riseth up the astringent or harsh quality rubs it self with the Bitter and Hot and there the light kindleth which is the Sonne of which it is alwayes impregnated in its Body and that enlighteneth and maketh it living 39. Now that light in Lucifer was so fair bright and Beautiful that he excelled the bright form of heaven and in that light was perfect Understanding for all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits generate that same light 40. But now the seven qualifying or fountain-Spirits are the Father of the Light and may permit or suffer the Birth of the Light to be as much as they please and the light cannot exalt or raise it self higher then the qualifying or fountain-spirits will permit or give it leave 41. But when the Light is generated then it enlightneth all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits so that all seven are Understanding and do all seven give their will to the Birth of the Light 42. But now every one hath power and Might to alter its will in the Birth of the light according as there is need now if that be so then the spirit cannot triumph thus but must lay down its prancing Pomp. 43. And therefore it is that all seven spirits are in full power every one of them hath the Reines in its hand that it may hold in and check the generated spirit from triumphing any higher then is fit for it 44. But the seven spirits which are in an Angel which generate the light and understanding they are bound and united with the whole God that they should not qualifie any other way either higher or more vehemently then God himself but that there should be one and the same manner and way between them both 45. Seeing they are but a part or peece of the whole and not the whole it self for God hath therefore created them out of himself that they should qualifie operate or Act in such a manner form and way as God himself doth 46. But now the qualifying or fountain spirits in Lucifer did not so but they seeing that they sate in the highest Primacie or Rank they moved themselves so hard and strongly that the spirit which they generated was very fiery and climbed up in the fountain of the heart like a Proud Damsell or Virgin 47. If the qualifying or fountain spirits had moved qualified or acted gently and lovely as they did before they became creaturely as they were universally in God before the Creation then had they generated also a gentle lovely mild and meek Sonne in them which would have been like to the Sonne of God and then the Light in Lucifer and the Light of the Sonne of God had been One thing one qualifying operating acting and affecting one and the same lovely kissing Embracing and struggling 48. For the great Light which is the Heart of God would have played meekly mildly and lovingly with the small Light in Lucifer as with a young sonne for the little sonne in Lucifer should have been the dear little brother of the Heart of God 49. To this End God the Father hath created the Angels that as he is manifold and various in his Qualities and in his alteration or variegation is incomprehensible in his Sport or Scene of Love so the little spirits also or the little Lights of the Angels which are as the Sonne of God should play or sport very gently or lovely in the great light before the Heart of God that the Joy in the Heart of God might here be encreased and that so there might be a holy Sport Scene or play in God 50. The seven spirits of Nature in an Angel should play and rise up gently in God their Father as they had done before their creaturely Being and rejoyce in their New-born sonne which they have generated out of themselves which is the Light and Understanding of their Body 51. And that light should rise very gently or mildly in the Heart of God and rejoyce in the light of God as a child with its Mother and so there should be a Hearty loving and friendly kissing a very meek and pleasant Taste or relish 52. In this the Tone should rise up and sound with singing and ringing forth in praising and jubilating also all the qualities should rejoyce therein and every spirit should exercise or practise its Divine work or labour as God the Father Himself doth 53. For the seven spirits had this in perfect knowledge for they were united and actuated with God the Father so that they could all see feel taste smell and hear what God their Father did or wrought and made 54. But when they elevated themselves in a sharp or strong kindling then they did against Natures Right otherwise then God their Father did and this was a stirring quality or rising up against or contrary to the whole Deity 55. For they kindled the Salitter of the Body and generated a high triumphing Sonne which in the astringent quality was hard rugged or rough dark and cold in the sweet was burning bitter and fiery The Tone was a hard fiery noise The Love was a lofty Emnity against God 56. Here now stood the kindled Bride in the seventh Nature-spirit like a Proud Beast now she supposed she was beyond or above God nothing was like her now Love grew cold the Heart of God could not touch it for there was a contrary will or opposition betwixt them The Heart of God moved very meekly and lovingly and the heart of the Angel moved very darkly hard cold and fiery 57. And the heart of God should now unite and qualifie with the Heart of the Angel but that could not be for there was now hard against soft and soure against sweet and dark against light and fire against a pleasant gentle warmth and a hard knocking or rumbling against a loving melodious song Question Hearken Lucifer Where lyeth the fault now that thou art become a Devill Is God in fault as thou lyingly sayst Answer 58. O no thou thy self art faulty the qualifying or fountain Spirits in thy Body which thou thy self art have generated thee such a little sonne Thou canst not say that God hath kindled the Salitter out of which he made thee but thy qualifying or fountain spirits have done it whereas thou wert clearly before a Prince and King of God 59. Therefore when thou sayst God Created thee thus or that he hath without sufficient cause spewed thee up out of thy place then art thou a Lyar and Murtherer For the whole heavenly Hoast or Army beareth witnesse against thee that thou hast thy self erected and prepared this fierce Quality for thy self 60. If it be not so then go before the face of God and Justifie thy self But thou seest it plain enough without that and besides thou darest not look on that matter Wouldst not thou fain have a friendly kisse of the Sonne of God that thou mightst once be eased or refreshed if thou art in the Right then do but once
Geniture in vain and it will happen to thee as it did to the wise Heathens who climbed up to the very face or countenance of God but could not see it 44. The Spirit of the Soul is very much subtiler and more incomprehensible then the Body or the seven qualifying or fountain spirits which hold retain and form the Body for it goeth forth from the seven spirits As God the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne 45. The seven qualifying or fountain Spirits have their compacted or incorporated Body out of Nature that is out of the seventh Nature-spirit in the Divine power which in this Book I call the Salitter of God or the comprehensibility wherein the heavenly figures or shapes arise 46. And that is a spirit as all the rest of the seven Spirits are onely the other six are an incomprehensible Being therein for the Divine power generateth it self in the comprehensibility of the seventh Nature-spirit as it were hidden or concealed and incomprehensible to the Creatures 47. But the animated or soulish spirit generateth it self in the heart out of or from the seven qualifying or fountain spirits in that manner as the Sonne of God is generated and keepeth its seat in the heart and goeth forth from that Seat in the Divine power as the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Sonne for it is of such a subtilnesse as the Holy Spirit of God hath and uniteth qualifieth or operateth with God the Holy Ghost 48. And when the animated or soulish Spirit goeth forth out of the Body then it is one thing with the hidden Deity and is together the midst or center in the Imaging or framing of a thing in Nature as God the Holy Ghost himself is 49. An example whereof you have in this as when a Carpenter will build a curious house or Artificial piece of Architecture or any other Artist goeth about the making of some artificiall work the Hands which signifie Nature cannot be the first that begin the work but the seven Spirits are the first Workmasters about it and the animated or soulish spirit sheweth the form figure or shape of it to the seven spirits 50. And then the seven spirits Image or frame it and make it comprehensible and then the hands first begin to fall to work to make the Structure according to the Image or frame contrived For a work must be first brought to the sense before you can make it 51. For the Soul comprehendeth the highest sense it beholdeth what God its Father acteth or maketh also it Co-operateth in the heavenly Imaging or framing And therefore it maketh a description draught platform or modell for the Nature-spirits shewing how a thing should be Imaged or framed 52. And according to this delineation or prefiguration of the Soul all things in this world are made for the corrupted soul worketh or endeavoureth continually to bring forth or frame heavenly forms but cannot bring that to Effect for the materials for its work are onely the earthly corrupted Salitter even a half-dead Nature wherein it cannot Image or frame heavenly Ideas shapes or figures 53. By this you may understand what great power the spirits of the expelled Angels have had in the heavenly Nature And what manner of substance this perdition or Corruption is of How they have corrupted and spoiled Nature in heaven in their place with their horrible kindling from whence the horrible fiercenesse which is predominant in this world is existed 54. For the kindled Nature burneth still continually untill the last Judgment Day and this kindled fire fource or quality is an Eternall Emnity against God 55. But yet whether this kindled fire-spirit hath Right therein and whether God himself hath kindled it from whence the wrath-fire is existed let the Electionists or Predestinarians or those that dispute so about Election justifie it and prove it in Nature if they can if not then this fire-spirit is to be condemned also Of the Fifth kind Species form or manner of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer and his Angels 56. The fifth qualifying or fountain spirit in the Divine power is the Gracious amiable and blessed Love which is the very Glance or aspect of meeknesse and humility which is also generated in the flash of life 57. For the flash as a Crack penetrateth suddenly whereby Joy existeth and then the stock of the kindled light in the sweet water abideth standing and presseth gently after the flash through the fire even into the astringent quality and mitigateth the fire and mollifyeth softneth or suppleth the astringent quality which is also a Birth or geniture of the water 58. But when the fire tasteth the mild sweet and pliant Taste then is it mitigated and formeth it self into a meek warmth very lovingly and there riseth up a very friendly life in the fire and penetrateth the astringent Quality with this pleasing lovely gentle warmth and allayeth or stilleth the cold fire and mollifieth or suppleth the hardnesse attenuateth the thick and maketh the dark to be Light 59. But when the Bitter flash together with the astringent and fire-spirit tasteth this meeknesse there is nothing else then but a meer longing desiring and replenishing a very gentle pleasant tasting wrestling kissing and love-Birth For the severe births of all the qualifying or fountain spirits in this penetrating become very gentle pleasant humble and friendly and the very Deity rightly subsisteth therein 60. For in the first four qualifying or fountain spirits standeth the Divine Birth or Geniture therefore they must be very Earnest and strong also though they have among them too their meek mother the sweet water and in the fifth standeth the gracious amiable and blessed Love and in the sixth the Joy and in the seventh the framing Imaging or comprehensibility 61. Now Lucifer come on with thy Love how hast thou behaved thy self is thy Love also such a Well-spring or fountain as this We will now view that also and examine what manner of loving Angel thou art turned into Observe 62. If Lucifer had not elevated and kindled himself then his fountain of Love would be no other then that in God for there was no other Salitter in him then there is in God 63. But when he elevated himself intending to rule the whole Deity with his animated or soulish spirit then the stock and heart of light which is the kernel marrow or pith of love in the sweet water became a fierce and corroding crouding fire source or quality from whence in the whole body existed a very trembling burning government and Birth or Geniture 64. Now when the animated or soulish spirit was generated in this severe and astringent fire's-Birth then it pressed very furiously forth from the Body into Nature or the Salitter of God and destroyed the gracious amiable and blessed love in the Salitter for it pressed very fiercely furiously and firily as a raging Tyrant through all and supposed that it self alone was God it self alone
though we are risen with Christ in our Souls Spirits and Minds serving the Law of God in this Life with a perfect Hearâ— â—ay though sinne dwell in our flesh yet if we let it not raigne in our Mortall or imperfect Bodies so that we obey it not in the Lusts thereof then the Holy Spirit dwelleth in our minds and in our bodies which are the Temples of the Holy Ghost but if we let sin raigne then our Souls and Bodies are Denns of Theeves and Murtherers and the habitations of all Devills This for the present is my understanding which I pray may be enlightened and helped by the Father of Lights from whom is every perfect Gift to my selfe and all mankinde my brethren who have severall measures of the same Light and divers Gifts by the same Spirit of which I desire to be made partaker from themselves and shall highly rejoyce my selfe therein with them But the Ground to the understanding the things here mentioned and of all things contained in the Scriptures is exactly described in this Authors writings For they discover both where the Things themselves are to be found in which are hidden all Divine and Naturall Mysteries and likewise shew as with the finger how those secret things have proceeded to their Being and manifestation from the infinite Incomprehensibility wherein Nothing can be perceived and yet All things have proceeded from thence and how they have come to be as they Are to the discerning what the Effable Manifested Revealed God is and all Creatures whatsoever and amongst the rest what we our selves are and how we may attain the true only and eternal happiness and blessednesse of Life everlasting with and in God And can there be anything more usefull beneficiall necessary and worthy then this Also further by his writings we may come to understand how Christ is the Saviour of All Men and yet all will not attaine salvation Though it be confessed and must be granted that Eternal Salvation is attained by some Infants also by some innocent ignorant Persons of yeares that have been born of Hethenish Jewish and Christian Parents being such as have served God according to the Law of their fore-fathers with an upright Conscience as Paul who was a Jew and so the Eunuch Servant to Candace Queen of Aethiopia a stranger and Cornelius the Centurion and all others fearing God and working Righteousnesse in every Nation are accepted of him though they know nothing of the Great and Common Salvation that hath appeared to all Men as the Apostles knew it For if any be cleansed from his Sinnes it is done by the blood of JESUS CHRIST which clenseth us from all Sinne and this is effected in us and for us when we knew not and though we know not of it nor how it is done in the least to satisfie a Soul that it may undoubtedly be convinced thereof And indeed had not the Holy Scripture mentioned this thing concerning the Blood of Christ it had not been possible for any Man but such as the Prophets and Apostles were to have procured any that are now called Christians to Believe and Confesse it Neither can any understand this though he reade of it in the Scriptures but by the Holy Spirit within himselfe which proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne in the Soul of every one and by the word in the Heart the word of Faith which is God and Christ even that true Divine Light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world The same also may be said concerning all those that have been are or shall be saved though they attain not the understanding of the mysteryes of Salvation in this Life as those 〈◊〉 who wrote the Holy Scriptures neither can any understand them as they did but by the Same Gifts of the Holy Spirit in the Soul Therefore let none boast that he is not born among those that are called Heathens but among those that were outwardly called Jewes of old or Christians now or of the Church of Rome or Protestants or of the Reformed Religionâ—â— Presbyterians Independents Separatists Seekers or Perfectists though every one of these have outwardly a high Prerogative and Excellency above the Heathen yet the lives and fruits of these not exceeding their's they will â—â—se up in Judgment against these but let every Soule in Love rejoyce with all other Soules in this that God is our Father in whom wee live and move and have our Beings ruling in our Soules ' and manifesting his infinite Grace and Mercy and bringing all things to passe according to his unconceivable Wisdome and Goodnesse and according to the purpose of his good will towards Men which 〈◊〉 his Eternall Gospell To those that hearken and yeeld to his will and Word of Life alwaies calling in the Soul of every one or else none could be condemned for neglecting and contemning it as they shall be also provoking the Soul to forsake that which it perceiveth to be evill and embrace and Co-work with that which it perceiveth to be good Holy and divine within it selfe therefore also let every Soul groape after God in its Heart that it may feele and know him whom to know is Life Eternall and feele the Hope of enjoying the inestimable good things that are laid up for them that Love God though few here know anything thereof and yet he will certainly give them unto us at that Day which himselfe hath appointed which will also assuredly come though no man knoweth when nor what that day will be or bring forth but he to whom God doth reveale it Aud indeed such Person 's Writings whose unsterstandings have been filled with Spirituall Divine Wisdome are to be prized above all others And though it be an exceeding happinesse and joy to us that God hath bestowed so large understanding to those that have written the Scriptures and therefore we ought diligently and frequently to read and deeply consider them yet in most of the Mysteries thereof it remaineth very dark to us we having so little knowledge of the things it speaketh of therefore how highly in exceeding Love to the Scriptures should we value and esteeme the writings of this Author Jacob Behme which disclose the very things which are but briefly hinted therein and so fundamentally as to satisfie all the objections of Reason that can be made and which do also direct us plainly in the way to find the infallible Conductor the Holy Spirit which will open our understandings to discerne those hidden Mysteries mentioned in the Scriptures so long agoe that we through patience and comfort of them might have Hope And yet but darkly of purpose that some things should be kept secret from the beginning of the world and not revealed till the due time and season in every Age and some not till this last age which is appointed for the manifesting of all mysteries And because this Author could not so deepely and fundamentally disclose these mysteries but in
blessed friendly and Mercifull Love of God The Divine Mystery Page 159 What remains hidden since the Beginning of the world Page 161 The Wrath the Original of Hell-fire Page 164 Chapter X. Of the Sixth Qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power The Sound Page 176 What in Men shall arise in Heavenly Joy or in Hellish Torment The Salitter Page 184 How a Man may Quench the kindled Wrath of God in this Life in himself Page 190 How neer God and the whole Trinity is to us Page 195 196 Chapter XI Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power The Divine SALITTER Page 200 The Holy Gate What the Father the Sonne and the Holy Spirit is Whom We Christians worship Page 206 207 What the Law of Nature is Page 208 Why He only that sinneth shall be punished Page 209 The Prerogative of Christians Page 210 Of the Word SALITTER Page 218 How the Imaging in Nature is Page 220 How our Life is a perpetual warfare with the Devil Page 224. Chapter XII Of the Birth or descent of the Holy Angels as also of their Government Order and heavenly joyous Life Page 230 What the Angels do when they sing not What do they Talk of Who they are like Page 238 239 What Heaven it self is Page 244 What the Angels walk upon Page 254 Of MICHAEL Page 256. Of LUCIFER Page 259 Of Lucifer's Creation Page 260. Of URIEL Page 261 The Beauty of Heavenly Forms Likened to Pretious Stones Page 263 Why Baptisme Instituted in the water Page 265 How the Wisdom of God is Incomprehensible Page 266 Chapter XIII Of the Horrible Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer Page 268 What the fountain of the First Sin of the Angels is Page 269 Where the fault lyeth that Lucifer is become a Devill Page 280 The Eternal Geniture of the Deity Page 290 The Beginning of Sinne. Page 293 Chapter XIV How Lucifer who was the Beautifullest Angell in Heaven is become the most horrible Devil Page 302 The cause that God Created Angels Page 305 Of the Eternal Enmity Page 316 Seven sources of Sinne and the Eighth the house of Death Page 318 Of the first source Page 320 What the Eternal Sport of God was before the Time of the Creation of the Angels Page 322 Of the second source of Sinne 's beginning Page 327 How God possesseth all and yet no Creature is He. Page 334 Chapter XV. Of the Third Species or spirit of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer Page 336 What Lucifer knew before his Fall Page 339 When the End of this Time will be Also of the Fourth Species of Sins beginning Page 342 Of the Sting of Death Page 345 What the Comprehensibility is Page 346 Of the Fifth manner of Sin 's beginning Page 348 Of the Sixth Form of Sin 's beginning Page 352 Of the Old Serpent Page 354 Chapter XVI Of the Seventh Kind of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer and his Angels Page 357 Of Sorcerers and Witches Page 358 Wherein Naturality consisteth Page 359 Of the mourning house of Death Page 364 That God willeth not Evil nor can do Page 365 Of Pride Covetousnesse Envy and Wrath. Page 378 to 380. The final Condemnation Also of the last Fight and Expulsion of Lucifer and all his Angels Page 381 What will be called the Burning Hell Page 385 Chapter XVII Of the miserable state and Condition of the Corrupt perished Nature and Original of the four Elements instead of the holy Dominion of God Page 386 What is called the Wrath of God Page 387 How a Comprehensible is come out of an Incomprehensible Page 389 How the Devil still presents the Swine-Apples of Paradise before the Soul Page 393 Chapter XVIII Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth And of the first Day Page 394 Why Man in this World so loveth Gold Silver and Pretious Stones Page 398 How shall I understand My self according to the Threefold Geniture in Nature Page 399 An Exposition of the first Verse of the first Cha. of Genesis according to the Language of Nature Page 405 Into what the Soul Goeth when we Dye Page 411 Of the Creation of the Light in this world Page 413 Whence fightings among all Creatures have their Original Page 418 What Light was before the Sun and Stars Page 423 Chapter XIX Concerning the Created Heaven And of the Form of the Earth and of the Water is also concerning Light and Darknesse Page 424 From what Light this Authour hath his Knowledg Page 428 How it was that Jesus Christ could take the Devil Death and Hell captive Also in what Heaven he sitteth at the Right hand of God Page 433 Where shall the wrath of God become at the End Page 435 Concerning the Form of the Earth Page 438 Why the Earth is so Hilly Rocky Stony and Uneaven Page 441 Of Day and Night Page 443 Of Morning and Evening Page 446 Chapter XX. Of the Second Day How God separated the Waters beneath the Firmament from the Waters above the Firmament Page 456 We should strive against the Malice and Wickedness that is in our Hearts Page 460 What the Moon or Luna is Page 465 How the Heavens are not pure in Gods sight Page 466 In what Heaven the Man that feareth God dwelleth Page 470 How Christ could go through the Doors being shut Joh. 20. 19. Page 474 Chapter XXI Of the Third Day Page 479 The Diurnal Motion of the Earth Page 479 Man is made out of the Seed of the Earth Page 485 How Man's hope standeth in God Page 488 How Sins are the Cause that the Deity is hidden from us Page 494 Of the Seven Spirits of God and of their Operation in the Earth Page 496 Why the Astral Birth of the Earth did begin a Day sooner then the Astral Birth in the Deep above the Earth Page 506 Whence Mercy Existed Page 509 Chapter XXII Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars and Creation of the Fourth Day Also the Reason of the Title Dawning or Morning-Rednesse Page 510 511 Why the Spirit of Nature it self will open the Door Page 515 What the Stars are Page 517 Sixteen Questions asked the Doctors Page 519 How this work is the Holy Ghost's Dear Revelation Page 523 Of the Earth Page 529 Of the Vegetations of the Earth Page 530 Of the Mettals in the Earth Page 531 Chapter XXIII Of the Deep above the Earth Page 538 Of the Astral Birth or Geniture and of the Birth or Geniture of God Page 541 The Severe Geniture of the Wrath of God cannot be accensible nor Elevable in God Page 542 What is called the Animated or Soulish Birth Page 548 Of the Beeing of the Deity and of the Three Persons Also whence the Living and Rationall Spirit existeth Page 551 What is the Water of Life Page 553 The Gate of the Holy Trinity Page 555 Of the Kindled Nature Page 565 Chapter XXIV Of the Incorporating or Compacting the Stars Page 565 Out of what the Stars are come to be Page 568
for me to do II. Then Secondly he will say that I boast of the Holy Spirit I had more need to live accordingly and make demonstration of it by wondrous Works or Miracles III. Thirdly he will say that I am not learned enough IIII. Fourthly he will say that I do it in a vain-glorious way V. Fifthly he will be much offended at the simplicity of the Author as it is usual in the world to gaze onely upon high things and simplenesse is a scandal and offence unto it 9. To these partial worldly Criticks I set in opposition the Patriarchs of the first world which were mean despised Men against whom the world and the Devil raged as in the time of Henoch when the holy Fathers preached powerfully of the name of the Lord they did not ascend with their Bodies into Heaven and yet beheld all with their Eyes Only the Holy Ghost revealed himself in their Spirits 10. Afterward it is seen in the next world among the holy Patriarchs and Prophets all which were mean simple Men and some of them were Herds-men 11. Also when the MESSIAS CHRIST the Champion in the Battle in Nature assumed the humanity though hee was the King and Prince of Men yet he kept himselfe in this world in a low estate and condition and was a Stranger to the world And all his Apostles were poor despised Fisher-men 12. Nay Christ himselfe returneth thanks to his heavenly Father that he hath concealed it from the worldly wise men and revealed the same to Babes Math. 11. 13. Besides it is seen how they also were poor Sinners having both the impulses of good and of bad in Nature And yet they reproved and preached against the Sinnes of the world yea against their own Sins which they did by the impulse of the holy Spirit and not in vain glory 14. Neither had they any Ability from their own strength and power to teach of Gods Mysteries in that kind but all was by the impulse of God 15. So I can say nothing of my self neither nor boast or write of any thing save this that I am a simple man and besides a poore sinner and have need to pray daily Lord forgive us our sins and say with the Apostle O Lord thou hast redeemed us with thy Blood 16. Neither did I ascend into heaven and behold all the works and creatures of God but the same heaven is revealed in my spirit so that I know in the spirit the works and creatures of God 17. And besides the will to that is not my natural will but it is the impulse of the Spirit and I have endured many an assault of the Devil for it 18. But the spirit of man is descended not only from the Starrs and Elements but there is hid therein a spark of the light and power of God 19. It is not an empty Word which is set down in Genesis the 1. ch v. 27. God created man in his own Image in the Image of God created hee him First it hath this sence and meaning viz. that he is created out of the whole Being of the Deitie 20. The Body is from the Elements therefore it must have Elemental food 21. The Soule hath its Original not only from the Body though it be in the Body and hath irs first beginning in the Body yet it hath its source also from without in it by and from the Ayr and so the Holy Ghost ruleth in it in that maner as he replenisheth and filleth all things and as all things are in God and so God himself is all 22. Seeing then the Holy Spirit in the Soule is creaturely viz. the proprietie or Portion of the Soul therefore it searcheth even into the Deitie and also into Nature for it hath its Source and descent from the Being of the whole Deitie 23. When it is kindled or enlightened by the Holy Ghost then it beholdeth what God its Father doth as a son beholdeth what his Father doth at home in his house 24. It is a Member or child in the house of the heavenly Father 25. And as the Eye of man seeth even unto the Stars from whence it hath a finite original and begining So the soul also seeth even into the Divine Being wherein it liveth 26. But the Soul having its source also out of Nature and that in Nature there is good and bad also in that man hath cast himself through Sin into the fiercenesse or wrath of Nature so that the soul is daily and hourly defiled with Sins therefore it knoweth but in part 27. For the wrath or fiercenesse in Nature raigneth now also in the soul. But the Holy Ghost doth not go into the wrath or fiercenesse but raigneth in the source of the soul which is in the light of God and fighteth against the wrath or fiercenesse in the Soul 28. And therefore the soul cannot attain unto any perfect knowledge in this life till at the end when light and darknesse are separated and wrath or fiercenesse is with the Body consumed in the Earth and then the soul seeth clearly and perfectly in God its Father 29. But when the soul is kindled or enlightened by the Holy Ghost then it triumpheth in the Body like a huge fire which maketh the heart and reins tremble for Joy 30. But there is not presently a great and deep knowledge in God its Father but its love towards God its Father triumpheth thus in the fire of the Holy Spirit 31. But the knowledge of God is sowen in the fire of the Holy Ghost and at first is as small as a Grain of Mustard seed as Christ makes the comparison Matth. 13. afterward it groweth large like a tree and spreadeth it self abroad in God its Creator 32. Just as a Drop of water in the Ocean cannot avail much but if a great River runneth into it that maketh a greater commotion 33. But the time past present and to come as also depth and heighth near and afar off is all one in God one comprehensibility 34. And the holy Soul of man seeth the same also But in this world in part only it happeneth some times that it seeth nothing at all for the Devil doth assault it furiously in the fierce wrathful source which is in the soul and oftentimes covereth the noble Mustard seed and therefore Man must alwayes be in fight and war 35. In this manner and in this knowledge of the Spirit I will write in this book concerning God our Father in whom are all things and who himself is all And will handle how all is become distinct and creaturely and how all driveth and moveth in the whole tree of life 36. Here you shall see the 1º true ground of the Deity 2º how all was One Being before the Time of the world 3º how the holy Angels were created also and out of what 4º Also how the terrible Fall of Lucifer together with his Legions hapned 5º How Heaven Earth Stars and the Elements were made
thing is desirous one of the other to copulate and encrease decrease grow fair perish love and hate 6. In every Creature in this World is a Good and Evil will and source in Men Beasts Fowles Fishes Wormes and in all that which is upon the earth in Gold Silver Copper Tinn Iron Steel Wood Herbs Leaves and Grasse As also in the earth in stones in the water and all whatsoever can be thought upon 7. There is nothing in Nature wherein there is not Good and Evil every thing moveth and liveth in this double impulse working or operation be it what it will 8. But the holy Angels and the fierce Wrathful Devils are here to be excepted for these are severed apart Each of these liveth qualifieth and ruleth in his own peculiar quality 9. The holy Angels live and qualifie in the light in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost raigneth But the Devils live and raign in the fierce wrathful quality in the Quality of fiercenesse and wrath destruction or perdition 10. Yet both of these the good and the evil Angels were made out of the qualities of Nature from whence all things existed only they differ in their qualifying or Condition 11. The Holy Angels live in the power of meeknesse of the Light and joyfulnesse and the Devils live in the power of the rising or elevating quality of fiercenesse terrour and Darknesse and cannot comprehend the light into which condition they precipitated and cast themselves through their pride and elevating of themselves as I shall shew afterward when I shall write of the Creation 12. But if thou wilt not believe that in this world all descendeth or cometh from the Stars I will demonstrate it to thee if thou art not a Sot or Stock but hast some little Reason and understanding left therefore take notice of that which followeth 13. First behold the Sun It is the Heart or King of all Stars and giveth light to all stars from the East to the West it enlightneth and warmeth all all liveth and groweth by its power besides the joy of all creatures standeth in its power 14. If that should be taken away or Extinct then all would be dark and cold neither would there grow any fruit and neither man nor beast could propagate and increase because their heat would be extinguisht and their Seed would be cold and chilled Of the Quality of the Sun 15. If thou wilt be a Philosopher and Naturalist and search into Gods Being in Nature and discern how all is come to passe then pray to God for the holy Spirit to enlighten thee with the same 16. For in thy Flesh and Blood thou art not able to apprehend it and though thou dost read it yet it is but as a Fume or Mist before thine Eyes 17. In the Holy Ghost alone who is in God and also in the whole Nature out of which all things were made in him alone thou canst search into the whole Body or Corporeity of God which is Nature as also into the holy Trinity it self 18. For the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the holy Trinity and reigneth and ruleth in the whole Body or Corpus of God that is in the whole Nature 19. Even as the spirit of Man ruleth and reigneth in the whole body in all the Veins and replenisheth the whole Man even so the Holy Ghost replenisheth the whole Nature and is the Heart of Nature and raigneth in the good Qualities of every thing 20. Now if thou hast that spirit in thee so that it enlightneth filleth and replenisheth thy spirit then thou wilt understand what followeth in this writing 21. But if not then it will be with thee as it was with the wise Heathens who gazed and stared on the Creation and would search and sift it out by their own Reason and though with their fictions and conceits they came before Gods countenance or Face yet they were not able to see it but were stark blind in the knowledge of God 22. And as the children of Israel in the Desart could not behold Moses his countenance and therefore he must put a Vail before his face when he drew near to the people 23. The cause of it was they neither understood nor knew the true God and his Will who notwithstanding walked among them and therefore that Vail was a sign and type of their blindnesse and mis-understanding 24. As little as a peece of work can apprehend him that made it so little also can Man apprehend and know God his creator unlesse the Holy Ghost enlighten him which hapneth only to those that rely not upon themselves but set their hope will and desires only upon God and move in the Holy Ghost and these are one Spirit with God 25. Now if we consider rightly of the Sun and Starrs with their Corpus or Body operations and Qualities then the very divine Being may be found therein and that the vertues of the stars are Nature it self 26. If the whole Wheel Circumference or Sphear of the stars be well considered then it is soon found that the same is the mother of all things or the Nature out of which all things are come and wherein all things stand and live and whereby every thing moveth all things are made of these powers and therein they abide eternally 27. And though indeed they shall be changed at the end of this Time when good and evil shall be separated And so in like manner Angels and men in the power of Nature out of which they had gotten their first beginning shall subsist in God eternally 28. But here thou must elevate thy minde in the Spirit and consider how the whole Nature with all the powers which are in Nature also the widenesse depth and height also heaven and earth and all whatsoever is therein and all that is above the heavens is together the Body or Corporeity of God and the powers of the Starres are the fountain Veins in the naturall body of God in this world 29. Thou must not conceive that in the Body of the Stars is the tryumphing Holy Trinity God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost in which there is no evil but is the Light-holy eternal fountain of joy which is undividable and unchangeable which no creature can sufficiently apprehend or expresse which dweleth and is above the Body of the Stars in it self whose depth no creature is able to measure or fathom 30. But we must not so conceive as if God were not at all in the Corpus or Body of the Starrs and in this world for when we say ALL or from Eternity to Eternity or All in All then we understand the Entire GOD. 31. Take Man for a Similitude or Example who is made after the Image or Similitude of God as it is written in Moses Gen. 1. 27. 32. The Inward or hollownesse in the Body of Man is and signifieth the Deep betwixt the Stars and the Earth 33. The whole Body with all its parts signifieth Heaven and
