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
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
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
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
Scripture And I dare say that your Learned Friend must own that how much soever it may be exploded it is yet a Doctrine more clearly to be found in the most Primitive Antiquity than the greater part of those which at this day so much divide the contending Parties of Christendom Now as for your Friend whom you dare to trust he is indeed a Disciple of Wisdom and a Son of the Prophets but he is yet but in a low Class and very young in this Heavenly Life But could he Experimentally declare more then hitherto he can it might not be very expedient upon many weighty Reasons so to do till the great Effusion of the Miraculous Powers do make the way clear for such a Declaration However he can say that he is not a Stranger to the Baptism of the Holy Ghost which is by Fire He has seen the Fulfilling of some Prophecies already and so is the better encourag'd to expect that of others His Tryals Deliverances and all the secret part of his Life both at home and abroad has been strangely singular and what God designs to do with him further he knows not but desires to stand entirely Passive to his Will Now it remains that I should answer your Last Request which concerns the distinguishing the Impetus of our own Imaginations from Divine Inspirations which contains in it two Questions 1st How the Persons themselves that are under them can distinguish them And 2dly How others that have them not are to judge concerning them But of all that relates to this you may expect a Particular Account by another way in Answer to some Queries that were proposed to me And in the mean time I recommend to you for your Guidance the very last Revelation in the Book I have this only to say to the First at present that the Imagination ought to be perfectly mortify'd the Death and Cross of Christ being the true Path to Illumination And to the Second That Care is to be taken neither too hastily to Approve nor too hastily to Reject but to Try all Spirits and to hold fast them that are Good suspending to pass Judgment on those that are not understood May the God and Father of your Spirit enlighten it in his own good time to his Glory by the Internal Revelation of his Son Jesus Christ through the Operation of his blessed Spirit that works in you that so by your own Experimental Conviction you may be able to Convince others and so by promoting that Divine Knowledge whose Increase is foretold by the Prophet Daniel you may shine as a Star in the Firmament of Wisdom So committing you with your dear Companion to his Gracious Protection I take leave to subscribe my self Your known Friend London Septem 9. 95. Query How are Spirits to be Discern'd IF this Query refers to the Persons themselves who are or suppose themselves led by a Good Spirit it is Answered That the Manner of Discernment is by Sensation which is not to be described This Sensation like the New Song the New Name and the White Stone they only who do experiment and while they do experiment are able to distinguish But then it may be Queried How shall they who suppose themselves to be led by a True Spirit and are not be enabled to discern aright in this matter since they are without this Spiritual Sensation by which the others are assur'd concerning the Truth of their Visions and Revelations Ans. They are to seek for it of God by a perfect Mortification of their own Wills and especially as to these very supposed Favours and by most instant and violent Prayer Thus some who upon the Commission of an evilthing have been depriv'd of the Good Spirit of God which they did enjoy and have been deliver'd up to a Spirit of Delusion for some time Satan all this while exactly Personating an Angel of Light giving forth false Oracles and opening a false Paradise upon them have been again restored to their former Enjoyments and Divine Sensation the Scenes of the false Paradise made to drop into pieces and the true One to Open and the Evil Spirit forced to stand before the Angel whom he had Personated If it be further Queried Whether and How do those that are truly led by the Holy Spirit discern the Spirits by which others are led The Answer will be That all are not able to do so but only some that are arriv'd to a very high Degree and great Experience in the Supernatural Life As for the Manner of Discerning it is the same with respect to others as to themselves there being no Mark so certain here as that of Internal Sensation Thus Spiritual Things are spiritually discerned felt and received and the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets But if in the last place it be demanded How then shall those who are Strangers to these Leadings of the Spirit and who desire alike neither to fall into any Errour nor to resist the Truth be able to govern themselves in this Matter To this the Answer is very easie That they are not to perplex themselves in this Inquiry so long as they remain either Carnal or Rational but to endeavour by all means according to the clear Path chalk'd out in the Scriptures to become Sdiritual To which State when they are arriv'd they need not fear being able to judge or themselves and if with respect to others they shall not be presently capable to judge they can be under no apprehension of any danger so they do but follow the pure Dictates of the Spirit to themselves and therefore they will desire this satisfaction no further then as it shall be given them from Above However even they who are not arriv'd beyond the Rational Life need not be much mistaken while they continue so For if that which is said to be Revealed be of weighty concern either to that Particular Soul or to the publick and if it directly tend to Purity of Life and to the Exaltation of God and the Humiliation of Man then if it be not plainly disagreeable with what has been for Certain before Reveal'd even they according to their meer Natural Reason ought not to slight it Two Testimonies for the Dispensation of the Spirit Revived I. The Testimony of Dr. J. P. the Author's Fellow Traveller Christian Friend NO other Foundation can be laid that what Christ hath laid for he hath laid himself in his Saints to be established upon whicn is the hidden Mystery of God But to know and to feel Christ in us in his Burning Flaming Heart of Love by way of Wedlock and Marriage-Union between the Soul and its Bridegroom This is a deep Mystery that few are counted worthy to comprehend But all these Feelings these foretasts of Divine Love with ravishing Joys do but leave us to the Warfaring State against all our Spiritual Enemies to conquor Hell Sin Eternal Death Dragon and all Hell-Devils together with the Beast and
Dispensation Which hereby is as the New and best of Wine that hath been reserved for this Last Time Whereby it may be understood that Christ has not forgotten to make good his Promise to renew the Spring of his Spirit by a continued Succession of it And as we see and hear the Fruitfulness of it doth more generally abound and find entertainment in the World by a New Generation of Apostolical Spirits so doth it presage a New Kingdom and State is near approaching Which is Argument enough to provoke all that would be Subjects of this Kingdom which the Lamb has only Right unto to be preparing and making Ready as the First Fruits that they may be Qualified to make up this New Jerusalem-Bride Therefore as my Fellow Denizens of this City which is from Above where-ever ye are hidden whether as Exiles or Captives scattered to and fro I beseech you let your Inward Ear he attentive keeping Watch and Ward in great Calmness and Stillness of Mind Then may ye bear the Love-Calls passing through that Horn which is filled with pure Oil that will gather and draw you into the High Celestial and Spiritual Pasture and Fold where our goodly Tents may be Pitched and of which we may go in and out to that rich Sharon which springs and flowers round about our Kingly Shepherd that so as his Sheep and Lambs we may be gently led from Fountain to Fountain and drink and feed together in the same Harmony and Unity as do the Saints in the Upper Fold so we in this Lower I shall now wind up all with a Cautâ—…n to two Ranks the First shall be to the Unlearned and Ignorant in this Method and Way of the Spirit 's Manifestation Which is that they do forbear Rash and Censorious Judgment upon those Things that are at present above their Reach For as they desire not to be prevented and bereaved of the Great Benefit of Divine Inspiration and the Assistances of the Holy Ghost my Advertisement to such is that they become Simple and Child-like and adventure upon the Conduct and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit then will they find another manner of fruitful Life will in them spring and no reason shall they have to repent for Acquiescing to the Divine Will herein The Second Caution shall be to that sort which are already Initiated into this our Mystick and Supersensual Wisdom that may have with me run deep into the Ocean of what is Mysterious and Wonderful for Knowledge First I must caution you with my self to keep very Low entring into a Self-Annihilation so as a Nothing to be with reference to the Creaturely Being that the All-Deifick Unction may arise as an overflowing Tide and never to think we have obtained by all that we have yet reached to what yet remains of those Immense Treasures which are yet further to be Revealed For there is still a growing Tree of Life that reneweth all Variety of Wisdom as you will in part find by this Present as well as by some Foregoing Books by me Published Thus having given you a true Narrative of the Several Removes and Risings from one Degree to another from Depths to Heights and from Heights again to Depths out of which hath been Brought forth very Marvellous and Wonderful Secrets which it was the pleasure of the Fountain of Spirits to distribute and communicate being such Mysterious Things as haply may be rarely found elsewhere which hath often me astonished that such Unusual and Strange a Method the Spirit should take with me opening such things But it hath been given me to know upon a Diligent Inquiry that there is an Age coming on the like to which hath not yet been to whom these Prophesies and Revelations do belong So that though the Day of my Life is far spent so that I may not see the full Harvest of what is by the Spirit sown here to be reaped yet assured I am that all is reserved for a Glorious Time wherein shall arise a New Generation that clothed upon will be with such a Mantle as is interwoven with Light Wisdom Knowledge and Flaming Power Among which there may be some that I may bear the Memorial of a Mother to as well Natural as Supernatural that may possibly succeed in the same Spirit which I shall pray may be as Wisdom's Key to go on to open in them the Golden Remains which are yet to be brought forth for the promulgation of the Priestly and Prophetical Kingdom upon the Earth So now I shall conclude requesting you as you shall draw in any Light or feel any Refreshment herefrom that you would join with me in Acclamations and Praises to the Antient of Days who hath put into the Hands of a Good-willer to these Divine Mysteries to bring forth into the Publick what might otherwise have been left in Oblivion and Secresie And it is my pecuâ—… Request which I this place leave that the Nâ—…ons may bless and pray for such an Instrument that hath given a Proof of so Universal a Love to All. So that the Fulness of all Blessings and Showers from the Heavenly Powers may 〈◊〉 upon the Impartial and Single-hearted Readers and Good-willers hereof shall be the constant Invocation and Prayer of her who while living in the Body shall never cease to serve all her Fellow-Members in the Gift of God Universally J. Lead THE EDITOR TO THE READER THERE having been a Promise made in the Preface to the Ark of Faith that the Diary of this Author should follow the First Volume of the same is now accordingly Published for an Universal Good For â—…he Author or the Instrument rather â—…ade use of by the Divine Wisdom is known to be of so Universal a Spirit â—…hat nothing less hereby can be designed And howsoever what is herein Deâ—…ivered as well as the Manner of the Deâ—…ivery it self may come to be opposed either on this hand or on that I think I can say that I am more than Morally Assured That the All-wise God hath hereby Ends to bring about which the most Acute and Vulturous Eye of the Greatest Rationalist shall never be able to dive into and that all will serve but to a Fuller Breaking out of the Truth and the Divine Light that True Light which Enlightens every one that comes into the World so far as it is not Resisted and according to the Degree of Purity in the Vessel for the Reception and Reflexion of its Rays This is an Age that thinks it self to excel all that have ever went before it in the Discovery and Improvement of Truths and it cannot be denied but that of these late years Mechanical Knowledge hath been brought up to a very great Height which hath had both its Good and Bad Effects in the World But notwithstanding all the Fancied or Real Light in matters either Physical or Theological which the Present Age doth so much boast of it may perhaps not unfitly enough be said of those of that
the Glorified Body of Jesus that is able to subdue every thing unto it self This verily is that Kingdom which is so much talked of and so little every where understood but less still pressed after which is in this Book and in that also of the Revelation of Revelations Published now ten years Ago so Essentially and Fundamentally declared as nothing Higher nothing Deeper can upon this Subject be ever laid down whether in Time or in Eternity And because Solomon whose Reign was as a faint Sketch or Type of the Glorious Reign of the true Jedidiah or Beloved of the Lord built himself a Royal Palace in Lebanon which was a fruitful and a well-watered Soil and most beautiful for its scituation where he made Gardens and Orchards planting in them Trees of all the variety of most excellent Fruits also Cedars and Fir-Trees for Building with great Water-works Pools of Water and Fountains with a fair Tower also looking toward Damascus and with a Vineyard of Red-wine where he entertained his Shulamite Queen and her Honourable Women Therefore is the Palace or Mansion-house of the Great KING the true Solomon or Prince of Peace here Parabolically represented to be raised up as in a New Lebanon whereinto the Tabernacle of the Eternal Wisdom coming down from God out of Heaven with all its Furniture is brought and the Children of the Lamb's Bride are figured out to grow up by the sides of this House as the Branches of a fruitful Vine or as so many several Lillies from one Stock or Olive-Plants from one Root according to the manifold proportion and diversity of the Divine Seed cast into the Ground of Nature by the Great Seedsman Whence the expected Kingdom of the Messiah in Restored Nature which is called the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven is according to the Spirits Mystical Dialect compared to a Vineyard to an Olive-yard to a Garden of Lillies and to a Corn-field and is expressed by the various figurations of a New Eden of a New Canaan of New Heavens and New Earth of Fountains and Trees and Plants of all sorts of Canals Aqueducts and Rivers of Pleasure of Tents Palaces and Temples of a Mountain of a Rock and of a City of Sion Lebanon and the Hills of Spices of new found Countries descended out of the Heavens or by the Creating Word in the Divine Magia made to appear as a new Sharon and a new Havilah and a Beulah of Jerusalem of Bethel and of the Southland of Etèrnity of the Pleasures and Grandeur of a Rich Powerful and Wise Prince such as Solomon and of all the Badges of Royalty and Scenes of Magnifiâ—…t Glory that do as in a shadow precede attend or follow the Marriage and Reception of a Royal Bride But this Heavenly Kingdom this Marriage-supper of the KING this Inauguration and Coronation of the Lamb and of his Bride to the Kingdoms of the Earth and to the lost Dominion and Soveraignty over the whole Six days Work is not to be expected but after very great and mighty Preparations many forerunning Signs of the Son of Man coming to us in his Fathers Glory and the Six Ascending Steps to the Throne of the Great Solomon All which are most difficult to pass so that few if any have been able in many Centuries to hold out to the last Degree or Ascension-step to this Throne But they have fell short of the PHILADELPHIAN Crown and of the high Prerogatives thereof viz. the being made Pillars and Principal Supporters in the Descending Temple of the Most High God the bearing the Name of JEHOVAH by an Essential communication of the Properties Powers and Dignities of their Eternal Father opened to such in JESUS and by a most Real Intimate and Vital Penetration of that most glorious wonderful Name burning in the Bush of their Humanity and putting forth it self in Imperial Acts and Deeds Their bearing the Name of the New Jerusalem-Mother that Free-woman which is above and demonstrating livelily its Inscription by an utter defacing of that of the Mother of Babylon and of the Beast upon which she rides and by a Majestick environing Brightness as of the Sun a subduing the Moon with all that is sublunary and mutable under their Feet and a wearing upon their Heads a Crown of Twelve Stars wherein so many Royal Pre-eminences and Ghostly Powers are contained The bearing the Names of the Foundations of this City the Names of the Tribes of Israel and the Names of the Apostles of the Lamb and the bearing lastly the New Name of Jesus that â—…o Man knoweth but he himself who with his own Finger hath written it on their Vestures and on their Thighs that so in all things they may be made like unto him their Head-Life by the all-powerful working of His Spirit with which they are sealed There are but few found who have so much as an Ear to hear what the Spirit saith to this Church of Philadelphia the First-fruits of the Lamb or even but to receive the Promises of the Holy and True One who is now at this instant with the Key of DAVID Opening gradually this blessed state in a few chosen Names so that none shall ever shut it more And he is shutting up in such the Dark Abyss and wrathful depraved Nature so that it can never be again Opened But still fewer are they who have not only an Ear to hear but also an Heart and Hands to Act whatever the Spirit saith and who dare to adventure on to the laying hold of such a weighty Crown as is that of the First-born And even of those that do so adventure forward for this most High Prize some do stop having attained to the First Degree others rest in the Second and others in the Third as thinking that they are already got to the Sixth and so want nothing but to be taken presently to sit with their Lord in his Throne Some are willing at the end even of the first days work of Regeneration or Spiritual Creation to enter into their Sabbath and without having passed the Works of the other Five Days to sit contented with the first productions of Divine Light upon the Soul Some who have beheld one or two or perhaps three Signs of the coming of the Son of Man have not had patience longer to wait for all the Signs but have thence peremptorily concluded â—…hat he was come to them and that his Kingdom was in them before a Redemption has been wrought out from the lapâ—… Nature or before the very Head of the Serpent has been bruised in them and slain by the Virgin Seed of the Wisdom of God in the meek Second Holy Principle of Light and Love which by the Inspired Penmen of Old is expressed by that most soft and yet most victorious Name JAH Hallelu-JAH For the prevention therefore of all such Miscarriages and for the undeceiving of those who think it a light thing to be a King's Son or a King's Daughter it
