thee till we do withdraw out of gross Corporality that so cloathed we may be with Jesus that Celestial Body who is our Bridal Garment of which we shall not be ashamed when God our King shall call us to view and examine who the prepared Brides are for the New Jerusalem Marriage to which we now are summoned May the 30th 1676. This Day upon some occasion ministred from the outward Astrum of this World's Principle was stirred up a secret embroil that for some space of Time I was held out so as I could find no entrance for my Spirit among the Seraphick Quire where my Attendance was required Morning by Morning to hear and learn for my further Instruction in the Eternal Magia Which I felt as a deep bundle of Life-Treasury beginning to open But such a wise subtle pure swift Breath or Mist it is that it shuts up and does withdraw so soon as any thing of a Mortal Sense upon it doth fly It is such a high glance of Magisterium that it will refine out of all gross fleshly kinds whatever No parley with External matter this unknown Power will endure as my dear Inspirator hath anew shewed unto me and hath given me caution not to prevent its Descending by mingling the Will-Spirit who is chosen for its Mare with any low inferiour sense of things which may grate upon it Whoever comes to be highly Learned in this Philosophical Art must be trained up from their Spiritual Birth Infancy and hereupon wait continually for to know For the Divine Spell is a Mystical Thing and of that principal weight as the whole Mind Will and Heart must hereunto be engaged and all is little enough to turn this Cherubim Wheel of the Magia still about For which you must after the manner of a Spiritual grown Body labour hard till ye have the Mystery of this Art fully attained It is beyond all things that ever yet was named Therefore strive hard for it but ye who are yet but young in this Art may be ignorant what kind of Stock you are to work upon know then to thee this Mystical thing I will reveal that thou mayest not the Nature hereof Mistake It is an Immaterial Nothing and yet giveth Being and Existency to All things moving and piercing through the whole Body of the Creation yet not discerned generating all things anew through a Virtual Life quickening Breath this comes in and goeth forth without Sound and Noise It is communicable only to such as have covenanted and firmly bound themselves to be made by it Wise Subtle Pure Spiritual Discerning also in all Sublimities whereby proof may be given what Magical Coals of Fire are kindled that ye may scatter and make to fly as directed by Wisdom's Eye Of this ye may know yet more deeply as ye from this Holy Root still weed out all light and scruffy matter May the 31st 1676. In the Night I was as on a suddain surprized with a round Ball of Light that fixed it self upon a Post or Pillar which seemed to be on each side of me and where-ever I went they moved with me very lustrious and shining as a Star in a Cloudy Night I could go no where but they circled about me the Light was terrible but not hurtful yet pleasant to the single Eye that was opened This in way of Vision was given to espy and immediately after this Transient Sight passed away and that Scripture opened upon me Isa. 40. in these words The Lord shall be to thee an Everlasting Light which shall drown and swallow up all fore going Day-breaks which have had their several Sun-risings in thee by degrees which are true and good in their Day But behold here is yet a Prophecy to be fulfilled which shall be as the Light of Seven Days put together What or who shall be able to live and walk in such a Firmament of Light where there will be no Intervenings of any shade of Night Know then there is such a holy conceived high-born Being which yet is clouded under inferiour Lights and subjected to them for some Season till it hath accomplished the first working Properties of the Seven Days Creation Wherein Day and Night must by their Proper Sun and Moon be governed and all transacted according to the motion of the Planets the Out Birth being under their controll in the divided state betwixt the Day and the Night sometimes it is light and sometimes dark one hour is Spiritual and Heavenly the next Carnal and Earthly But to this God in the Lamb who is that one Everlasting Day is now coming to put an end as to the first Creation-Light in such who have ceased from those Works that have been wrought by the Sun and Moon-Light of the fallen gloomy Day which hath overspread the whole Creation Out from which ye are assured to come and to sit down under the bright-shine of this uneclisped Body of the new Creation-Light Hereto coming once to fix your former Sun and Moon will blush and for very shame-pull in their Heads and all their twinkling Stars will forth with withdraw as ye shall surely see when you will find