secure thee from all beleaguerings hiding thee within the Pavilion of his Power To this oh my Soul do thou enter and for ever rely for here is hiding from the Serpent's Eye August the 31st 1676. Upon these sweet Words of Counsel and Emanations I sprung out in Prayer renewing my Vows formerly made pouring forth the Oyl of Joy and Gladness upon Jacob's Pillar which is the standing Witness betwixt me and Jehovah Nissah Henceforth resolving to adventure only with Jacob's Staff in my Hand finding fresh Power animating my Faith so that I neither feared Famine Nakedness or any Distress that could happen Being resolved to abide where my Lot was cast and to go thro' with my Associate with whom the Spirit of Caleb was to proceed and to go forward unanimously with me till we might reach to the high Calling and Apostolical Power which I felt mightily impulsing to hazard the loss of all reckoning nothing of Validity or worth making Interest for but that which spoken of hath been yet reserved for us in the Everlasting Treasury Whereto upon all accounts I will apply my self for thereout will be given to that Eye which waiteth steadily Which was assured and confirmed to me from that Example of Moses his Hands being held up The Lord said to me if ye will be prevailing Conquerors over your deadly undermining Soul-destroying Foes your Hands of Faith must at no time fall down but when you find them heavy call in Aaron and Hur the Spirit of Prophecy and Prayer which props up and maintains the Affiance still to rest upon the Stone of Strength and Almightiness by which great Conquest and Success will come to be witnessed Thus happy shall ye be in holding out firmly because the Shield of your help shall tread down all strength for you September the 1st 1676. THe Doctor this Morning Praying with me the Word said while he was in Prayer Here is a Ship in full Sail directing to that Prophetical Blessing which was pronounced upon Zebulun whose dweâ—…ing should be at the Haven where all rich freighted Ships should unload themselves September the 3d. 1676. This Morning considering of some Passages which were read to me of a Fore-runner who had wonderful things by Vision revealed unto him with which I was much affected they being so weighty much answering to what I did believe might be brought to pass according to the Spirit of Prophecy who did see into the same Mystery of Christ coming While I was Praying in my self for to see this wonderful Time a Pair of Ballances was put forth by a Hand as out of a Cloud where appeared a great Roll writ upon within and a Golden Ball or Globe These in each Scale were weighed The Golden Globe immediately carried the Scale down and thus it was said Vision is not so weighty as Fruition These Writings are as the Bonds of Obligation but the subsisting thing is from this solid Body which turns Vision into Fruition which set thy Heart chiefly upon September the 4th 1676. After this passed I considered how to be changed into this Globe of unmixed solid matter groaning after the contaction of his Heavenly material thing which in Vision I had seen Then heard I Wisdom's Word to cry within me saying Thy Mind must be cast into a new Mold of Imagination that so thy thoughts may come to answer mine That Scripture being brought to me Let the unrighteous Man forsake his thoughts and turn to his God At this Word I said Oh my Lord who can nullify and put a stop to his own thoughts which is a connexion to his Life For every sight of the Eye and hearing of the Ear doth stir up and awaken these Essences therefore there is no possibility of stopping the current of them but they will run their Course as the Sun Moon and Stars in their Order will Under whose Constellations while we are living such common thoughts wilâ—… arise which though not wholly evil yeâ—… because they are not holy and perfectly good they cannot be according to what proceeds from the Heart of God who would that our Thoughts and Ways should be like unto his This case I presented before my God and my Lord Jesus to be answered September the 5th 1676. Who the next day thus resolved me saying As thou hast desired that great sublime change which is the Transmutation into the pure solid Body so know thou that for the obtaining of this there must of necessity be a superimaginariness from which fanned are all chaffy Cogitations For such is the Man as the Conceptions of his Mind are Now this is only on thy part to do whereby the circulation of profuse Imaginations may be stopped when wisely and foreseeingly thou dost prevent all occasions which administer such hard matter for such a muddy Spring to generate it self into such Multiplicities as generally fill the whole House of the Mind I Jesus do therefore come to be thy anointed Eye that so thou mayst discern the thoughts of thy Heart what to imbrace and what to forsake For know that a thought is a more considerable thing then hitherto ye have understood for their Nature are most subtle swift Spirits who numerate as the Sand upon the Sea-shore so as they make a World invisible in every Creature From whence first come all Wars Insurrections and Mutations these being first inkindled from the Fire-flash which openeth from its own center which divideth it self part into the Evil and part into the Good For so it is now that two Sources are opened in every Creature his Will standing free being redeemed out of the necessity as adhering to the Earthly the treasury of the Heavenly being free to resort to But that part from whence the pure River doth bubble up and spring multipying divine Conception is a very deep Well into which the Will-Spirit doth launch sâ—…nking down into the Depths before it can fetch up those precious Thoughts which work from the Source of all pure Deity They will through an habitual Course so unite as to rise up like an Army of great Might able to put the other to flight Here is the great Conquest to subdue every Thought and first to bring down these high Towers of the imaginary part Demolish but these and you will do your work to purpose Now that ye may be wise to know how to stop this muddy Source observe these following Rules Rules for the Government of the Imagination First Wind out of all occasions which from this World may minister and present fruitless and unnecessary Objects and Things which will kindle Essences according to their empty and profuse Likeness Secondly Keep thy self much within thy Holy Temple and Holy Place of Silence where the Trinity with their whole train delight for to descend with whom being much conversant the sight of the Eye and the hearing of the Ear within this Heavenly Sphear will both beget nourish and maintain pure Cogitations Thirdly Thou wilt see feel and know
A FOUNTAIN OF Gardens WATERED by the Rivers of Divine Pleasure And Springing up in all the Variety of Spiritual Plants Blown up by the Pure Breath into A PARADISE Sending forth their Sweet Savours and Strong Odours for Soul-Refreshing P. J. De Loutherbourg By JANE LEAD Cantic 4. 16. Awake O North Wind and come thou South blow upon my Garden that the Spices may flow out let my Beloved come into his Garden and eat his pleasant Fruits Chap. 6. 2. My Beloved is gone down into his Garden to the Beds of Spices to feed in the Gardens and to gather Lillies LONDON Printed and Sold by J. Bradford near Crowder's-Well 1696. A Bundle of Revelations United And to be Dispersed to such as are Impartial Seekers and Unwearied Searchers into the Deep Things of GOD Which are only Knowable to that Holy Spirit that diggeth into the Rich Mines and Treasury of WISDOM Of which the Author hereof was under a Powerful Driving for the Space of about Thirty Years keeping a Private Recollection to her self as they did from Time to Time open and come down as a Burning Shower not knowing whether they should have been made Publick in her Age but thinking rather they might be kept as a Garden Enclosed and as a Fountain Sealed PRovidence having opened a Door unexpectedly through the strong Instigation of an highly Worthy Person truly enobled in the Spirit of his Mind who having had a savour and Relish of some Foregoing Books that had been Printed did make a generous offer to have the Bank and Stock of what the Holy Unction had dropped in brought forth into Manifestation for the Universal Enlightening Leading and Refreshing for the Dove-Flocks belonging to the Great Shepherd to whom such Pastures lie open to be freely fed upon I think my self obliged to Publish for these Ends what can be recovered of the Process and Diary of my Life since I have been under these Love-Visitations from the Spirit of my Lord. The Time being now accomplished wherein the Hour-glass of the Spirit is a second time turned up for the which there is a Call from the New Jerusalem World that all Persons of every Quality Rank and Degree under what Denomination soever they be throughout all Nations Peoples and Languages do give eart and watch every Golden Sand that this Glass doth run that nothing of it may run wast For it is the Morning-Watch and Day-break of the Spirit that is to spread forth its Light and Glory whereby is to be enlightned the Dark Ignorant State of the World who have sat in the Region of Traditional and Literal Knowledge according to the Rational Wisdom of Man which through the Innundation of the Spirit must all be drowned and a New Earth prepared wherein the Sowing of the Spirit is to be with one pure Golden Grain that can admit of no mingling of what is from Man for another Time is now at hand wherein nothing but what is purely taught of God shall abide and stand Therefore as one that hath obtained through Infinite Love and large Grace to be Baptized into this Glorious Manifestation of the Spirit I do beseech and excite all to whom this Journal shall come that they do well observe and take diligent notice of the Method and Way which God took with me in order to the bringing me forward to the Arrivement at the manifold Degrees and Growths which is here in a most simple and undress'd manner brought forth without any Alteration but just as the Spirit was pleased to render it self in its own Cloathing So in obedience to the Call of Wisdom may the same Visitation of Immediate Divine Teaching as a Day-star in your Hearts appear which may your Souls greatly revive and chear Now give me leave to tell you the Beginning of my Way that the Spirit first led me into In the first place then after some Years that I had lived in some good Degree of an Illuminated Knowledge setting under the Visible Teachings of Men that could give no further Light than that they had arrived from others through all of which I traced as a wandring Spirit that could find no Rest but something still I found within my self that did open to draw in from a more pure Air then I could meet without me Whereupon I introverted more into my own Inward Deep where I did meet with that which I could not find elsewhere except it were with such as were brought under the same Dispensation of whom a few Names were made known unto me Wherefore I do give my own Experience that I would have every one that desires to be Sealed with the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation not to take in any Fears Jealousies or Prejudices concerning the Emanations and Manuductions that the Holy Ghost will dispense forth as any shall be found Lovers and Waiters thereupon For I my self found all other Grounds and Pastures dry and barren as a parched Desart until I came to this Fruitful Lebanon where all Variety of sweet scented Flowers did as another Eden flourish pleasantly Which were known and enjoyed by giving up to the Teaching of the Holy Unction which as the Waters of the Sanctuary will never cease springing till they become an Overwhelming River which is the true Baptizing Water of Life This you will find to be true as you seriously apply your self to this Way and Method of God's Immediate Teaching Which then you shall find to open in the Center of your own Soul And this way manifesteth it self in a various Dispensation Sometimes this is by Inspeaking from the Essential Word which giveth its own certain Sound as different Occasions do offer upon a Soul 's waiting thereupon For it would be a very deplorable Case if Christ should leave his Flock and seal up the Fountain of all Future Revelation that is no necessary to be Renewed in every Age of Time Therefore he brings us to lie at the Mouth of this bubling Well of his Spirit for to drink in what is New and Fresh which doth greatly delight the Soul that would otherwise be apt to faint and flag before it come to the end of its Race Wherefore he doth strow our Way witâ—… fragrant Flowers all sweet and pleasant and of many and beautiful Colours as you may observe when you read the Similitudes and Visions which are here Published God many times coming down to unfold himself in this Figurative and Parabolical Yet more Essentially and Deeper above and beyond all Figures and Representations of which I shall give you some account as being under Command not to keep back or shun to declare the whole Purport whereinto I have been carried for the universal Refreshment and Benefit of such who are as meaned Children from every other Breast but that of their Eternal Mother whence all Wisdom and Understanding doth stream forth Intellectually which is the growing Nutriment as it doth pass Radically into the Soul as the Blood doth into the Veins Now here is a
perfumes the Breath of all your Prayers so that your God may smell that which may bring down Blessings according to your Will Being so compounded in every part with the Spikenard and Altar-Fire as to be one continual ascending Power and perfuming Pillar of sacred Fire With which my dear Lord do thou mightily shine upon those who appointed are hereunto and them more highly inspire September the 18th 1676. Having for some few Days met with some exercise of Illness upon my outward man whereby I was made sensible how great a disadvantage that was to the Spirit of the Mind to do its Office and Work in as to its House and Habitation where it displays it self making the very outward Animal Spirit of the Body intelligible of Divine Things which when depressed by Sickness is much otherwise for that then the receptable Comprehensive part is much shut up The feeling of which made me bewail the defectiveness of this outward Body because it was disproportionable to that high graduated thing which acted within it Upon which I sought the Lord with great earnestness to give such soundness to the Terrestrial Man as it might answer to the Spiritual Operator who was the moving Wheel After some little space of time I heard this Word run mightily through me I am thy Saving Health which shall arise and get the Victory over thy present Infirmities To which Word I gave credit and did see all the dark Magick Influence flâ—… as a dark Vapour from me A hail Body is of a necessary connexion to a sound Spirit for the Lord's Service whereby the Heavenly Calling may be perfected Against which the working Powers of that grand Enemy are always at work by one wile or other still to prevent me running to and fro as a most busie Agent but to my God I did fly who said he would spread over me the healing Covering of his Soveraignty for my security Then I prayed for the Guardian Power to surround them who with me were obnoxious to the stroke of the Dragon's Enmity letting his Arrows fly every way upon the Heaven-Setters But it was said Fear not for on them also is set an impregnable Guard Thus I was comforted over all Fears Distresses and Tribulations being assured no Weapon should prosper against the Work which we were charged with For if on our parts we did not flag the Right Hand of Strength and Power did engage to be with us and for us even so Amen let it be O Lord evermore September the 20th 1676. The Expostulation of the Spouse I was in a Spirit of Mourning for the Personal Absence of my Lord whose Representations and Touches had awakened and drawn all the Virtual Powers of my Spirit after him insomuch as I took freedom to tell him whom my Soul thus loved that sith he had after such a high and total manner engaged my Heart unto him above all others that now it was but right and equal he should marry me and so in every respect answerably provide and settle me according to the greatness of that Marriage state Preferring also to him this Argument that it was his own free offer to Love first or I should never have presumed to have claimed such favourable Aspects or such kind of Spiritual freedom with one so much raised above me But verily now since my Lord made the first Proposal and thereby hath gained my Interiour Will with all its attending Affections it is now but reasonable that I should be answered in my Foundational Hopes and Expectations Which are not grounded upon old recorded general Promises but upon new and particular Words dropping fresh from the Mouth of my Jesus or else those deep Impressions had never took hold of me so as to make me set light by all Creatures and Things Believing I had made such a choice as was sufficient to answer to every requiring and to set me free from the Servile Bondage to these sort of Creatures that knew nothing of the Mystery of Faith I did set home these and many more Arguments upon my Lord with all ardency and I said that I did now look for Performance and entreated further that he would consider that the Honour of his Fidelity was herein concerned For I had declared to the World that I was his and he was mine by Covenant and Contract and therefore with what shame should I come off who had rejected all Loves and Lovers for to tye my Spirit in this Espousal Knot to this great Heir and Prince of Glory unto which Royalty I did believe er'e long I should be invested If my Jesus would be true unto me according to the various Promises left as an Earnest with me Who being so right and just a Person as I had no shadow of ground on his part to suspect neither would I knowingly act any thing defectively on my part or delay the mutual Nuptial Day which would make much for the Praise of such a restored Glory Therefore I was much importunate with my Jesus that he would do now and act according to the earnest Expectation of the New Creature and the Honour of his exalted Name that it might be no longer derided or defamed by those who would rejoyce to see wholly self-denying Spirits frustrated of their Bridal-Joy and Coronation-Day And that he would be pleased so to act as now to let them stand upon the visible Stage of Dignity as they have been of Reproach and Defamation despightfully used for their Bridegroom's sake As also to bring off all their disgraceful Calumnies who hath now the disposal of all Princely Majesty to put upon his present disguised Bride September the 21st 1676. I having after this manner unburthened my loaded Mind by way of Expostulation hearkening what answer herefrom would proceed to a suspended Lover I heard this Answer Here now follows the Bridegroom's Answer by his Spirit Oh thou desponding Lover I perceive thou art still upon the doubtful and questioning part suspecting my Truth and Loyalty lest I should despise and slight thee in thy mean estate First thou hast charged me to draw and steal away thy Heart not only from thy self but from all others so as thou sayest thou art as a lifeless useless actless Creature having emptied all into me so as now nothing will suffice but the Conjugal Knot to be knit or else thou thinkest thy self never sure of me Thus I have born thy Love-passionate Charges and thy unkind Surmises because I had deferred upon deep grounds best known to my self the publication of my determinate Marriage with thee But O Soul may it not suffice thee that I do maintain all intimate Friendship with thee and though I cannot as yet make a visible Personal Appearance for duration and for demonstration to the World Yet in and by that faithful Witness and true Unction I am still present with thee I am no Stranger to thy Affairs my Spirit gives an Account of all things unto me I have left all of thy
Cessation of Sensible Images for all is turned into an Intellectual Sight Operation and Sensation From this Center of Light though no visible Images are impressed or raised thereupon yet here is the true Ground and Substance of all which are in an Interiour Figure portrayed in the Spirit of the Mind and brought out no further but do remain an Invisible Indea just as it is with God himself before he formeth out of the Essential Ground Shapes and Figures of Things So as these may conduce as much to the Informing and Enlightning Renewing and Comforting and even Essentializing of the Spirit into God as any of the other nay I know it to be the more Sure Ground and Concenter of the Spirit and if it should never know any of those other Figurative Visions yet keeping to the Center to drink in the pure Streams of Revelations as they arise herefrom it shall give them an Access into the Full Body and Center of the Trinity which swallows up all of Shadows and Pictures and terminates into the very Essentiality of a God-Formation into Substantial Powers acting in and from the pure Essence of Spirit in Transnewed Nature Thus Intellectual Vision thus considered is the very next Step to that Beatifical Vision or Seeing of Oâ—…d barely without any other Medium but the very express Personality of the Lord JESUS by being so consummated into the Essence of his Spirit and Light as that whatever is knowable and obvious to Him may also our Sight of Light be both here in Time and hereafter in Eternity Which is an unknown Mystery of which an account may be hereafter more fully given as it shall be entred into As to the Other Sort of Vision that is no New Ministration For it is of Old that God did thus often make out himself as a more taking and plain Way in raising Images distinct for Teachableness unto us And this proceeds from another Center than that of the Intellectual it is more Deep Some Persons may stand in this Center-Line naturally of Seeing and Awakening a Formation out of this Center according to the strong Impression of their Minds by various Figures If the Mind of such be Pure and ardently run into Heavenly Objects it will raise Appearances suitably and there will be an Awakening and Drawing out of various Speculations of Beauty and Glory as may forespeak what is to be accomplished in a Particular way This Way of God's Manifestation hath been frequent in Former and in This Present Time But these are Props for the Weak that they may not faint in their Way up to God's Mountain of more Perfect and Naked Vision Now of this kind of Vision I have been much visited withal but I press to get beyond it Here is no Stay the Ground from whence these open is too Shallow I am driven now to descend Deeper where the Spirit even level may be with its own Eternal Essentiality that Power therefrom it may have to Make and Form whatever it will in and from Substance that is Original Then as there is of Divine Vision that opens from the Holy and Heavenly Mind which draweth in these Presentations so there is another Sort of Vision that is from the Starry Influence and Working Power of the Elements that in conjunction are with the Common Spirit and Mind of a Person And though there be not any Eminent Work of Regeneration yet there may be Vision as Balaam was and others had that Gift and yet were not Renewed in their Spirits or brought nigh to God thereby Such notwithstanding may have Power to raise many Images that may foretell and signifie what is to come to pass For there is a Starry Magia that some may have a Natural Property to open in themselves and it doth sometimes awaken into Manifestation in the deep of Sleep and giveth Warning of Evil that is to come and Shews of Good as relating to the present Manifestation of Time And this may be and is a Common Gift But where it is in a Sanctified Vessel it is far otherwise illustrated then in those who nothing of that can give proof of So now hence we see the different Nature of Vision and of Prophetical Intelligence therefrom that we may watch to every Center opening For the Serpent's Subtilty stands ready to mingle where ever he can enter in For he is a great Magical Prince and the outward Planets are 〈◊〉 his Operators in the Constitution of the meer Natural Man Now of all these the most Safe is the Intellectual and Divine Vision that openeth from the more profound Center-Deep but yet noâ—… so as that we are to stick here even in this For there is a Center Deeper still where the Deity unmasked is of all Figures and Images known and seen in his own Simplified Being And when in Spirit caught up here we see all the various Wonders brought forth in the very Life Essen-tial Property as wrought out of God immediately and in their Living Figures as the innumerable Hosts which do replenish the Heaven of God's Habitation which is the purest and most infallible Vision that our Spirits may Eternally Concenter in with all the delightful Satisfaction that the very Angels before the Throne of God's Majesty do enjoy So we may this know as often as from all Bodily Sense we can get away For this kind of Vision highly different is from that which we call Divine or Intellectual because it doth all over sublime the Spirit Soul and Body during the time that the Munition-Flame of the Holy One doth as a Pavilion all over spread and keepeth all of Sense at the Foot of the Mount while Spirit entreth into the Tabernacle-Glory of the Holy Trinity This sort of Vision the Beloved John was in when being wholly caught up in the Spirit he saw all the Variety of the Lord's Kingdom and 〈◊〉 expresse Personality Since which we have not known any in late Ages that have been in the like Transportation in Spirit and yet alive in the Body to declare of what was seen and heard after such a Wonderful Way as he had But the Author must to the Honour of God own that something not unlike to this hath been to her manisested Such Grace and Love Our JESUS doth again afford and bringeth himself into our Knowledge by this Way of the Spirit clear and free that we may know him that is True and receive by this Highest Vision-Ministration the full extent of his Will and Mind that is that we may both see and hear as if we were out of the Body of Corporeity while yet in the Body as Supersensualized to know and behold purely through the Organical Properties of the Spirit according as every Objection in Heavenly Places in their Order do move in reference to our Cohabitation within those Circulations through the Spiritual Body Thus have I brought forth out of the deepest Deep what the present Measure of my Knowledge and Experience is in this Mystical