good and Evil in Nature and so seeing every thing cometh from God needs must then the Evil also come from God Answer 65. Behold there is a Gall in mans Body which is poison and he cannot live without this Gall for the Gall maketh the Astral spirits moveable joyous triumphing or laughing for it is the source of joy 66. But if it be inflamed or kindled in one of the Elements then it spoileth the whole Man for the wrath in the Astral spirits cometh from the Gall. 67. That is when the Gall overfloweth and runneth to the Heart then it kindleth the Element of fire and the fire kindleth the Astral spirits which raign in the Blood in the veins and in the Element of Water and then the whole Body trembleth by reason of the wrath and the poyson of the Gall. 68. And such a source hath Joy and from the same substance as also the wrath That is when the Gall in the Loving or Sweet quality is inflamed in that which man is in love withall then the whole body trembleth for joy in which many times the Astrall spirits are affected also when the Gall is overflown and is kindled in the Sweet quality 69. But it hath no such Substance in God for he hath not flesh and blood but he is a Spirit in whom all powers are as we pray in the Lords Prayer Thine is the power John 4. 24. Matth. 6. 70. And as it is written of him in Isaiah 9. He is Wonderful Counsel Power Champion Eternal Father Prince of Peace 71. The Bitter quality is in God also but not in that manner as the Gall is in Man but it is an everlasting power in an elevating triumphing spring or source of Joy 72. And though it be written in Moses I am an angry zealous God Exod. 20. Deut. 4. 24. yet the meaning of it is not that God is angry in himself and that there ariseth a fire of anger in the Holy Trinity 73. No that cannot be for it is written against those that hate me in that same Creature the fire of anger riseth up 74. But if God should be angry in Himself then the whole Nature would be on fire which will come once to passe On the Last Day in Nature and Not in God but in God the triumphing Joy will burn it was never otherwise from eternity nor will it Ever be otherwise 75. But now the elevating springing triumphing joy in God maketh Heaven triumphing and moveable and Heaven maketh the Stars and Elements moveable and the Stars and the Elements make the Creatures moveable 76. Out of the Powers of God are the Heavens proceeded out of the Heaven are the Stars out of the Stars are the Elements out of the Elements are the Earth and the Creatures come to be 77. Thus all had its beginning even to the Angels and Devils which before the Creation of Heaven Stars and the Earth were proceeded out of the same power out of which the Heaven the Stars and the Earth were proceeded 78. This is a short Entrance or Introduction shewing how the Divine and Natural Being is to be considered Henceforth I will describe the true Ground and Depth concerning What God is and how all things are framed in Gods Being 79. Which indeed hath been partly concealed from the beginning of the World to this time and Man with his Reason could not comprehend it 80. But seeing God is pleased to reveal Himself in Simplicity in this last Time I shall give way to his Impulse and Will I am but a very little Spark of Light AMEN The Third Chapter Of the most blessed Triumphing Holy Holy Holy Trinity GOD the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost ONE onely God 1. COurtâ—ous Reader here I would have you faithfully admonished to let go your Opinion and Conceit and not to Gaze after the Heathenish wisdome nor be offended at the simplicity of the Authour for this work comes not from his Reason but from the impulse of the Spirit 2. Onely be thou careful to get into thy spirit the Holy Ghost which issueth forth from God and He will lead thee into all truth and reveal Himself unto thee 3. And then thou wilt see well enough in his Light and Power even into the holy Trinity and understand those things which are written hereafter following Of GOD the FATHER 4. When Our Saviour JESUS CHRIST taught his Disciples to pray he said When ye pray say thus Our Father which art in Heaven Matth. 6. 5. The meaning is not as if Heaven could comprehend encompasse or contain God the Father for itself is made by the Divine power for Christ saith My Father is greater then all Joh. 10. 29. 6. And God saith in the Prophet Heaven is my Throne and the Earth is my footstool Esa. 66. What house would you build for me I compasse the Heaven with a Span and the Earth with three Fingers Esa. 40. 12. Also I will dwell in Jacob and Israel shall be my Tabernacle Psal. 135. 4. Syrac 25. 13. 7. But in that Christ calls his Father a Heavenly Father his meaning is that his Fathers lustre and power appeareth and shineth very bright and pure in Heaven and that above the circle or incloure which we behold with our Eyes and which we call Heaven doth appear the totally Triumphing Holy Trinity The Father Sonne and Holy Ghost 8. Christ also thereby distinguisheth his Heavenly Father from the Father of Nature which is indeed the Stars and the Elements these are our Natural Father out of which we are made and by whose impulse we live here in this world and from whence we have our food and nourishment 9. But God is therefore Our Heavenly Father in that our Soul continually longeth after him and is desirous of him yea it thirsteth and hungreth continually after him 10. The Body hungreth and thirsteth after the Father of Nature which is viz. the Stars and the Elements and that Father also feedeth and nourisheth the Body 11. But the Soul thirsteth after the heavenly Holy Father and he also giveth meat and drink to it feeding it with his holy Spirit and the spring source or fountain of joy 12. Yet we have not two Fathers but only One for Heaven is made by his Power and the Stars out of his Wisdome which is in him and proceedeth forth from him Of the Substance and Property of the Father 13. When we consider the whole Nature and its property then we see the Father 14. When we behold Heaven and the Stars then we behold his eternal Power and Wisdom so many Stars as stand in the whole Heaven which are innumerable and incomprehensible to Reason and some of them are not visible so manifold and various is the Power and Wisdome of God the Father 15. But Every Star in Heaven Differeth in its power and Quality which also maketh so many Distinctions in and among the Creatures upon the Earth and in the whole Creation 16. But all the Powers which
Time of this World 46. Now Observe The Sun stirreth in the midst in the Deep between the Stars in a round circle and is the heart of the Stars and giveth Light and power to all the stars so tempering the power of the starres that all becometh pleasant and joyfull 47. It enlighteneth also the Heaven the Stars and the Deep above the Earth working in all things that are in this world and so rightly signifieth the Sonne of God 48. For as the Sun standeth in the midst betwixt the Stars and the Earth enlightening all powers and is the Light and Heart of all the powers and is all the Joy in this world besides all beauty and pleasantnesse standeth in the light and power of the Sun 49. Even so the Sonne of God in the Father is the Heart in the Father and shineth in all the powers of the Father his power is the moving springing joy in all the powers of the Father and shineth in the whole Father as the Sun doth in the whole world 50. If the Earth should be taken away which signifieth the House of Misery Trouble or of Hell then the whole Deep would be Light in one place as well as in another as indeed the whole Deep in the Father is as light in one place as in another from the Lustre of the Sonne of God 51. And as the Sun is a Self-subsisting creature power and Light which shineth not forth from or out of all creatures but in and into all creatures and all creatures rejoyce in its power 52. So the Sonne in the Father is a self-â—ubsisting person and enligheneth all the powers in the Father and is the Fathers joy or Heart in his Centre or the Midst of him Observe here the Great Mystery of God 53. The Sun is made or Generated from all the Stars and is a Light taken from the whole Nature and shineth again into the whole Nature of this World it is united with the other Stars as if it self together with all the stars were but one starr 54. And so the Sonne of God is Continually Generated from all the powers of his Father â— from Eternity 〈◊〉 is not made but the Heart and Lustre shining forth from the powers of his Heavenly Father a self-subsisting Person the Center or Body of the Lustre in the deep 55. For the Fathers power Generateth the Sonne continually from Eternity to Eternity but if the Father should cease to Generate then the Sonne would be no more also if the Sonne should shine no more in the Father then the Father would be a dark valley also then the Fathers power would not rise from Eternity to Eternity and so the Divine Being would not Subsist 56. Thus the Father is the selfe-subsisting Being of all powers and the sonne is the heart in the Father which is Generated continually out of all the powers of the Father and who again enlightneth the powers of the Father 57. Do not conceive that the Sonne in the Father is so mix'd that his Person can neither be seen nor known No for if it were so then it were but one Person 58. For as the Sun shineth not from or out of the other stars though it had its original from the other stars so also the Sonne shineth not from or out of the powers of the Father as to his Body or Corporeity 59. And though he be generated continually out of the powers of the Father And yet he shineth back again into the powers of the Fahter for he is another Person than the Father but not another God 60. He is eternally in the Father and the Father generateth him continually from eternity to eternity and the Father and the Sonne is ONE God of an Equall Being in Power and Omnipotence 61. The Sonne seeth tasteth heareth feeleth smelleth and comprehendeth All as the Father doth in His power all liveth and is whatsoever is Good as in the Father But that which is Bad or Evill is not in Him Of GOD the Holy GHOST 62. God the Holy Ghost is the Third Person in the triumphing holy Deity and proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne 〈◊〉 the holy moving spring or fountain of Joy in the whole Father 63. He is a pleasant meek quiet Wind or whispering Breathor Still voyce out of all the powers of the Father and of the Sonne as on Mount Horeb with the Prophet Eliah 1 Kings 19. 12. And on Whitsunday or the Day of Pentecost with the Apostles Act. 2. may be perceived 64. Therefore if we will describe his Person substance and property from the true Ground it must be represented in a Similitude For the Spirit cannot be written down being no Creature but the moving flowing boyling power of God 65. Consider the Sun and Stars again the Stars being many and several inexpressible and innumerable they signifie the Father out of the stars the Sun is come to be for God hath made it out of them and it signifieth the Sonne of God 66. And from the Sun and stars proceed the four Elements Fire Ayr Water and Earth as hereafter I shall demonstrate plainly when I shall write of the Creation Now Observe 67. The three Elements Fire Ayr and Water have a threefold moving or qualification but proceed from one Body and consider the fire or heat swells and flies aloft from the Sun and stars and from the Heat the Ayr swells and flies aloft and from the Ayr comes the Water 68. And in this motion or qualification consisteth the life and spirit of all creatures and whatever can be named in this world and that signifieth the Holy Ghost 69. And as the three Elements fire ayr and water proceed from the Sun and stars and are one Body in one another and cause the living motion and the spirit of all the Creatures of this world 70. So the Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne and causeth the living motion in all the powers of the Father 71. And as the three Elements move in the Deep as a self-subsisting spirit and cause heat cold and clouds and do flow forth from the power of all the stars and as all the powers of the Sun and stars are in the three Elements as if they themselves were the Sun and Stars from whence is the life and spirit of all Creatures and doth consist therein 72. Just so the Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne and moveth in the whole Father Observe here the deep Mystery 72. All the Stars which men see and those which they do not see they all signifie the Power of God the Father and out of these stars is Generated the Sun which is the Heart of all the stars 73. Also there goeth forth from all the stars the Power which is in every star into the Deep And the Power Heat and shining of the Sun goeth likewise into the Deep 74. And in the Deep the power of all Stars together with the Heat and lustre of the Sun
are all but one thing a moving boyling hovering like a Spirit or Matter Onely it hath not Reason for it is not the Holy Spirit and thus also the fourth Element must adhere or belong to a natural spirit or it is not capable of Reason 75. And thus God the Father goeth forth in his Deep out of all his powers and Generateth the Splendor the Heart or the Sonne of God in his Center 76. Which may be likened to the round Globe of the Sun which shineth upwards downwards and on every side And so the splendor together with all the powers goeth forth from the Sonne of God in the whole Father 77. Now in the whole Deep of the Father Externally without the Sonne there is nothing but the manifold and unmeasurable or unsearchable Power of the Father 78. And the unsearchable Power and Light of the Sonne is in the Deep of the Father a living all-powerful all-knowing all-hearing all-seeing all-smelling all-tasting all-feeling Spirit wherein is all power splendor and wisdom as in the Father and the Sonne 79. And as in the four Elements there is the power and splendor of the Sun and all the stars so it is in the whole Deep of the Father and that is and is rightly called the Holy Ghost which is the third self-subsisting Person in the Deity Of the Holy TRINITY 80. Now when we speak or write of the Three Persons in the Deity you must not conceive that therefore there are three Gods each Raigning and Ruling by himself like temporal Kings on the Earth 81. No Such a Substance and Being is not in God for the Divine Being consiseth in power and not in Body or flesh 82. The Father is the whole Divine power whence all creatures have proceeded and hath been alwayes from Eternity He hath neither beginning nor end 83. The Sonne is in the Father being the Fathers Heart or Light and the Father generateth the Sonne continually from Eternity to Eternity and the Sonnes Power and Splendor shineth back again in the whole Father as the Sun doth in the whole World 84. Also the Sonne is another person then the Father but not Externally without or severed from the Father nor is he any other God then the Father is his power Splendor and Omnipotence is no lesse then the whole Father 85. The Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne and is the Third self-subsisting person in the Deity As the Elements in this World go forth from the Sun and the Stars and are the moving Spirit which is in every thing in this world 86. So the Holy Ghost is the moving Spirit in the whole Father and proceedeth or goeth forth from Eternity to Eternity continually from the Father and Sonne and replenisheth the whole Father he is nothing Lesse or Greater then the Father and Sonne His moving power is in the whole Father 87. All things in this World are according to the similitude of this Ternary Ye blind Jewes Turks and Heathens open wide the Eyes of your Mind I must shew you in your Body and in every Natural thing in Men Beasts Fowles and worms also in wood stone leaves and grasse the Likenes of the Holy Ternary in God Objection 88. Ye say there is but One Being in God and that God hath no Sonne Answer 89. Open your Eyes and consider your Selves Man is made according to the similitude and out of the power of God in his Ternary Behold thy inward man and then thou wilt see it most plainly and clearly if thou art not a fool and an irrational Beast therefore observe 60. In thy Heart in thy Veins and in thy Brain thou hast thy spirit and all the powers which move in thy heart in thy Veins and in thy Brain wherein thy Life consisteth signifieth God the Father 91. From that power Springeth up thy Light so that thou seest understandest and knowest in the same power what thou art to do for that Light glimmereth in thy whole Body and the whole Body moveth in the power and knowledge of the Light for the Body helpeth all the Members in the knowledge of the Light which signifieth God the Sonne 92. For as the Father generateth the Sonne out of his power and as the Sonne shineth back in the whole Father so in like manner the Power of thy Heart of thy Veins and of thy Brain generateth a Light which shineth in all thy powers in thy whole Body Open the Eyes of thy Mind consider it and you shall find it so 93. And Observe As from the Father and the Sonne there goeth forth the Holy Ghost and is a self-subsisting Person in the Deity and moveth in the whole Father so also out of the powers of thy heart veins and thy brain goeth forth the Power which moveth in thy whole Body and out of thy light goeth forth in the same Power Reason Understanding skill and Wisdom to govern the whole body and to distinguish all whatsoever is Externally without the Body 94. And both these are but one in the government of thy Mind viz. thy spirit which signifieth God the Holy Ghost also the Holy Ghost from God ruleth in this spirit in thee if thou art a child of Light and not of darknesse 95. For in respect of this light understanding and government is man distinguished from Beasts and is an Angel of God as I shall clearly shew when I shall write of the Creation of Man 96. Therefore observe exactly and take notice of the order of this Book and thou wilt find Whatsoeve thy Heart desireth or ever longed for 97. Thus you find in Man three fountains First the Power in thy whole Mind which signifieth God the Father Then secondly the Light in thy whole mind enlightening the whole Mind which signifieth God the Sonne Then thirdly there goeth forth out of all thy powers and out of thy light also a spirit which hath understanding 98. For all the Veins together with the Light in thee as also thy Heart and thy Brain and all whatsoever is in thee make or Constitute that spirit and that is thy Soul and it well signifieth the Holy Ghost which goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and raigneth in the whole Father for the Soul of Man raigneth in the whole Body 99. But the Body or the beastial flesh in man signifieth the dead corrupted Earth which Man through his Fall hath so framed it to himself as more shall be spoken of in its due place 100. The Soul containeth the first Principle and the Soul's spirit the second principle in Ternario sancto in the Holy Ternary and the outward spirit viz. the Astral containeth the third principle of this world 101. Thus you find also the Ternarie of the Deity in Beasts for as the Spirit of a man is and Existeth so it is also in a Beà st and therein is no difference 102. But the difference lyeth in this that Man is made by God himselfe out of the best Kernel
or Glory and Purity again Question 11. Now thou wilt ask How are the Angels then Created according to the Image of God Answer 12. First the compacted figured Body is indivisible and incorruptible and not to be felt by Mans Hands for it is constituted or composed out of the Divine power and that power is so knit and bound together that it can never be destroyed again 13. 〈◊〉 as none no not any thing can destroy the whole Deity 〈◊〉 also there is not any thing can destroy an Angel 〈◊〉 every Angel is formed figured set together or compoâ—â—â— out of all the powers of God not with flesh and blood but out of the Divine power 14. And first the Body is out of 〈◊〉 the powers of the Father and in those powers is the light of God the Sonne and now the powers of the Father and of the Sonne which are in an Angel creaturely generate an understanding spirit which riseth up in that Angel 15. First of all the powers of the Father generate a light whereby an Angel seeth into the whole Father whereby he can see the outward power and operation of God which is Externally without its own Body and thereby can see its fellow-brethren and can see and enjoy the glorious fruit of God and therein conâ—isteth its Joy 16. And that light at first came out of the Sonne of God in the powers of the Father into the Angelical Body creaturely and is the Bodies proper own which cannot be withdrawn from it by any thing unlesse it self extinguisheth it as Lucifer did 17. Now all the powers which are in the whole Angel generateth that light and as God the Father generateth his Sonne to be his Heart so the power of the Angel generateth also its Sonne and Heart in it self and that again enlightneth all powers in the whole Angel 18. After that there goeth forth out of all the powers of the Angel and also out of the Light of the Angel a fountain which springeth or boyleth in the whole Angel and that is its spirit which riseth up into all eternity for in that spirit is all knowledge and skill of all the powers which are in the total God 19. For that spirit springeth up out of all the powers of the Angel and goeth up into the Mind where it hath five open Doors there it can look round about and see whatsoever is in God and also whatsoever is in it self 20. And so goeth forth from all the powers of the Angel as also from the light of the Angel as the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and filleth the whole Corpus or Body Now Observe the Great Mystery 21. As there are Two things to be observed in God the first is the Salitter or the Divine powers out of which the Body or Corporeity is and the second is the Mercurius Tone Tune or Sound Thus also it is in like manner and form in an Angel 22. First there is the power and in the power is the Tone or Tune which riseth up in the spirit into the Head into the Mind as in man in the Brain and in the Mind it hath its open Doors or Gates but in the Heart it hath its Seat Residence and Original where it existeth out of all powers 23. For the fountain of all powers floweth in the Heart as it doth also in man and in the Head it hath its Princely seat where it seeth all smelleth all and feeleth all 24. And now when it seeth and heareth the divine Tone Tune and Sound rise up which is externally without it then is its spirit affected and kindled with joy and elevateth it self in its Princely seat and Singeth and ringeth forth very joyful words concerning Gods Holinesse and concerning the fruit and vegetation of the Eternal Life 25. Also concerning the ornament colours and Beauty of the eternal Joy and concerning the amiable blessed glance or gracious aspect and Countenance of God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost also concerning the excellent fraternity fellowship and communion of Angels concerning the continual everlasting joyfulnesse concerning the holiness of God and concerning the Angels own Princely Government 26. In brief concerning all powers and that which proceedeth from all Gods powers which in regard of the untowardnesse of my corruption in the flesh I cannot write I would much rather be there present my self 27. But what I cannot write here I will commit to thy Soul to consider further of it and at the day of the Resurrection you shall see it most plainly and clearly 28. You should not here scorn my spirit for it is not sprung forth from the wild Beast but is generated from my power and vertue and enlightened by the Holy Ghost 29. I write not here without knowledge but if thou like an Epicure and Fatted Swine of the Devill from the Devils instigation shouldst mock at these things and say 30. The Fool surely hath not gone up to heaven and seen or heard them these are meer Fables therefore in the power of my knowledge I would have you warned and Cited before the severe Judgment of God 31. And though in my body I am too weak to bring thee thither yet That from which I have my knowledge is mighty and potent enough to cast thee even into the Abysse of Hell 32. Therefore take warning and consider that thou also belongest to the Angelical Quire and read the following Hymne with longing delight and then the Holy Ghost will be awakened and stirr'd up in thee and thou also wilt get a desire and Longing after the heavenly Chorus and Quire of Dancing Amen 33. The Musician hath wound up his Pegs and tuned his Strings the Bridegroom cometh take heed thou dost not get the hellish Gout in thy feet when the Round beginneth lest thou be found uncapable or unfit for the Angelical Dance and so be thrust out from the Wedding seeing thou hast no Angelical Garment on 34. Surely the Gate will be lock'd upon thee and so thou wilt not enter in any more but wilt Dance with the Hellish Wolves in the hellish fire truly thou wilt forget then to mock and sorrow will gnaw thee Of the Qualification of an Angel Question 35. The Question now is What manner of qualification hath an Angel Answer 36. The Holy Soul of a man and the spirit of an Angel is and hath one and the same Substance and Being and there is no difference therein but onely in the quality it self or their corporeal government that which qualifieth outwardly or from without in man by the Ayr hath a corrupt earthly quality yet on the other side it hath also a Divine and heavenly quality hidden from the Creatures 37. But the holy Soul understandeth it well as the Kingly Prophet David saith The Lord rideth on the wings of the wind Psal. 104. 3. Question 38. But a simple man may ask What do you mean by the word qualifying or what is that Answer 39.
I mean thereby the power which in the Body of the Angel entereth in from without and commeth forth again As in a Similitude When a a man fetcheth breath and breatheth it forth again for therein standeth the life both of the Body and of the Spirit 40. The quality from without kindleth the spirit in the heart in the first fountain whereby all the powers in the whole Body become stirring and then that quality in the corporeal spirit which is the natural Spirit of an Angel or Man riseth up into the Head where it hath its Princely Seat or Throne and Government and there it hath its Counsellours whose advice it taketh 41. The first Counsellour is the Eyes they are affected with every thing they look upon for they are the Light 42. For as the Light goeth forth from the Sonne of God in the whole Father into all the powers and affecteth all the powers of the Father and on the other side all the powers of the Father affect the Light of the Sonne of God 43. So do the Eyes work in the thing they look upon and the thing worketh again in the Eyes and the Counsellor the Eyes bringeth it into the Head before the Princely Seat or Throne and there it is to be approved of 44. Now if the spirit is pleased therewith then it bringeth the same to the heart and the heart giveth it to the passages or Issuings forth of the powers or fountain-veins in the whole Body and then the Mouth and Hands and Feet fall to work 45. The second Counsellour is the Ears which have their rise also from all the powers in the whole body through the spirit their fountain is Mercurius or the Sound which ariseth from all the powers 46. And as in all the powers of God the Mercurius riseth and soundeth wherein the heavenly Tone Tune or Joy consisteth and the Tone or Tune goeth forth out of all the powers and so in the attraction of the Spirit in God is elevated or raised up 47. And when one power toucheth or stirreth the other and tuneth or soundeth Then the Tune or Sound goeth forth and riseth up again in all the powers of the Father and so all the powers of the Father are again affected therewith whereby they are alwayes impregnated with the Tune and continually generate it again in every power 48. Thus also the second Counsellour in the Head is the Eares they stand open and the sound goeth forth through them in all that soundeth 49. Now where the Mercurius soundeth and is elevated there the Mercurius of the spirit goeth also in and is thereby affected and bringeth it before the Princely Throne in the Head where it is to be approved by the other Four Counsellours 50. And if the Spirit is pleased therewith then it bringeth the same before its Mother into the Heart and the Heart or the fountain of the heart giveth it to all the powers in the whole Body and then the Mouth and Hands lay hold on it 51. But if the whole Princely Counsel in the head Be not pleased so that it is approved then it lets that go again and bringeth it not to the Mother the Heart 52. The third Princely Counsellour is the Nose there the fountain riseth up from the Body in the Spirit into the Nose and there it hath two open Doores or Gates 53. And as the Excellent pretious and amiable blessed savour or smell goeth forth from all the powers of the Father and of the Sonne and tempereth it self with all the powers of the Holy Ghost whence the Holy Spirit and most pretious Savour riseth up from the fountain of the Holy Ghost And floweth or boyleth in all the powers of the Father and kindleth all the powers of the Father whereby they are impregnated again with the amiable blessed savour or Saving Smell and so generate it in the Sonne and Holy Ghost 54. So also in Angels and Men the power of the smell riseth up out of all the powers of the Body by and through the Spirit and cometh forth at the Nostrils of the Nose and is affected with all Smells or savours and bringeth them through the Nostrils of the Nose which is the third counsellour into the Head before the Princely Seat or Throne 55. And there it is to be proved whether it be a good smell or savour pleasing to its Constitution and Complexion or no if it be good then it bringeth the same to its mother that it may be brought to effect if not then is it expelled and thrust away 56. And this Counsellor of the Smell which is generated out of the Salitter is also mix'd with Mercurius and so belongeth to the heavenly joyfulnesse and is a glorious Excellent and fair fountain in God 57. The fourth Princely Counsellour is the Taste on the Tongue which also ariseth from all the powers of the Body through the spirit into the Tongue for all fountain-veins of the whole Body go into the Tongue and the tongue is the sharpnesse or Taste of all the powers 58. As the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and is the sharpnesse or proof of all powers and in his moving or rising up bringeth all that which is good again into all the powers of the Father whereby the powers of the Father are impregnated again and so continually generate the Taste 59. But that which is not good the Holy Ghost speweth that out as a loathsome abomination as it is written in the Apocalypse the 3. Chap. v. 16. and as he spewed out the Great Prince Lucifer in his pride and perdition For he could no more endure to Taste the fiery proud stinking quality and thus it is also as to all Proud stinking Men. 60. O Man let this be told thee for the Spirit is earnestly Jealous in this thing especially desist from Pride or else it will be with you as it befell the Devils there is no jesting or trifling herein the Time is very short thou wilt suddenly Taste it I mean the hellish fire 61. Now as the Holy Ghost proveth all so the Tongue also proveth all Tastes and if the same pleaseth the Spirit then it bringeth the same into the head to the other four Counsellours before the Princely Seat and there it is proved whether it be profitable or wholsome for the qualities of the Body 62. If so then is it brought to the Mother the Heart which giveth it to all the veins or powers of the Body and then the Mouth and Hands lay hold on it 63. But if it be not good then the tongue spits or speweth it out before it comes to the Princely Counsel 64. But though it be pleasant to the Tongue and is of a good Taste and yet is not serviceable and useful for the whole Body then it is rejected neverthelesse when it comes before the Councell and the Tongue must spit or spew it out and touch it no more 65. The fifth Princely Counsellour is
Beginning and End 13. And in the Head is the divine Councel-Seat or Throne and it signifieth God the Father and the Five Senses or qualities are the Counsellours which have their influences out of the whole Body out of all the powers 14. Now the Five Senses alwayes sit in Councel in the Power of the whole Body and when the Councels Decree is concluded then the compacted or concreted Judge speaketh it out into its Center or midst of the Body as a WORD into the Heart for that is the fountain of all powers from which also it taketh its rise 15. Now it standeth there in the Heart as a self-subsisting Person composed out of all powers and is a Word and signifieth God the Sonne and now it goeth out from the Heart into the Mouth on to the Tongue which is the sharpnesse and that so sharpeneth it that it soundeth forth and is distinguished according to the Five Senses 16. From what Quality soever the word taketh its original in that quality it is thrust forth upon the Tongue and the power of the distinction or difference goeth forth from the Tongue and that signifieth the Holy Ghost 17. For as the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and distinguisheth and sharpneth all and effecteth or produceth that which the Father speaketh through the Word 18. So also the Tongue sharpneth articulateth and distinguisheth all that which the Five Senses in the head bring through the heart on to the Tongue and the Spirit goeth forth from the Tongue through the Mercurius or Tone in that place as it was decreed or concluded by the Councel of the five Senses and executeth it all Of the Mouth 19. The Mouth signifieth that thou art an un-allmighty Sonne of thy Father whether thou art an Angel or a Man For through the Mouth thou must draw into thee the power of thy Father if thou wilt live 20. An Angel must do so as well as a man though indeed he needs not to use the Element of Aire in that manner as a man doth yet he must attract into himself through the Mouth the Spirit from which the Ayr in this world existeth 21. For in Heaven there is no such Ayr but the qualities are very meek and joyful like a pleasant cheering Breath of wind and the Holy Ghost is among all the qualities in the Salitter 2nd Mercurius 22. And this the Angel also must make use of or else he cannot be a moveable creature for he must also eat of the heavenly fruit through the Mouth 23. Thou must not understand this in an earthly manner for an Angel hath no Guts neither Flesh nor Bones but is constituted or composed by the Divine power in the shape form and manner of a man and hath all members like Man except the Members of Generation and the Fundament or going out of the Draffe neither hath an Angel need of them 24. For Man gat his members of Generation and Fundament first in his dolefull and lamentable fall An Angel sendeth forth nothing but the Divine power which he taketh in at his Mouth wherewith he kindleth his heart and the heart kindleth all the members and that he sendeth forth from himself again at the Mouth when he speaketh and praiseth God 25. But the heavenly fruits which he eateth are not earthly and though they are in such a form and shape as the earthly are yet they are meer Divine power and have such a pleasant Lovely Taste and Smell that I cannot liken it to any thing in this world for they Taste and Smell of the Holy Trinity 26. Thou must not think that they are there only as it were a Type or shadow of things no for the Spirit sheweth plainly that in the heavenly pomp in the heavenly Salitter and Mercurius do grow Divine Trees Plants Flowers and all sorts of whatsoever is in this world but as a type and resemblance And as the Angels are so are the vegetation and fruits all from the Divine power 27. These heavenly Sprouts and Springings thou must not wholly liken to this world For there are two Qualities in this world a Good and an Evil and many things grow through the power of the Evill quality which doth not so in Heaven 28. For Heaven hath but one form or manner nothing groweth there which is not good Only Lord Lucifer hath deform'd and dress'd this world in that manner And therefore was Mother Eve ashamed when she had eaten of that which was dress'd by the Evil quality in like manner also she was ashamed of her members of Generation which she had caused by biting of this Apple 29. The Angelical and Heavenly fruit hath not such a substance indeed it is most certain and true that there are all manner of fruits in heaven and not meerly Types and Shadowes also the Angels pluck them with their Hands and eat them as we do that are Men but they need not any Teeth to do it withall neither have they any for the fruit is of a divine power 30. Now all this whatsoever an Angel maketh use of which is Externally without him for the supporting of his life is not his corporeal propriety as if he had it by a Natural right but the Heavenly Father giveth it them in love 31. True it is their Body is their own propriety for God hath given it to them for a propriety Now whatsoever is given to any for his own or for propriety that is his by right of Nature and he doth not deal righteously which taketh it from him again unlesse upon condition and agreement And thus God doth not neither and therefore an Angel is an eternal incorruptible Creature which standeth or subsisteth in all Eternity 32. But what would the Body profit him if God did not feed it for then it would have no mobility and would lye still like a dead Block Now therefore the Angels are obedient to God and humble themselves before the powerful God they honour laud and praise him in his Great Deeds and Works of Wonder and sing continually of Gods Holinesse Because He feedeth them Of the Gracious Blessed and Joyfull Love of the Angels toward God from a true Ground 33. The right Love in the divine Nature cometh from the fountain of the Sonne of God Behold thou child of man let this be told thee the Angels know already what the right Love toward God is but thou needest it in thy cold Heart 34. Observe when the gracious amiable blessed Joyful Glance and Light together with the sweet power out of the Sonne of God shineth into all powers in the whole Father then all the powers are kindled by the Gracious amiable blessed lovely Light and sweet power in a triumphing and joyful manner 35. So also when the Gracious amiable Blessed and joyful Light of the Sonne of God shineth on the loving Angels and casteth its Beams into their Heart then all the powers in their Body are kindled and there riseth up