your selves in another Orb for enclosed ye shall be with the Seven Lamp Spirits before and behind which are the Light of the seven days New Creation out of Sion to hold parallel with the Seven Days Creation in Paradise Which abolished must be and whose Sun must set at the rising of this sevenfold Sion Glory which to the Lamb's Birth will anew open and upon it rest For which great thing ply your God and Father hard that so ye may in this bright Cloud of Glory be carried up out of sight from all Terrestrial Lights By which ye â—…ould by no means come to behold Eterâ—…al Objects But in this Light of the â—…verlasting Bride ye can see into every Mountain of the New Jerusalem as your own native Country from which driven and scattered into this mixed state between Day and Night while standing thus indeed ye could never find Mount Sion's Path. For Paradise is to this but as a glimmering Glow-Worm not a City that had Foundations was ever erected there which plainly declares the Most High had not his fixed Residence there For out of Sion the whole Majesty of the Trinity will shine by which Light ye can only see your way for Return unto your lost home Ohâ—… the excessive Joy which Paradisical Inhabitants will know who can the conquering Gulph get through and comâ—… into this Jasper-like City where sighâ—… and fruition of God the Bride and thâ—… Lamb produceth most unutterable
Food for this Holy Fire to Feed upon then all Offerings passing through this Fire are made acceptable because of the Perfume and Confectionary Art of the Most High and True Chymist that maketh this Eternal Composition giving it into thy Hand to maintain the Celestial Fire with Out from which expect the Cloven Tongue must issue forth for it is the Spicy Flame which inspireth with the Holy Ghost nothing goeth beyond or is like to this Oyl of Composition for it contains all the Soveraign Vertue of the Holy Godhead it is of the highest most subtil Tincturing Property that it can pass and penetrate through all things the Extraction being from the Arabian Spices of all sorts mingled with the Spirit of Gold which makes it of a wonderful sublime and vertual Power With this Oil the Tabernacle with all that doth appertain to it must be herewith anointed as the Testimony Altar and Ark. As in the Type so in the Anti-type look thou for it it being of that infinite value that a greater Gift cannot be given and as I have directed and given Wisdom to model out the Sanctuary and Ark of my Presence so likewise Skill and Understanding iâ—… this high and most wonderful secret to make thee a Confectioner which iâ—… the highest Art attainable whereby thou wilt become a Physician to thyâ—… self and others But this requires great Heedfulness Purity and Watchfulness with Love and Faithfulness to enter upon it with all Earnestness making it thy absolute Profession and Calling not regarding nor minding any one thing else but keeping close within the Rounds of my Sanctuary where the Basket of Blessing and Store is for thee to live upon Oh that there were such a Heart in thee as would believe rest and trust herein and not look out besides me then shouldst thou know the length and strength of Jehova's Arm what it should work act and do in defiance to all Reason's false Prophets which would not have thee break off from that rusty Canker-eating Chain which hath linked the whole Earthly Inhabitants together living upon one common Store not being able to trust to me beyond what their Eye of Sense doth see which is no less than a fine spun piece of Idolatry even among the Reformed Party My All-piercing Eye this doth see doth hereof still give Warning to thee and him that solemnly with thee in an Holy Convocation and Priestly Seperation hath engaged that in keeping of my Charge ye may my anointed Cherubs be on which my Tabernacle may rest in its All-flaming Glory and make your way up to Sion and the Free Jerusalem the City and Mansion-House of God your Law-giver and King All which may be witnessed from within as the diving still deeper within the Circumference of your own Heavens the pleasant Sea of Fire and Glass over to pass that ye may know the swift Sail through the forcible Power of the mighty Ark of my Strength within thee to cut off the flowing Tides of Sense with which in your Journey on ye may meet Therefore venture ye not one Step to set or one remove to make till you feel Power your Ark to raise which commandeth all whatever it be to obey For it is the Anointed of the Lord that is to go before his Way to prepare all Mountains in its way to level and to bring down and all Seas to dry up and all Worlds of Enmity to subdue O great is the Force Strength and Majesty hereof with whom it is as a Risen Body moving in its Oily Vertue It is thy impregnable Fort and Tower out from it do not thou go but as an Apprentice