make the chiefest Cry that the Veil is still before their Eyes And let these Imagin what they please and Pride themselves in the Penetration of their Sight they must all sooner or later be convinced that it will be impossible without the Immediate Hand of Christ to rend away the Veil or to penetrate through it into the Sanctuary of God or of Nature without the Great High Priest bearing the Oracle of Truth upon his Breast do make a way for them to enter in and do both open their Eyes and Ears that seeing they may see and hearing they may hear whatever is written by his Finger or spoken by his Mouth Let not the Blind think they see or the Deaf believe they hear but especially let both take heed not to be Offended at those Little ones as the Jews were of old whose Eyes or Ears have been Opened by the Word and Power of JESUS And that there may be some Such even in This Day wherein Materialism and Sadducism do certainly no less if not much more eminently than in the First Day of Christs Appearance in a low Corporeal Form Reign and Triumph will not seem perhaps so very strange or incredible as to many it may at first appear to be when what is Now here Published as well as what hath been already Publâ—…shed of this Nature through the same Hand shall come to be Thoroughly examin'd and scan'd into by any Impartial Inquirer Yet indeed such are justly to be esteemed worthy of all Commendation that shall not from any evil Propension but purely from an Holy Jealousie for the Honour of God and out of a true Tenderness and Veneration for the Sacred Scriptures which undoubtedly do contain his Revealed Will to Man withhold giving their Assent hereto if they yet Oppose not what they may not at present comprehend Who if they do indeed take heed to that most sure Word of Prophesy and do suspend any Positive Determination in this Matter while they have no other but this Light as of a Candle or Torch shining in a Dark Place are in a good disposition to receive whatever further Manifestations of himself the most wise God may please to communicate And will be then fully satisfied when the Day shall dawn and the Day-star arise in their own Hearts Which it will not fail to do according as they shall be found true to what they have already received and believing in the Promises that are therein given for their sakes from Him who is the Faithful Witness and that is the same Now as he was Yesterday in the days of the Patriarchs the Prophets and the Apostles and will be the same for ever the Yea and the Amen For in all Ages of the World God hath had some special Friends though perhaps hidden for the most part from the World because they were not of it with whom in a more Familiar and Intimate manner he hath chosen to converse and manifest himself In all Ages God hath been known to be the God of the Prophets and for his Honour some have been consident to say That he never did any Great Thing in the Economy of his Church or in the Kingdoms of the Earth in order thereto but that he hath always before revealed his Secret unto his Servâ—…nts the Prophets and given express Manduductions and Rules for the Effecting of every such Work as particularly in the days of Moses of of the Tabernacle with all its Vessels in those of Solomon of the Temple in those of Ezra of the restitution of That and of the Law and in those of the Apostles of the Foundation of the Spiritual Kingdom of Christ which is now in the Fulness of Time about to be re-revealed at His Second expected Coming in the Power and Glory of the Father to Judge both the Quick and the Dead according to everlasting Righteousness and Equity and to put down all Enemies under his Feet that so he may not only for a Thousand Years which are to him but as One Day but for Ever sit upon his Holy Hill of Sion governing all Worlds with a Scepter of Holiness as the LORD of LORDS and KING of KINGS Wherefore the Spirit of the Lord which hath more or less in all Ages thus moved as in a particular Treatise on this Subject shortly to be Published is at large Proved upon the face of the meek and deep silent Waters in the Souls of such as have been first made clean through the Washing of the Word will certainly not fail to move upon them in this Last Age in order to a New and Glorious Creation of New Heavens and a New Earth And the Inspiration of the Almighty which giveth man Understanding may with some reason be hoped not to have been quite Exhausted in the former Ages but that he will appear even unto Us as he did appear unto Them opening Variously the Springs of all Spiritual and even Natural Knowledge and will thereby renew also those Noble Works and Deeds of Royal Power that he did in the days of our Fathers the Holy Prophets and Apostles and in the Old time before them even in the beginning of the Creation of God Before Man had corrupted his way or had alienated himself from the Image of the Everlasting Light and the Unspotted Mirror of the Power of God While not having cut himself off from the pure Streams flowing from the Glory of the Almighty he might as His Representative Oversee and Govern all the Creatures of this Globe whether in the Earth or in the Water under the Earth or in the Air above it by virtue of that Soveraign Charter committed to him Gen. 1. 28. Which Charter having been forfeited the Divine Character expunged the Seals broken all the Ensigns of Royalty defaced the Virgin Image deflowred and the Angelical Life and Might exchanged for that contemptible weak Form which we now wear that is subject to the curse of Mortality and Sin It is again renewed to us much more strongly than at first through the Pure Humanity of Christ which is exalted above all the Principalities and Powers in the Heavenly Places the express Character of the Father afresh imprinted as in the very Forehead a new and everlasting Commission established to go forth and act in the Tri-un Name of Father Son and Holy Ghost which is sealed with the Heart of Jesus All the Royal Ensigns are redelivered the Crown of Immortality the Scepter of Righteousness and the Love Imperial Standard of JEHOVAH the Violated Image is restored the Image of the Beast ground to Powder and his Number perfectly raced So that the Bestial and Antichristian Kingdom being hereby brought to an end a new Aera of the Kingdom of Christ doth there upon Commence first in particular Souls then in the whole Family of the First-born after that in the Great Assembly of the After-born and so on till the whole Mass be Leavened and Transmuted by the Ferment of the Divine Nature passing through
hath seemed good to the Most Wise God and Father of our Spirits to raise up according to the necessity of this present day an Instrument by him fitted through many Fires and Waters and through all manner of Temptations both in the Heighths above and in the Depths beneath and immediately instructed at Wisdoms Oracle for so great a Work as the education of the King's Children and the leading them up step by step to their Fathers Throne that they may be Kings and Priests upon the Earth unto God and unto the Lamb for ever and may from the Righteous Virgin Earth spring up as Plants of mighty Renown in a well-watered Paradise and as Olive-branches continually empty the Golden Oyl out of themselves and drop their fatness for maintenance of a Perpetual Light in the Sanctuary that was before darkned This will easily be seen to be the Drift of these Writings by any one that is but a little skilled in their Dialect And it is no contemptible Providence of the All-seeing Eye of Etâ—…rnity that this Book after having laid so many years as in the dust should now come to be brought forth into the Light in such a Critical Juncture of Time and in this very Year which is full of great Expectations on this hand and on that To which nothing is given me in Particular to say but only this Word of Caution to the greedy Expectants and Waiter for some Outward visible Revolution in Church or State Let such be Sober in their Hopes and take good heed to themselves of their Observations or Calculations and let them not lay too great a â—…ess upon any external Delivâ—…ance how great soever or upon the Rise or â—…ll of any Earthly Monarch Potentâ—… 〈◊〉 State neither let them seek for the Kingdom of Christ in their own Will nor according to certain preconceived Notion â—…d Images nor binding it down to any Sect or Party in the so called Christian World for they shall find iâ—… no where but in the Triumphant Resignat on of Jesus Christ. When therefore they shall be certain that they have drunk of the 〈◊〉 â—…me Cup which he did drink that they 〈◊〉 passed through the strait and wrestling Gate of Death that they are entirely passed from all their Own into the Liberty of the Divine Will and have broken down every Image and Boundary that Man as Man hath set up then let them know that the Kingdom of Christ is near to them and upon its very breaking forth in much Glory Majesty and Power And when they themselves are thus got without the Walls of the Great City Babylon then and 〈◊〉 before let them expect the Descent of the New Jerusalem out of Heaven For most assuredly to none but Virgin Souls to the true Nazarites that for the Hope of Israel do wait in the Inward Temple Day and Night with their lamp-Lamp-spirits ever burning that so they may be ready to go forth at their Bridegroom's Call to meet him to the Lillies of the Vallâ—…y who though they neither Reap or Spin for themselves are yet arrayed more gloriously than Solomon in the Immaculate Robe of the Lord their righteousness yea to none but the Undefiled Doves that are in him made all beautiful and fair and that having washed themselves seven times in the Pool of his Blood are thereby set apart and redeemed from the Earth to be His Companions will this Beloved City come down Of the Truth of which every one must necessarily be convinced that doth but consider seriously the Process that this Author hath been Led in according as the same from these ensuing Memoirs may be gathered in order to the drawing down the Powers of the Heavenly Worlds and the unsealing the Fountain of the Holy Ghost and the Book of the Refurrection Neither can this Jerusalem Glory be disâ—…erned by any others or after any other method than is herein laid down from the Opener of that Principle let them look never so long about crying Lo here in the East or Lo there in the West For this High Promotion of Wisdom's Children cometh neither from the East nor from the West neither out of the North as some some are gazing after it at present nor yet from the South But the Lord cometh from TEMAN where the glorious Virgin Principle is Unlocked whence the warm holy Supernal South-wind doth blow upon the Gardens of Lebanon and cause the Spices to flow out whither the Patriarch Abraâ—…am always directed his Travels and where Jacob saw the Ladder of Heaven and the Gate thereof The Key of which Gate is there presented by the Hand of Divine Wisdom to all her Children to whom she crieth aloud standing at the entry of the Celestial City and proclaimeth the Joyful JUBILEE inviting them to return Now from their Captivity and Presently to come forth from the Tottering Babel which is founded upon the Sands and to enter with her Key into this City which hath Foundations For this She standeth in the top of the Heavenly Places and putteth forth her Voice to them at the coming in at the Doors for this She meeteth them in every Path layeth hold on them that having tried them with her Laws they may enter in Hereby and feast at the Table which she hath furnished for them But alas I see that the most even of those that have been enroll'd under Her Discipline will be not a little afraid to lay hold on this Key of the Kingdom when it is reached out to them and will shrink from it beholding how large it is and that it is made full of all Solid Gold even as this very Author did at its first Presentment as thinking it impossible for any ever to bear the Weight of it Besides this there is a Mercurial Serpent which twineth himself about it whose Life can be destroyed no otherwise but by the Royal Antidote of the Unicorns Horn. Let not any therefore think it a Light thing or easily Attainable to bear the Key of the Government on their Shoulders But let them examin thoroughly tâ—…e several Progresses and Steps of this Author in order to its Attainment that are Recorded for the space of about Six Years in This present Volume Of which it must be confessed that much has bcen Lost so that the Links of Wisdom's Chain may often seem to be broken But as the greatest Architect Statuary and Painter of these Last Ages is said to have become so Excellent meerly by his Observations drawn from a most Imperfect Maimed Statue or Bust being the Work of a most Exquisite and Masterly Hand so it is not at all to be despaired but that there may be found also in This Day some of Rare and Excellent Abilities of Spirit who notwithstanding any Imperfections or Maimings of this Spiritual Register or any Defects in its Exterior Habit of Languge or Style may by the assistance of their Supream Tutor ' draw forth even from the Disjointed Parts of This Work such an excellency
of Knowledge and Skill in all True Learning and Solid Wisdom that they may be found ten times better and more Skilful than all the Magicians and Men of Faâ—… that are in the Universities throughouâ—… 〈◊〉 Europe For when Wisdom's Key is obtained and her Book unsealed in any according to the Process here described then may all the Depths of Philosophy as well as of Divinity and all the Hidden Treasury of Wisdom in All Worthy Arts and Sciences be successively broken up And thus as from one Foot of the Rhodian Coloss which is to This Day preserved every one that is but skilled in the Proportions of the Human Body can exactly Calculate what the Whole should be and Know thence how to frame one accordingly so every one to whom God has given some good degree of Understanding in the Symmetry and Proportions of the Spiritual Body will notwithstanding any Intervening Breaches or Abrupt Transitions be able hence to Frame some suitable Idea of the whole Design and Oeconomy of God in the Manifestation of his Kingdom to Separated and Virginiz'd Souls Now the Manifestation of this Divine Kingdom is Various in Several Persons and in the same Person at several Times Whence this Variety in the Descent of the Heavenly and Ghostly Powers whether in this Principle or in another and of the Joys of the World to come is here not unfitly Symboliz'd out by a Garden or Paradise as it was by the King thereof himself in his truly Gracious Answer to the Penitent Thief And yet more Expressively is this Flourishing State of the Lamb's Elect Bride Cipher'd to us by a Fountain of Gardens or Paradises planted with all Trees of Frankincense Myrrh and Alloes and with all the chief Spices out of which the Royal Ointment is prepared for the Consecration of such Priestly Kings as are to Reign upon the Earth in the Lamb's Nature and Name Which shall make all the Wild Beasts of the Forest to fly into Dens and Lurking Holes and every Venemous Creature to hide it self from the Great Attick Iomin in his Representatives and from the Fiery Stream issuing out of his Mouth by which the Spirit of Antichrist that Huge Leviathan shall be utterly Destroyed So will the Kingdom of Christ manifest it self by a Gradual but Total overthrow of that of Him who has Usurped all the Kingdoms of the Earth until all that which he has caused to be as a Wilderness by the Blast of his Poisonous Breath be again Renewed and made to be as the Garden of God filled with Wells of Living Water and Streams from the Upper Lebanon A Garden giving forth all the Variety of Flowers and Fruits of Life according to the Seasons and according to every ones Essential Ground and Internal Soil a Garden in which there is not any mixt Tree existing from the Root of the outward Elements containing Good and Evil Truth and Falshood Light and Darkness but all whose Trees are Trees of Life all whose Plants are Plants of Righteousness all perfectly Good and True All-beautiful and Lustrous How various the Manifestation of this Lebanon-Kingdom will be no Pen can describe no Tongue can express That is Various indeed but the Manifester all the while is but One and the Essential Word of God which is the Worker of all these things is most Uniform The Manuductions Illuminations and Inspirations are very different but still there is but one Way one Light and one Spirit one Lord and one God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and of us all who in these last Days is about to appear yet more fully to us by his Son setting him Openly upon his Holy Hill Thus he who is the Abyssal Unity of all Beings clotheth himself as with several Names râ—… forth in several Powers weareth on his Head several Crowns and glanceth from his Eyes several Lights And yet there is but One Crown One Power and One Name as there is but One Light which diffuseth it self in all the variety of Colours Which Unity and Variety of Light is well to be heeded in the Reading of this Book and of all other Spiritual Treatises whatever of what Rank or Degree soever they be For God sometimes appears in the Darkness and yet in that Darkness there is Light again he appears in the Light and yet Darkness may be mixed with this Light till the Perfect Day do spring from on High Thus he appears to some at a distance as in a great and strong Wind to others in an Earthquake in both which Formes he eminently manifested himself through some about the Beginning of the Last Century Then after this approaching still nearer he apppears to a third sort in the Fire as at this very Day he powerfully doth to some that are known to Wisdom's Disciplehood And lastly he demonstrates his Presence to some as to this his Chosen Vessel in a still small Voice and in a sweet gentle lambent Flame Sometimes God manifests himself to the Eye or Ear of the Receptive Heart according to the several Properties Operations and Influxes of this or that Name which he puts on of this or that Attribute which he communicates of this or that Sphere in which the Living Wheels of the Creatures before the Throne of God do move Thus was he manifested to the Unregenerate Spirit of Balaam according to the eficacy of the Name Shaddai who saw the Vision of him in this Similitude or Vesture falling into a Trance And this is the lowest sort of True Divine Prophesie Then was he Manifested unto Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob by the Name of El-Shaddai which is a much higher Degree than the former as that whereby is expressed not only the Paternal Property in the Absolute Soveraignty of his Will but also the Meek Love-Principle co-joined with it in a Federal Rite After this he was manifested under the Law at sundry Times and in divers Manners by the Most Essential and Great Name of the Covenant Jehovah but still according to the variety of the Vessel and its fitness to receive the Emanations thereof either in a High or Low Degree Then lastly he was made known under the Gospel to the Apostles to the Evangelists to the Prophets and to other Ranks mentioned in the Apostolical Epistles by the Name of Jesus which Name doth Unseal and Open that of Jehovah whence the Miraculous Powers did so abound in the Early Days of the Church while there was Faith in this Name But still it is the same One Holy and True God that revealed himself both to the Vile Son of Beor and to the most Heroick Father of the Faithful though not by the same Name And he is nevertheless One and having Appeared after Manner and in that Name to the Proâ—…hets of Old and then speaking after another Manner and by another Name â—…n their Successors the Prophets Neither would he be the less so should he even speak to us after another Manner than he hath yet spoken
VVisdom's Key which will make our Hands drop with sweet smelling Myrrh upon the Handle of her Lock Which while I was opening her Privy-Door with this Key my Soul failed within me and I retained no strength my Sun of Reason and the Moon of my outward Sense were folded up and withdrew I knew nothing by my self as to those working Properties from Nature and Creature and the Wheel of the Motion standing still another moved from a Central Fire so that I felt my self Transmuted into one pure Flame Then came that Word to me This is no other then the Gate of my Eternal Deep canst thou subsist in this Fiery Region which is Wisdom's Mansion where she meets with holy abstracted Spirits and gives forth a fiery Law which if thereunto thou canst give heed so as to come up to her Requirings then no Secret shall be with-held from thee Thus far am I admitted to come into the entrance of her House where I must stop till I hear further from her Now as I was attending to obtain a fresh Visit being entred into this first Mansion of her House to hear and learn further she said on this wise That I was greatly beloved and she would be my Mother and so should I own her and call her who would now be to me as Rebecca was to Jacob to contrive and put me in a way how I should obtain the Birth-right-Blessing For if I would apply my self to her Doctrine and draw my Life's Food from no other Breast I should then know the recovery of a lost Kingdom At which Salutation I was dissolved and melted the fervent heat of this Love strongly impulsing me to a resolve for to obey her in all things VVhich pure Oil from Wisdom's Vessel stopping it opened again not till October the 20th in the Morning-Watch then heard I her Voice thus Sequester and draw out of thy Animal Sensitive Life that is too gross I cannot appear till that disappear There must be Spirit with Spirit Light with Light No sooner had I this caution but I felt Power which suspended the active busie mind which for a time was expired into silence Know then said the same Voice thou shalt supplant thy Brother Esau who according to the Figure is a cunning Hunter in the out-birth and field of Nature While he with his subtilty seeking it abroad in the wild Properties of the External Region I will now help thee to it â—…ear at Hand even in thy own enclosed Ground There the true Scape-Goat feeds of which I will make savoury Meat such as God thy Father loves Hearing this Salutation from my late known Mother I was deadly ravished in the Spirit in the Light of the Lord and feared to return to the dark House of my outward Senses again which opened a Spring of Intercession in me that as one of the Friends of the Bridegroom I might hear his Voice still which indeed was so pleasant and swâ—…t as I could well have admitted of a dissolution of my Elementary Being rather than this Conference should not still be maintained with this renowned Pearl of Wisdom But I have learned to observe her Time and Seasons I witness her opening as in the twinkling of an Eye a pure bright subtil swift Spirit a working Motion a Circling Fire a penetrating Oil. November the 10th 1673. IN the Morning about the fifth Hour my Spirit was called forth to attend Wisdom's Oracle again to know further into that mysterious thing she discoursed with me in order to the obtaining the Birth-right-Blessing Oh thou Fiery Soul know thy self now out of thy own Creaturely Being Whereupon I was environed with sweet burning Flames which devoured and consumed all thâ—… Bryars Thorns and accursed Emanations that did offer to put forth So thaâ—… Scripture was witnessed feeling God'â—… being a Wall of Fire which separateâ—… the Earthly part from the Heavenlyâ—… Tâ—…en uttered Wisdom her Voice Oâ—… thou sollicitous Spirit I am now comâ—… to shew thee what is required of thee aâ—… in the beginning of my parling I Shunneâ—… not to declare what it would cost theâ—… to purchase the Key that unlocks thâ—… Gate which gives thee entrance into that pure and transparent City wherâ—… thou art to be an Inhabitant in the Lamb'â—… Nature for ever I tell thee God requires an Offering from thee as he did of Abraham there is no sparing any part an whole Burnt-offering through the Eternal Spirit must be given up Understand me thus thou hast an Earthly Principle that hath dilated and overspread thee and got into dominion and covered thee safe from my Heavens within thee but these Thrones and Powers must be cast down their Place must be found no more Thou hast made great Complaints for want of constant near Alliance and Freedom with God thy â—…reator but marvel not the Cause lies â—…ere in dying yet thou art not totally â—…ead This is the first Baptism thou art 〈◊〉 know and how many have herein falâ—…n short in not giving their earthly Self Thorough-wounding and killing Blow â—…herefore to thee O beloved of thy â—…other Rebecca I commend to thee my â—…aming Sword be thou now valiant â—…d let it do full Execution in the Camp 〈◊〉 Nature slay utterly Old and Young â—…hatever in thee bears not my Mark and â—…ame which is my Image Few in this â—…tter Age have come thus far Thereâ—…re I have had so little pleasure to inâ—…bit with and to reveal my self to the â—…hildren of this Generation in that a â—…re Crystalline Mind is so rarely to be â—…und and in no other will thy God â—…pear Therefore hear and learn of â—…e who well knows what will qualifie â—…ee for the reception of thy Fountain-â—…ght and Joy which may be an abiding â—…riend and Comforter to thee which â—…as the Heritage of Jacob thy fore-â—…nner in the Line and Blessing Now â—…aving made known what thy Offering to be which is one remove that makes way for the return of thy Bridegroom the second thing required is the Venison that must be presented to thy Father that he may eat thereof that so the Love from his Heart may flow into thee wherein the Blessing will be known but of this thou shalt have my Counsel as thou art faithful in answering to this preparative Work At these Sayings of my Mother I well pondered all tending to the refining me out of my Earthly Life seeing I must offer it up and that time of my departure out of the first Principle is drawing nigh upon me as Wisdom has plainly shewed me that though I had come with many Offerings yet till all was consumed by that one whole Burnt-Offering I could not be made perfect in the Virgin-State where Christ's Second Birth in pure Spiritual Humanity should appear in me Which Wisdom told me was the true and right Venison that God my Father would receive from my Hand who could savour no other Meat Offering but what should be made up and dressed by the Hand of Virgin-Wisdom who