such a Joyful Love-fire that for great joy they sing and ring forth Praises and that which neither I nor any other Creature is able to expresse 36. With this Song I would have the Reader cited into the other life where he will have experience thereof I am not able to set it down in Writing 37. But if thou wilt have experience of it in this world give over thy Hypocrisie Bribery and Deceit and thy Scorning and turn thy heart in all seriousnesse to God Repent thee of thy Sins with a true intention and resolution to live Holily and pray to God for his holy Spirit 38. Wrestle with him as the Holy Patriarch Jacob did Who wrestled with him all night till the dawning of the Day or Morning Radius brake forth and would not give over till God had blessed him Gen. 32. Do thou so like wise with him and the Holy Ghost will get a form in thee 39. If thou holdest on in thy earnestnesse and wilt not give over then will this fire come suddainly upon thee like lightning and shine into thee and then thou wilt well experiment that which I have here written and wilt easily beleeve that which is in my Book 40. Thou wilt also become quite another man and wilt think thereon all the dayes of thy life thy delight will be more in Heaven then on Earth 41. For the conversation of the Holy Soul is in Heaven and though indeed it converseth in the body on earth yet it is alwayes continually with its Redeemer JESUS CHRIST and eateth as a guest with him Note this The Seventh Chapter Of the Court Place and Dwelling also of the Government of Angels how it stood at the beginning after the Creation and how it is become as it is 1. HEre the Devil will oppose like a Snarling Dogg for his shame will be discovered and he will give the Reader many a sore stroake and alwayes put him in doubt that these things are not so 2. For nothing doth torment him more then when his Glory is upbraided to him by signifying what a Glorious King and Prince he hath been when this is objected to him then he is in a rage and madnesse as if he would storm and overthrow all the world 3. If this Chapter should be lighted upon by a Reader in whom the fire of the Holy Spirit should be somewhat weak I fear the Devil would be very busie to set upon him tempting him to doubting whether the things set down here be so or no that his kingdome might not stand so very naked nor his shame be so quite discovered 4. Now if he can but suppose he shall bring it to pass to be doubted of in any heart he will not fail to use his utmost skill pains and labour therein I see very well already that he hath it in his purpose 5. Therefore I would have the Reader warned that he be diligent in the reading hereof and patient so long till he cometh to the reading of the Creation and of the Government of this world and then he will find it plainly and clearly demonstrated from Nature Now Observe 6. When God Almighty had Decreed in his Counsel that he would make Angels or Creatures out of himself then he made them out of his eternal power and wisdom according to the form and manner of the Liberty in his Deity and according to the Qualities in his Divine Being 7. At first he made three Kingly Governments or Dominions answerable to the number of the Holy Trinity and each Kingdom had the Order or Ordnance power and quality of the divine Being 8. Now elevate thy Sense Thoughts and Spirit into the Deep of the Deity for here a Gate is opened The Place or Space of this world the Deep of the Earth and above the Earth even to Heaven as also the created Heaven which was made out of the midst of the Waters which moveth above the Stars and which we behold with our Eyes whose depth we cannot sound or reach with our sense all this place or room together was one Kingdom and Lucifer was King therein before his being thrust out 9. The other two Kingdoms that of Michael and that of Uriel those are above the created Heaven and are like that other Kingdom 10. These three Kingdoms together contain such a Deep as is not of any humane Number nor can be measured by any thing 11. Yet you must know that these three Kingdoms have a Beginning and End But that God who hath made these three Kingdoms out of himself is infinite and hath no End 12. Yet without and beyond and besides these three Kingdoms there is likewise the power of the Holy Trinity for God the Father hath no End 13. But thou art to know this Mystery that in the Center or Midst of these three Kingdoms is generated the splendor or Sonne of God 14. This needs explanation Read the Second and Third part of these writings where it is described more fundamentally for nothing that is divisible measurable or circumscriptive is here meant or understood oâ—ly it was in simplicity and plainnesse set down so at the first because of the slow and dull apprehension 15. And the three Kingdoms are circular round about the Sonne of God neither of them is further or nearer to the Sonne of God for the one is equally as near about the Sonne of God as the other 16. From this fountain and from all the powers of the Fether goeth forth the Holy Ghost together with the Light and power of the Sonne of God in and through all Angelical Kingdomes or Dominions and without beyond and besides all the Angelical Kingdoms which no Angel or man is able to dive or search into 17. Neither have I any purpose to consider of it further much lesse to write but my Revelation reacheth even into the three Kingdoms like an Angelical Knowledge 18. But not in my Reason or apprehension or in perfection like an Angel but in part and so-long only as the Spirit tarrieth in me further I know it not 19. When he parteth from me I know nothing but the Elementary and earthly things of this world but the Spirit seeth even into the depth of Deity Question 20. Now one may ask what manner of Substance or thing it is that the Sonne of God is Generated in the Center or midst of these Three Kingdoms Surely one Angelical Hoast must needs be nearer unto him then the other seeing their Kingdom hath so great a Deep 21. Also then the Glory Clarity or brightnesse and power of the Sonne of God would not be so great without beyond or besides those Kingdoms as in with and among those that are near him and as in the Angelical Circuit or Court Answer 22. Answ. The holy Angels were made to be creatures from God that they should praise sing ring forth and Jnbilate before the Heart of God which is the Sonne of God and tncrease the heavenly
joy 23. Where then should the Father else place them but before the Gate of his Heart Doth not all joy of Man which is in the whole man arise from the fountain of the Heart so in God also then there ariseth the gyeat joy out of the fountain of his Heart 24. And therefore hath he created the Holy Angels out of himself which are as it were little Gods answerable to the Being and qualities of the whole God that in the power should Act forth the praise and sing and ring forth in the power and increase the arising joy from the heart of God 25. But the Splendor and the power of the Sonne of God or heart of God which is the Light or source and fountain of joy taketh up his fairest and most joyfull original in the center or midst of these kingdoms and shineth into and through all the Angelical Gates 26. Thou must understand this properly what the meaning of it is for when I speak by way of similitude and liken the Sonne of God to the Sun or to a round Globe it hath not that meaning as if he were a circumscriptive fountain which can be measured or whose depth beginning or end could be fathomed I write so only by way of similitude till the Reader may come to the true understanding 27. For the meaning is not here that the Sonne of God should be generated only in the Center or midst of these Angelical Gates and no where else without beyond or besides these Angelical Gates 28. For the powers of the Father are every where from and out of which the Sonne is generated and from which the Holy Ghost goeth forth how should he then be generated only in the Center of these Angelical Gates 29. This therfore is the only gronnd and meaning that the Holy Father who is ALL would have in these Angelical * Gates his most joyful and most richly loving Qualities out of which the most joyful and most richly loving Light Word heart or fountain of powers is Generated and therefore hath created his Holy Angels in this place for his joy honour and Glory 30. In the Abyssal or bottomlesse Eternity indeed it is in one place as well as in another but where there are no Creatures it cannot be known but by the Spirit in its wonders 31. And this is the Select place of the glory of God which God the Father in himself hath made choise of wherein his Holy WORD or heart is generated in highest glory Clarity or brightnes power and tryumphing joy 32. For Observe this Mystery The Light which is generated out of the powers of the Father which is the true fountain of the Sonne of God is generated also in an Angel and a Holy Man so that in the same light and knowledge he tryumpheth in great joy 33. How then is it that he should not be generated every where in the whole Father For his power is ALL and every where even there where our heart and sences or Thonghts cannot reach 34. And so Now where the Father is there is also the Sonne and the Holy Ghost for the Father every where generateth the Sonne his holy WORD power light and sound and the Holy Ghost goeth every where forth from the Father and the Sonne even within all the Angelical gates and without besides or beyond the angelical gates also 35. Now if a Man likeneth the Sonne of God to the Globe of the Sun as I have often done in the foregoing Chapters that is spoken in the way and manner of Natural similitudes and I was constrained to write so because of the mis-understanding of the Reader that so he might raise his Sense or Thoughts in these natural things and climbe from step to step from one degree to another till he might come into the high mysteries 36. But it hath not this meaning that the Sonne of God is a circumscribed compacted figured Image like the Sun 37. For if it were so then must the Sonne of God have a beginning and the Father must have generated him at once and then he could not be the Eternal Almighty Sonne of the Father but were like a King who had yet a greater King above him who had generated him in Time and in whose power it were to alter and to change him 38. This were such a Sonne as had a beginning and his power and splendor were like the power of the Sun which goeth forth from the Sun the Body or Globe of the Sun standing still in its place And if this were so then indeed one Angelical Gate would be nearer to the Sonne of God then another 39. But here I will shew to thee the highest Gate of the divine Mystery and thou needst seek no higher for there is no higher Observe 40. The Fathers power is all in and above all Heavens and the same power every where generateth the Light Now this ALL-POWER is and is called the all-power of the Father and the Light which is generated out of that all-power is and is called the Sonne 41. But it is therefore called the Sonne in that it is generated out of the Father so that it is the Heart of the Father in his powers 42. And being generated so it is another Person then the Father is for the Father is the power and Kingdom and the Sonne is the Light and Splendor in the Father and the Holy Ghost is the moving or exit out of the powers of the Father and of the Sonne and formeth figureth frameth and Imageth all 43. As the Ayr goeth forth from the power of the Sun and Stars and moveth in this world and causeth that all creatures are generated and that the Grasse Herbs and Trees spring and grow and causeth all whatsoever is in this world to be 44. So the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and moveth or acteth formeth or frameth and Imageth all that is in the whole God 45. All growing or vegetation and forms in the Father arise and spring up moving in the Holy Ghost therefore there is but ONE only GOD and three distinct Persons in one divine Being Essence or substance 46. Now if a Man should say the Sonne of God were an Image circumscriptive or measureable like the sun then the Three Persons would onely be in that place where the Sonne is and his splendor or shining would be without or beyond him and as gone forth from the Sonne and the Father would be One onely Externally without or besides the Sonne and then the power of the Father which would be afar off and wide distant from the Sonne would not generate the Sonne and Holy Ghost externally without and beyond the Angelical Gates and so there would be an un-almighty Being Externally without or besides this place of the Sonne and moreover the Father would be a Circumscribed or measurable Being 47. Which is not so but rhe Father every where generateth the Sonne out of all his powers and the
Holy Ghost goeth every where forth from the Father and the Sonne and so there is but ONE onely God in one Being with three distinct Persons 48. Of which you have a similitude in the pretious Gold-Oar or a Gold-Stone unseparated First there is the matter that is the Salitter and Mercurius which is the Mother or the whole stone which generateth the Gold every where in the whole Stone and in the Gold is the glorious power or vertue of the Stone 49. Now the Salitter and Mercurius signifie the Father the Gold signifieth the Sonne and the power or vertue signifies the Holy Ghost in such a manner also is the Ternarie in the holy Trinity onely that all moveth and goeth forth therein universally 50. Men find also in a Gold stone a little bit of it in some place wherein there is more and purer Gold then in another not discerned though there is Gold in the whole stone or Oare 51. Thus also is the Place or Space in the Center or midst of the Angelical Gates a more pleasant more gracious amiable and blessed Place to the Father wherein his Sonne and Heart is generated in the most richly and fully loving manner and wherein the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne in the most richly and fully loving manner 52. Thus you have the right ground of this mystery and you ought not to think that the Sonne of God was generated of the Father at once at a certain time as one that hath a beginning and that he standeth now as a King and will be worshipped 53. No this were not an Eternal Sonne but one that had a beginning and were under beneath or inferiour to the Father that had generated him 54. Neither would he be all-knowing for he could not know how it was before his Father had generated him 55. But the Sonne is allwayes generated continually from eternity unto eternity and reshineth alwayes continually from eternity into the powers of the Father again whereby the powers of the Father are alwayes from Eternity to Eternity continually impregnated with the Sonne and generateth him continually 56. Out of which the Holy Ghost continually Existeth from eternity to eternity and so continually from eternity to eternity goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and hath neither Beginning nor End 57. And this Being is not onely so in one place of the Father but every where in the whole Father who hath neither beginning nor end into which no creature can reach with its Senses or thoughts Of the Nativity or Geniture of an Angelical Kings and how they came to be 58. This also is more fundamentally described in the Second and Third Book 59. The Person or Body of a King of Angels is generated out of all the qualities and out of all the powers of his whole Kingdom through the moving boyling spirit of God and therefore such a one is their King in that his power reacheth into all the Angels of his whole Kingdom and he is the Head or Throne-Angel And such a one was Lord Lucifer also before his fall 60. And this also is more fundamentally described in our second and third book viz. in The three Principles of the Divine Being And in the Threefold Life of Man Of the Ground or Foundation and Mystery 61. If a man will find out the mystery and deepest Ground he must diligently and exactly view and consider the Creation of this world the Government or Dominion and order or Ordinance as also the Qualities of the stars and the elements 62. And although these are of a corrupted and twofold Being which is not living nor hath understanding for it is but the corrupt Salitter and Mercurius in which King Lucifer kept House wherein is both Evil and Good though it be indeed the reall power of God which before its corruption was bright and pure as now it is in Heaven 63. This power of the Stars and Elements did the Creator after the horrible fall of Lucifers Kingdome frame and put into such order again as the Kingdome of the Angels stood in in the Divine pomp before his fall 64. Only thou must not think that the Angelical Kingdom with its creatures were so rolled wheeled and turâ—'d round about as now the Stars are which are only powers and in regard of the birth or geniture of this world are thus wheeled or turn'd about whose birth or geniture standeth in the moving boyling anguish in Evil and Good in Corruption and Redemption till the End of this enumeration or the Last Day Now Observe 65. The Sun standeth in the Center or Midst of the Deep and is the light or heart which proceeded out of all stars For when the Salitter and Mercurius before the Creation of the world in the Kingdome of Lucifer became thin or dim and bad qualified one with the other then God extracted the Heart out of all the powers and made the Sun thereof 66. And therefore the Sun is the most shining and brightest of all and re-enlighteneth all the starres again all the stars work in its Power and it self hath the power of all the stars it kindleth all the powers of the stars with its splendour and heat and so every Star receiveth from the Sun according to its power and condition or Kind 67. Thus also is the Frame and Constitution of the Angelical Kingdom The Sun signifieth the Supreamest Throne-Angel the Cherubin or King in an Angelical Kingdom such a one as Lord Lucifer also was before his fall He had his seat in the Center or Midst of his Kingdom and raigned by his power in all his Angels 68. As the Sun ruleth in all the powers of this world in the Salitter and Mercurius that is in softnesse and hardnesse in sweetnesse and â—owrnesse in bitternesse and astringency in heat and cold in Ayr and Water 69. As is apparent in Winter when there is so hard Cold or Frost that the water becometh Ice though the Sun shineth somewhat warm through all the cold frost yet for all its beams by which it shineth on them it freezeth into Snow and Ice 70. But here I will shew thee the right Mystery Behold the Sun is the Heart of all powers in this world and is compacted framed or composed out of all the powers of the stars it re-enlightneth all the stars and all the powers in this world again and all powers grow active operative or qualifying in its Power 71. Understand it Magically for it is a Mirrour Looking-Glasse or Similitude of the Eternall world 72. As the Father generateth his Sonne that is his Heart or light out of all his powers and that light which is the Sonne generateth the life in all the powers of the Father so that in the same light in the Fathers powers goeth forth all manner of growing vegetation springing Ornaments and Joy of such a condition is the Kingdom of Angels all according to the Similitude and Being of God 73. A
Cherubim or Leader of a Kingdom of Angels is the Fountain or Heart of his whole Kingdom and is made out of all the powers out of which his Angels are made and is the most powerfull and brightest of them all 74. The Angelical King is the Center or fountain as Adams Soul is the Beginning and Center of all soules and As from the Place of the Sun was created and generated the Planetick wheel or Sphear wherein each Star is desirous of the Splendor and Power of the Sun so the Angels are desirous of their Cherubim or Prince all according to God and to his Similitude 75. For the Creatour hath extracted the heart out of the Salitter and Mercurius of the Divine powers Understand he hath composed it by the Fiat viz. the Center of Nature 76. And hath formed out of that the Cherubim or King that he might presse or penetrate again with his power into all the Angels and affect them all with his power 77. As the Sun with its power presseth into all the Stars and affecteth them all or as the power of God the Son presseth into all the powers of God the Father whereby they are all affected wherein the Birth or Geniture of the heavenly Joyfulnesse springeth up 78. In this form condition and manner it is also with the Angels All the Angels of one Kingdome signifie the many and various powers of God the Father the Angelical King signifieth the Sonne of the Father or the Heart out of the powers of the Father out of which the Angels are made The Exit out of the King of Angels or his going forth into his Angels or his affecting of his Angels signifieth God the Holy Ghost 79. And as the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and affecteth all the powers of the Father as also all heavenly fruits and forms from whence all hath its rising and wherein the heavenly joyfulnesse doth consist 80. Just in such a manner is the operation or power of a Cherubim or Throne-Angel which worketh or operateth in all his Angels as the Sonne and Holy Ghost operateth in all the powers of the Father or as the Sun operateth in all the powers of the Stars 81. Whereby all Angels obtain the will of the Throne-Angel and are all obedient to him for they all work in his power which is in them all 82. For they are the Members of his body as all the powers of the Father are Members of the Sonne and he is their Heart and as all heavenly forms and fruits are Members of the Holy Ghost and he their heart in whom they rise up 83. Or as the Sun is the heart of all the stars and all stars are Members of the Sun and work one among another as one Star and yet the Sun is the Heart therein though indeed there are many and various powers yet all worketh in the power of the Sun and all hath its Life from the Power of the Sun Look on what you please be it in * Animals Metals or †Vegetables of the Earth The Eighth Chapter Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdome The Great Mysterie 1. THe Angelical Kingdoms are throughout formed according to the Divine Being and they have no other form or Condition then the Divine Being hath in its Trinitie 2. Onely this is the difference that their Bodies are creatures which have a Beginning and End and that the Kingdom where their Locality habitation or Court is is not their corporeal propriety or proper own having it for their Natural right as they have their bodies for a Natural right 3. But the Kingdom belongs to God the Father who hath made it out of his powers and he may set it and dispose it which way he pleaseth otherwise their Body is made according to all and out of all the powers of the Father 4. And their power generateth the light and knowledge in them and as God generateth his Sonne out of all his powers also as the Holy Ghost goeth forth out of all the powers of the Father and the Sonne so also in an Angel the Spirit goeth forth from their Heart from their light and from all their powers Now Observe 5. As the condition and constitution of an Angel is in his Corporeal Body with all the Members thereof such is the condition of a whole Kingdom which together is as it were one Angel 6. If a man rightly considereth all circumstances he will find that the whole government in its locality circumference or Region in a Kingdom is of the same Condition or Constitution as the body of an Angel is or as the Holy Trinity Observe here the Depth 7. All power is in God the Father and he is the fountain of all powers in his Deep in Him is Light and Darknesse Ayr and Water Heat and Cold Hard and Soft Thick and Thin Sound and Tone Sweet and Soure Bitter and Astringent and that which I cannot number or rehearse 8. Onely I conceive of it in my Body for That is originally from Adam to this time made out of all powers and according to the Image of God 9. But here thou must not think that the powers in God the Father are in such wise or qualifie in such a corrupt manner and kind as in man which Lord Lucifer hath so brough◠to passe but it is all very lovely pleasant delicious and joyfull very Gentle and Meek or Mild. 10. First there is the Light as I may naturally compare or resemble it like the light of the Sun but not so intolerable as the light of the Sun is intolerable to our corrupted perished Eyes but very lovely pleasant and delightful an Aspect or Glance of Love 11. But the darknesse is hidden in the Center of the light that is when a creature is made out of the power of the light and would move and boyl higher and faster in that light then God Himself doth then that light would go out and be extinguished in that Creature 12. Understand the Creature kindleth the fire if its spirit elevateth it self beyond the Humility that is from Love Read the Second and Third Book viz. the Three Principles and the Three-fold Life of Man 13. And instead of Light it hath darknesse and therein the Creature is sensible by experience that there is a darknesse hidden in the Center 14. As when a man kindleth a Wax Candle it giveth Light but when it is put out then is the Snuffe or Candle darknesse Thus also the light shineth from all the powers of the Father but when the powers are perished or corrupted then the light is extinguished and the powers would remain in darknesse as is apparant by Lucifer 15. The Ayr also is not of such a kind in God but is a lovely pleasant still breath or voyce blowing or moving that is The exit going forth or moving of the powers is the original of the Ayr in which the Holy Ghost riseth up 16. Neither is the
this world in the qualifying or fountain spirits of God is quite extinct no there is onely a duskishnesse or dimme Obscurity upon it so that we cannot apprehend it with our corrupted Eyes 101. But if God did once put away that duskishnesse which moveth about the light and that thy eyes were opened then in that very place where thou standest sittest or lyest thou shouldest see the glorious Countenance or Face of God and the whole heavenly Gate 102. Thou needest not first to cast thine eyes up into Heaven for it is written The word is near thee viz on thy Lips and in thy Heart Deut. 30. 14. Rom. 10. 8. 103. Yea God is so near thee that the Birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity is done or wrought even in thy heart yea all the Three Persons are Generated in thy heart even God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost 104. Now when I write here concerning the midst or Center that the fountain of the Divine Birth or Geniture is in the midst or Center the meaning is not that in Heaven there is a peculiar or severall place or a peculiar several Body wherein the fire of the divine life riseth up out of which the seven spirits of God go forth into the whole Deep of the Father 105. No but I speak in a corporeal or Angelical or Humane way that the Reader may the better understand it in such a manner as the Angelical Creatures were Imaged or framed and as it is in God every where universally 106. For thou canst not nominate any place either in heaven or in this world wherein the divine Birth or Geniture is not thus be it in an Angel or Holy man or any where else 107. Wheresoever one qualifying or fountain spirit in the divine power is touched or stirred let the place be where or thing what it will except in the Devils and all wicked damned Men there is the fountain of the divine Birth or Geniture clearly at hand and there already are all the seven qualifying or fountain-Spirits of God 108. As when thou wouldst make a spacious creaturely circumscribed circle and hadst the whole Deity peculiarly apart therein Then Just so as it is generated in a Creature so it is also in the whole Deep of the Father in all places and parts thereof and in all things Note 109. And in such a manner is God an All-mighty all-knowing all-seeing all-hearing all-smelling all-feeling God who is every where and proveth the Hearts and Reines of the Creatures 110. And in such a manner Heaven and Earth is His Also in such a manner all the Devils together with all wicked Men must be his Eternal Prisoners and in the Salitter which they have corrupted and kindled in their Place or Space must endure eternal Pain and Torment and moreover Eternal shame and Reproach 111. For the Total glorious face of God together with all the holy Angels will shine bright and gloriously above them and under them and round about them on Every side 112. And all holy Angels together with all holy Men will eternally triumph above them below them and round about them and for great Joy delight and Pleasantnesse sing of Gods Holinesse of their Royall Kingly Government or Regiment and of the gracious amiable blessed fruit of the heavenly Spring or Vegetation and that wil go forth according to the qualities of the seven Spirits of God in many various Voices 113. On the contrary the Devils with all wicked Men will be forced into a Hole where a hellish stinck will burn boyl and rise up and the hellish fire and hellish coldnesse and bitternesse will burn after the manner of the kindled spirits of God eternally in their Body as also in their Courts Dominions Regions Space or Circumference 114. Nay if they could be lock'd in or barred up into a Hole that the angry face of God might not touch them then they might be Quiet and contented and would not be necessitated to endure eternal Ignominie shame and reproach 115. But here is no help their Torment encreaseth and becometh but the greater the more they bewail it the more doth the hellish fiercenesse or wrath kindle it self they must lye in Hell as dead Bones like sindged scorched Sheep in the fire their stink and abomination gnaweth them 116. They dare not lift up their Eyes for shame for they see in their Circumference Courts or Regions nothing else but onely a severe Judge and above them and on all sides of them they see the Eternal Joy 117. Not that they apprehend and behold it but they have a kind of knowledge thereof in the Center 118. Here is Lamentation and Woe Yelling and crying and no deliverance it is with them as if it did continually Thunder and Lighten tempestuously 119. For the kindled Spirits of God generate themselves thus I. First the hardnesse generateth a hard raw rough cold and astringent quality II. Secondly the sweetnesse is grown faint like a glowing coal when there is no more sap in the wood that Gaspeth and there is no refreshment for it III. Thirdly the Bitternesse teareth like a Hot Plague and is as Bitter as Gall. IIII. Fourthly the Fire burneth as a fierce wrathful Sulphur V. Fifthly Love is an Enmity here VI. Sixthly the sound is a meer Beating Rumbling or Cracking like the noise of a fire breaking forth out of a hollow place as if it were great Claps of Thunder VII Seventhly the Circuit Region Court or Residence of the Body is a house of mourning 120. Their food is abomination and groweth from the fiercenesse of all qualities Lamentation and woe and that for Ever without End there is no Time there Another King sitteth on their Throne which keepeth or holdeth a Judgment for Ever they are onely his Footstool 121. O Beauty Pleasure and Voluptuousnesse of this world O Riches and proud Statelinesse O Might and Power Thy unrighteous Judgment and great Pomp with all thy pleasure and voluptuousnesse lyeth all together on a Heap and is become a hellish Fire 122. Now eat and drink now trim and dresse thy self therewith and domineer therein thou fair Goddesse how art thou become a whore and thy shame and reproach continueth for ever The Eleventh Chapter VII Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power 1. THe Seventh Spirit of God in the Divine Power is the Corpus or Body which is generated out of the other Six spirits wherein All heavenly figures subsist and wherein all things Image and form themselves and wherein all Beauty and Joy riseth up 2. This is the very spirit of Nature yea Nature it self wherein apprehensibility or comprehensibility consisteth and wherein all Creatures are formed in Heaven and on Earth Yea heaven it self is therein formed and Naturality in the whole Deity consisteth in this Spirit 3. If it were not for this Spirit there would be neither Angel nor man and God would be an unsearchable Being subsisting onely in an unsearchable
and they become living and Love the light that is they take it into them and are impregnated with it and that Spirit which is so taken in is the Love of the Life which is the fifth Spirit 29. Now when they have taken the love into them then they qualifie Act or operate for great Joy for the one seeth the other in the Light and so the one toucheth or stirreth the other 30. And then the tone riseth up and the harâ— Spirit beateth striketh or thâ—mpeth but the sweet maketh that beating or striking Mild and the Bitter divideth it according to the condition or kind of every quality the fourth causeth the ringing the fift causeth joyfulnesse and the compacted incorporated sounding is the Tone or Tune or the Sixth Spirit 31. In this Tone riseth up the power of all the six Spirits and becometh a palpable Body to speak after an Angelicall manner and subsisteth in the power of the other six Spirits and in the light and this is the Body of Nature wherein all heavenly Creatures Ideas Figures and Sprouts or Vegetations are Imaged or fashioned The Holy Gates 32. But the Light which subsisteth in the midst or Center in all the Seven Spirits and wherein standeth the Life of all the seven Spirits and whereby all seven become triumphing and Joyful and wherein the heavenly joyfulnesse riseth up 33. That is it which all the seven spirits do generate and that is the Sonne of all the seven spirits and the seven Spirits are its Father which generate the Light and the Light generateth in them the Life and the Light is the Heart of the seven spirits 34. And this Light is the true Sonne of God whom we Christians worship and honour as the Second Person in the holy Trinity 35. And all the seven Spirits of God together are God the Father 36. For no one spirit of them is alone or without the other they all seven generate one another for if one were wanting the other could not be 37. But the Light is another Person for it is continually generated out of or from the seven spirits and the seven spirits rise up continually in the light and the powers of these seven spirits go forth continually in the glance or splendor of the light in the seventh Nature-spirit and do form and Image all in the seventh Spirit And this out-going or Exit in the Light is the Holy Ghost 38. The flash or stock or Pith or the Heart which is generated in the powers remaineth standing in the midst or Center and that is the Sonne and the Splendor or Glance in all the powers goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne in all the powers of the Father and formeth and imageth in the seventh Nature-spirit all according to the power and operation of the seven Spirits and according to their Distinction and impulse And this is the true Holy Ghost whom we Christians honour and adore for the Third Person in the Deitie 39. Thus O blind Jew Turk and Heathen thou seest that there are Three Persons in the Deitie thou canst not deny it for thou livest and art or hast thy being in the Three Persons and thou hast thy life from them and in the power of these three Persons thou art to rise from the Dead at the Last Day and live Eternally Note 40. Now if thou hast lived well and holily in the Law of Nature in this world and hast not extinguished the half Flash which is the Sonne of God which teacheth thee the Law of Nature in thy seven qualifying or fountain spirits and hast not put it out through a fierce elevation which runneth on contrary to the Knowledge of Nature Then wilt thou with all Christians live in eternal Joy Note 41. The Law of Nature is the Divine Ordinance out of the Center of Nature he that can live therein needs no other Law for he fulfilleth the will of God 42. For it lyeth not in thy unbelief to hinder it thy unbelief doth not take away or make void the truth of God but Faith bloweth up the Spirit of Hope and testifieth that we are Gods Children The Faith is generated in the flash and wrestleth so long with God till it overcometh and gets the victory 43. Thou Judgest us and thereby thou judgest thy self in that thou blowest up the zealous or Jealous Spirit in Anger and Wrath which extinguisheth thy Light But if thou art grown on a sweet Tree and suppresseth the evil influence or suggestions and livest well and holily in the Law of Nature which sheweth thee very well what is Right If thou art not indeed grown out from a fierce or wrathful Twig or Branch Here is meant or understood out of or from a very wicked Seed where out there often groweth a Thistle though yet there were a remedy if the will were but once broken but it is a Rare and Pretious thing However indeed on a Good Tree it is often so that some branches do also wither Note 45. Moreover thou art blind For who shall separate thee from the love of God in which thou art born or Generated and wherein thou livest if thou perseverest and continuest therein till the End who shall separate thee from God in whom thou hast lived here 46. That which thou hast sowen in the Ground that will spring up be it Rye Wheat Barley Tares or Thorns that which is not combustible or capable of the final or last Fire that will not burn at all but God will not corrupt or spoil his good Seed himself but will husband Till and manure it that it may bear fruit in the Eternal life 47. Seeing then all live and have their Being in God why do the weeds Glory and boast against the Wheat Dost thou think that God is a Dissembler and that he regardeth or respecteth any mans person or name 48. What Man was the Father of us All was it not Adam And when his Sonne Cain lived wickedly before God why did not his Father Adam help him But here it may be said He that sinneth shall be punished Ezek. 18. 4 20. 49. If Cain had not quenched or extinguished his light who could have separated him from the love of God 50. So thou also thou boastest thou art a Christian and knowest the light why dost thou not walk therein Dost thou think the Name will make thee Holy Tarry friend till thou comest thither into the other world then thou wilt know it by experience Behold many a Jew Turk and Heathen will sooner enter into the Kingdom of Heaven who had indeed their Lamps well Trimmed and Furnished then thou who Boastest Question What Prerogative or Advantage then have the Christians Answer 51. Very much For they know the way of life and know how they should rise from the Fall but if any will lye still then he must be thrown into the Ditch and there must perish with all the wicked Heathens 52. Therefore take
