Work for we should be tryed and if we were not perfect in One Accord it could not prosper in our Hand and then it were better to engage singly if not clear and cordial as one Then was brought before me something of a staggering which would be very hurtful if at any time it should in either of us prevail before we obtain the fixation in the Body of the Power for it was shewed me there would not want strong belingrings to weaken our Hands in the Work for the whole stress lay upon following and cleaving to our Guide and keeping to the Paradisical Laws which in the Ministration of the Spirit can only be fulfilled Now these things sinking deep upon my Spirit drew forth many Inquiries and Heart-searchings and Suspitions least the Work should in any wise be impeded for I saw the Dragon upon his violence to snatch at the Birth which made me cry O save it out of his Hands and carry us out of his reach Then Wisdom spake this Word No place out of danger but the Ark and Tabernacle where your Strong Hold is the Sanctuary which is provided foryour Refuge Then did I apply my self to ask how long it should be before we might herewith be invironed that so we might no longer be in Fear and Jepordy It was replyed That it is much in our Power both to hasten or to prolong it there was a possibility of a quick Work to be made of it if we would follow it fully intirely with all Might for it was of that nice difficult curious Nature that every Interruption detarded it God could make a Tabernacle to descend ready finished upon thee but it is his pleasure to give thee the Honour of the Workmanship and Building hereof that thou mayst hear and learn of Wisdom how to form and bring forth this inclosed Tent for the God of Jacob to dwell in Then this Query did rise up further in me But seeing the manner of this curious Work O Wisdom is to be effected by a Spiritual Magician who by a Vertual Power must do all in it how can we be capable hereof till we come to be made such For who can make themselves so sublime and perfect as to reach to so high a degree of Wisdom as is required in this Work Truth it is O impotent Spirit without me thou hast no sufficiency therefore this understand I do not insist or require thee to set upon this Matter of so great Consequence nakedly in thy own strength for then soon an abortive thou wouldst make This doth require as great a Skill and Power as the first Heavens and Earth with all the Hosts that did belong unto them which were generated through the deep Spirit of Wisdom's Understanding So know I do call upon this Original Breath infused from my Essential Power and Life which resleth in the Cell of thy Eternal Mind till it be awakned by my Voice sounding as a Trumpet saying Come forth and gird on thy Spiritual Powers and follow me where thou shalt see in what Holy Affairs and Spiritual Work I will employ thee knowing the Gift of Ability which already is given unto thee which now is required to be stirred up to the utmost sufficiency thereof to join the Chariot of thine Internal Spirit with me and so be the Wheel within mine doing only what you see me do who am risen out of thy deep Central Earth all things anew to create Seven Pillars hewn out in the first place here must be for this Perfect Sanctuary all Crystalline out from that Rock which is the Eternal Jasper-Stone Next is that fine-twined Linnen which for Curtains about this Tent is ordered to be imbroidered by the Golden Thread and wrought by the Needle of my Eternal Spirit In the third place it is to be paved all with Molten Gold from that Everlasting Mountain which thou didst see the Covering also of the same Orential Gold must be All which though Metaphorically I do them thus present to thee yet all shall be accomplished in a perfect Mystery as the Deity shall all over-shadow thee who long hath waited this Tabernacle to see perfected in thee that so the Covenant within the Ark might find a place of Security Here thy God will choose to put his Name only Where nothing must come near that is defiling And therefore appointed are over the Thronely Mercy-Seat flaming Cherubims this Holy Place to guard Whose cry is only Holiness to the Lord Most High who within this Tent defires with thee to dwell and with Power Majesty and Glory it to fill but know that here God will admit none into this seperated Court to come but the High-Priest which hath the Crown of the Anointing Oil therefore consider the wonderful Purity that is required when thou comest near to thy God to inquire who will from between the Flaming Seraphims commune with thee in all Matters and Things in which thou art to receive Commands For now the real sum of all that which is required in this thy approach is purity in the highest degree that can be extracted from that Original Sourse out from which floweth the Golden Streams of All-Holiness which will be found within thy self and in their rising so cleanse and sanctifie them all over as therefrom this Holy Tabernacle will it self form and grow upon thee till it shall have swallowed up all foregoing Tabernacles as Aaton's Rod did devour the rest of the Magicians Powers So know that God will be and live intirely to himself within thee as his perfect Tent enduring no Vessel or Instrument or Spirit to come here but what hath the Inscription of Perfect Holiness upon it For who may here ascend but what can dwell in a Flaming Pillar of Fire and not be consumed and be able to say Evermore let me in this sweet aimable pleasant Fire O God with thee abide till I know nothing within me stirring but the Ark of thy Strength and the Power of thy Omnipotency which will be and is the finishing Glory of thy Sanctuary Where unutterably and perpetually my Spirit may be folded up as in an unknown Reservatory within this Holy Place of Purity In order to the attainment of which Perfect State this Word I heard Abstain thou from all Meats which are offered unto Idols and feed upon nothing which is Common or Unclean which is not purged by the Fire that burneth upon my Altar a true Fast ye are to keep in your Spirits from the gross creeping Things and flying Fowls of Imaginations that are apt to flutter in the Air of your Minds and would feed upon that which is hurtful making ye Infirm and Weak for this Tabernacle-Work For as ye are called and chosen to the Order of the Holy Priesthood there to attend instantly Day and Night maintaining the Fire upon the Altar from the pure Spikenard which is to be made up of all Spices into a perfuming Oil this is thy Service to cast herein Fuel or
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
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
flye and nothing abide but what can live in this Eternal Eye as ministring Stars of Glory before the Throne of him who like to this Circling Eye which thou hast seen hath neither Beginning or End A. The Eye B. The Globe of Light C. C. C. C. C. The Flames D. The Rainbow E. The One Element F. The Supercelestial Moon After this Word it disappeared leaving its Flaming Influences upon my Heart And further of this secret Vision he did say he would it impart as I for its Manifestation did wait and the signification hereof should come to be witnessed by that rising Birth which is called up to this Globe among these Stars to fix in this more excelling Firmament July the 17th 1676. The Interpretation of the Vision or of the Flaming Eye This Vision of the Flaming Eye is given for to see that which is worth pondering for thy pure Mind continually For glorious Idea's will multiply that hereupon all thy Senses may be employed in such sweet Rarifiedness wherein there is no danger of Excess While this Vein from the Heart of God in thee doth run it will feed that which doth come from the pure Font and hereby stop the running issue of the Imaginary part Which I will assure thee will compleat the Victory because it strikes at Sin 's Originality which had its beginning from the Conceptive part of the Heart there it came it and there it must be banished out Then it will be a New Heart in which the Flaming Eye will fix Which in Vision thou didst see with its innumerable Stars in the Firmament which are generated from this Globe-Eye so unmerously will holy and pure Cogitations from hence arise and so habitual strong and forceable as to out-pass all strange Essences that would come therein again to lodge Therefore within this Circling do ye abide that so you may keep out all evil Motions which the Serpent knows are the Foundation-matter of his Kingdom and will sting you with them if ye do not fully exclude them Which ye no way can till ye hasten away and with your Spirit fly to this bright Firmament where this Eye all Dangers will for you espy and know all secret Mysteries making you wise in that one great needful thing which will make all strait that crooked and out of the way is For such is the property of this Fire piercing Eye that it will look through the Host of the whirling Imaginations and put them to a stop that so they may not persue as to overtake those that are upon Faith's flying Banner on which keep till it hath brought you within Zion's Gates This great and weighty thing concerning Cessation and Annihilation of all fruitless Imaginations was still the Call within me to come into the Believing Rest for that this was the true dying into Jesus which passive Life is the pure Mother out from which the Birth of the God-acting-Life is to be expected For the Faith of the co-operating Power worketh here all in all The New Heart being replenished with ministring Powers suitable hereunto that will perfectly bring things to pass as the Mystery is moved in its own Sphear driving on by the mighty force of this Birth of Faith Which produceth great and marvellous things according to the sublime Nature of it For it hath no other ground to go upon but the absolute Co-eternal Deified Will which Will willeth in the New created Heart as in its own Royal Seat July the 18th 1676. This Morning I was in great Heart-searchings about this precious Lily of Faith if I could by the sight reflecting from the Eternal Eye it any where espy Querying thus with my Lord Jesus Ah Lord if the right Plant be in me as it was found in thee why doth it not act forth Where are the Signs which should follow as the Seal of Believing What makes the Birth of it stick thus long whose going forth must make way for the Holy Ghost Tell me Oh thou inspiring Word why hath it had a Name to live and yet hath been as dead For it hath not been Justified by such mighty Heroick Works as in the foregoing Ages did bear witness to it And this hath made it as a Body without a Spirit actless and fruitless Thus I earnestly expostulated that if we had it existing in us then we might have skill to use and manage it for the reviving of this worthy and unknown thing which hath been a Stranger in the Earth but is now a stirring in our Heavens and a turning up the Mould that hath from our Eye this all-precious Grain hid Where then doth it lie said the blessed Alpha to me thou hast to the heights for it ascended and for it hast sounded into the Depths but thy Aim hath been too â—…ort to reach it and thy Eye too dim for to espy it though it is so nigh Yet not known to any till they do retain the bright glance of the Flaming Eye which hath not only the specious Faculty but the streaming Power of Might to bring back again this worthy Champion that hath been by the combining Powers of Reason put unto flight Which so soon as Tydings come that they are dead who so wickedly have conspired against Faith's life then it will return again and appear on the Earth mighty and supream to open the Door for the Holy Ghost to enter in Then this Mystery of Faith will be finished To which ye are directed that by contending for it ye may obtain it unto Victory July the 19th 1676. As we this Morning were in our Spiritual operative Powers each one bringing forth out of the Treasury the Doctor being much carried out upon the Subject of Faith it was spoken to me This is the Ministry which goeth before to make way for the Holy Ghost And I saw as a Confirmation hereof a Flying Banner passing swiftly by as a Trophy of Faith's Victory Which each one must bear before the Day in which the Holy Power will shower upon us till which in one Spirit of Faith we were directed to wait together After which also a Word run through me There is need enough to provoke each other hereunto For the Day is now nearer then when first ye did set upon this Believing Oh now let us go through that we may reach to all the Degrees of Faith which will assuredly make up our fallen Breach For this is the Power that will make us all whole as the true Weapon-Salve which is anointed by the Hand of our dear Jesus to smooth and make ready for the Flying Banner of the Holy Power for to descend into us who in this Faith do wait within the secret Gate of the New Jerusalem state where into by no means must we bring any Spirit that may make mutiny for to break the holy League which must be still maintained with him who is the Covenant Who hereby reneweth our Peace and Joy in believing without annoy or staggering which hinders the purchase
with me your Jesus having faithfully fought for your Corporation-Liberty serving out your time in the Faith and Patience according to the Father's Will Which for a Recompence the holders out are to be endued with all Power Dominion with that unknown glorious Liberty which shall impower you all Wonders for to declare by that Living Word which was is and will arise up in this sparkling consuming all-acting dividing Flame that is come to melt down every Metal and to try which and which is sound because nothing but pure Gold for this Profession will hold or shall the Seven Trumpets in the Hands hold thereby to ascend into my upper Sheep fold where all my Lambs are cloathed with Fleeces of the most fine Gold Therefore now Oh my Friends see who they are that must ascend up hither to me Lo I have the Way disclosed yet to you more full and free that so you may rise up and go forward greatly Conquering till that ye may come to the Seventh Trumpet Compassing about Which Seventh Compassing maketh all Gates within the Pavilion of Light open for to fly that the desired Throne-Majesty you may there espy Which I know will suffice and please your Eye when in my Glorified Nature you shall be able to great with boldness the Father of Spirits and Glory having upon you my tryed Golden Fleece without which ye will be speechless but with it ye have all freedom to commune and with your God to talk and to have place evermore with him to Sing the New Jerusalem Hymns which flow out most naturally from the Seventh Conqueror who is brought up hither to hear the great Last Shout August the 12th 1676. I did hear from the Angelical World great and mighty Sounds round about me with one distinct Word saying Behold him who descends upon the White Throne Who are there ready with their Garments washed clean and white thus to meet their Jesus Which Word or Alarm cast me into some Fear and Despondency being conscious that I was not cloathed with such a perfect White Robe as might answer to that White Throne for to such only was this Call to Q. Therefore what must now be done for us that we may straitway find our selves here enthroned The Reply was this Oh fear not remember how Joshuah's filthy Garments were taken off and then he could stand before me even so it is decreed and an express Charge is given to your Guardian Angel to uncloath and pluck off your Purple Robe of Sin Ignominy and Scorn For there is yet reserved one principal White Robe which yet was never seen but the Body upon which it is put must be all Immaculate for it will be no Covering to any polluted thing because it is pure and transparent throughout Be of good chear for this also is with me who want not Love Power and Strength to bring this great translation about As for your Spiritual Adversaries whom I see so vigilant they shall never tire out that Spirit of Faith which shall be animated still by that Word that riseth fresh and new Keep but your Faith me and I will from all Viper Spirits secure you that no hurt shall be to you though their Scorpion Tongues would send forth Anguishing Fire to detain you if possibly it were in their own hellish dark Sphear which shall fly from you as you fixed be to desert all but what can enter with you into this bright Ivory Throne of the Everlastlasting Deity Whereto I now expresly charge you to put all things in order hereunto and be most free for the Unbodying your selves that I may see no more a vile Nature upon you who am come my self to be your Body For no other will this unmixed Garment fit being spun out from the Golden Fleecee which is all of the working Power of he Holy Ghost who interweaveth it in great variety with bright Oriental Golden Clouds For to express that this is â—…he cloathing of Soveraignty and Righâ—…eousness in which I will avouch you before the High Throne-Majesty my all fair Spouse and Bride Who may sit with me on my White Throne freed out from all former Slights and Contempts Until this state of Zion-Beauty shall appear watch and keep Company only with Lilly Spirits feeding upon the Olive-Berries that grow upon the Mountains of Bether whereby you may become all lovely and fair ready and meet for this high Princely decking Wearing your present Garments so loosely that so soon as I call ye may let them fall though you may think there â—…s something good which is not to be parted withal as to that be not concerned for what is pure and hath been tryed by Fire shall still endure all serving to make up One entire and perfect Body which shall be for a more sublimated use and service then what ye have hither served in when under the Law of Sin but now are ye under another denomination as Spirits made free to walk in White Garments within the Celestial Globe of Light Where now we enjoy each other in Spirit but there is yet a superaddition of Joy and Glory when Body and Spirit shall ascend together passing through all Vails Clouds Rocks and Stones nothing being able to sever her or it from the most Holy Place for which state do you passive stand till acted to go forth by the mighty and strong Lyon who must rise the Prey to take which hath been reserved for the Lyon-like Heart which no fear hath nor repulse will take but will enter through the Everlasting Zion Gates to which haste haste August the 13th 1676. This inspeaking was to me Let muddy Matter no more be cast up in thee for thou art called among the Golden Flocks August the 14th 1676. This Morning my Spirit was all free and serene meet to entertain Communion with him who is cloathed with the Golden Cloud and Rainbow on his Head who said thus unto me Escape the Spider's Web who is always spinning to invite to come under her covering Know you not a Composition of Poyson is there who cannot hurt you except she can find you there to hanker and so keep your pure mounting Spirits from their own incircling Globe and Heavenly Sphere Where you know I fail not to keep you Company when at any time you are found there For an uninterrupted Conversation is to be entred upon by that which is all pure born from the Virgin-Womb which is distinct from the dark and all defiled part and cannot incorporate with it Oh therefore avoid and quickly stop that muddy Source the smell of which is so unsavoury to him who can bear nothing but what proceeds from my implanted Nature that so we may together as upon one Stalk grow For to bring forth that choice Kernel which may be ripe for the Golden Dove to swallow down For herein lieth the most hidden of all Secrets which is to come up to the full grown Ear of one and the same pure Lump and Matter