out this Parable for here is Meat for the Strong November the 4th The Opening of this Parabolical Vision IT was now given me to understand what this did drive at The first Angler that went representeth the Forward and Willing Mind that a Fishing would go to draw up out of the Broad River wherein the Everlasting God is to be understood who is said to be the Place of Broad Rivers in which holy Spirits as in their proper Element do live and swim Flesh cannot live in Water but Fish is of another kind which nature the Holy Ghost doth present as a Similitude for the New Creation that will live and move much in the Watery Element which is a Degree much beyond the Earth though under Purgations by Fire Neither is Fish so gross or corruptible but they are still under a Washing Stream and therefore not used for Sacrifices in the Old Law Whereas all that is of Flesh is by that ordained for Burnt-Offerings that it may pass through the Purgation in the Flames of the Altar Now what the Sea and Rivers of this kind do feed and generate must signifie a Generation of Creatures that is nothing so course and bruitish as are the Earthly Beasts But from this it was shewn me that this River figureth out God himself and the pure Angelical Spirits that move in God as in the Glassy Sea wherein contained are the vast Riches that none in Flesh can see nor fathom till they changed be into such a Body as in God their Watery Element to live and there to swim and dive for the unutterable precious Stones to bring them up according as need doth require It is not the Angling upon the Outside of the River but the Adventuring into it will obtain the desired Prize And consider what Bait is to be the attracting Matter to draw both Spirits and Substances of this unto us Now then it may needfully be inquired into what this Bait compounded of is for drawing Angelical Spirits that will also soon draw us after them It was thus hereupon delivered to me that it must be the Composition which consisteth of all those excellent Virtues and Properties that were and are in the Spirit and Nature of JESUS For no other can attract and take in God but what is so much like to God who must be Signatured upon us For else it will be as fruitless as when the Disoiples went a Fishing till the Lord the true Angler come no Draught could be fetched up Even so this is to Instruct us that we examin whether or no we upon this High and Worthy Undertaking do carry our full and compleat Bait with us which is the precious smelling Spikenard of an humble meek and clarified Mind that expresly answereth to the very Mind of JESUS Then doubt we not that we shall fail of drawing to us Spirits sublime that live in that pure Climate where we shall with them most willingly back plung in and in a pure Body swim always under the Stream of these Waterings Jesus the Lord our Bait and Angle will be Then in what Riches shall we excell Oh this all-worthy is of our Consideration in the Element of this Water of Life how to live and appear for a while as Drowned and Dead till that we shall arise and swim with the rich Pearl in our Mouths Then will it be cryed This the Christ indeed that hath the great Draught brought up through sinking down into Faith's Obedience Who now venture will to walk upon these Living Waters wherein the Healing Medicine is but such Hero's in the Faith as will not afraid be to dive into the Bottom of this River deep For otherwise the Rich Prize which is in the Fishes Mouth can never be caught up The Wise in Heart who by the pure Spirit have been taught will what is by the Parable meant well understand November the 7th The Magical Journey § 1. IN my Spiritual Journey on to the Land of all Blessed Stores a Figure hereof was acted Magically before me I being carried to a Gate which was so narrow and strait that there was no getting through but by creeping upon the Knees and that with great Difficulty too And so led on was I still till at length I came to another Gate which was somewhat more easily to get through then the First but strait enough So passing on yet further there was a two Leaved Gate but the One Leaf opening was fitted exactly to my Stature in Heighth and Breadth which gave entrance into a Place where neither Beginning nor End was to be found And I said what make I here alone And the Invisible Guide that led me through these three Gates answered that There would be some others that would come after me when they did hear where such a vast Plantation was which was to be replenished with all sorts and kinds of good things and yet no Toil Labour or Care required is But know that it is appointed only for Wisdom's high Magicians to Act here their Powers that had passed through all her strait Gates § 2. This Presentation and the Advice attending it was very powerful which still I called over and searching deeper to have the Exposition of the Gates given unto me by and from the dropping Unction For though my Spirit saw nothing but an Infinite Space yet such a Perfuming Gale I felt as if all manner of Flowers were growing But this Word came also to me saying Here is the Place for Love's Kingdom to grow with its Natural Inhabitants that have left behind the gross selfish Love That must not come here for that it is that makes the Passage so strait § 3. For as much as none can come in till they be unstripped and uncloathed of the low sensual Nature For in this place all that counted worthy shall be to come in here with thee must put on Transfiguration and act in the Supercelestial Philosophy as holy Magus's that skilful are to work in the Furnace that maintained is from the One Burning Element which giveth the High Superelementary Matter the Composition whereof maketh up the Store of all Acting Wonders Here then on a sudden did I in my Spirit view several Persons so Divinely Modified in their Bodies that in this Mystery highly Learned were that would sound forth such a Spirit from themselves that might give an Existency and Being to whatever they pleased to will sometimes raising up Golden Tents to go in and out and at other times making some places which seemed all empty and bare to spring up with wonderful Plants that perfectly did yield their Fruit appearing in a Golden lustre of Brightness that was said to be Magical Food for the Inhabitants hereof to live upon In other Places they without digging or moiling did bring up Mines of all precious Stones and Golden Oar which was at the command and service of these Princely Spirits that did walk up and down here And whereas I thought at my first
Drops of this upon each Metal and they were all immediately transmuted into Lustrous Gold Then I was led to another Place where there was nothing but a Redish Mould cast up and then by the Word of the Power which he spake forth this Earth was changed into Forms after our Human shape but clarified and bright standing up as a great Army And he said These are the Fire-Stones that are to walk in this New Paradisical Region as Glorified Figures like unto such as were here before them Then I Queried how could it possibly be that such Effects could be produced by any that in a Mortal Image did now upon the Earth appear Upon which the Beloved John answered me All this that thou hast seen is possible again to be done by Wisdom's White Tincturing Stone formed within by which the Great Wonders in the last concluding Age of the World shall the grand Revolution make changing what is gross and vile first within and then going further on to Transfigure even that which is without that so according to that saying The Vile Body shall be changed and reduced and brought into the Glorious Liberty whereby it may possess the Kingdom and Dominion with Christ the Glorified Head Then was it said This is the true and faithful Mystery that understood and unveiled hath been to thee for a Foundation of Faith and Hope to Wisdom's Children to look into and to wait for the Formation in themselves of this White Virgin Stone Then may they most freely and easily eat and work and nothing shall them controll as to those worthy Enterprizes and Exploits that are to be wrought which shall distinguish them to be the Sealed of the Living God signed with Power from on High A further Opening of the foregoing Vision given in the same Month of November 1675. THe Word came to me saying The Love-Chain is to be unlinked betwixt God and thee while the Spirit is the only Eternal Matter and Quality whereon thou art to work Therefore fast hold it will take on thee so strongly as to draw and fix thee in the Circumference of the very Immense Love from which the Eternity is seperated and the Curse of the Elements divided and totally taken away O enter enter I say into it This is the Infinite Space that thou hast seen which is beyond the Third Gate This invisible Love-Chain will work thee through the First Gate which so strait and narrow is and so through the other two if thou give it all Length and Breadth within thee to wind thee up swiftly For what is so strong as God's Love for restoring into the desired Fuition of all Plenty and Goodness Therefore be strong and courageous in the Love in the passing through these several Gates and fear not all the Attacks of the Enemy till thou enter in this Blessed Land and be there married to thy Beloved An Expostulation of Wisdom's Pilgrim VVHile I was in my deep Agony a Spirit of Prayer came down which sent up mighty Cries and unutterable Groanings Which as I did most sensibly feel pierced and broke through the Gate of the Eternal Deep So that my Spirit had admittance into the Secret of the pure Deity where I had Audience and free liberty to pour out my Grievances shew my Wounds and who they were that had pierced me Every ones Hand was against me shooting theiâ—… Bitter Arrows adding weight and pressures to her that was bleeding upon the Cross already crying Crucifie Crucifie in Dying let her Dye Now I seeing that I was to tread the Wine-press alone and to encounter the Potent Spirits thâ—… Throne-Princes of Darkness I cried anâ—… was in strong Travel Yet every Paâ—… and Throw did open the Birth of Lifâ—… and gave me entrance into the Holâ—… Place Where I heard first the Eternâ—… Sounds and then after that obtaining the Power to be in a stillness where neither Motion or Thought did stir I was in a smooth calm Water wherein no Dirt or Mire did cast up neither was there the lifting up of any Tool or making any noise to drown the Voice that spake to me in this wise The Voice of the Bridegroom O thou afflicted tossed and forsaken One I will marry thee unto my self Thou art mine be not dismayed Fear none of those things thou art to suffer for the Power and Presence of my Omnipotency shall be with thee Thou must be my tried Stone at which many shall fall and stumble thou hast been refused and set at naught but I will magnifie my Name in thee and yet make it Honourable Only this I require that thou seperate thy self and touch no more unclean Spirits of this World for I can endure no Polluted thing to come before me Therefore holy harmless seperated from Sin and Sinners thou must be then in the holy Priesthood thou shalt wait on me The Answer of the Spirit of the Soul At which I said Lord how can this be For though I have greatly desired this Office to minister about the holy Things that so I might be nigh to thee yet the Worldly Spirit maketh a Challenge to this outward Husk or Body and saith that I am not got out of the reach of its Dominion Hunger and Thirst Heat and Cold do attend the outward Man which do engage its outward Senses for things which are External so that none can live in that pure Abstraction till redeemed out of all Care for the present Body This was that which I bewailed and did plainly ask God if it were not possible for the Eternal Mind and Spirit to supply all Wants to that which were Corporeal without the help of the Spirit of Reason which is King in that Region where the Curse is The Reply of the Bridegroom After a little while of suspending my outward Senses this Answer I obtained That this could not be till there were a Total Death of the Body of Sin referring to that in the seventh of the Romans ver 6. That being Dead wherein we were held fast we should serve in the Newness of Spirit as being discharged from the Law of the first Husband to which we were married after the Law of a Carnal Command Whence we are now free to be Married unto him that is raised from the Dead and so shall become the Lamb's Wife jointured into all the Lands and Possessions that he hath The Eternal Revenues are belonging to her whether Invisible or Visible all Power in Heaven and Earth is committed to her and all things are given to those that are his whether it be Gifts of Prophecy or of Revelation or of Manifestation or of Discerning of Spirits or that high Tongue of the Learned which only speaks from Wisdom's Breath The Preparation of the Second Marriage At which Opening my Spirit even failed within me as desponding ever to get rid of my First Husband without which no Marriage with the Lord from Heaven can be For knowest thou not was it said to me that the
Spirit so divine as shall out-dâ—… all the Children of Time Now watchful be call over all my Charge obserâ—… my Word start not herefrom and lo I will abide still thy Friend and Bride May the 29th 1675. Wisdom's Pilgrim being ecchoed up setting her self as a Clock-Work upon its going motion still witnessing something strongly winding up the Eternal Springs thereof that Times number might not slack or stop urging still to one Gate after another the Hand of Power to unlock being raised up to a higher approach and nearness to the Allinfluencing Deity with whom in the Night Repose when deep Sleep had overtaken my Animal Part my Spirit was wrapped up in high Conjunction and Fellowship with the Triune Majesty the Joy and Pleasure of which was so great that when I awaked a Hymn of Praise was given me to land and magnifie the Love which had after this manner visited me drawing up out of the Body so wonderfully sweetly who lay here powerfully in Love's Arms arrested kept for some Hours in this warm Bosom-Harbour where the Spirit inquired further about these weighty and Heavenly Matters which with great pressing Urgency received this resolve as relating to those things manifold which by the Mouth of Wisdom have been foretold Who again encouraged me to hope and wait for the Day was not far off in which I might see the All-filling Body of the Glory which would be the end of former and latter Prophecy whereunto I yet did well to take heed because it was the Life's Food which for the present time might not only afford Support to me but others who with me shall wing up their Lord to meet all Crystalline having no Spot nor Stain to such he will appear and number them among the Holy Train to bear the Father's Name inspiring and shewing to me there was various Passages which yet I was further to venture and believe the entrance into which should yet be more amazing to the intellectual Mind which shall into its own Deep descend to bring up still what will Water the Garden that it may be always Summer and Spring Where I earnestly invocated this might also be the Portion of my selected Friends who in this Holy Ministry were choosing to wait with me that they might clear single and of a perfect Spirit appear before the bright All-piercing Eye of the Virgin Wisdom who to our God maketh nigh Further I did see into the Mystery of ascending Spirits what Qualifications thereto was required who are to be Spiritual Flames blown upon by a constant soft breath of Air from the Holy Power which letteth in nothing which putrifies or is gross and heavy none could mount up that had the least Weight hanging upon them the Word did express there must be a due Proportion Light and Purity answering to each other the Mind that would associate with God must carry a distance to drossy carnal Spirits and all of that Nature according to the high Birth of a Spirit you shall know it by the Holy Greatness which it will have not knowing how to be familiar with what is not of the same high extraction with it self Wisdom is very Jealous least any of her Family should walk out of her Order therefore that in her Love-Favour you may all abide to whom this Word of Counsel shall come that to the Virgin of the Lamb be you Loyal that in your ascending Prayers you may meet with no denyal July the 16th 1675. The Light Orb opened and all overspread me thereby dispelling every Foggy Mist so that it brought to my remembrance the Lord's Day which John saw and had all his Revelations in who was said to be in the Spirit And truly after such a manner must every one be seized that is drawn up into the Mount of Divine Vision to hear what God the Lord hath of his Mind to give forth Which will only be entrusted with such whose Spirits are fled and departed out of all Animal Sense which is gross heavy and ponderous But for a Spirit that would be All-seeing and intelligent in matters Supernatural to be uncloathed of all Earthly Materials it is certainly required as through great and free Love I have been a Witness of in all Conferences and mutual Society with the Fountain Sourse of all Spirits For never could I hear feel see or tast the Powers and Joys of the Light Kingdom till I was passed out of the Cloudy Pillar of mine own benighted Reason which many times set so hard upon me as I often feared that I should be violated out of all that which Divine Wisdom had presented to me for an Encouragement to those who shall by Faith overcome not in part but in whole triumphing over all Worlds Which is to be effected as hath lately been shewn to me upon some debate with the World of Wisdom my dear Counsellour who taking notice of some fresh Exercise that my Spirit was in animated me thus Be strong be resolute acquit thy Doubting Mind for therein lieth the danger for as much as no mighty Work can be effected either in by or through thee until there be a full close and joint Consent of all the internal Faculties and Powers Therefore are there all choice Ingredients requisite for the making up of this Almighty precious Faith and such as are not to be found in every Ground For thou art to know that there are different Soils in the Inward Heart of Man's Earth as well as in the outward some being for one Grain some for another and all making together for the Increase of that Treasury which is to be brought into the Eternal Granary Wherein every ones Work shall be proved and all Metals tryed of what sort they are Now as to this which is the most weighty of all Seeds and in Truth the Root of all there being no Fruit but what putteth forth from this Tree of Faith from which the Holy One can tast any Sweetness as it is written Without Faith there is no possibility of pleasing God thou must therefore dive and search deeply for in the Essence of the Deity this Grain of Gold is only to be found And if it should not drive forth it self in all its united Force and Powers it would never be reached to But in that Ground where this Plant is deeply rooted it will put forth as from a flowing bubling Fountain which Water of Life mingleth with the Golden Mould and so maketh the Composition of this high extracted Mineral which hath done and will yet do all the Miraculous Things in and through Nature but it will suffer no check nor contradiction from Nature Such is the absolute and uncontrolable Soveraignty hereof that it will not admit of any Questioning Spirit to set footing within its Gates Here must be no Asking How can This or That come to be If Abraham had made any of these kind of Objections he had frustrated all his Friendship with God who put him surely upon as hard
things to prove him as any in this Age shall ever be called to or need fear to be tryed withal Many worthy Instances more there are upon Record of such who by this Faith have subdued and conquered whatever withstood them so as nothing was too hard for them who skilled were in the use of this bright flaming Shield which hath for a long time been out of Exercise For of late Age it hath scarcely been known after this manner of working to have been ever used which is in the way of giving Being and Existency to that which is Not. This is the Quintessence and Spirit of Faith the immediate Begotten of the Father that acteth according to the Will and Power of the Omnipotency There is no Sufficiency in any but from this All-sufficiency putting forth Which I advise thee to look up to and wait upon in the serene Stillness and when the Birth is strong enough grown it will shew it self whose Child it is In the mean time hide and conceal it and wrap it up in the Mantle of Love and Patience The Nourishment hereof shall be from that Breast of Wisdom's Word by which it shall still be sustained till it cometh to be a full grown Power and of a perfect Age and then shall the Government upon this Shoulder be laid and both the Inmost and Utmost Bounds of all that which the Heavens and Earth contain shall to this Spirit of Faith bow most voluntarily as rejoycing to see Immanuel's Kingdom arising as the Morning Star out of the East I have now no other Word to give but that thou hold fast and keep the Word of God's Patience enduring all Contradictions rather then denying or shrinking back from this which will crown thee and become thy Glorified Body Be strong then O my Spirit flag not for my Law-giver out of Sion I do see who upon my Earth doth stand with his Love-Fan in his Hand to divide from what can have no consistency with the Trinity in Nature November the 22d 1675. Wisdom's Call and Direction for the Tabernacle Building UPon the New Covenant which was opened and established in me this Word came unto me further Where is the Place for my Testimony to be put except in the Ark and Tabernacle where I only give the witness of my Presence This is the great high and most considerable Work of all therefore thou art noted as also them that are moved and stirred up to join with thee as known by Name to go forward in the framing and fashioning of this goodly Tent for the Presence of the Most Holy to take up in Then cryed the Voice unto me Put your Hands to this curious Work according to the Pattern which Wisdom hath given you At this I said in my Spirit Ah Lord where is the Stuff and Matter to work upon Then replyed the Word of Wisdom Ye shall find all with and in your own Treasure-House into which the Free-will-Offerings are brought therefore be not careful as to that your business is to order and manage the Materials provided to your Hands This put me upon great Importunity for Skill and Understanding for it was a New Work to us and we must obtain a special Gift or we should be non-plus'd in it Then this Word spake to me Am not I with thee who devised the first Tabernacle in the Figure and Shadow and made those two choise Ones wise-hearted for the effecting of that which was but a Worldly Sanctuary Am not I come to give you a wise and understanding Heart Why lean you not upon me for this Ability and Sufficiency Nothing would suffice but Cohabitation with your God and it could no other way be effected but by this New and Living Sanctuary by me framed Therefore as a tender faithful Mother I have not concealed any thing that might throughout accomplish thee for free and mutual Society with thy God and beloved Jesus Now take good notice of what I shall instruct and give Rules for in order to this pure and perfect Tabernacle erecting Which must be a Transcript from what is in the Superior Heavens which the Majesty of Glory fills that the one may come expresly to answer the other and that so the same which bears Record in Heaven may also in thy restored and New Earth bear it where the Everlasting JEHOVAH loveth to be if he may but find a Receptacle suitable for so great so wonderful and so infinite a Security Now then consider to what a choice eminent and worthy Service thou and thy fellow Workmen are called labour that my Stone may spring in you which only can make wise Artists to comprehend the Nature and Manner of this Work first then know here is no less then a Creating Power with which ye must be endued withal before you can make any thing of this Work according to that ancient Prophecy which saith The Lord will CREATE upon every dwelling Place a Tabernacle for a Shadow by Day and it shall be a Flaming Fire by Night Here is the New-Covenant Prediction come to be fulfilled in thy Day that ye may rejoice in that which I create and bring forth in the Birth Power of All-Wisdom which so readily can take out the Pattern in which the High and Lofty One doth inhabit This is not after the manner of a Terrestial Formation by visible Gold Silver Purple Scarlet or Linen which Methaphorically Imaged out the true and real Sanctuary of God's Being which is to be created in thy Internal Part. There the Holy Ark thou must make by me who can extract it Magically casting the Mould from out of that superior and undiscovered Golden Ground which at my Command casteth up all precious Matter for thee to work upon Which unconceivable and unknown must be for no common Eye shall ever this espy it is the peculiar Gift which only doth appertain to those which are called by Name this Holy Thing to ingrave Wonder-working Hereupon my Spirit was as one overturned being appointed to such a Service wherein no Earthly Material Tool or Instrument was to be used For all Wisdom and Understanding from the Rational Terrestrial Man was prohibited and to be wholly laid aside and only the Wisdom which is from above that indeed is Pure was to take place and give Instruction in this great Affair which tended to the settling of the Heavenly Promise through the erecting of this Holy Tabernacle Thus being in a deep plunge and concern in my self how and when to set upon the Work as being pressed out of measure to proceed upon it praying with all Prayer for my self and that other Person nominated in this Work I received this Divine Charge to persist unweariedly without Interruption For that if there were a falling back or but a slacking in either it might stop the Wheel Therefore I was forewarned to be well satisfied in the Spirits that I concurred and united withal lest that should be mutable and not hold out to the finishing
