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
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
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
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
still questioning whether she was a distinct Being from the Deity or no Which while in this debate within my Mind there came upon me an overshadowing bright Cloud and in the midst of it the Figure of a Woman most richly adorned with transparent Gold her Hair hanging down and her Face as the terrible Crystal for brightness but her Countenance was sweet and mild At which sight I was somewhat amazed but immediately this Voice came saying Behold I am Godâ—… Eternal Virgin-Wisdom whom thou hasâ—… been enquiring after I am to unseal thâ—… Treasures of God's deep Wisdom unto thee and will be as Rebecca was unto Jacob a true Natural Mother for out oâ—… my Womb thou shalt be brought forth after the manner of a Spirit Conceived and Born again this thou shalt know by a New Motion of Life stirring and giving a restlesness till Wisdom be borâ—… within the inward parts of thy Souâ—… Now consider of my Saying till I return to thee again This Vision took great Impression on me yet I kept it for the present hid but it Operated so much upon me as indeed I was incapable to converse with any Mortals which was taken notice of that some extraordinary thing had happened for the which I begged my Friends excuse and desired that she would give me the liberty to be much alone and to walk in the silent VVoods where I might contemplate what had so lately happened Now after three days sitting under a Tree the same Figure in greater Glory did appear with a Crown upon her Head full of Majesty saying Behold me as thy Mother and know thou art to enter into Covenant to obey the New Creation-Laws that shall be revealed unto thee Then did she hold out a Golden Book with three Seals upon it saying Herein lieth hidden the deep Wonders of Jehovah's Wisdom which hath been sealed up that none could or ever shall break up but such as of her Virgin-Offspring shall appear to be who will her Laws receive and keep as they shall spring daily in the New Heart and Mind This Appearance and Words was wonderfully sweet and refreshing in my Soul at which I bowed and prostrated at her Feet promising to be obedient to all her Laws So the Vision shut up for that time Pondering this in my Heart with great comfort that this Day-star had visited me from on high I returned to London to my own Habitation retiring my self from all my Acquaintance saving one Person that was highly Illuminated who encouraged me still to wait upon this Vision for he was acquainted with somewhat of this kind So after six days the Vision appear'd again with a Train of Virgin-Spirits and with an Angelical Host and called to me to come and see the Virgin Queen with her first-born Children asking me Whether I was willing to be joyned amongst this Virgin Company At which I reply'd All willing to offer up my self most free Then immediately I was encompass'd about with this Heavenly Host and made a Spirit of Light Then these Words from the Virgin proceeded saying I shall now cease to appear in a Visible Figure unto thee but I will not fail to transsigure my self in thy mind and there open the Spring of Wisdom and Understanding that so thou mayst come to know the only True God in and by the formation of Christ the anointed Prophet in thee that shall reveal great and wonderful things unto thee that are to be made known and publick in its time and day Therefore be watchful and to thy Mother Wisdom's Counsel give good heed and thou shalt greatly prosper and succeed the Prophets and Apostles to perfect what was left behind for compleating as to Christ the Fulness of God's great Mystery So go on and nothing fear or doubt for I thy Glass for Divine Seeing shall evermore stand before thee Then my Spirit replyed According to thy Word let all this be fulfilled And so this Glory withdrew but an inward Glory did my Heart sill for a burning Love to all of those Heavenly Beings did kindle within my Heart vehemently In the Month of August THe Mind of Wisdom thus opened it self in me as I waited in my Spirit upon her she did shew me what Key would open the Great Mystery which lay deeply hid in my self It was wrought and carved out of such pure Gold as had passed through many Fires many Keys I had tryed but could not turn in this secret enclosed Lock but still it shut upon me though I thought I had that Key which was compounded of such Metals as would have made its entrance as Love Faith Patience Humility which with strong Supplication and Prayer I presented as the Key oâ—… the work All which was too short tâ—… reach it Whereupon I was put to loss altogether to seek how this Gatâ—… should be opened having compasseâ—… the Holy City and waited and trye every way where I might find Passage Circling from one Path to another froâ—… Prayer to Prayer and from Faith to Faith so that in good earnest I began to consider I had not found this wonderful Key for want of which I might run out in wast all my days and grope as in the dark yet never find the Door which opens into my true Shepherd's Fold Whereupon being cast into a deep astonishing silence and stillness the Word of Wisdom thus opened it self unto me Oh thou deep searching Spirit marvel not thou hast been so long frustrated for as to thy present state and dispensation thou couldst never reach me to all Eternity for my Birth in thee lies deeper then thy present Gift of Faith and Prayer can open thou hast with many others been in a great mistake But in as much as thou â—…wnest and bewailest thy unskilfulness I will make known to thee what Key will turn this great Wheel of my Wisdom so as it may move and manifest it self in thee through all thy Properties if thou canst bid up to the Price of it For understand that it is compounded of all pure Gold subsisting in a burning Furnace of many Fires And although this wonderful Key is of Wisdom's carving out and her free gift yet Oh thou seeking Spirit she will cost thee very dear if ever thou obtainest her Yet she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her and will shew her self within the Walls of the Mind and meet them in every thought that waits for her Laws and Counsel and brings a Kingdom which will be well worth thy selling all for But the great thing saith Wisdom now is to discipline and make thy Spirit a cunning Artist to give it Knowledge of what Matter in Number Weight and Measure this pure Key is made up of which is all pure Deity in the Number THREE which is weighty indeed being one exceeding weight Glory sitting in the Circle of the Heavens within Man's Heart measuring with the Line of his Power the Temple and inward Court with the Worshippers therein This is