Deceive and belye one another and tear the Bread out of others Mouthes for very greedinesse and great Covetousnesse neither should one outbrave another in Statelinesse Fashions and deportment and so despise another who cannot use his slie crafty subtile Devillish Policy and Tricks 54. O no the Angels in heaven do not so but they love one another and rejoyce in the Beauty and lovelinesse of others and none esteemeth or accounteth himself excellenter then the other but every one hath his Joy in the other and rejoyceth in the others fair Beauty comely form and Lovelinesse whence then their love one towards another riseth up so that they lead one another by the Hand and friendlily Kisse one another Observe the Depth 55. As when the flash of life riseth up in the Center of the Divine power wherein all the spirits of God attain their Life and highly rejoyce there is a loving and Holy Embracing Kissing Tasting Touching or Feeling Hearing Seeing and Smelling So also there is among the Angels when the one seeth heareth feeleth or toucheth the other then there riseth up in his heart the flash of Life and one spirit embraceth the other as it is in the Deity Observe here the Ground and highest Mystery of Gods Angels 56. If thou wilt now know from whence their Love Humility and friendlinesse cometh which riseth up in their heart then Observe that which followeth 57. Every Angel is Constituted as the whole Deity is and is as a little God For when God constituted the Angels he constituted or framed them out of Himself 58. Now God is the same in one place as he is in another God is every where the Father and Sonne and Holy Ghost 59. In these three Names and Powers standeth Heaven and this world and all whatsoever thy heart can think upon and though thou shouldst draw a little Circle which thou canst hardly look into or which thou canst hardly discern even lesse then the smallest Point thou canst imagine yet even in that is the whole Divine power and the Sonne of God is generated therein and the Holy Ghost therein goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne if not in Love then in wrath as it is written with the holy thou art Holy and with the perverse thou art perverse Psal. 18. 26. 60. They which stir up the wrath of God upon themselves which wrath standeth also in all the spirits of God in that place where it is awakened stirred up or provoked On the other side where the love of God is awakened or stirred up there it standeth also in the full Birth or Geniture of the whole Deity of or in the place or thing wherein it is awakened 61. And herein there is no difference the Angels are created one as well as another all out of the Divine Salitter of the heavenly Nature onely this is the difference betwixt them that when God constituted them each Qcality in the great Motion stood in the highest Geniture or rising up 62. Hence it is come to passe that the Angels are of various and Manifold Qualities and have several colours and Beauties and yet all out of or from God 63. Yet every Angel hath all the qualities of God in him but one of them is strongest in him according to which he is Named and glorified in that Quality 64. Now as the qualities in God alwaies generate raise up and heartily Love the one the other and the one alwayes getteth its life from the other And as the flash in the sweet water riseth up in the heat from whence the Life and the Joy have their Original so it is also in an Angel his internal Birth or Geniture is no otherwise then that which is distinct from him or without him in God 65. And as the Sonne of God without or distinct from the Angels is generated in the middle or Centrall fountain Spring in the heat in the sweet water out of or from all the seven spirits of God and re-enlighteneth back again all the seven Spirits of God whence they have their Life and Joy 66. So also in like manner the Sonne of God in an Angel is generated in the Angels middle or centrall fountain Spring of the heart in the heat in the sweet water and re-enlightneth back again all the seven qualifying spirits of that Angel 67. And as the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and formeth Imageth figureth or frameth and loveth All even so the Holy Ghost goeth forth in the Angel into his fellow Brethren and Loveth them and rejoyceth with them 68. For there is no difference between the Spirits of God and the Angels but only this that the Angels are Creatures and their Corporeal Being hath a beginning but their power out of which they are created is God himself and is from Eternity and abideth in Eternity 69. Therefore their agility is as nimble and swift as the Thoughts of a Man where ever they would be there also they are Instantly moreover they can be Great or Small as they please 70. And this is the true Being of God in Heaven yea Heaven it self If thy Eyes were opened thou shouldst see it plainly and clearly on Earth in that place where thou art at present 71. For seeing God can let the spirit of Man see it which is yet staying in the Body and can reveal or manifest himself to him in the flesh surely he can well do it also when he is out of the flesh if he pleaseth 72. O thou sinful House of this world how art thou encompassed with Hell and Death awake the hour of thy Regeneration is at hand the Day-breaketh the Day-spring Dawning or Morning-Rednesse sheweth it self 73. O thou Dumb and Dead world why dost thou require or demand Signes and Wonders Is thy whole body chilled and benummed wilt thou not awake from sleep 74. Behold a great sign is given Thee but thou sleepest and seest it not Therefore the Lord will give Thee a sign in his zeal or Jealousie which thou hast awaked and provoked with thy Sins Of the whole Heavenly delightfulnesse of all the Three Kingdomes of Angels 75. Here the Spirit sheweth that where every Angel is constituted stated or settled there that Place in the heavenly Nature wherein and out of which he is become a creature is his own seat which he possesseth by Right of Nature as long as he abideth in Gods Love 76. For it is the Place which he hath had from Eternity before he was become a Creature and that Salitter stood in the same place out of which he existed and therefore that seat remaineth to him and is his by right of Nature as long as he moveth in Gods Love 77. But thou must not think as if God were tyed to it and cannot or may not expell him from thence if he should move or stirre otherwise then God had constituted settled or stated him at first 78. For as long as he abideth in obedience and in love
generateth the other and yet none of them do vanish out of sight but that all seven be visible or in sight 88. And the seven Wheeles alwaies generating the Naves in the midst or center according to their turning about so that the Nave stand alwaies free without alteration or removing whether the wheeles go forward or backward or crosse waies or upward or downward 89. And the Nave alwaies generating the Spoaks so that in their turning about they stand right and direct from the Nave to the Felleys of the wheel and yet none of the spoaks to be out of sight but still turning about thus one with another going whithersoever the wind drive it and that without need of any turning back or stopping Now observe what I shall inform you in the application of this 90. The seven Wheeles are the seven Spirits of God the one alwaies generating the other and are like the turning about of a wheel which hath seven wheels one in another and the one alwaies wheeleth it self otherwise then the other in its station and the seven wheeles are Felleyed or hooped Round with Felleys like a round Globe 91. And yet that a man may see all the seven wheeles turning round about severally apart as also the whole fitnesse or compasse of the frame with all its Felleys and Spoaks and Naves 92. And the seven Naves in the midst or Center being as it were one Nave which doth fit every where in the turning about and the wheeles continually generating these Naves and the Naves generating the Spoaks continually in all the seven wheeles and yet none of the wheeles as also none of the Naves nor any of the Felleys or Spoaks to be out of sight and as if this wheel had seven wheeles and yet were all but one wheel and went alwayes forward whithersoever the wind drove it Now Behold and Consider 93. The seven wheeles one in another the one alwaies generating the other and going on every side and yet none out of sight or turning back these are the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits of God the Father 94. And they generate in the seven wheeles in each wheel a Nave and yet there are not seven Naves but only One which fitteth in all the seven wheeles And this is the Heart or innermost Body of the wheeles wherein the wheels run about and that signifieth the Sonne of God 95. For all the seven Spirits of God the Father generate continually in their circle and that is the sonne of all the seven spirits and all those qualifie or act in his Light and is in the midst or Center of the Birth and holds together all the seven spirits of God and they in their Birth turn about therewith thus 96. That is they clime either upward or downward backward or forward or crosse-wayes and so the Heart of God is alwayes in the midst or center and fitteth alwaies every qualifying or fountain Spirit 97. Thus there is One Heart of God and not seven which is alwaies generated from all the seven and is the heart and life of all the seven 98. Now the Spoaks which are alwaies generated from the Naves and Wheeles and which do fit all the wheeles in their turning and are their Root stay and fastning in which they stand and out of which they are generated signifie God the Holy Ghost which goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne even as the Spoaks go out from the Nave and Wheel and yet abide also in the wheel 99. Now as the Spoaks are many and go alwaies about with and in the wheel so the Holy Ghost is the Workmaster in the wheel of God and formeth Imageth and frameth all in the whole or total God 100. Now this wheel hath seven wheels one in another and one Nave which is fitted in all the seven wheels and all the seven wheels turn on that one Nave Thus God is one God with seven qualifying or fountain spirits and yet is but one God just as these seven wheeles are but One wheel Now Observe 101. The wheel in its incorporated structure and frame signifieth the astringent quality which attracteth or draweth together the whole corporeal Being of the Deity and holds it and dryeth it so that it subsisteth 102. And the sweet spring or fountain-water is generated by the driving about or rising up of the spirits for when the light is generated in the Heat then the astringent quality is amazed or terrified for great Joy and this is a submitting or lying down or growing thin and the hard corporeal being sinketh down like a meeknesse or mildnesse 103. And so now the terrour or the glance of the Light riseth up in the astringent quality very gently and shivering and trembleth which now in the water is bitter and the Light dryeth it and maketh it friendly and sweet 104. Now therein standeth life and joy for the terrour or flash riseth up in all the qualities like the wheel aforementioned which turneth about and then there all the seven spirits rise up one in another and generate themselves as in a Circle and the light is shining in the midst or Center of the seven Spirits and re-shineth back again in all the spirits and all the spirits triumph therein and rejoyce in the light 105. And as the seven Wheeles turn about upon one Nave as upon their Heart which holds them and they hold the Nave so the seven spirits generate the Heart and the heart holds the seven spirits and so there arise voyces and divine joyfulnesse of hearty loving and kissing 106. For when the spirits with their light move or boyl turn about and rise one in another then the life is alwayes generated for one spirit alwaies affordeth to the other its taste or relish that is it is affected with the other 107. Thus the one tasteth and feeleth the other and the Tone presseth forth from all the seven spirits towards the Heart and riseth up in the heart in the flash of the light and then rise up the voices and joyfulnesse of the Sonne of God and all the seven spirits triumph and rejoyce in the Heart of God each according to its quality 108. For in the Light in the sweet water all astringency and hardnesse and bitternesse and heat are mitigated and made pleasant and so there is in the seven spirits nothing else but a pleasant striving strugling and wonderful generating like a divine holy Sport or Scene of God 109. But their sharp or Tart Birth of which I have written above abideth hidden as a kernel for it becometh mitigated by the light and sweet water 110. Just as a four bitter green Apple is forced by the Sun that it becometh very pleasant or lovely to be eaten and yet all its qualities are tasted so the Deity keepeth its qualities also but striveth or struggleth gently like a pleasant lovely Sport or Scene 111. But if the qualifying or fountain spirits should extoll or lift up themselves and
Image form and frame all in the heavenly Pomp. 134. Whereby in the heavenly pomp alwaies such fair beautious forms Ideas figures and vegetations spring up as also various colours and fruits and this the qualifying or fountain spirits of God do in God as a holy Play Sport or Scene Now behold 135. Seeing then God had incorporated or compacted together out of himself Eternal Creatures they should not qualifie or operate in the heavenly pomp in such a way and manner as to be like God himself 136. No by no means for they were not thus Imaged or framed to that End For the Creator had for this cause incorporated or compacted the Body of an Angel together to be more dry then he is in his Body that he might be and remain to be God so that the qualities should be harder and tougher that the Tone or Sound might be loud clear and shrill 137. So that when the seven qualities in an Angel in the Center of the heart do generate the Light and the spirit or understanding that then that same spirit which in the light of the heart goeth forth at the mouth of the Angel in the Divine power should as a loud clear shrill sound in the power of all the qualities in God sing and ring forth as a melodious Musick and in the forming Imaging framing or qualifying of God rise up as a pleasant hearty loving voyce in Gods forming 138. And when the Holy Ghost formeth the heavenly fruit then should the Tone which should rise up in the praising of God from the Angels be also together in the forming or Imaging of the fruit and so on the other side again the fruit should be the food of the Angels 139. And therefore also we pray in Our Father saying GIB uns unser Taglich Brodt GIVE us our daily Bread Mat. 6. 11so that the Tone or word GIB GIVE which we thrust forth from our Center of the Light through the animated animal or Soulish spirit out at the Mouth forth from us into the divine power should in the divine power as a fellow-forming or fellow-generating help to Image or frame Unser Taglich Brodt Our daily Bread which afterwards Der Uater gibet Uns the Father giveth to us for Food 140. And then when our Tone is thus incorporated in Gods Tone so that the fruit is formed Imaged or framed it must needs be wholesome or healthfull for us and so we are in Gods Love and have that food to make use of as by the right of Nature being our spirit in Gods Love did help to Image and form the same 141. Herein standeth the innermost and greatest depth of God O Man consider thy self I will more largely declare it in its due place 142. Now for such an end hath God created the Angels and they do so too for their spirit which in the Center or heart goeth forth from their light in the power of all the seven qualifying or fountain-spirits that goeth forth at their Mouth as God the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and Sonne and helpeth to form Image or frame all in God that is to say in the Divine Nature through the Mercurius song and speaking and Sport or Scene of Joy 143. For as God worketh in Nature to the producing of all manner of forms Ideas Images vegetations springings fruits and colours so do the Angels also in very great simplicity or sincerity and though they should scarce touch the least Twigg or scarce rejoyce in the beautious flowers in the heavenly May and discourse and confer never so little weakly meanly or simply thereof yet neverthelesse that very Tone or speech riseth up together in the Divine Salitter and helpeth to co-Image and frame or form all 144. Thou hast many examples thereof in this world that if some Creature or Man look upon a thing it perisheth because of the Poison or venome in the Creature On the other side again some men as also Beasts and other Creatures can with their Tone or words change or alter the malignity or evilnesse of a thing and bring it into a right form 145. And that how is the Divine Power which all the Creatures are subjected to for all whatsoever â—t is 〈…〉 and moveth is in God and God himself is all and all whatsoever is form'd or framed is formed out of HIM be it either out of Love or out of Wrath. The Head Spring or fountain Vein of Sinne. 146. Now Lucifer being so Royally Imaged or framed that this spirit in his forming and imaging rose up in him and was received or embraced of God very excellently and lovingly and was set or put into Glorification then instantly he should have begun his Angelical Obedience and course and should have moved as God himself did as a loving â—on in the house of his Father and that he did not 147. But when his light was generated in him in his heart and that his qualifying spirits were instantly affected or invironed with the high light they then became so highly rejoycing that they elevated themselves in their Body against the Right of Nature and presently began as it were a Higher statelier more Pompous or Active qualifying or Operation then God himself exercised 148. But these spirits elevating themselves thus and triumphing so eagerly and vehemently one in another and rising up against the right of Nature by that means they kindled the qualifying or fountain spirits too exceeding much viz. the astringent Quality attracted or compacted the Body too hard together so that the sweet water was dryed up 149. And the powerful and great Bright Flash which was risen up in the sweet water in the Heat from whence the bitter Quality existeth in the sweet water that rubb'd it self so horribly hard with the astringent quality as if it would break in pieces for great Joy 150. For the flash was so Bright that it was as it were intolerable to the qualifying or fountain spirits and therefore the bitter quality or source trembled and rubb'd it self so hard in the astringent that the heat was kindled contrary to the Right of Nature and the astringent also dryed up the sweet water by its hard attracting together 151. But now the quality of Heat was so severe furious and eager that it bereaved the astringent quality or source of its power for the heat existeth in the fountain or source of the sweet water 152. But the sweet water being dryed up through the astringent attracting together therefore could not the Heat any more rise to a flame or to any light for the light existeth in the unctuosity or Oylinesse of the water but glowed like a red hot Iron or like Iron not quite glowing but very dimly and darkly or as if you should put a very hard stone into the fire and should let it lye there in great heat as long as you please yet it would not be glowing light because it hath too little water or Oylinesse
the light of God but the inward spirit which is loaden therewith against its will shall be set again in its first House 61. The last following pressure ang signifieth that the innermost spirits in the corruption are not altogether pure and therefore they need a sweeping away purging or consuming of the wrath in the fire which will be done at the End of this Time 62. The word Schuff conceiveth it self above and under the Tongue and shutteth the Teeth in the upper and lower gummes and so presseth it self close together and being held together and spoken forth again then it openeth the Mouth again swiftly like a Flash 63. And this signifieth the astringent spirit 's strong driving together of the corrupted Salitter as a Lump on a Heap 64. For the Teeth retain the word letting the spirit go forth leisurely between the Teeth And this signifieth that the astringent quality holdeth the Earth and Stones firmly and fast together and yet for all that letteth the spirits of the Earth spring up grow and bear Blossoms out of the astringent spirit which signifieth the Regeneration or Restitution of the spirits of the Earth 65. But that the Mouth is swiftly opened again after the word is Ended it signifieth concerning the Deep above the Earth that God the Lord will neverthelesse dwell there and reserve his Regiment for himself and hold the Devil as a Prisoner in the wrath-fire 66. The word GOTT conceiveth it self in the midst or Center upon the Tongue and is thrust thither out of the Heart and leaveth the Mouth open and stayeth sitting on its Royall Seat and soundeth without and within but when it is spoken forth then it maketh another pressure between the upper Teeth and the Tongue 67. And this signifieth that when God created Heaven and Earth and all the Creatures he neverthelesse remained in his Divine Eternal Almighty Seat and never went away from it at all and that HEE alone is ALL. The Last pressure signifieth the sharpnesse of his spirit whereby in a Moment he effecteth all in his whole Body 68. The word Himmel conceiveth it self in the Heart and is thrust forth to the Lips there it is shut up and the syllable mel setteth the Lips open again and is held on the middle of the Tongue and so the Spirit goeth forth on both Sides of the Tongue out of the Mouth 69. And this signifieth that the innermost birth is become shut up from the outermost by the horrible Sins and is incomprehensible to the outward corrupted Birth or Geniture 70. But being it is a word with a Twofold syllable and that the second syllable mel openeth the mouth again it signifieth that the Gates of the Deity are become opened again 71. But that by the word or syllable mel it is conceived again upon the Tongue and held fast with the upper Gumms and that in the mean while the spirit slippeth forth on both sides of the Tongue 72. This signifieth that God would again give to this corrupted Kingdome or Place in God a King or Great Prince who should open again the innermost Birth or Geniture of the clear and Bright Deity and thereby the Holy Ghost should go forth on both sides that is out of the innermost Depth of the Father and of the Sonne and should go forth again into this world and should new regenerate this world again through the New King 73. The word und conceiveth it self in the Heart and is staid and compacted or incorporated by the Tongue on the upper Gummes but when it is let loose it maketh another pressure from the Heart out at the Mouth 74. Now this signifieth the difference or distinction between the Holy and the Earthly Birth or Geniture This syllable cometh indeed from the Heart but is staid by the Tongue on the upper Gummes so that one cannot yet perceive what kind of word it is And this signifieth that the earthly and corrupt Birth or Geniture cannot lay hold on or apprehend the innnermost Birth or Geniture but is foolish and silly 75. The last pressure from the Heart signifieth that it will indeed qualifie mix or unite with the innermost Birth or Geniture in its sensibility perception or Thoughts but cannot apprehend it in its Reason therefore this syllable or word alone by it self is Dumb and hath no signification or understanding in it alone but is used onely for distinction sake with some other word 76. The word Erden is thrust forth from the Heart and is conceived on the hinder part upon the Tongue at the hinder Gummes and trembleth the Tongue is used about the first syllable Er yet not steadily but it recoiles inward at the neather gummes and croucheth as it were before an enemy trembling 77. The other syllable den is conceived by the Tongue and the upper Gumms and leaveth the Mouth open and the spirit of formation goeth forth at the Nostrills and will not go forth together in this word out at the Mouth and though it carrieth forth somewhat indeed along with it yet the true Tone or Noise of the true spirit goeth onely forth through or at the Nostrils or Organ of Smelling This is a great Mysterie 78. The word or syllable Er signifieth the kindled astringent and bitter quality the earnest severe wrath of God which trembleth at the hinder part of the Gummes before which the Tongue is as it were afraid and croucheth at the neather gums and flieth as it were from an Enemy 79. The word or syllable den conceiveth it self on the Tongue again and the spirit attracteth the power and vertue out of the word and therewith goeth forth another way at the Nostrills and so goeth therewith up into or towards the Brain before the Royal Seat And this signifieth that the outermost Salitter of the Earth is eternally rejected from Gods Light and Holinesse 80. But that the Spirit layeth hold on the power and vertue of the word and goeth another way through the Nostrills into the Brain before the Throne of the Senses or Thoughts it signifieth that God will extract the Heart of the Earth from the wrath of wickednesse and use it to his eternal Royal Praise Observe 81. He will extract from the Earth the Kernel and the Best or the Good Spirit and will Regenerate it anew to his honour and Glory 82. Here O Man consider thy self well and mind What manner of seed thou sowest into the Earth the very same will spring up and bear Blossoms and fruit for ever either in the Love or in the Wrath. 83. But when the good shall be separated from the Evil then thou wilt live in that part which thou hast laboured for here be it either in Heaven or in Hell-fire 84. In what soever thou endeavourest Labourest and actest here into that thy Soul goeth when thou Dyest 85. Or dost thou think that my spirit hath suck'd this which I have set down here out of the corrupted Earth or out of an
of the corrupted Earth and quencheth its wrath whereby in the Astrall Birth or Geniture all standeth in the Life and so the Earth generateth the Life through the Death The Gate of the Mystery 38. But that there is a Firmament between the Waters which Firmament is called Heaven it hath this understanding or meaning 39. The whole Deep from the Moon to the Earth standeth all with its working in the wrathfull and comprehensible or palpable Birth or Geniture for the Moon is the Goddesse of the palpable Birth and so the House of the Devills of Death and of Hell is in the circuit orb or Extent between the Moon and the Earth 40. Where therefore the fierce wrath of God in the outermost Birth or Geniture in the Deep becometh daily kindled and blown up by the Devills and all wicked Men through the Great Sins of Man which still qualifie mix unite or co-operate with the Astral Birth or Geniture in the Deep 41. Now Therefore God hath made the Firmament which is call'd Heaven between the outermost and innermost Birth and that is a Partition or division between the outermost and innermost Birth or Geniture 42. For the outermost Birth of the water cannot comprehend the innermost Birth of the water which is called Heaven and which is made out of the midst or Center of the water Heaven is the Firmament viz. the fire-Sea or Sea-of-Fire out of the seven spirits of Nature out of which the Stars as a Quintessence were concreted incorporated or created by the word FIAT And it hath or containeth both fire and water and hangeth in it self inwardly on the first Principle and shall bring its wonders with or as to the figure of them into the Eternal but its Birth or Geniture fadeth or passeth away 43. Now the innermost Birth of Heaven reflects strongly upon the Earth and holdeth the outermost water upon the Earth together with the Earth also strongly captive 44. And if that were not then with the Revolution of the Globe of the Earth the water would be divided or dissolved again also then would the Earth Crumble break and moulder away in the Deep and all would be a Chaos again 45. But now therefore that Firmament between the outermost palpable water and the Inward holdeth the Earth and the palpable water Captive But now thou mayst Ask What is the fire then a Firmament of that Heaven which I can neither see nor apprehend Answer 46. Yes It is the Firmament between the clear Deity and the corrupt Nature which thou must break through when thou intendest to come to God and it is that very Firmament which doth not quite stand in the wrath neither is it altogether or perfectly pure concerning which it is written the very Heavens are not pure in the sight of God as in Job 15. 15. and at the last Judgment Day the wratn will be purged from them For it is written Heaven and Earth shall passe away but my word shall not passe away saith Christ Matth. 24. 35. Mark 13. 31. 47. Now that impurity in that Heaven is the wrath but the purity is the word of God which he once spake saying Let the water under the Firmament be separated from the water above the firmament Gen. 1. And that Word standeth and is comprised in the firmament of the water and holdeth the outward water together with the Earth captive or fixed The Gate of the Deitie Observe here the hidden Mystery of God 48. When thou beholdest the Deep above the Earth thou oughtest not to say that it is not the Gate of God where God in his holinesse dwelleth No no think not so For the whole holy Trinity God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost dwelleth in the Center under the Firmament of Heaven but that very Firmament cannot comprehend him 49. Indeed all is as it were one Body the outermost and inhermost Birth together with the Firmament of heaven as also the Astrall Birth therein in and with which the wrath of God also qualifieth mixeth and uniteth but yet they are one to another as the Government frame or constitution in Man 50. The Flesh signifieth 1o. The outward Birth or Genitute which is the House of Death 2o. The second Birth or Geniture in Man is the Astrall in which the Life-standeth and wherein Love and wrath wrestle one with another And thus far Man himself knoweth himself for the Astrall Birth generateth the Life in the outermost that is in the dead Flesh 3o. The Third Birth is generated between the Astrall and outermost and that is called the animated or soulish Birth or Geniture or the Soul and is as Large as the whole Man 51. And that Birth or Geniture the outward Man neither knoweth nor comprehendeth neither doth the Astrall comprehend it but every qualifying or fountain spirit comprehendeth only its innate or instant Root which signifieth or resembleth the Heaven 52. And that animated or soulish Man must presse through the Firmament of Heaven to God and live with God else the whole man cannot come into Heaven to God 53. For every Man that desireth to be saved must with his innate instant Births or Genitures be as the whole Deity with all the three Births in this world is 54. Man cannot be absolutely or wholly pure without wrath and sin for the Births of the Depth in this world are not fully pure before the Heart of God Job 15. v. 15. but alwayes Love and wrath wrestle one with another whence God is called an angry zealous God Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9. 55. Now as man is in the Government or Order of his Nativity Birth or Geniture Just so also is the whole Body of God in or of this world but in the water standeth the meek Life 56. As I. First in the outward Body of God in or of this world there is the congealed astringent bitter and Hot Death in which the palpable water is also congealed and Dead 57. And therein now is the Darknesse wherein King Lucifer with his Angels as also all fleshly or carnal wicked Men lye captive even with or in their living Bodies as also the Separated spirits of damned Men. 58. This birth can neither see hear feel smell nor comprehend the Heart of God but is a Foolish Virgin which King Lucifer in his Pride hath caused to be so 59. And II. The second Birth is the Astrall which thou must understand to be the Life of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits wherein now the Love and the wrath is against one another and therein standeth the upper water which is a spirit of the life and therein or between is the Firmament of Heaven which is made out of the midst or Center of the water 60. Now this Birth or Geniture presseth through the outward congealed Birth quite through Death and the Astral Life in the death that is in the congealed Earth Water and Flesh of the Beasts and of Men also of the Fowls Fishes and
if Nature had fully chang'd it self with its sharp Birth into Love according to the heavenly Right Law or Manner then were the Devils again in the Seat of God 47. And this thou mayst very well perceive and understand in Extream Heat and Cold as also by the Poison Bitternesse and Sowrnesse in this world all which stand in the Birth or Geniture of the Stars wherein the Devil lyeth Captive 48. The Stars are onely the kindling of the great House for the whole house is benumm'd in Death as the Earth is for the outermost Birth or Geniture is dead and benumm'd as the Rind Shell or Bark of a Tree but the Astral birth is the Body in which the Life riseth up 49. But it is in its Body very sharp yet the new Birth which riseth up in the water of Life and presseth through Death mitigateth it But it cannot alter the kernel of the sharp Birth but is generated out of it and keeps its holy new life to it self and presseth through the angry Death and the angry Death comprehendeth it not 50. Now this love and wrath is indeed one Body but the water of Life is the heaven of Partition between them so that the Love doth not receive or comprehend the Wrath nor the wrath the Love but the Love riseth up in the water of Life and receiveth into it self from the Earth and austere Birth the power which is in the Light which is generated out of the Wrath so that the New Body is born out of the Old 51. For the old Body which standeth in the austere Birth belongeth to the Devil for a House and the new belongeth to the Kingdom of Christ. Now it may be Asked Are not all the Three Persons of the Deitie in the Birth or Geniture of Meeknesse in this World Answer 52. Yes they are all three in this world in the full Birth or Geniture of Love meeknesse Holinesse and purity and they are alwaies generated in such a substance and Bâ—eing as was done from Eternity 53. Behold God the Father Spake to the People of Israel on Mount Sinai wâ—en he gave the Law to them saying I am an angry zealous or Jealous God to those that hate me Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9. 54. Now thou canst not make of this One onely Father who is both Angry and also full of Love two Persons but he is one onely Father which continually generateth his heartily beloved Sonne and from both these the Holy Ghost goeth forth continually Observe the depth in the Center 55. The Father is the One onely being who himself is ALL who continually generateth his heartily beloved Sonne from eternity and in both of them the Holy Ghost is continually standing in the Flash wherein the Life is Generated 56. But now from the austere and earnest Birth or Geniture of the qualifying or fountain spirits of the Father wherein the Zeale or Jealousy and the wrath standeth the Body of Nature alwaies cometh to be wherein the Light of the Sonne viz of the Fathers Heart standeth incomprehensibly as to Nature 57. For the light is in the Midst or Center of the Birth or Geniture and is the place of Life wherein the meek Life of God is generated from or out of all the powers of the Father and in the same place the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne 58. Now those powers of the Father which stand in the kindling of the Light are the holy Father and the meek Father and the pure Birth or Geniture of God and the Spirit which riseth therein is the holy Ghost but the sharp Birth or Geniture is the Body wherein this Holy Life is continually generated 59. But when the Light of God shineth through this sharp Birth or Geniture then it becometh very meek and is as it were like a Man that is a sleep in whom the Life still moveth and the Body is in a sweet quiet rest 60. And in this Body of nature now was the kindling made for out of this Body the Angels also were created and if they had not elevated and kindled themselves in their Highmindednesse then their Body might have stood eternally in a stillnesse and in an incomprehensible meeknesse as it is in the other Principalities of Angels that are without distinct from this world and their spirit had generated it self eternally in their Body of meeknesse as the holy Trinitie doth in the Body or Corporeity of God and their inborn or innate spirit had been one Heart one Will and one Love with or in the Holy Trinity for to that end also they were created in the Body of God to be a joy to the Deitie 61. But Lord Lucifer would himselfe be the Mighty God and kindled his Body and excited or stirred up therein the sharp Birth of God and opposed the Light or bright Heart of God intending to rule therein with his sharpnesse which was a thing impossible to be done 62. But being he elevated and kindled himself against the Right of the Deitie thereupon the sharp Birth in the Body of the Father rose up against him and took him as an angry Sonne Prisoner or Captive in the sharpest Birth and therein now is his eternall Dominion 63. But now when the Father kindled himself in the Body of the sharpnesse he did not for all that kindle the holy source wherein his most loving Heart generateth it self and so thereupon his Heart should sit in the source of wrath No! that is impossible that it should be for the sharp Birth cannot apprehend the holy and pure Birth but the holy and pure presseth quite through the sharp and generateth to it self a new Body which standeth again in meeknesse 64. And that new Body is the water of Life which is generated when the light presseth through the wrath and the holy Ghost is the Former or â—ramer therein but Heâ—ven is the Partition between love and wrath and is the seat wherein the wrath is transmuted or changed into Love 65. Now when thou beholdest the Sun and Stars thou must not think that they are the Holy and pure God and thou must not offer to pray to them or aske any thing of them for they are not the Holy God but are the kindled austere Birth or Geniture of his Body wherein Love and Wrath wrestle one with another 66. But the holy God is hidden in the Center of all these things in his Heaven and thou canst neither see nor comprehend him but the soul comprehendeth him and the Astral Birth but half for the Heaven is the Partition between Love and Wrath That Heaven is every where even in thy selfe 67. And now when thou worshippest or prayest to the Holy God in his Heaven then thou worshippest or prayest to him in that heaven which is in thee and that same God with his light and therein the holy Ghost breaketh through in thy Heart and generateth thy Soul to be a New Body of God which ruleth and