set-time is accomplished for the Bridegroom's appearance unto us observing for my forwarning that upon or near the time of such invading and disquieting Spirits conspiracy I am foreshewn it in way of Vision As thus being in the Night season impulsed to breath out some Spiritual Ejaculations falling into a slumber after I found somewhat grasp in upon me and struggle to take away my Life having great Wrath and Indignation against me so as I gave up thinking they would have mastered me and bereaved me of Life but the Holy Watcher was with me and prevented all Designs against me setting at that time a Pavillion Guard of Angels to rescue me from the malitious Power that was by the Spirit of Wisdom to me unfolded Who verified that many should be the evil Eyes that would watch us both and rejoice if they might see our Chariot-Wheels stop and our Hopes overturned Therefore the Cry out and from the Holy Place is Hold out be strong give no place nor quarter to the Beast nor to his Train for your Jesus is coming to take his Kingdom and then you shall over all in like Personality co-jointly with him Reign With these and such manner of initiating Supportations still I found us attended that our Faith might hold out and in our Earth be found when the last Trumpet shall be given for to sound which in our Day we may hear if we can see that in our Ground and Field the fruitful Ear is sprung up and looketh all White and Ruddy for to be taken and laid up with that Fiâ—…t Sheaf that is entred before us Not omitâ—…ing an other forerunning Discovery of the continued War like to be still held against the resolved Pilgrim to its Jerusalem persuing Three Nights after this last Combat I saw a Lamb come up where I was setting in my Chamber and run under my Bed and there followed two Dogs which chased it and would no where let it be quiet So it came out to me as for pity and shelter then I bestirr'd my self to take these two Molesters and at last I conquered and made them cease hunting this innocent Lamb shutting them up Then this chased meek one came and put its Head into my Bosom for Rest after its weariness Much from this was shewed me and I well know is to have its daily Accomplishment and therefore in this way is it manifested for Advertisement unto us who are thus far in the process of Jesus ingaged that we should not by any of these things be terrified or amazed while we see the Trophy of Victory concludes the Hellish Tragedy very comfortably March the 5th 1675 6. THis Ghostly Ministration in the Prepared Tabernacle being all now in my Eye knowing nothing else would glorifie Jesus his Ministry The following Manifestation hereof was after this manner pesented unto me A large Fowl which had hatched two Birds I did in that Figure behold till they were grown to be somewhat fledged and able to look out for Food but not able to encounter the cold Blasts nor the Northen Winds blowing very contrary and sharp upon them which made them shrink for want of fresh shelter while now they were thus driven to and fro the Birds of Prey watched narrowly them to devour But away with speed was sent a fluttering Dove with out-spreading Wings over these to hover to deliver them from the Kites Claws which was just fastening upon the one who was not so strong to run as the other who had got it self immediately under the Dove's Wing for shelter Then sayâ—… I a Hand snatched up the other Bird and put it under the Wing of the Dove who with a swift Flight vanished with them into the Invisible Orb of Light March the 6th 1675 6. This Vision was a plain demonstration of the third and last fixed State of the Holy Ghost who for our succour and relief will come to safe guard and carry us up to our prepared Kingdom as it was revealed to me that all former Ministrations would decrease and unto us cease Though Wisdom did conceive us in her Womb and did bring us forth and so passed us over in our Minority to our Jesus we by him having attained to a more grown State he doth transmit us over to the care and charge of the Holy Ghost where only we shall find winged Power and Shelter and who will be a glorious Banner over us Till which we cannot expect to act impregnantly in the Wonders of the high Eternity who hath therefore given to us a new charge that we may press hard and most vehemently pursue this day of Pentecost Which will bring in Omnipotency to concur and go along with the pure begotten Will. Oh then we shall take scattering Coals of Fire from this Holy Altar-Power which shall introduce a mighty Flaming Breath from the Golden Stone Within that will dissolve melt down and bring forth the clear Temple-Form wherein sits the pure Dove with her Virgin Bride who will soon make back to drive from us the strong force of all violent Tydes that so we may upon all Seas float God like and ride God-like upon the Wing of the Dove out of Visible Nature's Eye Where with Joy we solemnly do each other greet being invited by the Governour of this Holy Feast to set down as joint Conquerors with him to partake of what shall be brought forth in the great Day of the Lamb and Bride meeting together When the New Wine out of the Fountain-Grape shall run down the New Jerusalem Streets when all the Store and Treasure Chambers shall stand open and nothing shall be sealed up more from us Who under the covert Wing of this swift mounting Dove are brought For the which the Spirit of Jesus hath most truly brought us thus far as cauâ—…e we have to hope in that already I do feel something in me to move with a Cry still running through me The Lord your Bridegroom is coming Which Word as a Cordial-draught is given to renew both Strength and Spirit Again as we were waiting together in and upon our Temple-Service this Word came unto me Behold the effect of every Vision is at hand spare not to strengthen your Tabernacle-stakes and to fix your Temple-Pillars for it shall be said from this place Blessed is the high Throne-Glory who must prepare a Seat for this Holy One and strictly watch ye that no unhallowed thing enter in into this separated place For you know not how suddainly the transmuting Ghostly Powers will spring out of its own Eternal Ground Who soon will scent and smell if any of the old leavened and putrified lump there be remaining Therefore the cry so often in thy inward Land doth sound that so no unclean thing may there be found and that all Earthly stuff may be thrown out of it For the Holy Ghost is appointed in this new raised Temple to officiate and all perfect Service to be performed at a higher rate more Seraphick and Purer
If thou canst thus sow thy self singly and purely into me as into the Heart of Sion's rich Soil and there passively a while lie as in thy Tomb and unknown Sepulchre Where none after This method have of latter days been before thee not knowing or understanding the Mystery of This reposing Death then accordingly will an unmixed glorified yea deified Body arise with all rarified Senses Powers and operative Faculties meet for all Heavenly Employment and Service which can no more be drawn downward to mind inferiour matters or things These impressing Savings dropping from the Lips of my Jesus caught my Spirit into the pleasant dying and dissolving part For this kind of Death was not so grim nor terrible to me as what had formerly passed upon me Yet somewhat of a Spiritual conflict was awakened in me and the Powers of my Heavens were at strife about the laying down of this more refined Life For I found some sharp contest with an opposite Power who said What will you further dye and cease from now that the perfect thing is sprung in you Will you have all now of this Holy Nature sink down and bury it in Paradisical Ground sowing only in Hope that it will arise a Body and fair Lily in the Tower of sion This Objection met my Spirit as if I were herein to do a superstuous act but still to Wisdom's Word I adhered Which followed me all the Day long bringing a Scripture to me out of Isa. 26. Thy dead Men shall live together with my dead Body they shall rise Ver. 19. Awake sing ye that dwell in the Dust. From hence was shewn me the present sweet fellowship with my Jesus in this his own Body that is to be our Grave and embalmed Tomb whereby we are to be so Spieed with his Deified Humanity as to see no Corruptibility being called out to empty and spill our whole Life into him This being the publick Day of our Meeting my Spirit was with this new Matter filled but I quenched and stopped the going forth of it and spoke out little of this Secret Which I know would have gone forth with Mighty Powers attending it But some being there that would not happily have digested this new broached Matter I did for fear stop it though it stifled the Breath of Power and thereby was hurtful both to my self and to others Which verified to me that Word Quench not the Spirit despise not Prophecying Which I shall henceforth be cautious of and correspond with according to my Power and inspiring Breath Going afterwards to my Night's Repose I had a mighty disturbed Sleep being in a Place where I saw only the Doctor and my self where did arise out of a burning Lime-Pit a suffocating Smell which was so offensive that I told him we must make all hast out here or we should be stifled such great heaps of Chalk-Stones lay on every side as we could make but slow Pace out neither could I see what way to pass by till on a sudden a Gate opened and a Person called us to come and put forth his Hand â—…o help us over those great Stones that lay in our way so coming out into a Place where we met to worship and praise our God among our own selected Number But while we were in our Spiritual Exercise I saw one amongst us as a mocking Ishmaelite thrusting out a great pair of Lips and deriding our Powers with that I was stirred up in Spirit to go to that Party and give a rebuke and they became ashamed thereat and was Speechless for I was made to discover their Nakedness After this I fell asleep and about Break of Day I was awakened with these Words The Trumpet out of Sion soundeth to call forth the Dead in Jesus awake awake ye that sleep in Sion's Dust. This Alarm much eased my Spirit and drew it into an inward waiting for I know there would somewhat follow if watched thereunto keeping and abiding in the still Rest and waiting from under this Altar to be raised by that Life quickening Spirit that I do feel stir and eccho again to my Cry from under the Altar May the 8th 1676. This Morning being wholly attentive to my Lawgiver for further Manifestation Impowerings and Inspeakings I found Mary Magdalen's restless Spirit with me to attend the Sepulchre of my Lord from which I could not go Knowing well what I had sown into that Holy Ground from whence I expected a good Return While looking and expecting I saw nothing but a bare empty Tomb left here no Jesus was at present to be found Which brought a damp and heaviness upon me but mourning in Hope the Angel that rolled away the Stone did speak Comfort to me saying Though thy Lord into whom thou didst shed thy choicest Life-Seed and didst sow all thy Love-Spirit is now fled from thy sight and thou art hereat amazed be of good cheer he will not leave thee a restless Seeker here No sooner were these Words pronounced to me but I heard another Voice within me sound saying Hail O Mary why dost thou fear I know I know thou hast entrusted me with all thy Life-Treasury therefore in great Jeopardy I did see thee lest I should not again descend unto thee Then wouldst thou have counted me as a Thief and Robber to go away with all thy Life Spirit Power and Strength leaving thee void empty and distressed But now thou shalt know that I am returned again to thee to give thee a Resurrection with my self For I see thou canst not live without me therefore Ascend thou shalt in Spirit to be with me that thou mayst not only behold me in my Glory but know thy self also with me as a Partaker of the same Glory Only satisfie thy self that for a time some Intervals may be because of thine Abiding still in an Elementary Body which may be a Cloud upon thee But yet as often as it is possible allowing the Circumstances that do attend Corporeity exhale I will thy Superiour Part and Spirit up to me Therefore be not dismayed though there may happen many Assaults and Attempts that will make War against this Resurrection-State Which Offences will come in through the withdrawing of this inspiring Unction Whose Power is arising yet again for reforming all these Abuses and Ecclesiastical Disorders in my Visible Church Militant Therefore be not snipped in thy Hopes but be thou of good Courage who have for this Pearl of the Holy Ghost hard and unweariedly sought and art upon the growing Body for it For who so worthy thereof shall be as those who gradually shall through all Sufferings Dyings Risings Ascendings come up through all a Conqueror to me Verily I say if â—…ye shall in such a raised Spirit appear to me in Mount Sion you shall have free Liberty to take what you will out thence â—…s Co-partners with me in the Kingdom of the Father's Soveraignty whereto I â—…m by all this calling you up Therefore see see what
subsist answerably upon its own native Food O let it not seem strange that this Life-Birth of Jesus is now upon its rising again it will be defended and protected by the conquering Right of the Mighty Alpha who will have regard unto this Kingly Heir while he is in his Young and Infant state that he may not be bereaved of his Kingdom There is no fear of this last high and perfect Birth to be hereof supplanted because the Foundation-Seal is upon it which is the Lord that quickening growing Life and Spirit that makes all that is not for it to fly away before it May the 19th 1676. Now knowing in my self another Spirit acting and moving in this new begotten Birth I was now apt for Phylosophick teaching in the all hidden Magia of Wisdom's Secrets In which this holy born Thing might attain skill and understanding as being thereunto constituted For as its Birth is from Mount Sion high great pure and Spiritual so must its Learning and Education answer thereunto No Tutour Teacher or Governour to it must be but what out of the Royal City the New Jerusalem doth come from thence by God the Father's Commission Who will new string our Tongues so as the Stammerer shall speak in that one pure Language which is only understood by Jesus and the Brotherhood Oh the Spirit of this New Creature dives deep and is of a piercing Understanding and of a quick Ear. Now upon this Birth 's opening and shewing it self as the true Nazarite it was set much upon my Heart and great awfulness was upon us who were Witnesses of this rising Birth how to carry it and behave our selves towards it So we sought earnestly by Prayer to be directed in the management thereof as desiring to answer this great Love-Gift according to the requiring of the gracious Donour This was my Morning consideration after which being much kept waking in the Night about it I fell into a slumber about the Morning and here was presented unto me a Book open and a Finger pointing to me to read it being very fair and legible Which I engaged my Mind to understand the meaning of but it seemed to be written in another Language then I had yet learned and so I could make nothing out of it But when I awaked and had waited a while in the interiour Silence it was said to me This was the Book of Prophecy which could not literally be read but it was given forth for the new living Birth to feed on it and to be eating it down and so ye shall feel it become a springing Source bringing forth deep precious and weighty things After this way and manner the holy Birth shall be disciplined and thus taught by a secret intrinsical mingling and conveying Power that shall all other Teachings drown nullifie and obliterate This shall only be of force and authority according as it was with Jesus who only is to be your Precedent of whom by way of derision it was said How comes this Man to be so understanding and knowing seeing he never was learned He being poorly and meanly Educated as they judged and not come up so high in their Form as to be bred up a Scribe therefore it was admiration to them how he came by that Wisdom and Knowledge Which so outvied all and made them astonished when they reasoned with him He brought forth all his Sayings from this deep central Birth of the holy overshadowing Breath-Power which issued continually affording still fresh and new Matter Now then to you who have partaken of the same Life and Birth with your Jesus and are come to feel this Word of Life stirring within you ye are charged to live by this Word which is the Book of Life incorporating it self in you Mistrust not but you will find enough herefrom to nourish and strengthen all your Internal Senses Expect no less in this Birth of Life then what was manifest in your Jesus the same budding Fruits there will be from the same Spirit as ye grow up in it Fear not but the anointing Powers and Gifts will open and flow as Antecedents belonging hereunto And whereas you have desired to know how you may manure this holy Birth You are required to bring him into the Temple of the Lord and there to dedicate him up in the Covenant of an Everlasting Priesthood Whose growth will be great and signal in the Courts of Holiness for evermore May the 20th 1676. This Morning this Word run through me and still cried in me Knowest thoâ—… what a Treasure thou standest charged withal Consider the high worth oâ—… this Birth and give all Attedance to it wait upon it and minister to it as youâ—… great Prince and Saviour For behold it is come to Redeem you out of all Siâ—… and Thraldom and will be a growing Tree of all fruitful Boughs excellently and richly laden Therefore be choice of it and tender it as the very Apple of your Eye and permit nothing to offend it Your Will-Spirits who from the high Eternity are tinged are commanded to Watch and Ward about it and to unite entirely with this perfect thing For it is a Stone out of the Sion Rock that will be your Covering of Strength and Salvation and the opening of the Store-house of all Blessings to run out freely It is but natural for you to grow and spring out of this Central Birth operating from within Your charge is only to attend this Altar-Fire and the pure Celestial Oyl that is the Free-will which the holy flaming Body doth subsist of from the Everlasting Mountain of Holiness distilling down to your Hands Therefore your only Business is to wait to take it in and upon this Holy Altar to pour it That so hereby it may become a very strong sweet and savoury Meat to the nourishing of the pure part which must be one with it through our being turned into a Golden perfect lump So solid and stable it must be as neither Clay Iron Brass or Tinn may or can here penetrate in No contrary Metals can run into this pure Body or what is not of its own high extracted Matter Therefore now this thing consider well and suffer this Lily Birth alone by it self to dwell undisturbed in the Sacred Temple till grown out of all Fear and Jeopardy to the state of Eldership to which full grown Body and Head the Crown is made only fit May the 22d 1676. These Internal Openings and Manuductions following me still so as they would hardly give room for any thing of a Worldly Sense to enter in contrary Seeds in my inward Ground could not be born there being something in me that was now grown so strong as to resist and throw out all other light and scruffy Grain For my Granary must be reserved for the one pure Birth-Seed according as my Jesus hath his Mind to me revealed Who said expresly Come come shut up the Grates and Windows of thy low carnal earthly Senses by which the
of being Tributaries to these Usurped Powers From which nothing can you Totally free but Total Death after that way of Spiritual Dying which both Mystically and Magically by and through the Heavenly Constellations doth operate This is a Death worthy of all Acceptation indeed which at once shall put an End to all Earthly Sense and Sin Then room there is O Soul for the Superiour Life to come in which shall reign as God enthroned in Nature's Kingdom that is restored to its first Institution First Breath then take and saint not but forward to the Mount of Olives go the Mountain is indeed high to which you are to ascend but my holy Gales shall drive you on that so you may come thither to sup with the Lamb. A Sheet is here wanting July the 8th 1676. THis Morning after some private Ejaculations to the Throne Majesty this Word came unto me Will ye actually deny your Active Life as you denyed passively your passive Life Even that Life which ye so often have decryed down because it is found in that room from whence proceeds all Unbelief and Deceiveableness of Unrighteousness which naturally generateth those Essences from whence the Thoughts that are light and evil do spring The great conquest will be to put a stop to these till thou hast found the way utterly to undermine and for ever to bind them Yet thou shalt be allowed warranted and justified to stifle them before they can come to a Birth Though Reason may tell thee this would be as a new Entity and that it would straitway overturn and overthrow thy breathing Existency yet give thou not any ear to such Objections that are cast in from that Principle perhaps then no more in a Creaturely Being thou canst be known Well admit it and suffer thy Creaturely Self thus far for to expire as to the imaginary Life be assured that all Peace and Safety hereby will accrue For by this silent Vacancy another Source will open All dyings thou hast indeed gone through to this which is the main Head-Vein which doth lie so deep under Ground thereby preserving under it self hidden even from the Vultur's Eye Oh this Original Root is that which must be struck at Up and Out with it and overturn it and thou wilt see what doth lie in the depth beneath it to wit every precious thing which without care or toil will voluntarily spring when this imaginary Root is quite cast out For the croppings of this Evil Seed will never free thy inward Ground Come then and descend with me and I will shew thee where this Grand Enemy doth lurk who unconceivably doth send forth those dark Fumes which hath hitherto prevented the overflowing Breath of the Holy Ghost If then thou canst not to a cessation from every unruly motion come which works from the Astral Spirit then try the Power and Might of that Spirit which in thee doth reside and cross these strong Tides and through all break and leave behind the Flowings of Jordan and look not back but forward do thou pursue and keep up to thy Region high and as an Eagle Spirit bear up most mightily no more returning to take up any weight of earthly stuff which in the Imaginary Mind doth lie But away away ascend with thy Jesus unto another Principality where other Presentations will all thy Senses employ when once thou hast forgot and lost this World out of thy Eye and Heart What other meaning dost thou think those Words do bear which are upon old Records which saith Except ye deny relinquish and suffer the loss of that Life which is bundled up tied and knit together with the stringing Sinnews of the imaginary Mind ye cannot enter into Life into the Life of God and Christ which to know is Life Eternal Therefore it is again said That none can receive the Kingdom of God till they can come to be as a little Child that is new born who is passive having no thoughts of reluctancy working to hinder the opening the Everlasting Kingdom of the Light Joy Love Power and Peace Wouldst thou know why so few have got entrance here It is because they could not untwist nor get from under this binding Cord of the Natural flowing Cogitations which beset the Spirit every way holding it under a most slavish Captivity Yet is it not perceived but by most it is believed that this whirling Wheel must run round of absolute necessity and there is no way for it to be avoided while subsisting in a Body of Elementary Corporality True O Spirit those who in this gross state only care to be do walk and abide with and amongst those which are of their own likeness relishing and corresponding with what doth proceed from this unsavory part But from you I your Lord expect another thing who have taken the Vow of a Nazarite's Life upon you invocating me so often for a remove and translation into the same Life and Liberty with me your forerunning President Now then I must plainly make known to you the Mind of God and your Father which is to Famish all those numerous and multiplying Essences which mutiny against the Eternal Stillness and Eternal Nothingness where the all sublime Goodness and Everlasting Rock of Power is to be seen felt and known Verily this is the way I can only describe to thee and those who the mark of this high Calling would reach and would be traffickers within the Holy City which is all Crystalline Through which none can pass that hath the least Lumber of imaginary stuff yet hanging upon him Now weigh these Sayings for they are from the Yea and Amen who hath good-will to make riddance of all those superfluous Thoughts that have been as the gulph separating Principle To which thoughts by one act God moving in the Mystery of the Fiat yet once again will put an end quite to them For a New Heart will be created out of which will flow continually such a choice Treasury answering to the Sight of the Flaming Eye July the 16th 1676. A Vision of God's Flaming Eye This Morning as I was in my Spirit let down into the deep Abyss attending the pure Openings from that Central generating Source or Fountain Life In a moment there appeared to me an Azure blue Firmament so Oriental as nothing of this in this Visible Orb could parallel with it Out of the midst hereof was a most wonderful Eye which I saw Sparkling as with Flaming Streams from it Which I am not able to Figure out after that manner in which it did present it self unto me But according to this Form it was as much as I am able to give an account of it it was thus or after this manner There was a Flaming Eye in the midst of a Circle and round about it a Rainbow with all variety of Colours and beyond the Rainbow in the Firmament innumerable Stars all attending this Flaming Eye From which the Word said the Earth and Heavens shall