further shewed me that place where she would make ready this savoury Meat which was in the fiery Essence of my Spirit Which in very deed I did feel going to work in her own kindled Furnace where she shewed me her Golden Pot. No Vessel was to be used but of that pure Metal wherein was ordered all the several Ingredients which I implored her Friendship to let me see which was granted unto me who owned that her Fear was with me and hitherto I had observed her Charge and her Secrets should be with me and that I should know such things from a deep Ground as had not been broken up of late Ages if I could bear that hot fiery Furnace which should boil away the Scum of all that which of the earthly part had yet its remainder with me Which Counsel begot this Exploration with my Mother as fearing I should not come up to these her pure and high Accomplishments Disponding therefore I said Oh my Mother-Wisdom the terms of thy Requirings are hard considering I constrained am to reside in the Out-Birth of a Mortal Shadow where Millions of Spirits do me tempt to keep me from this high and noble Ascent What an overturning must here be made that so a Renewing may be on the face of my old Earth Which Renovation well answers to that Scripture We shall not all dye but suffer a Change or Translation Oh how little did I understand till Wisdom unsealed and opened her Testimony lighting my Lamp from her Seven Pillars of Fire which now go before me that my Way may no more be dark Who hath made good her Promise for I felt her strong Impulse and her Furnace prepared burning as an Oven By which I well know what that Word of Record means The Day comes that shall burn as an Oven She told me She was now come to make ready the Venison that I might have access to God my Father with it while I was pondering seeing only the Vessel and the Fire with Isaac I was ready to say Where is the Lamb Then uttered she this Word Thou thy self must be this Paschal Lamb which must be slâ—…in Then was I taught to say or pray strike upon that Life-Vein which may abundantly return again thus yielding my self up to Love's Flaming Sword I felt a separation was made Oh how sweet is it to feel the Life's Blood run into the Founâ—…ain of that Godhead from whence it â—…ame Let none henceforth fear in the â—…ord to dye for Life shall spring again â—…s to one that awaketh out of a Sleep inâ—…o another Principle or begotten into New World in which with other Inâ—…abitants with whom I now my Conâ—…ersation have in the Light of the â—…eity I do dwell O dear Sophia what â—…m I that hitherto thou hast me brought â—…at I should know of thy Magick-Art â—…d from thy holy Flames to be inspiâ—…d which foreruns the Day of Penteâ—…ost which shall known again be to â—…ose who follow hard the Prize to â—…ke This feeling the Divine Power â—…d me touched as the Key that unlockâ—… the Gate of the Eternal Deep I furâ—…er emboldned was to ask my Mother â—…isdom how and when she would comâ—…ound that savoury Meat on which the â—…essing entailed is for I as one impatiâ—…t am till the Birth-right confirmed be me Upon which there was presentâ—… as in a Charger a Kid lying in a Comâ—…sition Liquor of Milk Oil and Blood â—…th several Spices as Spikenard â—…yrrh and Cinnamon giving forth strong Odours Then Wisdom called to me O go and see what I have compounded and prepared a Banquet-Feast whereto as thy Father will come down with his dear Son thy Elder Brother and I thy Mother and will hereof take and feed so that the Fountain of Jacob may be thy Blessing which the Eternal Father accordingly pronounced saying From the Upper and Supercelestial Planets let thy Eternal Nativity again renew as from its own Originality by which the lower Constellations and Elements shall to these subjected be and bow as a Globe upon which thy Feet shall stand and both the upper and neather Springs command The Dews of Heaven and the Fat Things of the Earth shall together upon thee meet This is the Fulness of all Blessings wherewith the Triune Unity do thee greet Henceforward now observe and obedient be to what shall be further Communicated to thee After this my Spirit still attended eagerly longing to lay my Mouth tâ—… Wisdom's Breast from which the Worâ—… of Life so sweetly did flow Then shâ—… with her Flaming Heart did present heâ—… self to me Out of which Heart sprouted forth a Tree with Twelve Branches having upon the Root of it engraven GOD is the Pith Life and Virtue that maketh the Heart thus Fruitful in various opening and quickning Powers giving forth according to each Branch a different and peculiar Fruit. Then said she to me Here doth lie the Mystery do thou it come and see how out of the Flames these Branches put forth green and palpable Fruits that are not yet grown yet thou with Patience must still wait till to perfection of ripeness they be grown in thee then of the first Fruits of this Tree thou shalt bring to thy God as an Offering who will accept it as a pure Offering that will draw down the Life's Blessing read and see what engraven is for thee and let thy Mind be staid a while till thou to this ripe Age shall arrive and comforted be that this shady Heart as a fruitful Vine shall overspread within the Walls of thy Mind a River of Oyl shall here out-spring which will make thy Flames burn still till so hot the Furnace may come to be which as the Sun for vehemency shall transmute this Fruit to a Golden Colour Then thou with savoury Meat to thy God shall come who will himsef feed upon their pleasant Fruit which nourished has been from the Life's Blood Come now and into Love's deep descend with me that thou mayst know the various operation of this Tree and every Branch thereof namely as the living sense shall spring in thee according to which thy lot will be as relating to the Blessing promised the which will require perseverance still in the Faith till to perfection in Colour this Fruit be brought No other charge I shall leave with thee but to abide within this shady Rock where Love's Flames shall be thy Food continually Oh how pleasant is it here to be all encircled with Love's flaming Breast January the 22d 1674. VVIsdom's Word opened yet again to me saying Arise swiftly follow me I will shew thee Greater Things then what hath yet been known to thee Whereupon I felt a mighty attractive Power drawing up my Spirit for Ascension but surprized I was with a potent Enemy which did me encounter highly charging me with a breach to Nature's Laws and how I stood obligatory to her in as much as I had an outward Body which I ought to take in the Sense of its
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
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
unbelieving as to be terrified although ye should like Elisha be encompassed with Legions of contradicting Spirits Which may happen to prove what Magnanimity and Spirit of Faith ye have to trust unto And whether or no ye will resort to this Treasure that lately hath been broken up for you that ye might know where still to retire and on all ocasions go to seek out what Power and Armory of Strength ye shall need for your present Succour and Fortitude Oh towards this let your Eyes be most absolutely fixed for it is your Father's pleasure out of this Temple and Treasure-House to bless you Covet nothing here below but wait ye upon that liberal Hand which doth all out here command If ye can arrive to believe without doubting then ye shall see what weighty Draughts out of Wisdom's Deep you will be able to draw up at pleasure so as ye will no more need or regard to go down to this World 's enchanted Sorceries for aid All and enough you will have in your own Power Search and see what in this City-Treasury is as you are by Wisdom brought up hereunto Take boldness and freedom to ask and take what may make for your Preferment in all proportionableness to Christ your Head Who is the great Prince and Commander here and would have you dispatch and clear off all Earthly Scores and come after him with all your ascending Might where there is depth of Glory to drown ye out of all transitory Sight Remember ye that Word which he said and do now in Spirit aver it again to thee that all whatever the Immense Deity hath to the utmost and full extent of that fulness in all