Scripture And I dare say that your Learned Friend must own that how much soever it may be exploded it is yet a Doctrine more clearly to be found in the most Primitive Antiquity than the greater part of those which at this day so much divide the contending Parties of Christendom Now as for your Friend whom you dare to trust he is indeed a Disciple of Wisdom and a Son of the Prophets but he is yet but in a low Class and very young in this Heavenly Life But could he Experimentally declare more then hitherto he can it might not be very expedient upon many weighty Reasons so to do till the great Effusion of the Miraculous Powers do make the way clear for such a Declaration However he can say that he is not a Stranger to the Baptism of the Holy Ghost which is by Fire He has seen the Fulfilling of some Prophecies already and so is the better encourag'd to expect that of others His Tryals Deliverances and all the secret part of his Life both at home and abroad has been strangely singular and what God designs to do with him further he knows not but desires to stand entirely Passive to his Will Now it remains that I should answer your Last Request which concerns the distinguishing the Impetus of our own Imaginations from Divine Inspirations which contains in it two Questions 1st How the Persons themselves that are under them can distinguish them And 2dly How others that have them not are to judge concerning them But of all that relates to this you may expect a Particular Account by another way in Answer to some Queries that were proposed to me And in the mean time I recommend to you for your Guidance the very last Revelation in the Book I have this only to say to the First at present that the Imagination ought to be perfectly mortify'd the Death and Cross of Christ being the true Path to Illumination And to the Second That Care is to be taken neither too hastily to Approve nor too hastily to Reject but to Try all Spirits and to hold fast them that are Good suspending to pass Judgment on those that are not understood May the God and Father of your Spirit enlighten it in his own good time to his Glory by the Internal Revelation of his Son Jesus Christ through the Operation of his blessed Spirit that works in you that so by your own Experimental Conviction you may be able to Convince others and so by promoting that Divine Knowledge whose Increase is foretold by the Prophet Daniel you may shine as a Star in the Firmament of Wisdom So committing you with your dear Companion to his Gracious Protection I take leave to subscribe my self Your known Friend London Septem 9. 95. Query How are Spirits to be Discern'd IF this Query refers to the Persons themselves who are or suppose themselves led by a Good Spirit it is Answered That the Manner of Discernment is by Sensation which is not to be described This Sensation like the New Song the New Name and the White Stone they only who do experiment and while they do experiment are able to distinguish But then it may be Queried How shall they who suppose themselves to be led by a True Spirit and are not be enabled to discern aright in this matter since they are without this Spiritual Sensation by which the others are assur'd concerning the Truth of their Visions and Revelations Ans. They are to seek for it of God by a perfect Mortification of their own Wills and especially as to these very supposed Favours and by most instant and violent Prayer Thus some who upon the Commission of an evilthing have been depriv'd of the Good Spirit of God which they did enjoy and have been deliver'd up to a Spirit of Delusion for some time Satan all this while exactly Personating an Angel of Light giving forth false Oracles and opening a false Paradise upon them have been again restored to their former Enjoyments and Divine Sensation the Scenes of the false Paradise made to drop into pieces and the true One to Open and the Evil Spirit forced to stand before the Angel whom he had Personated If it be further Queried Whether and How do those that are truly led by the Holy Spirit discern the Spirits by which others are led The Answer will be That all are not able to do so but only some that are arriv'd to a very high Degree and great Experience in the Supernatural Life As for the Manner of Discerning it is the same with respect to others as to themselves there being no Mark so certain here as that of Internal Sensation Thus Spiritual Things are spiritually discerned felt and received and the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets But if in the last place it be demanded How then shall those who are Strangers to these Leadings of the Spirit and who desire alike neither to fall into any Errour nor to resist the Truth be able to govern themselves in this Matter To this the Answer is very easie That they are not to perplex themselves in this Inquiry so long as they remain either Carnal or Rational but to endeavour by all means according to the clear Path chalk'd out in the Scriptures to become Sdiritual To which State when they are arriv'd they need not fear being able to judge or themselves and if with respect to others they shall not be presently capable to judge they can be under no apprehension of any danger so they do but follow the pure Dictates of the Spirit to themselves and therefore they will desire this satisfaction no further then as it shall be given them from Above However even they who are not arriv'd beyond the Rational Life need not be much mistaken while they continue so For if that which is said to be Revealed be of weighty concern either to that Particular Soul or to the publick and if it directly tend to Purity of Life and to the Exaltation of God and the Humiliation of Man then if it be not plainly disagreeable with what has been for Certain before Reveal'd even they according to their meer Natural Reason ought not to slight it Two Testimonies for the Dispensation of the Spirit Revived I. The Testimony of Dr. J. P. the Author's Fellow Traveller Christian Friend NO other Foundation can be laid that what Christ hath laid for he hath laid himself in his Saints to be established upon whicn is the hidden Mystery of God But to know and to feel Christ in us in his Burning Flaming Heart of Love by way of Wedlock and Marriage-Union between the Soul and its Bridegroom This is a deep Mystery that few are counted worthy to comprehend But all these Feelings these foretasts of Divine Love with ravishing Joys do but leave us to the Warfaring State against all our Spiritual Enemies to conquor Hell Sin Eternal Death Dragon and all Hell-Devils together with the Beast and
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
Dispensation Which hereby is as the New and best of Wine that hath been reserved for this Last Time Whereby it may be understood that Christ has not forgotten to make good his Promise to renew the Spring of his Spirit by a continued Succession of it And as we see and hear the Fruitfulness of it doth more generally abound and find entertainment in the World by a New Generation of Apostolical Spirits so doth it presage a New Kingdom and State is near approaching Which is Argument enough to provoke all that would be Subjects of this Kingdom which the Lamb has only Right unto to be preparing and making Ready as the First Fruits that they may be Qualified to make up this New Jerusalem-Bride Therefore as my Fellow Denizens of this City which is from Above where-ever ye are hidden whether as Exiles or Captives scattered to and fro I beseech you let your Inward Ear he attentive keeping Watch and Ward in great Calmness and Stillness of Mind Then may ye bear the Love-Calls passing through that Horn which is filled with pure Oil that will gather and draw you into the High Celestial and Spiritual Pasture and Fold where our goodly Tents may be Pitched and of which we may go in and out to that rich Sharon which springs and flowers round about our Kingly Shepherd that so as his Sheep and Lambs we may be gently led from Fountain to Fountain and drink and feed together in the same Harmony and Unity as do the Saints in the Upper Fold so we in this Lower I shall now wind up all with a Cautâ—…n to two Ranks the First shall be to the Unlearned and Ignorant in this Method and Way of the Spirit 's Manifestation Which is that they do forbear Rash and Censorious Judgment upon those Things that are at present above their Reach For as they desire not to be prevented and bereaved of the Great Benefit of Divine Inspiration and the Assistances of the Holy Ghost my Advertisement to such is that they become Simple and Child-like and adventure upon the Conduct and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit then will they find another manner of fruitful Life will in them spring and no reason shall they have to repent for Acquiescing to the Divine Will herein The Second Caution shall be to that sort which are already Initiated into this our Mystick and Supersensual Wisdom that may have with me run deep into the Ocean of what is Mysterious and Wonderful for Knowledge First I must caution you with my self to keep very Low entring into a Self-Annihilation so as a Nothing to be with reference to the Creaturely Being that the All-Deifick Unction may arise as an overflowing Tide and never to think we have obtained by all that we have yet reached to what yet remains of those Immense Treasures which are yet further to be Revealed For there is still a growing Tree of Life that reneweth all Variety of Wisdom as you will in part find by this Present as well as by some Foregoing Books by me Published Thus having given you a true Narrative of the Several Removes and Risings from one Degree to another from Depths to Heights and from Heights again to Depths out of which hath been Brought forth very Marvellous and Wonderful Secrets which it was the pleasure of the Fountain of Spirits to distribute and communicate being such Mysterious Things as haply may be rarely found elsewhere which hath often me astonished that such Unusual and Strange a Method the Spirit should take with me opening such things But it hath been given me to know upon a Diligent Inquiry that there is an Age coming on the like to which hath not yet been to whom these Prophesies and Revelations do belong So that though the Day of my Life is far spent so that I may not see the full Harvest of what is by the Spirit sown here to be reaped yet assured I am that all is reserved for a Glorious Time wherein shall arise a New Generation that clothed upon will be with such a Mantle as is interwoven with Light Wisdom Knowledge and Flaming Power Among which there may be some that I may bear the Memorial of a Mother to as well Natural as Supernatural that may possibly succeed in the same Spirit which I shall pray may be as Wisdom's Key to go on to open in them the Golden Remains which are yet to be brought forth for the promulgation of the Priestly and Prophetical Kingdom upon the Earth So now I shall conclude requesting you as you shall draw in any Light or feel any Refreshment herefrom that you would join with me in Acclamations and Praises to the Antient of Days who hath put into the Hands of a Good-willer to these Divine Mysteries to bring forth into the Publick what might otherwise have been left in Oblivion and Secresie And it is my pecuâ—… Request which I this place leave that the Nâ—…ons may bless and pray for such an Instrument that hath given a Proof of so Universal a Love to All. So that the Fulness of all Blessings and Showers from the Heavenly Powers may 〈◊〉 upon the Impartial and Single-hearted Readers and Good-willers hereof shall be the constant Invocation and Prayer of her who while living in the Body shall never cease to serve all her Fellow-Members in the Gift of God Universally J. Lead THE EDITOR TO THE READER THERE having been a Promise made in the Preface to the Ark of Faith that the Diary of this Author should follow the First Volume of the same is now accordingly Published for an Universal Good For â—…he Author or the Instrument rather â—…ade use of by the Divine Wisdom is known to be of so Universal a Spirit â—…hat nothing less hereby can be designed And howsoever what is herein Deâ—…ivered as well as the Manner of the Deâ—…ivery it self may come to be opposed either on this hand or on that I think I can say that I am more than Morally Assured That the All-wise God hath hereby Ends to bring about which the most Acute and Vulturous Eye of the Greatest Rationalist shall never be able to dive into and that all will serve but to a Fuller Breaking out of the Truth and the Divine Light that True Light which Enlightens every one that comes into the World so far as it is not Resisted and according to the Degree of Purity in the Vessel for the Reception and Reflexion of its Rays This is an Age that thinks it self to excel all that have ever went before it in the Discovery and Improvement of Truths and it cannot be denied but that of these late years Mechanical Knowledge hath been brought up to a very great Height which hath had both its Good and Bad Effects in the World But notwithstanding all the Fancied or Real Light in matters either Physical or Theological which the Present Age doth so much boast of it may perhaps not unfitly enough be said of those of that
the Glorified Body of Jesus that is able to subdue every thing unto it self This verily is that Kingdom which is so much talked of and so little every where understood but less still pressed after which is in this Book and in that also of the Revelation of Revelations Published now ten years Ago so Essentially and Fundamentally declared as nothing Higher nothing Deeper can upon this Subject be ever laid down whether in Time or in Eternity And because Solomon whose Reign was as a faint Sketch or Type of the Glorious Reign of the true Jedidiah or Beloved of the Lord built himself a Royal Palace in Lebanon which was a fruitful and a well-watered Soil and most beautiful for its scituation where he made Gardens and Orchards planting in them Trees of all the variety of most excellent Fruits also Cedars and Fir-Trees for Building with great Water-works Pools of Water and Fountains with a fair Tower also looking toward Damascus and with a Vineyard of Red-wine where he entertained his Shulamite Queen and her Honourable Women Therefore is the Palace or Mansion-house of the Great KING the true Solomon or Prince of Peace here Parabolically represented to be raised up as in a New Lebanon whereinto the Tabernacle of the Eternal Wisdom coming down from God out of Heaven with all its Furniture is brought and the Children of the Lamb's Bride are figured out to grow up by the sides of this House as the Branches of a fruitful Vine or as so many several Lillies from one Stock or Olive-Plants from one Root according to the manifold proportion and diversity of the Divine Seed cast into the Ground of Nature by the Great Seedsman Whence the expected Kingdom of the Messiah in Restored Nature which is called the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven is according to the Spirits Mystical Dialect compared to a Vineyard to an Olive-yard to a Garden of Lillies and to a Corn-field and is expressed by the various figurations of a New Eden of a New Canaan of New Heavens and New Earth of Fountains and Trees and Plants of all sorts of Canals Aqueducts and Rivers of Pleasure of Tents Palaces and Temples of a Mountain of a Rock and of a City of Sion Lebanon and the Hills of Spices of new found Countries descended out of the Heavens or by the Creating Word in the Divine Magia made to appear as a new Sharon and a new Havilah and a Beulah of Jerusalem of Bethel and of the Southland of Etèrnity of the Pleasures and Grandeur of a Rich Powerful and Wise Prince such as Solomon and of all the Badges of Royalty and Scenes of Magnifiâ—…t Glory that do as in a shadow precede attend or follow the Marriage and Reception of a Royal Bride But this Heavenly Kingdom this Marriage-supper of the KING this Inauguration and Coronation of the Lamb and of his Bride to the Kingdoms of the Earth and to the lost Dominion and Soveraignty over the whole Six days Work is not to be expected but after very great and mighty Preparations many forerunning Signs of the Son of Man coming to us in his Fathers Glory and the Six Ascending Steps to the Throne of the Great Solomon All which are most difficult to pass so that few if any have been able in many Centuries to hold out to the last Degree or Ascension-step to this Throne But they have fell short of the PHILADELPHIAN Crown and of the high Prerogatives thereof viz. the being made Pillars and Principal Supporters in the Descending Temple of the Most High God the bearing the Name of JEHOVAH by an Essential communication of the Properties Powers and Dignities of their Eternal Father opened to such in JESUS and by a most Real Intimate and Vital Penetration of that most glorious wonderful Name burning in the Bush of their Humanity and putting forth it self in Imperial Acts and Deeds Their bearing the Name of the New Jerusalem-Mother that Free-woman which is above and demonstrating livelily its Inscription by an utter defacing of that of the Mother of Babylon and of the Beast upon which she rides and by a Majestick environing Brightness as of the Sun a subduing the Moon with all that is sublunary and mutable under their Feet and a wearing upon their Heads a Crown of Twelve Stars wherein so many Royal Pre-eminences and Ghostly Powers are contained The bearing the Names of the Foundations of this City the Names of the Tribes of Israel and the Names of the Apostles of the Lamb and the bearing lastly the New Name of Jesus that â—…o Man knoweth but he himself who with his own Finger hath written it on their Vestures and on their Thighs that so in all things they may be made like unto him their Head-Life by the all-powerful working of His Spirit with which they are sealed There are but few found who have so much as an Ear to hear what the Spirit saith to this Church of Philadelphia the First-fruits of the Lamb or even but to receive the Promises of the Holy and True One who is now at this instant with the Key of DAVID Opening gradually this blessed state in a few chosen Names so that none shall ever shut it more And he is shutting up in such the Dark Abyss and wrathful depraved Nature so that it can never be again Opened But still fewer are they who have not only an Ear to hear but also an Heart and Hands to Act whatever the Spirit saith and who dare to adventure on to the laying hold of such a weighty Crown as is that of the First-born And even of those that do so adventure forward for this most High Prize some do stop having attained to the First Degree others rest in the Second and others in the Third as thinking that they are already got to the Sixth and so want nothing but to be taken presently to sit with their Lord in his Throne Some are willing at the end even of the first days work of Regeneration or Spiritual Creation to enter into their Sabbath and without having passed the Works of the other Five Days to sit contented with the first productions of Divine Light upon the Soul Some who have beheld one or two or perhaps three Signs of the coming of the Son of Man have not had patience longer to wait for all the Signs but have thence peremptorily concluded â—…hat he was come to them and that his Kingdom was in them before a Redemption has been wrought out from the lapâ—… Nature or before the very Head of the Serpent has been bruised in them and slain by the Virgin Seed of the Wisdom of God in the meek Second Holy Principle of Light and Love which by the Inspired Penmen of Old is expressed by that most soft and yet most victorious Name JAH Hallelu-JAH For the prevention therefore of all such Miscarriages and for the undeceiving of those who think it a light thing to be a King's Son or a King's Daughter it
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