those that follow the Lamb do long to sing Glory to God in the Highest c. and to publish the Glad Tidings of the Kingdom of Our God and Saviour flying in the midst of the Heavens upon the Wing of the Dove-Spirit and Proclaiming with a Loud Shout FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME Rev. 14. 7. Timotheus January 1st 1697. A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS AN Account of the first Appearance of Wisdom's Star to the Author pag. 17. Of the Book of Wisdom sealed with three Seats pag. 19 The Key of the Great Mystery p. 22. The Mystery of Rebeccah and of Jacob's obtaining the Blessing unfolded p. 25. The Mystick Death p. 32. Wisdom's Flaming Heart with the Budding Tree for Transmutation p. 34. The Mystery of Laban and Jacob or the strife of the Sensual and Supersensual Life p. 37. The Faithless and Faithful Dalilah compared p. 42. The true Nazarite p. 43. The Book of Life and the Book of Death p. 46. The Divine Angler p. 49. The Magical Journey with an account of Wisdom's high Stone of Wonder p. 53. The Eternal Matter of this Stone together with the Chain of the Creator with the Creature p. 64. An Expostulation of Wisdom's Pilgrim p. 66. The Voice of the Bridegroom p. 67. The Answer to the Spirit of the Soul p. 68. The Reply of the Bridegroom ibid. Thi Preparations of the Second Marriage p. 69. The Shulamite's Debate p. 72. Wisdom's Charge to the Shulamite admitting hâ—…r into the New Mystical Paradise p. 80. What is required to a Divine Association p. 85. An Experimental Reâ—…lation of the Lords Day and of being in the Spirit p. 86. The Hidden Mystery of Faith's Seed p. 88. Wisdom's Call and Direction for the Tabernacle Building p. 91. The Holy Composition Oil p. 101 102. The Garden of Beulah in the Land of Havilah p. 105. The Originâ—… and Nature of the Royal Ghostly Power in the Tabernacle-Body p. 117. The Renewed Spiritual Wooing p. 120. The Mystery of Spiritual Sol and Venus or the two Hoavenly Tinctures Male and Female p. 124. The going up from the Low Valley towards SION-Hill p. 126. A great Combat of the Dark world against the Ascending Traveller p. 131. The Lamb worried by two Dogs p. 135. A Visional Manifestation of the Various Growths of the New Birth before the Winged Power â—…f the Holy Dove p. 136. A further Declaration and Demonstration of this last Fixed State and of the Power of the Holy Ghost p. 137. A Preparation for fresh Assaults from the Dark Kingdom p. 140. A Memorandum how the Leviathan Spirit â—…nded the Author's Companion which caused a mighty Conflict for several Days and how he came to be again Restored p. 143. The Application hereof made by the Witness of the Tabernacle p. 150. Fresh Instances and Encouragements from the Spirit of Wisdom p. 15â—… The Union of the Zeal of Phineas with the Nazarite Purity p. 156. A Brâ—…viat of some late Perils we were in p. 157. The Divine Appearance from Mount Perazim p. 163. The Unicorn-Power p. 164. A seasonable Caution against Treachery p. 165. A Pâ—…servative against Dark Magick p. 166. The Allegory of Balak and Balaam ibid. The Case of Jacob's Servitude and Deliverance p. 167. The Cloud of Glory upon the Spiritual Tabernacle p. 170. Of Maimed Births p. 171. The Foundation Stones of the Holy City p. 172. Wisdom's Rock of Glory upon which it is founded p. 173. The twelve Foundation-Stones that every one is to bear who is thereinto admitted p. 178. A Call to this Searching Spirit from out of the New Jerusalem p. 183. The Reason of the Scituation of its Gates p. 185. Another Call to this Ascending Spirit p. 187. The Descent of the Jà sper-Stone for this End p. 188. The Tree of Life which is Three and One p. 189. The River of Sion p. 190. The Spirit 's Eccho to Wisdom's repeated Call p. 192. The earnest Expostulations of this Spirit with her Mother and with her Beloved p. 193. The Nazarite-Diet for the Jerusalem-Born Spirits p. 195. The Voice of the Bridegroom to the Spirit of the Bride after she had found an entrance into this City p. 198. The Bridegroom 's further Admonition to her and to the Jerusalem-Waiters p. 201. The Love Chain 203. The Chariot of Elijah p. 204. The New Book Opened or the Everlasting Gospel of JESUS containing the Process of the Regeneration in his Mystical Incarnation Death Resurrection Ascension and Glorification p. 206. The Paradisical Sowing p. 207 211. The Spring or the Resurrection p. 208. The Ascension of the Bridal Spirit p. 209. The Glortfication of the same p. 210. Another Seal of this Book of Life opened or an Experimental Passage through another Death p. 212. Quench not the Spirit p. 213. The Mocking Ishmaelite p. 214. The Magdalen Waiter p. 215. The Salutation of the Risen Jesus p. 216. The Immutability of the New Creature p. 219. The Witnesses of the Resurrection p. 220. The Immediate Robe given to the Risen of Jesus p. 221. The Wonder-Birth p. 223. It s Education p. 225. The Book of Prophecy and of Life to be eaten down p. 226. The Food from the Altar p. 228. Aurora or the Day-spring from on High p. 231. The Threefold Appearance of the New Adam or the Three Degrees p. 233. The Ocean-Treasury p. 237. A Digression concerning the Communication and Interpretations of Magical Representations p. 238. The Passage to the Mountain of Pretious Stones p. 241. The Sapphire-Stone p. 243. The Spirits eager Search and Sighing after this Treasure p. 244. The Oppositions made from the outward Astrum p. 245. The Holy Root of the Magical Life ibid. The Globe of Light or the Perfect Day p. 247. The â—…ight of Paradise compared with that of Mount Sion p. 249. The End of all Things at hand p. 251. The Fall of Babylon p. 252. The Magical Seals p. 253. The Restoration of the Magical Might or the Spirit Ascension to the Monnt of Olives p. 256 The Extirpation of the Imaginary Root p. 258. The Superimaginary State ibid. The Eternal Stillness or the Rock of Power p. 262 A Vision of God's Flaming Eye p. 263. The Interpretation of the Vision p. 265. The Believing Rest p. 267. The Lily of Faith p. 268. The Flying Banner p. 270. The Parting Principle or the Shooting of the Gulph p. 271. The Box of Spikenard or Divine Love p. 275. The Blessing made a Curse or the Ark in the Temple of Dagon p. 276. The Travelling forward of the Ark of the Presence p. 277. The Joseph's Blessing p. 278. Joshuah or the Conquering Worthy p. 280. The Ark-Drivers p. 281. An Appearance of the Personal Humanity of Christ and of the Father's Glory p. 282. The Arcanum of the Holy Ghost taught by Christ p. 283. Take heed of Pilate's Spirit p. 285. The Rules of Merchandize p. 288. The Oracle within the Veil The Michael-Unction p. 293. The Opening in Heaven of the most
Holy Place p. 294. The Seven Compassings p. 298. The Golden Fleece ibid. The Uncloathing of Joshua the High-Priest p. 299 A 〈◊〉 against the Composition-Poyson p. 303. The Consubstantiation of the Heavenly Bread p. 304 The Gourd ibid. The Jubilee 305. The Covering of the Son of Man p. 306. The Pot of Manna and the Bowl of Oyl ibid. The Fair Achsah presented to Othniel p. 307. The All-Golden Grain or the true Masculine Spirit p. 309. The New Creation p. 311. A great Battel against it from the Dark and middle Worlds p. 31â—… A Renewed Evidence hereupon of the Resurrection Body p. 316. The Dew of Hermon ibid. The Swan-like Washings p. 318. The Return of the Beast to the Lake and the Chaining up of the Dragon p. 〈◊〉 323. The Name aâ—…d Mark of the Lamb p. 321. The Guardian Eunuch p. 324. A sâ—…t Battel from the Outward Worldly Principle p. 527. The Captain of the Lords Host appears to the Combatant p. 329. A Call to the Shulamite p. 350. The Shulamite's Obedience so this Call p. 331. The Blessing of Zebulon p. 332. Vision and Fruition p. 333. The Golden Globe or the New Mold of Imagination p. 334. Rules for the Government of the Imagination p. 337. The Lamb's Book p. 340 344. The Lamb's Feast p. 341. Ejaculations after the Lamb 's Great Appearance p. 345. His Fountain-Body unsealed ibid. The Golden Mist or the Circling Breath of the Deity p. 346. The Holy Incense p. 349. The Healing Word p. 352. The Eâ—…postulation of the Spouse p. 354. The Bridegroom's Answer by his Spirit p. 357. The Marriage-Union p. 360. The Working Mines p. 362. The Divine Chymist p. 364. The Chrysolite p. 366. The Virgin in Labour to bring forth her First-born p. 367. A Râ—…sentation of the Lamb and of his Bride Triumphant p. 369. Her Cup of Blessing p. 372. The Royal Purchase p. 374. Wisdom's Wardrobe or the Virgin Rayment p. 375. Repeated Cautions and Reproofs from the Importunate Lover to his Beloved that she might hasten out of the Land of her Captivity p. 376. The eunuch-Eunuch-Spirit or the Sabbath of Rest p. 380. A New Onset causing an Interruption in the Spiritual Calling p. 382. The Sabbatical City p. 383. The Breaking through of the Divine Glory p. 384. The Oracular Glory speaking Mouth to Mouth p. 386. The Ministration of Elisha p. 387. The Comforters Message from the Bridegroom p. 392. The Day of the Spirit p. 394. A fresh Attack against the Spirit of Faith p. 396. The Covering of wrought Gold interwoven with Scarlet Silk p. 397. The Caterpillars p. 399. The Viâ—…eyard or the Magical Ground p. 401. The Weighty Drop p. 403. The Life of Divine Soveraignty or Man is become as one of us p. 404. The Gods ascending out of the Earth p. 406. Ahasuerus or the King as the Banquet p. 408. Esther's Preparatory Fast p. 410. Her Feast and Petition p. 411. Mordecai and Haman or the Princely Spirit of Faith and the Insulting Spirit of Reason p. 413. The King's Answer to Esther's Petition p. 416. The Flying Horse of Power ibid. The United Crown or the Nazarite Covering p. 418. The Burning-Wheel or the Spirit 's Workmanship p. 419. What it is to be a Standard-Bearer of the Spirit p. 420. The Seraphim covering the Wheels of Nature p. 421. The Progress of the Wheel-Work p. 424. The Cherub-Tent p. 425. The Way of the Spirit cleansed by the Cherubim Oracle p. 426. Wisdom's Armory disclosed ibid. It is broken up by the Mighty Cyrus p. 427. The Sign of the Son of Man p. 430. The Binding of the Four Winds p. 432. The Olive-Tree or the Sealing of the Deity p. 433. The Mystery of the three Heavenly Witnesses p. 435. The Ternary of Witnesses on the Earth p. 437. The Unity of these Three p. 439. Adullam or the pure Virgin-Tabernacle p. 440. The Great Day-Star p. 442. The Ark floating upon the Waters of the Sanctuary p. 443. The Seven Sealed Doors p. 444. The Transmutation into Birds p. 445. The Interpretation hereof p. 446. The Accusers Opposition to it p. 449. The Victory gained by the Spirit of Faith p. 450. Another Defeat of his Dark Magick p. 451 455. The Basis of the First and Second Creation p. 452. The Birth of Immanuel guarded against the Dragon p. 454. The Coming of Elias p. 455. The Conquering Bow or no Conquest no Portion p. 457. The Sword of the Lord in Gideon's Hand p. 458. The Fruits springing from One Eternal Element p. 461. The One Elementary Body p. 461. The Garden-Plantation p. 463. The Olive-Berry p. 464. The Strong Force of United Spirits p. 466. A Resolution of some Queries relating to the Wonder-Woman p. 468. The Wilderness-Temptation or Floods of Jealousie cast out against the Woman p. 476. The three Ghostly Bodies p. 479. The Three Distinct Births of the Spirit further unfolded p. 480. A Prolongation of the Outward Life promised to some that are to Open the First Seal p. 484. The Messengers of the Isaac-Birth p. 485. The Excellency of this Third Birth above the two former p. 487. The Young Elephant p. 091. A Letter of Resolution in Answer to some Objections sent from a Learned Physician to the Publisher hereof upon occasion of the English Edition of The Letter to some Divines concerning the Question Whether since Christ's Ascension God doth any more Reveal himself to Mankind And may for the like Reason refer to this present Work p. 493. How are Spirits to be discerned p. 499. Two Testimonies for the Ministration of the Spirit Revived The Testimony of Dr. J. P. the Author 's Follow Traveller The Testimony of Mr. T. B. An Advertisement WHereas in the Year 1683. there was Printed a Treatise of that Inlighten'd Philosopher and Profound Divine Dr. John Pordage this Author 's most Intimate Friend entitled THE OLOGIA MYSTICA or the Mystick Divinity of the Eternal Invisibles viz. the Archetypal Globe or the Original Globe or World of all Globes Essences Centers Elements Principles and Creations what soever wherein many Deep and Hidden Mysteries have been Unfolded from a Ray of the Divine Light and the same though Published with great Disadvantage to the Author's Memory and the Great Things therein deliver'd has excited in several Searching Spirits are eager and longing Desire to see the rest of his Writings made Publick This is to give Notice that Leave having been at last obtained after many reiterated Solicitations from the Executors of the said Dr. John and of Mr. Francis Pordage the Publisher of this Book will undertake to Gratifie the World with all the Theological Theosophical and Philosophical Works of the said Illuminated Son of Wisdom which are come to his Hands if there shall be any suitable encouragement given to such a Design The Titles whereof are these that follow viz. Mystica Philosophica or a Treatise of Eternal Nature wherein the Distinction of God from Nature is Discussed and many Weighty Questions both Physical and Divine relating
especially to the Human Soul are Resolved The Angelical World or a Treatise concerning the Angelical Principle with the Inhabitants thereof and God in this Principle The Dark Fire World or a Treatise concerning the Hellish Principle with the Inhabitants and Wonders and God manifeâ—…ting himself in this Principle A Treatise concerning the Incarnation of JESUS CHRIST Wherein all the Present Controversies in this Particulaâ—… are Discussed by a Lover of Truth who desires to hold the Just Ballance with the Even Weight A Discourse concerning the Spirit of Eternity in its First Being 〈◊〉 or Spiritual Discoveries Experimental Discoveries concerning 〈◊〉 of Natures of Essences of Tinctures of Bodies of Persons and of Spirits Solomon's PORCH OR THE Beautiful Gate of Wisdom's Temple A POEM Introductory to the Philadelphian Age. WHEN Sinful Man first left the Blissful Seat Outcast forlorn from all that 's Good or Great From Virgin-Purity and Virgin-Love â—…anisht and Doom'd round the curst Earth to rove â—…n Bestial Image vile the Fiend within â—…ossession took without the Beast was seen God's Temple wasted lay His Image bright Thick-veild in black Egyptian Shades of Night That Glorious Sâ—…inah which Erst did shine â—…n His clear Soul the once All-beauteous Shrine â—…he Seat and Mansion of th' Eternal Trine How is it â—…ed its finest Gold how dim â—…ts Stoâ—…es pour'd out its Precious â—…rim â—…cular no more all clouded lies â—…here Demons now their Oracles disguise â—…rom Heights of Bliss to Deeper Woes he fell â—…ll falling sinking still down tow'rds the Abyss of Hell â—…his cou'dâ—… thou not behold Almighty Love 〈◊〉 Compassions dear thy tender Bowels move â—…ty and Mercy move The Heavenly Bride 〈◊〉 torn from Her new Lover's side Her Bridegroom cou'd not thus forgo Her Eyes In Pearly Dews distilling as he Dies One parting Glance She threw Fast hold it took And stopt him sinking Caus'd him back to look Repentant Deeper then the Heavenly Ray Wing'd with Loves Fires more piercing makes its way God's Light and Love conjoyn'd e're long to dwell Within him in the blest Immanuel Till then content in Tabernacles low show And Temples made with Hands some gleams of God to They Travel hand in hand thro every Age In poor Disguise and humble Pilgrimage With only Types of Rest at every greater Stage One glorious King the Virgin did descry Enamour'd courted entertained her high She staid a while all Blessings round her fly He would have had his Deitess enshrin'd With Earth's Magnificence in one combin'd A glorious Temple structure rends the Skie The World's Amazement little in her Eye Departing yet this Favour high We deign Said She be Thine a Type of our Returning Reign This House a Draught in Miniature shall be Of an Eternal Temple Rais'd by Me. This Revolution finisht on they go Now Downwards back again to Scenes of Woo Thro' Deaths still conquering Death where e're they caâ—… Pierce deeper and take faster hold of Man Till in the Virgin meek she found abode More chast and Lodg'd in her the Infant God Here by the O're-shadowings of the Heav'nly Dove She unlocks the Centre of Eternal Love Here Light and Love but scattered in the Earth Till now unite their Beams and to a Birth Proceeding one bless Humane Offspring Crown With Godhead-Power Whose Kingdoms vast Renowâ—… Through Infamy Anguish and Death must Rise A bleeding Victor a Triumphant Sacrifice Here a true Living Temple they enjoy'd Delighted Rested in which though destroyfd In outward frame the Grave could not with-hold From rising Glorious brighter far ten Thousand-fold Hail Sion s Joy her precious Corner-stone The Heavenly Salems true Foundation The God the Man the Virgin all in One. The Builders thee refus'd but thou the Head Supream and we 're thy happy Members made Strictly compacted into one the whole One Body in thee one Heart one Life one Soul â—…re long i th' next great Revolution When the fair Virgin Pilgrims Stage is done Her Travails ended and her Garland won A Temple Glory of Living Stones to rise Whose Base shall fill the Earth whose Head the Skies Love yet can't triumph here without its Mate Till Light and Beauty too become Incorporate Thus still disguis'd to this great Stage they speed Contented still to suffer grieve and bleed Bleed in their Members dear Through all they move Up Hill to Triumphs hasting Now the Dove Assistant powerful joyns in each pure Soul Oreshadowing Christ to form Spight of controul From Daemons malice or fierce Tyrants hate God's Image Light and Life they here create Still spreading Tincturing deep till all 's Divine And Christ in ev'ry â—…eature ev'ry line Appearing shall ev'n Here through Soul and Body shine In vain Hell's Obstacies and Bars oppose Each Seal the Conquerors as they pass disclose The Last Now Opening when the Spirits Day Its Powers uninterrupted shall Display See see the Virgin sends a Previous Ray. From thy dark Cell now great Bohemius rise Tutor to Sages Mad to th' Worldly wise Wisdom's first distant Phosphor to whose sight Internal Natures Ground all naked bright Unveils all Worlds appear Heavens spread their Light Early thou risest Glorious but in Clouds Thick set not sent to th' Vulgar nor the Learned Crouds Of Reasons Orb too Low none thee descry None but the well purg'd Mystick Eagle-Eye Of some few Anchorete Elected Mâ—…gi Here all past Sages veil and disappear Ev'n Mallebranch beads beneath his Weighty Character To Thee resign'd and t is but just for He Draws all from one small Rivulet of Thee Fountain of Science Art and Mystery Where Stagyrite Hermes Plato all combine De Carte in evr'y Page and Boyle in ev'ry Line And yet Alone by Eminence The Divine By whom advis'd the Firstling Flocks small Band Prepare well Trim their Lamps and ready stand ' Midst whom for pious Zeal and forward Carâ—… Great Pordage with thy Generous File appear Adventrous Worthies set i th' Forlorn Hope With Hell's outragious Malice first to Cope Furious the Dragon storms all methods tries Ev'n by false Magick dark incrept To crush the Royal Infant Spirits rise But on they charge undaunted strive and Pray Believe Watch Bleed and Travel force a way For entrance and foretast the Glorious Day As th' Dark breaks loose still the Light World 's display'd By th' Virgins Magick Wand the cursed Fiends are laid Pure Spirit breath's New Senses open flye They see and all with joynt Assent Hail Great Bohemius cry All 's True we bear thee Record Hail to thee Fountain of Science Art and Mystery At last Great Hero throw off thy undress Speak condescend familiar Now no less A Cherub-Seraph towring flaming high Is sent thy Veil to rend thy Gordian Knot to untye Commander sole of all the Graceful Charms That flow in Language Passion Harmony Attempered just In summ Second â—…o Thee The Wondrous Taylor now Revolves again Ardent Seraphick and with tenfold Fires Thunder and Fire and Love compose the Name How should it then not breath Harmonious Powers Or
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