of the Field where the Pearl is found which Field is called Faith's Eternal Ground July the 24th 1676. In the Morning-Watch this was first cast up upon the Shore of my Mind by way of expostulation with my Jesus whom I felt hover over me with throngâ—…ng Powers of Love as an Invitation for Discourse after the manner of a Spirit without the noise of Words This thing 〈◊〉 say was with me to offer in way of Query How it comes to pass that after â—…uch mighty high winged Prayers and â—…trong Gales rushing in through them â—…s I had witnessed but the Night before in such ascending strong Center-Raptures and Powers coming down that yet the Gulph was not shot through That is the parting Principle which still shuts out the Spirit of the Bride from her native home where she may have power of Command to act and bring down what may make for renown to the Virgin Crown while walking up and down in these Earthly Bounds My Spirit took all boldness to know why it should be so fruitless in its Mediatorship now over what it was in foregoing times when Prayer of Faith was as a ready Messenger to fetch in whatever was wanting I did lay hard upon the Mighty One using the same Arguments as Dalilah did with her Sampson how O my Jesus can it be that thou dost love me without thou shewest me aâ—… that is in thy Heart that so I may know where thy great Strength lieth and this by coming thereto as thy loyal Bosom Spouse in whom thy Heart may rest in without any suspicion that ever I will betray so great a Trust if thou wilt but once reveal this secret thing unto me For I desire I seek I look only after this to be united to the Lock of thy Power and Might as a springing Plant from thy Godhead Which will give me all Power to answer to the present state requiring which is made up of nothing but Sin and Self original and Ill Consequences bundled up into innumerable Grievances So that verily I did see the whole visible fallen part of things all putrified unsound unstable weak low and poorly spirited therefore out of this deep sence I could not but cry Help Oh help thou mighty Prince and Saviour nigh For who do see themselves lie in this Golgotha state but are willing to take the Wing of the Everlasting Morning and herefrom fly to the Rock that hath the Clifts of Munition to hide all that are weary of this loathed Place Therefore with unutterable Sighs and Requests I did this our deplorable and defective state beseech my Jesus to read over and to take away the Reproach thereof For I argued with him that if thus Indigent we should still be it would sure reflect upon the Lord our New Covenant-Restorer who nothing was to leave short or imperfect in those for whom he became an Undertaker to his Father to bring them back again After all this on my part by way of Spiritual Parley this Word came unto me saying Arise arise yet and wait Why art thou jealous that Love is wanting or the Arm of my Power abated because I do not tell thee where the hiding of this Lock of Strength is I know I know thy sore Longings of it for to partake with me that it might free thee from the fallen state Which is in such Shame and Derision that thou canst not lift up thy Head with any Confidence because the Accursed Thing is every where in and about this lower Sphear where thy abode is yet for to be in Temptation and Fear but faint not thy Bridegroom is near who will the Shield of Faith anoint with the Oyl of the Holy Ghost which will be Joy unspeakable and full of Glory after all thy heaviness The reason why thy Praying as to matters of so high a Consequence hath wrought so little is because Faith hath been so dry for want of the pouring out from on High the Golden Streams out of the Oily Fountain of the one pure Deity which would make all Prayer mighty and operative when this Balsamick Oyl doth slow from the Fountain-Head July the 26th 1676. As my Spirit was Contemplating after some Breathings forth in Prayer these Words came to me To love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart is more then all Burnt-Offerings and Sacrifices this is that which I prefer above all and to which I do look to in all that draw near to me with Love unfeigned and with a whole Heart transmitted over to me and no part kept back from him that calls for Incorporation of Hearts That so there may be but one Heart of Purity as with thy Jesus in his Humanity This Love is the Box of Spikenard opening therefrom whence thy God smelleth the sweet savour from which the Curse flyeth and will be no more found to hurt blast or destroy the springing Vine about the Walls of thy Mind From which the Wine of the Kingdom will flow to refresh the Heart then shall you find you are not far from the Kingdom that consisteth in Love Joy and Peace Then followed upon this that Scripture about the Ark being sent away by the Philistines It was shewed me it would not abide with the uncircumcised in Spirit but Dagon would be smitten and fall before it For in contrariety the Wrath-Vial opened and though the Philistines thought they had got the Blessing in regard they had heard and known what Victories and Salvations it had wrought yet it became a Curse where they held it in Unrighteousness and in an unhallowed impure Temple setting up other Gods equal and jointly with it which by no means would be endured God will be All or nothing at all to such as would retain his Ark-presence in the mixed unsanctified Mind there is nothing but Gall and Wormwood to be found instead of Sweetness The Ministration therefore that shall be afoot on Earth must be all upon a New Bottom which is figured out by that new Cart that the Ark was put into which represents a new Heart in which the immaculate presence of the Lamb will be retained No unconsecrated Uzzah must take hold thereof but only the Hand of Faith and the Flaming Spirit of Love that yoaked are together as strong and able without more addition of help to bring this to its own place within the Vail and Tabernacle where its Rest is to be For the All-seeing driving Power is with these two Kine upon whom no breach shall be as formerly when the rash Bethshemites that were not purified looked into it July the 26th 1676. Again this Word came to me from the Lord Up stay not here the Ark though in the House of Obed-Edom that is in a Nazarite Heart yea here the Blessing is not ever to rest and abide but it must move forward for there is yet much Land to be possessed which only the Eye within the Ark can spy Therefore be sure still to enquire at it who can tell
working Properties which are variously manifested according as in the Glass of God's Wisdom is known The one great and principal Instrument to turn wind move â—…nd â—…ct all by is the strong Arm and nimble swift Spirit of Faith to whom nothing wiâ—…l be hard or mysterious to find out This Hâ—…nd of Faith hath an Eye that is fiâ—…ed in the Palm of it so as it hath a piercing Sight to see what was is and must further be yet wrought till the whole Science of the Eternal Mystery shall be understood and wrought out Here then is required to learn of thy Jesus all that which was acted forth in his Humâ—…nity there hath been a great default and hanging off as if it were a Criminal thing to expect or make out for the same Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding whereby the same Life might reign in Power again Whereas much more is to be looked for because he that was dead liveth evermore to see greater things then those now to be accomplished in them in this Age that in the unfeigned Faith and steady Eye shall search deep to know what their part and share with him will be in that most high and singular Profession Which none can come to imitate till truly simplified as new-born Babes Oh that is the great thing to come to be little again pretending to know nothing but as its Knowing shall proceed from that Prophet which is risen to destroy and nullifie all other Traditional Teachings Which are far too short to find out what in the Arcanum of the Holy Ghost doth lie hid which will open the Heavenly Depths Whereof a Witness thou mayst be if thou canst stop thy Ears to those many false charming Cries of which beware lest thou be swayed by the Multitude Who will assault the Will of thy potent Might which is as in the place of Pilate that hath power to reserve or release to kill or save alive Take heed of Pilate's Spirit who fearful is to displease the great thronging out-cry of People thereby preserving Barabbaâ—… the seditious false and faith-murthering Life to crucifie Jesus the inspirating Word of Truth and Spirit of Prophecy If thou makest this Choice and be only owning its Authority then he will be free to train thee up to know every degree of the High Calling which may make thee of mighty ability when once fully understood Fear not but it shall surpass and outvy all low Earthly Employs that hitherto have vaunted high above all that is called the New Creation working Property But now arise I will and set afoot this new Mysterious Calling that hath not yet been understood but it shall be revealed only to those who shall be thus wise in Heart to suffer their Ears to be bored through so as my Counsels to hear and retain without demurr or doubt Thus and after this manner did I hear the Bridegroom's Voice sweetly alluring to impress his own likeness which gave me boldness to retort back again upon him with the freeness of Espoused Mate to offer what lay upon my Heart Oh thou Celestial Joy of the Internal Part how is it that thy Calls are thus day by day renewed What more is to be done till thou the working motion in Nature dost absolutely raise anew to be all in all in mighty Supremacy according to the moving of the last finishing Mystery that God the Holy Ghost may expresly swallow up all our Mortality Thou hast said We have long enough dwelt in the first Mount and bid us pass on till we this Day of the Bridal Glory see but hast not shewn me when or how it must be obtained or who they are that shall the first Fruits here bring to thee Oh! I want a clear and full description hereof my dear Jesus Then should I be of one fixed Mind and delivered from all Jeopardy if once sealed up to be privy to the Secrets that still are shut up within thee Who must be the Revelation of that which my Spirit hath desired with desire to see before I lay aside the Corporality Oh! now then in plainness déclare to me the Particulars of my High Calling which thou hast said we must follow thee in July the 28th 1676. Here follows that which opened upon this my Inward Communing with the Spirit of the LORD JESUS True O Soul I have strongly moved thy Will towards me yet thou art upon the Jealousie as if I kept much hid from thee Now as to that thou must be subjected and always allow me my prerogative to open and to shut to reveal or to conceal who know my own Times and Seasons best when and to whom to break open my Seals that so knowing in my Book of Life who those may be that shall persevere and look not back but are waiting for the fulfilling of all my pleasure But know that to thee much hath been given the Dew hath lain upon thy Branch while others have been dry and thy Fleece hath been watered and yet thy expectation may be much more abundant in and from him who is the Alpha and Omega Who is now from Heaven revealed for this end to instrnct you who are seeking to be fellow workers with me for the bringing to pass that which will Crown the Love Labourers herein who can with me endure to bear the burthen and heat of the Day then for a Reward expect the Golden Penny will come in the Mouth of the Dove Who then will make all Labours to cease for the Everlasting Gospel will run through those who shall give themselves to be faithful Workers Therefore be apt wise and diligent now to every Rule which shall be revealed unto you who have chosen the same Calling with me and you may know Effects answerbly The first Rule You are called out of this Babylonish Country into the Land of Immanuel where in the first place you are to learn the Language of that Country among the Divine Magicians and Spiritual Natives there and then in the next place to understand the Manufactory how to deal and traffick in that high Merchandize of the Pearl of the Kingdom with all the Precious Stones of value as the Bdellium and Onyx which this Land doth afford The second Rule You are called to Trade from that Stock and Golden Coin which bears my Image and Superscription that will procure all the Precious Goods of this Heavenly Country For it is Expedient that you should be made skilful in and understand all these weighty Things that may be serviceable to your self and those that are in the same Calling and Vocation united with you And I would not have you after the Manner of the World to go on Trust upon anothers Talent but to Improve your own which I have committed to you The third Rule Seeing now your JESUS hath furnished you with a good Stock the Golden Mine being set open to you you may Adventure to Buy and to lay up in Store as a true Joseph the sevenfold Increase of
Dead out of sight that it may dissolve into the New Earth which I have prepared From whence ye may expect that new Creaturely Body which is all available and goeth beyond the first Fruits of Circumcision For Renovation in the Mind may be brought forth and yet this New Creature not raised which is the very Body appertaining to the Ghostly Spirit which can only mount and give this New Creature the Wing of Ascension Here is a new creating Word which now upon the Sounding is what excellent new framed Piecemay be expected hence from its Matter and Composition What think you now must this New Creature be made of that it may transcend the Old That must dry moulder and vanish away as it is decreed that so room may be for the new Body to take place Which is to be coagulated from the Virtual Golden Mould as the material Matter of this All-Spiritual Creature which is appointed for Mount Sion's Communion Oh! the first Adam was created for Paradise out of the Dust of that Earth he was made a living understanding Soul sparkling in the pure Innocency From which degenerating he hath changed both the inward Principle and outward Body into the Nature of Sin and Corruptibility Which now must be put off before the most Holy will know you in the way of delightful Conversation for which end every Trumpet doth sound till ye be framed and raised out of Holy Ground made all of one entire Piece a Massy Lump which may out-ballance that which as a Shrine adulterated is with other false Metals as in the first Adam's state you have seen where the Good and Evil do dwell that makes all the Strife and Uneasiness For which no other way is found for the putting an End thereunto but by a total dissolving of the old Creature wherein this Mixed thing is found Here arose this Objection in me Ah my Lord and Master I grant and acquiesce with thee concerning this new Bodifying for the Eternal Spirit to act through in pure new raised Humanity but why is thy Word still directed to me who find hereunto no Sufficiency for it is the business of a God-creating Power I do see as thou dost take this Prerogative unto thy self saying Rejoice in that which I do create Answ. True Oh Shunamite this Glory thy Father only appropriated unto himself and none else can assume it or counterfeit it For here are no painted Forms that can serve for to make Images without Life will not do Hereby shall the face of the Covering be discerned that hath deceived all Nations that have still cryed the Temple-Body when it is no other but a dead piece of Formality which is at least no way able to effect beyond the Species of a poor piece of impotent Mortality which under great disability doth lie Therefore the Voice in thee doth Cry Call and Incite that thou mayst look within for this Creating Might Lo it is not so lost or gone out of Sight but it will be found upon search and seeking being at hand to renew and change the Vile and bring forth another Body and Spirit that may God's Virgin-Bride inherit with all her Mountain Arabian spicy Wine which is refined from the Lees. That is the Spirit which is purely extracted from the Deity to move in a Body that is all contacted of Sion's Matter For the New Creation will be filled with such Inhabitants as mighty Princes each one in their own Power moving with such anointed Shields as all Earthly Weapons will be too blunt and too short to annoy such Spirits or new Creaturely Bodies that are compacted of this sublime matter But here this Jesus whose Spirit searcheth the inward deep of this Soul meeteth with somewhat which is still questioning and asking How can this great thing be seeing I am not come to live out of sensible Mortality that is touched with every Essence which appeareth from that ground sometime listed up then again cast down according to the mutation of the Starry Region Well I know saith he it is so but art thou here confined for ever to stay Hath Bounds been set that beyond this thou art not to pass Dost thou think my Calls and Invitations are only verbal or that I put you upon that which the Omnipotency of co-working Power cannot make good Only believe laying the stress of all upon my Creating Word which will move till the Number Three be witnessed for the raising of this Temple which all fill'd shall be with their own silent Company walking all in holy Order according to the living Testimony Which openeth a new To which inspiring Word ever more watch and it shall be your safe Guide and Guard till you are come here to abide within this fixed Sphear August the 22d 1676. In the Night I was much in Prayer minding my Lord God of the many particular Prophecies concering our Jesus coming to quicken and assume his own Spiritual Body in us being mighty earnest in Soul-wrestling for the accomplishment thereof against which I saw a great Strife and Wars by Spirits and Powers from the high fallen Angels above and the middle Regions and Depths below all conspiring to keep down the Body that is sown in that New Tomb where none but Jesus the Lord lay After this Conflict in Prayer I fell asleep where the dark Magia followed me with Apparitions from their Kingdom which I endeavoured to adjure Upon which I awaked waiting for the sweet Emanations and Teachings from my Immanuel who a present Word of Comfort ministred to me saying Behold the Dews from Hermon-Hill shall distill upon what you have sown ye shall not always lie in the Dust of the Earth For this Dew is as the Water of Life that will make the dead Body again to live As my dead Body it shall rise Metamorphosed as the Lily all white and fair to take in the Golden Sun and the Crystalline pure Air. Such a Body will be meet to move from and to draw in that Everlasting Gospel-Breath which will tinge whatever it doth touch Now as to the time when this Legacy will be due to you you must look into the last Testament and Will of me your Testator Who have made an Everlasting Covenant firmly ordered in all things where all Precious Promises concerning things to come run in general to those who successively in time shall come into the Resurrection-Body for to be born For none else can make challenge to that great income of the Holy Ghost which is the principal Gift in my Will Why have you let this lie as dead and making no more matter about its search And why see ye not whether this Revenue belong not to your New Names which ye have been baptized into I would not that ye should be ignorant of what might come to you if you live in the Resurrection-Body till it gets up into its mature Stature a full grown-Body which may be of ability for the discharge of so great a
a fruitful Womb always bringing forth that which may grow up to the Ghostly Fountain-Body To which giving heed thou mayst at the Mouth thereof set and draw up Water of Life I say of Life abundantly Fourthly Oh then love to live within thine own Fountain which is blessed desire not to taste of any other which may be Salt or Sweet or of a Mixed property Fifthly Wait upon the Effusion of this rising Sanctuary-River which will run till it become broad all over Which is the right and true covering of the Spirit Under this no evil surmisings can dwell all of that Nature hereout will be expelled at the opening Source of the holy Ghost Sixthly This is the true and everlasting Sign that shall no more be worn out nor be cut off but it shall be a sure Nail fastened within for the more signaâ—… and lasting Impression That thou maysâ—… see all shadowy Ministrations of little use and service to the Substantial thing Which will grow from the pure rarified Mind that hath got victory from superfluous Thoughts from which do thou divide and then another Spirit within thee will reside Seventhly Having considered thus the Immutability and Unchangableness of this substantial Thing growing from the pure Mind and of all the Thoughts therefrom arising and also considering the great Mutability and Instability of whatever groweth and proceedeth from the Imagination it remaineth that thou wholly divide and seperate thy self from every vain superfluous mutable and Imaginary Thought looking up only to receive such Idea's into thee as are Solid Necessary Immutable and Spiritual According to which thou art to try examine and prove whatever would enter into thy Heart and accordingly to Acquit or Reject them if thou wouldst remember to keep a true and perfect Sabbath unto thy Lord rising in his Spirit from all that is Earthly Elementary and Imaginary September the 6th 1676. My Friend being at Prayer my Spirit ardently joyning therewith This Word in the Heavenly Orb was spoke What shall be done for these diligent Seekers and Heaven-violaters who for the Kingdom thus persue Upon which Word pausing and finding that within my self to Echo hereunto I waited to hear what Answer would follow hereupon I then in my Spirit saw there was a demurr or consultation thereupon but had not at that time any positive Answer from the Lord. September the 7th 1676. In the Night I awaked upon some Voice that was uttered but could not remember what it spake And then I saw a Book that was opened of an unknown Print that I could not read it which also passed out of sight Then was this Word sounded forth Here are the Children of the Bride-Chamber who to me do cry for stronger Meat they have weaned themselves from the nutriment of the Breast telling me they can digest Spiritual Flesh. Then was let down a Charger to me with a Lamb that had been slain and the Word said Take hereof and eat this is Paschal Meat Then said I Lord not so this is raw and undressed who can feed hereof Then this was drawn up and behold one as in the Figure and Stature of a Man but not in a fleshly Image only the fashion of a Man all bright as the Body of Heaven for clearness out of his Mouth went a white Mist or Breath having seven Pipes or conveying Powers one of each side and another at the Navel where somewhat was as the Form of a Belly but all after a very lustrous manner Out of his Mouth went forth pure Breath and Air then out of the Pipes that were fixed on the Breasts sprouted Milk Then from the Heart went forth Streams of Blood and upon one side grew out a Branch bearing Olive-Berries then a Stalk which did bear some kind of large solid Grain Then on the other side from the Navel-Pipe did spring clear Crystal-Water After this manner did this Spiritual Body appear and said to me Draw near for this is the great Day of the Feast where the Spiritual Body doth convey it self in variety Here is high spirited Blood and Flesh for the strong in Spirit to digest Whoever can on this my Body feed Of no perishing thing he will have need September the 8th 1676. The Interpretation of the former Vision The Representation of this former Conveying Body of my Lord Jesus did not only affect my in-seeing Eye but by it I found my Life-Spirit fed succoured and strengthned The very sucking down these Spiritual Sweets as compounded all at one draught had their operative Power for some hours after And again this Morning they did plentifully give out themselves after the manner of a Conduit that hath many Pipes at once springing yet all in their Order and as soon as one stops another opens Oh who can of these deep Manifestations judge but such as are overtaken with these Golden Floods that from the glorified Body do thus open for the nourishing up of every part till we answer hereunto in a perfect lustrious Body like to like Which my Spirit prayed vigorously for seeking also to have a clear understanding of this Vision waiting in great and pure awe for my Immanuel to give me his Mind herein Who said to me By this is shewn thee what the Counsel of the Trinity hath determined to do for you that have out-grown the Child's Food Here are new and fresh sprouting Powers which will make my imbreathed Spirit grow into a Body As a Nazarite it is to be who must wait continually hereupon and must be under a restraint so as only to take in what these Pipes shall give forth that so the pure Crystalline thing may live in you which will Leaven you throughout Whereby the Most High and wonderful Consubstantiation will be effected to the glory of the New Creation Then I further queried about the Book and the Lamb which was first presented to feed upon It was said as to the Book though opened none could it read because we were not come to such a growth of understanding as being such as are newly weaned from the Breast Then it was opened to me concerning the Lamb that it was the Dying Dispensation which did go before the rising Living Body which quickens and brings to Life again as it is written I am the Lamb slain that is risen and do live to feed my Flock for evermore from that Body wherein is the chiefest store Then it was revealed to me that the Book which I saw opened was and still should have been sealed up had not the Lamb in me over Death prevailed but now the Seals are undone and it is given to the Redeemed for to look into it though not learned yet high enough to comprehend those great and wonderful things which are reserved for the full grown Spirit Who understands all of the high Tongue and Seraphick Canaan Language in which we shall be taught as we are strong and have aptness of Ability to take in from this sevenfold Fountain-spring of which