either to the Prophets or to the Apostles or should he make himself known to us by a Name whereby he was not known to them He is still the same let the Vessel be never so Different and is equally to be Adored and Believed whether he takes up an Honourable or Dishonourable Vessel Learned or Ignorant Noble or Plebeian whether the Instrument be a Priest or Levite Israelite or Proselite Male or Female Young or Old Some has he called from the Plow others from gathering of Sycamore Trees and others from their Drag-Nets whom he has set over the Nations and over the Kingdoms to Root out and to Plant to Throw down and to Build up by the mighty Power of his Spirit according to its various Operation and Manifestation It matters not what the Subject is into which the Divine Influences are receiv'd and through which they pass even though it should be an Heathen as in the Case of Jethro or a Brute Beast as in that of Balaam The Gradation nevertheless of these Influences may be computed according to the Scituation and according to the Proximity and Remoteness of the Subject which is to receive them from the Source or Center of Divine Light and according to the several Channels and Ducts that they must first pass through before they are therein received But the All-wise God is never wanting in the Preparation of such Vessels as may be suitable for the Reception of such Degrees of his Light as he designs to Communicate And this Beautiful Variety is in the Writings of the Old Testament and also in those of the New most Remarkable For it is one Degree of Inspiration that Moses had and another that Isâ—…iah had and third that Daniel had Neither is the Inspiration of the Writer of the Chronicles the same with either of these Three And yet both the one and the other are all from the True Inspiring Breath of God The Like may also be observed in the New Testament But to Treat of this would require a large Discourse What has been here already said will suffice for the Wise in Heart that they may understand the Voice of the Lord their Bridegroom when he shall call to them in the Cool of the Day and present himself walking in the Garden that they may not seek to hide themselves from him but may walk therein leaning upon his Breast and refresh themselves with its Flowers and Fruits that do there present themselves to be Plucked As for the Removal of that Great Milstone which is thrown in the way That God hath ceased to Reveal himself to Man since the Days of the Apostles and that all Pretensions to the same are but Illusions and at best but the Dreams and Fancies of a Natural Enthusiasm I am not very sollicitous as well knowing that the same God who hath already appeared in a most Wonderful Manner to give his Testimony to Souls concerning what hath been hitherto Published from the same Spirit and Instrument will not be wanting Now to give his Seal lo This or to what Hereafter may come to be Published and even in a more ample and fuller manner to Vindicate his Honour than he hath been yet known to have done since the Primitive Days of Faith But howsoever the Wisdom of God may with respect to these Particular Writings shew it self at present this Milstone must shortly be cast into the Sea Otherwise the Kingdom of God which we daily ought to pray for can never come And it is little better but a Mockery of his Name to sollicite him for the Calling of the Jews and the Fulness of the Gentiles and for Unity Peace and Concord to all Nations till this Beam be removed from before the Eye of our Spirits For which End there hath been some while since a Treatise writ to Prove not only the Possibility and the Expediency but even the Absolute Necessity of Divine Revelation both Private and Publick as in the Ancient Times so no less in the Present Time toward the Restitution and Winding up of All Things Which the Author of it undertakes to evince from plain and evident Principles not disputed by the very Deists and having done with them to Clear up many Passages throughout the Prophets and throughout the whole New Testament which are impossible as he holds to be Accounted for by any other Principles But how Successful such a New and Surprizing Attempt may be is entirely submitted to the Disposal of the Infinitely Wise God when he shall order it to come forth for his Honour alone and for no other Aim whatever And unless he gives this Order and by his Blessed Spirit do Accompany it let it never see the Day And whatever disagreeable to his Glory or Inconsistent with his Truth may have at any time been sent abroad of such a Nature let it moulder away in Perpetual Obscurity and let it not be remembred by Him when he maketh Inquisition or even known among Men. But whatever is consistent with his Eternal Truth and makes for his Glory upon the Earth in this Latter Day let that break forth with mighty and irreâ—…istible Power to the Confusion of all Flesh. Wherefore I do bow my Knees continually before the God of my Fathers that he would give me who Wriâ—…e and Thee who Readest This Wisdom that siâ—…eth by his Throne and reject us not from among his Children the Children of his Kingdom and of his Right Hand but â—…eal us against the Great Day of Temptation which is coming upon the Face of the whole Earth with the Spirit of Truth the Spirit of Jehovah the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding of Counsel and Might and of a Sound Judgement Which is the Testimony of JESUS That so by the Inspiration of this His Holy Spirit we being Preserved against all the Illusions of the False Prophet and the Subtilty of the twisting Serpently Spirit for the Day of His Appearance may Perfectly Love Him walking with Him as Enoch or as John in this Paradisical Garden the Entrance whereto that has been Shut up is setting Open and may Worthily Magnifie His Holy Name even as in Heaven it is Magnified by the High Principalities and Thrones and by the Harpers upon the Sea of Glass To which Burning Sea of LOVE these Secret Spicy Walks will lead thee while the Holy Angels and Perfected Saints will accompany thee all the way reaching out to thee such fragrant Immortal Flowers and such Refreshing Transforming and Transubstantiating Fruits as do spring forth from the very Root of the Deity Here therefore I would gladly leave thee If thou art not already Entred Wisdom calls unto thee Hereinto to enter and to pass quickly the Sword of the Cherub which she will assist thee to Break. But if thou art Entred then Here abide and Walk till thou art brought to the Shore of that Sea by this Experimental Traveller described which will wâ—… thee over to the New Jerusalem Where I with thee and with all
those that follow the Lamb do long to sing Glory to God in the Highest c. and to publish the Glad Tidings of the Kingdom of Our God and Saviour flying in the midst of the Heavens upon the Wing of the Dove-Spirit and Proclaiming with a Loud Shout FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME Rev. 14. 7. Timotheus January 1st 1697. A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS AN Account of the first Appearance of Wisdom's Star to the Author pag. 17. Of the Book of Wisdom sealed with three Seats pag. 19 The Key of the Great Mystery p. 22. The Mystery of Rebeccah and of Jacob's obtaining the Blessing unfolded p. 25. The Mystick Death p. 32. Wisdom's Flaming Heart with the Budding Tree for Transmutation p. 34. The Mystery of Laban and Jacob or the strife of the Sensual and Supersensual Life p. 37. The Faithless and Faithful Dalilah compared p. 42. The true Nazarite p. 43. The Book of Life and the Book of Death p. 46. The Divine Angler p. 49. The Magical Journey with an account of Wisdom's high Stone of Wonder p. 53. The Eternal Matter of this Stone together with the Chain of the Creator with the Creature p. 64. An Expostulation of Wisdom's Pilgrim p. 66. The Voice of the Bridegroom p. 67. The Answer to the Spirit of the Soul p. 68. The Reply of the Bridegroom ibid. Thi Preparations of the Second Marriage p. 69. The Shulamite's Debate p. 72. Wisdom's Charge to the Shulamite admitting hâ—…r into the New Mystical Paradise p. 80. What is required to a Divine Association p. 85. An Experimental Reâ—…lation of the Lords Day and of being in the Spirit p. 86. The Hidden Mystery of Faith's Seed p. 88. Wisdom's Call and Direction for the Tabernacle Building p. 91. The Holy Composition Oil p. 101 102. The Garden of Beulah in the Land of Havilah p. 105. The Originâ—… and Nature of the Royal Ghostly Power in the Tabernacle-Body p. 117. The Renewed Spiritual Wooing p. 120. The Mystery of Spiritual Sol and Venus or the two Hoavenly Tinctures Male and Female p. 124. The going up from the Low Valley towards SION-Hill p. 126. A great Combat of the Dark world against the Ascending Traveller p. 131. The Lamb worried by two Dogs p. 135. A Visional Manifestation of the Various Growths of the New Birth before the Winged Power â—…f the Holy Dove p. 136. A further Declaration and Demonstration of this last Fixed State and of the Power of the Holy Ghost p. 137. A Preparation for fresh Assaults from the Dark Kingdom p. 140. A Memorandum how the Leviathan Spirit â—…nded the Author's Companion which caused a mighty Conflict for several Days and how he came to be again Restored p. 143. The Application hereof made by the Witness of the Tabernacle p. 150. Fresh Instances and Encouragements from the Spirit of Wisdom p. 15â—… The Union of the Zeal of Phineas with the Nazarite Purity p. 156. A Brâ—…viat of some late Perils we were in p. 157. The Divine Appearance from Mount Perazim p. 163. The Unicorn-Power p. 164. A seasonable Caution against Treachery p. 165. A Pâ—…servative against Dark Magick p. 166. The Allegory of Balak and Balaam ibid. The Case of Jacob's Servitude and Deliverance p. 167. The Cloud of Glory upon the Spiritual Tabernacle p. 170. Of Maimed Births p. 171. The Foundation Stones of the Holy City p. 172. Wisdom's Rock of Glory upon which it is founded p. 173. The twelve Foundation-Stones that every one is to bear who is thereinto admitted p. 178. A Call to this Searching Spirit from out of the New Jerusalem p. 183. The Reason of the Scituation of its Gates p. 185. Another Call to this Ascending Spirit p. 187. The Descent of the Jà sper-Stone for this End p. 188. The Tree of Life which is Three and One p. 189. The River of Sion p. 190. The Spirit 's Eccho to Wisdom's repeated Call p. 192. The earnest Expostulations of this Spirit with her Mother and with her Beloved p. 193. The Nazarite-Diet for the Jerusalem-Born Spirits p. 195. The Voice of the Bridegroom to the Spirit of the Bride after she had found an entrance into this City p. 198. The Bridegroom 's further Admonition to her and to the Jerusalem-Waiters p. 201. The Love Chain 203. The Chariot of Elijah p. 204. The New Book Opened or the Everlasting Gospel of JESUS containing the Process of the Regeneration in his Mystical Incarnation Death Resurrection Ascension and Glorification p. 206. The Paradisical Sowing p. 207 211. The Spring or the Resurrection p. 208. The Ascension of the Bridal Spirit p. 209. The Glortfication of the same p. 210. Another Seal of this Book of Life opened or an Experimental Passage through another Death p. 212. Quench not the Spirit p. 213. The Mocking Ishmaelite p. 214. The Magdalen Waiter p. 215. The Salutation of the Risen Jesus p. 216. The Immutability of the New Creature p. 219. The Witnesses of the Resurrection p. 220. The Immediate Robe given to the Risen of Jesus p. 221. The Wonder-Birth p. 223. It s Education p. 225. The Book of Prophecy and of Life to be eaten down p. 226. The Food from the Altar p. 228. Aurora or the Day-spring from on High p. 231. The Threefold Appearance of the New Adam or the Three Degrees p. 233. The Ocean-Treasury p. 237. A Digression concerning the Communication and Interpretations of Magical Representations p. 238. The Passage to the Mountain of Pretious Stones p. 241. The Sapphire-Stone p. 243. The Spirits eager Search and Sighing after this Treasure p. 244. The Oppositions made from the outward Astrum p. 245. The Holy Root of the Magical Life ibid. The Globe of Light or the Perfect Day p. 247. The â—…ight of Paradise compared with that of Mount Sion p. 249. The End of all Things at hand p. 251. The Fall of Babylon p. 252. The Magical Seals p. 253. The Restoration of the Magical Might or the Spirit Ascension to the Monnt of Olives p. 256 The Extirpation of the Imaginary Root p. 258. The Superimaginary State ibid. The Eternal Stillness or the Rock of Power p. 262 A Vision of God's Flaming Eye p. 263. The Interpretation of the Vision p. 265. The Believing Rest p. 267. The Lily of Faith p. 268. The Flying Banner p. 270. The Parting Principle or the Shooting of the Gulph p. 271. The Box of Spikenard or Divine Love p. 275. The Blessing made a Curse or the Ark in the Temple of Dagon p. 276. The Travelling forward of the Ark of the Presence p. 277. The Joseph's Blessing p. 278. Joshuah or the Conquering Worthy p. 280. The Ark-Drivers p. 281. An Appearance of the Personal Humanity of Christ and of the Father's Glory p. 282. The Arcanum of the Holy Ghost taught by Christ p. 283. Take heed of Pilate's Spirit p. 285. The Rules of Merchandize p. 288. The Oracle within the Veil The Michael-Unction p. 293. The Opening in Heaven of the most
never to turn back to them more but constantly to him cleave then his Head on thy Lap he will repose and his hidden strength to thee reveal and nothing from thee conceal being in Joint-Union no more twain but one Spirit The Seven Locks of his Power he will suffer thee to unloose and draw out therefrom such Might as may slay and overcome the Philistines Host which such prickling Bryars have been to invade thy inward Coasts and most holy Place which is appointed for the Ark of the Covenant there to rest But behold now is risen a Judge and Law-giver one that is mighty to save and deliver out of the Hands of all thy Enemies who thy true Covering in the Day of Battel will be Therefore henceforth fear not those Warriours that come forth with the Goliah's Spear and Shield the Champion which keeps within shall make them all to stagger kill and fall for the true Sampson will maintain Victory over all it is well worth the sheltring under his mighty Wing here with safety thou mayst set and upon his Love do thou incroach still who will not offended be though thou intrude thy self his Dalilah to draw out his Heart more to thee till he shall make known his great Secrets unto thee I well know this is the only precious thing no one can ever privy here unto be made till Wisdom be the Bride-Garment upon their Eternal Man then ravished with thy Beauty and with a pleasant Aspect will Emmanuel look towards thee and give thee to read within the seven sealed Book There is the interpretation of all in the History as from whence I give thee to understand the Mystery of the Nazarite's seven Locks they answer to the seven Seals of this Book of Life which only is to be opened by the Virgin compleated in the seven number of Spirits which are the seven All-seeing Eyes that only can read in this Book which is the true Ground-work of all those wrestling working Properties which moved are by me as thou dost in thy self feel a new Frame and Model for great and precious substance to be taken into therefore take heed now and for no common use let thy inward part any more be for these Throne-Powers which have visited thee will admit no mixture of company all of one sort in pure Harmony will meet in this Lovepaved-Sanctuary where thy all desirable fellowship will there in the free Liberty dwell and where opportunity thou wilt have in Love's Sanctuary to dive and search till thou findest out what lieth hid within the Breast of thy worthy Nazarite who now hath received his full Dowry the Father hath invested him with all Power to a full and perfect state of Glory he is now instated then doubt not but he hath wherewith abundantly to gratifie thee a higher and greater Match I could not contrive for my self in thee consider hereof well and carry it according to my Counsel then shalt thou his Heart still draw down the Tabernacle of witness in thy Heaven the Rainbow in the Cloud which thou hast seen as the Mark or Seal of the Covenant betwixt God and thee according as it is written in the Prophets He shall be given for a Covenant What to do not to read over as a dead Letter no thou shalt witness him thy Prophetical Spring a Book written within thee to which now with all those seven Eyes do thou turn in that this Rainbow in thy New Heavens as a Throne-Circle may inclose thee with him as a secret Pavilion where no adulterated thing can break through to disturb while thou art looking into this New Testament which shall never be trusted out of this pure Circle of the Life's Covenant into which by my Virgin Purity thou only canst pass in if I were not at hand all over in an Oily Pool to bath and drench thee throughout that so the glorified Eye may think thee all fair send forth a Spicy Breath of Air which only agreeable is for thee with thy fellow Branch as not only worthy yeâ—… may be but also bold and free to take and read this Book of Life which now upon the opening is as I this Day have shewn to thee with that other Book which wide open in the common and outward place always is to be found to which thou art by the earthly dark part invited thereinto to look and it would there retain thee but out of this Book of Death thou mayst not look which is a flowing Source of strong reasoning that as a Wall would inclose and captivate thy Mind that it should need only the Death's Lines that hath the putrefying been that have kept the whole Universe Prisoners in the black Dungeon of Sin Now to this end I have presented thee with these two Books that henceforth thou mayst avoid consulting with that which always is at hand and so readily doth offer it self unto the view But I am come absolutely to forewarn not only thee but such as are growing up with thee upon pain of my displeasure you would not turn your Eyes out any more for great is your danger if under the Law of this first Covenant wherein Eternal dying is that you still in parly therewith should be found but come now draw in my wise and obedient Children I have provided this other Book to be unloosened the Seven Seals no longer shall before it stand because I in favour am with the Lamb who from his Virgin-Spouse will nothing hide Therefore in my Light you may in this Book see where you may come to your lost dignity It may well be Wisdom's Book of Revelation entituled for without me you here could nothing understand though it stood all open to you the Interpreter I my self must be to tell you Letter by Letter for you know not yet what number it is that makes up your New Name which till you do see what challenge can be made to the rest of the whole inrouled Mystery but as in a Metaphorical Look through my Glass in the first Leaf unfolded thou wilt see the engraving of that Name with Letters of Gold November the 3d. The Divine ANGLER THere was presented to me a Person Angling upon the Brink of a River to catch Fish but his Labour was fruitless So that he gave off being hopeless Then came another Person and said Be not Discouraged but follow me Behold and see I have got an Angle that hath such a Bait as all the Fish in the River will fall upon it And accordingly I beheld multitudes in a cluster brought up by it Then cryed out that first Person Surely the Lord who is the great Fish-taker in verity is come here and hath wrought this Miracle indeed Whereupon the Person went into the Deep and having vanished down into it drew up the Fish and cryed If ye will here follow me ye shall the Principal Fish take but under Water ye must learn to Dive and again know how to Rise Consider and sind
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