Riches Power and Greatness to an Everlasting Dominion is now possessed by this Jesus as his own in common with the high Throne-Majesty And hath power to entail the same where and upon whom he will By which Will ye are elected and chosen by this great and high Apostle to the same Profession and Participation of Power and Dignity as joint Heirs with him Therefore take heed that ye derogate not from this your high Calling but bear up to the Witness hereof and to the acknowledgment of the Father the Word and the Spirit of Wisdom all agreeing to empress the Mark and living Seal upon you that so right to all those wonderful and rich Goods that have been shewn you in the House of your God ye may jointly enter upon as your own Inheritance Hitherto ye have stood off in the mistrust and dispute whether or no ye might make challenge hereunto as being anxious of Sin and inaffected which indeed might well clip the Wing of your ascending Power and dash your confidence For no boldness indeed here could be till Jesus by Water Blood and Spirit did come to cleanse you fully and throughly from all Sin and Unrighteousness and thereby he himself became your Temple-Body as now ye may witness indeed Therefore Stowage is made for taking in of these precious things Open wide henceforth and let all in which shall drop from the Everlasting Oily Mountains and Heavenly Hills upon the pure Gardens of your pure Minds and whatever shall distill as upon my choice Lillies on the smooth Waters of Shiloh March the 19th Upon this Day is a large Transcript by Dr. P. of some Divine Opening which he thought good to conceal under a secret Cypher and may possibly relate to some Oppositions against this Temple-Work March the 23d 1675 6. On the Morning Watch as I was spreading the present distress of things this Word came to me Salvation Salvation and Victory The oppressed at last shall go free If zealous as Phineas he shall be for me His Eye is not to pity or spare but he is to rise up in his Priestly Power to kill and destroy that which hath his Nazarite Purity defiled and annoyed Then no more Curse nor Plague but all shall be stopt and staid I have attempted this Bloody Offering nothing more precious is to my Sight nothing like this could make way for the high ascending of my beloved Pilgrim who so long with Weights and Fetters from me hath been kept down and evermore by one or other was still bound Oh the free and undefiled Virgin-Spirit is for me who makes but one Heart with me This Word came very emphatically and powerfully and hath a weight speaking in them which my Spirit did breath out for their effect upon this beloved Nazarite that so all Plummets might be cut off and the Tomb-stone removed which did keep down his rising Body that is no more to be touched with mortal Senses being elected for a high and unparallelled Work which will admit of no hanging upon by any thing that is ponderous March the 24th 1675 6. A Breviate of the late Perils we were in HAving for some space of time encountred with high Storms great Blusterings one swelling Wave following another threatning to tear and to make a wrack and split our Ship in which we were embarked through the good Hand of the most high Wisdom Being now come within the sight of out Land-mark which so near was to be anchored upon such were the contrary Winds from the Troubler as to put us back again in this our Spiritual Voyage But the good Pilote whom the Seas and Winds must still obey was for and with us sending forth the Words of Power and Authority for this raging foaming Sea which cast up Miery Mountains to be still and quiet which otherwise would have sunk the Ark of our Faith which to the Praise of Jehovah was mightily in all these violent fumations born up and secured we being charged not to fear nor to move out here but still to hoist up that mighty Sail and to wait for that holy Breath and Wind Which none know but they that are in it from whence it comes and whether it will carry such as wholly confide in it as may be spoken by the Experienced For being in great Conflict upon the Doctor 's account whom the evil ones Malice was chiefly set against to keep him down from rising in his work having put such an Iron-Yoke upon his Neck and Burthen upon his Shoulder as grew more heavy and oppressing as his Sight was grown clear and Judgment sound having been a long time in great Sufferings under it which for the working Wheel sake which jointly we were engaged in I was often and much in private with my God for a total release and acquitment that whatever pestred and hung upon him now undesirable might be cut off For to me it was said again and again An untouched and free Nazarite from all Dalilah's thy Yoke-fellow must be or else under the Curb of this grievous Iron-Yoke which will crush and stop his Vital-Breath Powers so as to hinder the free passage and play of Wisdom's bright Star which alone will lie as a bundle of Myrrh in the Bosom of his pure Heart Single Chastity is all and the
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
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
of being Tributaries to these Usurped Powers From which nothing can you Totally free but Total Death after that way of Spiritual Dying which both Mystically and Magically by and through the Heavenly Constellations doth operate This is a Death worthy of all Acceptation indeed which at once shall put an End to all Earthly Sense and Sin Then room there is O Soul for the Superiour Life to come in which shall reign as God enthroned in Nature's Kingdom that is restored to its first Institution First Breath then take and saint not but forward to the Mount of Olives go the Mountain is indeed high to which you are to ascend but my holy Gales shall drive you on that so you may come thither to sup with the Lamb. A Sheet is here wanting July the 8th 1676. THis Morning after some private Ejaculations to the Throne Majesty this Word came unto me Will ye actually deny your Active Life as you denyed passively your passive Life Even that Life which ye so often have decryed down because it is found in that room from whence proceeds all Unbelief and Deceiveableness of Unrighteousness which naturally generateth those Essences from whence the Thoughts that are light and evil do spring The great conquest will be to put a stop to these till thou hast found the way utterly to undermine and for ever to bind them Yet thou shalt be allowed warranted and justified to stifle them before they can come to a Birth Though Reason may tell thee this would be as a new Entity and that it would straitway overturn and overthrow thy breathing Existency yet give thou not any ear to such Objections that are cast in from that Principle perhaps then no more in a Creaturely Being thou canst be known Well admit it and suffer thy Creaturely Self thus far for to expire as to the imaginary Life be assured that all Peace and Safety hereby will accrue For by this silent Vacancy another Source will open All dyings thou hast indeed gone through to this which is the main Head-Vein which doth lie so deep under Ground thereby preserving under it self hidden even from the Vultur's Eye Oh this Original Root is that which must be struck at Up and Out with it and overturn it and thou wilt see what doth lie in the depth beneath it to wit every precious thing which without care or toil will voluntarily spring when this imaginary Root is quite cast out For the croppings of this Evil Seed will never free thy inward Ground Come then and descend with me and I