never to turn back to them more but constantly to him cleave then his Head on thy Lap he will repose and his hidden strength to thee reveal and nothing from thee conceal being in Joint-Union no more twain but one Spirit The Seven Locks of his Power he will suffer thee to unloose and draw out therefrom such Might as may slay and overcome the Philistines Host which such prickling Bryars have been to invade thy inward Coasts and most holy Place which is appointed for the Ark of the Covenant there to rest But behold now is risen a Judge and Law-giver one that is mighty to save and deliver out of the Hands of all thy Enemies who thy true Covering in the Day of Battel will be Therefore henceforth fear not those Warriours that come forth with the Goliah's Spear and Shield the Champion which keeps within shall make them all to stagger kill and fall for the true Sampson will maintain Victory over all it is well worth the sheltring under his mighty Wing here with safety thou mayst set and upon his Love do thou incroach still who will not offended be though thou intrude thy self his Dalilah to draw out his Heart more to thee till he shall make known his great Secrets unto thee I well know this is the only precious thing no one can ever privy here unto be made till Wisdom be the Bride-Garment upon their Eternal Man then ravished with thy Beauty and with a pleasant Aspect will Emmanuel look towards thee and give thee to read within the seven sealed Book There is the interpretation of all in the History as from whence I give thee to understand the Mystery of the Nazarite's seven Locks they answer to the seven Seals of this Book of Life which only is to be opened by the Virgin compleated in the seven number of Spirits which are the seven All-seeing Eyes that only can read in this Book which is the true Ground-work of all those wrestling working Properties which moved are by me as thou dost in thy self feel a new Frame and Model for great and precious substance to be taken into therefore take heed now and for no common use let thy inward part any more be for these Throne-Powers which have visited thee will admit no mixture of company all of one sort in pure Harmony will meet in this Lovepaved-Sanctuary where thy all desirable fellowship will there in the free Liberty dwell and where opportunity thou wilt have in Love's Sanctuary to dive and search till thou findest out what lieth hid within the Breast of thy worthy Nazarite who now hath received his full Dowry the Father hath invested him with all Power to a full and perfect state of Glory he is now instated then doubt not but he hath wherewith abundantly to gratifie thee a higher and greater Match I could not contrive for my self in thee consider hereof well and carry it according to my Counsel then shalt thou his Heart still draw down the Tabernacle of witness in thy Heaven the Rainbow in the Cloud which thou hast seen as the Mark or Seal of the Covenant betwixt God and thee according as it is written in the Prophets He shall be given for a Covenant What to do not to read over as a dead Letter no thou shalt witness him thy Prophetical Spring a Book written within thee to which now with all those seven Eyes do thou turn in that this Rainbow in thy New Heavens as a Throne-Circle may inclose thee with him as a secret Pavilion where no adulterated thing can break through to disturb while thou art looking into this New Testament which shall never be trusted out of this pure Circle of the Life's Covenant into which by my Virgin Purity thou only canst pass in if I were not at hand all over in an Oily Pool to bath and drench thee throughout that so the glorified Eye may think thee all fair send forth a Spicy Breath of Air which only agreeable is for thee with thy fellow Branch as not only worthy yeâ—… may be but also bold and free to take and read this Book of Life which now upon the opening is as I this Day have shewn to thee with that other Book which wide open in the common and outward place always is to be found to which thou art by the earthly dark part invited thereinto to look and it would there retain thee but out of this Book of Death thou mayst not look which is a flowing Source of strong reasoning that as a Wall would inclose and captivate thy Mind that it should need only the Death's Lines that hath the putrefying been that have kept the whole Universe Prisoners in the black Dungeon of Sin Now to this end I have presented thee with these two Books that henceforth thou mayst avoid consulting with that which always is at hand and so readily doth offer it self unto the view But I am come absolutely to forewarn not only thee but such as are growing up with thee upon pain of my displeasure you would not turn your Eyes out any more for great is your danger if under the Law of this first Covenant wherein Eternal dying is that you still in parly therewith should be found but come now draw in my wise and obedient Children I have provided this other Book to be unloosened the Seven Seals no longer shall before it stand because I in favour am with the Lamb who from his Virgin-Spouse will nothing hide Therefore in my Light you may in this Book see where you may come to your lost dignity It may well be Wisdom's Book of Revelation entituled for without me you here could nothing understand though it stood all open to you the Interpreter I my self must be to tell you Letter by Letter for you know not yet what number it is that makes up your New Name which till you do see what challenge can be made to the rest of the whole inrouled Mystery but as in a Metaphorical Look through my Glass in the first Leaf unfolded thou wilt see the engraving of that Name with Letters of Gold November the 3d. The Divine ANGLER THere was presented to me a Person Angling upon the Brink of a River to catch Fish but his Labour was fruitless So that he gave off being hopeless Then came another Person and said Be not Discouraged but follow me Behold and see I have got an Angle that hath such a Bait as all the Fish in the River will fall upon it And accordingly I beheld multitudes in a cluster brought up by it Then cryed out that first Person Surely the Lord who is the great Fish-taker in verity is come here and hath wrought this Miracle indeed Whereupon the Person went into the Deep and having vanished down into it drew up the Fish and cryed If ye will here follow me ye shall the Principal Fish take but under Water ye must learn to Dive and again know how to Rise Consider and sind
out this Parable for here is Meat for the Strong November the 4th The Opening of this Parabolical Vision IT was now given me to understand what this did drive at The first Angler that went representeth the Forward and Willing Mind that a Fishing would go to draw up out of the Broad River wherein the Everlasting God is to be understood who is said to be the Place of Broad Rivers in which holy Spirits as in their proper Element do live and swim Flesh cannot live in Water but Fish is of another kind which nature the Holy Ghost doth present as a Similitude for the New Creation that will live and move much in the Watery Element which is a Degree much beyond the Earth though under Purgations by Fire Neither is Fish so gross or corruptible but they are still under a Washing Stream and therefore not used for Sacrifices in the Old Law Whereas all that is of Flesh is by that ordained for Burnt-Offerings that it may pass through the Purgation in the Flames of the Altar Now what the Sea and Rivers of this kind do feed and generate must signifie a Generation of Creatures that is nothing so course and bruitish as are the Earthly Beasts But from this it was shewn me that this River figureth out God himself and the pure Angelical Spirits that move in God as in the Glassy Sea wherein contained are the vast Riches that none in Flesh can see nor fathom till they changed be into such a Body as in God their Watery Element to live and there to swim and dive for the unutterable precious Stones to bring them up according as need doth require It is not the Angling upon the Outside of the River but the Adventuring into it will obtain the desired Prize And consider what Bait is to be the attracting Matter to draw both Spirits and Substances of this unto us Now then it may needfully be inquired into what this Bait compounded of is for drawing Angelical Spirits that will also soon draw us after them It was thus hereupon delivered to me that it must be the Composition which consisteth of all those excellent Virtues and Properties that were and are in the Spirit and Nature of JESUS For no other can attract and take in God but what is so much like to God who must be Signatured upon us For else it will be as fruitless as when the Disoiples went a Fishing till the Lord the true Angler come no Draught could be fetched up Even so this is to Instruct us that we examin whether or no we upon this High and Worthy Undertaking do carry our full and compleat Bait with us which is the precious smelling Spikenard of an humble meek and clarified Mind that expresly answereth to the very Mind of JESUS Then doubt we not that we shall fail of drawing to us Spirits sublime that live in that pure Climate where we shall with them most willingly back plung in and in a pure Body swim always under the Stream of these Waterings Jesus the Lord our Bait and Angle will be Then in what Riches shall we excell Oh this all-worthy is of our Consideration in the Element of this Water of Life how to live and appear for a while as Drowned and Dead till that we shall arise and swim with the rich Pearl in our Mouths Then will it be cryed This the Christ indeed that hath the great Draught brought up through sinking down into Faith's Obedience Who now venture will to walk upon these Living Waters wherein the Healing Medicine is but such Hero's in the Faith as will not afraid be to dive into the Bottom of this River deep For otherwise the Rich Prize which is in the Fishes Mouth can never be caught up The Wise in Heart who by the pure Spirit have been taught will what is by the Parable meant well understand November the 7th The Magical Journey § 1. IN my Spiritual Journey on to the Land of all Blessed Stores a Figure hereof was acted Magically before me I being carried to a Gate which was so narrow and strait that there was no getting through but by creeping upon the Knees and that with great Difficulty too And so led on was I still till at length I came to another Gate which was somewhat more easily to get through then the First but strait enough So passing on yet further there was a two Leaved Gate but the One Leaf opening was fitted exactly to my Stature in Heighth and Breadth which gave entrance into a Place where neither Beginning nor End was to be found And I said what make I here alone And the Invisible Guide that led me through these three Gates answered that There would be some others that would come after me when they did hear where such a vast Plantation was which was to be replenished with all sorts and kinds of good things and yet no Toil Labour or Care required is But know that it is appointed only for Wisdom's high Magicians to Act here their Powers that had passed through all her strait Gates § 2. This Presentation and the Advice attending it was very powerful which still I called over and searching deeper to have the Exposition of the Gates given unto me by and from the dropping Unction For though my Spirit saw nothing but an Infinite Space yet such a Perfuming Gale I felt as if all manner of Flowers were growing But this Word came also to me saying Here is the Place for Love's Kingdom to grow with its Natural Inhabitants that have left behind the gross selfish Love That must not come here for that it is that makes the Passage so strait § 3. For as much as none can come in till they be unstripped and uncloathed of the low sensual Nature For in this place all that counted worthy shall be to come in here with thee must put on Transfiguration and act in the Supercelestial Philosophy as holy Magus's that skilful are to work in the Furnace that maintained is from the One Burning Element which giveth the High Superelementary Matter the Composition whereof maketh up the Store of all Acting Wonders Here then on a sudden did I in my Spirit view several Persons so Divinely Modified in their Bodies that in this Mystery highly Learned were that would sound forth such a Spirit from themselves that might give an Existency and Being to whatever they pleased to will sometimes raising up Golden Tents to go in and out and at other times making some places which seemed all empty and bare to spring up with wonderful Plants that perfectly did yield their Fruit appearing in a Golden lustre of Brightness that was said to be Magical Food for the Inhabitants hereof to live upon In other Places they without digging or moiling did bring up Mines of all precious Stones and Golden Oar which was at the command and service of these Princely Spirits that did walk up and down here And whereas I thought at my first
Law of Sin hath Dominion so long as he liveth So from hence the Spirit did testifie that nothing less then a Thorough Death would put me into a Capacity of this Marriage with the Lamb. For he will match himself only to a Virgin Spirit incorporating and thereby changing into his own pure Humanity and this is a Begetting into a Living Substance which springeth through the Death of the Old Which as the Grain that dissolveth in the Earth and generateth a New Body so in like manner doth the New Creature spring forth which indeed is Christ our Life whose appearance will put an end to Sin in us Now what brought in the Curse the Care the Toil and the Impotentcies which distress poor Man in this his fallen estate but a Deviation from his God And while in this state he stands as a Debtor to Sin being under the Dominion of it this maketh him obnoxious to all the Calamities which do attend those that live in Bodies Elementary But now to hear of a Possibility of a Putting off of this Body of Sin this is good Tidings indeed and verily the Prophet which is risen in me hath prophesied that such a Day is at hand And that I shall be a Witness of Jacob's Star arising and shall see for my self and not for another Then shall that saying be fulfilled Death is swallowed up in Victory even the Death of that First Husband who so long hindred my Marriage with the Lamb. Who by a New Law from Mount Sion hath set me free from the Law of Sin and Death Be astonished O ye who are Wounders and Despisers of this Grace which I now see is near to be Revealed For the Garments of the Bride are making ready and it is granted to me to see in whose hand they be O Wisdom to thee is committed only the Ordering of this Wedding Garment which of divers Colours shall be that known from all others may be the King's Daughter who under thy Teaching and Discipline is committed April the 20th 1675. The Shulamits Debate Expostulation with Wisdom OH my Mother how is it that thou hast shewed me of the Glory of thy House and of the Honour Riches and Dominion of thy Kingdom and hereby hath allured and drawn the Spirit of my Mind that I cannot turn my Eye from thee my Senses being refined and with thy Life close touched that I altogether incapable am to join to Baal or to immerse my self with the druggy polluted Life of this outward Principle which hath no consistency with that transparent state where unto thou hast called me with thee to have my Conversation as one that hath obtained Grace to be sirnamed by thee and admitted into the secret of thy Counsel in order to some peculiar Service for thee If so why is it I am yet straitned in force and power What signal mark do I bear to demonstrate my holy and consecrated Calling to wait in thy Pavilion What Commission have I from thee to shew whereby all unbelieving and gain-saying Spirits may be convinced and put to silence true it is I have had free Communications through Transportation of my Spirit but what is this without fixation and Seal of the Power which may bear Record of its own Omnipotency working forth to redress all Maladies and Grievances seeing I have taken upon me to plead suffer me yet a little to empty and unload my self to thee whom I well know to have the tender working Bowels of a Mother and numbrest all my Complaints the first Argument is from thy free choice of me calling me out of all Nations Tongues and Peoples no more to know my Fathe'rs House or the Land of my Earthly Nativity but to renounce and seperate from all attending thy Appointments only at whose Knee I have been for some time brought up to hear and learn the manner of the worship of my God which is expected in a different Living All-Powerful Ministration which to know is indeed Life but to act forth from that Life brings the Joy Peace and Glory which will be the Renown of Wisdom's Nursery among whom I have thus far found favour as to have her Friendly Salutations with Word upon Word sealing Instructions to me but this is not enough Oh the Spirit and Breath that goeth forth with all Influencing Powers to create new Forms of things this I know will give the express signature of a Godlikeness putting forth through Nature's contemtible Appearance Here is surely a matchless Glory to break forth the highest Mystery which was ever unveiled the best and choicest of all Wisdom's Treasury yet to be brought out for such as pursue and make it their only one Interest minding and regarding nothing else Oh my Mother while herein have I busied my self in putting and throwing off all Weights that I might come a naked Spirit unto thee How have the pernitious Necessities cryed for the out-part to have Right done it to act and work and plot in Reasons Counsel-House as the manner is of all which live in the gross Animal Body is known to thy all-viewing Eye which runneth to and fro and what my Conflicts have been and still are while I have studied to evade and make my escape through the Throng of Worldly-Wise Reasons Guard who have by order of their great Prince watched me in every going out and in when with my only Friend I would my Time secretly in all sweetness spend contrivance hath not been wanting to draw me down to wear again the dark Linsywolsey-Gown I being well aware through divine caution These are the Pirats that have lain in wait for me to take what Substance is with me embarked So that Perils on all kinds do beset but this my Ark above all Waters doth keep floating a Man of War is within which will keep this Vessel from being a Prize to the subtil Man of Sin pitched within and without by Wisdom's Skill no fear of leaking while I thy bottom am so saith the Amen Thus encountring fresh with Temptations and strong Gusts from the cold North which I feel many times blow so sharp as if they would put back the Spring from coming on upon which only my Hope is entertained which keeps up my Spirit from fainting Thus while I was pleading and pressing hard for the finishing Power to come down that might put an end to all Strife whioh is from the Root of Sin Here is a Break by the loss of the Original Therefore O Shulamite do not thou judge thy Furnace to be too hot it well becomes thee the same with thy Lord in all things to be who in thee beareth and endureth and suffereth Were it not that hadst high Conjunction with the Deity thou wouldst not stand in that Enmity universally to what from the Root of Iniquity doth spring How much better is it to be numbred with thy Jesus amongst the Transgressors and to bear the Sins of others rather then thy own that the Evil One may