Concerns to be brought before me and administred unto as occasion requires by this Life-Breath which I have so secretly infused Where-ever I bestow this Gift it gives a sufficiency from it self to do and act all that is above and beyond a Creaturely Power For it is of an Eternal Almightiness proceeding from the Father of Spirits who generateth what is like himself essentially into me the First Born of this Second Creation That henceforth the Power of Donation might rest with the Principal Head to pass and convey my self in Spirlt And I see the way of Holiness made for this pure inspiring thing to walk in which must find an Habitation suitable to its own Purity that so all may be at an agreement Then in mutual Loves and Joys my Spirit conversant is and will take in the Sence of all the Grievances and report them unto me Who now have all that is the Father's infinite Stock of Life to enrich with Wisdom Honour and Dignity at my pleasure I long and wait to have it drawn out from me therefore now make use of this all-searching Spirit whom thou mayst make a Friend of that may advance thee to a high estate even in this present time wherein thou art spinning out as others Times Mortality which hitherto hath brought forth very little of this Life's Treasury No eminent thing hath yet been wrought for to illustrate and make me shine through the Cloudy Body where through I would manifest again the Name Jesus Come O thou Complainent rise out of thy fainting disponding Bed and stir up this Gift which is with you work and keep Pace with it All must be broght to pass by the diligent Hand of this Spirit uniting with thy Spirit and thy Spirit with this Spirit who will work all in all in thee September the 23d 1676. Being in deep Meditations I was saying in my self Oh that I were beloved of my Jesus with that Love with which he loved John To whom he did appear so as it is written by which his Spirit was drawn to hear and see those wonderful things that are to us reported of Ah Lord why wilt thou not give me to lie as near thy Heart as he and as close at thy Feet as the beloved Mary that I may drink in every Word which falleth down from thy precious Lips out from which are the very Issues of Life While I was thus pleading and invocating there was presented a Triangle-Heart clear as Crystal that you might see through them linked thus 1. The Heart of Love 2. The Heart of Joy 3. The Heart of Peace 4. The Heart of the Bride 5. 5. 5. The Golden Chain with Seven Links 6. 6. 6. The Communications of the Hearts 1. 2. 3. to the Heart 4. Then heard I this Word Here is place for a Pure Heart within this Triangle Heart of the Deity for to joyn Then I saw another Heart within the Circle to spring with many more which were still generated herefrom all White and Crystalline but they were without the Chain this only one was within Then I enquired what Heart this was which was so nearly admitted It was Answered It is that Heart which through mighty ardent strong force of Love hath broken through and got into this Secret Enclosure Where it hath great opportunity and advantage to search and know what from this threefold Heart doth flow Which have their several diffusions according to their Titles The first was under the denomination of Love The Second was Joy The Third Peace All which agreed to empty themselves forth upon this other Heart which had pressed in for Shelter And what-ever Heart can abide within this Circle may attract strong infusing Powers that are all pure and vital to act in the Triangle-Might From this Idea I had great and full Confirmation that the Heart of the Trinity was most free and ready to embrace and receive them who of one Spirit and Heart were together fixed to break through the Golden Chain so as none might be nearer to the Heart of the Trinity then such who have rent and divided from all Creaturely Hearts that so they might know what from this Triangle-Heart of Love Joy and Peace doth ever flow September the 24th 1676. This Morning I was much upon the Consideration when I should begin to work in the Name Jesus as I did believe in it and had Promises from it Now this was all in my Eye to have the Spirit manifested for Activity For I know this only would be profitable as it refers to the Glory of the Most High when Works do express the working Source that is opened from the Deity Being with my God very urgent on this matter according to the impulse upon me from the Expediency that I saw for the Life to work out this way in variety according to the measure of the Gift of the operation of the Power This Word of Counsel and Caution sprang Oh thou whom I see restless and tossed to and fro in thy Mind no rest thou art indeed to find till thou comest to the working Mines For there is the Tryal and Probation who can be skill'd to work in the Furnace of an hot burning Sphear which is not remote but very near Henceforth know O thou fluttering Dove-Spirit that I have not left thee without a weighty and rich Talent which is in thine own Custody though it lieth deep with a threfold Cover upon it which must be unfolded before thou canst see this precious thing The first is the gross dark Mould of this Earthly Climate which is very stifling to this pure thing The second is the strong binding Reason that lieth as a Mountain weight upon it The third is the low natural Senses which multiply as the Sand upon the Sea-shore flowing in to stop and discourage thee from this great Attempt and worthy Service Which if once fully set upon with a Resolution to go through these Three Removes thou wilt then come to the Golden Wedge which will make thee great rich and mighty in the pure Ghostly working Property I your Jesus do tell you faithfully where the subject matter doth lie to work upon Your Complaint hitherto hath been to me as if I had carried away all the Stock and Treasury and ingrossed it to my own proper use or reserved it only for you till you had slipped out of the Body But know it is otherwise do but knit and joyn all your Force and Power with my deep Fathoming Spirit which is given to you and he will find and also work out what concerns your Freedom and Investment to the high and self-same dignified Glory with me Hither towards ye have indeed prayed and sought and believed and hoped but ye have not wrought in the Furnace where this Golden Wedge is to be all melted down to run into every part of your Body as the Life-Blood doth in your Veins Then you will know that unquenchable and fixed Efflux of the Spirit that will
be all Virtue and meer Power to work and act according to its sublime Constitution that by virtue of this dissolving Stone will put forth to do marvelous things Which may be revived after a more wonderful way then yet in and through frail Humanity have been existent Oh now then seeing that is made known unto you where the Treasure doth lie and that you have my Spirit not only to espy but to work hand to hand with you mightily Therefore resolve as in one Spirit ever fixed to be to break up that which doth lie upon this Princely thing each one in your selves to whom this Secret is revealed Do not only Pray and wait but War and work together till ye have wrought out this imprisoned Power that may yet be exalted upon the Throne of Sovereignty For verily no better then a violent unjust deposing of your and my Spirits reign hath been Call and engage all Might and Force to recover his Kingdom again that ye may sit in the Place of Judicature and have all Nations come in at your Beck All which by meer Conquest you must effect if to the Crown and Dominion ye seek to get I shall now leave with you this worthy and all desirable Jewel to the courage and liberty of your own potent Will and my Spirit shall not fail to assist you with all its Armoury So that ye may have Victory over that which would still enslave and confine you within the compass of Mortality with all its appertaining Enormities which this Stone upon its breaking through will certainly free you from Now as there is a strong Guard of Rational and Sensitive Spirits which do multiply out of the Earthly Center so be of good chear that this one Spirit shall multiply to the Thousandth Number and stand up as a mighty Army to win the Field where this Golden Mine is reserved As mighty Worthies march ye forward hold out the bloody Cross of Defiance spare nothing which doth plead for the first fallen Creation because nothing of it can subsist with this pure Stone but what is Crysolyte All my dear Jesus hasten this Stone out of this Burning Furnace in my Altar-Heart September the 29th 1676. This Night approaching to Morning great Spiritual Travail came upon me and I was in Soul-heaviness through the sharp Pangs which I was overtaken with For I felt the Birth strong to make way for its deliverance mighty throws of the Spirit did work and I therewith co-working was that if by any means I might embrace the first-born of Might to whom the Throne-Power and Government was to be established While I thought on these things my Spirit thus burst out Ah my Lord I have often been in these strong travelling Cries but yet too feeble am to bring forth that which is to be the Ruler of Nations even he who is to be cloathed with Royal Glory Strength and Majesty to attend the Throne of the Deity who will admit only such dignified Spirits there to resort and dwell who are born again of equal quality within so as it may be no Robbery to derive from thee O God this Fire-Birth which makes the pure Nazarite Whose Proceeding as also Working forth must be from that everlasting Womb of Eternity which does miraculously introduce it self into a poor despicable Corporeity which is not perceived till it cometh to a full grown Body impregnated with Life in every part and so growing till it comes to its full Birth-hour which I did believe was after the manner of a Spirit to be effected For this Word was expresly spoken to me Fear not thou shalt have this same also which shall be caught up and nourished for a certain time and then shall come again to thee For while he is a Babe and in Minority Dangers and Perils will beset him from this envious World Therefore his Birth must be hidden and concealed and there needs to be no Proclamation of it because none but Spiritual Powers and Invisible Hosts were called forth to be privy to this secret Birth Then I beheld till I saw the Virgin who travelled to ascend after the Child being overshadowed by a White Cloud therein wrapped up out of sight freed from all Malice and Despight being kept and for while reserved within the Eternal Circle of Light Then the Voice in me cryed and said Behold that which thou hast seen to ascend out of the Forms of Nature shall again descend in a full grown God-Manhood to accomplish all that hath been predicted and declared by the Spirit who hath searched out the Depths of the Birth of Wisdom Then upon this was revealed and presented to me the Figure of a Lamb all white having Seven Heads upon which were Seven Crowns like Garlands with fresh Roses and Lilies And one riding in the similitude of a Woman cloathed with a Flaming Garment like the Sun for Glory and Brightness with a Cup of Pearl-Royal in her Hand filled full of flaming Liquor of Gold Then the Spirit said This is the Lamb and the Bride which shall the Dragon and the Beast with all his horned Power ride down with all his Mark and Name which the whole World hath worshipped and admired He hath had long his Time to impose strange Laws and Injunctions and hath been in Universally obeyed Whose Sorceries Witchcrafts and Deceits have worn out many Generations who were ignorant of the Depths of this subtle Serpent and who hereby have died short of their Kingly Crown The seducing Prophet perswading them that they were under a necessity of owning this false usurped Power and Authority which so well agreed and answered to the Apostatized Life of Sensuality But oh to you whom I have seen Revolters from this strange King and his Government I the Spirit of Jesus am sent to declare to you the Father's Love and Intent Whose Heart is set to redeem you from all Sins oppressing Tyranny from the World's Spirit and all that is Rudimental I have sought out for such as for my purpose might be who are resolved to deny and throw off all weights and thronging Spirits that would traffick within my Holy Place For assuredly I do of such take special notice who do forsake all this low Oâ—…b for me to follow my new revealed Tracks Then cryed my Spirit since O my Lord I have thus far found Grace in thy sight give me to understand the meaning of this last Representation to wit of the Seven Crowned Lamb with the Effigies of a Woman riding on him So this was opened unto me by the divine Intelligencing Spirit which informed me that the Lamb which I saw with Seven Crowns signified Jesus who yet never assumed his Reigning Power on the Earth for any duration For while he was Personally in the World he was under Suffering and Reproach and ever since he hath been vailed and obscured in his Spirit the Earthly part hath yet been too hard in the Lamb's Warriours But now to any such in whom the Virgin
of Blessing but will seek to dispoil her from her greater more weighty and eminent Riches with her true Honours through the subâ—…le Pretences that all these by her given are provided to gratifie the outward mans Exigencies who hath need of all these things Which smooth Arguments have deluded Multitudes ingulphing them deep into an irrecoverable Pit of Perdition Of which common Snare O ye that are called and culled out to live upon another Fount and Spring take good heed it is for such as you thereof to be aware It is for you not to be here caught but still to go to Jacob's Lot observe therefore and diligently enquire when you are to depart out of Babylon and when the set-time is that your Laban's Service shall expire Now my charge unto you is that when I your Jesus expresly alarm you to take your leave of all and from all things and to make a quick dispatch after me that you linger not out your time with so many Taking of Leaves and long Salutes whereby to express so hard a Come-off from this Evil World For my Spirit will hide nothing from me but doth give a true account how your Mind and Will stands towards me He is that impartial Spirit of Truth who on both sides is faithful who does as well take of yours and snew to me as of mine to you He cannot and will not make any force without the free consent of your own Will nor treat with you any otherwise then by Love's Entreaties and those many considerable Advantages set before your true Spiritual Eye which in this Light of the anointed One ye may spy without defraud or hindrance And as for thee O Shulamite what thinkest thou doth thy God and me more disgust then when my Spirit bringeth this Report to my Ear that thou canst not yet give full credit to thy Espoused Lord and Husband without wavering My Spirit tells me that Love is not grown so perfect yet in thee as to cast out every questioning thought which makes thee so oft in Jeopardy For couldst thou undoubtedly believe in my Faithfulness and highly great and all-sufficent Responsibility to answer to all and what-ever relates to thee as thou standest in thy exiled state I say if in this perswasion my Spirit could thee fix thou wouldst openly decry down the Beast and his great Benefactor who doth sit on him to give Rewards out of the false pernicious Magick Cup and thou wouldst only look to thy own Eternal Dowry from the Hand of her who is all over cloathed with Strength Glory and Majesty thereby to cover those who are lodged in the Bridegroom's Heart True it is ye have not only witnessed a good Confession with your Lips but have also in some degree given the Sealing Proof by bringing out the first ripe Fruits O know ye who are my Garden Plants for what end are all my Golden Dews to you conveyed through my Spirit Are they not that ye may see this fruitful Tree of Life within your own Lebanon to spring both for Food and Healing Whereto ye are brought by that Spirit and Power which is in mine Elect who are given by the Father to be jointsharers with me in the third great and blessed Lot of pure Breath and Heat from the everlasting Deity Even so to us my God do them this infuse richly according to thy Word October the 6th 1676. This Word came to me saying None but my Eunuchs who are seperated and have cut themselves off from all other People can know how to sanctifie to me a Sabbath of Rest whereby they may cease from the toil of their own Hands In this Day their Strength will be to sit still to feel the all-piercing Unction that hath such a high and wonderful slight as to effect all work without cry or noise This I tell thee Oh Soul as a Secret in thy Ear for in this lieth a deep Mystery which is only known where the Train is purely laid running as out of a Spout from the all-flowing God-head into the pure Eunuch Spirit Who hath suffered a dismembring for the Life of Holy Generations sake through the secret unknown way of co-operation and essential contaction by which the holy thing that is of Ghostly Authority comes in this manner existent in and through Nature's frame to get in such who are thus qualified to shine forth as Day-Stars in the Lamb 's Celestial Firmament After the Spirit had revealed this unto me it said Who but such potent and high raised Spirits pointing to some one or other known by Name should be called out to bear his Name and to shine in Wisdom and Power as Lights before the Gentiles that thereby the Sons of Strangers and Aliens may come to joyn themselves to the Day-Spring from on High which though in the Clouds of Mortality yet known may be by the fruitful operation of the Spirit of Jesus which worketh mightily in contradiction to Reason's Eye Reserve your selves therefore still to hallow my great Name in keeping within the Walls upon which the Guardian Cherubims are set for your defence that there ye may keep my Sabbath from polluting no Burthens must there be carried through And so you will know the beginning of my Eternal Rest. October the 7th 1676. Being upon some occasion interrupted in my Spiritual Calling by touching with that which was ungrateful to the pure Spirit of Jesus he told me That he was of that Seraphick Nature that he could not delight to be where any worldly trafficking Spirits did resort having a disgust to what-ever did spring from this fallen accursed Principle And therefore it was agreed that I must keep his Temple-Habitation pure for that no reception must be there but for the Holy Trinity The outward Court where the common Senses flutter up and down is sufficient to take in what is to be considered for the Mortal Man Who also might well be cast upon the Spirits care and firmly relied upon For such in whom this is so shall grow and spring as a Sabbatical Lily without any thought how their Food and Cloathing do come in Ah! upon this my Spirit cryed Lord I have been a long while getting up my Faith to this pitch but cannot come to the degrees of this all-conquering Faith which may thrust out every tittle of an Earthly Confidence Which I well know are as the miry Rushes that have been a stop to this rising Lily which groweth no where but out of Faith's unweedy Soil Thus by way of Expostulation in Prayer I presented what the Spirit shewed to me was short and defective and did impede the success of the Work going on jointly by the Lord's undertakers Who were thus animated and counselled by his Spirit After that I had supplicated and owned the good Hand of God in joyning me to one that had a good degree of Love Courage and Constancy to go forward with a fixed Eye to the Mount of Transfiguring Glory this Word spake to
me concerning him He is a Son of Obedience Therefore meet with thee to prosecute the Spirits design in this visible Earth Then received I only this further Charge to keep the inward Court of our Minds all pure and clear as we love to entertain the Spirit of our Jesus there Who soon did scent every unsavoury Breath that did blow in this Garden which should be all perfumed from the Celestial Powers and Planets that are all to be blown up from his own Savours and sweet Perfumes So that our dear Lord and Spirit might thereby be refreshed in us and that continually October the 8th 1676. Some part of this Night sweetly passed in Contemplation and Prayer toward the Morning I saw in Vision a bright round Ball pourtraid like a Man's Face breaking through a Cloud and immediately two Stars broke through after it which were very bright and blazing The Interpretation of which I waited fo in my Spirit for no Representation is without his Signification unto me But the Lord did not that day explain iâ—… to me but I did feel an impregnative Virtue fill me from that time till the Afternoon Being then met to breath each one from his Gift as the Dr. was speaking the Word said in me Blessed is the Glory of the Lord which makes its remove from place to place that the Tabernacle-Body may bear witness to this Glory Which verily was felt and discerned in this very juncture of time For the most Holy did leave the Impress of his Glory upon us for it did run as Lightning through my inward parts Thus our Jesus makes his Pace swiftly to us to give often refreshing to our Hearts Hereby lifting us up from the Earth by the Spirit of his Eagle-Might which presseth into the Heavens there ever to live in the Bosome Loves Rest. October the 9th 1676. But still I was in great Concern to understand the meaning of the Sun-like Face and Stars which I saw the Night past So putting my self in an holy awful posture for the Spirit to place me unitedly to himself to understand and know as it self did know the simple Mind of the Deity It was thus revealed to me that suddenly there would break out of the dark beclouded Night of our World an open bright Face that should not speak to us in a deep unknown Spirit but Mouth to Mouth When we shall be generated as Stars from this Ghostly Body of Glory Who plainly testified such a Remove would be made If we will be constant to the Spirit our assigned Guide and Mate Who will arise in us unto this high degree and state as to swallow us up into this shining Face so that no Cloud shall be betwixt the Majesty of Glory and us For as our Jesus is so this rising Spirit of Glory will bring us into the same Transfiguring Body of Glory October the 10th 1676. The Ministration of Elisha As I was casting my self this Morning into my wonted posture of interiour Silence to hear and see what would arise out of the Spirit 's deep I was before I was aware surprised with a Natural Sleep but suddenly awaked with this Voice Search and see what is recorded for thee in 2 Kings 4. throughout not knowing as to my own rememberance what therein was contained till I looked Wherein was the Declaration of what great and marvellous things Elisha wrought eminently as nothing of the New-Testament-Ministration did them exceed So when I had perused them I asked and enquired by that inspiring Spirit who was nigh what Portion therein was for me that was thereunto pointed for to look earnestly seeking a plain understanding herein which through favour I did obtain after some space of time October the 11th 1676. This Word opened in way of Resolve Know O Soul thou hast this Elisha-Spirit with thee of which great Improvement may be made If thou canst know how to draw him out it will be possible to multiply manifoldly Therefore I thy Jesus directed thee to view the excellency of this Spirit and to provoke thee to ask a numeration of this to lay out upon my account so far as may reach to the glorified state of my new exalted Humanity As to the first part of Elisha's ability of Spirit which took in a sympathizing sence of the poor Widow's cry unto him This thou mayst read inwardly as thy own deplorable condition who hast often cryed to thy Prophet of the Oppression of this cruel Creditor the Prince and Spirit who rules in the evil World that would have taken thy two Sons both for Bond-men Who are to be understood as they relate to thy inward and outward Man to imbondage both and hold them in perpetual Captivity as Debtors through the degenerated Principle to the Law of Sin which makes obnoxious to the Curse of Servitude to this wicked Usuper From which my Elisha Spirit is to come to set free through the additional Blessing of Increase out of that Pot of Oyl that is found before-hand in thee but of no sufficiency to redeem out of the Creditor's thraldom till the Spirit of Multiplication do take Knowledge and Compassion to shew what will buy thee out of all the World's Servitude Wherein thou hast known such Perplexities and tyrannical Thraldoms that have constrained thee to look out for Liberty Now then hearken to my Counselling Word ye who do agree as united Spirits to break this Yoke from off your Neck resolving no longer to be under Tribute repair to your Prophet Elisha and only make him privy to all your Necessities Let the Prophet's Widow in this case be the Pattern in thy Eye and in all Extremities fly to no other Call upon this Elisha-Spirit for he is to be raised from the dead to work mighty Deeds First in the hidden Man of the Heart which prepareth for the working through the outward part every Vessel must be cleansed within before the Golden Oyl of the Almightiness will fill them When this is perfect and purely done shut the Door upon thee and thy two Sons and let none come in to spy For the Foundation-matter for Miracles to work upon will run from a most secret hidden Vein The method here of will be quite changed as to what was in the days of Elisha Who though he acted parallel with thy Jesus in the days of his humane state of Minority not having reached the Coronation-Glory could not till then set afoot this New Ministration that openeth from the Line of the Holy Ghost Who is that full grown Vein of Life which hath so long under Ground been hid because of which no miraculous thing hath of these last days been wrought For none hath cared with my Spirit to plunge so deep and therefore it is for a while to lie hid till they have found out the right Needle which may pierce this third Vein that proceedeth from the Godhead The Life-Blood of which will be the running multiplying Oyl which is costly indeed thou needst not crave