will shew thee where this Grand Enemy doth lurk who unconceivably doth send forth those dark Fumes which hath hitherto prevented the overflowing Breath of the Holy Ghost If then thou canst not to a cessation from every unruly motion come which works from the Astral Spirit then try the Power and Might of that Spirit which in thee doth reside and cross these strong Tides and through all break and leave behind the Flowings of Jordan and look not back but forward do thou pursue and keep up to thy Region high and as an Eagle Spirit bear up most mightily no more returning to take up any weight of earthly stuff which in the Imaginary Mind doth lie But away away ascend with thy Jesus unto another Principality where other Presentations will all thy Senses employ when once thou hast forgot and lost this World out of thy Eye and Heart What other meaning dost thou think those Words do bear which are upon old Records which saith Except ye deny relinquish and suffer the loss of that Life which is bundled up tied and knit together with the stringing Sinnews of the imaginary Mind ye cannot enter into Life into the Life of God and Christ which to know is Life Eternal Therefore it is again said That none can receive the Kingdom of God till they can come to be as a little Child that is new born who is passive having no thoughts of reluctancy working to hinder the opening the Everlasting Kingdom of the Light Joy Love Power and Peace Wouldst thou know why so few have got entrance here It is because they could not untwist nor get from under this binding Cord of the Natural flowing Cogitations which beset the Spirit every way holding it under a most slavish Captivity Yet is it not perceived but by most it is believed that this whirling Wheel must run round of absolute necessity and there is no way for it to be avoided while subsisting in a Body of Elementary Corporality True O Spirit those who in this gross state only care to be do walk and abide with and amongst those which are of their own likeness relishing and corresponding with what doth proceed from this unsavory part But from you I your Lord expect another thing who have taken the Vow of a Nazarite's Life upon you invocating me so often for a remove and translation into the same Life and Liberty with me your forerunning President Now then I must plainly make known to you the Mind of God and your Father which is to Famish all those numerous and multiplying Essences which mutiny against the Eternal Stillness and Eternal Nothingness where the all sublime Goodness and Everlasting Rock of Power is to be seen felt and known Verily this is the way I can only describe to thee and those who the mark of this high Calling would reach and would be traffickers within the Holy City which is all Crystalline Through which none can pass that hath the least Lumber of imaginary stuff yet hanging upon him Now weigh these Sayings for they are from the Yea and Amen who hath good-will to make riddance of all those superfluous Thoughts that have been as the gulph separating Principle To which thoughts by one act God moving in the Mystery of the Fiat yet once again will put an end quite to them For a New Heart will be created out of which will flow continually such a choice Treasury answering to the Sight of the Flaming Eye July the 16th 1676. A Vision of God's Flaming Eye This Morning as I was in my Spirit let down into the deep Abyss attending the pure Openings from that Central generating Source or Fountain Life In a moment there appeared to me an Azure blue Firmament so Oriental as nothing of this in this Visible Orb could parallel with it Out of the midst hereof was a most wonderful Eye which I saw Sparkling as with Flaming Streams from it Which I am not able to Figure out after that manner in which it did present it self unto me But according to this Form it was as much as I am able to give an account of it it was thus or after this manner There was a Flaming Eye in the midst of a Circle and round about it a Rainbow with all variety of Colours and beyond the Rainbow in the Firmament innumerable Stars all attending this Flaming Eye From which the Word said the Earth and Heavens shall
of the Field where the Pearl is found which Field is called Faith's Eternal Ground July the 24th 1676. In the Morning-Watch this was first cast up upon the Shore of my Mind by way of expostulation with my Jesus whom I felt hover over me with throngâ—…ng Powers of Love as an Invitation for Discourse after the manner of a Spirit without the noise of Words This thing 〈◊〉 say was with me to offer in way of Query How it comes to pass that after â—…uch mighty high winged Prayers and â—…trong Gales rushing in through them â—…s I had witnessed but the Night before in such ascending strong Center-Raptures and Powers coming down that yet the Gulph was not shot through That is the parting Principle which still shuts out the Spirit of the Bride from her native home where she may have power of Command to act and bring down what may make for renown to the Virgin Crown while walking up and down in these Earthly Bounds My Spirit took all boldness to know why it should be so fruitless in its Mediatorship now over what it was in foregoing times when Prayer of Faith was as a ready Messenger to fetch in whatever was wanting I did lay hard upon the Mighty One using the same Arguments as Dalilah did with her Sampson how O my Jesus can it be that thou dost love me without thou shewest me aâ—… that is in thy Heart that so I may know where thy great Strength lieth and this by coming thereto as thy loyal Bosom Spouse in whom thy Heart may rest in without any suspicion that ever I will betray so great a Trust if thou wilt but once reveal this secret thing unto me For I desire I seek I look only after this to be united to the Lock of thy Power and Might as a springing Plant from thy Godhead Which will give me all Power to answer to the present state requiring which is made up of nothing but Sin and Self original and Ill Consequences bundled up into innumerable Grievances So that verily I did see the whole visible fallen part of things all putrified unsound unstable weak low and poorly spirited therefore out of this deep sence I could not but cry Help Oh help thou mighty Prince and Saviour nigh For who do see themselves lie in this Golgotha state but are willing to take the Wing of the Everlasting Morning and herefrom fly to the Rock that hath the Clifts of Munition to hide all that are weary of this loathed Place Therefore with unutterable Sighs and Requests I did this our deplorable and defective state beseech my Jesus to read over and to take away the Reproach thereof For I argued with him that if thus Indigent we should still be it would sure reflect upon the Lord our New Covenant-Restorer who nothing was to leave short or imperfect in those for whom he became an Undertaker to his Father to bring them back again After all this on my part by way of Spiritual Parley this Word came unto me saying Arise arise yet and wait Why art thou jealous that Love is wanting or the Arm of my Power abated because I do not tell thee where the hiding of this Lock of Strength is I know I know thy sore Longings of it for to partake with me that it might free thee from the fallen state Which is in such Shame and Derision that thou canst not lift up thy Head with any Confidence because the Accursed Thing is every where in and about this lower Sphear where thy abode is yet for to be in Temptation and Fear but faint not thy Bridegroom is near who