challenge no part in thee How will the Bridegroom rejoyce to see his Bride as a spotless Lily growing under the sturdy Tree of Life who therefrom will pluck and present herewith the most lovely Fruits that this new revived Eden-Garden do afford here is private Walks sweet pleasant Groves where the Lamb with his Virgin Bride may fully solace and none do them espy Spirit with Spirit can walk and talk very hiddenly linked and wrapped up in the Mystery of the Trinity in Unity from out of whose Arms none shall ever more pluck out Oh thou deep Well of Love which thus freely flows no need of drawing when thy Springs unlock while thou art communing what Perfumes doth thy Breath send forth as a Cluster of all rich Compounds is thy breaking up Turn away thine Eye for thou hast overcome me with the Sparkling Flames thereof How shall I be able to hold a Conference with thee except by renewing strength and transfiguring Glory I be admitted into thy fiery Charriot all paved with Loves there with thee my Bride to set and evermore to fix for greater Bliss then this I cannot desire to possess who my dear Sophiae art April the 30th 1675. The weightiness of Wisdom's Workmanship being viewed by the Eye of the Father which only seeth into her deep Magical ground where she is an absolute Princess to create and generate Spirits in her own express Likeness knowing well what her Offspring have right unto and therefore their Education is to be answerable to their high Birth Having such near Aliance to the Glory of the Trinity all must in Wisdom's Children answerably correspond that she may not be ashamed to present and make challenge for them what by Heirship is due Now finding the whole scope and tenor of my Mother's Laws and Counsels are to put me upon Cloathing my self with the highest Purity that in nothing I might be inferior to the Glorified and Angelical Spirits who have not such a gross Animal Nature to deal withal as I have and yet required to be as Immaculate as the Lamb of God I cannot but thus break out Ah my Mother I do not say how can but how and when must the Accomplishment of this be for which I am now in such dying Agonies that this New Glorified Life might only appear While thus in secret Debate I was contesting because my Hopes were delayed as to the present Age which gives right to an Estate of Glory at Hand which is the Manifestation who are Jewels belonging to the Crown-Royal O what Raptures of Love's Divine did I feel ardently desiring a Dissolution from my own Creaturely Being and from all others who in corrupt Nature's Genealogy do live as one wearied and tired out of all seeking only Fellowship and Bosom-Rest with my Mother in the free New Jerusalem as it is known in its descent into the Habitable Parts of a renewed Earth inclosed for the precious noble Seed to put forth in their manifold Vertues Powers Colours and Operations All which be kept in their vigorous fragrant sweetness as a ready Entertainment for the High Throne-Powers to welcome themselves here in Mystical Paradise in which Wisdom hath recreated and formed another Adam being Male and Female a Production of her own Virgin-Nature as upon my Expostulation was opened to me who bad me not despond but be of good cheer for she was come to renew the beautious and fresh Glory of the now declined withered Garden formerly called Eden but now so over grown with prickling carking caring Bryars unsavoury Plants all concurring to make desolate and ravenous For such as the fallen Man is so is his place among Dragons and unclean devouring Beasts and Birds of Prey out from which I have seperated and called thee to dwell on the Face of that pure Ground as an anointed Cherub to keep all in order in this Holy Place suffer thou no strange Plant here to put forth neither lust thou any more to tast of that one Tree which so pleasant appeareth to the dark Eye Though a new generated Spirit thou art yet not excluded from the Serpent's tempting dart no more then he who was the first Begotten who thy Pattern still is to be Consider him in his Forty Days temptation before whom this Tree was set presenting all Kinds and Sorts of tempting Fruits but of none he would either tast or touch who thereby gave proof he was an impregnable Rock fitly qualified the Father's high Trusty of all his Treasures to be made the same Yesterday and to Day he is alive for evermore in the weak and frail Form of a Human Body to perfect the same Conquest for thee that so compleat through Sufferings thou in him mayst shine Celestially therefore fear not to go through the dark Valley or Golgotha where nothing but dead and unsavoury Carkasses in thy way do do lie True it is the world without thee is a loathed place but suffer and bear the Evil Manners of it for a little space till thy Restoration perfectly be wrought out then power thou shalt have to subject all under Foot Observe for thy encouragement that Jesus â—…hough from the VVomb inspired yet gradually in his work did proceed in â—…et and appointed times whereby all Proâ—…hecies by him were fulfilled My Mother 〈◊〉 this my Agony did present before â—…y anointed Eye an earthen Pot set â—…pon a soft Fire in which was a Liquor of melted Gold boiling with a scum â—…n it which was an Idea of my present â—…tate which saith Shew now thy self â—…ee how expedient it is to abide still on â—…his gentle Fire that will not crack the â—…essel but Refine the Golden Matter in 〈◊〉 which is to be cast into several Moulds 〈◊〉 furnish my House withal no Vessel â—…an be fixed there but what hath been â—…yed in this Furnace therefore know 〈◊〉 is to be no unkindness to thee that â—…ou art still proved hereby every seveâ—…l Fruit that puts forth from the vital Spirit Tree of Love must be dipped in this Pot of Gold then will the offering of these Fruits be pleasant because weighty and solid Think not much that Gifts and Powers do not yet come to their Birth there is somewhat more to be done in preparation thereto it is no pleasure to either Father or Mother to see their Children go naked and be poor and impotent obnoxious to the Spirit of Reason's scorn and derision who provides for their Children deliciously at which sometimes thou art ready to stagger and tempted hereby to turn back again fearing to pass through this Fiery Baptism without which no New Name will be given upon which is entailed that Dominion thou so much desirest Therefore go forward slacâ—… not thy Pace the greater part is run oâ—… thy Race though a craggy and rougâ—… way hithertowards it hath been yeâ—… know before the end it shall all be strowed with fragrant Flowers which aâ—… Glorifying Powers Love Tokens seâ—… down from him who will thee sigâ—… with a
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
sure binding and a Wedlock-tye betwixt bright raised Spirits and me till the Great Day of the Visible Marriage shall be Solemnized in the Free Jerusalem Till which hold ye fast and take good heed that not one of these Links on your parts be broken if but from any one of these ye should unlink ye would fall down by the way and never to me ascend But I know that Wisdom is thy Friend who will not suffer thee to break from me She is a busie Agent still to spur thee on her Law of kindness is found to me thy Jesus in thy Heart which will give an Ascending Might that so ye may come down again in a flaming Body of Light Which is the only design of Wisdom that blessed Engineer who by these Golden Links draweth you continually nearer to her City This was further Opened in the Seven following Days by Wisdom but the Copy is here Deficient May the 1st 1676. The New Book Opened Or the Everlasting Gospel of JESUS THis Morning my Spiritual Informer came and presented to my view a Book wherein great and hidden Secrets were writ telling me here was neither Parable nor Allegory but the plain Doctrine of the Everlasting Gospel Into which it was said it is given thee to look for it is an Epistle of good-will and love to thee and thy fellow Waiter that ye may come to a right and genuine understanding of those weighty things which lay concealed under the Vail of the Letter The summ of which is the Incarnation Dying Rising Ascending and Glorifying of thy Jesus All which being finished in his own Personality I now look to see that all should be actually wrought in you to which end I have poured out of my Spirit upon you which may bring you up through all to me Read then and see in Wisdom's Glass what is contained in this Book for a further instructing of thee into a Gospel Death and Rising into Victory Many are the Deaths ye have passed over and I grant every Death hath brought forth a rising Body so that ye are come so far as to bear the very Image of the Heavenly Man in which the Life-Seed doth spring But this is not all you are to aspire unto but you are here to dye with Jesus For in all those foregoing Deaths you had not that fellowship as ye shall have with me when I am grown up in you For I the Just One died for the Unjust so I must Personate this dying again in you after a Paradisical manner sowing my own pure Grain and Seed into the Mount Sion Ground For as it is said such as the Seed and Soil is such a Body in the Resurrection it will be and such a Body it will produce And although you come thus to dye in the Lord I mean in your Lord Jesus Christ in whom your Life lies safe and inoculated there will be no danger And while you are sowing here be not as others without Hope for indeed you sow not that Body which shall be to the account of a Bare return as Spirit for Spirit or Body for Body For though it was sown a single Seed yet it shall be various and manifold though the Seed is sown contemptible yet it shall rise honourable and though sown as weak yet it will rise mighty in strength So mighty potent strong and honourable this Resurrection will be as it will bring forth the Seed sown with another manner of Body then what hath yet been known For ye shall know all Blessedness indeed by thus dying into me fear it not therefore but valiantly spill your Life and mingle it with me then shall ye know a cessation to your own busie-acting Properties For that Spirit which dyeth into me ceaseth to Sio sweetly sleeping and slumbering in Sion's Golden Dust till I my secret Trump shall sound with the Vial of Life quickening Oyl poured in which shall make the dead in you to come forth with an unchangeable habit and form of the Holy Ghost of which I speak I will after this manner raiâ—…e up at the last Day which day to thee is very near if thou canst sink and dye so totally into me who do promise to thee long here lay buried thou shalt not be This is the Connexion to the former Part. Before I the LORD will move again to the finishing of the last glorious Mystery the first that can dye thus into me shall rise as the first Fruits out of me into a Body Celestial and mighty Powerful For my Seed shall never Corruption see it shall soon rise into a Mount Sion Body Lay but the Ground-work hereunto sure and ye shall see and feel another Spirit and another Form after this passive Sleep For after it ye shall awake in that Image which shall be no more despised being all compleat and giving proof of my Resurrection and Life Oh blessed are they who can say that they were dead in me and are alive evermore to Reign with me in my Kingdom waiting for me their Lord from Heaven to bring them thither For in this new risen Body I shall not be ashamed of thee it is so Signatured into the Father's Nature of Purity that in it thou mayst freely ascend to me Where I will in the Light Airy Region meet with thee and bring thee through all the Pearly Gates O come resign and dye know me no more out of this Dying and Resurrection State Thus Death is not Metaphorically but Really the last Enemy that is to be destroyed Here Sing ye may that dwell in Sion's Golden Mold and triumphantly Cry Oh Death by this Spiritual dying I am mortally become thy Death and so swallowed up as you can nothing of it see Go go preach thou this for the Everlasting Gospel to such as have an Ear to hear it rejoyce and give Glory to God on high Now when the Hour of this Judgment shall fully come by ushering in the New Jerusalem freedom through the Streets of Nature This Gospel Ministration which is all Love Grace Mercy and Peace by those shall then be proclaimed who do partake of this Resurrection as the first Fruits They shall be honoured with this Message to all those who in this Noah's Age are asleep in their dark Prison-Houses For an Almighty Voice I in you my Sion-born Spirits will utter forth to call in more to know this Death-Liberty and Life-Resurrection and Ascension into all Fellowships and free Communions with the High Eternity and Me the chief Head of all Sion's new risen Body Whereunto being come no other Banner will I display there but that Love which casteth out all Bondage and Fear May the 6th 1676. In the Morning being the first Day pondering and considering this last Opening which shewed me the necessity of dying into my Jesus and of sowing the Seed of my Eternal Spirit as an unmixed Grain sifted from all Chaffiness or Cockle or any such thing for to twist about it Thus the Word said
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
you can set sure footing to go over to this Ocean Sea therefore stay a while and provide them and then you will not slâ—…de Considering this in the Morning and knowing that all Presentations of this Magical Nature have their certain Effects which I have observed ever since I came under the Discipline of the Word of Wisdom who hath been my Glassy Eye to spy out things within that Ocean and having now from this new subject matter to exercise my Spiritual Senses in laying aside the Garment of my outward Sense which to the Intellectual Understanding is the great Impediment the Glass which represented these things became altogether Clear in me so that in seeing I did see being divested of all outward Covering For which Cause the Spirit of Wisdom doth take advantage when the External Reason is laid asleep and the Animal Sense drowned even then by Internal Idea's to manifest the Objects of the Inward Worlds Which was God's method for the discovery of his Mind in foregoing Ages or by any other way for the busie working of the Astral Mind of Reason is the greatest Let to Divine Vision this I can give witness to Therefore this Command I often have received from the Most Holy Inspirator to unstrip her from her dark Leaden Body which hath not the true Organ of Sight The holy bright Aiery Spirit can admit of no such clog it is like Saul's Armour to the nimble sprightly David it must be thrown off For there is for this an absolute necessity for such as will hold any free Parly and Conference with their now glorified Jesus they must come to be in the Spirit as John was when he in Vision saw and talked with him who was for that time without any touch or feeling any weight of his gross Corporeal Senses for he dyed out of them as he saith he was as one dead which made way for the opening of this New World's Scene and unclasping that Book of Revelation which before was hid and concealed But here riseth an Objection Who can fall into such a Trance and Sleep at any time when they would enjoy such close free manner of Communion with the High Principality of Glory The Eternal Word of Wisdom doth give this Answer to this Query True it is that no Natural Person can fall into this Divine and Spiritual Lethargy so as to still and quite suspend all operation of the Ratinoal Faculties for through these the fallen Birth-Life moves and acts and can never do Violence upon it selâ—… to seek its own Destruction for this iâ—… most Unnatural But where there is another Life Birth introduced and risen in opposition to this and that can prove its lawful descent out from the Eternal Womb of the Virgin-Body This may take authority and arise in its Magical Might and depress the Sensitive Life that hinders and clouds and keeps one back from these Seraphical Sights Now I say to this pure Essential Thing begotten by the Holy Breath and infused in let that potent Will which is free enter in and be one with this pure Conception then ye will soon master the Contrariety If at any time the Starry Birth in you should be unruly then make use of that precious Stone which into your Custody is put that can and will if put forth dash and crumble all into Dust which shall henceforth either within thy own Precinct or without make attempts against this high Birth state Which grow must still till it fills with Power every part to act a Tragedy upon the Serpent and all his fallen party that strives so hard and would have cut off the Tide and Stream which from the Sea thou didst steer and run so free that no Gally could be swifter then this strong Arm which as a Boat hath wafted thee over where now sit down and wait upon my Love-Ocean Heart This seems to be a Digression from that Thing Represented which is now returned to upon the Third Day after May the 28th 1676. I saw again in a Vision a Stream from this pleasant calm Sea of which I mentioned that for want of being suitably shod we could not pass over to it which gave much Exercise to my Mind thereby stirring up matter of Enquiry and Intercession to my God pleading from the Spirit of Jesus why that Gulph should remain betwixt this Ocean-Treasury and us Who had now declined and turned our Faces from all Things Terrestrial that so we might come to possess what Wisdom's Glass had opened of this Scene of Glory This being the Matter of my Contemplation after which in the Night falling into a Transical Sleep of a suddain I found my self in a Boat that did run with the greatest swiftness that neither the Bogs nor Quicksands which formerly I saw could stop it For the Waters from the Sea had risen high over all bringing me safe and secure to this Sea-shore where I was to sit down fixed upon the Mountain of Precious Stones there to choose and pick out what was of greatest value And when I came to my Spiritual Sense waiting for the Interpretation of this Vision it thus spake in me The Ocean Sea which thou didst see doth present God the Immense Deity who contains all full rich and weighty Substance and Treasury who by no Corporeal Spirit could ever be reached for there was a Gulph and Eternal Separation between as this boggy miery Passage did present thereunto But only by Sion born Spirits whom I have seen in the true Sorrow and Mourning because hereunto they could no Path find for sure footing whereby might be attained this rich Mine where all the desirable Good doth lie Now in tenderness and compassion unto thy sorrowful Spirit this Arm and Stream hath risen which represents thy Jesus who from the Ocean-Love of the Immense Deity doth to thee flow to bring thee back to the Head-Fountain where thou mayst come to know God the Holy Ghost covering thee as the Waters do the Sea till when upon this Jesus fix who this lovely Mountain of all Precious Substance is Where be thou sure now to look turning over every Stone till thou come to find that only Saphire Stone which will change gross Mettals into bright transparent Gold and shine through dark Bodies a flaming Light These things presented are to the Eternal Eye so to speculate upon as thereby thy whole Mind may be transmuted over hereunto in order to the fulfilling of what in Vision thou hast seen May the 29th 1676. O how unutterable was it What Joy did I feel upon this secret Parley which my dear Immanuel whose Words like Butter and Oyl did distil so that hereby was lifted up the Banner of my Hope that possibly we might yet live to see the Day of the Holy Ghost who out of his Mountain-Treasury is for to come to put an end to all Sin and mortal frail Impotencies under which we do yet groan looking and hastening for this Perfect Thing to come which will
restore us perfectly to our Angelical State Even so blessed Dove and Bride break up this in us who are waiting here upon this Ocean shore for this new Spring-Tide Oh let it open upon us wide and we will not be afraid though it shall violate us away from all visible Ties from which we do now see we must be parted and separated For we can never see thee till we do withdraw out of gross Corporality that so cloathed we may be with Jesus that Celestial Body who is our Bridal Garment of which we shall not be ashamed when God our King shall call us to view and examine who the prepared Brides are for the New Jerusalem Marriage to which we now are summoned May the 30th 1676. This Day upon some occasion ministred from the outward Astrum of this World's Principle was stirred up a secret embroil that for some space of Time I was held out so as I could find no entrance for my Spirit among the Seraphick Quire where my Attendance was required Morning by Morning to hear and learn for my further Instruction in the Eternal Magia Which I felt as a deep bundle of Life-Treasury beginning to open But such a wise subtle pure swift Breath or Mist it is that it shuts up and does withdraw so soon as any thing of a Mortal Sense upon it doth fly It is such a high glance of Magisterium that it will refine out of all gross fleshly kinds whatever No parley with External matter this unknown Power will endure as my dear Inspirator hath anew shewed unto me and hath given me caution not to prevent its Descending by mingling the Will-Spirit who is chosen for its Mare with any low inferiour sense of things which may grate upon it Whoever comes to be highly Learned in this Philosophical Art must be trained up from their Spiritual Birth Infancy and hereupon wait continually for to know For the Divine Spell is a Mystical Thing and of that principal weight as the whole Mind Will and Heart must hereunto be engaged and all is little enough to turn this Cherubim Wheel of the Magia still about For which you must after the manner of a Spiritual grown Body labour hard till ye have the Mystery of this Art fully attained It is beyond all things that ever yet was named Therefore strive hard for it but ye who are yet but young in this Art may be ignorant what kind of Stock you are to work upon know then to thee this Mystical thing I will reveal that thou mayest not the Nature hereof Mistake It is an Immaterial Nothing and yet giveth Being and Existency to All things moving and piercing through the whole Body of the Creation yet not discerned generating all things anew through a Virtual Life quickening Breath this comes in and goeth forth without Sound and Noise It is communicable only to such as have covenanted and firmly bound themselves to be made by it Wise Subtle Pure Spiritual Discerning also in all Sublimities whereby proof may be given what Magical Coals of Fire are kindled that ye may scatter and make to fly as directed by Wisdom's Eye Of this ye may know yet more deeply as ye from this Holy Root still weed out all light and scruffy matter May the 31st 1676. In the Night I was as on a suddain surprized with a round Ball of Light that fixed it self upon a Post or Pillar which seemed to be on each side of me and where-ever I went they moved with me very lustrious and shining as a Star in a Cloudy Night I could go no where but they circled about me the Light was terrible but not hurtful yet pleasant to the single Eye that was opened This in way of Vision was given to espy and immediately after this Transient Sight passed away and that Scripture opened upon me Isa. 40. in these words The Lord shall be to thee an Everlasting Light which shall drown and swallow up all fore going Day-breaks which have had their several Sun-risings in thee by degrees which are true and good in their Day But behold here is yet a Prophecy to be fulfilled which shall be as the Light of Seven Days put together What or who shall be able to live and walk in such a Firmament of Light where there will be no Intervenings of any shade of Night Know then there is such a holy conceived high-born Being which yet is clouded under inferiour Lights and subjected to them for some Season till it hath accomplished the first working Properties of the Seven Days Creation Wherein Day and Night must by their Proper Sun and Moon be governed and all transacted according to the motion of the Planets the Out Birth being under their controll in the divided state betwixt the Day and the Night sometimes it is light and sometimes dark one hour is Spiritual and Heavenly the next Carnal and Earthly But to this God in the Lamb who is that one Everlasting Day is now coming to put an end as to the first Creation-Light in such who have ceased from those Works that have been wrought by the Sun and Moon-Light of the fallen gloomy Day which hath overspread the whole Creation Out from which ye are assured to come and to sit down under the bright-shine of this uneclisped Body of the new Creation-Light Hereto coming once to fix your former Sun and Moon will blush and for very shame-pull in their Heads and all their twinkling Stars will forth with withdraw as ye shall surely see when you will find your selves in another Orb for enclosed ye shall be with the Seven Lamp Spirits before and behind which are the Light of the seven days New Creation out of Sion to hold parallel with the Seven Days Creation in Paradise Which abolished must be and whose Sun must set at the rising of this sevenfold Sion Glory which to the Lamb's Birth will anew open and upon it rest For which great thing ply your God and Father hard that so ye may in this bright Cloud of Glory be carried up out of sight from all Terrestrial Lights By which ye â—…ould by no means come to behold Eterâ—…al Objects But in this Light of the â—…verlasting Bride ye can see into every Mountain of the New Jerusalem as your own native Country from which driven and scattered into this mixed state between Day and Night while standing thus indeed ye could never find Mount Sion's Path. For Paradise is to this but as a glimmering Glow-Worm not a City that had Foundations was ever erected there which plainly declares the Most High had not his fixed Residence there For out of Sion the whole Majesty of the Trinity will shine by which Light ye can only see your way for Return unto your lost home Ohâ—… the excessive Joy which Paradisical Inhabitants will know who can the conquering Gulph get through and comâ—… into this Jasper-like City where sighâ—… and fruition of God the Bride and thâ—… Lamb produceth most unutterable