here Bind thy self for to abide and then in the High Spiritual Craft of the All-eternal Mystery thou shalt be taught and this unparallel'd Composition of the Physical Elixir and of the Ointment of Life how to make shalt be instructed But in the First place a Covenant of Secrecy thou art to enter into not to Reveal it to any except to thy Fellow Apprentices who called are with thee to work in the same Art Then Secondly Thou art to fulfil the Term and Time hereof in Truth and Patience unweariedly till thou comest to be as Exact and Perfect as thy Teacher is this Oil both to make and then to keep in the Alablaster-Box of perfect Nature Now I shall direct thee next how this is to be done and that by way of Similitude Know then that there is a secret hidden Garden within that Land called Beulah in which grow all Physical Plants which the River Pison doth Water It is a temperate Climate neither too Hot nor too Cold and the Sun never goeth down there For there is no Night but one perpetual Day in the borders of this Blessed and Beautiful Land And here do grow all sorts of Herbs that have such a vigorous Seed of Life in them that their Life never doth fade Here also groweth every kind of Spicy Trees which through the Exhaling Sun through the rest of the Divine Planets do produce a mighty strong Frangrancy infomuch that none into this Place can come but Seraphical Ones who are used to this pure Climate Here are hid within the Bowels of this Holy Ground the Veins of pure Gold with all Oriental Pretious Stones Behold I have now described to thee the Place out of which the Confection and Matter of this Magestery Oil or Ointment is to be made But thou wilt say This is a Sealed up Place none here can come it is a Garden so richly furnished that who is it amongst Mortals who with the Key may herewith be entrusted Although into Paradise my Spirit is admitted yet into this All lustrous Privy-Garden I could have no entrance True it is that hitherto it hath been concealed because it was not proper for thee herein to come until entred thou hadst to be Wisdom's Royal and Professed Physician withal taking the Degree of her High Philosopher to know the Nature of her Stone The Matter whereof within this Garden hath it self hid Come gird up thy Spirit put on the Sandals upon thy Feet cast over thee the pure Garment of the Cherubin-work and follow me into this Secret Place The Door-keeper here doth well know my Voice to the Call of Wisdom he will open thou shalt see Which indeed to me accordingly was made good for my Intellectual Spirit was hither presently moved and made to pass where in Reality though after a Spiritual Manner I did come with my Guide into thy unknown Plantation Where Magically I did espy Beds of Herbs and of Flowers in great order they did grow in a rarisied Beauty and their Lustre they did cast to attract mine Inward Eye Then in great and holy Awe I did to my Mistress of the Physical Art my self apply Who then said to me Take good heed and gather thou there where I shall express to thee for thou art come where the real and choice Simples do grow out of the All-Essential
you where the most pleasant Situations are for to some the Lot may fall out to possess a more rich and fruitful Soil than another shall according to the donation of Royal Favour which in all Ages advanceth to Spiritual Dignity according to the determination of Divine Will Oh it is worth seeking to be enlarged with the Borders of these Everlasting Habitations to possess the utmost Bounds hereof which is a Joseph's Blessing Who as thou mayest read in the History Joshua 17. 15. grew so strong and great that they would not be contented with one Lot though they had Beth-horan the Upper and Beth-horan the Neather which was indeed a fruitful Soil yet they pitched forward for the Mountain or Forrest-Trees which they by greatness of Power obtained above their fellow Brethren So now as thou growest strong and encreasest in People that is to multiply till thou comest to be of mighty force in Spiritual Powers to encounter with them who would keep thee out of the Land of Blessing thou must come to Enlargement to the very utmost Bounds of the Everlasting Hills and Mountains And as there are seven Nations to War against and cast out to answer to these thou mayest need the Seven Throne-Spirits which will multiply within thy Ark to an unconquerable Strength that so all Enemies will be chased and made to fly from before this sevenfold Eye Which shall be thy Guide to see every way to bring thee up to the South Land within the Borders of the high Eternity Therefore gird up for as I was with Moses so I will not fail to be with that Joshua who within thee is the Ark of the Almighty Strength that will go before thee For as the Father was with me so I will be with you in this present Warfaring state This