are in Nature proceed from God the Father All Light Heat Cold Ayr Water and all the powers of the Earth Bitter Sowre Sweet Astringent Hard and Soft and more then can be Reckoned all have their beginning from the Father 17. Therefore if a Man would liken the Father to any thing he should liken him to the Round Globe of Heaven 18. Thou must not conceive here that the very power which is in the Father standeth in a Peculiar severed or divided part and place in the Father as the Stars do in Heaven 19. No! but the Spirit sheweth that all the powers in the Father are one in another as one power 20. A Resemblance Image or Figure whereof we have in the Prophet Ezekiel the 1. Chap. Who seeth the Lord in the Spirit and resemblance like a wheele having Four other wheels one in another the Four being like one another and when they moved they went Strait forward which way soever the Wind did sit or Blow and that way they went all forward having no cause of returning 21. And thus it is with God the Father for all the powers are in the Father one in another as one power and all powers Consist in the Father in an unsearcheable Light and Clarity or Brightnes and Glory 22. Yet thou must not think that God who is in Heaven and above the Heaven doth there stand and hover like a power and quality which hath in it neither Reason nor knowledge in it 23. As the Sun which turneth round in its circle and shooteth forth from it self Heat and Light whether it be for benefit or hurt to the Earth and Creatures which indeed would be for hurt if the other Planets and Stars did not hinder 24. No! the Father is not so but he is an All-mighty All-wise All-knowing All-seeing All-hearing All-smelling All-feeling All-tasting God who in himself is meek friendly gracious merciful and full of Joy yea Joy it self 25. And he is thus from Eternity to eternity unchangeably He never changed himself in his Being neither will he change himself in all Eternity 26. He is proceeded or born of nothing but Himself is all in Eternity and all whatsoever is is come from his power which from Eternity goeth forth from him 27. His Immensenesse Heighth and Depth no Creature no not any Angel in Heaven can search into it but the Angels live in the power of the Father very meekly and full of Joy and they alwaies Sing in the power of the Father Of GOD the SONNE 28. If a Man will see God the Sonne he must once more look upon natural things otherwise I cannot write of him the Spirit indeed beholdeth him but that can neither be spoken nor written for the Divine Being consisteth in power which can neither be written nor spoken 29. Therefore we must use Similitudes if we intend to speak of God for we live in this world as men who know but in part and are made of that which is but in part Therefore I cite the Reader into the life to come where and when I shall speak more properly and more clearly of this high Article 30. In the mean while the loving Reader is to attend to the sense and meaning of the Spirit and then he will not fail to get a little refreshing if he hath but any hunger in him Now Observe 31. The Turks and Heathens say God hath no Sonne Set Open your Eyes wide here and do not make your selves stark blind and you will see the Sonne 32. The Father is all and all power Subsisteth in the Father He is the Beginning and the End of all things and besides and beyond him is nothing and whatever is is from the Father 33. For before the beginning of the Creation of the Creatures there was nothing but only GOD and where there is nothing out of that nothing will be All things must have a Cause or Root or else Nothing will be 34. Yet you are not to think that the Sonne is another God then the Father Neither should you think that the Sonne is without or besides the Father and that he is a severed part or divided piece as when two men stand one by another where one comprehendeth not the other 35. No! the Father and the Sonne is not of such a substance or such a kind of thing for the Father is not an Image to be likened to any thing but the Father is the fountain of all powers and all the powers are one in another as one power and therefore he is said to be ONE onely GOD. 36. Otherwise if his powers were divided then he were not Al-mighty but now he is the Self-subsisting All-mighty and All-powerful God 37. And the Sonne is the Heart in the Father all the powers which are in the Father are the propriety of the Father and the Sonne is the Heart or the Kernel or Pith in all the powers in the whole Father and he is the cause of the springing Joy in all powers in the whole Father 38. From the Sonne who is the Fathers Heart in all his powers the Eternal Joy ariseth and springeth in all the powers of the Father such a joy as no eye hath seen nor ear heard neither hath ever entred into the Heart of any Man as St. Paul saith 1 Cor. 2. 9. 39. But if a man here on Earth be enlightned with the Holy Ghost from the fountain of JESUS CHRIST so that the spirits of Nature which signifie the Father be kindled in him then there ariseth such a Joy in his Heart and it goeth forth into all his veins so that the whole body trembleth and the Soulish animal spirit triumpheth as if it were siting in the holy Trinity which is understood onely by those that have been Guests in that place 40. And this is but a Type or Glimpse of the Sonne of God in Man whereby Faith is strengthened and preserved for the joy cannot be so great in an earthen vessel as in a heavenly wherein the perfect power of God is fully Now here I must write a Similitude 41. I will shew thee a Similitude in Nature signifying how the holy Being in the holy Trinity is 42. Consider Heaven which is a round Globe having neither beginning nor end but its beginning and end is every where which way soever you look upon it and so is God who is in and above the Heaven he hath neither beginning nor end 43. Now consider further the Circle or Sphear of the Stars they denote the various Powers and Wisdome of the Father and they are made also by the Power and Wisdom of the Father 44. Now the Heaven the Stars and the whole Deep between the Stars together with the Earth signifie the Father 45. And the Seven Planets signifie the seven Spirits of God or the Princes of the Angels among which also Lord LUCIFER was one before his Fall which all were made out of the Father in the beginning of the creation of Angels before the
relish for food nor do they rot and grow stinking as those in this world do but all consist in holy Divine power 49. Their Constitution or composition is from Divine power from the Salitter and Mercurius of the divine pomp and are the food of the holy Angels 50. If mans abominable Fall had not spoiled it he would have been feasted in such a manner in this world and have eaten such fruit as indeed they were presented to him in Paradise in a twofold manner 51. But the infectious Lust longing and Malady of the Devil who had infected and spoiled the Salitter of which Adam was made that brought Man into an Evil Longing or Lust to eat of both the Qualities the Evil and the Good whereof I shall write clearly here following and demonstrate it Of the Creation of Angels 52. The Spirit sheweth plainly and clearly that before the Creation of the Angels the Divine Being with its rising and qualifying was from eternity and remained so in the Creation of Angels as it is also at this day and will so continue in and to Eternity 53. And the Space Room or place of this world together with the creaturely heaven which we behold with our eyes as also the Space or Place of the Earth and Stars together with the Deep was in such a form as now at this day it is in aloft above the Heavens in the Divine Pomp. 54. But was the Kingdom of the Great Prince Lucifer in the Creation of the Angels Understand according to the second Principle out of which he was thrust forth into the outermost which also is the very innermost of all 55. Who by his proud elevation in his Kingdom â—indled the qualities or the divine Sâ—litter out of which he was made Understand the Center of his Nature or the first Principle and set it on fire 56. Supposing thereby he should grow hugely and highly light and qualifying above the Sonne of God but he became a Fool therefore this place or space in its burning quality could not subsist in God whereupon the Creation of this world ensued 57. But this world at the End in Gods appointed Time will be set again to its first place as it was before the Creation of Angels and Lord Lucifer will have a hole or dungeon for his eternal habitation therein and he will remain eternally in his kindled quality which will be an eternal base filthy reproachful Habitation an empty void dark valley or dungeon a hole of fiercenesse or wrath Now Observe 58. God in his moving created the holy Angels at once not out of a strange matter but out of himself out of his own power and eternal wisdom 59. But the Philosophers had this opinion as if God had made the Angels only out of the light but they erred therein for they were made not only out of the light but out of all the Powers of God 60. And as I have shewed before there are two things especially to be observed in the Deep of God the Father first the power or all Powers of God the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost are very lovely pleasant and various and yet are all One in another as one power 61. And as the powers of all the stars rule in the Ayre so also in God but every power in God Sheweth it self with its operation severally and distinctly 62. Then afterward the Sound is in every power and the Tone or tune of the Sound is according to the quality of every power and therein consisteth the total Heavenly Kingdom of Joy and so from this divine Salitter and Mercurius all Angels are made viz. out of the Body of Nature Question 63. But thou mayest here ask How are they made or generated or in what way and manner Answer 64. If I had the tongue of an Angel and thou hadst an Angelical understanding we might very finely discourse of it But the Spirit only doth see it and the tongue cannot advance towards it For I can use no other words then the words of this world but now the Holy Ghost being in thee thy Soul will well apprehend it 65. For behold the totall holy Trinity hath with its moving Composed compacted or figured a Body or Image out of it self like a little God but not so fully or strongly going forth as the whole Trinity yet in some measure according to the extent and Capacity of the Creatures 66. For in God there is neither beginning nor end but the Angels have a beginning and end but not circumscriptive apprehensive palpable or conclusive for an Angel can sometime be great and suddenly little again their alteration is as swift as mans thoughts are All qualities and powers are in an Angel as they are in the whole Deity 67. But thou must rightly understand this They are made and compacted together or figured out of the Salitter and Mercurius that is out of the exit or excrescence 68. Consider this Similitude Out of the Sun and Stars go forth the Elements and they make in the Salitter of the Earth a living spirit and the stars remain in their Circle or Sphear and that Spirit likewise getteth the quality of the starres 69. But now the Spirit after its compaction is a severed distinct thing and hath a substance of its own as all the Stars have and the stars also are and remain severed and distinct things each of them is free to it self 70. Neverthelesse the quality of the Stars reigneth in the Spirit yet the Spirit can and may raise or demerse it self in its own qualities or may live in the influences of the stars as it pleaseth for it is free for it hath gotten the qualities which it hath in it self for its own 71. And though it had them at the beginning from the stars yet they are now its proper own Just as a mother when she hath the seed in her self as long as she hath it in her and that it is a feed it is hers but when the seed is become a child then it is no more the mothers but is the childs proper own 72. And though the child be in the mothers house and the mother nourisheth the child with her food and that the child could not live without the mother yet both the Body and the Spirit which are generated out of the mother are the Child 's proper own and it retaineth its corporeal right to it self 73. And in this manner it is with the Angels they are also all composed framed or figured out of the Divine Seed but every one hath his own Body to it self though they are in Gods house and feed on the fruit of their mother out of which they were made yet their Bodies are their proper own 74. But the quality Externally without them or externally without their Bodies viz. their mother is not their propriety as also their mother is not the childs propriety also the mothers food is not the and then we shall get the Angelical Clarity
the Feeling which fifth Counsellour ariseth also from all the powers of the Body in the spirit into the Head 66. For as all powers go forth from God the Father and Sonne in the Holy Ghost and so one toucheth the other from whence existeth the Tune or Mercurius so that all the powers do sound and move themselves 67. Else if one did not touch the other nothing would stir at all and so this touching maketh the Holy Ghost stir so that he riseth up in all the powers and toucheth all the powers of the Father wherein then existeth the heavenly joyfulnesse or triumphing as also tuning sounding generating blossoming and vegetation or Springing all which hath its rising from this that one power toucheth the other 68. For Christ saith in the Gospel John 5. v. 17. I work and my Father worketh also And he meanetâ— this very touching and working in that every power goeth forth from him and generateth the Holy Ghost and in the Holy Ghost all the powers are already clearly stirr'd by the going forth of the Father 69. And therefore the Holy Ghost floweth boyleth and riseth up from eternity and kindleth again all the powers of the Father and maketh them Stirring so that they are alwayes impregnated 70. In such a manner it is also in Angels and Men for all powers in the Body arise and touch one another or else Angels and Men could Feel nothing 71. But if one member be too much stirr'd it cryeth to the whole Body for Help and the whole Body stirs as if it were in a great commotion or Uproar as if the Enemy were at hand and cometh to help that Member and to deliver and release it from the Pain 72. This you may see if a Finger be but hurt crush'd or wounded or any other member of the Body be it which it will presently the Spirit in that place runneth suddenly to the mother the Heart and complaineth to the Mother and if the pain do but a little exceed then the mother rouzeth up and awakeneth all the members of the Body and all must come to help that Member Now Observe 73. Thus one power continually toucheth and stirreth the other in the whole Body and all the powers rise up into the head before the Princely Councell which proveth the stirring of all the powers 74. Now if one member stirreth too much and at any time hurteth a princely Counsellour viz. by Seeing it would be in Love with that which it ought not be in love withall 75. As Lord Lucifer did who saw the Sonne of God and fell in love with that high light and moved and stirred himself so very much intending to be equal with him or indeed to be higher and brighter then He such stirring or medling the Counsellours reject 76. Or if it would stir and move too vehemently br Hearing and would fain hear false and wicked Tongues in talking Lies and Fictions and bring that to the heart this also is rejected by the Counsellours 77. Or if it would by the Smelling get a Longing or Lusting after that which is none of its own as Lord Lucifer did also who longed after the holy Savour or Sweet Smell of the Sonne of God and intended in his elevation and kindling to smell and savour yet more pleasantly 78. In that manner as he deceived our Mother Eve also saying If she did but eat of the forbidden Tree then she should be wise or witty and be like God Gen. 3. 5. But this smelling or stirring the Councell rejected also 79. Or if by Tasting it should fall into a desire and longing to eat that which is not of the quality of the Body or is none of its own as Mother Eve in Paradise fell a longing to eat of the Devils Swine-Apples and did eat thereof such stirring in lust the Councel also rejecteth 80. In brief There are therefore Five in the princely Councell that one should advise the other and every one is of a peculiar sundry Quality and that compacted or concreted spirit which is generated out of all the powers He is their King or Prince and he sitteth in the Head in the Brain of a Man and in an Angel in that Power which is instead of the Brain of a Man and in the Head also upon his Princely Throne and executeth every thing which was concluded and decreed by the whole Princely Councell The Sixth Chapter How an Angel and a Man is the Similitude and Image of God 1. BEhold as the Being in God is so is the Being also in Man and Angels and as the Divine Body is so is also the Angelicall and humane Body or Corporeity 2. But with this difference only that an Angel and a Man is a Creature and not the whole Being but a Sonne of the whole Being whom the whole being hath generated and therefore it is fit that it should be in subjection to the whole Being seeing it is the Sonne of its Body 3. Now if the Sonne resist and oppose the Father it is but right that the Father should cast him away out of the House seeing the Sonne sets himself against him that hath generated him and from whose power he is become a Creature 4. For if any make somewhat out of that which is his own he may if it doth not prove according to his will do with it what he pleaseth and make it either a vessel of honour or dishonour which was done even so to Lucifer Now Observe 5. The whole Divine power of the Father speaketh forth from all Qualities the WORD that is the Sonne of God 6. Now that Voice or that WORD which the Father speaketh goeth forth from the Fathers Salitter or powers and from the Fathers Mercurius Sound or Tune And the Father speaketh this forth in himself and that WORD is the very splendor or Glance proceeding from all his powers 7. But when it is spoken forth it stayeth or sticketh no more in the powers of the Father but soundeth or tuneth back again in the whole Father in all powers 8. Now that WORD which the Father pronounceth or speaketh forth hath such a sharpnesse that the Tone of the WORD goeth swiftly in a moment through the whole Deep of the Father and that sharpnesse is the Holy Ghost 9. For the WORD which is spoken forth or outspoken abideth as a splendor or glorious Edict before the King 10. But the Tone or Sound which goeth forth through the Word executeth the Edict of the Father which he had outspoken through the Word and that is the Birth or Geniture of the holy Trinity 11. Now behold An Angel and a Man is thus also the power in the whole Body hath all the Qualities as it is in God the Father 12. And as all the powers in God the Father rise up from eternity to eternity so all the powers rise up also in an Angel and in a Man into the Head for higher they cannot rise for they are but Creatures which have a
water of such a kind in God but it is the source or fountain in the powers not of an elementary kind as in this world if I should liken it to any thing I must liken it to the Sap or Juyce in an Apple but very bright and lightsome like Heaven which is the Spirit of all powers 17. It is Lord Lucifer which hath thus spoiled it that it rageth and raveth so in this world which so runneth and floweth and is so thick and dark and moreover if it runneth not it becometh stinking of which I shall treat more largely when I shall write of the Creation 18. The Heat is in God a most lovely pleasant soft gentle mild meek warmth an exit or going forth of light which expandeth it self rising up from the light wherein the source or fountain of Love Springeth up 19. The Cold also in God is not of such a kind but is a cooling or refreshing of the Heat a mollifying or allaying of the Spirit a rising up boyling or moving of the Spirit Note here the Depth 20. God saith in Moses when he gave the Law to the children of Israel I am an angry jealous God to those that hate me afterward he calls himself also a merciful God to them that fear him Exod. 20. 5 6. Deut. 5. 9 10. Question 21. Now the Question is What is the wrath of God in Heaven And whether God be angry in himself or how is God moved to Anger Answer Here there are chiefly Seven sorts of Qualities or Circumstances to be observed I. Of the First Species or Circumstance 22. First there is in the Divine power hidden in Secret the astringent Quality which is a Quality of the Kernel Pith or hidden Being a sharp compaction or penetration in the Salitter very sharp and harsh or astringent which generates hardnesse and also coldnesse and when that heat is kindled it generateth a sharpnesse like to Salt 23. This is one Species or source of wrath in the Divine Salitter and when this source is kindled which may be done by great motion or elevation touching or stirring then the astringent causeth or qualifieth in great coldnesse which is very sharp like to Salt very hard binding knitting and attracting together like a Stone 24. But in the heavenly Pomp or State it is not so elevating for it doth not elevate it self neither doth it kindle it self Onely King Lucifer hath kindled this quality in his Kingdom through his Elevation and Pride whence this quality is burning even till the Last Day 25. And by this now in the Creation of this world the Stars and the Elements as also the Creatures tremble and burn out of which existeth also the House of Death and of Hell also an Eternal Base loathsome Habitation for the Kingdom of Lucifer and for all wicked Men. 26. This Quality generateth in the heavenly Pomp the sharpnesse of the spirit out of which and whereby the creaturely Being is so formed or constituted that a heavenly Body may be framed as also all manner of colours forms and sprouts or vegetation 27. For it is the contraction compacting or Imaging of a thing and therefore it is the first Quality and a beginning of the Angelical Creatures and of all Images or figurations which are in Heaven and which are in this world and all whatsoever can be named or expressed 28. But if it be kindled through elevation which those creatures onely can do in their own Kingdome which are created out of the Divine Salitter then it is a burning source-vein of the wrath of God 29. For it is one of the seven Spirits of God in whose power standeth the Divine Being in the whole or total Divine Power and heavenly Pomp. 30. And so if it be kindled then it is a fierce source of wrath and a beginning of hell and a torment and woe of the hellish fire also a quality of darknesse for the Divine Love and also the Divine Light are extinguished therein 31. It is a Key which locketh in to the Chamber of Death and generateth Death from whence proceedeth Earth stones and all hard things II. Of the Second Species or Circumstance 32. The Second Quality or Second Spirit of God in the Divine Salitter or in the Divine power is the sweet quality which worketh in the astringent and mitigateth the astringent so that it is altogether lovely pleasant and mild or meek 33. For it is the overcoming of the astringent quality and is the very source or fountain of the Mercy of God which overcometh the wrath whereby the astringent harsh source is mollified and Gods Mercy riseth up 34. Of this you have a Similitude in an Apple which at first is astringent harsh or choaky but when the sweet quality forceth and overcometh it then it is very soft lovely and pleasant to eat and thus it is also in the Divine power 35. For when Men speak of the mercy of God the Father they speak of his power of his fountain spirits of the qualities which are in the Salitter out of which his most richly loving Heart or Sonne is generated Observe here 36. The astringent or harsh Quality is the Heart Pith or Kernel in the Divine power the contraction compaction or imaging forming or impression for it is the sharpnesse and cold as is seen that the harsh astringent cold dryeth the water and maketh it sharp Ice 37. And the sweet Quality is the allaying or warming whereby the harsh or astringent and cold quality becometh thin and soft whence the water taketh its original 38. Thus the astringent quality is and is called the Heart and the sweet is called Barm or Warm or softening or mitigaâ—ing and they are the two Qualities out of which the Heart or the Sonne of God is generated 39. For the astringent or harsh quality in its stock or kernel when it qualifieth or operateth in its own Power is a Darknesse And the sweet Quality in its own power is a moving boyling warming and rising Light a source or fountain of meeknesse and well-doing 40. But while both of them qualifie or operate one in another in the Divine power as if they were but one power they are a meek mild lovely pleasant merciful qualifying 41. And these two Qualities are two of the spirits of God among the Seven qualifying or fountain-Spirits in the Divine power 42. Whereof you have an Image in the Revelation of John Apocalypse Chap. 1. where he seeth seven Golden Candlesticks or Lights before the Sonne of God which signifie the seven spirits of God which shine in great clarity brightnesse or lustre before the Sonne of God out of which the Sonne of God is continually generated from eternity to eternity and is the Heart of the seven Spirits of God which I will here describe in order one after another 43. You must here elevate your sense or mind in the Spirit if you intend to understand and apprehend it Or else in your own sense or mind
astringent or harsh quality there is no life but an astringent cold hard Death and in the bitter quality there is no Light but a dark bitter and raging Pain a house of Trembling Horrour and fierce wrathful fearful Misery 121. Therefore when they are Guests feasting at the sweet and Light quality then are they affected and pleasant very joyful and triumphing in the Creature 122. And therefore no Lean creature is merry unlesse it be so that Heat be predominant therein that is though it be Lean and hath little of the fat or oyl in it yet perhaps sweetnesse is very abundant there 123. On the other side many Creatures have much fatnesse and yet are very Melancholy or sad which is because their fatnesse is inclined to the condition of the Elementary water wherein the astringent or harsh and bitter quality is somewhat strong Of the Language of Nature 124. Art thou a rational man then Observe this the Spirit which moveth on high aloft from the heat taketh its Exit rising and shining in the sweet quality therefore the sweet qualities is its friendly or kind will and raigneth in meeknesse and meeknesse and humility are its proper House or Habitation 125. And this is the Pith or Kernel of the Deity and therefore IT is called GOTT God because it is sweet meek friendly and Bounteous or Good GUTIG and therefore is IT called Barm-hertz-ig Warm-Heart-ed or Merciful because its sweet quality riseth up in the astringent sowre and bitter qualities and refresheth moistneth and enlightneth them that they might not remain a dark valley 126. For understand but thy Mother Tongue aright thou hast as deep a Ground therein as there is in the Hebrew or Latine Though the Learned elevate themselves therein like a proud arrogant Bride it is no grat matter their Art is now on the Lees or bowed down to the Dust. 127. The Spirit sheweth and declareth that yet before the End many a Layman will know and understand more then now the Wittiest or Cunningest Doctors know for the Gates of Heaven set open themselves those that do not blind themselves shall and will see it very well the Bridegroom Crowneth his Bride AMEN BARM-HERTZ-IG 128. Observe the word BARM is chiefly formed upon thy Lips and when thou pronouncest BARM then thou shuttest thy Mouth and snarlest in the hinder part of the Mouth and this is the Astringent quality which environeth or incloseth the word that is it figureth compacteth or contracteth the word together that it becometh hard or soundeth and the Bitter quality separateth or cutteth or distinguisheth it 129. That is when thou pronouncest BAR the last letter R snarleth and murmureth like a trembling Breath and thus doth the bitter quality which is a trembling 130. Now the word BARM is a dead word void of understanding so that no man understands what it meaneth which signifieth that the Two Qualities Astringent and Bitter are a hard dark cold and Bitter Being which have no Light in them And therefore a man cannot understand their power without the Light 131. But when a man saith BARM-HERTZ he fetcheth or presseth the second syllable out from the Deep of the Body out from the Heart for the right Spirit speaketh forth the word HEARTZ which riseth up aloft from the heat of the Heart in which the Light goeth forth and floweth 132. Now Observe when thou pronouncest BARM then the two qualities the astringent and bitter form frame or compact together the word BARM very leisurely or slowly for it is a long impotent feeble syllable because of the weaknesse of the qualities 133. But when thou pronouncest HERTZ then the spirit in the word HERTZ Heart goeth forth suddenly like a flash of lightning and giveth the distinction and understanding of the word 134. But when thou prnouncest IG then thou catchest or captivatest the spirit in the midst of the other two qualities so that it must stay there and form the word 135. And thus is the Divine power also the Astringent and Bitter quality are the Salitter of the Divine Omnipotence the sweet quality is the Pith or Kernel of the Barm-hertz-ig-keit Warm-heart-ed-nesse or Merci-ful-nesse according to which the whole Being with all the Powers is called GOTT GOD. 136. The heat is the Kernel of the Spirit out of which the light goeth and kindleth it self in the midst or Center of the sweet quality and becometh captivated by the astringent and bitter quality as in the midst or center wherein the Sonne of God is generated and that is the very Hertz Heart of God 137. And the Lights Flame or Flash which in the twinkling of an Eye or Moment shineth into all the powers even as the Sun doth in the whole world is the Holy Ghost which goeth forth from the clarity or brightnesse of the Sonne of God and is the flash of Lightning and sharpnesse for the Sonne is generated in the midst or Center of the other qualities and is catched by the other qualities Understand this high thing rightly 138. When the Father speaketh or pronounceth the WORD that is generateth his Sonne which is alwaies done for ever and Eternally then that Word first taketh its Original in the astringent quality therein it fixeth conceiveth or compacteth it self and in the sweet quality it taketh its fountain spring or source and in the bitter quality it sharpeneth and moveth it self and in the heat it riseth up and Kindleth the middle sweet fountain or source 139. And now it burneth joyntly or equally alike in all the qualities of the kindled fire and the fire burneth forth from the qualities for all qualities burn and that fire is one fire and not many several Fires 149. And that fire is the very Sonne of God which is thus generated alwaies from eternity to eternity this I can demonstrate by the Heaven and the Earth the Stars and the Elements and by all the Creatures Stones Leaves and Grasse yea in the Devill himself and that not with Dead slight unsignificant Arguments void of understanding but with cleer quick living and invincible firm Arguments even above beyond and to the Refutation of all mens Reason convincingly and undeniably and lastly in opposition against all the devills and the Gates of Hell and would do it here if it would not take up too much room 141. Yet it shall be treated of all along in this whole book in all the Articles and parts thereof but you shall find it more particularly in that part concerning the Creation of the Creatures as also conconcerning the Creation of Heaven and Earth and of all things which will be fitter to be done then and easier apprehended by the Reader Now Observe 142 Out of that fire goeth the flash or the light forth and moveth or boyleth in all the powers and hath or containeth the fountain and sharpnesse of all the powers in it self because it is generated through the Sonne out of all the powers of the Father
Power Question 4. Now the Question is How is this form Or in what manner is this so Answer If thou art a Rational Mercurial spirit which presseth through all the seven Spirits of God and beholdeth proveth and examineth them how they are then thou wilt by the explanation of this seventh Spirit conceive and understand the Operation and the Being of the whole Deity and apprehend it in thy Sense or Mind 5. But if thou understandest nothing by this Spirit then let this book alone and Richte Judge neither of the cold nor of the warmth therein for thou art too hard bound and captivated in Saturnus and art not a Philosopher in this world 6. Let thy Richten Judging alone or else thou wilt receive thy evil wages for it therefore I will have thee faithfully warned of it Tarry till thou commest into the other life for then the heavenly Gate will be opened to thee and then thou also wilt understand this Now observe the depth 7. Here I must layhold on the whole divine Body in the Midst or center at the Heart and explain the whole Body how Nature is or existeth and there you will see the highest ground how all the seven Spirits of God continually generate one another and how the Deity hath neither Beginning nor End 8. Therefore behold and see the Longing desired pleasure of thy Spirit the eternal divine Joyfulnesse and the heavenly delight and corporeal Joy which in all eternity hath no End Now Observe 9. When the flash riseth up in the Center then the divine birth standeth in its full operation in God it is continually and Eternally thus but not so in us poor fleshly children 10. In this Life the triumphing divine birth lasteth in us Men only so long as the flash lasteth therefore our knowledge is but in part whereas in God the flash standeth unchangeably alwaies Eternally thus 11. Behold all the seven Spirits of God are generated alike together at once none of them is the first and none of them is the last but we must have an Eye to the Kernel and consider how the divine Birth or Geniture riseth up otherwise man understandeth it not 12. For the creatures cannot comprehend at once all the seven Spirits one in another but they look upon them But when one Spirit is touched or stirred then that toucheth or stirreth all the other and then the Birth or Geniture standeth in full Power 13. Therefore it hath a beginning in Man but none in God and therefore I must also write in a creaturely manner or else thou canst not understand it 14. Behold all the seven Spirits without the flash were a dark Valley but when the flash riseth up between the Astringent and Bitter qualities in the Heat then it becometh shining in the sweet water and in the flames of the Heat it becometh Bitter and triumphing and Living and in the astringent it becometh Corporeal Dry and Bright 15. And now these four Spirits move themselves in the flash for all the four become living therein and so now the power of these four riseth up in the flash as if the Life did rise up and the power which is risen up in the flash is the Love which is the fift Spirit 16. And that power moveth so very pleasantly and amiably in the flash as if a dead Spirit did become living and were suddainly in a Moment set into great clarity or brighnesse 17. Now in this moving one power toucheth or stirreth the other and first the astringent beateth or striketh and the heat maketh in that beating or stroak a clear ringing sound and the bitter Power divideth the ringing and the water maketh it mild and soft and so mitigateth it And this is the sixth Spirit 18. And now the Tone in all the five spirits riseth up like a melodious pleasant Musick and remaineth so standing for the astringent quality exsiccateth or drieth it up 19 So now in the same sound that is gone forth which now subsisteth being dryed and is the power of all the six qualifying or fountain spirits and is as it were the Seed of the other six spirits which they have there compacted or incorporated together and made a Spirit thereof which hath the quality of all the Spirits And that is the Seventh Spirit of God in the divine power 20. Now this Spirit subsisteth in its colour like Azure or Heaven Blew for it is generated out of all the six Spirits and when the flash which standeth in the midst or Center in the Heat shineth into the other Spirits so that they rise up in the flash and generate the seventh Spirit then the flash riseth up also in the birth of the six Spirits together in the seventh 21. But because the Seventh hath no peculiar quality in it therefore cannot the flash in the seventh be brighter but it receiveth from the seventh the corporeal Being of all the seven Spirits and the flash standeth in the midst or Center of these seven Spirits and is generated from all the seven 22. And the seven Spirits are the Father of the Light and the Light is their Sonne which they alwaies continually generate thus from Eternity to Eternity and the light enlightneth and alwaies Eternally maketh the seven Spirits living and joyfull for they all receive their rising and Life in the power of Light 23. Again they all generate the light and all are together alike the Father of the Light and the light generateth no one Spirit but maketh them all living and Joyful that they alwaies continually stand in the Birth 24. Behold I will shew it thee once more that so by any means thou mayst apprehend it that this high work may not passe away in vain without Profit to thee 25. The astringent quality is the first Spirit and that attracteth or draweth together and maketh all Dry The sweet quality is the second Spirit and that softneth or mitigateth it Now the third Spirit is the bitter Spirit which existeth from the fourth and first 26. And so when the third Spirit in its rage rubs its self in the astringent then it kindleth the fire and then the fiercenesse in the fire riseth up in the astringent In that fiercenesse now the bitter Spirit becometh self-subsisting and in the sweet it becometh meek or Mild and in the hard it becometh Corporâ—al and so now it subsisteth and is also the fourth Spirit 27. Now the flash in the power of these four goeth forth in the heat and riseth up in the sweet spring water or fountain the bitter maketh it triumphing the astringent maketh it shining dry and corporeal and the sweet maketh it meek or Milâ— and so it receiveth its first shining or Lustre in the sweet and here now the flash or the light subsisteth in the midst or Center viz. in the Heart 28. Now when that Light which standeth in the midst or Center shineth into the four Spirits then the power of the four Spirits riseth up in the light