a greater Portion Be not afraid to sink down into the Spirit 's Pool or Pot of Oyl that is within the House of thy Heart It was Elisha's Spirit that entred in or else the Oyl had never run so free So do ye likewise with your Spirits Descend where this spring of Blood doth so deeply run which will be of such rich Merchandize as it will make all of this Creation-traffick to be of no validity Observe with all heedfulness the track and way of the Spirit in its own Eternal Ground Follow hard venture to pass through every Region whether in Darkness or in Light loose not this your Leader out of sight Who will certainly bring you to the Oily Flood which meeting with the flaming Juniper-Wood will send forth such sparkling Powers and miraculous Glories as may plainly declare the Spirit of that one Elisha is risen October the 12th 1676. This greatly beloved Spirit and Comforter sent from my dear Lord Jesus coming now to be known by Name Power and Virtue through a more free and intimate way of converse had hereby forestall'd all other taking off all delight and pleasure saving in himself alone I knowing that with him were all the Secrets of the Bridegroom and that no other besides him could give me to understand the high and deep Concerns relating to the Kingdom which by my Jesus are now in agitation Therefore who by us is to be prized like to this Visitant that can give such a true account how Matters and Things there do succeed during the time of our Exile Who so ready and officious is as he to find out for us the grand Mystery of the Knowledge of the Deity which doth lie hidden in pure Nature's Ground And though it is so nigh to us yet without this Unction Light we might have look'd long enough and never have understood or espied any thing of this Glory But now he is become our Friend and Counsellor and doth bring us glad-Tydings from the Heavenly Quire-Whence this Morning he proposed this Question to me Dost thou believe I am the very only and true Discloser of the Father's Will who designs to bring thee into the New Jerusalem to see there the Lord Jesus in all his Princely Dignity If satisfied thou art herein then wholly rest upon me as thy sufficient Stay and Guide then press I say into me Who am the All-flaming Stream with whom mingling thy self thy Natural Property shall be so alter'd as thou wilt be able to pierce into the very Body of the Deity which is my dwelling-place Where I am careful to fix together with my self such who are given me in charge by him who hath great regard for you and hath Commissioned me to demand and ask of you who have made such Love-acknowledgements whether or no ye can leave and forget all whatever is so affecting to the sensitive Eye and without much debate to fly away with me to Mount Sion For there the perfect in Spirit do rest from all Cares Labours and Strife for that is a City free Oh now take leave of this imbondaged state and trust to me for what your Lot shall be in that lovely Land Where into now venture through all the cross Streams of Rationality as valiant Worthies resolved throughly to follow me who cannot live in this Region but only for your sake I am sent from above but with no intent to abide long here beneath only to cloath you Essentially upon as a Bride to enter in with me where ye shall see no more Evil and though in the World yet so separated from it as those who are no more of it Read and see a full discharge brought down by me if ye can receive it then it will be your everlasting Liberty October the 16th 1676. This Word also opened and cryed in me Who shall see that one Day that shall be lengthened out to Thousands of Years It is the Spirit 's day in which none can live but such who are entred into the very Body of the Spirit that can bear the Light of the Temple-Glory within the Holy City The Light of this Day is of that excessive Burning that it will scorch up every Covering which is not of the Spirit Therefore ye who have prayed to see this New Creation-Day consider what you must suffer first to come upon your vile corruptible Body which must be fashioned in this pure Spirit 's property Which by its Golden Flood may wash and wast away the muddy part with all that contemptible covering of Clay which in this Day of Burning can in no wise be able to stay Now then know the Time and Season of this my Spirit 's Visitation and be subject to every transforming Power Which worketh yet by degrees till it hath brought thee unto a solid Body as refining into that Clarity that the sevenfold Sun ye may plainly see in its strength of Glory without a Vail upon your Face Do not say How shall this be brought to pass seeing I am a piece of brittle Mortality subject to an universal Creaturely malady nothing differing from what I see expire Daily These are the thoughts which do arise in thee out of Fear and Spiritual Modesty But thy Humility must be the only Foundation for the Spirit of Faith to rise and effect what may be done in order to the rising of this everlasting Day of the Spirit 's cloathing Body of Light Which Oh thou Shunamite shall make thee all fair and give thee acceptance in my sight October the 18th 1676. O! the resistency that the Spirit of Reason did raise pleading Impossibility that ever gross earthliness should be so covered over and impregnated with a Ghostly Body generated and consubstantiated from that one Eternal Element so as to hide the now appearing frail piece of Mortality The Spirit of Prophecy in me which opened and declared of these things which were to come to pass in us said If hereunto we could set our Seal of Beiief and give place to the Spirit of Truth they could not fail of their accomplishment But if Faith over Reason did not get Victory the Amen did testifie the Spirit would be too weak to bring forth such a miraculous Body for himself organically in every part to the fulfilling of the great Mystery which has been so often and largely predicted of Here I had renewed subject matter for Prayer that our Faith might not fail earnestly invocating that the holy Breath might fill up our Sails here withal continually Upon this I did see in Vision A Covering let down upon me of all wrought Gold enterwoven with Scarlet-coloured Silk so as it looked wonderful rich to my Eye Which I viewed with great marvel attending the Word of Signification which thus opened in me saying This is the Workmanship of the Spirit Who hath only Wisdom and Skill to inlay the weighty Gold and work it in with the Silk to make it thus lustrous as thou seest But herein lieth a greater
15. 26. were thus opened to me Here is a stock of Life to be given out in an absolute way of propriety but to whom is it but to the Royal Birth of such as are born into the Spirit Whereof ye who through strong travail are hither come are to be fellow-sharers in this Life with God the Son But ye are yet but young and do not understand what this Life will extend unto if preserved choicely you shall find in it the the root of that matter to work upon which is sufficient to create and translate according to the will and skill of thiâ—… Life-Operator Which derives a Power out of its own free Birth-center which hath no dependency out of its own Being Call to remembrance that saying Man is become like one of us and he would still have exercised the same authority as a God had the evil been only known and eschewed for which end Jesus hath sent his redeeming Spirit to clear off all your old Accounts as being found in the Debt-Book of Sin and also to convince you there is no necessity that you should run one Mite more upon that score ye being born of a free estate of Righteousness of your own which now you are charged to expend upon For in the time of Ignorance before you came to know what was sown in your Ground ye might be more excused But now I have revealed where doth lie the rich Revenues of the all-sufficiency ye need neither seek ask or borrow did you know â—…ow to stir up and awaken your own Magia Through which all wherein you have been taught must throughly â—…e wrought as the mighty Engineer to bring forth what hath lain under the Vail of Faith and Hope Plunge plunge â—…et deeper in within the Circle-Birth of â—…his pure thing October the 25th 1676. As I was considering of this Discoursive Opening of the Spirit it was immediately confirmed to me by a presentation after this manner The Word said Behold the Idea of another Paradisical Sphear I saw a Tree spring suddenly out of a great River with three laden great Branches then sprang divers more young Plants all sprouting from the Veins or Strings from this one Tree Each one with no more then three Branches but of different growths Some new budded others bearing Flowers in order to Fruits others grown to palpable Fruit. All round about this one Tree Upon which it was said to me These are as so many Gods which are ascended out of the Earth to replenish that which lay void and desolate Here each one hath and is growing up in a Life of Subsistency and Almighty Soveraignty deriving all this Power and Might from the Tree of Life Which sheds its Kernel-Seed into this River for such is the Nature of this Thron-River that it no sooner falls in but it springeth immediately into this threefold Form of the Deity O stagger not neither be confounded at this for except ye had been born again of this Water and Tree of Life that sheds the Golden Seed of the Spirit ye should never have known the existency of a Life-Soveâ—…aignty Therefore to you not only the â—…ight and Spring of Understanding is â—…iven but the everlasting Life-Line from his Tree doth run free because you have â—…rned in your Spirits and hearkened to â—…y Inspirations But remember your â—…ife hath many subtle treacherous â—…riends that pretend to it that will say â—…s Peter did far be it to thee to give up â—…e loss of all the old Life and only rest â—…bsist and alone depend on this But â—…ow this is but the tempting Voice of â—…e Serpent as in the days of Eve by â—…hose Fall be thou aware And now â—…hile ye are but Infants suck and draw â—…ightily from this Tree of Life and you â—…ill soon grow to be strong to have this â—…se trusted in your own management â—…o you whose Ears are so open to hear â—…e I do greatly delight to commune with â—…ou that if by any means I might encourage you to hold out and not slide back from my Precepts Which will assuredly entrust you in all Zion heights and Spirit depths of unfathomed Treasury Now haste haste to your covering Strength of Glory your Nazarite Hair while abiding in this Paradisical Sphear will soon grow upon you that so therein may be your defence from all Philistines Powers Now then in Jehovah Magnanimity abide with me his Spirit evermore to dwell and be So Amen dear Lord I pray thee October the 26th 1676. Being met together to attend the Manifestation of the Spirit by which we might profit each other in the Afternoon as the Dr. was praying this Word came to me Make use of the present Opportunity when ye have the King at the Banquet then is the time to prefer your Request Upon which waâ—… brought to my remembrance the wise Pâ—…licy of Esther to King Ahasuerus Which that Night was more opened enlarged and applied for our present and further Peace Joy and Encouragement to follow on to know the whole Counsel of our God concerning us who now revealeth all Secrets by the Spirit who presented Mordecai in the Person of himself being left to him as Orphans The whole trust care and charge being cast upon this faithful Mordecai to bring us up to that degree of Humility Meekness Courage Zeal of Life and to all sweet Spiritual Disposition of Mind that the King the Father might greatly desire us for herein consisteth our Beauty and Comliness which is so taking Vashti was refused because of Arrogancy and Disobedience but Esther finds favour being mild and pliable yielding to her Guardians Commands though to the peril of her Life So assuredly said this Comforter Be ye but wise and obedient to me who will put you upon nothing but what I do fore-see will arise for your great promotion and considerable advantage as ye my dictates shall obey Who do make use of this History of the Scripture yet that my Mind may be more easily understood you not being able to bear nor understand me in my own Tongue till further learned For which I am come down to your understanding through the Skreen of the Letter October the 27th 1676. Now this Morning it was set before me according to the Example of Esther that for a certain time it was expedient that we should sanctifie our selves by a true Fast in pure Abstinency from their Assembly-Feasts 2dly From tasting any thing that is ministred from this gross Element but to draw apart from all keeping our Internal part from being defiled shutting up from all reminding only the overturn of Haman's device That great subtle Adversary that had laid the Plot against the new introduced Life to cut it off before the King had put Honour upon it to bring it through the City-Royal upon his own Eagle-Body of Power Now seeing the malicious design of the Serpent with all his Confederacy was gone very far in this matter there was no other way to reverse the
me Suffer these Wheels to turn in thee though it be painful rejoycing that ye are come to dwell under this Cherub-Covering where under abiding with all wariness the Eagle-Bird may fly out thece in great Might Strength and Glory Which Words I took great Observation of for much is to be understood therefrom as is to be believed in by us whom it concerns This Day in the Evening at our own private Meeting in which the Lord did much appear with us it was given me to speak from the new covered Earth which was once as a solitary parched Ground but now it was shewed me that it is now become all covered with the utmost variety of springing Flowers all flourishing which will still abide in us so long as the Water-Courses keep their due springing Tides with the Spiritual Constellations opening from the Cherub-Bride who dwelleth in that hot Beaming Body of the Sun that reneweth Life to every growing Plant that is brought forth under the Cherub-Tent Oh here I did see in some few a fruitful Field or Soil and a full replenished Garden which invited him who is our true Seeds-man in to view and see what might be more eminent and excellent in us to engage his walking presence with us In whose company we do witness the out-breathed scent of what is planted by his own Hand November the 4th 1676. This Day going out I suffer'd loss meeting with some scatterings which for that space stopped the Wheel-work which being sensible of I had no quiet till the holy Watcher came down and moved it forward again clearing all that did clog and made it move heavily This Word with an Emphatical Power to me came saying Oh wherewithal shall a Young Man cleanse his Way but by taking heed unto my Word which was further confirmed by another ecchoing Voice a little space after Regard this as a seasonable Warning So that from hence it was fully set home upon me that every speaking Word from under the Cherubim Oracle from whence the holy Sound does pass the Light thereof is to be obeyed in all things And it would be as the Burning Wheel refining and making pure for no longer then our Minds and Hearts as the High-way of the Spirit are cleansed can I said the Holy One walk there For my delightful Pace is through the green and flourishing Path where on either side Plants of Righteousness do stand all in their Youthful Statures November the 5th 1676. This Morning it was said to me There was a secret reservatory where the hiding of all the Armory Power was Then something of a strong fenced Place standing upon a Hill was shewn me which was so high that it would be very difficult thither to ascend Which caused great thoughtfulness in me In which interim of time the Dr. coming in to Pray this Vision passed away and I understood nothing more of it that day But while the Dr. was in a very contrite frame so expressed by Prayer this Word concerning him was spoken The humble Person I will save whose Cause I have heard and will plead Which giveth a new Sealing Witness to all former Words that the Love-Eye looketh still towards those that are lowly of Heart taking heed to the inspeaking Word watching daily thereunto November the 6th 1676. This Night the Wheel-motion was very restless in me to find out this Armory Power of which I had a presentation greatly sollicitous was the Spirit of Prayer pleading to find an entrance into that secret place where I was assured the hiding Gifts of Eternal Powers were concealed Which being found that would then by a willing suffered-force be fetched out to effect the great and high intent of that mighty Cyrus who will be raised as that principal Shepherd to go before us unto this strong fenced Place Who said unto me Be still thy Time is not yet fulfilled to enter this Tower of Strength There is an Eagle-Bird under the Cherub Wing which is a hatching for which you must wait a while till it is all fletched and flig that only can mount you up It must be this Eagle Eye that can fly so high to face this secret Place upon which the Sun-Beams do lie so hot that no other can come nigh her It is but fruitless Labour to climb up with a ponderous Body to the top of this Mountain Therefore keep close and warm under the Dove's Wing and your Spirit will answerably grow into the Nature of a swift flight to reach to this place Which is called by the Name of Shammah the everlasting Armory of Wisdom and Strength lieth there to be drawn out by such as can assume the Eagle-strength Oh hereunto watch with all heed and keep under the overshadowing Wing that ye may come hereunto at one Flight that ye may be out of all further care and fear This is so strong a Fort that commands all Worlds that stand under it They will indeed find the impregnable Power who do attain the full growth of this swift winged Might Then it will be in your own Power to scatter and make fly whatever opposeth you from the Spirit of Enmity all which shall be subdued from the Armory of this strong Tower that henceforth to you who are diligent Seekers shall be opened Look and see for the Eagle-Shell is assuredly upon the crackling November the 7th 1676. At this time it was much upon my Spirit to seek and make after that which might evidence not only to our selves but to the unbelieving World round about us that the Life-acting Power was with us For else whereby should we be able to make out our conjunction with the Spirit but by stretching forth the full Banners of it as the great Testimonial Witness of the mighty Presence taken up in us As I was deep upon this Consideration this Word from the Lord came to me saying What more signal Sign can you desire to demonstrate your true Spiritual Birth by then this that you have not heard of and seen the Sign of the Son of Man in the Heavens as Distinct from you But behold this is given you the very same to be which in its time will shew it self to be the Son of God by and through the Resurrection from the Dead Till which time ye must suffer under a Vail in Conformity like to your Jesus who was of no reputation in the World as giving him no Credit nor Honour till by Death they saw the Vail rent and the Earth shake then they began to be convinced that this must needs be the God-Man Even so on thou must proceed to give witness by thy Death mystically as he did naturally give proof thereof by Rocks rending and Earth-tremblings which will be at the yielding up of the Ghost This happily somewhat hath been reached to but yet there must be an open shew thereof Crucifixion is a lingring Death let the Blood and Water so freely out-run from thee that may bear Record to all that thy
to declare and speak as indeed from a Cloven Tongue that may tinge where ever it seaâ—…ters such high enkindleâ—… Breath abroad Ah Words of such aâ—… ouâ—…flowing Power will carry force to purpose upon the Hearts of the prepareâ—… Hearers to whom this last Trumpet by the Dove shall sound Blessed is that Ark where fresh she will out fly to pronouncâ—… Salvation Peace and Good-will froâ—… on high Fear not but believe such aâ—… Ministration may be nigh to those who in this new fram'd Ark do most closely and obscurely lie till the Birth-Doors shall come for to be opened by the strong Angel Know upon every Door here iâ—… a several seal to the number of seven to which belong the Seven Spirits Up pon every Opening thereto watch anâ—… stand still till Time's Number is finished for the going forth upon the broaâ—… Water-floats The glorious Lord thaâ—… hath been hidden under this Ark is now for to appear and unfold what the Seveâ—… Thunders hath foretold of Ages past For which saith the Alpha and Omega do hereunto call you whose Hearts are right and perfect to me not only these â—…hings to know and see but Eminent Inâ—…truments to be for me by the bringing â—…orth a new and more excelling Geneâ—…ation then yet have been existing November the 23d 1676. In the Night season I saw my self as â—…f I had been transmuted into a Bird of great largeness like to a Hawke and found all my sensible Faculties and Understanding in that appearance sluttering in an Airy Region and this Commission Word I had Go forth and take a Prey which attempting I found a whole Flight of Birds in some way of resistance I being alone they thought they should have encompassed me about and so out-mastered me Then I called for my Bird-Mate who was immediately as in a large flying Body with me and so we jointly commanded the whole Flight of the lesser Birds in that Region and then they voluntarily came to shelter under our Wings And methought it was a mighty Change which I did not know how I came into but all Care Fear and Sorrow were fled away I did feel during this time no low matters of an Earthly Sence at all to touch me I did during this time feel also another sort of Birds like Bats did us pursue which could not hold out their Flight because of the excessiveness of this Light Reigon but down again did fall and again would strive to rise blindly to trouble and hit against those who were winged for to obtain the Prize December the 4th 1676. Look back to November 23. 1676. and there is the Vision and here is the Interpretation of it THere was much from this Vision manifested to me first was that this shewed there must be a passing out of a gross ponderous heavy laden dark Image and Body for in the pure Airy Region only Aetheral Spirits in Winged Bodies of Power could live and swiftly move Such a Translation it became us to wait and look after that it might be really accomplished as the Figure doth call up to For it was said this must be till we come this Change to see all to be in the very Body by virtue of that Crystalline Stone that formed must be within who to its own Clarity must sublime us throughout before we can go forth like Eagles to mount and to take our Prey As to the resistency which I saw it was thus to be understood that at the first going forth though thus impowered and spirited yet it would not be understood by the very Elect who were to be gathered to that Region for something of Reluctancy there would be till further confirmed by another Witness that also should wing up in Spirit and Powers And should marvellously draw and gather in the Scattered who to Wisdom's Ministry do belong which must prepare for the state of Mount Paran and so for the New Jerusalem Then queried I further about the last Flight who were so few in Number yet very troublesome blindly lifting up themselves against us It was shewed me that there were dark sensitive Spirits whose center was in the dark Holes of the Earth that had some particular knowledge and relation to us while we appeared to walk with them after their Similitude but being herefrom changed and something being formed in us that hath given us a Winged Raise and so made the Separation and Alienation they would pursue to bring us down that they might know us in their own Likeness for in this Transformation they cannot without they could come to be as we are Which is impossible till the Holy Lump in them be made and they be separated for this state from all low things to live whereunto we are called and appointed to live in the Ghostly Body where we shall meet the Lord our Bridegroom in the Airy Region This Word much followed me The Birth in you is the Son of God but it doth not yet appear what it shall be when as it shall work quite through expect great alteration even unto Transfiguration At which I rebounded with this Answer Ah Lord how thick down do flow thy Prophecies but what makes the working Wheel so slack to effect this mighty thing Then said the Spirit in me Thou art in haste before the Earthly Mold be laid waste not considering that ye are but come unto the restoring Ministry that is preparing for the Birth of the Dove out to fly that carrieth all Wonders in its sevenfold Eye which is your Lamp within that getteth formation by degrees Therefore it is not to be stirred before it comes to its full Age all that you are to do is to drink in what is brought to Hand by its Virgin Mother for daily succour as the Word of Counsel Caution and Direction which is at present all which ye are to expend upon for stay and strength till its Birth-Day shall in and through you break December the 5th 1676. In the Night in my Sleep the Accuser and watchful Enemy assaulted me hard upbraiding me with false and deceivable hopes that I had in this Ghostly Birth demanding why we should more then others in the World seek for it that were left in the same common Faith with others ever since the Holy Ghost withdrew which was not again to be born through any one in Flesh according as we looked for Then this Word was present with me to repel Oh get thee behind me thou Spirit of Pâ—…dition that goest about to pervert Truth and wouldst make void the Love's Election of God Knowing well thou standest not in his Counsel any more but art afraid nay it is thy terrour to see Faith risen so high in any one as thereby to conceive such a mighty Birth as this that will so rise as to overturn thy Kingdom and Reign that hath been so long in the Earth for hereby cast out thou wilt be Therefore we will not doubt nor throw away our Confidence because the Birth we