pleasure beyond what Adam though hâ—… had continued in his first Image of Pâ—…rity could not without a remove tâ—… such kind of Felicities as these eveâ—… have reached Now then I say to yoâ—… upon whom this Light hath glanceâ—… keep your constant Pace with it closâ—… and follow hard upon it and doubt noâ—… but it will bring you to that pure Whiâ—… Throne of your everlasting Dove Brides in the Heavenly Cirle to ride June the 1st 1676. AFter the Opening and Interpretation of the Vision of the Globes of Light that moved with me where-ever I went a Voice run through me crying The End of all Things is at hand Watch therefore and Pray Upon which Word I pondered and drew near in my Spirit to that burning Center from which the Voice did go forth where I did further sound the meaning of that Cry which ecchoed still saying Come and see the first created Light begins upon its Eclipse to be For the evil corrupted Birth of Life had sent up such Fumes and Unsavoury Incense as must needs darken the first Heavens and Earth that away they must flee before the New Foundation-City ye can enter into Therefore to thee let it not seem harsh or terrible that an end of all things which came in through Mortality of Time is determined for absolutely despoiled of all false glittering vain Glory and Light must be that City which is only built upon a Sandy Foundation Which hath indeed according as it is written deceived and made drunk all Nations with its adulterated Wine As the Heavenly City is compacted and made up of choice pure polished and living Stones so again is Babylon of dark muddy course and earthly Metals ponderous Bodies Inhabitants that know an higher Sphear Out from which I am with a strong mighty Hand bringing you my Elect Stones therefore up hast out and fly away upon the Wing of my eagle-Eagle-Spirit touch tast mingle no more with her Sorceries a new state and place is prepared for you Scorn and deny all her charming Delicacies for Vials of Wrath upon all will be poured out that are in combination with this Harlotry City though it be as a Mountain at present that hath filled the whole World and enticed its Inhabitants with her Whorish Attire yet in one hour all shall blasted Therefore with fear draw off others whom you see yet in her strong-holds do stay that have not their Eyes opened their danger to see in holding such mutual Compliances with that which is so subtle and deceivable Of which cease not to warn them practically as Noah did when he his Ark prepared and went into it then all the World did lie in their Unbelielf which was a Figure of what is now approaching nigh tho' after another method For the second Revelation will now work and an end of all Flesh as Grass is come before the Alpha and the Omega June the 20th 1676. Having suffered for some Space of Time a Protraction of those Emanations and wonted Manifestations that still did meet me in my close and abstracted Attendance upon that sweet Intelligencing Spirit of JESUS it returned now so much the more strongly upon me to remind me of the Work and Calling which my Friend and I had so solemnly put our Hands to even the Plow which prepareth for the Seed of the Kingdom to spring forth through the Spiritual Inclosure Which I well experience is not to be given over until the end of the growth For when all in our Field shall white unto the Harvest be then the Sickle or Sword of the Spirit cometh forth to reap and gather us into the Everlasting Store-house under the Care and Custody of our Fore-runner JESUS From whom I had about this time many Calls and Cautions to strike up the Sail of Faith and to watch against all those subtil Spirits which would break in to cancell the Seals thereof which are the Evidence of what is not at present seen or yet come to be enjoyed Moreover it was shewn me the Danger that we were in this Particular liable to through the least crack or breach upon our Faith's Seal By which alone the Magia worketh and raiseth Powers from that Original Might Upon which Center there is yet such a strong Inclosure as no Creaturely Being can break open because its Signature is compounded and made up of all contrary Properties degenerating wholly from this mighty Engineer of Faith which worketh all through and in the Central Fire of Love O who can here work till fully uncloathed of the gross cloathing of the Animal Sensitive Life so as to reach to this Original Wisdom and Might which was existent in the first Paradisical Adam who lost it by the Sin entering in and can only be regained again through the extinguishment of it and the Dying out therefrom Totally Which gives a full Answer to those Objections which so pestered my Mind and which I Recorded in Writing June the 5th receiving Satisfaction now again herein upon a fresh waiting and inquiry Which after this manner spake in me Thy Queries O searching Spirit are to be resolved by and from the manifold Wisdom with whom all Secrets are hidden until the Spirit of Faith arise to find them out This having Opened during a Remove of the Doctor from the Author was not found in his Copy Whence also the Objections herein referred to upon the 5th of this Month are not to be recovered as neither is whatever else may relate to this matter during this Interval until the last Day of this Month. That which next follows is likewise from the Authors own Hand June the 30th 1676. Wisdom Now as to the Necessity of the Use of all thy Rational Properties it is good in its Kind meet and suitable for the Degenerated Estate to guide and govern the Outward Terrestrial Man as the Head Principality of this Visible Kingdom unto which Wisdom and Scepter all Nations do bow But knowest thou not what it was that withdrew as soon as this awakened and got the Headship Should I open thine Eyes to see all at once what came in hereby thou wouldst not but disdain and quite fall out with thy Rational Man so as never to it to be reconciled again For the Coming in of That was the Going out of the pure Magical Might and Power which should have been retained after the Similitude of God the Creator who designed to Generate Spirits to live in his own Property of Princely Purity and Power to his Honour and not to his and your own Reproach as is now too manifest For alas there is now quite Another Thing gotten in then what was found in the Beginning which Reason protects and is a Wall of Defence about maintaining its Soveraignty without Check or Controll so long as the Beasts Reign is to endure Which shall be put an end to by degrees and first in some chosen Witnesses hereto allotted who after Sion's Freedom do at this time importunately look and weary are
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
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
Dead out of sight that it may dissolve into the New Earth which I have prepared From whence ye may expect that new Creaturely Body which is all available and goeth beyond the first Fruits of Circumcision For Renovation in the Mind may be brought forth and yet this New Creature not raised which is the very Body appertaining to the Ghostly Spirit which can only mount and give this New Creature the Wing of Ascension Here is a new creating Word which now upon the Sounding is what excellent new framed Piecemay be expected hence from its Matter and Composition What think you now must this New Creature be made of that it may transcend the Old That must dry moulder and vanish away as it is decreed that so room may be for the new Body to take place Which is to be coagulated from the Virtual Golden Mould as the material Matter of this All-Spiritual Creature which is appointed for Mount Sion's Communion Oh! the first Adam was created for Paradise out of the Dust of that Earth he was made a living understanding Soul sparkling in the pure Innocency From which degenerating he hath changed both the inward Principle and outward Body into the Nature of Sin and Corruptibility Which now must be put off before the most Holy will know you in the way of delightful Conversation for which end every Trumpet doth sound till ye be framed and raised out of Holy Ground made all of one entire Piece a Massy Lump which may out-ballance that which as a Shrine adulterated is with other false Metals as in the first Adam's state you have seen where the Good and Evil do dwell that makes all the Strife and Uneasiness For which no other way is found for the putting an End thereunto but by a total dissolving of the old Creature wherein this Mixed thing is found Here arose this Objection in me Ah my Lord and Master I grant and acquiesce with thee concerning this new Bodifying for the Eternal Spirit to act through in pure new raised Humanity but why is thy Word still directed to me who find hereunto no Sufficiency for it is the business of a God-creating Power I do see as thou dost take this Prerogative unto thy self saying Rejoice in that which I do create Answ. True Oh Shunamite this Glory thy Father only appropriated unto himself and none else can assume it or counterfeit it For here are no painted Forms that can serve for to make Images without Life will not do Hereby shall the face of the Covering be discerned that hath deceived all Nations that have still cryed the Temple-Body when it is no other but a dead piece of Formality which is at least no way able to effect beyond the Species of a poor piece of impotent Mortality which under great disability doth lie Therefore the Voice in thee doth Cry Call and Incite that thou mayst look within for this Creating Might Lo it is not so lost or gone out of Sight but it will be found upon search and seeking being at hand to renew and change the Vile and bring forth another Body and Spirit that may God's Virgin-Bride inherit with all her Mountain Arabian spicy Wine which is refined from the Lees. That is the Spirit which is purely extracted from the Deity to move in a Body that is all contacted of Sion's Matter For the New Creation will be filled with such Inhabitants as mighty Princes each one in their own Power moving with such anointed Shields as all Earthly Weapons will be too blunt and too short to annoy such Spirits or new Creaturely Bodies that are compacted of this sublime matter But here this Jesus whose Spirit searcheth the inward deep of this Soul meeteth with somewhat which is still questioning and asking How can this great thing be seeing I am not come to live out of sensible Mortality that is touched with every Essence which appeareth from that ground sometime listed up then again cast down according to the mutation of the Starry Region Well I know saith he it is so but art thou here confined for ever to stay Hath Bounds been set that beyond this thou art not to pass Dost thou think my Calls and Invitations are only verbal or that I put you upon that which the Omnipotency of co-working Power cannot make good Only believe laying the stress of all upon my Creating Word which will move till the Number Three be witnessed for the raising of this Temple which all fill'd shall be with their own silent Company walking all in holy Order according to the living Testimony Which openeth a new To which inspiring Word ever more watch and it shall be your safe Guide and Guard till you are come here to abide within this fixed Sphear August the 22d 1676. In the Night I was much in Prayer minding my Lord God of the many particular Prophecies concering our Jesus coming to quicken and assume his own Spiritual Body in us being mighty earnest in Soul-wrestling for the accomplishment thereof against which I saw a great Strife and Wars by Spirits and Powers from the high fallen Angels above and the middle Regions and Depths below all conspiring to keep down the Body that is sown in that New Tomb where none but Jesus the Lord lay After this Conflict in Prayer I fell asleep where the dark Magia followed me with Apparitions from their Kingdom which I endeavoured to adjure Upon which I awaked waiting for the sweet Emanations and Teachings from my Immanuel who a present Word of Comfort ministred to me saying Behold the Dews from Hermon-Hill shall distill upon what you have sown ye shall not always lie in the Dust of the Earth For this Dew is as the Water of Life that will make the dead Body again to live As my dead Body it shall rise Metamorphosed as the Lily all white and fair to take in the Golden Sun and the Crystalline pure Air. Such a Body will be meet to move from and to draw in that Everlasting Gospel-Breath which will tinge whatever it doth touch Now as to the time when this Legacy will be due to you you must look into the last Testament and Will of me your Testator Who have made an Everlasting Covenant firmly ordered in all things where all Precious Promises concerning things to come run in general to those who successively in time shall come into the Resurrection-Body for to be born For none else can make challenge to that great income of the Holy Ghost which is the principal Gift in my Will Why have you let this lie as dead and making no more matter about its search And why see ye not whether this Revenue belong not to your New Names which ye have been baptized into I would not that ye should be ignorant of what might come to you if you live in the Resurrection-Body till it gets up into its mature Stature a full grown-Body which may be of ability for the discharge of so great a
Government and Trust as in that day will be committed In the mean time live and so behave your selves as those that are known to be not only Legatees but real Joint-Heirs Looking for hastening and minding the Father of new-born bodified Spirits who is the Ministrator by me left in trust to make disposal out of Wisdom's Cabinet of this one considerable Jewel Which will become none to wear till they come up to be full grown meet also for that Garment which hath been made and wrought from Everlasting which is ever new and fresh through which ye may see the Comely Proportion of your New Creaturely Being For it is all transparent and shining answering to the Place and Company with whom you are to walk Though ye yet bear in Visibility your despised image till your invisible Body be grown up big enough to fill out this Bridal Robe by which you shall be discerned to be in the Lord's Body Which will roll away the Reproach that came in by the poor fading Fig-Leaf Cloathing Now observe and see to what an estate you may grow up unto if ye keep up in the Faith if ye unwaveringly believe ye will see it August the 23d 1676. In the Night season I heard a Voice crying Holy Holy who can enter where the Terrible Majesty of Holiness doth dwell Then was presented to me somewhat all over covered as with Swans Wings no other proportion seen and it was said This all white Nazarite may enter in here is no Partition-Wall or Skreen that will intervene After this pass'd away it was opened to me This was no other then the White Dove Body of the Holy Ghost that could wing up into the Jerusalem Court where the Antient of Days did sit to receive and welcome the Spirit of the Bride thus embodied and all attired with Plumes of White signifying the necessity of passing through the Swan-like Washings Which do make us thus pure and white for the bringing into this Virgin-state where nothing is heard to cry but Holiness to the Most High For said the Word No other can enter here therefore see what you must attain to be Swan-like keeping upon the River pure which doth proceed from the Throne Where do you abide till you come to the tenth Number washing-Tide that may present you the all fair and lovely Bride to enter in and looking find where their needs no more Sea for washing but firm Golden Ground there to walk with your Dove-Mate Who doth wait to see you come up as Sheep from the Washing each one bearing Twins in the fruitful Nature of the Holy Ghost from within that overspreading Wing to put forth and to take its Flight to this City of Light wherein Holiness is writ without and within August the 27th 1676. Being upon my Watch-Tower to heat and learn what further Remove we must go forward to and Eagerly pressing to get out from under the Reign of the Ten Horned Beast who doth daily at us push as being exalted to that Pinacle of Power which doth command all these lower Worlds imprinting its mark on the whole Universe who are under his Planet born and in his Kingdom found Out from which our Lord with many Trumpets sounds hath called us this Word anew was uttered Ah come and see the Thousand Years Reign of the Lamb are upon the Entring by those who are worthy to find a part in the first Resurrection This only will free from the decree of unavoidable Death which is the Wages of the Sin-deformed Beast who is to return again to the Lake at the time when Jesus begins his Reign Lo the old Dragon who in the Beastly Nature hath governed will be laid hold upon by the strong Angel who hath prevailed to chain him up and also to obliterate both his Image and Name that have lived and reigned in this visible World in such mighty Fame But strong and omnipotent is he who saith Behold I come to sound that Trumpet which shall bring forth a new World for an end of the Old is come before me in them who will be found the first model of this new Creation which will consist all of new raised Spirits with their full grown Bodies bearing the Lamb's Mark and Name as Sheep of another Pasture and Fold feeding in such a rich Soil as maketh fat and flourishing meet to stand in the view of the great King whom you must come up to in your new risen Immaculate Spirit and Body that we may see you are the right Heirs now grown up for the Kingdom to whom the Key of the Government doth belong Being passed through this Kingdom standing out against all his imposed Traditions Mark and Name whereby you were to be proved whether or no ye would bow to his unrighteous and pernitious Power and Scepter Against which still maintain your Ground and hold out for your ten daies Tribulation are not all fully expired in which time the Dragon will have great rage knowing his date is almost worn out as to those that have gone through the beheading for the Resurrection-Life sake For which death's hour of Temptation holding out a weighty Crown will be sent down and put on by him in the sight of all your Enemies who will maintain his right upon and over the Earth with these his tried Stones to unite his power to as with them to reign till you shall see all and every thing put under which now is above you for when my Name is known to spring within the Resurrection Body and to open in Majesty doubt not but thereto every Knee shall bow and will bring their Gifts and entreat your aspect and favour The God and Father of Lights having anointed you above your Fellows and reinstated you with me to a Throne of dignity where all in the lower Sphear shall be judged by you having received Kingly Power not for hours or dayes but for to endure throughout all Generations Now consider as wise Princely Virgins what for a while ye may yet encounter with during the Dragon's reign Do not fear him nor his Scorpion Stings which now will hardly come into you his place being demolished and his Towers falling and the new Body rising wherein nothing of his Kingdom can be more found which he seeing it will make his Kingdom to tremble that power is now assuming that will bind the crooked Leviathan who still sends out his poisonous Floods to destroy this Birth of Life which shall reign over all by him who hath gotten the Victory over the Fall and came up with great boldness shewing your bloody marks through the fight of Faith whereby ye may make claim to the Bride and the Ivory Throne there with her to lodge live and reign in everlasting fame Amen crieth your Bridegroom from Heaven August the 28th 1676. The Guardian Eunuch This word passed through me who shall among all the royal Seed of the captivity be found worthy to stand before the great and mighty King Even