Good Upon which no Corrupter ever came or could come or with any of these Springing Essences was ever mingled hereupon By the Serpent no Poysonable Rays were ever here at all scattered it is a Place which ever from his Eye was hid by the Divine Constellations All which Plants here thou dost see from one Seed do after their kind thus multiply in this Variety Now for the Holy Ointment which I would give thee skill to make Go first to that Bed where the pretious Thyme is included and take there seven Handfuls thereof then take the like quantity of the Baulm of Hope and of the Sweet Majoram of Patience according to the same perfect number as the two former To these let there be also added the Spirit of Mints Power the Eye-bright of All-seeing the Rue of Fortitude and the Hyssop of Purity These do thou gather when the Sun-Beams are in their greatest heighth and Influence and extract the Juice out of them and so dissolve it with the Kidney-Fat of a choice Deer that must be slain on purpose for this use This thou wilt know is to be obeyed and yielded to though it be even thy dear Sensitive Life which for this Composition must be dissolved the Death of which is only Serviceable for so Secret an Use. Hereupon a soft gentle Fire from the Altar is to be taken and then diffuse in the Golden Vessel of the pure Humanity and thou shalt see what a fragrant Restorative Ointment this will come to be whereby all Cures shall be wrought Practitionally the Knowledge of this Art being engrafted in thee as a Natural Scyon co-inherent within thy inward parts to transmute and make all that which was of a divided Property to be of one pure and rarified Sort and Constitution as relating to the healing part which through the whole Manhood is to disperse it self to settle all again in its first Primitive Order Then again here is another secret greatly requisite to be learnt as the Spicy Oil which is the Spirit of Spirits extracted and drawn out from the Seven Spirits mentioned the Ingredients to this are deep and worthy of Inquiry which cannot be illustrated but by way of Metaphorical Description which the wise and apt under Wisdom's Manuduction will soon understand for that all the Materials are lying or growing so close about thee within this Physical Garden which may be called the Eflux of the Deity which evaporateth through every Plant and Tree which groweth here from and by which ye may understand the high and precious Quality of whatever you shall a Composition make out Hereupon did arise a Query Whether it might not be as effectual to take of these Plants and Trees as they naturally grow in themselves for an healing Balsom and Liquor for the restoring of Life without mingling them in a Confectionary way To this I was answered thus by the holy and profound Artist that said Through the uniting of many Spirits Powers and Vertues into one sublime Substance there is produced an Almighty Force and Strength which would not be while they continued in their separated Essences but through the Coagulation by the Hand of Wisdom into one Quintessence it would have its vigorous penetration as in the accomplishment hereof ye may witness if ye wax not saint but persevere with all diligence and not be turned aside though you do meet sometime with the Waters of Strife but hold out or all is lost which already is wrought For I would not that either of you who so voluntarily your selves to me have bound should grow weary till I your Work have crowned having chosen you out of my Olive-Ground to sprout that so ye may to each other empty forth what I your Fountain have blessed you with as a fruitful Womb to bring forth even that mighty Lordly Sprout which will make your Heavens and Earth to shout and all the Hosts of them to praise and celebrate the Rising Star from the East therefore with all fear and care go on and persevere till that all things shall be put under him who is born in you the King of Salem against whom great Conspiracies will be but as he in you shall grow up he shall them all defeat through the Crown of this anointing Oil which I am to shew thee how to make First then come with me into my secret Lebanon where the Beds of Spices are and take thee seven Ounces of the Mace of Grace of like quantity of the Spikenard of Love the Camphore of Peace the Heart-cheering Cloves of the Saffron of Joy the Noble Frankincence of all Faith the Myrrh of Triumphant Victory the Casst of a Sound Mind and Perfect Heart Take all these and put them under the grinding Wheel which maintaineth its uncessant working Motion within thee till they come to be an Oily Substance mixed into one perfect Lump then diffuse all in the Juice of the Pomegranat for a certain time adding hereunto the Powder of Gold of Pervilium which is to be mixed with the Magistery of Pearl and the Ruby-Spirit all which close in a pure Crystalline Bottle into which nothing ever before was put and set it constantly under the Sun-shine of thy Heavens for the perfect Clarification thereof Which at the tenth number will attain to the full height of a Life-quickning Spirit Having taken good notice of this Mysterious Receit I lay'd it up in me as a Precious Jewel resolving to follow the Rules of this Intrinsick one and to make an experiment hereof if by any means it might be brought to a Triune Body of such sublimity All which must be wrought in the Tent of the Virgin-Wisdom where no soiling thing must interfere while this Composition is in doing And only Sanctuary Instruments I did see must be used here Having then order to discharge all out of this Celestial Place no Servant which appertained to the old and first Tabernacle I durst to admit for my aid or help or in any service therein to imploy Now all that are to rest within this Place where the Glory of the Majesty does it self unfold with the first Balsam must be anointed thus to me it was declared Oh the great Purity that I did see was required in ministring about these Holy Things it cutteth off quite from all Intermedlings in a putrified Earthly State the Eye so single and clear is through this Ointment purifying it that it cannot bear any more to behold in it self either Spot Blemish or Wrinkle knowing well none else in the Tabernacle of God's Holiness with him can live Therefore in the Oil of Consecration I am appointed for to abide and to drink of this Liquor of Life which suddenly may ready be through the diligent Hand that prepareth it as I do both feel and see which maketh my Spirit so intent hereupon that while the great Artist is at work I know not how my Eye to take off that so I may be able and skilful after the same manner
Life Who like the King of Shion would by no means permit the Circumcised Israel to pass through his Borders and Land peaceably without commencing War to afflictand distress while we are making towards our promised and prepared Mansion-Rest Such kind of Moabites out of their Quarters do arise over us to Monopolize but the wise All-foreseeing Star doth yet go before bidding us follow hard after with flaming Banners out-flying which shall strike Terrour into all contradicting Powers that would us in this our way detain great Offence we must expect to give because we only design a clear Pass and in no one Earthly Village in this low Orb to stay because our New Jerusalem-Bride hath to us cryed Hast come swiftly pass burthen not your selves with any Earthly Trade or Stuff for my pure â—…ubling burning Sea of Glass will bring in all valuable Store excessively Therefore a new Wisdom's Word did spring saying Abide quiet and still under the infolding Rock of most antient and known Power which now provided for your Court is while ye are here appointed to stay bearing and suffering the further cleansing of your Vessels through the rising Springs which here out with mighty force will upon you break in till thus they washed away have all Matter and Mould which made you no whit to differ from those who the in outward Form do walk act and live according to the dictate of the corrupt sensitive Nature Which that ye may be freed and seperated from you are ordered till Times-Number shall be fulfilled by this pure Golden Shore to dwell Do not mistake to think all yet with you is so perfect and compleat as ye need not the burning Streams from this boiling Sea into you to pass Know ye who are yet my Care and Charge had I not hitherto you brought all might have been lost that hitherto hath been wrought For what Conquest could ever have been gained while two Seas permitted were to meet and cast in upon one Ground Therefore a stop to the Earthly angry Sea which foameth from the deep sense of a Quagmire-Center is determined into a restraint and binding up for care is taken for the prevention of this continued Strife and Mutiny which made you in such bitter Conflicts and Soul-Agonies to be tyring out your days with endless Debates from Reasons strong Assaults If once for all you can give up to the force of this strong working Tide of that Spirit whose proceeding is from your God and Jesus and no more put forth your Hand to prop up what this Holy Fire's Breath comes down to burn up and consume If to its Flames ye shall be casting into your Hands shall come those pernicious Incendiaries that would Strife War and Debate within the Gates of that Holy Place of your Minds still promote and maintain Oh now then of fixed Will all of one pure Goblet and Lump without the mixture of any sort of lower Mettalâ—…e Mass let me see you sublimated and wrought into For I would that ye might yet a Praise and a Crown to your Bride be found beyond what the present Age hath sounded or brought forth great Wrestlings and Vauntings by his exalted Spirits out of an unsound Ground and polluted Heavens do put forth as if the true Lily did blossom as from out of a dry Shell and hollow Sands But the Kingdom of thy JESUS is more deep weighty and substantial as ye shall witness in the patient passive process if you shall hold out according to my renewed Revelation which shall attend the Tabernacle Waiters and Inquirers with the spotless Ephod upon you as the separated Oâ—…es to whom my Secrets shall first be made known in and after another manner then the Counterfeit Birth-Talkers make their boast of for a difference I will put among the dry Rods which known shall by their greening and fresh flowering and so shall cause to cease all murmuring and vain Pretendings to my Golden Altar ascending To which none right have to come but such as can bring the blossoming Rods with the Name of JESUS thereon ingraven Also a Golden Ball I do to thee bequeath take it and swallow it down and after a while thou shalt feel it dissolve and out from thee flye it is the Soveraign Composition-Oil which will preserve that which is conceived and brought forth for the donation and manifestation of that Great Day of JESUS his return with the last finishing Power that will put an end to all Travels and Labours Fears and Sorrows Which solid thing is already given only wait for its breaking forth February the 20th 1675 6. Upon this Prophetical Opening and Instruction I felt some of the effects working through all parts of the inward Raised Body and sensibly witnessed by the pure boiling Streams with force coming to make me all clear and uncloyed of what the Salt brinish Sea had troubled and cast in upon me Which till I was thereof ridded and again unladen my Spirit was as in a plunge and Dead Man's Tomb wherefrom nothing but Horâ—…our doth give forth as a dead and unsavoury Gust which no sooner doth the Flood-gate of sense open from this lower Orb but this Suffering upon me doth immediately come for how can two Contraries in one House agree no Peace or Serenity is till that only wise and potent Solomon upon the Throne over all do Reign admitting none but his own Glorified Train Oh when any of a strange Lineage or Nation into this Kingdom after its re-establishing do come how strangely by this Heavenly King are they looked upon Such are the slights and disdains with scattering Powers of terrible Majesty thâ—… nothing belonging to the Spirit of this World and its party will in this Holy Place care to stay though they may and still do present and croud in themselves for disturbance and annoy as lately an offence and grievance of this kind I did meet withal from a high floating Tide of Sence with which strange Nations landed upon my Coast from a contrary Sea who came Balack-like with great Rewards in their Hands to tempt me to leave the Tabernacle of my God and the Parddisical Land to go along with them back again where they told me greaâ—… Possessions might be gained and I nâ—… longer should expose my self to Povertâ—… and Reproach as upon this visible Stage at present appeared such provoking Arguments they hard upon me did plye perswading me no longer to wait within the Ark and Sanctuary of a forelorn Hope as these subtil Spirits termed it All which Floods upon me were pour'd but Jesus my Rock all over covered me so as these Waters of temptation could not sink into me This try'd Stone shun'd not to espouse my Cause and quarrel and plainly told me I should not always Married be with Beasts which out of the Wild Forrest of Nature doth spring the time was hastening when they should chained up and confined be in their own place of Black Darkness as ashamed to come forth when the
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
then in all former Ministrations whatever Oh now then to my Call and Cry within you take special Recognizance it is my Elijah's Voice that the Way of the Holy Ghost might be made plain and strait Take heed no Lyon or Wolf so much as once set their Foot on it Make your Watch still strong for slimy muddy Pits are on each hand the great Levia than there doth under Water lie waiting to see if here you do set your Feet awry For this subtle Serpent doth well know hereby all former and present Prophecyes will be prolonged if not cut off So that if by any means he could Ingulf you within this noisome Pit where all devouring Fish of Prey do lie which still would be eating out your Belief and Confidence in what do's lie beyond the Border of the Senses he will not fail to do so Because it is not for the gross but for the pure and immaculate Eye only to espy those Celestial Glories Whereof not only to the Sight I do here you my beloved Lambs invite but come I say and tast what in my upper Banquetting-House is to be found to which ye yet so high never ascended where the Ghostly Body upon the Crystalline Sea is set But stay yet ye must and ye must it not touch with unwashen Hands with strong scented Oil your Finger must drop while in this Dish ye them dip to give proof ye are a prepared Guest who have put on the Bridegroom your Robe this will be your Tickets Testimony that right you have to eat of this choice Mess which only for the Bride and Bridegroom are set forth Though with many sweet and pleasant Fruits I have out of my Paradisical Garden you fed and with the Spirit of the Vine I have your Thirsts often satisfied yet none like or to be compared to this Therefore it is reserved as the strong Meat which only those that are come to ripe and perfect Age can bear thereof to eat Therefore go thy way and be comforted that ye are entred into Love's Eternal Calendar and may assuredly of this last and great Gift partake as ye shall in the bright Temple grow reaching to the full Stature of your Jesus To which Coming fear not but your Father will equally dispence the Holy Ghost as his free Benevolence Grow grow get up to this high Nativity with all speed The Most High hath great need of such worthy high Disciplined Spirits to go forth bearing the Heavenly Trophy and Banner of Glory which may take away fallen Nature's reproach How much will it be the joy of Wisdom your Mother to see you come up through all Tribulations to inherit the Antient and Royal Seat near unto that Great King your Prince and Personal Saviour through the introducing of his pure Spirit and Nature without which ye never had been capable of so high a Calling as to have fellowship with him not only in the Knowledge but in the joint Possession without any defraud as ye shall see impartially when this Ghostly-Dove with her Cherubin-Wing doth with all Power upon you rest so as no more from you ever to flye or withdraw O run hard still cry knock and call I will assure thee from the Word of a God it shall abundantly answer to all A Memorandum March the 13th 1675 6. FRom the 6th of this present to the 13th I have been exercised in great Conflicts upon and through a sudden surprize upon the mortal part of my Companion and Fellow-Labourer in that Paradisical Husbandry he being smote and struck as with a Leviathian Dart upon his Animal and Vital Spirit the first time was on the Monday being abroad upon his returning home which went over again The next Day about the same time a Feaver took him and in great Violence ceased on his Heart and so he wrestled a good space of time in great Anguish which so affected me that I drew in and awakned a great Travel for his escape from these Sorrows of Death which had so ceased upon him I having had some warning of an imminent Danger and Peril which I saw the Night before he was first affâ—…cted and came down to advertise him hereof before he went from home As thus there was a deep Pit with great Swelling Waters under which the subâ—…il Levia than with his outstretched Jaws did lie to grasp in such as near there did walk Now the Doctor with my self being that way to pass I heard a word uttered Be ware come not too near it is a dangerous place Upon which I watchful was and took good heed and avoided it that the Doctor might not therein be ingulphed but draw off with all speed Which did predict there was some Danger nigh this being the Pit of Death as by the effect thereof soon did shew it self But the mighty Jehovah hereunto a Counter-check did give to reverse what the destroying Angel was upon executing For this second assault was very grievous being upon Tuesday which did abide on his vital Spirits from 4 in the Afternon till 10 at Night In which interim a Daniel's Spirit did come down which in us did Pray with mighty fervency winged up by Faith as knowing that in this ascending Power stood our help For after I had ceased and the Doctor began to Pray I saw a bright Star dance about his Bed and a Word came with it unto me I have heard and I will deliver for my own Name sake out of the present Jaws of Death This was a signal Evidence that Saving Health was near and that in this Hour of Exercise Jesus with his Healing Vertue would appear which soon after was witnessed So the Pains for that time were asswaged and he slept that Night and the next Day had respite So as we did hope this Storm was gone over But on Wednesday Night he found himself ill again So together we did seek the Lord for his Counsel whether or no he might venture upon some outward means to help to remove that violent Humour which by that strong Leviathan would have grasped away his Life For without permission from the Court and College of our Spiritual Physicians we dared not to adventure because we had committed the whole Cure of this deadly Wound to those All-healing Soveraign Powers While then we were supplicating and soliciting to know the Mind of Wisdom â—…erein this Word came It is suffered â—…n condescention to the instability of â—…our Faith however by Grace the corruptible Drugs shall be changed in their Constitution and Quality for else they in this case could not be available For know that my secret Medicine must be the Preparative Then after this the Doctor was free to take a Powder which gave him two or three Vomits and Purgations On Thursday Morning after which he was very cheerful and thought himself to be eased of his weight and talon which had so terrified him but after he had Dined it beset him again more fiercely and violently then at
the Prophet to that furious Avenger Here hath been attempt upon attempt against the Election cry upon cry for Fire to consume But be of good cheer and do ye fear nothing more hereof for your God hath Justified and the Prayer of the Humble and Penitent hath been heard and hath shut out the Accuser with all their Complaints whose Mouths are stopped Balaam doth now well see that he is under restraint and limitation finding no Might to effect what in his Eye did seem just and right Therefore he subjected is not willingly but forced by an uncontrollable Soveraignty and divine Spell as nothing from the dark Magick could nullifie Henceforth love and magnifie him that hath without shadow of change thus appeared to save secure and to deliver from all Plots and Charms whereby weaker and faint all Powers of this kind will grow because all Attempts shall still be frustrated while in the single Purity ye my Dove-Mates shall keep to your allotted One who is the fore-ordained Bridegroom who is worthy and will draw you into no Premunire ye may safely venture all the Stock of your Spirit to the utmost height of all Loves Joys Affiances and sow all these without fear into the Ground-Heart of the Immanuel and ye shall see what a fruitful Crop this will bring in March the 28th 1676. The Case of a Laban and Jacob was brought to me as having a special reference to the Doctor That as Jacob grew very weary of living in a strange Land and under servitude in Bonds now longed to be free a Spirit and to return to his Father's House with that Spiritual Stock and Riches of Life that Wisdom had blessed him withal and to provide for the sustainment of his own Family within himself of which the outward was but a shadow and type of So it was shewn me in like manner this was the time the full Experiment of the Doctor 's long and weary servitude in a strange Land and Country who was now called to separate and come away to his Father's House and to draw in all his Substance and Stock of Vital Spirit whenceforth the pure Virgin-Essences do spring that nothing thereof might be scattered or left behind for all will be little enough to supply and maintain that which is of pure Generation in him wherein will consist his true Joy and Pleasure to him to his Sons and Daughters his Men-Servants and Maid-Servants to grow up to Stature fat and flourishing in his own House In this saith the Spirit shall be his Blessing but while these things are upon the prosecution great Tribulations from the Laban Spirit must be expected for he will never consent to let Jacob go Therefore Wisdom did put it into his Heart to make the breach by stealing away for Laban with his subtle Entreaties would have plyed him as formerly Which to avoid he resolved to make his own way sore longing after his Father's House which made him run the hazard of all Laban's displeasure This wise understanding Spirit was now given to the Doctor to be couragious and so to resolve to take his Flight and Journey on having with him and for him Jacob's Angel that will not leave him till safe conducted into the inward Court of the Love and Joy-presence of the Father Now in the process thereto Laban raiseth an Army that are of the same Evil Eye with himself and these pursue hard to overtake but God disappoints the Evil intended and gives warning saying I warn and charge that ye let my First-Born go free touch not mine Anointed for he must now Ascend to me no Bonds or Cords shall evermore be upon him but as a free Denison in my Holy City is he to wait upon all my Commands For my Work is so great that all must be taken up in them Ye who hasten up your selves thereunto must be found in one entire Act working with the Spirit of my Might without sloath For which end I have now set you free that ye may stand obligatory to no other Commands but wait to receive Laws and Injunctions as Wisdom shall renew to you The Oyl will not cease to run empty your Vessels as fast as you can it will become in you a rising bubling Life till it hath made you pure without Sin By which you will give proof that you are the first Redeemed out of the Earth Go on to this Work my elected Ones the high Powers of Eternity are with you to effect what the Spirit of Wisdom doth direct unto April the 4th 1676. FRom the Love-circling of a mighty Seraphim-flame which I felt burn up in my Heart-Altar a soft sweet Breath moved as a Mist or white Cloud It all over-covered and filled the Sacred Tabernacle of the Mind as with a still silent Glory which included and comprehended its own Ideal Being in me coming to drink and suck up what of its own it could find scatter'd among the Ruins of Time and bundle of Mortality The head-Principality then calleth for all in to make up the Perfect Man Bone to its Bone and Sinew to its Sinew all jointed and set in lovely order which while divided and in piece-meals could be of no force but lieth as dead and useless till the forming Hand gathers â—…nd uâ—…ites them each in order to the â—…salem's Glory It was here shewed to â—…e that many Births have come forth â—…ismembred some have wanted Eyes others have wanted a Hand another â—…eet another an Ear. And while any one of these have been wanting as to â—…he inward spiritual Man no degrees of Ascending could be none could be â—…aken into the Courts of the Lord nor â—…e a work-man for the Lord without â—…he use of all these Spiritual Members wherein the full force of a Spirit doth 〈◊〉 This word of Advice and Cauâ—…ion came with a full gust to try and exâ—…mine whether we who were set out and appointed to be Labourers in God's Harâ—…est and Priests to officiate and Miniâ—…ters in the most Holy Place were no way deficient but sound perfect and without blemish having all parts enâ—…ire making up a compleat Spiritual Body each one in our selves As also â—…ourished up to a strong full grown Man Otherwise saith the Anointing which knoweth all things ye cannot go Forward to dig and undermine twelve Foundations deep upon which my Holy City stands that doth command all Worlds with their Kingdoms Which ye are to do and search into as strong and mighty for this Service of the Lord who saith Come forth and stand before me that I may see whether or no ye be clear single pure and sound in every part and to no one Creature or thing pre-ingaged but aloof off in alienation from all dry earthly succours do stand Then will I link and â—…x you in and among my Royal Band who allotted are Foundation Stones of the Great City where my Name is writ upon This is the highest and last Service which I have for you to do and
