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The laws of paradise, given forth by wisdom to a translated spirit.
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Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.
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1695
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Wing L786; ESTC R222655
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with your own Name upon it which may advance and establish you in the like state of Glory For so it is ordained that all that are mine should improve their own stock of Life and so each one wear their own Crowns not coveting any thing out of themselves because I have enough to give to every one of my Children even a full Revenue so as there shall be no occasion of grudging one at another But their Growths Degrees and Gifts may be different according as in my own wise Counsel I shall see meet to dispence who will be Uncontroulable giving no account to any Creature but will confer my Favours upon such as I see and know to be most diligent For which they shall have no cause to repent who have their Minds wholly inclined and bent toward ME and who unto these my Laws do entirely cleave which Laws without a Mosaical Vail I now present that thou mayest behold the good Will that I do bear unto thee and unto such as love and know My Name so as in pure Nazariteness to separate for the Work which I have cut out for you to imitate exactly as approving your selves in all things willing to please Her who will be your Crowning Reward III. But I must not forget to caution thee concerning that Out-birth Neighbour lest thou shouldest covet that which is his Right in this Outward Principle Where he also hath a great Lordship and a Might-Soveraignty over all whatever the Visible Earth doth bring forth Here is in this World likewise a Temporal Kingdom consisting in Riches Honour and Majesty with Dominion over their Fellow Creatures where-from I set thee free CHAP. II. The Opposition which this Translated Spirit met with during the Delivery of these Laws AS I was strictly engaged to attend the giving out of Wisdom's Paradisical Laws that opened in me like a Flaming Shower which drowned the Old World that a New World might in the room of it spring up my whole New Man walking up and down therein and drinking of that pleasant River Pison which waters this new-entered Land into which no Earthly Stuff must be admitted I could not yet be free from molestation For tho' Sin that strange deformed Monster must look for no welcome here being for ever Banished this Holy Place yet after Death in several Shapes he threatens still to haunt me often saying he will be avenged of me for that I have exposed him to a violent Death for the making my way into Paradisical Freedom Therefore he transforms himself now into a Spirit and pursues me and would bring all my dead Works after me that so I might be restless even here where according to the Eternal Law of Liberty I should rest from all Fear and Care This occasioned somewhat of Complaint which I brought before my Mother Wisdom telling her That after Death I did hope I should have been freed and that all Wars should have ceased when I was once got in within this Gate But replied her Witness the Spirit of Prophesie in me I never said Death would acquit thee so as that no Temptation at all should molest thee through the subtilty of the Serpent who hath liberty to prove thee Here in like manner as he had liberty to prove thy dear JESUS who for this end suffered him that he might give proof of an unconquerable stedfastness during the appointed time that he was in Paradise to abide So must thou here expect that the Man of Sin may by the Angel of the Bottomless Pit be though dead again assumed and may make War against the Angel of the Covenant As it is said There was War in Heaven as of Old so Now again in thee Therefore to the Law and to the Testimony which within thy Heavens do open do thou give good heed that thou mayest prevail and come off a Conqueror by the keeping of the Commandments and the Faith of JESUS The last Battel which is to be fought is in this Paradisical Field Thou art now to engage in a single Combat Therefore to thee I bring my Flaming Armour which is Love and Faith by which thou wilt only an Overcomer be Remember that Charge of Honouring thy Father and Mother and do not thou them disgrace For now thou art upon the Publick Stage where the whole Hierarchy of Throne-Powers do thee view to behold how thy Michael in thee will Fight against the Dragon with his Fiery Might The Honour of thy God is much herein concerned that thou do over the Beast and the False Prophet prevail defying the Number and renouncing the Mark of his Name that nothing any more he may be ever able to claim in thee For through Victorious Faith holding out thou wilt see him Cowardly sneak out of Paradise Since he will not care to abide there if he see thee resolutely fixed in the Spirit of my Might who foreseeth all his cunning Slights by which he would pluck thee down out of Paradise Then saith he my Design would take place and I should have Wisdom in derision that hath no better provided for her Children but left them thus to be foiled by the Dragon See now how this Evil One will if thou shouldest fall reflect upon GOD thy Father and ME thy Mother Therefore dear Child for our Honour stand that so thy days may not be short in the Promised Land To which thou wilt surely come if thou canst hold out all the appointed time of Temptation Then another Remove thou shalt see where no more shalt thou to the Dragon's Fury be exposed but shalt the long and everlasting Day inherit and keep this Sabbath without end rejoicing according as thou shalt here Meritoriously vindicate that Name of Mine which to the World is an unknown Secret I was also further Encourag'd by Wisdom against the great Opposition which I felt when waiting for the Opening of the Sixth Commandment there appear'd to me all on a sudden while She was giving her Counsel and Charge a glorious Circle with all Flaming Colours Upon which I looked very stedfastly It continu'd a good space as well as I might guess near upon half a quarter of an hour before it vanish'd This Circle consisted of various and wonderful Colours the inmost part of it was all clear and bright as the Air without a Cloud Then spake Wisdom's Spirit in me What hast thou seen here but the Magical Eye which is an All-seeing Globe that includeth all Light Power and Might within its Circle so that there is no need to go out for any Supply for that all lyeth within the compass of this All-generating Eye And like as thou didst see it rise in a Moment so shall it give new Existencies from its own in the twinkling of an Eye This is the manner of Paradisical Living quite different from the Way of the Inhabitants of the Outward World who live upon the Mouldy Bread of Sense upon whose Breast they hang and cannot endure to be plucked from