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
Concerns to be brought before me and administred unto as occasion requires by this Life-Breath which I have so secretly infused Where-ever I bestow this Gift it gives a sufficiency from it self to do and act all that is above and beyond a Creaturely Power For it is of an Eternal Almightiness proceeding from the Father of Spirits who generateth what is like himself essentially into me the First Born of this Second Creation That henceforth the Power of Donation might rest with the Principal Head to pass and convey my self in Spirlt And I see the way of Holiness made for this pure inspiring thing to walk in which must find an Habitation suitable to its own Purity that so all may be at an agreement Then in mutual Loves and Joys my Spirit conversant is and will take in the Sence of all the Grievances and report them unto me Who now have all that is the Father's infinite Stock of Life to enrich with Wisdom Honour and Dignity at my pleasure I long and wait to have it drawn out from me therefore now make use of this all-searching Spirit whom thou mayst make a Friend of that may advance thee to a high estate even in this present time wherein thou art spinning out as others Times Mortality which hitherto hath brought forth very little of this Life's Treasury No eminent thing hath yet been wrought for to illustrate and make me shine through the Cloudy Body where through I would manifest again the Name Jesus Come O thou Complainent rise out of thy fainting disponding Bed and stir up this Gift which is with you work and keep Pace with it All must be broght to pass by the diligent Hand of this Spirit uniting with thy Spirit and thy Spirit with this Spirit who will work all in all in thee September the 23d 1676. Being in deep Meditations I was saying in my self Oh that I were beloved of my Jesus with that Love with which he loved John To whom he did appear so as it is written by which his Spirit was drawn to hear and see those wonderful things that are to us reported of Ah Lord why wilt thou not give me to lie as near thy Heart as he and as close at thy Feet as the beloved Mary that I may drink in every Word which falleth down from thy precious Lips out from which are the very Issues of Life While I was thus pleading and invocating there was presented a Triangle-Heart clear as Crystal that you might see through them linked thus 1. The Heart of Love 2. The Heart of Joy 3. The Heart of Peace 4. The Heart of the Bride 5. 5. 5. The Golden Chain with Seven Links 6. 6. 6. The Communications of the Hearts 1. 2. 3. to the Heart 4. Then heard I this Word Here is place for a Pure Heart within this Triangle Heart of the Deity for to joyn Then I saw another Heart within the Circle to spring with many more which were still generated herefrom all White and Crystalline but they were without the Chain this only one was within Then I enquired what Heart this was which was so nearly admitted It was Answered It is that Heart which through mighty ardent strong force of Love hath broken through and got into this Secret Enclosure Where it hath great opportunity and advantage to search and know what from this threefold Heart doth flow Which have their several diffusions according to their Titles The first was under the denomination of Love The Second was Joy The Third Peace All which agreed to empty themselves forth upon this other Heart which had pressed in for Shelter And what-ever Heart can abide within this Circle may attract strong infusing Powers that are all pure and vital to act in the Triangle-Might From this Idea I had great and full Confirmation that the Heart of the Trinity was most free and ready to embrace and receive them who of one Spirit and Heart were together fixed to break through the Golden Chain so as none might be nearer to the Heart of the Trinity then such who have rent and divided from all Creaturely Hearts that so they might know what from this Triangle-Heart of Love Joy and Peace doth ever flow September the 24th 1676. This Morning I was much upon the Consideration when I should begin to work in the Name Jesus as I did believe in it and had Promises from it Now this was all in my Eye to have the Spirit manifested for Activity For I know this only would be profitable as it refers to the Glory of the Most High when Works do express the working Source that is opened from the Deity Being with my God very urgent on this matter according to the impulse upon me from the Expediency that I saw for the Life to work out this way in variety according to the measure of the Gift of the operation of the Power This Word of Counsel and Caution sprang Oh thou whom I see restless and tossed to and fro in thy Mind no rest thou art indeed to find till thou comest to the working Mines For there is the Tryal and Probation who can be skill'd to work in the Furnace of an hot burning Sphear which is not remote but very near Henceforth know O thou fluttering Dove-Spirit that I have not left thee without a weighty and rich Talent which is in thine own Custody though it lieth deep with a threfold Cover upon it which must be unfolded before thou canst see this precious thing The first is the gross dark Mould of this Earthly Climate which is very stifling to this pure thing The second is the strong binding Reason that lieth as a Mountain weight upon it The third is the low natural Senses which multiply as the Sand upon the Sea-shore flowing in to stop and discourage thee from this great Attempt and worthy Service Which if once fully set upon with a Resolution to go through these Three Removes thou wilt then come to the Golden Wedge which will make thee great rich and mighty in the pure Ghostly working Property I your Jesus do tell you faithfully where the subject matter doth lie to work upon Your Complaint hitherto hath been to me as if I had carried away all the Stock and Treasury and ingrossed it to my own proper use or reserved it only for you till you had slipped out of the Body But know it is otherwise do but knit and joyn all your Force and Power with my deep Fathoming Spirit which is given to you and he will find and also work out what concerns your Freedom and Investment to the high and self-same dignified Glory with me Hither towards ye have indeed prayed and sought and believed and hoped but ye have not wrought in the Furnace where this Golden Wedge is to be all melted down to run into every part of your Body as the Life-Blood doth in your Veins Then you will know that unquenchable and fixed Efflux of the Spirit that will
be all Virtue and meer Power to work and act according to its sublime Constitution that by virtue of this dissolving Stone will put forth to do marvelous things Which may be revived after a more wonderful way then yet in and through frail Humanity have been existent Oh now then seeing that is made known unto you where the Treasure doth lie and that you have my Spirit not only to espy but to work hand to hand with you mightily Therefore resolve as in one Spirit ever fixed to be to break up that which doth lie upon this Princely thing each one in your selves to whom this Secret is revealed Do not only Pray and wait but War and work together till ye have wrought out this imprisoned Power that may yet be exalted upon the Throne of Sovereignty For verily no better then a violent unjust deposing of your and my Spirits reign hath been Call and engage all Might and Force to recover his Kingdom again that ye may sit in the Place of Judicature and have all Nations come in at your Beck All which by meer Conquest you must effect if to the Crown and Dominion ye seek to get I shall now leave with you this worthy and all desirable Jewel to the courage and liberty of your own potent Will and my Spirit shall not fail to assist you with all its Armoury So that ye may have Victory over that which would still enslave and confine you within the compass of Mortality with all its appertaining Enormities which this Stone upon its breaking through will certainly free you from Now as there is a strong Guard of Rational and Sensitive Spirits which do multiply out of the Earthly Center so be of good chear that this one Spirit shall multiply to the Thousandth Number and stand up as a mighty Army to win the Field where this Golden Mine is reserved As mighty Worthies march ye forward hold out the bloody Cross of Defiance spare nothing which doth plead for the first fallen Creation because nothing of it can subsist with this pure Stone but what is Crysolyte All my dear Jesus hasten this Stone out of this Burning Furnace in my Altar-Heart September the 29th 1676. This Night approaching to Morning great Spiritual Travail came upon me and I was in Soul-heaviness through the sharp Pangs which I was overtaken with For I felt the Birth strong to make way for its deliverance mighty throws of the Spirit did work and I therewith co-working was that if by any means I might embrace the first-born of Might to whom the Throne-Power and Government was to be established While I thought on these things my Spirit thus burst out Ah my Lord I have often been in these strong travelling Cries but yet too feeble am to bring forth that which is to be the Ruler of Nations even he who is to be cloathed with Royal Glory Strength and Majesty to attend the Throne of the Deity who will admit only such dignified Spirits there to resort and dwell who are born again of equal quality within so as it may be no Robbery to derive from thee O God this Fire-Birth which makes the pure Nazarite Whose Proceeding as also Working forth must be from that everlasting Womb of Eternity which does miraculously introduce it self into a poor despicable Corporeity which is not perceived till it cometh to a full grown Body impregnated with Life in every part and so growing till it comes to its full Birth-hour which I did believe was after the manner of a Spirit to be effected For this Word was expresly spoken to me Fear not thou shalt have this same also which shall be caught up and nourished for a certain time and then shall come again to thee For while he is a Babe and in Minority Dangers and Perils will beset him from this envious World Therefore his Birth must be hidden and concealed and there needs to be no Proclamation of it because none but Spiritual Powers and Invisible Hosts were called forth to be privy to this secret Birth Then I beheld till I saw the Virgin who travelled to ascend after the Child being overshadowed by a White Cloud therein wrapped up out of sight freed from all Malice and Despight being kept and for while reserved within the Eternal Circle of Light Then the Voice in me cryed and said Behold that which thou hast seen to ascend out of the Forms of Nature shall again descend in a full grown God-Manhood to accomplish all that hath been predicted and declared by the Spirit who hath searched out the Depths of the Birth of Wisdom Then upon this was revealed and presented to me the Figure of a Lamb all white having Seven Heads upon which were Seven Crowns like Garlands with fresh Roses and Lilies And one riding in the similitude of a Woman cloathed with a Flaming Garment like the Sun for Glory and Brightness with a Cup of Pearl-Royal in her Hand filled full of flaming Liquor of Gold Then the Spirit said This is the Lamb and the Bride which shall the Dragon and the Beast with all his horned Power ride down with all his Mark and Name which the whole World hath worshipped and admired He hath had long his Time to impose strange Laws and Injunctions and hath been in Universally obeyed Whose Sorceries Witchcrafts and Deceits have worn out many Generations who were ignorant of the Depths of this subtle Serpent and who hereby have died short of their Kingly Crown The seducing Prophet perswading them that they were under a necessity of owning this false usurped Power and Authority which so well agreed and answered to the Apostatized Life of Sensuality But oh to you whom I have seen Revolters from this strange King and his Government I the Spirit of Jesus am sent to declare to you the Father's Love and Intent Whose Heart is set to redeem you from all Sins oppressing Tyranny from the World's Spirit and all that is Rudimental I have sought out for such as for my purpose might be who are resolved to deny and throw off all weights and thronging Spirits that would traffick within my Holy Place For assuredly I do of such take special notice who do forsake all this low Oâ—…b for me to follow my new revealed Tracks Then cryed my Spirit since O my Lord I have thus far found Grace in thy sight give me to understand the meaning of this last Representation to wit of the Seven Crowned Lamb with the Effigies of a Woman riding on him So this was opened unto me by the divine Intelligencing Spirit which informed me that the Lamb which I saw with Seven Crowns signified Jesus who yet never assumed his Reigning Power on the Earth for any duration For while he was Personally in the World he was under Suffering and Reproach and ever since he hath been vailed and obscured in his Spirit the Earthly part hath yet been too hard in the Lamb's Warriours But now to any such in whom the Virgin
me concerning him He is a Son of Obedience Therefore meet with thee to prosecute the Spirits design in this visible Earth Then received I only this further Charge to keep the inward Court of our Minds all pure and clear as we love to entertain the Spirit of our Jesus there Who soon did scent every unsavoury Breath that did blow in this Garden which should be all perfumed from the Celestial Powers and Planets that are all to be blown up from his own Savours and sweet Perfumes So that our dear Lord and Spirit might thereby be refreshed in us and that continually October the 8th 1676. Some part of this Night sweetly passed in Contemplation and Prayer toward the Morning I saw in Vision a bright round Ball pourtraid like a Man's Face breaking through a Cloud and immediately two Stars broke through after it which were very bright and blazing The Interpretation of which I waited fo in my Spirit for no Representation is without his Signification unto me But the Lord did not that day explain iâ—… to me but I did feel an impregnative Virtue fill me from that time till the Afternoon Being then met to breath each one from his Gift as the Dr. was speaking the Word said in me Blessed is the Glory of the Lord which makes its remove from place to place that the Tabernacle-Body may bear witness to this Glory Which verily was felt and discerned in this very juncture of time For the most Holy did leave the Impress of his Glory upon us for it did run as Lightning through my inward parts Thus our Jesus makes his Pace swiftly to us to give often refreshing to our Hearts Hereby lifting us up from the Earth by the Spirit of his Eagle-Might which presseth into the Heavens there ever to live in the Bosome Loves Rest. October the 9th 1676. But still I was in great Concern to understand the meaning of the Sun-like Face and Stars which I saw the Night past So putting my self in an holy awful posture for the Spirit to place me unitedly to himself to understand and know as it self did know the simple Mind of the Deity It was thus revealed to me that suddenly there would break out of the dark beclouded Night of our World an open bright Face that should not speak to us in a deep unknown Spirit but Mouth to Mouth When we shall be generated as Stars from this Ghostly Body of Glory Who plainly testified such a Remove would be made If we will be constant to the Spirit our assigned Guide and Mate Who will arise in us unto this high degree and state as to swallow us up into this shining Face so that no Cloud shall be betwixt the Majesty of Glory and us For as our Jesus is so this rising Spirit of Glory will bring us into the same Transfiguring Body of Glory October the 10th 1676. The Ministration of Elisha As I was casting my self this Morning into my wonted posture of interiour Silence to hear and see what would arise out of the Spirit 's deep I was before I was aware surprised with a Natural Sleep but suddenly awaked with this Voice Search and see what is recorded for thee in 2 Kings 4. throughout not knowing as to my own rememberance what therein was contained till I looked Wherein was the Declaration of what great and marvellous things Elisha wrought eminently as nothing of the New-Testament-Ministration did them exceed So when I had perused them I asked and enquired by that inspiring Spirit who was nigh what Portion therein was for me that was thereunto pointed for to look earnestly seeking a plain understanding herein which through favour I did obtain after some space of time October the 11th 1676. This Word opened in way of Resolve Know O Soul thou hast this Elisha-Spirit with thee of which great Improvement may be made If thou canst know how to draw him out it will be possible to multiply manifoldly Therefore I thy Jesus directed thee to view the excellency of this Spirit and to provoke thee to ask a numeration of this to lay out upon my account so far as may reach to the glorified state of my new exalted Humanity As to the first part of Elisha's ability of Spirit which took in a sympathizing sence of the poor Widow's cry unto him This thou mayst read inwardly as thy own deplorable condition who hast often cryed to thy Prophet of the Oppression of this cruel Creditor the Prince and Spirit who rules in the evil World that would have taken thy two Sons both for Bond-men Who are to be understood as they relate to thy inward and outward Man to imbondage both and hold them in perpetual Captivity as Debtors through the degenerated Principle to the Law of Sin which makes obnoxious to the Curse of Servitude to this wicked Usuper From which my Elisha Spirit is to come to set free through the additional Blessing of Increase out of that Pot of Oyl that is found before-hand in thee but of no sufficiency to redeem out of the Creditor's thraldom till the Spirit of Multiplication do take Knowledge and Compassion to shew what will buy thee out of all the World's Servitude Wherein thou hast known such Perplexities and tyrannical Thraldoms that have constrained thee to look out for Liberty Now then hearken to my Counselling Word ye who do agree as united Spirits to break this Yoke from off your Neck resolving no longer to be under Tribute repair to your Prophet Elisha and only make him privy to all your Necessities Let the Prophet's Widow in this case be the Pattern in thy Eye and in all Extremities fly to no other Call upon this Elisha-Spirit for he is to be raised from the dead to work mighty Deeds First in the hidden Man of the Heart which prepareth for the working through the outward part every Vessel must be cleansed within before the Golden Oyl of the Almightiness will fill them When this is perfect and purely done shut the Door upon thee and thy two Sons and let none come in to spy For the Foundation-matter for Miracles to work upon will run from a most secret hidden Vein The method here of will be quite changed as to what was in the days of Elisha Who though he acted parallel with thy Jesus in the days of his humane state of Minority not having reached the Coronation-Glory could not till then set afoot this New Ministration that openeth from the Line of the Holy Ghost Who is that full grown Vein of Life which hath so long under Ground been hid because of which no miraculous thing hath of these last days been wrought For none hath cared with my Spirit to plunge so deep and therefore it is for a while to lie hid till they have found out the right Needle which may pierce this third Vein that proceedeth from the Godhead The Life-Blood of which will be the running multiplying Oyl which is costly indeed thou needst not crave