hitherto would not hereunto put you till Wisdom's Spirit in highest measure be grown up for the management and carrying on of so high and mystical a part which excels and transcends all Buildings whatever that have gone before your Temple and Sanctuary Purity all inferiour is to this That which was lacking in them must be perfected here in this by this descending and all-compounding Glory which meets all in one here where now are descried the Lame the Blind and the Halt none of whom are so much as to look within this high Mountain of Holiness upon which the Glory resteth Neither can any come hither who bring not their twelve tried Foundation-Stones along with them To which end the Spirit which revealeth all secret deep things doth give for the manifestation here of unto thee That thou mayst know what maketh thee further meet to inherit this City which hath such transparant Foundations For so unvariable is Wisdom's Heart of Love that hath moved the Chariot-Wheels of thy Spirit and brought thee thus far even to the Gate and entrance of this magnificent place as by no means here to be shut out where ye are designed Marriage If ye can all over conquering first ascend to the Rock where these wonderful Precious Stones are to be found â—…oth for Foundation and Garnishing See then here whether the flight of thy Spirit must be namely to Wisdom's Treasure-House whom all must be fetched down for the City building Here carried up thou must be in thy Spirit not only to see in Vision or in bare Idea's these Stones of Glory but to have them put upon thee as thy Breast-plate row upon row with the engraving of that new Name which giveth sound Judgment and perfect Sight and Understanding into all Visibles and Invisibles This is a great estate which I am now setting before you and also bringing into yoâ—… as ye shall be able to bear the Glory of it which will be all Consuming to the existency of your present Heavens and Earth Which can no longer abide but they must fall away and flee at the bright rising of this Sion-Beauty in Crystalline Appearance and Celestiaâ—… Cloathing Rejoyce ye O my Dovâ—… Spirits in what I am about to createâ—… and to lay in you anew such Foundations as shall make my Name the Pranâ—… in these New Heavens and Earth upoâ—… which my beloved City shall be placed In order to this ye must suffer the Plumâ—…met-Line in the Guardian Angels Hanâ—… to measure the height length anâ—… breadth of this walled City each onâ—… within your own New Earth The Duâ—… of which must be all fanned through thâ—… Sieve of immaculateness which will 〈◊〉 no mixture of old Earth pass througâ—… The Heavens that now must be in yoâ—… circling Clarification continually must be pure bright and without mixture For consider for whom this City is prepared and builded is it not for one who is terrible in Holiness and Purity and that only can dwell with what is like himself Behold now and hear that Word again saying I decree all things in ye New as chosen Testators of this my will and as my front Battellers and primary Builders working according to the Law-giver and Rule-setter whose Eye and Hand shall prove it self great and mighty as ye shall thereupon rest immediately for all counsel and aid and shall thereto still â—…lye for Wisdom April the 5th 1676. In the Night-Vision I with another Person were to make a new remove to some place which we had no knowledge of being under a strict limitation thereto to hasten The way which we were to pass I saw as a fiery Oven which when we came at put us to a stop then waiting and looking on it a while the Flames died and soon were vanished Then the guiding Word said Pass on fear not the place is not now too hot to set your Feet upon which after some debate with our selves we ventured through Then was presented to our view a Knot of all Precious Stones as if they had been taken out of a Rock truly they were for Colours and Brightness and Sparkling so excelling so wonderful Transparent as all and the highest of what can be illustrated out from this Creation is but a gloomy shadow hereunto The glance was sudden and soon passed out of my view only pointing and leaving a great Impression as to the late Manifestation and the moving forward to the Jerusalem-Work Which yet required a higher and more Seraphick ascending up of our Spirits then hitherto hath been which I was in great Jeapardy about both for that others and also for my own sufficiency and spiritual ability to go forward and through paved Spirits to follow on For the Vision shewed me we should meet with hot work but that it would be allayed and overcome for us After which I saw our way made to pass through Waters before we could come to this City That Word still saying Only believe and I will pass on before you proclaiming my Name and opening to you the Foundation of it from whence your strength shall arise and your pregnant Power shall be known Who now then must be your Master-Builder to instruct you in this your Foundation-Work but that Wisdom which was with Jehovah from everlasting who gave Being and Existency according to the Spiration of the Eternal Will even so in like manner must this moving Will-power again go forth for the removing and undoing what the dark Fire enkindled Properties have done racing and pulling down that Babylonish Building to the Ground that its place may be found no more nor yet its turbulent Sea For I am making away for you out of all these first desolate part of things your Hands with me I require you to put and so you shall stop and prevent the Flood-Gates of the Beast and of the Serpent's fury Come now and I will shew you where all these Foundation-Stones do lie look see within the compass of your new Earth and of the burning Glassy Sea treasure-matter for this Foundation Building here ye may espy Therefore the Golden Plummet of my Spirit shall be given to you that so ye may be able not only to sound but also to bring up what lieth couched here beneath The first Stone which the Spirit drew up to view was a bright Saphir upon which was engraven the great Name Jehovah Shammah The second was an Onyx-stone with Everlasting Wisdom written upon it The third was a Beril presenting the Flaming and Ghostly Breath issuing forth in sparkling power The Second Row the first is the Jasper which is all Light sparkling like to the Diamond upon this is engraven the Express Word or Image of God The second Stone of this second Row is a Sardius it is a Sardine-stone which represents the Virgin Purity as meet to unite to the Jasper The third Stone of this Row is an Amethyst upon which is engraven the highest degree of Seraphick Love that cements all in one The third
Row the first of which is an â—…rald upon which is engraven rich Knowledge or sound Judgment to the understanding of all Spiritual Arts and Sciences whatever The second in this Row iâ—… a Chrysolite a Stone for all clear Revelation engraven upon it are the seven Eyes for its All-seeing nothing is unsearchable to it The third is an Adamant In this Stone lieth Almigâ—…ty Strength great fortitude and power to resist all Batteries and Assaults whatever it is so impregnated with virtual Power The fourth Row the first Stone of it a Jacynth this sparkling Stone can live and subsist in all Fire and can endure the Touch from all these Fire-Stones the engravement upon this is all precious Faith that is the conquerour through the long Patience The second of this Row is a Chalcedony this Stone beareth the engraving of high Joy Peace and Righteousness upon it representing the true Jerusalem-state and the real Reign of Great Solomon The third and last of this Row is the great Top-Stone which is a Chrysoprasus upon which is engraveâ—… the shout of a King for here is Salvaâ—…ion and Victory For the Lord great and mighty hath laid all the Foundation here for a sure Defence In Aaron's Breast-Plate Four Rows of Stones Exod. 28. 27. and Chap. 39. 10. The same Order observed 1 Row 1 Sardius 2 Topaz 3 A Carbuncle 2 row 4 An Emerauld 5 A Saphire 6 A Diamond 3 Row 7 A Ligure 8 An Agare 9 An Amerthyst 4 Row 10 A Beryl 11 An Onyx 12 A Jasper These Twelve Foundation Stones of the New Jerusalem the Order is thus mentioned Rev. 19 20 21. 1 is a Jasper 2 is a Saphire 3 is a Chalcedony 4 is an Emrauld 5 is a Sardonyx 6 is a Sardius 7 is a Chrysolite 8 is a Beryl 9 is a Topaz 10 is a Chrysoprasus 11 is a Jacynth 12 is an Amethyst Nine of these Preciouâ—… Stones are mentioned together Ezek. 28. 13. The Nature of all these Stones are they are all clear bright transparent sparkling from an inâ—…ate Virtue A Topaz or a Carbuncle seem to be one Stone Isâ—… 54. 12. An Agate and Chrysoprasus all one Ezek. 27. 16. A Sardius and Ruby all one 1. The Jasper Stone the nature of it it is clear as Crystal mentioned Rev. 21. 11. and Chap. 4 3. He that sat was to look upon like Jasper 2. The Saphire a transparent Stone mentioned Ezek. 1. 26. and Chap. 10. 1. A Throne as the appearance of a Saphire Stone Also Tob. 13. 16. Jerusalem shall be built with Saphires 3. Stone a Chalcedony I find to be like the Carbuncle 4. An Emrauld Stone mentioned Rev. 4. 3. In sight like unto an Emrauld Also Tob. 13. 16. 5. A Sardonyx Stone it is almost one with a Sardius or Sardine Stone 6. A Sardius or a Sardine Stone it is a transparent Ruby It is mentioned Rev. 4. 3. He that sat was like a Sardine Stone 7. A Chrysolite is a Gem full of Majesty shining throughout with a Golden Lustre 8. A Beryl mentionened Din. 10. 6. His Body like to Beryl Tob. 13. 17. The Streets of Jerusalem shall be paâ—…ed with Beryl 9. A Topaz or Carbuncle mentioned Isa. 54. 12. Thy Gates of Carbuncles Ezek. 28. 13. mentioned also in the Pavement of Jerusalem Tob. 13. 17. 10. A Chrysoprasus or an Agate mentioned Isa. 54. 12. Thy Windows of Agates Mentioned Ezek. 27. 16. there Chrysoprasus and Agate seem to be all one It may well be called the Stone of Ophir in the Prophecy of Old Tobias Chap. 13. 17. 11. A Jacynth or Hyacinth It is of the Royal Purple Colour 12. An Amethyst The Diamond is mentioned Exod. 28. 18. and Chap. 39. 11. and 28. 13. The Ony x-Stone is mentioned Exod. 28. 20. and Chap. 39. 13. J. P. After this follows Wisdoms Call out of this City whence she also with much Majesty descended and gave Rules for the Carrying on of the Great Work and for the bringing down of the said Jerusalem from God which are not to be found either among the Authors Papers or in Dr. P's Copy But may in part be supplied from what was afterward opened in the Treatise of the Eight Worlds April the 6th 1676. A Call to this Searching from out of New-Jerusalem O Thou inquisitive Spirit what is it thou hast seen in my Glass A City which is founded upon a Rock of all Precious Stones The measuring Line is still in the Hand of thy Angel-guide to shew thee further hereinto And now to present the Walls that must be raised upon these twelve Foundations The Line of my Eternal Spirit is squaring all according to Wisdom's Counsel What now thinkest thou are to be the Materials of these Walls but all flaming Seraphims holding Palms of Victory and light glistering Shields in their Hands These are the Walls which shall ever be before me garuished with the bright sparkling Powers of Cherubwork every where engraven by the Pencil of my Spirit Who skilful is to write in Gold the Inscription of the highest Perfection of Holiness round these Walls Nothing out here springing will be but Lillies and blushing Roses which represent the mutual Embraces of the Bridegroom and the Bride Whose Emblems every where within this Holy Place are to be pourtraied as a new formed Image of unchangeable Beauty and Perfection in the room and place of that faded withered couplâ—… who lost their Virgin Purity staining their Bridal Garments so as Paradise could no longer bear them but flâ—…d away from them But behold here is a new state of things opening much more transcendent then the Paradisical Birth and Generation For out of this City will come the true and right Marriage of which the first was but a Type for the Lamb and the Bride will bring forth here a fruitful Off-spring as it is said of this Zion Blessed is the Man that is â—…orn out heâ—…ce Blessed is the Man that is begotten within these Celestial Walls For take notice there is much difference betwixt the Paradisical State and Situation and this of Jerusalem which is encompassed all about with Sâ—…raphick flaming Cherubims There was only One to keep and guard the Tree of Life it lay open and obnoxious to the Invaders as the effects of the Serpent's coming did shew But here Fortitude and Strength 〈◊〉 provided against all Assaults no Destroyer can come here the Walls are so high terrible mighty and strong with their twelve Gates which will open to none but to the Bride and Bridegroom and to their Offspring who have the Name of the City written upon their Foreheads But thou whose Queries are come up before me concerning these Gates why they are recorded to stand Northward and Southward Eastward and Westward and to be all alike no difference and bearing Names upon them Uâ—…to thee I answer As to the first know this City is founded and established upon the top of all Mountains for discovery unto all The rising blazing Glory of it shall
sure binding and a Wedlock-tye betwixt bright raised Spirits and me till the Great Day of the Visible Marriage shall be Solemnized in the Free Jerusalem Till which hold ye fast and take good heed that not one of these Links on your parts be broken if but from any one of these ye should unlink ye would fall down by the way and never to me ascend But I know that Wisdom is thy Friend who will not suffer thee to break from me She is a busie Agent still to spur thee on her Law of kindness is found to me thy Jesus in thy Heart which will give an Ascending Might that so ye may come down again in a flaming Body of Light Which is the only design of Wisdom that blessed Engineer who by these Golden Links draweth you continually nearer to her City This was further Opened in the Seven following Days by Wisdom but the Copy is here Deficient May the 1st 1676. The New Book Opened Or the Everlasting Gospel of JESUS THis Morning my Spiritual Informer came and presented to my view a Book wherein great and hidden Secrets were writ telling me here was neither Parable nor Allegory but the plain Doctrine of the Everlasting Gospel Into which it was said it is given thee to look for it is an Epistle of good-will and love to thee and thy fellow Waiter that ye may come to a right and genuine understanding of those weighty things which lay concealed under the Vail of the Letter The summ of which is the Incarnation Dying Rising Ascending and Glorifying of thy Jesus All which being finished in his own Personality I now look to see that all should be actually wrought in you to which end I have poured out of my Spirit upon you which may bring you up through all to me Read then and see in Wisdom's Glass what is contained in this Book for a further instructing of thee into a Gospel Death and Rising into Victory Many are the Deaths ye have passed over and I grant every Death hath brought forth a rising Body so that ye are come so far as to bear the very Image of the Heavenly Man in which the Life-Seed doth spring But this is not all you are to aspire unto but you are here to dye with Jesus For in all those foregoing Deaths you had not that fellowship as ye shall have with me when I am grown up in you For I the Just One died for the Unjust so I must Personate this dying again in you after a Paradisical manner sowing my own pure Grain and Seed into the Mount Sion Ground For as it is said such as the Seed and Soil is such a Body in the Resurrection it will be and such a Body it will produce And although you come thus to dye in the Lord I mean in your Lord Jesus Christ in whom your Life lies safe and inoculated there will be no danger And while you are sowing here be not as others without Hope for indeed you sow not that Body which shall be to the account of a Bare return as Spirit for Spirit or Body for Body For though it was sown a single Seed yet it shall be various and manifold though the Seed is sown contemptible yet it shall rise honourable and though sown as weak yet it will rise mighty in strength So mighty potent strong and honourable this Resurrection will be as it will bring forth the Seed sown with another manner of Body then what hath yet been known For ye shall know all Blessedness indeed by thus dying into me fear it not therefore but valiantly spill your Life and mingle it with me then shall ye know a cessation to your own busie-acting Properties For that Spirit which dyeth into me ceaseth to Sio sweetly sleeping and slumbering in Sion's Golden Dust till I my secret Trump shall sound with the Vial of Life quickening Oyl poured in which shall make the dead in you to come forth with an unchangeable habit and form of the Holy Ghost of which I speak I will after this manner raiâ—…e up at the last Day which day to thee is very near if thou canst sink and dye so totally into me who do promise to thee long here lay buried thou shalt not be This is the Connexion to the former Part. Before I the LORD will move again to the finishing of the last glorious Mystery the first that can dye thus into me shall rise as the first Fruits out of me into a Body Celestial and mighty Powerful For my Seed shall never Corruption see it shall soon rise into a Mount Sion Body Lay but the Ground-work hereunto sure and ye shall see and feel another Spirit and another Form after this passive Sleep For after it ye shall awake in that Image which shall be no more despised being all compleat and giving proof of my Resurrection and Life Oh blessed are they who can say that they were dead in me and are alive evermore to Reign with me in my Kingdom waiting for me their Lord from Heaven to bring them thither For in this new risen Body I shall not be ashamed of thee it is so Signatured into the Father's Nature of Purity that in it thou mayst freely ascend to me Where I will in the Light Airy Region meet with thee and bring thee through all the Pearly Gates O come resign and dye know me no more out of this Dying and Resurrection State Thus Death is not Metaphorically but Really the last Enemy that is to be destroyed Here Sing ye may that dwell in Sion's Golden Mold and triumphantly Cry Oh Death by this Spiritual dying I am mortally become thy Death and so swallowed up as you can nothing of it see Go go preach thou this for the Everlasting Gospel to such as have an Ear to hear it rejoyce and give Glory to God on high Now when the Hour of this Judgment shall fully come by ushering in the New Jerusalem freedom through the Streets of Nature This Gospel Ministration which is all Love Grace Mercy and Peace by those shall then be proclaimed who do partake of this Resurrection as the first Fruits They shall be honoured with this Message to all those who in this Noah's Age are asleep in their dark Prison-Houses For an Almighty Voice I in you my Sion-born Spirits will utter forth to call in more to know this Death-Liberty and Life-Resurrection and Ascension into all Fellowships and free Communions with the High Eternity and Me the chief Head of all Sion's new risen Body Whereunto being come no other Banner will I display there but that Love which casteth out all Bondage and Fear May the 6th 1676. In the Morning being the first Day pondering and considering this last Opening which shewed me the necessity of dying into my Jesus and of sowing the Seed of my Eternal Spirit as an unmixed Grain sifted from all Chaffiness or Cockle or any such thing for to twist about it Thus the Word said