length of days may be thy Blessing from thy Father and Me for evermore But to answer to the thoughts of thine Heart which saith Oh! my Mother wherein and how may I come to laud and honour God my Father and Wisdom my Mother according as thy First-born Son my Pattern hath in his Paradisical Body done while he was in this World Consider thy JESUS then in his high and holy Calling from his Birth to his Ascension holding forth one pure Act of Glorifying his Father in observing the Law of Wisdom his Mother from whose Eternal Virgin Nature he had his Existence And now know that as thou hast had thy Birth from me so thou art in the same Line to run parallel having passed through the Birth-death answerable to him that was before thee whom thou art to follow after in hallowing that Great Name which is secret and known but to few according to these following Rules I. First in being Partaker with thy Jesus in the holy Calling and Order of Priesthood which is a perfect separated Life whereto being once taken in thou art to consider what thy Charge is Thou art by this come under the Vow of a Nazaritical Life and art to go no more out having the Consecrated Oyl upon thine Head and this circling about thine Heart thou must no more defile thy self either for any dead Father or Mother Son or Daughter lest thou profanest the Name and holy Sanctuary of thy God instead of honouring it Who will be sanctified in and through the whole Royal Priesthood Because the Crown of the Anointing Oyl is therefrom prest giving glory to God on high II. A Second Rule by which thou maist answer the Life of him that did always magnifie the Father is to rest and live in the Prophetical Spirit as a Seer into that which is beyond the Vail of the pernicious sensitive Life to do and determine all things according to what thou art made quick-sighted in through that Oyl which maketh the Eye to be all Light so as to see what is done within that Region and Kingdom where the Father and Wisdom the Fountain of Light govern jointly together To whom thou art to make thy Application and Enquiry at the Oracle of Wisdom which is fixed in thy inward part For thou canst not lessen or impeach the honour of thy God more than in not obeying the Spirit of Prophecy that is and shall ever rest as a sign for distinction upon the Holy Priests who are called to be nigh to the Holy One and who may be known from others by such Gifts and Powers whereby they may be enabled to glorifie the Fountain and the Giver of this Spiritual Eminency III. A Third is when thou art come to take unto thee the Dominion and Power to rule and to subject as Christ hath done all things as thy footstool It is certainly the pleasure of Wisdom to give thee a Kingdom and all others whose Ears are open to her Discipline Soveraignity well becometh thy Paradisical Habitation for there it was first left and there thou by abiding faithful to these Laws shalt recover it again and shalt know how to manage as well the Golden Scepter of Power as the Rod of Iron which is for the Idolatrous Party who stand out and refuse to submit to the Reign of Jesus in this his Second Appearance Neither will he now be awed or frighted out of his Right but will make all those Usurping and Tyrannical Spirits which have lived hitherto in Man's Nature to yield and bow whether in Bodies or out of Bodies Wherever this Name is written upon there terrible Majesty will appear to consume with the Brightness of the Eye all such as would oppose God's return to Nature again with his mighty Soveraignty See now here to what thou maist arrive It is well worth thy running for such a Prize by taking which thou wilt thy Father highly bless And with a greater and more acceptable Tribute than this thou canst never honour thy great King and Chief High-Priest The Sixth Commandment WHereas it was said in the Old Covenant Thou shalt not Kill here thou art required to do Self-murder and not to spare cutting off the Head of that Life which would cut thee out from having a Name and Place in the New Ierusalem But you will say that is done already or I could never have known a Resurrection into this Paradisical Light and Liberty where I frequently behold Glorified Objects and hear the unutterable Sounds condescending to come down to the Organical Senses so to let me understand the mind and pleasure of the Father of this my new begotten Spirit True it is thou art now quickned into such a Life as is no more to be put to death For there is no Condemnation to such as are risen with Christ. But yet know there is a Mortal Sense that hath not yet left thee which hath thrust in here along with thee and this as it was by the First Adamical Man awakened so by the Second in Thee it must be extinguished if thou desirest to know no more Curse Which Curse did enter as soon as the Windows of the Earthly Senses were opened Then Adam came into the strife of the Four Elements and he needed not to be told that he was Naked or Hungry the Intelligencer being now in his own Depraved Sense But you will further say How can this be till Mortality be swallowed up in Life so as to have no more occasion to use this World whose very Consistency is hereby for take away the two Foundation Pillars and it will not nor cannot exist longer Well it is no more than what is decreed For Babylon must fall Let it be then the Cry and the Endeavour that in thy self thou maist first behold its Fall Nor be thou afraid of thy Undoing as to this self-degradation for it is the Injunction of Paradise that all strife should cease that thou maist come only to know a Life of Serenity and Peace in this holy Place where a Cessation of Mobility and of all Working Essences is required Which Essences if not stopped would busily ply thee and so destroy the Magical Property which acts through the All-seeing Eye of Eternity and refuses all contribution from the Sensitive Part well knowing its own sufficiency to make thee again to flower forth in Paradisical Povver Be novv henceforvvard vvholly Passive as a Seed that through the Conjunction of the heavenly Povvers a bright Lilly Body thou mayest put forth vvhich shall be above all Creaturely Addition And no more doubt that shovvers shall here be vvanting for the Encrease for all is ordered in its proper course and season to the bringing this up unto its perfect growth All thy Danger vvill lye in this Temptation vvhen thou shalt see that there is nothing of Visibility to live upon but that all must be continually renewed from the Virtual Power of the White Stone given to answer to all and every Necessity