will the Shield of Faith anoint with the Oyl of the Holy Ghost which will be Joy unspeakable and full of Glory after all thy heaviness The reason why thy Praying as to matters of so high a Consequence hath wrought so little is because Faith hath been so dry for want of the pouring out from on High the Golden Streams out of the Oily Fountain of the one pure Deity which would make all Prayer mighty and operative when this Balsamick Oyl doth slow from the Fountain-Head July the 26th 1676. As my Spirit was Contemplating after some Breathings forth in Prayer these Words came to me To love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart is more then all Burnt-Offerings and Sacrifices this is that which I prefer above all and to which I do look to in all that draw near to me with Love unfeigned and with a whole Heart transmitted over to me and no part kept back from him that calls for Incorporation of Hearts That so there may be but one Heart of Purity as with thy Jesus in his Humanity This Love is the Box of Spikenard opening therefrom whence thy God smelleth the sweet savour from which the Curse flyeth and will be no more found to hurt blast or destroy the springing Vine about the Walls of thy Mind From which the Wine of the Kingdom will flow to refresh the Heart then shall you find you are not far from the Kingdom that consisteth in Love Joy and Peace Then followed upon this that Scripture about the Ark being sent away by the Philistines It was shewed me it would not abide with the uncircumcised in Spirit but Dagon would be smitten and fall before it For in contrariety the Wrath-Vial opened and though the Philistines thought they had got the Blessing in regard they had heard and known what Victories and Salvations it had wrought yet it became a Curse where they held it in Unrighteousness and in an unhallowed impure Temple setting up other Gods equal and jointly with it which by no means would be endured God will be All or nothing at all to such as would retain his Ark-presence in the mixed unsanctified Mind there is nothing but Gall and Wormwood to be found instead of Sweetness The Ministration therefore that shall be afoot on Earth must be all upon a New Bottom which is figured out by that new Cart that the Ark was put into which represents a new Heart in which the immaculate presence of the Lamb will be retained No unconsecrated Uzzah must take hold thereof but only the Hand of Faith and the Flaming Spirit of Love that yoaked are together as strong and able without more addition of help to bring this to its own place within the Vail and Tabernacle where its Rest is to be For the All-seeing driving Power is with these two Kine upon whom no breach shall be as formerly when the rash Bethshemites that were not purified looked into it July the 26th 1676. Again this Word came to me from the Lord Up stay not here the Ark though in the House of Obed-Edom that is in a Nazarite Heart yea here the Blessing is not ever to rest and abide but it must move forward for there is yet much Land to be possessed which only the Eye within the Ark can spy Therefore be sure still to enquire at it who can tell
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
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
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
perfumes the Breath of all your Prayers so that your God may smell that which may bring down Blessings according to your Will Being so compounded in every part with the Spikenard and Altar-Fire as to be one continual ascending Power and perfuming Pillar of sacred Fire With which my dear Lord do thou mightily shine upon those who appointed are hereunto and them more highly inspire September the 18th 1676. Having for some few Days met with some exercise of Illness upon my outward man whereby I was made sensible how great a disadvantage that was to the Spirit of the Mind to do its Office and Work in as to its House and Habitation where it displays it self making the very outward Animal Spirit of the Body intelligible of Divine Things which when depressed by Sickness is much otherwise for that then the receptable Comprehensive part is much shut up The feeling of which made me bewail the defectiveness of this outward Body because it was disproportionable to that high graduated thing which acted within it Upon which I sought the Lord with great earnestness to give such soundness to the Terrestrial Man as it might answer to the Spiritual Operator who was the moving Wheel After some little space of time I heard this Word run mightily through me I am thy Saving Health which shall arise and get the Victory over thy present Infirmities To which Word I gave credit and did see all the dark Magick Influence flâ—… as a dark Vapour from me A hail Body is of a necessary connexion to a sound Spirit for the Lord's Service whereby the Heavenly Calling may be perfected Against which the working Powers of that grand Enemy are always at work by one wile or other still to prevent me running to and fro as a most busie Agent but to my God I did fly who said he would spread over me the healing Covering of his Soveraignty for my security Then I prayed for the Guardian Power to surround them who with me were obnoxious to the stroke of the Dragon's Enmity letting his Arrows fly every way upon the Heaven-Setters But it was said Fear not for on them also is set an impregnable Guard Thus I was comforted over all Fears Distresses and Tribulations being assured no Weapon should prosper against the Work which we were charged with For if on our parts we did not flag the Right Hand of Strength and Power did engage to be with us and for us even so Amen let it be O Lord evermore September the 20th 1676. The Expostulation of the Spouse I was in a Spirit of Mourning for the Personal Absence of my Lord whose Representations and Touches had awakened and drawn all the Virtual Powers of my Spirit after him insomuch as I took freedom to tell him whom my Soul thus loved that sith he had after such a high and total manner engaged my Heart unto him above all others that now it was but right and equal he should marry me and so in every respect answerably provide and settle me according to the greatness of that Marriage state Preferring also to him this Argument that it was his own free offer to Love first or I should never have presumed to have claimed such favourable Aspects or such kind of Spiritual freedom with one so much raised above me But verily now since my Lord made the first Proposal and thereby hath gained my Interiour Will with all its attending Affections it is now but reasonable that I should be answered in my Foundational Hopes and Expectations Which are not grounded upon old recorded general Promises but upon new and particular Words dropping fresh from the Mouth of my Jesus or else those deep Impressions had never took hold of me so as to make me set light by all Creatures and Things Believing I had made such a choice as was sufficient to answer to every requiring and to set me free from the Servile Bondage to these sort of Creatures that knew nothing of the Mystery of Faith I did set home these and many more Arguments upon my Lord with all ardency and I said that I did now look for Performance and entreated further that he would consider that the Honour of his Fidelity was herein concerned For I had declared to the World that I was his and he was mine by Covenant and Contract and therefore with what shame should I come off who had rejected all Loves and Lovers for to tye my Spirit