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
you can set sure footing to go over to this Ocean Sea therefore stay a while and provide them and then you will not slâ—…de Considering this in the Morning and knowing that all Presentations of this Magical Nature have their certain Effects which I have observed ever since I came under the Discipline of the Word of Wisdom who hath been my Glassy Eye to spy out things within that Ocean and having now from this new subject matter to exercise my Spiritual Senses in laying aside the Garment of my outward Sense which to the Intellectual Understanding is the great Impediment the Glass which represented these things became altogether Clear in me so that in seeing I did see being divested of all outward Covering For which Cause the Spirit of Wisdom doth take advantage when the External Reason is laid asleep and the Animal Sense drowned even then by Internal Idea's to manifest the Objects of the Inward Worlds Which was God's method for the discovery of his Mind in foregoing Ages or by any other way for the busie working of the Astral Mind of Reason is the greatest Let to Divine Vision this I can give witness to Therefore this Command I often have received from the Most Holy Inspirator to unstrip her from her dark Leaden Body which hath not the true Organ of Sight The holy bright Aiery Spirit can admit of no such clog it is like Saul's Armour to the nimble sprightly David it must be thrown off For there is for this an absolute necessity for such as will hold any free Parly and Conference with their now glorified Jesus they must come to be in the Spirit as John was when he in Vision saw and talked with him who was for that time without any touch or feeling any weight of his gross Corporeal Senses for he dyed out of them as he saith he was as one dead which made way for the opening of this New World's Scene and unclasping that Book of Revelation which before was hid and concealed But here riseth an Objection Who can fall into such a Trance and Sleep at any time when they would enjoy such close free manner of Communion with the High Principality of Glory The Eternal Word of Wisdom doth give this Answer to this Query True it is that no Natural Person can fall into this Divine and Spiritual Lethargy so as to still and quite suspend all operation of the Ratinoal Faculties for through these the fallen Birth-Life moves and acts and can never do Violence upon it selâ—… to seek its own Destruction for this iâ—… most Unnatural But where there is another Life Birth introduced and risen in opposition to this and that can prove its lawful descent out from the Eternal Womb of the Virgin-Body This may take authority and arise in its Magical Might and depress the Sensitive Life that hinders and clouds and keeps one back from these Seraphical Sights Now I say to this pure Essential Thing begotten by the Holy Breath and infused in let that potent Will which is free enter in and be one with this pure Conception then ye will soon master the Contrariety If at any time the Starry Birth in you should be unruly then make use of that precious Stone which into your Custody is put that can and will if put forth dash and crumble all into Dust which shall henceforth either within thy own Precinct or without make attempts against this high Birth state Which grow must still till it fills with Power every part to act a Tragedy upon the Serpent and all his fallen party that strives so hard and would have cut off the Tide and Stream which from the Sea thou didst steer and run so free that no Gally could be swifter then this strong Arm which as a Boat hath wafted thee over where now sit down and wait upon my Love-Ocean Heart This seems to be a Digression from that Thing Represented which is now returned to upon the Third Day after May the 28th 1676. I saw again in a Vision a Stream from this pleasant calm Sea of which I mentioned that for want of being suitably shod we could not pass over to it which gave much Exercise to my Mind thereby stirring up matter of Enquiry and Intercession to my God pleading from the Spirit of Jesus why that Gulph should remain betwixt this Ocean-Treasury and us Who had now declined and turned our Faces from all Things Terrestrial that so we might come to possess what Wisdom's Glass had opened of this Scene of Glory This being the Matter of my Contemplation after which in the Night falling into a Transical Sleep of a suddain I found my self in a Boat that did run with the greatest swiftness that neither the Bogs nor Quicksands which formerly I saw could stop it For the Waters from the Sea had risen high over all bringing me safe and secure to this Sea-shore where I was to sit down fixed upon the Mountain of Precious Stones there to choose and pick out what was of greatest value And when I came to my Spiritual Sense waiting for the Interpretation of this Vision it thus spake in me The Ocean Sea which thou didst see doth present God the Immense Deity who contains all full rich and weighty Substance and Treasury who by no Corporeal Spirit could ever be reached for there was a Gulph and Eternal Separation between as this boggy miery Passage did present thereunto But only by Sion born Spirits whom I have seen in the true Sorrow and Mourning because hereunto they could no Path find for sure footing whereby might be attained this rich Mine where all the desirable Good doth lie Now in tenderness and compassion unto thy sorrowful Spirit this Arm and Stream hath risen which represents thy Jesus who from the Ocean-Love of the Immense Deity doth to thee flow to bring thee back to the Head-Fountain where thou mayst come to know God the Holy Ghost covering thee as the Waters do the Sea till when upon this Jesus fix who this lovely Mountain of all Precious Substance is Where be thou sure now to look turning over every Stone till thou come to find that only Saphire Stone which will change gross Mettals into bright transparent Gold and shine through dark Bodies a flaming Light These things presented are to the Eternal Eye so to speculate upon as thereby thy whole Mind may be transmuted over hereunto in order to the fulfilling of what in Vision thou hast seen May the 29th 1676. O how unutterable was it What Joy did I feel upon this secret Parley which my dear Immanuel whose Words like Butter and Oyl did distil so that hereby was lifted up the Banner of my Hope that possibly we might yet live to see the Day of the Holy Ghost who out of his Mountain-Treasury is for to come to put an end to all Sin and mortal frail Impotencies under which we do yet groan looking and hastening for this Perfect Thing to come which will
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
those in whom is found no blemish but beautiful and well favoured and of a wise and understanding Spirit Seek me out such saith the most holy to abide in my Courts Whom upon search having found a Decree is given forth that they be committed to the custody of Melzar the high Guardian Prince of the Eunuchs who shall take the charge and care of these whom I would have the most Eminent in and throughout my whole Realm In order to which a daily portion of the King's Meat and of the same Wine whereof he drunk is assigned for them to be nourished by Well knowing what a fair and comly Body such high Heavenly extracted Food will bring forth to make strong and mighty meet for the King's business Here is a time also prefixed to be kept up to this Diet alone and to abstain and not taste of the low gross Elementary perishing Food which makes lean ill-favoured and blemished who must not come into the Sanctuary of the most High Against such there is a Law to exclude them all from coming near to the pure Majesty Therefore this Provision is made that ye may without exception be trained up under the Prince of Life who himself was a pure Nazarite and Eunuch for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake Who will be to you herein a lively Pattern giving day by day full Meals and Draughts out of the same divining Cup whereof your Lord himself doth drink That so ye may be Spirited with an all-peircing sight to know what is done and acted within the Kingdom of Light Interpreting and revealing such Wonderful things to them which yet remain dark to those who do abide in the dark Cell of this lower World doing such mighty deeds as may make them for to cry out Surely the Gods are come down to dwell in Flesh. This and much more will be your glory if you can for a while be shut up in the Eunuch Reservatory where you may be taught the language that is only spoken amongst the Church of the first born in the heavenly City For you must have a time for the learning hereof and you must entirely mind this Science For it is the great King that will give ability to stand before the eternal King when you can understand and take in through the pure and divine sence all the deep and weighty things Which in and through the high Tongue are in the Seraphick Language only sounded forth Therefore henceforth see it all needful to abide here under the care and tuition of your worthy Prince and Governour the true and faithful Melzar who at the end of the three Years may present you all fair able and wise That when the King comes to prove you with hard Questions ye may not be to seek no more than the beloved Daniel was who was found in all Matters excelling all the Magicianâ—… who stood before him Out of thiâ—… Similitude there is marrow of Life to bâ—… had August the 29th 1676. Being met together this Day as the Doctor was praying there was a suddain glance opened of a Person presenting himself in a way of visit to us looking as one that had some particular care and concern which revived that Scripture I am come into my Garden to see what Fruits appear and how my Spikenard outflows as also the Word spake thus This is the beloved Prince of the Eunuchs After this I felt a full gale of Spirit which breathed forth it self in Prayer all which give a Testimony of our Acceptation and could the Eye of the Spirit stand open we should see our Jesus often circumferring about us August the 30th 1676. About Four of the Clock in the Afternoon my Daughter R. came to me with a Message that there was a Letter came from my Sister Re. to Cousin Rob. Wa. that now there was an opportunity opened for my Redemption out of all Straits and Cares being privately ordered by my Brother to send for me down to her House and so to come to him and to abide during his Life where all things should be provided and need not to have any other dependance All which hearing being pressed upon me with many Arguments to dispatch and close with this present Offer which is I did not then I must expect that all other Relief would be with-held from me No Friend would either pity oâ—… aid me My Daughter laying much to my Charge for slighting such Providences Upon the consideration here of it was said within me Thou art iâ—… a great strait yet nevertheless stand by thy Vow and solemn Engagement where by thou hast given away thy Right a to the disposal of thy self Now thoâ—… art the Lord's who hath given to theâ—… a binding Earnest for to go on forward jointly with thy appointed Mate to thaâ—… Work which this present offer is mucâ—… too low for to retard Then rolled upon me many great anâ—… heavy Weights which would havâ—… pressed down my Faith seeing maâ—… Archers drawing up against me with out-stretched Bows but were prevented For I was immediately taken into Shelter up to the Rock of Strength I found my self as in a moment mounted where then I could charge again upon the subtle Adversary from that Ammunition-Tower which still furnished me with Faiths impregnable Power which soon quelled and allayed the Fury of the raging Oppressor For I found the Captain of the Lord's Host drew near to defend every Shot off from me lifting up his mighty Standard and speaking comfortably saying Hold fast let all go but what I have in charge committed to thee be sure to keep and thou needst not fear any of those Sufferings thou art threatned with Take no thought for while thou art upon my Business I will supply all things needful for I have given order for thy Sustainment Go forward ply your Heavenly Calling with him who to my Heart answers in this very thing also Ye must both look to fill up what is yet behind of the ten days Suffering for the Dragon hath great Rage he well sees how near his Date is out if you be able to stand out this Hour of Temptation which must allow thereby to prove your Fidelity that so ye may come off Conquerors that your Jesus may begin his Reign and put that Power into your Hand that ye shall at pleasure bind and chain up this great Leviathan that so he may no more go forth to hurt destroy or make Wars against the peaceable Government which shall rest upon each one when the great last Trumpet soundeth to call up to worship in the Mountain of Jerusalem Then ye shall see me Eye to Eye which will recompence this Long-suffering and Faith-Warrings against the Dragon and Beast who go into everlasting Perdition malitiously working to allure and plunge those upon whom he can fasten his Temptations but arise shake off all and in his dominion no longer stay Return return oh Shulamite unto thy fair Jerusalem-Mansion there the most Holy will meet thee and
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 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
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
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
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
deeper Mystery yet as it both presents Deity and Humanity thus interwoven together To shew how your Humane Will-Spirit must be wrought into this All-deified Spirit which to the ground-form of Silk gives the shine and glory in the variety of Flowers embossed thereupon according to the similitude which to thee was let down with the engraving of the Sacred Name that is that Princely Cloathing upon which is written Salvation Strength and Honour the unparalled Workmanship of the Spirit of Glory that now to you my elected Ones is come to call in the assistance of your Wills to work and joyn with him in all Power and Might till ye come to be inlaid into his Deâ—…fied Being and thus curiously wrought without the least default For not one wry Stich must be found in this Covering but all according to the perfect Rule seen in the Pattern Know I Jesus have sent my Spirit into you to work in Secresie this all-covering Tent. It will be Business enough to keep Pace and to follow the Hands of these working Powers that never will be idle calling still to the Spirit of your Wills to comply and for to hold out with it steadily For this is a Work which must be stuck to it will admit of no Nightslumbering the Furnace is to be kept in a constant heat for the Golden Thread which enterweaves with the Silk is still to be drawn out of the central Fire Oh now ye who have pried after this rich Covering of the Spirit you see whereunto you must give your selves that this all glorious Covering of the Spirit may rise and shine upon you that so ye may enter my Everlasting Courts with Confidence and Joy Where your Bridegroom will greatly rejoyce over you when ye are thus cloathed upon with the bright Body of the holy Sparkling Saphire Into which suffer my Spirit to work you that I may with freedom own receive and enjoy you as my all-lustrous Bride Even so Oh holy One prosper thy Work in us October the 21st 1676. In the Night I had this Representation of a Vine upon a Wall which was very fruitful but not come unto its full ripeness There appeared several sorts of Fruits besides Grapes all springing from the Vine-Root Which while viewing there came a cluster of Caterpillars with black Heads fastening upon the young sprouted Fruit to eat it off in this its Minority At which sight I was much concerned how to prevent the marring of such choice Fruit. After I came to weigh and consider the thing in the Spirit 's understanding the Word of Revelation opened and said This Vision was for caution and warning unto us who were now incorporated into that Vine-Root to bring forth Fruits according to what the Spirit hath sowed and watered so as they begin to consubstantiate into Fruit. Whereunto we coming to this first primary putting forth great danger does attend this new crop of the Spirit though they seem as harmless inconsiderable Worms yet they unconceivably destroy and eat and suck away the very Juice of the Grape leaving only the empty Husk For which cause saith the Spirit I have this warning given lest ye should not be heedful enough of this my painful Husbandry which I have brought forth in you For these little Foxes and crawling Worms are as pernicious to my new planted Nursery as those greater Beasts of Prey Therefore ward and watch keep all Invasions of this kind out when ever they do set upon thee and would assault to snip away my first Fruits Then take to thee speedily the Bucket of Faith and let down into me who will open the Heavens to bring down Showers that shall wash and scatter away these devouring Caterpillers out of thee October the 21st 1676. It was further shewn me as I was in Prayer upon this occasion how our Vineyard might be kept each one from being preyed upon This Word was shot in from the Lord upon me Keep thy Eye upon this new springing Lily sit under the Shadow of it and go not out from it It s fruitfulness will befriend thee when this World with all its fruitfulness shall be as a dry Tree Therefore make it thy only Shelter and Stay for the Essential Power of the Deity floweth forth as the Spirit in thee can draw it forth That then ye may fully scent this Flower of Lise and live upon it day by day then thou needst not wander from the Spirit 's Tent. Who hath sufficiency to keep thee if thou couldst go forward and work with him in this Magia Calling Which divine Skill and Art hath been hid from the whole Creation and a false Craft hath stolen away the Heart universally While this hath been hid under the Seven Seals and none worthy found to break open this deep Magia Ground where that weighty Gold is that will buy out thousands of such drossy Worlds in which all ignorant and earthly Inhabitants do trade But to you that separate and are willing by me to be perswaded to find out that old antient Vocation where neither Curse Sorrow nor Pain do attend which was and is to be renewed again to such as can get free from this Principle and live in defâ—…nce to it as not fearing nor caring evermore to make friendship with it there is a better Store upon the opening unto you To whom I am as a fore-runner upon this account sent to assure you there are such precious things given by the Father into my Hand as ye shall not need to sue to this World for its favour For the time is nigh wherein the now despised shall be described what they are October the 25th 1676. Through the abundant Openings out from the Light of that Day of the Lord encompassing my Intellectual Part filling me as a burning Lamp within shewing still some one thing or other new upon which I cryed and said Ah my God what will all this Knowledge and Light with me amount unto For to know deep and secret things is both sweet and pleasant whether they be for present or future Existency But this is not to be all my Dowry though they are of great use and service yet here I cannot stay neither dare I take up fulness of Joy there is something else yet behind which must fill this Heavenly Body of Light Oh that one weighty Drop that I do see ready to fall off on that bright Saphire Body will be the Birth-Seed that extendeth not only to Will but to perform and do what it sees in the Light When this shall drop the Nature as it stands in the Line of the Fall with the weight thereof shall be broken and dissolved for no patch of Clay upon this Gold is evermore to be seen as it was declared to me Who upon this Expostulation further said and brought this Word with a fresh application unto me saying As the Father hath Life in himself so hath he given the Son to have Life in himself also which Words in John