a greater Portion Be not afraid to sink down into the Spirit 's Pool or Pot of Oyl that is within the House of thy Heart It was Elisha's Spirit that entred in or else the Oyl had never run so free So do ye likewise with your Spirits Descend where this spring of Blood doth so deeply run which will be of such rich Merchandize as it will make all of this Creation-traffick to be of no validity Observe with all heedfulness the track and way of the Spirit in its own Eternal Ground Follow hard venture to pass through every Region whether in Darkness or in Light loose not this your Leader out of sight Who will certainly bring you to the Oily Flood which meeting with the flaming Juniper-Wood will send forth such sparkling Powers and miraculous Glories as may plainly declare the Spirit of that one Elisha is risen October the 12th 1676. This greatly beloved Spirit and Comforter sent from my dear Lord Jesus coming now to be known by Name Power and Virtue through a more free and intimate way of converse had hereby forestall'd all other taking off all delight and pleasure saving in himself alone I knowing that with him were all the Secrets of the Bridegroom and that no other besides him could give me to understand the high and deep Concerns relating to the Kingdom which by my Jesus are now in agitation Therefore who by us is to be prized like to this Visitant that can give such a true account how Matters and Things there do succeed during the time of our Exile Who so ready and officious is as he to find out for us the grand Mystery of the Knowledge of the Deity which doth lie hidden in pure Nature's Ground And though it is so nigh to us yet without this Unction Light we might have look'd long enough and never have understood or espied any thing of this Glory But now he is become our Friend and Counsellor and doth bring us glad-Tydings from the Heavenly Quire-Whence this Morning he proposed this Question to me Dost thou believe I am the very only and true Discloser of the Father's Will who designs to bring thee into the New Jerusalem to see there the Lord Jesus in all his Princely Dignity If satisfied thou art herein then wholly rest upon me as thy sufficient Stay and Guide then press I say into me Who am the All-flaming Stream with whom mingling thy self thy Natural Property shall be so alter'd as thou wilt be able to pierce into the very Body of the Deity which is my dwelling-place Where I am careful to fix together with my self such who are given me in charge by him who hath great regard for you and hath Commissioned me to demand and ask of you who have made such Love-acknowledgements whether or no ye can leave and forget all whatever is so affecting to the sensitive Eye and without much debate to fly away with me to Mount Sion For there the perfect in Spirit do rest from all Cares Labours and Strife for that is a City free Oh now take leave of this imbondaged state and trust to me for what your Lot shall be in that lovely Land Where into now venture through all the cross Streams of Rationality as valiant Worthies resolved throughly to follow me who cannot live in this Region but only for your sake I am sent from above but with no intent to abide long here beneath only to cloath you Essentially upon as a Bride to enter in with me where ye shall see no more Evil and though in the World yet so separated from it as those who are no more of it Read and see a full discharge brought down by me if ye can receive it then it will be your everlasting Liberty October the 16th 1676. This Word also opened and cryed in me Who shall see that one Day that shall be lengthened out to Thousands of Years It is the Spirit 's day in which none can live but such who are entred into the very Body of the Spirit that can bear the Light of the Temple-Glory within the Holy City The Light of this Day is of that excessive Burning that it will scorch up every Covering which is not of the Spirit Therefore ye who have prayed to see this New Creation-Day consider what you must suffer first to come upon your vile corruptible Body which must be fashioned in this pure Spirit 's property Which by its Golden Flood may wash and wast away the muddy part with all that contemptible covering of Clay which in this Day of Burning can in no wise be able to stay Now then know the Time and Season of this my Spirit 's Visitation and be subject to every transforming Power Which worketh yet by degrees till it hath brought thee unto a solid Body as refining into that Clarity that the sevenfold Sun ye may plainly see in its strength of Glory without a Vail upon your Face Do not say How shall this be brought to pass seeing I am a piece of brittle Mortality subject to an universal Creaturely malady nothing differing from what I see expire Daily These are the thoughts which do arise in thee out of Fear and Spiritual Modesty But thy Humility must be the only Foundation for the Spirit of Faith to rise and effect what may be done in order to the rising of this everlasting Day of the Spirit 's cloathing Body of Light Which Oh thou Shunamite shall make thee all fair and give thee acceptance in my sight October the 18th 1676. O! the resistency that the Spirit of Reason did raise pleading Impossibility that ever gross earthliness should be so covered over and impregnated with a Ghostly Body generated and consubstantiated from that one Eternal Element so as to hide the now appearing frail piece of Mortality The Spirit of Prophecy in me which opened and declared of these things which were to come to pass in us said If hereunto we could set our Seal of Beiief and give place to the Spirit of Truth they could not fail of their accomplishment But if Faith over Reason did not get Victory the Amen did testifie the Spirit would be too weak to bring forth such a miraculous Body for himself organically in every part to the fulfilling of the great Mystery which has been so often and largely predicted of Here I had renewed subject matter for Prayer that our Faith might not fail earnestly invocating that the holy Breath might fill up our Sails here withal continually Upon this I did see in Vision A Covering let down upon me of all wrought Gold enterwoven with Scarlet-coloured Silk so as it looked wonderful rich to my Eye Which I viewed with great marvel attending the Word of Signification which thus opened in me saying This is the Workmanship of the Spirit Who hath only Wisdom and Skill to inlay the weighty Gold and work it in with the Silk to make it thus lustrous as thou seest But herein lieth a greater
deeper Mystery yet as it both presents Deity and Humanity thus interwoven together To shew how your Humane Will-Spirit must be wrought into this All-deified Spirit which to the ground-form of Silk gives the shine and glory in the variety of Flowers embossed thereupon according to the similitude which to thee was let down with the engraving of the Sacred Name that is that Princely Cloathing upon which is written Salvation Strength and Honour the unparalled Workmanship of the Spirit of Glory that now to you my elected Ones is come to call in the assistance of your Wills to work and joyn with him in all Power and Might till ye come to be inlaid into his Deâ—…fied Being and thus curiously wrought without the least default For not one wry Stich must be found in this Covering but all according to the perfect Rule seen in the Pattern Know I Jesus have sent my Spirit into you to work in Secresie this all-covering Tent. It will be Business enough to keep Pace and to follow the Hands of these working Powers that never will be idle calling still to the Spirit of your Wills to comply and for to hold out with it steadily For this is a Work which must be stuck to it will admit of no Nightslumbering the Furnace is to be kept in a constant heat for the Golden Thread which enterweaves with the Silk is still to be drawn out of the central Fire Oh now ye who have pried after this rich Covering of the Spirit you see whereunto you must give your selves that this all glorious Covering of the Spirit may rise and shine upon you that so ye may enter my Everlasting Courts with Confidence and Joy Where your Bridegroom will greatly rejoyce over you when ye are thus cloathed upon with the bright Body of the holy Sparkling Saphire Into which suffer my Spirit to work you that I may with freedom own receive and enjoy you as my all-lustrous Bride Even so Oh holy One prosper thy Work in us October the 21st 1676. In the Night I had this Representation of a Vine upon a Wall which was very fruitful but not come unto its full ripeness There appeared several sorts of Fruits besides Grapes all springing from the Vine-Root Which while viewing there came a cluster of Caterpillars with black Heads fastening upon the young sprouted Fruit to eat it off in this its Minority At which sight I was much concerned how to prevent the marring of such choice Fruit. After I came to weigh and consider the thing in the Spirit 's understanding the Word of Revelation opened and said This Vision was for caution and warning unto us who were now incorporated into that Vine-Root to bring forth Fruits according to what the Spirit hath sowed and watered so as they begin to consubstantiate into Fruit. Whereunto we coming to this first primary putting forth great danger does attend this new crop of the Spirit though they seem as harmless inconsiderable Worms yet they unconceivably destroy and eat and suck away the very Juice of the Grape leaving only the empty Husk For which cause saith the Spirit I have this warning given lest ye should not be heedful enough of this my painful Husbandry which I have brought forth in you For these little Foxes and crawling Worms are as pernicious to my new planted Nursery as those greater Beasts of Prey Therefore ward and watch keep all Invasions of this kind out when ever they do set upon thee and would assault to snip away my first Fruits Then take to thee speedily the Bucket of Faith and let down into me who will open the Heavens to bring down Showers that shall wash and scatter away these devouring Caterpillers out of thee October the 21st 1676. It was further shewn me as I was in Prayer upon this occasion how our Vineyard might be kept each one from being preyed upon This Word was shot in from the Lord upon me Keep thy Eye upon this new springing Lily sit under the Shadow of it and go not out from it It s fruitfulness will befriend thee when this World with all its fruitfulness shall be as a dry Tree Therefore make it thy only Shelter and Stay for the Essential Power of the Deity floweth forth as the Spirit in thee can draw it forth That then ye may fully scent this Flower of Lise and live upon it day by day then thou needst not wander from the Spirit 's Tent. Who hath sufficiency to keep thee if thou couldst go forward and work with him in this Magia Calling Which divine Skill and Art hath been hid from the whole Creation and a false Craft hath stolen away the Heart universally While this hath been hid under the Seven Seals and none worthy found to break open this deep Magia Ground where that weighty Gold is that will buy out thousands of such drossy Worlds in which all ignorant and earthly Inhabitants do trade But to you that separate and are willing by me to be perswaded to find out that old antient Vocation where neither Curse Sorrow nor Pain do attend which was and is to be renewed again to such as can get free from this Principle and live in defâ—…nce to it as not fearing nor caring evermore to make friendship with it there is a better Store upon the opening unto you To whom I am as a fore-runner upon this account sent to assure you there are such precious things given by the Father into my Hand as ye shall not need to sue to this World for its favour For the time is nigh wherein the now despised shall be described what they are October the 25th 1676. Through the abundant Openings out from the Light of that Day of the Lord encompassing my Intellectual Part filling me as a burning Lamp within shewing still some one thing or other new upon which I cryed and said Ah my God what will all this Knowledge and Light with me amount unto For to know deep and secret things is both sweet and pleasant whether they be for present or future Existency But this is not to be all my Dowry though they are of great use and service yet here I cannot stay neither dare I take up fulness of Joy there is something else yet behind which must fill this Heavenly Body of Light Oh that one weighty Drop that I do see ready to fall off on that bright Saphire Body will be the Birth-Seed that extendeth not only to Will but to perform and do what it sees in the Light When this shall drop the Nature as it stands in the Line of the Fall with the weight thereof shall be broken and dissolved for no patch of Clay upon this Gold is evermore to be seen as it was declared to me Who upon this Expostulation further said and brought this Word with a fresh application unto me saying As the Father hath Life in himself so hath he given the Son to have Life in himself also which Words in John
15. 26. were thus opened to me Here is a stock of Life to be given out in an absolute way of propriety but to whom is it but to the Royal Birth of such as are born into the Spirit Whereof ye who through strong travail are hither come are to be fellow-sharers in this Life with God the Son But ye are yet but young and do not understand what this Life will extend unto if preserved choicely you shall find in it the the root of that matter to work upon which is sufficient to create and translate according to the will and skill of thiâ—… Life-Operator Which derives a Power out of its own free Birth-center which hath no dependency out of its own Being Call to remembrance that saying Man is become like one of us and he would still have exercised the same authority as a God had the evil been only known and eschewed for which end Jesus hath sent his redeeming Spirit to clear off all your old Accounts as being found in the Debt-Book of Sin and also to convince you there is no necessity that you should run one Mite more upon that score ye being born of a free estate of Righteousness of your own which now you are charged to expend upon For in the time of Ignorance before you came to know what was sown in your Ground ye might be more excused But now I have revealed where doth lie the rich Revenues of the all-sufficiency ye need neither seek ask or borrow did you know â—…ow to stir up and awaken your own Magia Through which all wherein you have been taught must throughly â—…e wrought as the mighty Engineer to bring forth what hath lain under the Vail of Faith and Hope Plunge plunge â—…et deeper in within the Circle-Birth of â—…his pure thing October the 25th 1676. As I was considering of this Discoursive Opening of the Spirit it was immediately confirmed to me by a presentation after this manner The Word said Behold the Idea of another Paradisical Sphear I saw a Tree spring suddenly out of a great River with three laden great Branches then sprang divers more young Plants all sprouting from the Veins or Strings from this one Tree Each one with no more then three Branches but of different growths Some new budded others bearing Flowers in order to Fruits others grown to palpable Fruit. All round about this one Tree Upon which it was said to me These are as so many Gods which are ascended out of the Earth to replenish that which lay void and desolate Here each one hath and is growing up in a Life of Subsistency and Almighty Soveraignty deriving all this Power and Might from the Tree of Life Which sheds its Kernel-Seed into this River for such is the Nature of this Thron-River that it no sooner falls in but it springeth immediately into this threefold Form of the Deity O stagger not neither be confounded at this for except ye had been born again of this Water and Tree of Life that sheds the Golden Seed of the Spirit ye should never have known the existency of a Life-Soveâ—…aignty Therefore to you not only the â—…ight and Spring of Understanding is â—…iven but the everlasting Life-Line from his Tree doth run free because you have â—…rned in your Spirits and hearkened to â—…y Inspirations But remember your â—…ife hath many subtle treacherous â—…riends that pretend to it that will say â—…s Peter did far be it to thee to give up â—…e loss of all the old Life and only rest â—…bsist and alone depend on this But â—…ow this is but the tempting Voice of â—…e Serpent as in the days of Eve by â—…hose Fall be thou aware And now â—…hile ye are but Infants suck and draw â—…ightily from this Tree of Life and you â—…ill soon grow to be strong to have this â—…se trusted in your own management â—…o you whose Ears are so open to hear â—…e I do greatly delight to commune with â—…ou that if by any means I might encourage you to hold out and not slide back from my Precepts Which will assuredly entrust you in all Zion heights and Spirit depths of unfathomed Treasury Now haste haste to your covering Strength of Glory your Nazarite Hair while abiding in this Paradisical Sphear will soon grow upon you that so therein may be your defence from all Philistines Powers Now then in Jehovah Magnanimity abide with me his Spirit evermore to dwell and be So Amen dear Lord I pray thee October the 26th 1676. Being met together to attend the Manifestation of the Spirit by which we might profit each other in the Afternoon as the Dr. was praying this Word came to me Make use of the present Opportunity when ye have the King at the Banquet then is the time to prefer your Request Upon which waâ—… brought to my remembrance the wise Pâ—…licy of Esther to King Ahasuerus Which that Night was more opened enlarged and applied for our present and further Peace Joy and Encouragement to follow on to know the whole Counsel of our God concerning us who now revealeth all Secrets by the Spirit who presented Mordecai in the Person of himself being left to him as Orphans The whole trust care and charge being cast upon this faithful Mordecai to bring us up to that degree of Humility Meekness Courage Zeal of Life and to all sweet Spiritual Disposition of Mind that the King the Father might greatly desire us for herein consisteth our Beauty and Comliness which is so taking Vashti was refused because of Arrogancy and Disobedience but Esther finds favour being mild and pliable yielding to her Guardians Commands though to the peril of her Life So assuredly said this Comforter Be ye but wise and obedient to me who will put you upon nothing but what I do fore-see will arise for your great promotion and considerable advantage as ye my dictates shall obey Who do make use of this History of the Scripture yet that my Mind may be more easily understood you not being able to bear nor understand me in my own Tongue till further learned For which I am come down to your understanding through the Skreen of the Letter October the 27th 1676. Now this Morning it was set before me according to the Example of Esther that for a certain time it was expedient that we should sanctifie our selves by a true Fast in pure Abstinency from their Assembly-Feasts 2dly From tasting any thing that is ministred from this gross Element but to draw apart from all keeping our Internal part from being defiled shutting up from all reminding only the overturn of Haman's device That great subtle Adversary that had laid the Plot against the new introduced Life to cut it off before the King had put Honour upon it to bring it through the City-Royal upon his own Eagle-Body of Power Now seeing the malicious design of the Serpent with all his Confederacy was gone very far in this matter there was no other way to reverse the