Now as there are in him chiefly seven qualities whereby the whole Divine Being is driven on and sheweth it self infinitely in these seven qualities and yet these seven qualities are the Chief or Prime in the infinitenesse whereby the divine Birth or Geniture stands eternally in its Order unchangeably 31. And as in the Midst or Center of the seven Spirits of God the heart of Life is generated whence the divine Joy riseth up thus also is the order of Angels 32. The Angel-Princes were created according to the spirits of God and the Cherubin according to the heart of God And as the divine Being worketh so also do the Angels 33. That quality which riseth up in Gods Being and chiefly sheweth it self in its working as in the rising up of the Tone or Tune or of the divine working wrestling and fighting that Angelical Prince which is most strongly addicted to that Quality begins in his Rank or File and Round with his Legions with singing ringing forth dancing rejoycing and Jubilating 34. This is heavenly Musick for here every one singeth according to the voice of his quality and the Prince leadeth the Qâ—ire or Chorus as a Chantour or singing-Master with his Scholars and the King rejoyceth and Jubilateth with his Angels to the honour of the great God and to the encreasing and multiplying of the heavenly Joyes and that is in the Heart of God as a Holy Sport or Scene and to that end also are they created for the Joy and Honour of God 35. Now when the heavenly Musick of the Angel riseth up then in the heavenly Pomp in the Divine Salitter there rise up all manner of Vegetations Springings or Sprouts also all manner of figures shapes or Ideas and all manner of colours for the Deity presenteth sheweth or discovereth it self in endlesse and unsearchable varieties of kinds colours Ideas forms and Joyes 36. Now that qualifying or fountain-Spirit in the Deity which doth shew it self then in a singular manner with its rising up and Love-wrestling as having become the Prince or Chief of them that very Angel-Prince belonging to it beginneth instantly his heavenly Musick with his own Legions according to his Quality with singing ringing forth Piping melody and in all the manners of heavenly Skill and Art which riseth up in the Spirits of God 37. But when the Center in the Midst riseth up that is when the Birth or Geniture of the Sonne of God sheweth it self in a singular manner as a Triumph then there rise up the Musicks melodies or Joyes of all the three Kingly Governments or Royal Regiments of the whole Creation of all the Angels 38. What manner of Joy this must be let every Soul consider I in my corrupted nature cannot apprehend it much lesse can I write it 39. By this song I invite or Cite the Reader unto the other Life there himself will be also of that Quire or Chorus and then first will he give credit to this spirit what he doth not understand here that he will have there apparently in his view 40. Thou must know that this is not forged out of a Stone but when the flash riseth up in the Center then the Spirit seeth and knoweth it 41. Therefore look to it and be not too scornfull in this Place else thou wilt be found a scorner and mocker before God and then well mayst thou fare as King Lucifer did Now it may be asked Question What do the Angels then when they sing Not Answer 42. Behold What the Deity doth that they do also When the Spirits of God lovingly generate one in another and rise up one in another as in a loving saluting Embracing kissing and feeding one another in which Taste and Smell the life riseth up and the eternal refreshing of which thou mayst read before at Large 43. Then the holy Angels also walk and Converse one with another friendlily graciously amiably and blessedly in the heavenly Circumference or Region and do behold the wonderful and pleasant form or prospect of heaven and eat of the gracious amiable blessed and delicate fruits of Life Now thou wilt Ask Question What do they Talk of one with another Answer 44. Behold thou Pompous stately lofty and Proud Man the world is even too narrow for thee here and thou thinkest there is none like thee or Equal to thee bethink thy self in this whether thou hast in thee the manner quality or condition of an Angel or of a Devill To whom now shall I liken the Angels 45. I will liken them to little children which walk in the fields in May among the flowers and pluck them and make currous Garlands and Poseys carrying them in their hands rejoycing and alwayes talk together of the several forms or shapes of curious flowers leading one another by the hand when they go to gather flowers 46. And when they come home they shew them to their Parents and they also rejoyce in their children and are merry and cheerly with them 47. So do the Holy Angels likewise they take one another by the Hand and walk together in the curious May of heaven and parly or talk of the pleasant and fair Spring or fruits in the heavenly Pomp and feed on the delicate blessed fruits of God and make use of the beautiful heavenly Flowers for their play or sport in their Scenes and make curious Garlands and rejoyce in the delicious pleasant May of God 48. Here is nothing but a Cordial or Hearty loving a meek and gentle love a friendly courteous discourse a gracious amiable and blessed Society where the one alwaies delighteth to see the other and to honour one another 49. They know of no malice cunning subtlety or deceit but the divine fruits and pleasant lovelinesse are common among them one may make use of these things as well as the other there is no disfavour or hatred no Envy no contrary or opposite will but their hearts are knit together in Love 50. In this the Deity hath its highest Delight as Parents have in their children that its dear and beloved children in heaven behave themselves so well and so friendlily for the Deity in it self playeth or sporteth also thus one qualifying or fountain-spirit in the other 51. And therefore the Angels can do no other then their Father doth as also our Angelical King JESUS CHRIST testified when he was with us on earth as it is written in the Gospel where he saith Verily the Sonne can do nothing of himself but what He seeth his Father do that the Sonne doth also John 5. 19. Also if you do not convert aud become like children you cannot come into the Kingdom of heaven Matth. 18. 3. 52. Whereby he meaneth that our hearts should be knit together in Love as the Holy Angels of God are and that we should deal friendly courteously and kindly one with another and love one another and prevent one another in kindnesse and respects as the Angels of God do 53. Not that we should
one be Richer now adayes then the other then the Poorer Man is counted the Fool and if he can wear but better and more fashionable Clothes or Apparel then his Neighbour then the poorer man is no more worthy or good enough to be in his Company 97. And so the Old Song is now adayes in full force and Practice which is this Der Reich den Armen Zwinget Und Ihm sein sweisze aboringet Dasz nur sein Grosshe Klinget The Rich man doth Constrain the Poor And Squeezeth out his Sweat so sore Thaâ—'s own great Wealth abroad may roar These Angels also are invited as Guests to the next Chapter for their Looking-Glasse to see themselves in IIII. 98. Fourthly There is for the generality such a devillish pride and statelinesse and such over-topping one another such despising belying entrapping circumventing over-reaching cheating deceiving betraying extorting Usury coveting envying and hating one another that the world burneth now as in the hellish fire Woe woe for Ever 99. O World where is thy Humility where is thy Angelical Love where is thy courteons friendlinesse At that very instant when the Mouth saith God save thee then if the Heart were seen it might be said Beware look to thy self for it bids the Devil take thee 100. O thou Excellent Angelical Kingdom how comely dress'd and Adorned wert thou once how hath the Devill turn'd thee into a murtherous Denne Dost thou suppose thou standest now in the flower of thy Beauty and Glory No! thou standest in the midst of Hell if thine Eyes were but opened thou wouldst see it 101. Or dost thou think that the Spirit is drunken and doth not see thee O it seeth thee very well thy shame standeth quite naked before God thou art an unchast wanton lascivious woman and goest a whoring day and night and yet thou sayst I am a chast Virgin 102. O how fair a Looking-Glasse art thou in the presence of the Holy Angels do but smell to thy sweet Love and Humility doth it not smell or savour just like Hell All these parties are invited as Guests to the following Chapters Of the Kingly Primacy or of the power and Authority of the Three Angelical Kings 103. As the Deity in its Being is Threefold in that the Exit out of the seven Spirits of God sheweth and generateth it self as Threefold viz. Father Sonne and Holy Ghost One God wherein the whole Divine Power consisteth and all whatsoever is therein and they are the Three Persons in the Deity and yet are not a divided Being but in one another as one 104. So also when God moved himself and Created the Angels there came to be Three speciall Angels out of the best Kernel of Nature out of the Being of the Ternary in the Nature of God and in such power authority and Might as the Ternary in the seven Spirits of God and is again the Life and Heart of all the seven Spirits 105. And so also the Three Angelical Kings each of them in the manner kind and Nature of his Hoast or Army is risen up and is a Natural Lord of his Place or Region over the Regiment or Dominion of his Angels but the Ternary of the Deity retaineth that Place which is unalterable or unchangeable to it self and the King retaineth the Dominion of the Angels 106. Now as the Ternary of the Deity is one only Being or Substance in all Parts in the whole Father and is united together as the Members in Mans Body and all places are as one Place though one place may have a different condition frame and Constitution distinct from the other as also the members of men have yet it is the Body of God 107. So also are the Three Angelical Kingdomes united one in another and not each severed asunder No Angelical King ought to say This is my Kingdome or that there ought no other King to come thereinto though indeed it is his first beginning original natural inheritance and remaineth also to be his yet all other Kings and Angels are his true Naturall Brothers generated out of or from one Father and do inherit their Fathers Kingdom 108. And as the qualifying or fountain Spirits of God have each of them the Natural seat or possession of its Birth or Geniture and retaineth its Naturall Place to it self and yet is together with the other spirits the one only Spirit so that if the other were not that would not be neither and thus also they rise up One in the other 109. So it is also with the Chief or Principall of the Holy Angels in his Constitution and is in no other manner then as it is in God and therefore they live all friendlily peaceably and blessedly one with another in their Fathers Kingdom as loving dear brethren there are no Bounds or Bars how far any should go and how far not Question Upon what do the Angels walk or upon what do they stay or set their Feet Answer 110. I will here shew thee the right Ground and it is no otherwise in Heaven then as thou here findest in the letter for the Spirit looketh into this Deep very unremoveably or steadfastly also it is very apprehensible 111. The whole Nature of the Heaven standeth in the power of the seven qualifying or fountain-spirits and in the seventh consisteth Nature or the apprehensibility of all the Qualities this now is very lightsome and solid as a Cloud but very transparent and shining like a Crystalline Sea so that a man can see through and through it all Yet the whole depth upward and downward is wholly thus 112. Now the Angels also have such Bodies but more dry and close compacted or incorporated together and their body also is the kernel of or out of Nature even the best or fairest splendor and brightnesse of or out of Nature 113. Now upon the seventh spirit of God their Foot doth stay which is solid like a Cloud and clear and bright as a Crystalline Sea wherein they walk upward and downward which way soever they please For their Agility or Nimblenesse is as swift as the Divine-power it self is yet one Angel is more swift then another and that answerably according to their Quality 114. In that seventh spirit of Nature rise up also the Heavenly fruits and colours and whatsoever is apprehensible or comprehensible and is like to such a Forme or manner as if the Angels did dwell betwixt Heaven and Earth in the Deep where they ascend and descend and where ever they are there their foot resteth as if it stood upon the Earth 115. Antiquity hath represented the Angels in Picture like Men with Wings but they have no need of any Wings yet they have Hands and Feet as Men have but after a Heavenly manner and kind 116. At the Day of the Resurrection from the Dead there will be no difference between the Angels and Men they will be of one and the same kind of forme which I shall shew plainly in its
due place and our King JESUS CHRIST clearly testifieth the same where he saith In the Resurrection they are like the Angels of God Matth. 22. 30. Of the Great Glory Brightnesse and Beauty of the Three Angelical Kings 117. This is the very Billet or Staffe which is flung at the Dog to make him run away because of this Song Lord Lucifer could pull and tear off the Hair of his Head and Beard for grief sorrow and Pain Observe here the depth Concerning the King or Great Prince MICHAEL 118. MICHAEL signifieth the Great strength or power of God and beareth the name operatively actually and in Deed For he is incorporated or consolidated together out of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits as out of a Kernel or seed of them and standeth here now as in the stead of God the Father 119. The meaning is not that He is God the Father who consisteth in the seven spirits of the whole Deep and is not creaturely but the meaning is that in Nature among the Creatures there is also such a kind of Creature as is like God the Father as he is in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits which is to raign among the Creatures 119. For when God made himself creaturely then he made himself creaturely according to his Ternarie And as in God the Ternarie is the greatest and chiefest and yet his wonderful proportion form and variety cannot be measured in that he sheweth himself in his operation so variously and manifoldly So also he hath created Three principal Angel-Princes according to the highest Primacy of his Ternarie 120. After that he created the Princely-Angels according to the seven qualifying or fountain spirits answerable to their Quality viz. GABRIEL an Angel or Prince of the Tone sound or of swift or speedy Messages as also RAPHAEL and others beside in the Kingdom of MICHAEL 121. Thou must not understand this as if these Royal Angels were to Rule in the Deity that is in the seven qualifying or fountain-spirits of God which are without or distinct from the creatures no but each over his Creatures or the creatures of his own Dominion 122. For as the Ternarie of God raigneth over the infinite or Endlesse Being and over the figures and several various forms or Ideas in the Deity and changeth varieth and Imageth or frameth the same 123. So also are the three Angelical Kings Lords over their Angels even to the heart and deepest Ground though they cannot corporeally or Bodily vary or change themselves as God himself can who hath created them yet they rule them viz. the Angels Corporeally and are bound or united to them as body and soul are bound one to another 124. For the King is their Head and they are the Members of the King and the Qualifying or fountain Princely Angels are the Kings Counsellours or Officers in his Affaires like the five Senses in Man or as the Hands and Feet or the Mouth Nostrils Eyes and Ears whereby the King executeth or accomplisheth his Affairs 125. Now as all Angels are bound to the King so is the King also bound to God his Creator as Body and Soul the Body signifieth God and the Soul the Angelical King which is in the Body of God and is become a Creature in the Body of God and abideth eternally in the Body of God as the soul doth in its Nest and therefore also hath God so highly glorified him as his own propriety or as the Soul is glorified in the Body 126. Thus the King or Great Prince Michael Looks like God the Father in his glorification clarity or brightnesse and is a King and prince of God upon the Mount of God and hath his Office in the Deep wherein he is created 127. That circumference or space Region or Province wherein he and his Angels are created is his Kingdom and he is a loving Sonne of God the Father in Nature a Creaturely Sonne in whom the Father delighteth 128. Thou must not compare him with the Heart or Light of God which is in the whole Father which hath neither Beginning nor End as well as God the Father himself 129. For this Prince is a Creature and hath a Beginning but he is in God the Father and is bound and united with him in his Love as his dearly beloved Sonne whom he hath created out of himself 130. Therefore he hath set upon him the Crown of Honour of Might Power and Authority so that there is in heaven no higher nor Excellenter nor mightier then He is except God himself in his Ternarie And this is one King rightly described with a true ground in the knowledge of the Spirit Of the second King LUCIFER so now called because of his Fall 131. King LVCIFER shut thy Eyes here a little and stop thy Ears a little that thou mayst neither bear nor see or else thou wilt be horribly ashamed that another sitteth upon thy Seat and so thy shame shall be fully discovered yet before the End of the world which thou hast kept so closely concealed in secret and suppressed ever since the begining of the world wheresoever thou couldst I will now describe thy Kingly Primacie not for thee but for the benefit of Man 132. This High and Mighty Glorious and Beauteous King lost his right name in his Fall for he is now called LVCIFER that is One carried forth or expell'd out of the Light of God 127. His name was not so at the beginning for he was a creaturely Prince or King of the Heart of God in the bright Light even the Brightest among the three Kings of Angels Of his Creation 134. As Michael is Created according to the quality manner and property of God the Father So was Lucifer Created according to the quality condition and Beauty of God the Sonne and was bound to and united with him in Love as a dear Sonne or Heart and his heart also stood in the Center of Light as if he had been God himself and his Beauty or Brightnesse transcended all 135. For his circumference conception or chiefest mother was the Sonne of God and there he stood as a King or Prince of God 136. His Court Province place Region or Quarters wherein he dwelt with his whole Army or Company and wherein he is become a Creature and which was his Kingdome is the created Heaven and this world wherein we dwell with our King JESUS CHRIST 137. For our King sitteth in Divine Omnipotence where King Lucifer did sit and on the Kingly throne of expulsed Lucifer and the Kingdome of King Lucifer is now become HIS O Prince Lucifer how dost thou relish that 138. Now as God the Father is bound and united in great love with his Sonne so was King Lucifer also bound with King Michael in great love as One heart or One God for the fountain or well-spring of the Sonne of God hath reach'd even into the heart of Lucifer 139. Onely that the Light which he had in his
Posture of Heaven 165. When thou beholdest this world thou hast a Type of heaven I. The Stars signifie or denote the Angels for as the stars must continue unaltered till to the End of this Time so the Angels also in the Eternal Time of heaven must remain unaltered for ever 166. II. The Elements signifie or denote the wonderfull proportion variety change and alteration of the form and posture of Heaven For as the Deep between the Starres and Earth alwaies alter and change in their form suddenly it is fair bright and Light suddenly it is lowry and dark now wind then rain now snow suddenly the Deep is Blew or Azure suddenly greenish by and by whitish then suddenly again Dusky 167. Thus also is the change and alteration of Heaven into many several colours and forms but not in such a manner and kind as in this world but all according to the rising up of the Spirits of God and the Light of the Sonne of God shineth therein Eternally But the rising up in the birth differs in the Degrees more at one time then at another And therefore the wonderful wisdome of God is incomprehensible 168. III. The Earth signifieth or denoteth the Heavenly Nature or the seventh * spirit of Nature in which the Idea's or Images forms and Colours rise up 169. IIII. And the Birds or Fowles Fishes and Beasts signifie or denote the several forms or shapes of figures in Heaven 170. Thou art to know this for the spirit in the Flash testifieth the same that in Heaven there arise all manner of figures or shapes like the Beasts Fowles Birds and Fishes of this world but in a heavenly form or manner clarity or brightnesâ—e and kind as also all manner of Trees Plants and Flowers 171. But as they rise so they go away again for they are not incorporated or compacted together as the Angels are for these figures are so formed in the Birth of the rising qualities in the spirit of Nature or Nature-spirit 172. If a figure be Imaged in a spirit so that it it subsisteth and if another spirit wrestleth with this aud gets the better then it comes to be divided and indeed changed or altered all according to the kind of the qualities And this is in God as a holy Sport Play or Scene 173. Therefore also the Creatures as Beasts Fowls or Birds Fishes and Worms in this world are not created to an Eternal Being but to a transitory one as the figures in Heaven also passe away 174. This I set down here onely for a manuduction or introduction you will find it described more at large concerning the Creation of this world The Thirteenth Chapter Of the terrible dolefull and Lamentable miserable Fall of the Kingdome of Lucifer 1. I Would have all proud covetous envious and wrathfull men invited to look into this Glasse and there they will see the original of their pride covetousnesse envy and wrath also the issue and final requital or wages thereof 12. The Learned have produced many and various Monsters concerning the beginning of Sin and Original of the Devil and scuffled one with another about it every one of them thought he had the Axe by the Handle yet it continued hidden from them all till this very time 3. But since it will henceforth be fully revealed as in a clear Looking-Glasse therefore it may well be conceived that the Great Day of the Revelation of God is now near at hand wherein the fiercenesse and the kindled fire will be separated from the Light 4. Therefore let none make himself stark blind for The time of the Restitution of whatsoever man hath lost is now near at Hand the Day Dawneth or the Morning-Rednesse breaketh forth It is high Time to awake from sleep Question Now it may be Asked What is the source or fountain of the first Sin of Lucifers Kingdom Answer 5. Here we must again take in Hand the highest depth of the Deity and see Out of what King Lucifer became a Creature or what was the first source or fountain of Evil or Malice in him 6. The Devil and his crew continually excuse themselves and so do all wicked men which are begotten in corruption saying God doth them wrong in thrusting them out or rejecting them 7. Nay this present world doth dare to say that God hath Decreed or concluded it so in his predestinate purpose and counsel that some men should be Saved and some should be Damned and say to that end also God hath rejected Prince Lucifer that he should be a spectacle of Gods wrath 8. As if Hell or Malice and Evil had been from Eternity and that it was in Gods predestinate purpose that Creatures should and must be therein and so they pull and hale and bestir themselves to prove it by Scripture though indeed they neither have the knowledge of the true God nor the understanding of the Scriptures though some erroneous things also are brewed from the Scriptures 9. Christ saith the Devil was a murtherer and Lyar from the beginning and did not stand in the Truth John 8. 44. But being these Justifiers and Disputers assist the Devil so stedfastly and pervert Gods truth and change it into Lies in that they make of God a thirsty and fierce wrathful Devil and such a one as hath created and still willeth Evil and so all of them together with the Devil are joyntly murtherers and Lyars 10. For as the Devil is the Founder and Father of Hell and Damnation and hath himself built and prepared for himself the Hellish quality to be his Royal Seat so also such Writers and Scriblers are the Master-Builders of Lies and Damnation who help to confirm and Establish the Devils Lies and to make of the Merciful loving and friendly God a murtherer and furious Destroyer and so pervert and turn the truth of God into Lies 11. For God saith in the Prophet As true as I live I have no delight or pleasure in the death of a Sinner but that he turn and live Ezek. 33. 11. And in the Psalms it is thus thou art not a God that hast pleasure in wickednesse Psal. 5. 5. 12. Besides God hath given Lawes to man and hath forbidden the Evil and commanded the Good Now if God would have the Evil and also the Good then he should be at Odds with himself and it would follow that there would be destruction or destructivenesse in the Deity one quality running counter against the other and the one spoiling and corrupting the other 13. Now how all this is come to passe or how Wickednesse hath taken its First Source original and beginning I will declare in the highest simplicity in the greatest depth 14. To which End the spirit inviteth and citeth summoneth or warneth all men that are seduced into Errours by the Devil that they come and present themselves before the Looking-Glasse of this School wherein they shall see and inspect the murtherous Devil into his very heart 15. Then he
in it 153. Thus now the Heat kindled the dryed water and the light could no more elevate and kindle it self for the water was dryed up and was quite consumed by the fire or great Heat 154. The meaning is not here as if the spirit of the water were swallowed up or devoured which dwelleth in all the seven qualities but its Quality or upper place or predominancy was changed into a dusky hot and sour Quality 155. For here in this place the sour quality hath taken its first original and beginning which now also is inherited in this world which is not in Heaven in God after such a manner at all nor in any Angel for it is and signifieth the house of affliction trouble and misery and is a forgetfulnesse of all Good 156. Now when this was done the qualifying or fountain spirits rubb'd themselves one upon another in that manner and way as I have mentioned above concerning the Figure of the Sevenfold wheel for they use thus to rise up one in another and to taste one another or to affect one another from whence life and love existeth 157. Now in all the spirits there was nothing else but a meer Hot Fiery Cold and Hard corruption and so one evil quality tasted the other whereby the whole Body grew so very fierce and wrathfull for the Heat was against the Cold and the Cold against the Heat 158. And so the sweet water being dryed up the bitter quality which existed and was generated by the first flash when the light kindled it self rose up in the Body through all the spirits as if it would destroy the Body and so raved and raged like the rankest or worst Poison 159. And from thence existed the first Poison wherein we poor men now in this world have enough to chew upon and thereby the bitter poisonous Death is come into the flesh 160. In this raging and tearing now the life of Lucifer was generated that is his dear little sonne in the circle or center of his heart and what manner of life and dear little sonne came to be I offer to any Rational Soul to consider of 161. For such as the Father was such was the Sonne also viz. a dark astringent Cold hard bitter hot sour stinkiug fountain or source and the Love stood in the Bitter quality in its penetrating taste and relish and became an emnity against all the qualifying or fountain spirits in the Body of the high minded arrogant King 162. Thus the Tone rose up through the penetrating of the bitter quality through the heat and dryed water and through the astringent hard quality into the heart into the little new dear sonne 163. And here the spirit went forth and as He was generated in the heart so he went forth now at the Mouth but how welcome a Guest he was before God and in God also before the Holy Angels of the other Kingdoms I leave to thee to consider of 164. He should now have united with the Sonne of God as one Heart and one God Alas for ever Who can write or expresse this sufficiently The Fourteenth Chapter How Lucifer who was the Beautiousest Angel in Heaven is become the most horrible Devil The House of the murtherous Denne 1. HEre King Lucifer pull thy Hatt down into thy Eyes lest thou shouldst see how man will take off thy Crown away from thee thou canst no more Rule in Heaven stand still a little while we must first view thee and observe what a Beautious fair Bride thou art and whether the filth of thy whoredom may not be cleansed and washed away from thee that thou mayst be fair again we will a little describe thy chastity and vertue 2. Come on ye Philosophers and ye Lawyers and Advocates that justifie and defend King Lucifer Come near and bring him to the Barre whilest he hath yet the Crown upon him for here we will hold a Court of Judgment against Malefactours for him If ye can maintain his cause to be right then he shall be your King if not then he shall be turn'd out and cast down into Hell and another shall get his Royall Crown who will Govern Better then He. Now Observe 3. When Lucifer had thus horribly spoiled and destroyed himself all his qualifying or fountain spirits were Emnity against God for they all qualified or acted much otherwise then God and so there came to be an eternal Emnity betwixt God and Lucifer But now it might be Asked Question How Long did Lucifer stand in the Light of God The Depth Answer 4. When the Royall Body of Lucifer was incorporated or compacted together in that very Hour the Light kindled it self also in Lucifer 5. For as soon as his qualifying or fountain spirits in the framing of the Body began to qualifie or operate and to generate themselves according to the right of Nature then rose up the flash of life in the heart in the sweet spring or fountain water and so the Royall Body was ready furnished or compleat and the spirit went forth in the heart from the light through the mouth into the Heart of God 6. And so he was a most exceeding beautifull Prince and King and very dear and acceptable to the Divine Being and was received and embraced with great Joy 7. In like manner also the spirit went forth from the heart into all qualifying or fountain veins of the Body and kindled all the seven spirits and so the Royall Body was glorified in the twinkling of an Eye and there he stood as a King of God in an unsearchable clarity or Brightnesse transcendently excelling the whole heavenly Hoast or Army 8. Now in this clear and light flash the seven qualifying or fountain spirits were instantly affected as a man kindleth a fire for they were affrighted at the terrible clarity or brightnesse of their spirit and so instantly at the first flash suddenly became highly triumphing rising aloft extream stately and over-joyful and so moved themselves towards a higher Birth 9. But if they had continued in their seats and had qualified or operated as they had done from eternity then that high Light had not hurt them 10. For they were not new spirits made of any new thing but they were the Old spirits which had no beginning which had been in God from Eternity and knew very well the Right of the Deity and of Nature how they should move and stir 11. Also when God figured or framed the Body together he did not aforehand destroy the qualifying or fountain spirits but figured or framed the Body of King Lucifer together out of the kernel of that which was the best wherein was the best knowledge of all 12. Else if the qualities had been dead aforehand they had had need of a new Life and it wonld have been in doubt whether the Angels could have subsisted Eternally Conceive it aright 13. God created Angels out of himself therefore that they might be harder and dryer incorporated or
compacted together then the Ideas figures shapes or forms which through the qualifying or operating of the Spirits of God in Nature rise up and also through the moving of the spirits vanish or passe away again that their light in their hardnesse should shine the clearer and Brighter and that the Tone of the Body should sound the clearer and shriller whereby the joyfulness should increase the more in God This was the cause that God created Angels 14. But that it is said the Angel generated a new Light or a new Spirit that is thus to be understood 15. When the qualifying or fountain Spirits were incorporated or compacted together then the light shone much brighter and clearer in the Body and from or out of the body then it did before in the Salitter for there then rose up a much clearer and brighter flash in the body then before whilest the Salitter was Thin and Dim 16. And therefore the qualifying or fountain spirits also became stately and Proud and supposed they had a much fairer little sonne or Light then the Sonne of God was and therefore they would also the more earnestly and eagerly qualifie or operate and elevate themselves and so despised the qualifying or Acting which is in God their Father and the Birth of the Sonne of God as also the Exit or going forth of God the Holy Ghost and supposed they could do it because they were so gloriously incorporated or compacted together therefore they would now exalt themâ—elves gloriously and stately and shew forth themselves as if they were the most fair and Beautious Bride of Heaven 17. They knew very well that they were not the whole or Totall God but were onely a piece or part thereof they also knew very well how far their Omnipotence reached or extended and yet they would no more have their Old condition but would be higher then the whole or Total God and supposed thereby they should have their place Region Quarters or Court above the whole or Total Deity above all Kingdoms whatsoever 18. And therefore they elevated or extol'd themâ—elves intending to kindle or enflame the whole God and to Govern or rule the whole God by their power and might All forms and Ideas should rise up in the qualifying and acting of their Spirit He would be Lord of the Deity and would not endure any Corrival 19. Now this is the Root of Covetousnesse Envy Pride and Wrath For in the fierce qualifying or acting and boyling rose up the wrath and burnt like fire of Heat and Cold and was also bitter as Gall. 20. For the qualifying or fountain spirits had no outward impulse upon them gotten into them but the impulse to Pride elevated it self within the Body in the councel of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits these agreed and united in a compact that they would be God alone 21. But because they could not begin it in their Old seat and so bring it to effect they therefore dissembled or playd the Hypocrite together and flatter'd one with another and so combined intending to extoll themselves against the Birth of God and would needs qualifie or work in the highest depth and then nothing could be like them being they were together the most Mighty Prince in God 22. The Astringent quality was the first Murtherer flatterer and Hypocrite for when it saw that it generated so fair and bright a Light then it compressed it self together yet harder then God had created it to be intending to be much more terrible and to draw together all in its whole Region Circuit or circumference and keep it fast as a stern severe Lord 23. And so in a degree then it had Effected somewhat from whence Earth and Stones have their Original which I will write of when I treat concerning the Creation of the World 24. The Bitter Quality was the second Murtherer which when it rose up in the Flash did tear with breaking and great Power in the Astringent quality as if it would break the Body in pieces 25. And the astringent quality permitted it or else it was very well able to have stayd and captivated the Bitter spirit and to bathe or steep it in the sweer-water till his high mind had been allayed and gone But it would needs have such a little Brother because it was so serviceable to its turn Else being the bitter spirit taketh its original from it as it were from its Father it could well have stopped or hindred that 26. The Heat is the third Murtherous spirit which killed its Mother the sweet water but the astringent spirit is the cause thereof for by its stern severe attracting together and hardening it hath thus vehemently awakened and kindled the fire by the bitter Quality for the fire is the Sword of the astringent and Bitter quality 27. But being the fire riseth up in the sweet water therefore it self hath the whip or scourge in its own power and might have stayd or kept back the astringent quality in the water but it also became a flatterer or hypocrite and dissembled with the great quality viz. the astringent and did help to destroy the sweet water 28. The Tone is the fourth Murtherer for it taketh its ringing sound in the fire in the sweet water and riseth up very gently and lovely in the whole Body 29. Yet it did not so here but after it was risen up in the water in the astringent quality it rose up so furiously like a Thunder-Clap whereby it would prove and shew forth its New Deity And so the fire rose up as when there is a Tempest of Lightning intending thereby to be so great as to be above all things in God 30. And this they practised so long till they had murthered their mother the sweet water and therein the whole Body became a dark valley and there was no more remedy or Council in God that could help here For Love was turn'd into Emnity and the whole Body became a black dark Teufel Devill 31. Of the word Teufel Teu hath its origiginal from hard beating Drumming or Thumping and the word or syllable fell hath its originall from the falle fall and so Lord Lucifer is called Teuffel Devill and is no more called a Cherubin or Seraphin Here it may be Asked Question Could not God have hindered and prevented the Pride of Lucifer that he might have abstained from his high-mindednesse Answer 32. This is a high Question on which all those lay hold that justifie and plead the Cause of the Devil but they are all Cited to appear at the Court of Justice held for Tryal of Criminal Malefactours let them have a care how they plead for their Master else the Sentence of Judgment will be pronounced against him and he will lose his Crown The wonderfull Revelation 33. Behold King Lucifer was the Head in his whole Region Circuit or Circumference also he was a mighty King and was created out of the kernell or marrow of his whole