Word mightily raised my Spirit up for it confirmed what went before as to the going on to possess what was yet behind For when we grow so nigh the Kingdom as to come to the matter of Possession then Joshuah must arise in the greatness of his Might to fight the Battels for us For the great and strong Nations will come out with great fury against us because they see they must have no share in our Lot but be totally cast out Question Now in this great and last Battel-Engagement What will be required of us in order to Conquest Answ. It was shewn me that the rising Spirit of Faith in our Jesus as an incorporating Power in us must go forth with the self same Word of Command that it did in Joshuah's time to command the Sun to stand still and the Moon to stop that the first should not go down nor withdraw its shining Strength neither the latter its meek watry Brightness For by the Light of this renewed Day where no Night can come to intervene all dark Reasonings Doubtings and Fears are expelled by the Majestick Light of Faith How easie is it I do see to wage War in the Light of this Eternal Day and then quite to overcome and get the mastery and to subdue the five Kings Which were presented to me as those five Senses Which are all armed for the Fight To maintain their Sensitive Right But so long as the Bow of Faith is in the Hand of our Jesus we need not fear for he hath said He will make bare his Arm for us therefore we need not fear any of their Weapons of Cruelty Let us now couragiously War and Work while it is Day and the â—…un of Power is thus shining upon us to give us our Possessions with and among the rest of the Conquering Worthies In the Name of Joshuah the Jesus which is with us let us move forward for Jehovah's Banner goeth flying before us till it shall bring us to Shiloh where the Lots shall be cast for us and we rest in them for ever according to the description of our Star Leader and Seer Even so Amen dear Jesus July the 27th 1676. Oh then if ye intend to be the Arkdrivers that so ye may bring it back again to its own resting Place consider how expedient it is first for you to be bathed in this Consecrated Oyl which hath been to you presented for who may it dare to touch but such as are scented with this spicy Oâ—…ntment that so all their Garments may give a good and sweet savour thereof For this Ark being retained in a clear washed Heart in what variety of Birth Powers will it go forth and what fresh Testimonies â—…o which give all heed as to the true anointed Oracle For out of these Thundrings Voices and Glances of Light from the Majesty will proceed While then I lay under the pouring down of these sweet Breathings forth from my dear and familiar Jesus sighing after the accomplishment of them as never thinking I had enough of these Love-Emanations I saw a sweet amiable Person in a solemn manner presenting himself to me saying I am he that hears thy Mournings who am included in thy Suffering and Sorrows as thy true Dove Mate sympathizing with thee but behold this state shall not always be but thou shalt arise with me into the high Dimensions of the All-circulating Kingdom of Light Then appeared after the vanishing of this Personal Humanity a bright Glance without any Form but only an overshadowing Light which left this Word with me This is that Light Strength and Majesty that riseth over all the dark mourning indigent Life Here thy state is presented twofold first as the Ark floating up and down upon the Delugâ—… not come to its resting place till the Eternal Dove-Spirit bringeth it up to the Burning Mount of God where the Flaming Glance of Light is perpetually generating so as in this great Body of Light thou with me shalt live to act according to the Energy of the Father's Will in the All-Spirit of Might Come on now if ye would of my High Calling be and therein actually employ your selves then no more stand halting looking with a double Eye as part upward and part downward Since this will never compleat your business Up ye make you my fellow-workers in mighty Deeds till you come to take to the One only thing for Diversities be great stops and hinderances to the attaining of this Practical Part. Sowers ye have been throwing here and there in various Fields with many Seeds but this hath not yet turned to that great account which I design to bring about for you if ye will abandon all other Callings sticking and Binding youâ—… selves over to me for the learning of the one high grâ—…nd Mystery Which I cannot teach you till coming to be ever with me ye behold and see after what manner I do manage those Works of Trust which concur for the full Manifestation of God's Kingdom in its lustrous Power and Glory Have not I often heard your Cry for this Kingdom to be revealed which cannot be till you come to enter into the Holy Calling of the divine