in this Espousal Knot to this great Heir and Prince of Glory unto which Royalty I did believe er'e long I should be invested If my Jesus would be true unto me according to the various Promises left as an Earnest with me Who being so right and just a Person as I had no shadow of ground on his part to suspect neither would I knowingly act any thing defectively on my part or delay the mutual Nuptial Day which would make much for the Praise of such a restored Glory Therefore I was much importunate with my Jesus that he would do now and act according to the earnest Expectation of the New Creature and the Honour of his exalted Name that it might be no longer derided or defamed by those who would rejoyce to see wholly self-denying Spirits frustrated of their Bridal-Joy and Coronation-Day And that he would be pleased so to act as now to let them stand upon the visible Stage of Dignity as they have been of Reproach and Defamation despightfully used for their Bridegroom's sake As also to bring off all their disgraceful Calumnies who hath now the disposal of all Princely Majesty to put upon his present disguised Bride September the 21st 1676. I having after this manner unburthened my loaded Mind by way of Expostulation hearkening what answer herefrom would proceed to a suspended Lover I heard this Answer Here now follows the Bridegroom's Answer by his Spirit Oh thou desponding Lover I perceive thou art still upon the doubtful and questioning part suspecting my Truth and Loyalty lest I should despise and slight thee in thy mean estate First thou hast charged me to draw and steal away thy Heart not only from thy self but from all others so as thou sayest thou art as a lifeless useless actless Creature having emptied all into me so as now nothing will suffice but the Conjugal Knot to be knit or else thou thinkest thy self never sure of me Thus I have born thy Love-passionate Charges and thy unkind Surmises because I had deferred upon deep grounds best known to my self the publication of my determinate Marriage with thee But O Soul may it not suffice thee that I do maintain all intimate Friendship with thee and though I cannot as yet make a visible Personal Appearance for duration and for demonstration to the World Yet in and by that faithful Witness and true Unction I am still present with thee I am no Stranger to thy Affairs my Spirit gives an Account of all things unto me I have left all of thy
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
Bride is come down to travel in the greatness of Strength to bring forth this mighty Birth of the God-like Nature they may expect and look for great things to be produced as the effects of this wonderful Birth Which is caught up to the Throne of God and will not return back till he comes with all full command to give the Seventh Number-Crown and fix it on them to whom he is first to appear conveying most freely and clearly his Soveraignty to them But that which is the most deep thing in the Vision is the great Mystery of the Woman which sate upon the Lamb with a Cup in her Hand Whose Representation is to shew that this is the Virgin of Sion the Mother of the New Jerusalem who is come to divest and lay open the Harlotry Spirit that hath brought in the Abomination of all Idolatry and hath made drunk the several Sects with the Wine of a Luciferian Spirit enchanting all Nations through her Magnificency and Power having the Riches and Honours of this World to give as a Reward to her Worshippers Therefore to countervail and the more highly to excell all that this Princely Virgin the Eternal Wisdom and Power of God hath appeared with the Lamb in the Spirit 's Soveraignty to let thee know she is the only Mother and Bride to whom is given the Cup of Blessing From whence are substantial durable Riches Power Dignity and Soveraignty that shall know no limit or end of Glory and Kingly Dominion and thereof also will be to all Eternity aâ—… encrease Therefore let it not repenâ—… you who have been Lovers and Admirers of this illustrious Stone of Wisdom trust to her expect all from her looking only to her united Power with thâ—… Lamb who will assuredly come in you to Reign For the Anointing Oyl is iâ—… his Horn and the melted Liquor of Gold in the Cup to which you are called to take a full sup then you will know another manner of Reward then all the Enchanting Principle of the Beast and Sin-trimmed Whore can afford who will be all dispoiled as the Lamb and Wisdom in you shall yet more evidently appear to imprint the Mark and Name of the Great Salem Upon whom saith the Spirit of the Bride-Love wait and fix and stir not therefrom for so she will be your Springing Garland October the 2d 1676. SO soon as I awaked in the Morning I was saluted with this Word Turn not away thy Foot but walk in that secret Gallery where my Spirit may with thee commune of the Matters which appertain to the Kingdom Which thou hast prayed for to thy Jesus hoping it may be admitted in thy despiseable form of Mortality Which may accordingly be admitted through the watchful observation of this Inspiring Word which is given to be thy Guide Who gave me Rules of further Instruction upon the occasion of what I was very earnest now in Prayer about saying thus If thou expectest thy God should do somewhat which is extraordinary and eminent for thee then thou must walk answerably with him in a singular way according to the Oily Light of the infused Unction which is come to give the true Knowledge and Insight into that Life-habitation which is hid by the Thicket of the Mortal Principle through which thou art to pass as swift as a Dart not minding or staying in any thing till thou reachest the Mark Which is the Cup wherein the Burning Gold of the Holy Ghost is ready prepared for such as can pass through this World and not be with it touched Then said I Oh my Jesus thou requirest hard things of us who have thought that none for this Prize had out-bid us but now I see ahigher rate upon this Jewel of the Kingdom is set so as I do not Marvel at the great adventure that must be made for it O who can hereto be perswaded that of necessity thus it must be that all we have gotten and enriched our selves with from this accursed Aegypt must be given for the Land of Canaan that so we may come to the City of our Rest to inhabit it with our Kingly Bridegroom Moreover this Word came unto me Shake off all that dismal Widowhood which presents thee still before me in heaviness Ah! Lord said I how can it be otherwise till the white Virgin-Robe and Airy Body be put on me by which I may press through the Clouds to thee Tell me then how I may put off and change that Garment which is so muddy and heavy that I cannot fly with it as a Dove in to the Pavilion of Divine Secresie so ofâ—… as I would For I cannot make any Ascension unto thee but I find great â—…trife to lay aside this upper Garment of Sence and Reason For I know there is no coming unto thee with it it smelleth so of the common shore of this corrupt Earth that nothing is more unsavoury Who then can cure us of this Malady but thee O Lamb of God Who hast the All-transmuting Power That can shift our Garments in one Hour For sure it is a lawful Ambition to be translat ed into that State wherein it may be said here are those who are cloathed with Garments all white shining like the Jasper-Light Then replied the Spirit to me Seeing then thou art only sad for this cause as not being so richly clad as might give thee Confidence to come in and among the great Tabernacle-Assembly in the