established upon the Ghostly Nativity Instead of a Terrestrial there shall be a Celestial greatness of Dominion from this Birth-Lily springing that hath like the two Witnesses been long slain in the Seed and buried over with Earth so as forgotten in the World But now expect the raising of them up in each of you who shall stand as Olive-Trees before me still naturally flowing out with your Golden Oyl it shall not be as formerly by way of Gifts now and then but this Fatness and Olive-Sweetness shall spring out of your own Root being hereinto fully changed Then will you know the constant and fixed state and no more want your Eternal Bride and Mate December the 9th 1676. A mighty Saying was ecchoed to me brought forth out of the Counsel-deep pronouncing it should be our Lot to live by the Sword and Bow of Might by which Jacob of old took great Spoil out of the Hand of the Amorite Which was thus opened unto me that this Word came to me to let me understand that our Blessing and Portion would come in by meer Conquest For thus said the Holy and True Behold and see here is the Gift that I give to you as a Father's Blessing which is the Sword of my Spirit and the Conquering Bow whose Arrows are all of Gold with these expect ye must get your Living and also bring into me your God your worthy Prey Now therefore gird on this Sword that is so richly oiled with the purest of Unction and go forth all prosperously It is not only a defensive Weapon but it will cut down and destroy and resist every Balaam Spirit which standeth in your way None ever was possessed of this Sword but that strong Potent Will-Spirit that knew the Way to the Golden Pool of Oyl there still to bath it whenever occasion is for it to burnish and display The sight hereof will cause all about you to stand in fear and awe when they shall see you are so God-like armed with strength of Power which is so commandable that all resistency will fly away against it Oh this is that Spirit Weapon which makes riddance first within thy self it will suffer no Amorite or Cananite near its Borders to dwell But Gideon-like make havock hew and cut down every Grove where false Worships hath by blind Zeal been set up But verily the Day is near for the Sword of the Lord in Gideon's Hand to appear which will make a quick riddance in the Earth The Lamp of my Spirit in your Earthen Pitchers is now seated though the time hath not yet been for them to shine out by reason that the Olive-matter of the Holy Ghost is not yet come to that Perfection to sound forth the Trumpet for the total Victory over all Centers and Worlds which shall certainly be conquered by this out-going Birth But while this is perfecting here is Conquering Work that ye may not sit idle but now to go on every day somewhat to effect Therefore another Weapon is given into your management which is my Covenant Rain-Bow which will be to you of great consequence if you have skill rightly for to use it The use of an Eagle Eye that may this great Birth-mark espy Here lieth the grand deep-sighted Wisdom to shoot forth such a Golden Shaft as may hit and thereby make way for Wisdom's first-born to come forth through sending out this mighty Arrow of all precious Faith Nothing like this you will find will be of travelling force to help you out in your Births Agonies which upon you will come before you can imbrace this Ghostly Body imbodied with a Soul and Spirit That will spring all a new from the creating Word imbodied in a corporeal shape Which for a time shall remain a high degree of Wonder For to see the Ghostly Power to send forth through contemptible Humanity that high scented Breath of Air which may be felt tasted and smelt with whom it is resident Then this Question in me arose Ah my Lord when shall these Powers be set awork so as the doubtful in Heart may somewhat hereof see and we thereby from all upbraidings be set free I was thus answered The Day is not to be put far off for now is the acceptible time for Salvation to be wrought There is conquering work still to be done within the Flaming Sword must cut down every Briery Root and burn up every Thorny Thought which do near this Lily Birth spring and vanquish all vaporous Clouds that thicken the Heavenly Air with all the gross Animal Life of Sense which is the greatest of Impediments It is that Esau that holds Faith's Birth by the Heel that it might not break forth Therefore in the strength of Jacob's Angel do you strongly wrestle for by his Sword and Bow you must make your way and Conquest gain that so you may command both the Heaven and earthly store For Heirs of all Worlds ye will be then gird up and go forth all armed the munition of the Spirit is with you so as nothing can harm you who carry the precious and essential Root of Life in you Even now while but in it its Younglings day it is yet it will be a defence of Glory that now and then will sparkle through by which it may be known that in you is intombed a Precious Stone a White Stone that hath the Virgin 's Name engraven on it which must be for the Lamb a Spouse and Bride Therefore the Cry of the Spirit is Prepare make ready and Pray fervently for your Everlasting Birth-Door to open that the Heir of Glory may enter therethrough Even so let it be December the 10th 1676. The sweet living Pool this Night was mightily opened and stirred by the holy driving Spirit that brought choice and super-eminent good things out of the high Kingdom 's store saying also to me Come tast and see how you like the Heavenly Country-Fruit that is ripened from that unmixed Element Draw up unto my Table for you shall sit with me after the manner of a Spirit and eat such things as are set before you For I your Lord must take special care to feed and nourish those that are with Young with the highest of Birth degrees And indeed I did according to this Salutation find a sweet and pleasant tast to my Spiritual Appetite and a satisfying fulness Hereupon followed an occasioned great enlargement of Soul-magnifying in Prayer which at this time was more then usual mingled with an oily Incense Which feeling I took all advantage to put forward for the holy Birth-issue in each other who were noted in the Life-Book as was at this season asserted to me with many other Words of signal Favour that so we might have no cause to repent our Choice in being professed Traders for Wisdom's Merchandize which would turn to that account that we should not be ashamed of though now for it under disrepute as not understood or known but God will reveal us in his
time After I had prayed I was encompassed with white waving Clouds for a good space together with this Word So shall ye your Lord in the Airy Body meet Therefore we must be all pure and clarified and constituted in and through the essential Birth of Life for the fruition and sight of the Flaming Body of Light December the 11th 1676. This Day this Word came to me I thy original Sower am come into my Garden to see what wanting is to make up the full Beauty and Glory of my Husbandry in your most refined and separated Mould I see you are careful to keep it for a higher degree of Seed as not being satisfied with what is sown and sprung up though there be many young and fruitful Plants all Plants of Righteousness Yet here is one principal Tree that is wanting in the midst of these to grow for the better feeding and establishing of these All which are worthy of acceptation to me your Spiritual Sower I am come now to that Plantation which I can call my own where the Virgin Lily of Faith and the blushing Rose of Love and Marigold of Hope and that sweet-scented Violet of Meekness and the Cordial Gilliflower of Patience and the Honeysuckle of Abnegation to all whatever proceeds from this cursed Earth all these are pleasant in my Eye Ye being found faithful anâ—… vigilant in these behold one reserve I have yet more for you who are beloved as the most principal and weighty Seed which is from the Olive-Tree a Berry hereof I bring to let fall into your selected Ground This is that from which ye may expect an Olive-Tree to spring that will feed all the rest from its oily property which will flow not by constraint but voluntarily and will all these Plants re-establish and refresh as shall be felt in you as Witness-bearers hereunto This is that Olive-tree which emptieth it self forth upon these several Plants being higher graduated and enriched containing in it the all fluent dispersive Life that ascends upward and again flows downward with oily Dews Which as a Mist Waters the whole inward Ground for a daily flowry Spring that I your Lord may walk in the midst of these fresh scented â—…lowers For as much as they were weak in themselves and apt to withdraw and dye therefore I have sown this pure Olive-Seed in the midst of them which will arise to fulfil and perfect what the several Seeds Births have left behind and short of bringing this to effect For this Life-Tree acteth all free because it hath in it self all-sufficiency not by a forced Might or constraint in Contest with a contrary Birth of Life No in this Olive-Tree there is no such dividing property it is from the one pure and perfect Essence of the Deity which never ceaseth till it hath wrought out all Contrariety whereto it comes to be a fixed Root Now then try your selves hereby for thus it will work to give proof that this Seed is of the right Olive-kind It is indeed come in you withal great Love to restore therefore as the thirsty Ground open wide for this pure Oil-Olive to drink in that so all Sin may be cleansed out of your Ground for this Original Righteousness to take place laying the old Foundations waste Whereout the false Births Seeds so plentifully did spring to which a stop must be verily be put For though every Fruit of my Garden-Plantation in you have had its opposite suffered to spring up by it yet it must be so no more after this Anointing hath throughout searched and drenched every part that belongeth to the new formation store December the 12th 1676. Being still followed with fresh Manuductions to wait for the Manifestations of what is yet but in us as the Spring I was opened in my Spirit to be very sollicitous that we might be of that account with our Lord Jesus as for to go through this Birth in all its gradual Perfections till the Holy Ghost should absolutely have a Throne in us Upon which earnestness this Word came to me Where two are agreed to prosecute what hath been predicted with the particular Love-design it shall certainly be fulfilled in its Day and in God's most glorifying season Therefore unite and strengthen each other from the Oily Might which shall upon you still encrease till that great Blessing you seek out of each one successively hath its proceeding Volatile according to the Nature of a Spirit Who out will fly no curb or restraint upon this Birth Power shall lie when found all of one sacred Matter and Mould for the holy Breath-Spirit to move and raise up to its own Aâ—…ry Sphear all in a body of Light and Spirit pure and clear This may only be called the true redeemd state that delivers out of all Fears and Sin-obnoxious Cares into the highest Liberty where all free access into Mansions of Glory may by the taking Wing from this everlasting Birth spring and so enter into the Holiest of Holies This only is possible to such who the anointed Shield of Faith do bear that will not be daunted nor quieted but ride on upon the mounting Horse of this Spirit of Faith till ye may cry over all Victory For of all that hath been said of this Birth verily this Faith is the Sum out going Power that will make the Passage and reach God's Omnipotency December the 13th 1676. In the Night I had a bright shine all about my Bed which was signified to me that as without so it should be all Light from the seven Oily Lamps that should be as a covering Flame to cloath the Virgin Woman who should be impregnated with the Birth of the most holy Seed of God Then queried I who this Woman should be It was said the Name was known and written in one that was to be of a perfect Heart meet for high and Heavenly Converse and so thereby contract a Sun-shine body of Light Crystalline and clear to wing unto the Heavenly Sphear which is the Habitation for Spirits of Light This Woman that is certified of by John in the Revelations hath not had its fulfilling Prophesie to this day therefore yet to come as it was in Spirit said to me and that the pure and perfect in Heart might come this Woman to be as the Wonder of all Wonders which hath been since Time's Creation The Birth of Jesus was great and marvellous but this shall far excell it because it will be of such high extracted Quality as no Terrestrial can or shall see its God-like-form but as its going forth may be felt and understood by Effects to be indeed the Birth of the Holy Ghost Then I further started this Question to my Lord and Spiritual Informer Whether this Birth should distinctly be manifested from this Sun-like Creature that is said to travail with it to bring it forth For this Objection arose in me that the Virgin that brought forth Jesus in a Fleshly Figure she remained still the
of Faith Now then do you receive from my Hand this Crystalline Cup wherein is the Water of Life from the Fountain Rock I do also place the Golden Pot of Manna by you that so ye may have no need to wander out but hereof freely take it will feed up unto the full grown Body of the Ghostly state Now then be wise and give no Ear to the crooked Serpent who still will be casting in his Floods of Jealousies and Fears saying What make you here in such a desart place shut out from all the pleasant things which are lawful to be enjoyed with and amongst your fellow Brethren But these his sugar'd Baits meddle ye not withâ—…l who hereby would subtilely supplant you of that good thing which yet not being seen carries with him and his worldly adherents such little esteem But be assured there is that high extracted Matter sown within you from which will rise the Star of the Wise that shall win length of days durable Riches and Honour by Strength and Dominion and shall bring in another Kingdom Therefore hold out your Wilderness-Temptation and let none out-bid you or take away the Crown from you My Words forget not the Spirit doth speak them December the 18th 1676. Upon this call into the Wilderness it is shewn that Temptations would meet us though high Manifestations of Love and Care would be here also expressed for we are appointed to give eminent proofs of Faith as the forerunners of the Sealing Ministry of the Spirit which still follows believing But we must expect many an assault as sometime upon one and the other who are entred into this abstracted dedicated state Therefore much more the vigilant Enemy doth make his onset upon us as we daily do experience As having lately some occasion to take notice of the Pulse of Faith beating low in my Spiritual associate whereby I was mutually touched and thereupon moved to invocate that our Faith might jointly be kept up or else the Birth could not be perfected as was shewn to me which made me wrestle mightily Upon which this Word was given to me for him that sometimes an Elias might despond and make request that his Life might be taken away saying as Elias also this Evil is from the Lord what should I wait any longer in expectation what am I better then my Fathers All which over-casting Clouds will happen sometimes upon ye what Faith could act higher then Elias yet now in a fainting Fit what lower Thus it was set before me concerning the Dr. my Friend's heaviness and sadness which sometimes seased him further It was given to me for his Encouragement that an Elias should yet be born through all hard onsets to open the Heavens and bring down the Blessings of Fruitfulness upon the dry languishing Earth within our selves and power to open and unloose the Seals of that Spring that shall make our solitary Habitation as the Eden of the Lord. Who will walk among the Stones of Fire and commune with us that so our Warfare may be all pleasant till Time's Number for the full Manifestation shall be accomplished for us December the 20th 1676. Being driven in Spirit to withdraw as into the Desert Mount there apart from my self to be as to the sensitive part and to all things in the earthly Consideration Knowing that herefrom I must absent if at any time I would be present with the Lord. Who for the joy and pleasure that doth flow therefrom might well invite us to wait in this blessed Wilderness Where as dead and unknown to the World we are attending to receive the high Throne Visitants who will never appear but at such times and seasons when we are able to clear our selves of this lower Sphear Such pulls in from the Sodomites by Lot's good Angel we often do meet withal who would have us dwell in the House and Tent with our Immanuel Who will make ready the Tabernacle of God himself to dwell in us as we can walk in his narrow Track and avoid the broad Way of the Sodomites As these Teachings were ministred by the Spirit unto me falling into some drowsiness which I was willing to do for the composing of my Head that was disturbed with pain by reason of a flux of Rheum While I thus reposed I heard a Voice say Awake for I have a great Secret for to reveal Which roused me out of my Sleep and immediately I saw in the Spirit this to pass before me to wit distinct Bodies nothing of fleshly Matter only like Corporeals in Figures but the Substance was as if it had been transparent Glass formed into the Idea of a Creature so clear as if nothing but Crystalline Water had filled up every part of these Bodies Then this Word did proceed as out of them Behold and see these be generated each from one and have their several Regions to walk in their appointed time December the 21st 1676. This Morning I was greatly sollicitous to understand the meaning of this Presentation which very readily and emphatically opened its Mystery as thus there were three distinct Changes which we were to pass into before the highest Degree could be attained as from Faith to Faith still higher and from Glory to Glory as the Speaking Word said in me Here see what the several states are which you must strive hard to get through here are three Births of the Spirit one still greater then the other As this observe by him who herein was your Pattern who broke through all these Births Gates making way to give an assured hope that ye may enter in by the same threefold Degree with your Jesus into every several Region till lodged for Eternity into the one fixed Element with the blessed Trinity No more Removes therefrom to make for there is your everlasting Rest but till this the process of your Jesus you must keep in your Eye and exactly follow As now consider your selves with him in the first Nativity of the Spirit wherein the Christ-like Spirit is under Sufferings lodged with Iniquity oppressed with Infirmities obnoxious to the ruling Powers of the Stars subject to the cruelty of the evil Rulers amongst Men who exercise subordinate Power under their H ad-Prince in this worldly Region Which your great high Apostle himself suffer'd under paying the whole of what-ever could be challenged from him For you must know there is a Debt due from every one which must be paid though it was answered by that publick Representative in his own Person being therefore offer'd up once for all as a visible Sacrifice and Propitiation for Sin as that which was only to shew what was still successively to run from this Line of the New Birth of Christ in the Spirit Now then there is no way to free your selves from the Tyranny of what Sin hath brought you under but by yielding unto the Death-mystical Thereby the Debt will be discharged and you set free out of all that which since the fall hath
evermore Lord Jesus give thou us in to take September the 10th 1676. This Morning I was in a most deep inward converse with my glorified Jesus putting such weighty Questions to him as I found rise in me one was this saying Ah Lord by what shall I know that it is now thy very self that talks daily with me and that hath unsealed thy Fountain-Body to me for there is somewhat of a greater proof must yet go forth to make thee ownable and Praise-worthy where Contempt hath been poured out Now then what wilt thou for such yet further do and that thy Name may carry all through in Power and Authority according to the Example of thee our dignified Lord. Who will not in thy Redeemed scarce be known till they see the self-same Chariot come down in which thou thy self dost ride with thy Scepter and Crown throughout the created Heavens and Earth and therein to be glorified Oh for this I am pressing because nothing less then this thy great Appearance in us will overturn the Nations within and without Therefore shew us Oh Lord and answer what may make the way more clear and shining to us After these Ejaculations emptied into the Bosom of my Immanuel I saw a pure stream of Golden Colour wave up and down which pierced through me feeling a new kindled Heat from it The Eye of my Spirit saw it as thin as the Mist only as the colour of the Sun-Beams Then said the Word in me What dost thou now see but the Spirit and Breath which giveth Life to the conveying Body which thou didst see Who also shall be the harbinger from me to thee as the living Sign and Witness no greater ye will need It is that deep searching Spirit who will go and come with speed and will take and bring from my Fountain Blessing and give forth as ye shall be able to suck and draw from it as from a pure attractive Will Then shall you know it to be your Comforter and Friend who will for you search out all hidden things which are freely given by Decree This is the Spirit that is appointed to be your Overseer an holy Watcher and to find out if any thing be defective within the Temple of the most holy Body Where he must agitate for the Father and me all those high Affairs which may answer to the bringing in and establishing that desired Kingdom from which the Scepter of Love Power and Righteousness will never depart Because this fiery Mist shall still purifie the Heart and be to it a safe and defensive Guard from the Poysonable Waspish Spirits who move from the Serpent to disquiet this your peaceable dwelling within this circling Breath which from the Deity doth proceed And it is a Gift worthy of all Acceptation in deed as ye may find if you be not to it unkind by oppressing and laying Burthens on it which it cannot bear For it will take no burthen or concern upon it but what may augment the Heavenly growth and flourishing state Where it may dilate the Powers of a Supersensual Faith and Love-mounting-Life and ever of it speak Know you then for what use I do send down this ready swift Messenger not to minister about any thing which is of a worldly Sanctuary or that which worketh after the Traditions of Men in all deceiveableness of Sin whether considered in the more gross or refined part This pure Breath will fly from all Putrefaction and will be detained no longer with you then ye minister what is pleasing to it For as it receives from me to give to you so it expects to bring some pure offering from you that I may have an express of your growth and fruitfulness that so I may not repent the Watering you with this Golden Mist which may Produce a new Face of Covering upon the Earth which will be all invitable to your God and King to walk and delight himself therein finding nothing that may therein offend the Trinity The Spirit seeketh all in which he may present you a meet Habitation for the God of Love and Peace to dwell richly in his own Temple Then fear not but you will excell all Counterfeit Christs for this Spirit of Truth will search out all deep high and mystical things that are of service and use to the Reign of your King Jesus Who is to be exalted over the Earth first in those who close with his Will and Commands Then in the second place this inspiring all-breathing Life highly regard it for it is that noble thing that will not give over searching till it hath found that rich Stone which is the Introduction to the Kingdom September the 14th 1676. The Holy Incense Being in Prayer I saw somewhat like a Cloud or Vapour of Smoke rising turning into a Flame and so ascending upward Then said I Lord what meaneth this Then was replyed This is the Incense which doth scent and perfume thy Supplications All Intercessions are weak and no ways prevalent but as the Spirit entreth the secret Holy Place and doth bring down from that Altar which is fixed between the Cherubs and from thence to let fall a perfuming Coal among the spicy Odours Which are all compounded by the Artificer within the inward Sanctuary who hath the Charge of all the Holy Things Therefore it is such a principal Ointment as none is to be made like to it being so rare pure and sacred that it is not to be poured upon Man's Flesh but it will devour and consume them if they shall but go about to counterfeit the same As it was by those which offered strange Incense before the Lord. Therefore none hath Right hereunto but the most harmless holy and separated who have not defiled themselves with the Dead and creeping things of the Worldly outward Court But know and consider whereunto ye are come upon whom this Spicy Union hath fallen into whose Hand the Golden Vial is given to offer with your Prayers this cloudy pure Incense which is of a most high deified Nature The all-searching Spirit hath found out this sweet perfumed Matter for you that so ye might have success in your Altar-Oblations Oh then now with Joy enter the Tabernacle that is anointed with this perfumed Oil for ye may expect this Golden Incense upon the flaming Altar will have all prevalence Because it is derived from the Everlasting Mountain of Myrrh and Frankincense which is the most precious Fuel for your Offering which must ascend beyond the Sphear of Seraphims to reach the Heart of your great High Priest Who is set over all the lower Priesthood to view and see who in the holy Order of Consecration do keep bringing their Censers to be filled with Fire from those perfuming Coals which can be found no where but in this Altar which are exalted within the Heavens The Spirit taking and scattering these Coals that so the Earth in you may be all a flaming Light burning from this Incense Matter which