I also my self do wonder much more then the Reader can wonder at this high Revelation or manifestation 54. I do not write this for my own Glory for my Glory standeth in my Hope of that which is to come I am a poor sinner as well as other Men and ought also to come before this Glasse 55. But I marvel that God should reveal himself thus fully to such a silly Man and that he thus impelleth him also to set it down in writing whereas there are many learned Writers which could set it forth and expresse it better in a more flourishing style and demonstrate it more exactly and fully then I that am but a scorn and Fool to the world 56. But I neither can nor will oppose him for I often stood in great striving against him that if it were not his impulse and will that he would be pleased to take it from me but I find that with my striving against him I have but meerly gathered stones for this Building 57. But I am climb'd up and mounted so very high that I dare not look back for fear a giddinesse should take me and I have now but a short length of Ladder to the Mark when I go upward I have no giddinesse at all but when I look back and would return then am I giddy and afraid to fall 58. Therefore have I put my confidence in the strong God and will venture and see what will come of it I have no more but one Body which neverthelesse is mortal and corruptible I willingly venture that if the light and knowledge of my God do but remain with me then I have sufficiently enough for this life and the life to come 59. Thus I will not be angry with my God though for his Names sake I should endure shame ignominie and reproach which springeth buddeth and blossometh for me every day so that I am almost enured to it I will sing with the Prophet David Psal. 73. 26. Though my Body and Soul should faint and fail yet thou O God art my trust and confidence also my salvation and the Comfort of my heart 60. Sinne hath Seven kinds forms species or sorts among which there are four speciall wellsprings or sources and the Eighth Kind or Sort is the House of Death Now Observe 61. The Seven Forms are the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of the Body viz. the Astringent Quality the Water the Bitter the Heat the Sound the Love the Nature or beginning from the other Six And when these are kindled Each spirit generateth a several Emnity against God 62. Out of these Seven are generated other four new sonnes and they together are the new God which is wholly against the old God as two professed Armies of Enemies which have sworn Eternal Emnity one against the other The first Sonne is Pride The second Sonne is Covetousnesse The third Sonne is Envy The fourth Sonne is Wrath. 63. Now let us view these in the Ground from whence all hath its Original and see how it is an Emnity against God and therein you will see what is the beginning and Root of Sin and wherefore in God it cannot be suffered or endured 64. Therefore come on ye Philosophers and Lawyers you that will maintain and undertake to prove it that God also created the Evill and that he willeth the same also that it is his predestinate purpose that the Devil fell and that many Men are Damned else he could have altered all and turned it some other way The Citation or Summons 65. Here the Spirit of our Kingdom citeth you together with your Prince Lucifer whom you defend and lustifie the third time before the final Court of Justice for Criminal Malefactours give in your answer there 66. For as to these seven Kinds or Forms and four new Sonnes the Right shall be prosecuted in the heavenly Fathers House 67. If you can prove and maintain that the seven Spirits of Lucifer have of Right and Equity generated these four New Sonnes so that they of Right and Equity should Govern Heaven and the whole Deity the King Lucifer shall be Re-inthroned again and set upon his Seat and his Kingdom shall be reâ—â—â—ed to him again 68. If not then a Hell or Hole Burrough or Dungeon shall be given to him for an Everlasting Prison and there shall He together with his Sonnes be Prisoners for Ever And you should take heed lest a Court of Justice be held and passe upon you also 69. Now seeing then you will plead the Right of the Devils Cause wherewith shall he requite you or what Fee shall he reward you with He hath nothing in his power but the hellish abomination what will then be your recompense Guesse Sir even the best of all that he hath the Best fruits and Apples in his Orchard and best perfumes and incense of his Garden Of the First Kind or Form 70. The first spirit is the Astringent or Harsh Quality which in God is a gentle attracting or drawing together a drying and cooling or refreshing and is made use of in and for the Imaging or framing of things and though in its Depth it be somewhat Sharp or Tart yet it tempereth it self with the sweet water so that it is meek soft pleasant and full of Joy 71. And when the light of the sweet water commeth into it then it willingly friendlily and freely yeeldeth up its birth thereunto and maketh it dry and shining Bright 72. And when the Tone or Tune riseth up in the Light then it also giveth up its Tone Tune and ringing sound very gently and brotherly thereunto 73. Also it receiveth the Love from all the spirits 74. Also the Heat favoureth it giving way friendly that it may be cooled and so it is a friendly will in and with all the Qualities It readily helpeth also to Image or frame the spirit of Nature and to form therein all manner of shapes figures fruits and Growths or vegetations according to the will of all the six spirits 75. It is a very humble Father to its children and loveth them heartily and playeth with them friendly for it is the right Father of the other six spirits which are generated in it and it helps to generate them all 76. Now when God constituted Lucifer with his Hoast or Army he created them out of this friendly Deity out of himself out of the Place of Heaven and of this wotld there was no other matter to make them of this living Salitter was very gently and softly attracted or drawn together without any Killing or slaying it or without any great stirring or motion 77. These Spirits thus incorporated or compacted together had the knowledge the skill and the eternal infinite er beginning lesse Law of God and knew full well I. How the Deity had generated them 78. II. They knew also well that the heart of God had the Primacie in the whole Deity III. They knew well also that they had no more for their
the light in the second principle and the third in the spirit of this world in the Aeriall and Astrall source 119. When the astringent or harsh quality as the Father formeth the Word or Sonne or Spirit then it stands captive in the Center of the Heart and is examined or tryed by the other spirits whether it be good or no. Now if it please the fire then the fire letteth the flash in which the Bitter spirit standeth go through the sweet water wherein it conceiveth the Love and goeth therewith into the astringent Quality 120. Now when the flash returns with the Love into the astringent quality again together with the new generated spirit or will then the astringent quality rejoyceth in the New young Sonne and elevateth it self 121. Then the Tone layes hold thereon and goeth forth therewith at the Mouth Eyes Ears and Nostrills and executeth that which is decreed in the councel of the seven spirits for as the Decree of the Councel is so also is the spirit and the Councel can alter the same as it will 122. Therefore the original Lust sticketh in the circle of the Heart in the Councel of the seven spirits and as they generate the spirit so also it is 123. And so in this manner Lord Lucifer brought the Deity into Anger and Wrath that is Kindled the Eternal Nature according to the first principle Being he together with all his Angels as a malicious Devil fought or strove against the Deity intending to bring and subdue the whole Circumference Circuit or Region under his innate Spirits that they should form frame figure and Image all and the whole Circumference Region or Extent should bow yield and suffer it self to be ruled and formed by the kindled sharpnesse of the innate spirits 124. And as this hath a Being or substance form or condition in Angels so it hath also a being substance form or condition in Man Therefore bethink and consider your selves you that are proud covetous theevish Extorting Usurers calumniating Blasphemous Envious and Whorish or Lascivious what manner of little sonne or Spirit you send into God The soul was originally comprehended in the Eternal Nature with the Word Fiat which is Gods Nature according to the first Principle and eternal Original of Nature and if it kindleth it self in the Originall then it kindleth Gods wrath in the eternal Nature Objection Thou wilt say We do not send this into God but only into our Neighbour or into his work which we like and have a Mind to Answer 125. Now shew thou me any Place to which thou sendest thy Covetous or Lustful spirit be it to Man Beasts Garments Fields Money or any thing whatsoever where God is not from him is all and he is in all Himself is All and he upholdeth and supporteth all Objection Then thou wilt say But he is with his Wrath in many things which are so hard and Evill that they are not suitable to or capable of the Deity Answer 126. Yes dear Man all this is true The wrath of God is certainly every where all over In Silver Gold Stones Fields Garments Beasts and Men and all whatsoever is comprehensible and palpable otherwise they would not be so hard and harsh to be felt as they are 127. But thou must know that the kernel of Love also sticketh in all in the hidden Center unlesse it be too too altogether Evill and so Evill a thing Man hath no liking to at all neither God possesseth all onely as to Nature He is not the essence He possesseth himself Or dost thou think thou dost well if thou bathest or soakest thy self in Gods wrath take heed that it doth not kindle thy Body and Soul and so thou wilt burn therein eternally as befell Lucifer 128. But when God shall bring forth the hidden things at the End of this time then you will discern in what Gods love or wrath hath been Therefore have a care and take heed and turn thy Eyes from Evil or else thou undoest thy self and so bringest thy self into Perdition 129. I take Heaven and Earth to witnesse that I have performed here as God hath revealed it to me that it is his Will 130. Thus hath King Lucifer in his body turned the sweet water into a sowr sharpnesse intending therewith in his haughty-mindednesse to rule in the whole Deity 131. And he hath brought it so far to passe that in this world with that sharpnesse he reacheth into the heart of all living Creatures as also into vegetables leaves and grasse and into all other things as a King and Prince of this world 132. And if the Divine Love were not yet in the whole nature of this world and if we poor Men and Creatures had not in and about us the Champion in the Fight we should all perish in a Moment in the hellish horrible Abominations 133. Therefore we sing very rightly thus Mitten wir im Leben seynd Mit dem Todt umbfangen Wo sollen wir dan fliehen hin dass wir Gâ—ad erlangen Zu dir Herr Christ alleine Daist nun Der Held im streit Zu dem wir fliehen musien Welcher i st unset Konig JESUS CHRISTUS In the midst of this our Life Death doth us round embrace whither shall we flie away that we may obtain Grace To thee Lord Christ alone This is the Champion in the Fight To Him 't is we must flie Who is Our King JESUS CHRIST 134. He hath the Fathers Love in him and fighteth in Divine Power and Might against the kindled hellish Abomination To Him we must flie and he it is that preserveth and retaineth the Love of God in all things in this world else all would be lost and perish But hoâ—â— wart and belt 〈…〉 Doth ein Kleine Zelt 〈◊〉 des Tenfels Reich danâ—â—t leit Now Hope pray and wait But a small Time and then strait Th' Devill 's Kingdom will be quite down laid 135. Ye Philosophers and Jurists or Lawyers that make God to be as a Devill in saying That He willeth Evill bring in your Plea and answer once more here and try whether you can maintain your Cause to be just if not then the sowr sharp Tart spirit in Lucifer shall be also condemned as a Destroyer and the enemy of God and of all his heavenly Hoasts and Armies The Fifteenth Chapter Of the Third Species kind or form and manner of Sinnes beginning in Lucifer 1. THe third Spirit in God is the Bitter Spirit which existeth in the flash of Life for the flash of Life riseth up in the sweet water through the rubbing or fretting of the astringent and hot quality but the body of the flash abideth in the sweet water subsisting very meekly as a Light or heart and the flash is very trembling and by the terrour and fire and water and astringent spirit it becometh bitter through the original of the water in which it riseth up 2. And that flash or raging terrour or bitter spirit
is caught or laid hold on by the astringent quality and in the clear bright light in the astringent spirit is Glorified and exceeding highly Joyfull which now is the mobility or the root of life which in the astringent quality Imageth frameth and formeth the Word or maketh it distinct or severall so that in the body a Thought or Will doth exist 3. Now this highly triumphing and Joyous spirit is very fitly and excellently in the Divine Salitter used to the Imaging or framing because it chiefly moveth in the tone or Tune and in the Love and is nearest to the heart of God in the Birth and bound or united therewith in joy which indeed is it self also the spring and source of Joy or the rising up in the heart of God 4. And there is no difference here but onely such as is between the Body and Soul in Man and so the Body signifieth or Resembleth the seven qualifying spirits of the Father and the Soul signifieth or Resembleth the onely begotten Sonne of God the Father The spirit of the Soul signifieth or representeth the Heart of God and the Soul the Eye of God in the first principle as is declared in our Third Book concerning the Threefold Life of Man 5. Now as the Body generateth the soul so the seven Spirits of God generate the Sonne and as the Soul is a peculiar distinct thing when it is generated and yet is united with the Body and cannot subsist without the Body so also is the Sonne of God when he is generated a peculiar severall distinct thing also and yet cannot subsist without the Father Now Observe 6. Just in such a Kind and manner was also the bitter quality in Lucifer and had no cause to elevate it self neither had it any driving to it from any thing but followed the proud loftinesse of the astringent quality as its Father and supposed also it would reign in its kind and manner over the whole Deity and so kindled it self in its elevation 7. Now when it had half generated the animated or soulish spirit in the Body that spirit became in this kind and manner a fierce stinging raging kindled and tearing spirit bitter as Gall and is rightly the Quality of Hell fire a very fierce and Enimicitious hostile Being 8. Now when this spirit in the animated or soulish spirit out of or from the heart of Lucifer and his Legions roved or speculated into the Deity that is brought its will thereinto as into the Genitrix then it was no other but a tearing breaking murthering and poisonous burning concerning which Christ said The Devil is a Liar and murtherer from the beginning and hath not continued in the truth Joh. 8. 44. 9. But Lucifer intended by that means to be above God none could domineer and rule so terribly as himself all must stoop to him he would with his spirit in the whole Deity Rule as a powerfull King over all being he was the fairest and beautifullest he would needs also be the most Potent 10. But he saw and knew very well the meek and humble Being in God his Father moreover he knew also very well that it stood in such meeknesse from eternity and that he also should generate in such meeknesse as a loving and obedient Sonne 11. But now being he was so beautiously and gloriously Imaged or formed as a King in Nature his beautious form and feature tickled him and so he thought with himself I am now God and formed or framed out of God who can vanquish me or who can alter or change me I myself will be Lord and with my sharpnesse rule in all things and my Body shall be the Image which shall be worshipped I will prepare and erect for my self a new Kingdom for the whole circumference Extent or Region is mine I am God alone and none else 12. And in his pride he struck and smote himself with darknesse and blindnesse and made himself a Devill and that he must be and abide so Eternally He knew in God onely the Majestie and not the Word in the Center which hath the Fanne or Casting shovell He blinded himself with the astringent darknesse for he would needs inflame himself and rule in the fire over the light and over the Meeknesse 13. Now when these Evil Devillish Spirits understand the Center of the Genitrix moved or boyled in Gods Salitter and Imagined Speculated or roved thereinto then there was nothing but stinging burning murthering Robbing and a meer Opposite or contrary will 14. For the Heart of God delighted in Love and meeknesse and Lucifer would needs turn the same by force into a Raging Tyranny And so there was nothing but Emnity and a contrary or Opposite will for by force he kindled the Salitter of God which had rested from Eternity and stood in its Meeknesse 15. Concerning this kindling in this circumference or Extent it is that God calls himself an angry Zealous or Jealous God against those that hate him Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9. that is against those who kindle his wrath and fiercenesse yet more with their diabolical spirits with swearing cursing blaspheming and all manner of furious fiercenesse and wrath which sticketh in the Heart with pride covetousnesse envy and Anger all that whatsoever is in thee thou castest into God that is into the Genitrix of Nature and therefore that must be proved and tryed through the fire and the Soul's spirit also and the wickednesse or malice must abide and remain in the Fire Now thou Askest How can that be Answer 16. When thou openest thy Eyes and feest the Being of God then thou prickest as it were with Thorns into the Being of God and movest or stirrest up the Wrath and Anger of God 17. And when a Tone or Noise soundeth in thy Ears so that thou receivest or catchest it up from the Being of God then thou infectest it as if thou didst dart Thunder-Claps into it 18. Consider what thou dost with thy Nostrills and with thy Mouth whence thy dear newborn little sonne rusheth forth with thy speech as a little sonne of all the seven spirits and observe whether it doth not storm and assault in Gods Salitter as Lucifer did O! there is no difference at all in this 19. But again on the other side God saith I am a merciful God to those that love me Those I will do good to and blesse them to a thousand Generations Exod. 20. 6. Deut. 5. 10. Here Observe 20. And such are those who contrary to the kindled wrath-fire do with their Love meeknesse and industrious earnest yernings and kindlings of love with their prayers Quench the wrath-fire and presse on against the kindled fiercenesse 21. And here indeed is many a hard Blow or Crushing for the kindled wrath-fire of God falls many times so heavy upon them that they know not where to bestow themselves heavy Mountains lye upon them the Love-Crosse presseth sore and is heavy 22. But this is their Comfort and
would govern with its sharpnesse 65. From hence now is existed the great contrary opposite will and Eternall Emnity between God and Lucifer for the power of God moveth very softly meekly pleasantly and friendly so that its Birth cannot be conceived of or apprehended and the spirits of Lucifer move and tear very harshly astringently firily swiftly and furiously 66. An example whereof you have in the kindled Salitter of the Stars which because of this kindled fiercenesse must Roul with the vanity even to the last Judgment Day And then the fierceness will be separated from them and be given to King Lucifer for an Eternal house 67. But that this is a great opposite contrary will in God needs no proof but a Man may think in case such a fierce fire source or quality should rise in his Body what an untowardnesse and contrary will he should have in him and how often the whole Body would be in a rage and fury 68. Which indeed befalls those who lodge the Devil within them but so long as he is but a Guest he lyeth still like a Tame Whelp but when he becometh the Host himself and Master of the house then he stormeth and maketh havock in the House as he did to the Body of God 69. And therefore it is that the wrath-fire of God is yet in the Body of God which is in this world till the End and many a creature is swallowed up and devoured in the wrath-fire of which much is to be written but is referred to its proper place 70. But now whether God himself hath created and kindled this Emnity and fierce fire-source in Lucifer they are to plead for and justifie which dispute for Predestination Foreseeing and the Election of Grace and they are to prove it in Nature if they can if not then this corrupted fire-source which standâ—s in the place or stead of Love shall be condemned also Of the Sixth Species Kind form or manner of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer and in his Angels 71. The Sixth qualifying or fountain spirit in the Divine power is the Mercurius or Tone or Tune wherein the distinction and heavenly Joy riseth up 72. This spirit taketh its original in the fire-flash that is in the bitter quality and riseth up in the flash through the sweet water wherein it mitigateth it self so that it becometh clear and bright and is reserved and kept in the astringent quality and there it toucheth or stirreth all the spirits and from this touching or stirring riseth up the Tone its rising source or quality standeth in the flash and its Body or Root standeth in the sweet water in the Love 73. Now this Tone or Tune is the Divine Joyfulnesse the triumphing wherein the Divine and meek Love-play sport or scene in God riseth up as also the formings Imagings and all manner of Ideas shapes and Figures 74. But here thou must know that this quality penetrateth very gently and pleasantly with its touching or stirring through all the Spirits in such a way and manner as when a pleasant and meek fire of Joy riseth up in the heart of a man in which fire of Joy the animated or soulish Spirit triumpheth as if it were in Heaven 75. Now this spirit doth not belong to or concern the Imaging or framing of the body but to the distinction diversifying and mobility especially to the Joy and to the distinction or difference in the Imaging or shaping 76. And when the animated or soulish Spirit in the Center of the heart in the midst or Genter of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits is generated so that the will of the seven Spirits is incorporated or compacted together then the Tone bringeth it forth from the Body and is its Chariot on which the spirit rideth and executeth that which is Decreed in the Council of the seven spirits 77. For the Tone goeth through the animated or Soulish spirit into the nature of God and into the Salitter of the seventh qualifying or fountain spirit in the Divine power which is its â—â—ceptive or beginning Mother and uniteth qualifieth or co-operateth with the same in the forming or framing and also in the distinguishing or diversifying of the Imaging or shape 78. Therefore when King Lucifer changed or transmuted his high-minded prancing Nagg or Palfrey in the Tone into a firy resting in all the seven spirits that was a terrible contrary or opposite will in the Salitter of God 79. For when his animated or soulish spirit was generated in his body then he stung forth from his Body into the Salitter of God as a fiery Serpent out of a hole 80. But when the Mouth opened to speak that is when the seven spirits had incorporated or compacted the word together in their will and sent it through the Tone into the Salitter of God then it was no otherwise then if there went a fiery Thunder-bolt into Gods Nature or as a fierce Serpent which tyrannizeth raveth and rageth as if it would tear and rend Nature all to pieces 81. Hence that taketh its original that the Devill is called the old Serpent Apocal. 12. 9. and also that there are Adders and Serpents in this corrupted world moreover all manner of vermine or venomous Broods of Worms Toads Flies Lice and Fleas and all such like things whatsoever and from hence also Tempestuous weather of Lightning Thundring Flashing and Hail-stones take their Originall in this world Observe 82. When the Tone riseth up in the Divine Nature then it riseth up gently from all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits joyntly together and generateth the word or Ideas figures and shapes very gently 83. That is when one qualifying or fountain spirit attracteth a will to the Birth or Geniture then it presseth very gently through the other qualifying or fountain spirits even into the Center of the Heart and there that will is formed and approved by all the spirits 84. And then the other six spirits speak it forth in the Tone out from Gods animated or soulish spirit forth understand out from the heart of God out from the Sonne of God which abideth standing in the center as a compacted incorporated Word 85. And the flash out of that same Word or the stirring of the Word which is the Tone goeth forth very finely and gently from the Word and executeth effecteth or performeth the will of the Word 86. And that same forthgoing from the Word is the Holy Ghost which formeth frameth and Imageth all whatsoever was Decreed in the center of the heart in the Councel of the seven spirits of God the Father 87. In such a gentle way and manner should King Lucifer also have generated qualified or operated and according to the Right of the Deity with his animated or soulish spirit in the Salitter or in the Nature of God have helped to Image or frame things as a dear sonne in Nature 88. Just as a sonne in the House helps his Father to drive or manage his work
Felleys and Spoaks and with all the Naves turneth about and is felleyed together as seven wheeles so that it can go any way forward backward downward upward and crosse-wayes without turning back 12. Whereas yet alwayes the form of all the seven wheeles and the One onely Nave in the Center of all the wheeles is fully in sight and so it is not understood how the wheel is made but the wheel alwaies appears admirable wonderfull and marvellous with its rising up and yet abideth also in its own Place 13. In such a manner the Deity is continually generated and neverpasseth away ceaseth or vanisheth out of sight and in this manner also is the Life in Angels and Men continually generated 14. But according to the moving of the seven spirits of God the figures and Creatures of the transitorinesse are formed and not thus generated though indeed the Birth or geniture of all the seven spirits sheweth it self therein yet their quality standeth onely in the seventh Nature-spirit which the other six spirits do form figure frame alter and change according to their wrestling and rising up 15. And therefore also the figures and transitory forms and creatures are changed according to the condition of the seventh Nature-spirit in which they rise up 16. But the Angels are not onely Imaged or framed out of the seventh Nature-spirit as the transitory creatures are but when the Deity moved it self to the creating of Angels then in every circle wherein each Angel was incorporated or compacted together there the Deity with its whole substance and being was incorporated or compacted together Understand the two Eternal Principles viz. the Fire and the Light and yet not the quality or source of the Fire But the Essence of it and became a Body and yet the Deity continued in its seat as before Understand this wall 17. The Angels Body or the comprehensibility is from or out of the Seventh spirit and the Birth or Geniture in that Body is the Six qualifying or fountain-spirits and the spirit or the heart which the six spirits generate in the center of the Body in which the Light riseth up and the animated or soulish spirit out of the Light which also qualifieth uniteth or operateth with the Deity without distinct from the Body that signifieth the Heart of God out of which the Holy Ghost goeth forth 18. And it also was from or out of the heart of God co-united or mixed in the Body of the Angel in their first compacting or incorporating together therefore the Angels Government in the Mind generateth it self as the Deity doth 19. And as in the Seventh Nature-spirit of God which existeth out of the other six there doth not stand the whole perfect knowledge of the other six spirits for it cannot search or dive into their deep Birth or Geniture in that they are its Father and generate it out of themselves 20. No more doth the whole full and perfect knowledge of God stand in the Angelical Body but in the Spirit which is generated in the Heart which goeth forth from the Light which qualifieth or operateth also with the heart and spirit of God wherein the whole full and perfect knowledge of God standeth but the Body cannot apprehend that animated or soulish spirit as also the seventh Nature-spirit comprehendeth not the deepest birth or Geniture of God 21. For when the seventh Nature-spirit is generated then it is dryed by the astringent Quality and is as it were staid and kept by its Father and cannot go back again into the Deep that is into the Center of the Heart where the Sonne is generated and from whence the Holy Ghost goeth forth but must hold still as a Generated Body and must give way to the qualifying or fountain Veins that is to the spirits to qualifie work and labour the rein as they Please 22. For it is the proper house and habitation of the six spirits which they continually build according to their pleasure or as a Garden of delight into which the Master of it soweth all manner of Seeds according to his pleasure and then enjoyeth the fruit thereof 23. Thus the other six spirits continually erect this garden of delight and pleasure and sowe their fruits thereinto and seed upon it to strengthen their Migâ—t and joy and this is the Garden in which the Angels dwell and walk up and down in and wherein the heavenly fruit groweth 24. But the wonderfull proportion or variety of Harmony which appeareth in the growths or vegetations and figures or forms in this Garden ariseth from the qualification or operation and from the loving wrestling or strugling of the other spirits 25. For that which is predominant or chief in the striving Imageth or formeth the growth and vegetation according to its kind and the other alwayes help to promote it one while one is at it by and by the other then the third and so on 26. And therefore also there arise so many several growths vegetations and figures as are altogether insearchable and incomprehensible to the Bodily Reason of the Angels but to the animated or soulish Reason of the Angels they are wholly fully and perfectly comprehensible 27. And this is also wholly hidden as to my Body but not as to my animated or soulish spirit for so long as it qualifieth or worketh with and in God it comprehendeth the same but when it falls into Sin then the Door is shut against it and the Devill bolteth it up fast and it must be set open again with great labour and industrie of the spirit 28. I know very well that the wrath of the Devil will mock and scoff in the hearts of wicked men at this Revelation For he is mightily ashamed because of this revelation he hath also given my soul many a Pang and Crush for it but I leave it to Gods direction that will have it so I cannot resist him though my earthly Body should go to wrack for it yet my God will glorifie me in my knowledge 29. The Glorification of this my knowledge I desire and no other for I know that when this my spirit in my new body which I shall get at the Day of my Resurrection out of this my now corrupted Body shall arise that it will appear like the Deity as also like the holy Angels 30. For the triumphing Joyous Light in my spirit sheweth me it sufficiently in which I have also searched into the depth of the Deity and described it rightly according to my gifts and the impulse of the spirit though in great feeblenesse and weaknesse in that my original and actual sins have often bolted the Door against me and the Devil hath danced before it as a whorish woman and rejoyced at my Captivity and anguish yet that will bring very little profit to his Kingdom 31. Therefore I must now look for no other then his fierce wrath but my stay trust and Refuge is the Champion in the Fight who hath often delivered me
they generated such a violent moving spirit and so the sweet water which before the times of the wrath was very rarified and thin and incomprehensible grew very thick and elevated and swelled and the astringent quality grew very sharp and Cold-firie or fierce-cold for it got a strong attracting together like Salt 10. For the Salt-water or Salt which still to this Day is found in the Earth hath its original and descent from the first kindling of the Astringent Quality and so the Stones also have their beginning and descent from thence as also the Earth 11. For the astringent quality now attracted the Salitter very strongly together and dryed it whence the bitter Earth is proceeded but the Stones are from the Salitter which at that Time stood in the power of the Tone or Tune 12. For as Nature with the working wrestling and rising up of its Birth or Geniture stood in the time of the kindling Just such a Matter attracted it self together Now it may be Asked How then is a comprehensible or palpable Sonne come to be out of an incomprehensible Mother Answer 13. Thou hast a Similitude of this in that the Earth and Stones are proceeded out of the incomprehensibility 14. For behold the Deep between Heaven and Earth is also incomprehensible and yet the Elementary Qualities at sometimes generate living comprehensible flesh therein as Grashoppers Flyes and Worms or creeping things 15. Which is caused by the strong attracting together of the qualities in which attracted Salitter the life is suddenly generated For when the heat kindleth the astringent Quality then the life riseth up for the Bitter quality stirreth it self which is the original of life 16. So in like manner the Earth and Stones have their descent for when the Salitter kindled it self in Nature then all became very rugged thick and dark like a thick dark Mist or Cloud which the astringent quality dryed up hard with its coldnesse 17. But being the Light in the outermost Birth was extinguished the Heat also was captivated in the Comprehensibility or palpability and could no more generate its Life from thence Death did come into Nature so that Nature or the corrupt Earth could no more help it and thereupon another creation of Light must needs follow or else the Earth would have been an Eternal undissolvable Death but now the Earth generateth or bringeth forth fruit in the power and kindling of the created Light Now one might ask What is the condition then of this Two-fold Birth or Geniture Is God then extinguisht in the kindling of the wrath-fire in the place of this world so that nothing is there else but a meer wrath-fire or is the One onely God become a Twofold God Answer 18. Thou canst not better comprehend apprehend or understand this then in and by thy own Body which through the first fall of Adam with all its Birth or Geniture fitnesse faculties and will is become just such a House 19. First thou hast the Beastial Flesh which is come to be so through the Lustfull longing Bit of the Apple for it is the House of Corruption For when Adam was made out of the corrupted Salitter of the Earth that is out of the Seed or Masse or Lump which the Creator extracted out of the corrupted Earth he was not then at first such flesh else his Body had been created Mortall but he had an Angelicall powerfull Body in which he should subsist Eternally and should eat Angelical fruit which did grow for him in Paradise before his fall before the LORD cursed the Earth 20. But being the Seed or Masse or Lump out of which Adam was made was somewhat infected with the corrupt disease or malady of the Devill Adam therefore long'd after his Mother that is to eat of the fruit of the corrupted Earth which then in its outward comprehensibility was become so Evil and in the wrath-fire was become so hard palpable and comprehensible 21. But being Adams spirit long'd after that fruit which was of the Quality of the corrupted Earth therefore also Nature formed or framed such a Tree for him as was like the corrupted Earth 22. For Adam was the Heart in Nature and therefore his animated or soulish spirit did help to Image fashion or frame this Tree of which he would fain eat 23. But when the Devill saw that the Lust was in Adam then he stung lustily and briskly at the Salitter in Adam and infected the Salitter out of which Adam was made yet more and more 24. And now then it was time that the Creator should frame a wife for him which afterward set the Sinne on work and did eat of the evill or corrupt fruit Else if Adam had eaten of the Tree before the woman had been made out of him then it would have been far worse then it is 25. But being this requireth a high and deep Description as also requireth much Room therefore seek for it concerning the Fall of Adam where you will find it largely described So now I return to the forementioned Similitude 26. Now when Adam did eat of the fruit which was Good and Evill then he suddenly gat such a Body also The fruit was corrupt or perished and palpable as to this day all fruits now on Earth are and so such a flesly and palpable or comprehensible Body Adam and Eve gat instantly 27. But now the flesh is not the whole Man for this flesh cannot comprehend or apprehend the Deity else the flesh were not Mortal and corruptible or fading and transitory for Christ saith John 6. 63. It is the Spirit that quickneth the flesh profiteth nothing 28. For this flesh cannot inherit the Kingdom of heaven neither but is only a Seed which is sowen into the Earth out of which will grow an impalpable or incomprehensible Body such as the first was before the Fall But the Spirit is eternal life which uniteth qualifieth or mixeth with God and comprehendeth the internal Deity in Nature 29. Now as Man in his outward Being is corrupted and as to his fleshly Birth or Geniture is in the wrath of God and is moreover also an Enemy of God and yet is but one Man and not Two and on the other side in his spiritual Birth or Geniture he is a Child and Heir of God which ruleth and liveth with God and qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the innermost Birth or Geniture of God Thus also is the Place of this world come to be 30. The outward comprehensibility or Palpability in the whole Nature of this world and of all things which are therein standeth all in the wrath-fire of God for it is become thus through the kindling of Nature and Lord Lucifer with his Angels hath his dwelling now in the same outward Birth or Geniture which standeth in the wrath-fire 31. But now the Deity is not separated from the outward Birth or Geniture so as if they were Two things in this world if so Man could