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
according to the pure Element that is there At which offer and upon the terms specified I for my self and for my travelling Friend did perfectly agree on â—…o proceed as this our Dove-Mate should us bear upon her Wing of Power Not fearing to adventure through a Desert state and to draw off from all Communions which are of this visible Sphear For another Voice in my Ear did cry Depart and come out touch nothing neither mingle your Offerings with Korah or his Company who though they may appear with Censers in their Hands yet do you not them come near for the Earth doth close upon them as their most visible dark covering From whom Away with me your flying Horse of Power October the 30th 1676. Being in my private Ejaculations this Word sounded in me All Prayings Prophecyings Speakings are of no validity but what proceed from the Head-covering which is the Miter-Crown of Purity and Power which the Unction alone for you must draw down from him who holdeth in his Hand the Seven Star-Powers to encompass you round that so no nakedness may be more found upon you For what is more empty naked and void then Words that are not touched with the Altar-Coal that giveth Impregnancy where-ever it falleth Therefore hereunto watch and go not forth in any of these ministring Services without you wrap up close this Nazarite Covering of Strength about you for want of which your Labours have been fruitless and my Spirit hath been under reproach and derision to you which shame I am come to take off from you to whom this Caution I do give not to be too hasty to run out before you have put on your Garment of strength Better it is to wait in Secresie till thy Coverting is all finished by him who in his own method moveth and worketh all effectually into whose Mold being cast ye will certainly come forth a much more refined piece of glorious workmanship for the illustration of the Spirit 's Ministration Which Wheel hath by the decree of the Almighty begun to move Now see to it and keep it still going side by side with the Spirit that is the Life-motion of it who will plunge you in to know and see yet greater things as you can keep strait course with it Then may you dive into the Seven Star-Pool which will draw out the last Trumpet-shout of a God Omnipotent for a Covering throughout to thee Who but thee oh thou Spirit in the burning Wheel canst work which for us effect quickly October the 31st 1676. Towards the First Day in the Morning I saw the Dr. as in a publick Theatre bearing a high Testimony for the Spirit in a Youthful figure and Hair grown brown and bushy Who was acted forth that he bore down many that seemed to doubt and question what he from the authority of the Spirit witnessed to Upon which it was said to me This should be fulfilled in his season upon whose rising Day wait to the fulfilling Joy From this presentation it was given me to conclude that the D. should assuredly be made an able Minister of the Spirit in some signal proof of it Which I sought my God for in reference to the Glory that would be manifested through the lifting up the Standard of this mighty defensive Spirit Whom we do begin already to feel is so busie again in us as gives good ground of hope that somewhat is to be brought forth that shall make a free and clear place for the Holy Ghost to act forth his own Power in the Humanity November the 1st 1676. THis Day upon Mr. Bromley's account the Dr. was engaged to speak in Publick whose Sails were spread and filled with Breath from the Anointing Power After which I found my Spirit much called into an inward stillness to find out the original Wheel that turns the whole Creation about As seeing all things short though they are brought forth in Spiritual Appearances they pass away as yet too weak to bring forth the transfigured state Upon which consideration I went to my Nights Repose in some heaviness of Spirit mourning after the Life-working Power to deliver me from this every surviving Hour of Temptation importuning for a naked access to the Throne of Majesty where I might have freedom to open all in plainness of Speech and to hear without any other Medium but the Spirit 's Ear what God would answer to me Upon which I had presented four moving Wheels of Flame Colour As they turned they opened a deep in the ground which still dissolved and melted away where ever they went so they kept on their circling course having at last no more ground to move upon all being burnt up before them A Seraphim with six Wings all covered them only through every Wing an Eye was seen and then the Wheels were lifted up and did ascend Then a Voice came unto me saying Mark and see what you must be turned into if you will see the bare and naked Majesty of Glory Canst thou think to bear the presence of an Immense Light that is of such a transparency without a Cherub's covering upon all thy working Wheels If thou wilt come to the heights of Zion-Glory come prepare for to be undone in thy own sensitive Life the very Pillars of the House oâ—… Nature will be shaken the keepers thereof will tremple Man must cease wheâ—… God descends into his Holy Place these flaming Coverts of the Spirit will leâ—… nothing of the Flesh inherit with it Therefore till thou dost agree to thiâ—… there can be no possibility of coming in to that great Assembly where the Mosâ—… High doth over all Worlds reign witâ—… his Train of glorified Spirits When had after this manner discoursed the result of my importunity was thus given to me I was convinced what such an access for continuation there would cost For it was shewed to me there must be down right Payment Words would not alone pass All our earthly Goodness and Godliness was to be given away for this Cherub's Covering and no longer in the Tents of Babylon to stay there to live in the midst of a People of unclean Lips Now the great thing is how this shall be brought to pass for who shall live when God doth this Yet seeing the all-knowing Spirit hath plainly hereof advertised that so to us it may not come as a surprize when these burning Wheels shall wholly undermine and consume what it finds of that putrified Earth in us Oh then I do see the six Winged Seraphim will be our Covering through which we shall behold the Lord the mighty King upon his Throne of Glory according as hath been foretold and there his mighty Voice shall hear which now sounds in our Ears from that Seraphick Sphear November the 3d. 1676. As I was introverted into my self this Morning calling over those things revealed upon the Representation of the four Wheels that eat out the Earth which it moved upon this Word moreover cryed in
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
it given me to understand the several Offices and Business belonging to each one of these to make ready for the Birth-Day and to protect this High-born One from the raging Floods the tempstuous Winds of the Adversary The Spirit 's Work is to reprove convince exhort counsel caution and comfort in order to the carring on this great Affair The work of the Water is another witness as you find it in you as a bubling Pool cleansing every part within that so not the least defect may be found in the Matrix whereout the Birth must open Then the Blood is a great Testimonial Witness and Evidence as in a mystical manner conveyed tasted and drunk down by them that do carry the matter of this Birth for it doth produce a vigorous Life that will be known and felt to refresh both Mother and Babe So keeping all these in their several acting-Properties they will be the clear evidence unto thee that the Ghostly Birth is working out it self Therefore with these three let thy Will-Spirit agree hereunto to throw out every misconceived thought For now all things must be new again by the Father Word and Spirit through this new Birth wrought That ye may come to a mighty Record among the New Jerusalem Stones where all are waiting this rising day to see because it will fix in thee an unknown Liberty both in Spirit and Body November the 21st 1676. It was also further expresly opened unto me that we were at present brought thus far as to witness these three as Spirit Water and Blood being Witnesses in our Earth which did fore-run the Ministration of the Holy Ghost For they must go before as the Ministration of Jesus who came by Water Blood and Spirit that is Death Life and Resurrection from which he passed and so must we As he did bear our Record in Heaven which will be a different thing though agreeing to one and the same end as thus the three first make way as the Water-Baptism into the Death the Blood into the Life the Spirit quickneth and giveth a Body of the Resurrection So the Ministration of Jesus hath its twofold Use upon us in order to the second thus which are to bear Record as the Father Word and Holy Ghost in our Heavens So here is to be understood the rising Degree or changing from Jesus in Spirit to that degree of Unity of Father Word and Holy Ghost all which agree to enter into a Virgin Mind thus prepared and in it after a high Mystical mauner themselves conceive so as to include them as one only Being contracting the Virgin-Will and Spirit with it self hereby becoming one inbred with it as that Heir who was darkly prophesyed of in Micah's day who said the glory of Israel was to come unto the Adullam the very pure Tabernacle of the Virgin-Nature born again of Water Blood and Spirit so made indeed a meet reception for this holy thing to be sealed up as in an unknown Pavilion or hiding Place of Strength which must be till it hath attained every measure and part to the growing big and filling up the Birth 's place with Breasts full of Milk the Spring Word of the Spirit diffusing into them the natural course of the Bloody Issue of Sin also stopping all which will be evident Signs unto you that are still apt to be questioning whether this Ghostly Birth is in you forming Therefore be still and wait for that great travelling hour that is to come upon ye before which sometimes ye will be in Pains and Heaviness because ye may meet with many a throw of Temptation all which will work the Birth forward therefore be not dismayed Oh Daughter of my Zion so long as thou walkest steadily not going out of Sion Court where you are to wait at my Council-Board to enquire what shall fore-run and be in that travelling Hour which will make great Spoil of the Mortal Shell which must break away at this great Birth-day Therefore look and expect this will make a mighty alteration for the Heavens will rend that the Throne-Spirits and Powers may descend as helps and Guardian defence and Witness-bearers to this Sion-Birth For which great Provision is aforehand to be made to answer to the greatness of the Sion state all of the rich concealed Furniture and Golden Cups Pots and Vessels at such a time as this will be brought out with all the rich Robes for those to wear who do attend upon this Birth Great and mighty Preparations thou dost see are hereunto expedient for to be Because this World is so blind ignorant and unbelieving that it will be no less needful to rebuke by all high and Spiritual Magnificency in the very height of Sion Glory and to outvye hereby not only vain pompous Glory but those Abominations and false exalted Lighâ—… set up in Temple-Worships as no better then false Births Coverings which will not be removed till this mighty Standard of this Holy Ghost come to be lifted up and set upon the top of Sion-Hill in Visibility November the 22d 1676. I saw as a Preludium of this rising Birth of the Holy Ghost a bright Firmament opne and all dignified with splendorous Stars some much more blazing then others And one Star encreased so great as it became like the Body of the Sun Which Vision was thus opened unto me after some days being called over in me by a fresh vivification of Spirit that shewed me that the one Star which I saw so suddenly encrease to that largeness as the very Body of the Sun it was the Virgin-Woman that was all to be encompassed with the Birth Light of the Holy Ghost which would arise out of that Orb at which the rest of the Stars that did encompass it should shout for Joy and be Witnesses â—…hereof at the opening of this greater Day-Star which should enlighten the whole Earth Oh this left great Amazement in me provoking to some travelling Sorrows for to see this mighty Wonder â—…rought forth as in Vision so existently in that Star who is hereunto by the Omnipotency elected A further Confirmation hereunto was the Idea of an Ark that was shut up floating up and down not upon muddy troublesome Waters which once covered all Mountains and Hills whenas the Deluge was upon the Old World but these Waters were pure and healing like the Waters under the Threshold of the Sanctuary that where-ever they came quickned unto Life And it was said to me Behold the Dove is in the Ark and will be this place of broad Waters that shall cover the Earth no more to kill or destroy but to save alive according to the New Covenant that all shall know God from the least to the greatest When out of this Ark the Dove shall flye with the Everlasting Gospel as the Olive-Branch which carrieth in it that oily Property we will kindle a sweet Fire that can mix with these pure Waters and not bâ—… quenched but still maintain servent heaâ—…
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
same no transmutation came upon her no more then upon others only living a holy Virgin Life but no matter of Wonder after Christ's Birth wrought aâ—… by or through her have shone forth but all still by the Birth that proceeded from her Who in that Day gave proof by Miracles of the pure Deity working through Humanity This great Question was thus resolved me through the Word of Life opening which testified as followeth True it is that in the humane Birth of thy Jesus there was a visible shew of distinction because of the Corporeity which then was needful to be born but in this case it will be otherwise For this is a Birth of meer Spirit without any commixture of Humanity only it will pass and act sometime through this Virgin Humanity which it hath chosen to be its Birth-Womb or Temple-Body whereby it may act its Deeds of Wonder answerable to its Birth-Deity So that here the Mother of the Virgin Birth will be more dignified and honoured then the foregoing Ministration in the Birth of Jesus was Therefore an oriental bright flaming Garment is allotted her with a Crown beset with Stars plainly declaring that to her is given the Command and Power to bear sway within the Celestial Region and by and through that near relation and conjunction with this mighty Birth when born to go forth to seal and save the Nations that shall bow to its Soveraignty For this Birth consisteth of marvelous Power none can its mystical Being sound or find out for it operates in every Creature and thing after a Magical manner And in this one pure Virgin she will first unseal that everlasting Source of â—…reasure and therefrom distribute according to the degrees and measures of the Holy Ghost who shall give his quickning Powers first in them who for this successive Birth have their Minds purified and refined For this a touch-flaming Stone there is that will inkindle Life in each one as its pleasure shall to introduce it self most free For by way of Birth it will grow in all that hereof shall participate and after like manner generate But oh here will be the great thing who shall be counted worthy to be the first of this Ghostly Generation for him to begin withal December the 15th 1676. This Word came Behold yet and see here is Birth-prize within your most pure Womb-Hearts now laid there is no prohibition but all Love-Emanations and Incitations by Spirit-provocations to put you upon the believing the possibility thereof And know for a truth that this Birth will go forward and grow mightily if you do but keep to these two Rules and observe them nicely The first is to eschew drinking out of that Cup wherein is mingled very subtlely Red Wine that is sugar'd with all sweet sensibility that flows readily into this Wine being from the strange and Wild Vine Therefore it must be refused in regard of the evil Consequences that do attend it For the Poyson of every earthly Essence is mingled here withalâ—… which contributed doth feed up that olâ—… Life-Birth by which this is warned to depart out for what doth feed up the one doth starve the other they cannot be Twins in this sanctified and holy Vehickle which only is allotted for the Nazarite For whom a choice and particular provision is appointed by the Father of it Now charge in special to yoâ—… is given who herein may be concerned that you henceforth refuse to tast anâ—… of their delicious Fruits that do sprinâ—… from the neathermost part and loweâ—… Region for they are all crude and sowâ—… for want of that kind way of ripening from the everlasting warm heat of thâ—… one blessed Element which by givinâ—… proof of your Fear Love and Caâ—… herein lest thereby this Holy Thiâ—… should suffer ye must faithfully abstaiâ—… from all her crude earthly Fruits the may ye hope firmly and claim boldâ—… Stores and Supplies out from the Treâ—… sury of a God all-sufficiency that wiâ—…l most marvellously excel all of this earthly growth millions of degrees for Vigour Strength and Pleasantness That for the nutriment of this holy Birth-Stone shall be conveyed though unseen yet tasted and felt by them that shall carry this Birth in them till it cometh to its full Number and Date The second Rule that was given us strictly to observe was this alluding to the Woman in the Revelations that was cloathed with the Sun before she brought forth signifying to us that Clarity and Virgin-Purity was the signal mark of such as should her personate in the Heavenly state Therefore what less will become us then Garments of Light having no streaks of the Night of Darkness upon them as it is written all Light in the Lord. Who is our fine Linnen-Righteousness to exercise the simplified Nature of the Virgin-Spirit who this Birth is to bring forth in the World Then also I had this further Advertisement that it would be very requisite for us who carried this living Birth-Stone within us for to seek a Desart solitary Place void of all the commixed Solaces of this World who would envy and hate and chase such as should apply themselves hereunto as Noted Ones who do wait for this great Birth refreshing Therefore be wise and wary said the holy Guide and make no mention yet what the Lord is for and in you doing Remembring that Word Let not him that is but putting on his Armour boast or glory as he that putteth off having given proof of Victory So ye are to consider that your Walks here in this dark Valley and amongst the Dead is very slippery and unsavoury and may well offend the holy pure conceived thing within you Now then fly to a solitary Wilderness where you may preserve your selves and Birth from the Dragon's Eye that awakeneth and stirreth up every where against it For as much as he with his piercing Eye doth see who nearest the Birth-mark are now then up and away take flight with that Wing which is a strong resolved Will that carries swift as an Eagle into that Path and Way which the Vultur's Eye shall not espy during the time of your most secret hiding in this Wilderness Which to you shall be as a Lebanon for the Angel of my presence shall here walk with you if herein you shall obey then will I feed and nourish you with that which is choice and primary Food indeed such as the gross and sensitive Life never understood I do only require the act of your flying Will to abide where you will see nothing grow that can feed your earthly sensitive Appetite Here is no other Life to be known or exercised but that of Faith which must fetch in all Provision belonging hereunto Therefore my Spirit doth allure you who are justified and nourished by the outflowing Acts of Faith which through a constant exercise will be of that predominancy as to eat out and swallow up the mutinous Essences which strive so hard to make void this Life