Heavenly Court to present thy self know that I thy Spirit and Comforter will Merchandize for thee into Wisdom's rich Mines Where the Purple Scarlet and fine Linnen with Gold and precious Stones are for the Sanctuary-cloathing to be found and in Faith's Ship shall be transmitted to thee Which Materials being brought to thee thy Hand with my direction shall work a sparkling Covering that thou mayst appear in it all gloâ—…ous in my most high Court October the 5th 1676. The Love-jealous Eye that is over us surveying and searching out the Evil as well as the Good in all the Circumstances of things appertaining to us was most kind and friendly to foretell us all that might prolong or prevent the making good what is contained and shut up in the Promise of the New Covenant O the sweet gentle Reproofs of the Spirit how acceptable be they when they drive forward and will not let us rest or lodge on this side the Mount of Olives but call up to mind who it is that thereupon doth stand echoing and crying O my Dove what is the cause of thy demur Didst thou not engage that thou wouldst fit out my Bride and make her ready that her Bridegroom might be out of all suspition But her delay makes me conclude she is loath to take too abrupt a leave from the Moabitish Land fearing to displease them as if her Eye was still hankering after some Reward from this Harlotry Vagrant All which is included under the Curse and therefore cannot to my Spouse make any Addition
me concerning him He is a Son of Obedience Therefore meet with thee to prosecute the Spirits design in this visible Earth Then received I only this further Charge to keep the inward Court of our Minds all pure and clear as we love to entertain the Spirit of our Jesus there Who soon did scent every unsavoury Breath that did blow in this Garden which should be all perfumed from the Celestial Powers and Planets that are all to be blown up from his own Savours and sweet Perfumes So that our dear Lord and Spirit might thereby be refreshed in us and that continually October the 8th 1676. Some part of this Night sweetly passed in Contemplation and Prayer toward the Morning I saw in Vision a bright round Ball pourtraid like a Man's Face breaking through a Cloud and immediately two Stars broke through after it which were very bright and blazing The Interpretation of which I waited fo in my Spirit for no Representation is without his Signification unto me But the Lord did not that day explain iâ—… to me but I did feel an impregnative Virtue fill me from that time till the Afternoon Being then met to breath each one from his Gift as the Dr. was speaking the Word said in me Blessed is the Glory of the Lord which makes its remove from place to place that the Tabernacle-Body may bear witness to this Glory Which verily was felt and discerned in this very juncture of time For the most Holy did leave the Impress of his Glory upon us for it did run as Lightning through my inward parts Thus our Jesus makes his Pace swiftly to us to give often refreshing to our Hearts Hereby lifting us up from the Earth by the Spirit of his Eagle-Might which presseth into the Heavens there ever to live in the Bosome Loves Rest. October the 9th 1676. But still I was in great Concern to understand the meaning of the Sun-like Face and Stars which I saw the Night past So putting my self in an holy awful posture for the Spirit to place me unitedly to himself to understand and know as it self did know the simple Mind of the Deity It was thus revealed to me that suddenly there would break out of the dark beclouded Night of our World an open bright Face that should not speak to us in a deep unknown Spirit but Mouth to Mouth When we shall be generated as Stars from this Ghostly Body of Glory Who plainly testified such a Remove would be made If we will be constant to the Spirit our assigned Guide and Mate Who will arise in us unto this high degree and state as to swallow us up into this shining Face so that no Cloud shall be betwixt the Majesty of Glory and us For as our Jesus is so this rising Spirit of Glory will bring us into the same Transfiguring Body of Glory October the 10th 1676. The Ministration of Elisha As I was casting my self this Morning into my wonted posture of interiour Silence to hear and see what would arise out of the Spirit 's deep I was before I was aware surprised with a Natural Sleep but suddenly awaked with this Voice Search and see what is recorded for thee in 2 Kings 4. throughout not knowing as to my own rememberance what therein was contained till I looked Wherein was the Declaration of what great and marvellous things Elisha wrought eminently as nothing of the New-Testament-Ministration did them exceed So when I had perused them I asked and enquired by that inspiring Spirit who was nigh what Portion therein was for me that was thereunto pointed for to look earnestly seeking a plain understanding herein which through favour I did obtain after some space of time October the 11th 1676. This Word opened in way of Resolve Know O Soul thou hast this Elisha-Spirit with thee of which great Improvement may be made If thou canst know how to draw him out it will be possible to multiply manifoldly Therefore I thy Jesus directed thee to view the excellency of this Spirit and to provoke thee to ask a numeration of this to lay out upon my account so far as may reach to the glorified state of my new exalted Humanity As to the first part of Elisha's ability of Spirit which took in a sympathizing sence of the poor Widow's cry unto him This thou mayst read inwardly as thy own deplorable condition who hast often cryed to thy Prophet of the Oppression of this cruel Creditor the Prince and Spirit who rules in the evil World that would have taken thy two Sons both for Bond-men Who are to be understood as they relate to thy inward and outward Man to imbondage both and hold them in perpetual Captivity as Debtors through the degenerated Principle to the Law of Sin which makes obnoxious to the Curse of Servitude to this wicked Usuper From which my Elisha Spirit is to come to set free through the additional Blessing of Increase out of that Pot of Oyl that is found before-hand in thee but of no sufficiency to redeem out of the Creditor's thraldom till the Spirit of Multiplication do take Knowledge and Compassion to shew what will buy thee out of all the World's Servitude Wherein thou hast known such Perplexities and tyrannical Thraldoms that have constrained thee to look out for Liberty Now then hearken to my Counselling Word ye who do agree as united Spirits to break this Yoke from off your Neck resolving no longer to be under Tribute repair to your Prophet Elisha and only make him privy to all your Necessities Let the Prophet's Widow in this case be the Pattern in thy Eye and in all Extremities fly to no other Call upon this Elisha-Spirit for he is to be raised from the dead to work mighty Deeds First in the hidden Man of the Heart which prepareth for the working through the outward part every Vessel must be cleansed within before the Golden Oyl of the Almightiness will fill them When this is perfect and purely done shut the Door upon thee and thy two Sons and let none come in to spy For the Foundation-matter for Miracles to work upon will run from a most secret hidden Vein The method here of will be quite changed as to what was in the days of Elisha Who though he acted parallel with thy Jesus in the days of his humane state of Minority not having reached the Coronation-Glory could not till then set afoot this New Ministration that openeth from the Line of the Holy Ghost Who is that full grown Vein of Life which hath so long under Ground been hid because of which no miraculous thing hath of these last days been wrought For none hath cared with my Spirit to plunge so deep and therefore it is for a while to lie hid till they have found out the right Needle which may pierce this third Vein that proceedeth from the Godhead The Life-Blood of which will be the running multiplying Oyl which is costly indeed thou needst not crave