above us it hath this understanding or meaning as followeth 30. The upper Heaven compriseth the two Kingdoms that of Michael and that of Uriel and of all the holy Angels which are not fallen with Lucifer and that Heaven continueth as it was from Eternity before the Angels were created 31. The Other Heaven is this world in which Lucifer was a King who kindled the outermost Birth or Geniture in Nature and that now is the wrath of God and cannot be called God or Heaven but Perdition 32. Therefore the upper Heaven includeth it self up so far in its outermost Birth or Geniture and reacheth so far as the wrath of God reacheth and so far as the Government or Dominion of Lucifer hath reached for the corrupted or perished Birth or Geniture cannot comprehend the Pure 33. That is the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world cannot comprehend the outermost Birth or Geniture of Heaven aloft above this world for they are one to the other as the Life and the Death or as a Man and a Stone are one to the other 34. And therefore there is a strong firmament or inclosure between the outermost Birth or Geniture of the upper Heaven and that of this world for the firmament between them is Death which ruleth and reigneth every where in the outermost birth in this world and this world is so bolted up therewith that the outermost Birth of the upper Heaven cannot come into the outermost Birth of this world there is a great Cliff or Gulph between them And therefore in our outermost Birth or Geniture we cannot see the Angels neither can the Angels dwell with us in the outermost Birth of this world but in the innermost they dwell with us 36. And so when we fight with the Devill they keep off his Blowes in the innermost Birth and are the Defence and Protection of the holy Soul 37. Therefore we can neither see nor comprehend the holy Angels for the outermost Birth of their Body is incomprehensible to the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world 38. The second Birth of this world standeth in the life for it is the Astral Birth out of which is generated the third and holy Birth or Geniture and therein Love and wrath strive one with the other 39. For the second Birth standeth in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of this world and is in all places and in all the Creatures as also in Man But the Holy Ghost also ruleth and reigneth in the second birth and helpeth to generate the third holy Birth or Geniture 40. But this third Birth or Geniture is the clear and holy Heaven which qualifieth or uniteth with the Heart of God without distinct and above all Heavens as one Heart also they are the one Heart which holdeth and beareth up or sustaineth the place of this world and holdeth the Devil Captive in the outermost birth in the Anger fire as an Almighty incomprehensible God 41. And out of this Heart JESVS CHRIST the Sonne of God in the Womb or Body of the Virgin Mary went into all the three Births or Genitures and assumed them really that He might through and with his innermost Birth or Geniture take the Devill Death and Hell Captive in the outermost Birth and overcome the wrath of God as a King and Victorious Prince and in the power of his Geniture or Birth in the flesh presse thorough all Men. 42. And so by this entring of the innermost Birth of the Heart of the Heaven of this world into the Astrall and outermost is JESUS CHRIST the Sonne of God and of Mary become the Lord and King of this our Heaven and Earth who ruleth and reigneth in all the three Births or Genitures over Sin the Devil Death and Hell and so we with him presse through the sinful corrupted and outermost dead Birth or Geniture of the flesh through Death and the wrath of God into our Heaven 43. In this Heaven now sitteth Our King JESUS CHRIST at the right hand of God and encompasseth or surroundeth all the three Births as an almighty Sonne of the Father who is present in and throughout all the three Births in this world in all Corners and Places and comprehendeth holdeth and beareth up or sustaineth all as a new Born Sonne of the Father in the power and upon the Seat or Throne of the once Great mighty Potent and now expell'd accursed and Damned King Lucifer the Devill 44. Therefore thou child of man be not discouraged be not so timorous and pusillanimous for if thou sowest in thy zeal and earnest sincerity the seed of thy Teares thou dost not sow it in Earth but in Heaven for in thy astral Birth thou sowest and in thy animated or soulish Birth thou reapest and in the Kingdom of heaven thou possessest and enjoyest it 45. While thou livest in this strugling or striving Birth or Geniture thou must Buckle and suffer the Devil to ride upon thee but so hard as he striketh thee so hard thou must strike him again if thou wilt defend thy self For when thou fightest against him thou stirrest up his wrath-fire and destroyest his Nest and this is then as a great combustion and as a great strong Battel maintained against him 46. And though thy Body perhaps is put hard to it and suffers pain in misery yet it is much worse with him when he is vanquished for then he roareth like a Lion which is robbed of her young whelps for the fiercenesse and wrath of God tormenteth him but if thou lettest him Lodge within thee then he groweth fat and wanton and will vanquish thee in Time 47. Thus thou hast a real description of Heaven And though perhaps thou canst not in thy Reason conceive it Yet I can very well Conceive it therefore consider Rationally and seriously upon it What God is 48. Thou seest in this world Nothing but the Deep and therein the Stars and the Birth or Geniture of the Elements now wilt thou say God is not there 'pray then what was there in that place before the time of the world Wilt thou say there was Nothing then thou speakest without Reason for thou must needs say that God was there or else nothing would there have come to be 49. Now if God were there then who hath thrust him out from thence or vanquished him that he should be there no more But if God be there then he is indeed in his Heaven and moreover in his Trinity 50. But the Devil hath kindled the Bath or Lake of wrath whence the Earth and Stones also the Elements are become so fluctuating as also cold bitter and hot and so hath destroyed the outermost Birth or Geniture 51. Whereupon now this Treatise and my whole purpose is to describe how it is come to be living and revived again and how it regenerateth it self again And from thence also in the Creatures the beastial Flesh is come to be but Sin in the Flesh is the Wrath
of God Another Question which is chiefly treated of in this Book is this viz. Where then shall the Wrath of God become Answer 52. Here the spirit answereth that at the End of the Time of this corrupted Birth or Geniture after the Resurrection from the Dead this place or space where the Earth now is will be given to the Devill for a propriety or Possession and House of wrath yet not through and in all the three Births or Genitures but onely in the outermost in which he now standeth But the innermost will hold him Captive in its might and strength and use him for a footstool or as the Dust under its foot which innermost Birth he will never be able either to comprehend or to touch 53. For it hath not this understanding or meaning that the wrath-fire should be extinguished and be no more for then the Devils also must become Holy Angels again and live in the holy Heaven but that not being so a Hole Burrough or Dungeon in this world must remain to be their Habitation 54. If Mans Eyes were but opened he should see God every where in his Heaven for Heaven standeth in the innermost Birth or Geniture every where 55. Moreover when Stephen saw the Heaven opened and the Lord JESUS at the right hand of God there his spirit did not first swing it self up aloft into the upper Heaven but it penetrated or pressed into the innermost Birth or Geniture wherein Heaven is every where 56. Neither must thou think that the Deity is such a kind of Being as is onely in the upper Heaven and that the Soul when it departeth from the Body goeth up aloft into the upper Heaven many hundred thousand Miles off 57. It needeth not do that but it is set or put into the innermost Birth and there it is with God and in God and with all the holy Angels and can suddenly be above and suddenly beneath it is not hindred by any thing 58. For in the innermost Birth the upper and neather Deity is one Body and is an open Gate the Holy Angels converse and walk up and down in the innermost Birth of this world by and with our King JESUS CHRIST as well as in the uppermost world aloft in their Quarters Courts or Region 59. And where then would or should the Soul of Man rather be then with its King and Redeemer JESUS CHRIST For near and afar off in God is one thing one comprehensibility Father Sonne and Holy Ghost every where all over 60. The Gate of the Deity in the upper heaven is no other also no brighter then it is in this world and where can there be greater Joy then in that place where every hour and Moment beautiful loving dear new born children and Angels come to Christ which are press'd or penetrated through Death into Life 61. Doubtlesse they will make large Relations of many Fights and where can there be greater Joy then where in the midst or Center of Death life is Generated continually 62. Doth not every soul bring along with it a new Triumph and so there is nothing else but an exceeding friendly well coming and Salutation there 63. Considâ—â—â—hen the Soules of children come to their Parents who in the Body did Generate them whether Heaven can choose but be there or dost thou think my writing is too Earthly 64. If thou wert come to this Window thou wouldst not then say that it is earthly And though I must indeed use the earthly Tongue yet there is a true heavenly understanding couched under it which in my outermost Birth I am not able to expresse either in writing or in Speaking 65. I know very well that the word concerning the three Births cannot be comprehended or apprehended in every Mans Heart especially where the Heart is too much steeped soaked or drowned in the flesh and bolted and Barred up with the outermost Birth 66. But I cannot render it otherwise then as it is for it is just so and though I should write meer Spirit as indeed and truth it is no other yet the heart understandeth onely Flesh. Concerning the Constitution and form of the Earth 67. Many Authors have written that Heaven and Earth were created out of NOTHING but I do wonder that among so many excellent Men there hath not one been found that could yet describe the true Ground seeing the same God which now is hath been from Eternity 68. Now where nothing is there nothing can come to be All things must have a Root else can nothing grow If the seven Spirits of Nature had not been from eternity then there woâ—â—â— no Angel no Heaven also no Earth have come to be 69. But the Earth is come from the corrupt Salitter of the outermost Birth or Geniture which thou canst not deny when thou lookest on Earth and Stones for then thou must needs say that Death is therein And on the other side also thou must needs say that there is a Life therein otherwise neither Gold nor Silver nor any Plant Herb Grasse or Vegetable could grow therein Now one might Ask Are there also all the three Births or Genitureâ— therein Answer 70. Yes the Life presseth thorough Death the outermost Birth is the Death the second is the Life which standeth in the wrath-fire and in the Love And the Third is the Holy Life An Instruction or Information 71. The outward Earth is a bitter stinck and is dead and that every man understandeth to be so But the Salitter is destroyed or killed through Death for thou canst not deny but that Gods wrath is in the Earth otherwise it would not be so astringent bitter sowr venomous and poisonous neither would it engender such poisonous venomous Evill worms and creeping things But if thou shouldst say that God hath created them thus out of his Purpose that is as much as if thou shouldst say that God himself is Evil Malice Malignity or Wickednesse Pray tell me Why was the Devil expell'd or Thrust out 72. Surely thou wilt say because of his Pride In that he would needs be above God But Guesse Sir with what he would do so what Power haâ— he to do it Here tell me if thou knowest any thing of it if thou knowest Nothing be silent and attentive 37. Before the Times of the Creation He sate in the Salitter of the Earth when it was yet Thin or Transparent and stood in a heavenly holy Birth or Geniture and was in the whole Kingdom of this world therein it was neither Earth nor Stones but a heavenly Seed which was generated out of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of Nature for therein sprung up heavenly fruits forms and Ideas which were a pleasant delightfull food of Angels 74. But when the wrath did burn therein then it was killed and destroyed in Death Yet not so to be understood as if it were therefore altogether quite dead For how can any thing in God dye totally that hath had its
were suddenly snatched out from thence and set in such a very exceeding easie place of refreshment where instantly all the smarting scalding pains which he felt afore by the burning of the Fire should suddenly passe away and he be put into such a pleasing temper and soundnesse Just so the Generating of the 4. Kinds or Species are set or put into such a soft and meek well-doing and refreshment assoon as the Light riseth up in them Thou must understand me here aright 31. I write and mean it in a creaturely kind and manner as if a Man had been the Devils Prisoner and were suddenly removed out of the Devils fire into the Light of God 32. For the Light hath had no beginning in the generating of God but hath shined or given Light so from eternity in the Generating and God himself knoweth no beginning therein 33. Only the Spirit here setteth Open for thee the Gates of Hell that thou mayst see what is the condition of the Devils and of Hell and what the condition of Man is when the divine Light extinguisheth in him so that he sitteth in the wrath of God and then he liveth in such a Generating in such an anguish Smarting Pains woe and misery 34. Neither can I declare it unto thee in any other manner for I must write so as if the Generating or Geniture of God had or took a beginning when things came to be thus but I write here very really true and Pretious dear words which the Spirit alone understandeth Now Observe The Gates of God 35. The Light which generateth it self from the Fire and becometh shining in the water and replenisheth or filleth the whole Geniture and enlightneth it and mitigateth it that is the true Heart of God or Sonne of God For he is continually generated out of the Father and is another Person then the qualities and Geniture of the Father 36. For the Generating or Geniture of the Father cannot catch or comprehend the Light and use it to its Generating but the Light standeth by it self and is not comprehended by any Geniture and it replenisheth and enlightneth the whole Geniture viz. the onely begotten Sonne of the Father John 1. 14. And this Light I call in the humane Birth or Geniture the animated or Soulish Birth understand the Image which Budded forth out of the Essences of the Soul according to the similitude of God or the Birth or Geniture which qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with this animated or soulish Birth or Geniture of God and herein is Mans soul one heart with God but that is when it standeth in this Light V. 37. The fifth Generating in God is when this Light thus very gently mildly and amiably presseth through the first four Births or Generatings and then it bringeth along with it the Heart and most pleasant lovely power and vertue of the sweet water and so when the sharp Births or Genitures taste of it then are they very meek and richly full of Love and is as if continually the life did rise up in and from Death 38. There each spirit tasteth of the other and getteth meer new strength and power for the astringent quality groweth now very pliable and yielding because it is mitigated by the power of the Light that springeth out of the sweet water for it warmeth the coldnesse and the sweet water maketh the sharp taste very pleasant lovely and mild 39. And so in the sharp and fiery Births or Generatings there is nothing but a meer longing of Love a tasting friendly affecting gratious amiable and blessed Generating there is nothing but meer Love and all wrath and Bitternesse in the Center is Bolted up as in a strong Hold. This generating is a very meek beneficiall well-doing and the bitter spirit now is the Living Mobility VI. 40. Now the Sixth Generating in God is when the Spirits in their Birth or Geniture thus taste one of another for then they become very full of Joy For the fire-flash or the sharpnesse out of or from the Birth or Geniture riseth up aloft and moveth as the Ayr in this world doth 41. For when one power or vertue toucheth the other then they taste one another and become very full of Joy for the Light becometh generated out of all the powers and presseth again through all the powers whereby and wherein the rising Joy generateth it self from whence the Tone or Tune existeth 42. For from the touching and moving the living Spirit generateth it self and that same Spirit presseth through all-Births or Generatings very unconceiveably and incomprehensibly to the Birth or Geniture and is a very richly Joyfull pleasant lovely sharpnesse like melodious sweet Musick 43. And now when the Birth generateth then it conceiveth or apprehendeth the Light and speaketh or inspireth it again into the Birth or Geniture through the moving Spirit And this moving Spirit is the Third Person in the Birth or Geniture of God and is call'd God the Holy Ghost VII 44. The seventh Generating is and keepeth its Birth or Geniture and Forming in the Holy Ghost and so when that goeth through the sharp Births or Genitures then it goeth forth with the Tone and so formeth and Imageth all manner of Figures all according to the wrestling of the sharp Births or Genitures one with another 45. For they wrestle in the Birth or Geniture continually one with another like a loving Play or Scene and according as the Birth or Geniture is with the colours and taste in the rising up so are the figures also Imaged 46. And this Birth or Geniture now is called GOD the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost and neither of them is the First and neither of them is the Last though I make a distinction and set the one after the other yet neither of them is the first or the last but they have all been from Eternity thus seated in the same Equality of Beeing 47. I must write by this way of distinction that the Reader may understand it for I cannot write meer heavenly words but must write humane words Indeed all is rightly truly and faithfully described But the Beeing of God consisteth only in Power and the Spirit only comprehendeth it and not the dead or mortal Flesh. 48. And thus thou mayst understand what manner of Being the Deitie is and how the three Persons of the Deitie are thou must not liken the Deitie to any Image for the Deity is the Birth or Geniture of all things And if there were not in the First four Species or kinds the sharp Birth or Generating then there would be no mobility neither could the Light kindle it self and generate the Life 49. But now this sharp Birth or Geniture is the original of mobility and of Life as also of the Light from whence existeth the Living and Rational spirit which distinguisheth formeth and Imageth all in this Generating 50. For the astringent cold Birth or Geniture is the beginning of all things which is astringent severe
contracting and retentive and formeth and contracteth the Birth together and maketh the Birth thick or solid so that out of it Nature commeth to Bee and hence Nature and comprehensibility hath its original in the whole Body of God 51. Now this Nature is as a dead unintellectual Being and standeth or consisteth not in the power of the Birth or Geniture but is a Body wherein the power generateth 52. But it is the Body of God and hath all power as the whole Geniture hath and the generating spirits take their strength and power out of or from the Body of Nature and continually generate again and the astringent spirit continually compacteth or draweth it together and dryeth it and thus the Body subsisteth and the generating spirits also 53. Now the other Birth or Geniture is the Water which taketh its original in the Body of Nature Observe 54. Now when the Light shineth thorough the astringent contracted Body and mitigateth it then the mild beneficient well-doing generateth it self in the Body and then the hard power groweth very mild and melteth as Ice in the Heat of the Sun and is extenuated or rarified as water is in the Ayr and yet the stock of Nature as to the heavenly comprehensibility remaineth standing 55. For the astringent and fire-spirit holdeth it fast and the meek water which melteth from the Body of Nature in the kindling of the Light that goeth through the severe and earnest cold and fiery Birth or Geniture and is very sweet pleasant and lovely 56. Whereby now the earnest and austere Birth or Geniture is refreshed and when it tasteth thereof it groweth capable to be raised up and rejoyceth and also is a joyful rising up wherein the life of Meeknesse generateth it self 57. For this is the water of Life wherein the Love in God as also in Angels and Men generateth it self For it is all of one sort of Power Vertue and Birth or Geniture 58. And now when the Births or Genitures of the powers taste the water of Life then they quake or Tremble for very Love and Joy and that trembling or moving which riseth up in the midst or center of the Birth or Geniture is Bitter For it riseth up swiftly out of the Birth when the water of life cometh into the Birth or Geniture like a Joyful leaping or springing up of the Birth 59. But being it riseth up so swiftly that the Birth elevateth it self so suddenly before it be fully affected with the water of life thereupon that terrour or crack keepeth its bitternesse which it hath out of or from the austere Birth for the beginning or incaptive Birth or Geniture is very austere cold fiery and astringent 60. Therefore also is the terrour or Crack now so swelling and trembling for it moveth the whole Birth and rubbeth it self therein till it kindleth the fire in the hard fiercenesse from whence the Light taketh its original And then the trembling crack becometh enlightned with the Meeknesse of the Light and goeth in the Birth or Geniture up and down and crosse-wayes both upwards and downwards like a wheel made with seven wheels one in another 61. In this pressing through and turning about existeth the Tone according to the Quality of each spirit and alwaies one power affecteth the other for the powers are as loving Brethren in one Body and the meeknesse riseth up and the spirit generateth and sheweth it self infinitely 62. For that power which in the turning about sheweth it self the strongest in the generating according to that power manner and colour the Holy Ghost also imageth shapeth or frameth the figures in the Body of Nature 63. Thus thou seest that none of the powers is the first also none the second third fourth or Last but the last generateth the First as well as the first the Last and the middle most taketh its original from the Last as also from the First as well as from the Second Third or any of the rest 64. Thou seest also that Nature cannot be distinguish'd from the powers of God but is all one Body 65. The Deitie that is the holy power of the Heart of God is generated in Nature and so also the Holy Ghost existeth or goeth forth out of the Heart of the Light continually through all the powers of the Father and figureth all and Imageth or frameth All. 66. This Birth or Geniture is now in Three distinct Parts every one being several and Totall and yet neither of them is divided asunder from the other The Gate of the Holy Trinity 67. The whole Birth or Geniture which is the Heaven of all Heavens as also this world which is in the Body of the whole as also the place of the Earth and of all creatures and whatever thou canst think on all that together is God the Father who hath neither beginning nor end and wheresoever and whatsoever thou thinkest upon even in the smallest circle that can be imagined is the whole Birth or Geniture of God perfectly incessantly and irresistably 68. But if in a Creature or in any Place the light be extinguisht then is the austere Birth or Geniture there which lyeth hid in the Light in the innermost kernel And this now is One Part. 69. The second part or the second Person is the Light which is continually generated from or out of all powers and enlightneth again all the powers of the Father and hath the fountain of all powers But is therein distinguish'd from the Father as a singular Person in that it cannot comprehend the Birth or Geniture of the Father and yet is the Fathers Sonne which is alwaies generated from or out of the Father An instance whereof you have in all the kindled Fires in this world do but consider of it 70. And the Father loveth this his onely begotten or innate Sonne therefore so heartily because he is the Light and the meek beneficent well-doing in his Body through whose power the Fathers Joy and Delight riseth up 71. Now these are two Persons and neither of them can apprehend retain or comprehend the other and the One is as great as the other and if either of them were not the other could not be neither 72. Observe here ye Jews Turks and Heathens for it concerneth you to you here are opened the Gates of God harden not your selves for now is the acceptible time 73. You are not forgotten of God at all but if you convert then the Light and Heart of God will rise up in you as the bright Sun at Noon-day 74. This I write in the power and perfect knowledge of the great God and I understand his will herein very well For I live and am in him and spring up with this work and Labour out of his root and stock and it must be so Onely take thou heed if thou blindest thy self then there is no Remedy more neither canst thou say thou knewest not of it therefore arise for the Day breaketh 75. The third diversity or
the third Person in the Being of God is the moving Spirit which existeth from the rising up in the terrour or Crack where life is generated which now moveth in all powers and is the Spirit of Life and the powers can no more comprehend him or apprehend him but he kindleth the powers and by his moving maketh figures and Images and formeth them according to that kind and manner as the wrestling Birth standeth in every place 76. And if thou art not wilfully blind thou mayst know that the Ayr is that very spirit but in the Place of this world Nature is kindled therein very swellingly in the wrath-fire which Lord Lucifer effected and the Holy Ghost who is the Spirit of Meeknesse lyeth hidden therein in his Heaven 77. Thou needest not to ask where that Heaven is It is in thy Heart do but open it the Key is here shewed to thee 78. Thus there is one God and three distinct Persons one in another and neither of them can comprehend or withhold or fathom the Original of the other but the Father generateth the Sonne and the Sonne is the Fathers Heart and his Love and his Light and is an original of Joy and the beginning of all Life 79. And the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of Life and a former framer and Creator of all things and a performer of the will in God that hath formed and created out of or from the Body and in the Body of the Father all Angels and Creatures and holdeth and formeth all still daily and is the sharpnesse and the Living Spirit of God And as the Father speaketh or Expresseth the Word out of or from his powers so the Spirit formeth or frameth them Of the great simplicity of God 80. Come on Brave Sir upon thy Brown Nagg who ridest from Heaven into Hell and from Hell into Death and therein the sting of death lyeth view thy self here thou worldly wise Man that art full of base wit Cunning and subtile Policy 81. Take notice ye worldly wise Lawyers if you will not come before this Looking-Glasse even before the bright and clear face of God and view your selves therein then the Spirit presenteth to you the Birth or Geniture in the innermost astringent circle where wit cunning and prudence is generated where the sharpnesse of the anxious Birth or Geniture of God is for there your prudence cunning and deep reaching wit is generated 82. Now if you will be Gods and not Devils then make use of the Holy and meek Law of God if not then you shall for ever Eternally generate in the aâ—stere and severe Birth or Geniture of God This saith the Spirit as the Word of God and not of my dead or mortal Flesh. 83. Thou must know that I do not suck it out from the dead or mortal Reason but my spirit qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with God and proveth or searcheth the Deitie how it is in all its Births or Genitures in its taste and smell and I find that the Deitie is a very simple pure meek loving and Quiet Beeing and that the birth of the Ternarie of God generateth it self very meekly friendly lovingly and unanimously and the sharpnesse of the innermost Birth can never elevate or swell it self into the meeknesse of the Ternarie but remaineth hidden in the Deep 84. And the sharpness in the hidden secresie is called God's WRATH and the Being of meeknesse in the Ternarie or Trinity is called GOD. Here nothing goeth out of or forth from the sharpnesse which perisheth or which doth kindle the wrath but the spirits Play very gently one with another like little children when they rejoyce one with another where every one hath his work and so they play one with another and lovingly kisse and court one another 85. Such a work also the Holy Angels exercise themselves in and in the Ternarie of God there is a very meek pleasant and sweet beeing where the Spirit alwaies elevateth it self in the Tone and the one power toucheth the other as if there were pleasant Melodious Hymnes or Songs and consorts of musicall Instruments plaid upon 86. And as the rising up of the spirits in every place is so the Tone also formeth it self but very meekly and incomprehensibly to the Bodies of the Angels but very comprehensibly to the animated or soulish Birth or Geniture of Angels and as the Deitie presenteth it self in each place so the Angels also present themselves For the Angels were created out of this Being and have among them their Princes of the qualifying or fountain spirits of God as they are in the Birth or Geniture of God 87. Therefore as the Beeing of God presents or sheweth forth it self in the Birth or Geniture so do the Angels also and that power which at any time hath the primacie in the Birth or Geniture of God and rejoyceth out of the Heart of God in the Holy Ghost that Power 's Prince of the Angels beginneth also his Hymn and Jubilateth with his Hoast or Army now one then suddenly another for the Birth or Geniture of God is like a Wheel 88. But when the Heart of God sheweth forth it self with its Clarity or Brightnesse then there riseth up the whole Hoast or Army of all the three Kingdoms of the Angels and in this rising up of the Heart of God the Man JESVS CHRIST is King and Chief he leadeth the Royal Chorus or Quire with all the holy Souls of Men till the Last Judgment Day And then the Holy Men are perfect Angels and the wicked perfect Devils and that in its eternity 89. Here view thy self thou witty suttle world and consider from whence thy prudence suttlety and vvit proceedeth Now thou wilt say to me 90. Dost not thou seek after deeper suttlety than we thou wilt needs clime into the most hidden secrets of God which is not fit for any Man to go about We seek only after humane Prudence and suttlety but thou wouldst be equall with God and knovv all How God is in every thing both in Heaven and in Hell in Devils Angels and Men. Therefore sure it is not unlawful to seek for a cunning sharp wit and after crafty Designs which bring Honour Povver or Authority and Riches A Reply 91. If thou climest up this Ladder on which I climb up into the Deep of God as I have done then thou hast climbed well I am not come to this meaning or to this work and knowledge through my own Reason or through my own will and purpose neither have I sought this knowledge nor so much as knew any thing concerning it I sought only for the Heart of God therein to hide my self from the tempestuous storms of the Devil 92. But when I gat in thither then this great weighty and hard Labour was laid upon me which is to Manifest and reveal to the world and to make known The great Day of the LORD and being they seek and Long so eagerly after the Root of the
not so intollerable 69. For that heat was not so great as in the Sun and therefore the light also was very meek and thus in respect of the horrible fiercenesse of the Sun the Sun is differenced or distinguisht from the Meeknesse of God So that Man should not dare to say that the Sun is an open Gate of the light of God but is as the Light in a Mans Eye whereas also the place of the Eye belongeth to the Body but the Light is different or distinct from the Body 70. And though indeed it existeth by the Heate in the water of the Body yet it is a peculiar distinct thing which the body cannot comprehend and such a distinct difference there is also between God the Father and the Sonne 71. Thus on the Fourth Day in the anxious Birth or Geniture of this world in the middle point or Center of this World the SUN is Sprung up and standeth still in its Eternal Corporeal place for it cannot rise up in one place and set in another 72. For it is the onely and Sole natural Light of this world and besides it there is no more any true Light in the House of Death and though it seemeth as if the other Stars did shine Bright and give Light also yet it is not so but they take all their lustre and shining Light from the Sun as hereafter presently followeth The true Birth or Geniture and descent of the Sun and of the other Planets Is just thus as followeth 73. Now when the Heaven was made for a distinction or partition between the Light of God and the kindled corruption of the Body of this world then was the Body of this world a dark valley and had no light that could have shone forth in the outward Body besides the Heaven there stood all powers as it were captivated in Death and were in great anguish till they had heatt themselves in the mid'st or center of the Body 74. But when this was done so that the anxious Birth or Geniture stood so severely in the Heat then the Love in the Light of God brake through the Heaven of the Partition and kindled the Heat 75. And there rose up the shining light in the Heat in the water or in the fat or oylinesse of the water and the Heart of the water kindled it selfe and this was done in the twinckling of an Eye 76. For assoon as the Light had rightly laid hold on the Body the Body was captivated in the Light and the Heat was captivated and was changed into a competent Meeknesse and could stand or extend no further in such Anguish 77. But being the Heat was so terrified by the Light thereupon its horrible fire-source was allayed and so could kindle it selfe no further and so also the breaking through of the Love in the Light of God through the Heaven at this time with its breaking thorough extended or stretched it selfe no further out of or from Gods predestinated purpose therefore also the SUN came to be no bigger Of the Planet Mars 78. But when the Sun was kindled then the horrible fire-crack went forth upward from the Place of the Sun distant from the Place of the Sun as a horrible Tempestuous Flash and in its corporeall Being took along with it the fiercenesse of the fire whereby the water became very bitter and the water is the kernel or stock of the Crack 79. Now the Astrologers write that the Planet Mars standeth aloft about 15750 Miles off from the Sun which I contradict not because I meddle not with the measuring of Circles And so farr that fire-crack went on a suddain from its own Place till the light also laid hold on it and then it also was captivated by the Light and staid and took possession of that Place 80. But that the Light could lay no sooner hold of it was caused by the earnest fiercenesse and sudden flash for it was not taken hold of by the Light before the Light had wholly or throughly affected or possessed it 81. And there it is now as a Tyrant Rager and Stirrer of the whole Body of this world for that is its very Office that with its Revolution in the wheele of Nature it moveth and stirreth all from whence every life taketh its Original Of the Planet Jupiter 82. Now when the bitter firecrack was captivated by the Light then the light in its own power pressed yet higher in the Deepe till it reach'd into the hard and cold seate of Nature And there the power of the first going forth or rising up from the Sun could not get Higher but fitting stayed there corporeally and took possession of that Place for a Habitation But thou must understand this thing aright 83. It was the power of the Light which stayed in this place which is a very Meek friendly gracious amiable blessed and sweet Being The Astrologers write that this Planet is distant aloft above Mars about 7875 Miles But it is the Mitigator of the destroying furious Raging Raving Mars and an original of the Meeknesse in every Life an original also of the water from which the life generateth it self as I shall mention hereafter 84. Thus farr the power of the Life reached forth from the Sun and not higher but the lustre or shineing thereof which hath its power also reacheth even to the Stars and through the whole Body of this world But thou must understand this exactly from whence these two Planets are come to be 85. When the power of the Heart of God pressed forth out of the eternal inexhaustible fountain of the water of life through the Heaven of the Partition and kindled the water in the place of the Sun then the flash understand the fire-flash did shoot forth or went forth out of the water which was very terrible and bitter out of which Mars came to be 86. After this Flash the power of the Light shot nimbly after it like a meek elevated life and overtook the fire crack and mitigated it so that it became somwhat weaker and could breake no farther through the deepe but stayed trembling 87. But the power that was gone forth in the Light had more strength then the fire-crack and so it rose up higher then then the fire-crack Mars till it came very deep into Natures austerenesse and there it became feeble also and stayd there 88. From or out of this power the Planet Jupiter came to be and not out of or from that place where he is but it alwaies kindleth that very place with its power but it is as one of the Household Servants in that place who must alwaies walk about in the place of its office and service But the Sun hath a house of its Own but no other Planet hath any House of its Own 89. If we will rightly search into the Original of the Stars Birth and Geniture or their beginning then we must exactly know the Birth or Geniture of the Life viz How the Life generateth