exercised Authority over you and thereby you shall know the first formation into the clear and pure Airy Body which will carry you though obscurely as Christ your Lord did that shall hereout appear in another form as he did when risen from the Dead who did only to a few appear discending from his Paradisical Sphear Even so by the same quickning Spirit pass over with your Jesus till you arrive beyond Paradise and come to assume that third Birth Degree which alone is appropiated to the all-Ghostly-Trinity which as in one shall swallow up every lower Degree that now must go forward in you in order to this superiour Birth Which only can be born out of these who are ascended to Mount Sion as the proper Region for the pure Virgin to travail with this Birth in Oh it is so high great and principal that out of this holy Climate it cannot be manifested therefore consider what holy separated and sequestred Spirits the hopes of this third degree of the Spirit 's Birth do call you for to give up your selves unto Faint not but stick close unto that which as a munition of Rocks will be to you for Strength Light and Counsel till to this last degree of glory you shall be brought and therein your Jesus will appear Therefore do you set forward be as those that are dead and yet alive Be Ye not any longer but let the second Degree of the Spirit 's Birth live in this very time of your attained process having so far obtained the potent Power of the free willing Spirit as this to effect by the Birth-Spirit which is already born in you which will so far perfect the Death as to bring forth that Body of the Resurrection Which gradually proceeds from the Root of that Eternal Spirit which raised Christ from the Dead this shall also be that generating Life-quickning Spirit in you to bring forth the last and principal Birth-degree which growing will be till the compleat Death and Resurrection are passed through Thâ—…n may ye expect the breaking forth of this high and great Manifestation of God the Holy Ghost who will Reign indeed Omnipotently over all that hath lain under the Fall No Song of full Redemption can be sung till this Kingdom of the Lamb and Bride mutually do meet The counsel of the Spirit is to you who have this pure Unction Matter in you that you give it all scope and liberty for its further driving forth in you For ye may be as many who have gone forth in this generating Birth but have stopped the Life-Vein before it could come to breath in a risen Body all of pure Air. Therefore double your Watch and be heedful for it is no light or trivial work that you must herein set upon for wâ—…re you to begin your whole Life again days few enough they would be to clear and acquit all to make room for this rising Bâ—…rth forth to go But to such as shall hereunto set themselves with a perfect Heâ—… Hezekiah-like I will saith the Sâ—…irit add unto their days some degrees of the Sun of their outward Life which shall not go down till you have finished that Faith which will give the power to open the fiâ—…st Seal where doth lie under the Saphire Stone Obey and flee to your appointed Wilderness that this fore-running Life of Faith may have all supremacy over your sensitive part to work down and bury in the Death-Grave all which would this Birâ—…h Lily with its Rose-Mate oppose These things in charge the Spirit of Jesus doth mutually leave with you the terms and conditions are faithfully revealed to you you may either win or lose this great Pâ—…ze as to the Manifâ—…station hereof in this Principle But be ye wise December the 23d 1676. It was this Morning further manifested to me that those three who so appeared unto me were the same which appeared to Abraham bringing the good News that the Isaac-Birth was near Only they were in humane Shapes these were all in a pure Mist and formed into Airy Bodies only for Spirits to behold But this was the Secret that was opened to me from hence according as was cryed in me which was this as the Word opened Understand now and kâ—…ow oh ye Intellectual Spirits for what end did these appear to thee What less but to advertise that the great and last Birth-Day of the Spirit is drawing near The barren Sarah shall again bear from the Youthful Nature of the Virgin which hath its time for to flower in Nature's Ground for the Trinity to consummate all by this one passing act of transfused Spiritual Generation This is that which must do the Cure upon the Mortal Sore as this whole Birth-Trinity is born in each one Births there have been from the Fathers and Sons property as that of Isaac and of Jesus in the Flesh being figuratives which have had their Mystery fulfilled And here hath been the stop being baptized into the Father and the Son but not knowing that last and Celestial Baptism of the Holy Ghost Who beareth no other similitude but what answereth and is consonant to that eternal Element from whence this Ghostly Body is contracted Which is all Breath of Power a Flame of Purity clarified Earth through which Golden Streams do run through every Vein to make up a transparent Body which may well become the Holy Trinity for to dwell in Here is the Birth that is not yet come into the World there hath wanted the Woman-Virgin cloathed with the Sun for to bring it forth Who must be drawn aside from all and kept up only for this mighty travelling Work who hath an appointed daily Portion from the high Father of this Birth sent in for the nourishing of this which is so highly compacted of the threefold Seed of the Deity That so nothing of defect shortness of power and disability may be which have been complained of hitherto But when this Trine do agree as one to pass through the Virgin-Mind then shall such walk as full Victors over the Sea of Glass having Bodies sutably framed unto those Spirits which ye receive in the second Birth-Ministration Which for want of such a Ghostly Body through a Christ-like Spirit yet remaineth weak till the whole Mystery of Father Son and Spirit comes and shall appear to Move and open in the eternal Birth-center evermore December the 26th 1676. It was further noted unto me from that Vision of the three Spiritual Bodies That all Discovery and Revelation of the Will and Mind of the Dâ—…y would now be from these three bearing Witnesses for themselves in our pure eternal part Who there will never cease to be a Speaking Oracle for Manifestation if we stick closely to observe and obey what daily proceedeth herefrom For it was said to me Turn and dive deep in for the Living Word is become a bubbling Spring that shall work out all mâ—…d things that would corrupt and make void the Law of my Spirit which
Holy Place p. 294. The Seven Compassings p. 298. The Golden Fleece ibid. The Uncloathing of Joshua the High-Priest p. 299 A 〈◊〉 against the Composition-Poyson p. 303. The Consubstantiation of the Heavenly Bread p. 304 The Gourd ibid. The Jubilee 305. The Covering of the Son of Man p. 306. The Pot of Manna and the Bowl of Oyl ibid. The Fair Achsah presented to Othniel p. 307. The All-Golden Grain or the true Masculine Spirit p. 309. The New Creation p. 311. A great Battel against it from the Dark and middle Worlds p. 31â—… A Renewed Evidence hereupon of the Resurrection Body p. 316. The Dew of Hermon ibid. The Swan-like Washings p. 318. The Return of the Beast to the Lake and the Chaining up of the Dragon p. 〈◊〉 323. The Name aâ—…d Mark of the Lamb p. 321. The Guardian Eunuch p. 324. A sâ—…t Battel from the Outward Worldly Principle p. 527. The Captain of the Lords Host appears to the Combatant p. 329. A Call to the Shulamite p. 350. The Shulamite's Obedience so this Call p. 331. The Blessing of Zebulon p. 332. Vision and Fruition p. 333. The Golden Globe or the New Mold of Imagination p. 334. Rules for the Government of the Imagination p. 337. The Lamb's Book p. 340 344. The Lamb's Feast p. 341. Ejaculations after the Lamb 's Great Appearance p. 345. His Fountain-Body unsealed ibid. The Golden Mist or the Circling Breath of the Deity p. 346. The Holy Incense p. 349. The Healing Word p. 352. The Eâ—…postulation of the Spouse p. 354. The Bridegroom's Answer by his Spirit p. 357. The Marriage-Union p. 360. The Working Mines p. 362. The Divine Chymist p. 364. The Chrysolite p. 366. The Virgin in Labour to bring forth her First-born p. 367. A Râ—…sentation of the Lamb and of his Bride Triumphant p. 369. Her Cup of Blessing p. 372. The Royal Purchase p. 374. Wisdom's Wardrobe or the Virgin Rayment p. 375. Repeated Cautions and Reproofs from the Importunate Lover to his Beloved that she might hasten out of the Land of her Captivity p. 376. The Eunuch-Spirit or the Sabbath of Rest p. 380. A New Onset causing an Interruption in the Spiritual Calling p. 382. The Sabbatical City p. 383. The Breaking through of the Divine Glory p. 384. The Oracular Glory speaking Mouth to Mouth p. 386. The Ministration of Elisha p. 387. The Comforters Message from the Bridegroom p. 392. The Day of the Spirit p. 394. A fresh Attack against the Spirit of Faith p. 396. The Covering of wrought Gold interwoven with Scarlet Silk p. 397. The Caterpillars p. 399. The Viâ—…eyard or the Magical Ground p. 401. The Weighty Drop p. 403. The Life of Divine Soveraignty or Man is become as one of us p. 404. The Gods ascending out of the Earth p. 406. Ahasuerus or the King as the Banquet p. 408. Esther's Preparatory Fast p. 410. Her Feast and Petition p. 411. Mordecai and Haman or the Princely Spirit of Faith and the Insulting Spirit of Reason p. 413. The King's Answer to Esther's Petition p. 416. The Flying Horse of Power ibid. The United Crown or the Nazarite Covering p. 418. The Burning-Wheel or the Spirit 's Workmanship p. 419. What it is to be a Standard-Bearer of the Spirit p. 420. The Seraphim covering the Wheels of Nature p. 421. The Progress of the Wheel-Work p. 424. The Cherub-Tent p. 425. The Way of the Spirit cleansed by the Cherubim Oracle p. 426. Wisdom's Armory disclosed ibid. It is broken up by the Mighty Cyrus p. 427. The Sign of the Son of Man p. 430. The Binding of the Four Winds p. 432. The Olive-Tree or the Sealing of the Deity p. 433. The Mystery of the three Heavenly Witnesses p. 435. The Ternary of Witnesses on the Earth p. 437. The Unity of these Three p. 439. Adullam or the pure Virgin-Tabernacle p. 440. The Great Day-Star p. 442. The Ark floating upon the Waters of the Sanctuary p. 443. The Seven Sealed Doors p. 444. The Transmutation into Birds p. 445. The Interpretation hereof p. 446. The Accusers Opposition to it p. 449. The Victory gained by the Spirit of Faith p. 450. Another Defeat of his Dark Magick p. 451 455. The Basis of the First and Second Creation p. 452. The Birth of Immanuel guarded against the Dragon p. 454. The Coming of Elias p. 455. The Conquering Bow or no Conquest no Portion p. 457. The Sword of the Lord in Gideon's Hand p. 458. The Fruits springing from One Eternal Element p. 461. The One Elementary Body p. 461. The Garden-Plantation p. 463. The Olive-Berry p. 464. The Strong Force of United Spirits p. 466. A Resolution of some Queries relating to the Wonder-Woman p. 468. The Wilderness-Temptation or Floods of Jealousie cast out against the Woman p. 476. The three Ghostly Bodies p. 479. The Three Distinct Births of the Spirit further unfolded p. 480. A Prolongation of the Outward Life promised to some that are to Open the First Seal p. 484. The Messengers of the Isaac-Birth p. 485. The Excellency of this Third Birth above the two former p. 487. The Young Elephant p. 091. A Letter of Resolution in Answer to some Objections sent from a Learned Physician to the Publisher hereof upon occasion of the English Edition of The Letter to some Divines concerning the Question Whether since Christ's Ascension God doth any more Reveal himself to Mankind And may for the like Reason refer to this present Work p. 493. How are Spirits to be discerned p. 499. Two Testimonies for the Ministration of the Spirit Revived The Testimony of Dr. J. P. the Author 's Follow Traveller The Testimony of Mr. T. B. An Advertisement WHereas in the Year 1683. there was Printed a Treatise of that Inlighten'd Philosopher and Profound Divine Dr. John Pordage this Author 's most Intimate Friend entitled THE OLOGIA MYSTICA or the Mystick Divinity of the Eternal Invisibles viz. the Archetypal Globe or the Original Globe or World of all Globes Essences Centers Elements Principles and Creations what soever wherein many Deep and Hidden Mysteries have been Unfolded from a Ray of the Divine Light and the same though Published with great Disadvantage to the Author's Memory and the Great Things therein deliver'd has excited in several Searching Spirits are eager and longing Desire to see the rest of his Writings made Publick This is to give Notice that Leave having been at last obtained after many reiterated Solicitations from the Executors of the said Dr. John and of Mr. Francis Pordage the Publisher of this Book will undertake to Gratifie the World with all the Theological Theosophical and Philosophical Works of the said Illuminated Son of Wisdom which are come to his Hands if there shall be any suitable encouragement given to such a Design The Titles whereof are these that follow viz. Mystica Philosophica or a Treatise of Eternal Nature wherein the Distinction of God from Nature is Discussed and many Weighty Questions both Physical and Divine relating
henceforth to you is to be a standing Rule For all other ways and means for Information and Discourse with the most Holy are now ceased God used and took up outward Figures to reveal his Mind by in former Ages and Times as by the Ministration of Angels and then by his Son who came to reveal what was meet to be known and understood in that day of his visible Appearance in the World Who could hardly bear to hear what was reported by him who would have had as little credit in the World as any now if there had not been the Sealing Power of the Godhead by which the World was convinced for Obedience to the Faith which then was required But this Ministration of Jesus shutting up what must the Just now live by in these last times Your Jesus doth not turn you over to a dead Stock to live upon as to what was done and written in his Day but transferreth you over to a lively Manifestation and fresh Openings from his Spirit 's Birth in you Whose leadings and drawings observed it will further point you to what may still be generated from Spirit to Spirit Yet in a higher Birth-Degree for that which is at first but a Spirit of Prophecy and Revelation will turn it self into a fixed Body All which proportionably is to ascend into the New Jernsalem for to bring it down in the transparent Ghostly Power For when Spirit and Body do mutually agree together and knit after the manner of that secret Formation then it seeks its own Region to dwell in For if the Trinity will appear among these low Inhabitants then a Body must for them be prepared Oh then see what the Light and Life-quickning hath yet in you to do to wit a travelling Work still that as Jesus hath had his Birthformation so now the Holy Ghost may be fully formed that so ye may not need to have a Star-Leader or depend upon this way of Revelation that now you are waiting upon For you shall know in the first Root of knowledge as God himself knoweth But in the present time the Spirit measureth out according as you are able to bear which are but as Sprinklings to what the broad Waters shall coâ—…er your Earth withal However hereunto ye do well to attend as unto the sure Word of Wisdom that shall drop in the all-healing Gold to make ready for what hath been fore-told One thing more in order I do require that seeing I have made choice of you to bear my Name mystically upon your Breast or Table-Heart where I do answer all your Enquiries that you reserve for me that most Holy Place to commune with you there alone suffering no polluted thing to enter in for to raise any fume or dark Vapour upon the Breast-Plate Stones which will ecclips the lustre of them so as no Light they will give to you for further proceeding And if they should be clouded through cold earthly Damps your way would soon be dark and at a loss ye would find your selves Therefore beware of darkening your Foundation-Light for withoâ—… great heedfulness ye may cast a Shadow upon 〈◊〉 then no certain discovery or resolve â—…an be given though ye make never so â—…rict an Enquiry This was the cause â—…nd ground of all Apostatizing in former â—…nd present Ages having stifled the â—…peaking Oracle by crouding earthly â—…uff into that which should be the seâ—…arated and consecrated place for the â—…iving Testimony thereout to open for â—…aily Instruction and Guidance Which â—…s of absolute expedience in such a danâ—…erous state where so many cross false â—…nd by-ways do offer themselves to the Eye But keep you to your own Breast-Plate of light sparkling Stones and they will give to you sound Judgment and Sion-Laws and as need is still Renew you till you in all things shall be perfected for Jehovah Shammah to fill up your Temple-Body with Glory December the 28th 1676. In the forepart of this Night I was much pondering and considering the weightiness of the Ghostly Formation how difficult a thing it was and hard to be by any brought forth though many have hard â—…ravelled for it yet there wanted both Strength and Perfection of Righteonsness which I saw we also were deficient in Therefore not sufficient to carry through such a wonderful Restorative Birth of Life But as I was complaining and owning our impotencies and unmeetness hereunto this Word came My Grace can make strong where sence of the greatest Weakness is therefore hope and believe down all Discouragements Which Word much comforted and quieted me and I fell asleep In which I saw a young Elephant that was to be bred up and it was presented to be my care and charge to feed it When I awaked it was said to me That as this Elephant for strength so we should grow to be And no burthen oâ—… weight what ever cast upon us should cause any shrinking or bowing under it For such a strong Elephant-Power should by degrees grow upon us if careful we would be here to feed up thiâ—… young Elephant which was by this Figure presented to us The Mystery hereof lying hid in us for its appointed time A Letter of Resolution in Answer to some Objections sent from a Learned Physician to the Publisher hereof upon occasion of the English Edition of The Letter to some Divines concerning the Question and may for the like reason refer to this present Work Whether God since Christ's Ascention doth any more Reveal himself to Mankind c Dear Sir I Do not at all wonder at the Difficulties that are made by the excellent â—…rson your Friend to credit those more Secret and Extraordinary Favours of God which some are Witnesses to in these Latter Days and â—…e might be were they but qualify'd to receive them For it was not but after much doubting and long Examining as I have said that I came my self to be satisfy'd in this matter and therefore I can with the less difficulty allow it in others I 'm indeed made truly sensible that Unbelief is that Sin which doth so easily Beset us and having found it to be so in my self I know how to pity it in any one else and can't but think the Warning of the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews against it to be as highly seasonable as it is little regarded It s plain enough that no other then this can be there understood as well from the Context and whole Design of the Apostle as from the entire History of the Old and New Testament For this very reason it is that we are encompassed about with such a Cloud of Witnesses who exercising the most Heroical Acts of Faith were admitted to a more immediate Conversation with the Divine Being during their Pilgrimage on the Earth and to a more illustrious Communication of his Light Love then the Presumptuous and Incredulous Spirit of Human Reasoâ—… can ever dive into that we seeking to tread in their Steps might