deeper Mystery yet as it both presents Deity and Humanity thus interwoven together To shew how your Humane will-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
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
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
I must do further in â—…ou till throughly ye be assimulated inâ—…o me Oh it is a mighty thing for me â—…our Jesus back again with my Life's Blood to return and shed it abroad into such full Streams as may engender the Eternal Body of the Love to which the mighty influencing Word of Wisdom determines to bring and make you perfect in Now then decry all reluctancy down which yet may be found stirring against this Perfect thing For this my Rising Body will clear it self from all Weaknesses and Imperfections to which end I do again descend into Nature to raise this Seed and to cloath it upon with my own Spiritual Body Which must be put on jointed and knit together by Organical Properties and Powers and by Spiritual Sinews and Veius of Life running here throughout all created and formed of Pure and Divine Matter This is the New Creature into which God the Holy Ghost will breath again and operate freely and will never more be under any clog or evil strangling Power from any dark Magick For all by and through dying into me are acquitted of that Nature I as a new Lily Flower out of thee will spring and out of that inward Ground which hath been thus tinctured and watered with my all-cleansing Blood that purifies from all that is corrupt the Pearl shall be â—…ound May the 11th 1676. This Morning I awakned from a Voice echoing within saying I am come Proâ—…hecies to fulfil With that I felt someâ—…hing into me enter and it filled me and â—…ll my parts in such a sacred manner â—…hich gave me to believe that the new â—…ompacted Body which had been openâ—…d and promised was now stirring and giving proof of its Real Existency and â—…rowing within me to bring forth that Perfect Life without the stain of Sin Referring to that Scripture Knowing â—…hat Christ being raised dyeth no more for through that Death Sin was finished So likewise it was shewed me that we were thus to reckon our selves freed and â—…ead through this living Body felt â—…nd smelt as a Spicy Balsam diffused by â—…he Spirit of Jesus From these words â—…peaking thus This Body is my Everlastâ—…ng Birth of Life that once coming to â—…e quickened shall never dye more For â—…hough there was a falling away and dying from out of Paradise and froâ—… that pure Birth there grew a deformeâ—… change Yet now fear not since a tryeâ—… Stone for a Foundation of Eternal Lifâ—… is laid in you who chosen Witnesses arâ—… of my Risen Body Which shall iâ—… like manner give proof in a Numbeâ—… known as it did in that Age when particularly was manifested to the Worlâ—… in the Singularity but now henceforâ—… expect me to appear in the Plâ—…rality to act over the same perfect Liâ—… again in such who are predestinateâ—… thereunto from the choice Love oâ—… God the Father Who by Wisdoâ—… doth bring forth again this New â—…tion in the express Likeness of me theâ—… first born Jesus Who by pure diffusinâ—… and Incarnating my self in you caâ—… thereby save and redeem you out oâ—… and from All Sin so as to be spotless 〈◊〉 immaculate even as I was hereby restoring storing to you your lost Virginity May the 12th 1676. I Perceived the whole drift of the â—…ord of Wisdom was now to impress to us the perfect Nature of Jesus for 〈◊〉 essential growing in us to be felt in â—…e quickening powerful stirrings that 〈◊〉 we might know in our selves the â—…rd to be risen For it was said to me â—…ear O ye whom I have seen careful to â—…ther in all your scattering Loves to â—…pty them into me as a Proof that ye â—…ll enter your selves into no other beâ—…es Who to you will not be a â—…ad but living Tomb out from which 〈◊〉 shall have Bodies come forth in Orâ—…nical Powers with all the Senses reâ—…wed as the effect of your Resurrection â—…te For verily as I was in this World â—…ye are by the same Spirit in the like â—…rity to honour the Father and me 〈◊〉 abâ—…tement hereof can be allowed you desire to come up unto the same â—…ity to be near the Father's Throne â—…jesty where I am to fix you near â—…me If you will now remember to â—…d fast by that Globe and with me Ascend by every Link demonstrated by that Golden Chain ye shall pass through all Centers and Worlds most conqueringly As I am risen in you that most powerful and Aiery Body which indeed hath hereby made you only meet for the Heavenly Company and Society shall accordingly in you arise Neither doubt ye who appointed are to wear the White Robes of the Resurrection While ye do yet appear in mortal Shapes that it shall still so cloud and hide this my Celestial Body but that like thâ—… Sun it will break forth in its mighty force and strength of Glory through the visible dark Body For this Life musâ—… not be stifled but shall display it selâ—… most free in and after the same manner and way that is Recorded of me nay and that too more abundantly Foâ—… I have the Patent by the Father noâ—… sealed to give forth mighty Powers anâ—… Gifts whereby Bodies that are framed and brought into my Model of Perfection shall be new and fresh Witnesses oâ—… those attending Powers that shall givâ—… sufficient Proofs that I am again Riseâ—… Therefore fix your Eyes stedfastly oâ—… me and look after my Life for I aâ—… the same that was Visible and am now drawing you after me May the 18th 1676. Wisdom's Star with its Bright Glance gave notice to us where we might come to congratulate the Pure and Wonderful Birth of our Saving Jesus Which coming to behold as the effect of that late preceding Dying into him from which a Birth so suddainly did spring and therefrom did witness a most sweet and pleasant Existence growing from the Life-Tree which is rooted in the deep rich Soil of the All-Eternity These were the Glad-tydings which to my Ears were sounded with these Words Come enter into your self view and see that the Life-Birth hath wrought out it self God-Man fully Great care and charge of this young Plant you are to take and to nurse it up with its own Virgin-Milk and ye must not dare henceforth ever to lay it to any other Breast â—…pon its Life-Preservation For this â—…mmixed Birth is designed to be brought â—…p by the Incorruptible Word which must feed it up until it be wise and all knowing and impregnably strong and get about it all its defensive Armour Without which there is no living where such abounding of Evil is hourly scattering their malignant Influences All former Births have been too weak to encounter with the strong and subtle Leviathan who hath this World so much his Friend to plunge poor fallen Spirits into his Gins and no way there is to escape his Wiles Assaults and Temptations but by entring through this new living Birth-Gate Which is contracted from that High Pure Elementary Substance and therefore must always
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