it given me to understand the several Offices and Business belonging to each one of these to make ready for the Birth-Day and to protect this High-born One from the raging Floods the tempstuous Winds of the Adversary The Spirit 's Work is to reprove convince exhort counsel caution and comfort in order to the carring on this great Affair The work of the Water is another witness as you find it in you as a bubling Pool cleansing every part within that so not the least defect may be found in the Matrix whereout the Birth must open Then the Blood is a great Testimonial Witness and Evidence as in a mystical manner conveyed tasted and drunk down by them that do carry the matter of this Birth for it doth produce a vigorous Life that will be known and felt to refresh both Mother and Babe So keeping all these in their several acting-Properties they will be the clear evidence unto thee that the Ghostly Birth is working out it self Therefore with these three let thy will-Will-Spirit agree hereunto to throw out every misconceived thought For now all things must be new again by the Father Word and Spirit through this new Birth wrought That ye may come to a mighty Record among the New Jerusalem Stones where all are waiting this rising day to see because it will fix in thee an unknown Liberty both in Spirit and Body November the 21st 1676. It was also further expresly opened unto me that we were at present brought thus far as to witness these three as Spirit Water and Blood being Witnesses in our Earth which did fore-run the Ministration of the Holy Ghost For they must go before as the Ministration of Jesus who came by Water Blood and Spirit that is Death Life and Resurrection from which he passed and so must we As he did bear our Record in Heaven which will be a different thing though agreeing to one and the same end as thus the three first make way as the Water-Baptism into the Death the Blood into the Life the Spirit quickneth and giveth a Body of the Resurrection So the Ministration of Jesus hath its twofold Use upon us in order to the second thus which are to bear Record as the Father Word and Holy Ghost in our Heavens So here is to be understood the rising Degree or changing from Jesus in Spirit to that degree of Unity of Father Word and Holy Ghost all which agree to enter into a Virgin Mind thus prepared and in it after a high Mystical mauner themselves conceive so as to include them as one only Being contracting the Virgin-Will and Spirit with it self hereby becoming one inbred with it as that Heir who was darkly prophesyed of in Micah's day who said the glory of Israel was to come unto the Adullam the very pure Tabernacle of the Virgin-Nature born again of Water Blood and Spirit so made indeed a meet reception for this holy thing to be sealed up as in an unknown Pavilion or hiding Place of Strength which must be till it hath attained every measure and part to the growing big and filling up the Birth 's place with Breasts full of Milk the Spring Word of the Spirit diffusing into them the natural course of the Bloody Issue of Sin also stopping all which will be evident Signs unto you that are still apt to be questioning whether this Ghostly Birth is in you forming Therefore be still and wait for that great travelling hour that is to come upon ye before which sometimes ye will be in Pains and Heaviness because ye may meet with many a throw of Temptation all which will work the Birth forward therefore be not dismayed Oh Daughter of my Zion so long as thou walkest steadily not going out of Sion Court where you are to wait at my Council-Board to enquire what shall fore-run and be in that travelling Hour which will make great Spoil of the Mortal Shell which must break away at this great Birth-day Therefore look and expect this will make a mighty alteration for the Heavens will rend that the Throne-Spirits and Powers may descend as helps and Guardian defence and Witness-bearers to this Sion-Birth For which great Provision is aforehand to be made to answer to the greatness of the Sion state all of the rich concealed Furniture and Golden Cups Pots and Vessels at such a time as this will be brought out with all the rich Robes for those to wear who do attend upon this Birth Great and mighty Preparations thou dost see are hereunto expedient for to be Because this World is so blind ignorant and unbelieving that it will be no less needful to rebuke by all high and Spiritual Magnificency in the very height of Sion Glory and to outvye hereby not only vain pompous Glory but those Abominations and false exalted Lighâ—… set up in Temple-Worships as no better then false Births Coverings which will not be removed till this mighty Standard of this Holy Ghost come to be lifted up and set upon the top of Sion-Hill in Visibility November the 22d 1676. I saw as a Preludium of this rising Birth of the Holy Ghost a bright Firmament opne and all dignified with splendorous Stars some much more blazing then others And one Star encreased so great as it became like the Body of the Sun Which Vision was thus opened unto me after some days being called over in me by a fresh vivification of Spirit that shewed me that the one Star which I saw so suddenly encrease to that largeness as the very Body of the Sun it was the Virgin-Woman that was all to be encompassed with the Birth Light of the Holy Ghost which would arise out of that Orb at which the rest of the Stars that did encompass it should shout for Joy and be Witnesses â—…hereof at the opening of this greater Day-Star which should enlighten the whole Earth Oh this left great Amazement in me provoking to some travelling Sorrows for to see this mighty Wonder â—…rought forth as in Vision so existently in that Star who is hereunto by the Omnipotency elected A further Confirmation hereunto was the Idea of an Ark that was shut up floating up and down not upon muddy troublesome Waters which once covered all Mountains and Hills whenas the Deluge was upon the Old World but these Waters were pure and healing like the Waters under the Threshold of the Sanctuary that where-ever they came quickned unto Life And it was said to me Behold the Dove is in the Ark and will be this place of broad Waters that shall cover the Earth no more to kill or destroy but to save alive according to the New Covenant that all shall know God from the least to the greatest When out of this Ark the Dove shall flye with the Everlasting Gospel as the Olive-Branch which carrieth in it that oily Property we will kindle a sweet Fire that can mix with these pure Waters and not bâ—… quenched but still maintain servent heaâ—…
to declare and speak as indeed from a Cloven Tongue that may tinge where ever it seaâ—…ters such high enkindleâ—… Breath abroad Ah Words of such aâ—… ouâ—…flowing Power will carry force to purpose upon the Hearts of the prepareâ—… Hearers to whom this last Trumpet by the Dove shall sound Blessed is that Ark where fresh she will out fly to pronouncâ—… Salvation Peace and Good-will froâ—… on high Fear not but believe such aâ—… Ministration may be nigh to those who in this new fram'd Ark do most closely and obscurely lie till the Birth-Doors shall come for to be opened by the strong Angel Know upon every Door here iâ—… a several seal to the number of seven to which belong the Seven Spirits Up pon every Opening thereto watch anâ—… stand still till Time's Number is finished for the going forth upon the broaâ—… Water-floats The glorious Lord thaâ—… hath been hidden under this Ark is now for to appear and unfold what the Seveâ—… Thunders hath foretold of Ages past For which saith the Alpha and Omega do hereunto call you whose Hearts are right and perfect to me not only these â—…hings to know and see but Eminent Inâ—…truments to be for me by the bringing â—…orth a new and more excelling Geneâ—…ation then yet have been existing November the 23d 1676. In the Night season I saw my self as â—…f I had been transmuted into a Bird of great largeness like to a Hawke and found all my sensible Faculties and Understanding in that appearance sluttering in an Airy Region and this Commission Word I had Go forth and take a Prey which attempting I found a whole Flight of Birds in some way of resistance I being alone they thought they should have encompassed me about and so out-mastered me Then I called for my Bird-Mate who was immediately as in a large flying Body with me and so we jointly commanded the whole Flight of the lesser Birds in that Region and then they voluntarily came to shelter under our Wings And methought it was a mighty Change which I did not know how I came into but all Care Fear and Sorrow were fled away I did feel during this time no low matters of an Earthly Sence at all to touch me I did during this time feel also another sort of Birds like Bats did us pursue which could not hold out their Flight because of the excessiveness of this Light Reigon but down again did fall and again would strive to rise blindly to trouble and hit against those who were winged for to obtain the Prize December the 4th 1676. Look back to November 23. 1676. and there is the Vision and here is the Interpretation of it THere was much from this Vision manifested to me first was that this shewed there must be a passing out of a gross ponderous heavy laden dark Image and Body for in the pure Airy Region only Aetheral Spirits in Winged Bodies of Power could live and swiftly move Such a Translation it became us to wait and look after that it might be really accomplished as the Figure doth call up to For it was said this must be till we come this Change to see all to be in the very Body by virtue of that Crystalline Stone that formed must be within who to its own Clarity must sublime us throughout before we can go forth like Eagles to mount and to take our Prey As to the resistency which I saw it was thus to be understood that at the first going forth though thus impowered and spirited yet it would not be understood by the very Elect who were to be gathered to that Region for something of Reluctancy there would be till further confirmed by another Witness that also should wing up in Spirit and Powers And should marvellously draw and gather in the Scattered who to Wisdom's Ministry do belong which must prepare for the state of Mount Paran and so for the New Jerusalem Then queried I further about the last Flight who were so few in Number yet very troublesome blindly lifting up themselves against us It was shewed me that there were dark sensitive Spirits whose center was in the dark Holes of the Earth that had some particular knowledge and relation to us while we appeared to walk with them after their Similitude but being herefrom changed and something being formed in us that hath given us a Winged Raise and so made the Separation and Alienation they would pursue to bring us down that they might know us in their own Likeness for in this Transformation they cannot without they could come to be as we are Which is impossible till the Holy Lump in them be made and they be separated for this state from all low things to live whereunto we are called and appointed to live in the Ghostly Body where we shall meet the Lord our Bridegroom in the Airy Region This Word much followed me The Birth in you is the Son of God but it doth not yet appear what it shall be when as it shall work quite through expect great alteration even unto Transfiguration At which I rebounded with this Answer Ah Lord how thick down do flow thy Prophecies but what makes the working Wheel so slack to effect this mighty thing Then said the Spirit in me Thou art in haste before the Earthly Mold be laid waste not considering that ye are but come unto the restoring Ministry that is preparing for the Birth of the Dove out to fly that carrieth all Wonders in its sevenfold Eye which is your Lamp within that getteth formation by degrees Therefore it is not to be stirred before it comes to its full Age all that you are to do is to drink in what is brought to Hand by its Virgin Mother for daily succour as the Word of Counsel Caution and Direction which is at present all which ye are to expend upon for stay and strength till its Birth-Day shall in and through you break December the 5th 1676. In the Night in my Sleep the Accuser and watchful Enemy assaulted me hard upbraiding me with false and deceivable hopes that I had in this Ghostly Birth demanding why we should more then others in the World seek for it that were left in the same common Faith with others ever since the Holy Ghost withdrew which was not again to be born through any one in Flesh according as we looked for Then this Word was present with me to repel Oh get thee behind me thou Spirit of Pâ—…dition that goest about to pervert Truth and wouldst make void the Love's Election of God Knowing well thou standest not in his Counsel any more but art afraid nay it is thy terrour to see Faith risen so high in any one as thereby to conceive such a mighty Birth as this that will so rise as to overturn thy Kingdom and Reign that hath been so long in the Earth for hereby cast out thou wilt be Therefore we will not doubt nor throw away our Confidence because the Birth we
trust to hath already upon it the Foundation-Seal being already named which cannot be obliterated without it be by yielding to thy daily renewed subtilties Which as in the day of Eve so again thou wouldst be prevalent storming high so much as thou seest the Day grow nigh of overturning the Babylonish Captivity Much contest I had of this kind both sleeping and waking One thing more I remember was his charge that he some proof would see of the Father's Almightiness from his Birth in us With that I roused up my Faith and said that thou mayst wilt unto thy perpetual downfal therefore away depart with all thy Wiles from me For I will no more give Ear to the underminings of such a Serpentine Spirit who would circumvent me in the process of my New Birth after the manner of Jesus After this I fell into Sleep again towards the Morning then I felt such bitter Agonies in my outward Man as if my Life had been just parting asunder and throws and pains as if my Back had been cleaving in two which awaked me And I was amazed when I came unto my self that I found all was so well with me for I perceived the Evil One had beleagered me in his dark Magick but could neither hurt me in Mind or Body The watchful Eye of my Jesus being vigilant to preserve me from his Fury December the 6th 1676. After this Conflict I waited to understand the meaning of this terrible on-set upon me and it was thus spoken in me Satan hath desired to winnow thee and watched his opportunity to surprize thee while the Animal Life was reposed and might he have been permitted he would certainly have undermined the Virgin Birth by overthrowing thy Faith Which is the very Life-pulse of this Birth for if that stop the Life soon grows weak therefore still maintain and keep up that Faith which is the material matter of this Birth that the Evil One hunts to destroy For could he make void Faith he well knows that is the very Basis of the New Creation-building and thereby would throw down all what ever hath been wrought Consider oh ye upon whom this Probation time is come which will be the Birth growing that you carefully provide and gird on this defensive Weapon oyling it well that no rust on it at any time be found As it is given you to believe so mind to stir up this Gift in you remembring what all precious Faith hath done in this World through the very mortal Case Nay as ye read the very Visible Creation was brought about by the Word of Faith and can be no otherwise Restored to its first primary Purity Liberty and Glory but through the rising Life of Faith Of which the Serpent's subtilty broke the Golden Chain and cut that Silver Cord which held up the Paradisical Creation by introducing his Temptation into Adam Who hereby broke his Faith and Covenant with his God Now then by one Man's disobedience to the Faith all became faithless by which then it was impossible to retain the similitude of God for hereby he lost the use of the most holy generating property and brought forth strange Births as ye at this day do find the sad effects thereof But now yet once again an open Birth-Door is set for Wisdom's Life-Seed to enter in at which shall bring forth a new Creation store much excelling all the Births that have gone before To which good thing so much prophesyed of give great heed Marvel noâ—… that the accursed Serpent's Seed is so enraged night and day his Venom to let out it is because he suspects thou art designed for some eminent use through that principal Birth that may be a means to ransome many out of Turkish thrall Therefore at this Animal Life he did strike by his wounding Dart but I thy Jesus stood with Faith the Weapon Balsom nigh thee to heal And will not fail thee still to guard against his Wiles keep but my Faith and from it do not shrink And so give charge to such as engage with you upon the same account and you will see certainly the issue of that Birth that shall most perfectly restore the fallen Creation in your selves and others in such a way as yet no late President hath been since Immanuel's Birth did descend December the 7th 1676. In the Night season after some rising Ejaculations had ascended and I falling into a Sleep I was suddenly awaked as if some Person had been in the Bed with me Which in some kind of fear I rose up to see but saw nothing so lying still in the consideration a little while I felt sensibly a Hand all over-spread upon me with an influence of great Heat at which I marvelled what it should signifie Then this Word spake saying Fear not this Hand is stretched out for to encompass the Birth and by the Heat to fix the Life's impregnancy that it might be past the Dragon's power any more for to slay Who cannot cease to watch it with an Evil Eye for which cause I have overshadowed thee with my Airy Body which may bring forth accordingly as Faith shall operate in its own Mystery which is the great thing whereby the Paradâ—…sical World shall spring again without toil and care For this cannot be until such a Birth be brought forth that hath all Faith to go forth with all Power as without guilt of Sin for that quencheth the Seal of Love and Bird-limes the Wings of Faith which is also a twisting Cord to bind down its Eagle-Body but it is able to free it self from all that brought it under the bondage of Evil. Now this renewing Birth set your Minds fully upon for it will be to you the Noah that will comfort you by restoring a New World from which the Curse will fly I your Jesus must abide in my Heavenly Reservatory till this Birth in you grow ripe for it is the Elias that will come in another and more perfect Ministration then ever yet hath been that must prepare for the Coming of me your Lord from Heaven Who left this Work to be accomplished by the Buth of the Holy Ghost which was to bring forth the most perfect Restoration that so you might come to know Elias track through the burning Chariot for Translation It will certainly fall upon the Lot of some one or other that are hereunto predestinated to bring forth this mighty Elias in Spirit as the first born in Wisdom's Day to go before and overturn and make ready for my absolute Reign yet to be in the Earth in order to the New Jerusalem descending Glory Therefore take heed be circumspect believing this Birth for to see wing up your Faith and Pray and travel mightily that ye may be those Worthy Ones to bear a Living Testimony for me For a great and weighty Government will be entrusted with you when Wisdom's Birth shall be fully ripened for a much more glorious state then that of Solomon shall be
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
henceforth to you is to be a standing Rule For all other ways and means for Information and Discourse with the most Holy are now ceased God used and took up outward Figures to reveal his Mind by in former Ages and Times as by the Ministration of Angels and then by his Son who came to reveal what was meet to be known and understood in that day of his visible Appearance in the World Who could hardly bear to hear what was reported by him who would have had as little credit in the World as any now if there had not been the Sealing Power of the Godhead by which the World was convinced for Obedience to the Faith which then was required But this Ministration of Jesus shutting up what must the Just now live by in these last times Your Jesus doth not turn you over to a dead Stock to live upon as to what was done and written in his Day but transferreth you over to a lively Manifestation and fresh Openings from his Spirit 's Birth in you Whose leadings and drawings observed it will further point you to what may still be generated from Spirit to Spirit Yet in a higher Birth-Degree for that which is at first but a Spirit of Prophecy and Revelation will turn it self into a fixed Body All which proportionably is to ascend into the New Jernsalem for to bring it down in the transparent Ghostly Power For when Spirit and Body do mutually agree together and knit after the manner of that secret Formation then it seeks its own Region to dwell in For if the Trinity will appear among these low Inhabitants then a Body must for them be prepared Oh then see what the Light and Life-quickning hath yet in you to do to wit a travelling Work still that as Jesus hath had his Birthformation so now the Holy Ghost may be fully formed that so ye may not need to have a Star-Leader or depend upon this way of Revelation that now you are waiting upon For you shall know in the first Root of knowledge as God himself knoweth But in the present time the Spirit measureth out according as you are able to bear which are but as Sprinklings to what the broad Waters shall coâ—…er your Earth withal However hereunto ye do well to attend as unto the sure Word of Wisdom that shall drop in the all-healing Gold to make ready for what hath been fore-told One thing more in order I do require that seeing I have made choice of you to bear my Name mystically upon your Breast or Table-Heart where I do answer all your Enquiries that you reserve for me that most Holy Place to commune with you there alone suffering no polluted thing to enter in for to raise any fume or dark Vapour upon the Breast-Plate Stones which will ecclips the lustre of them so as no Light they will give to you for further proceeding And if they should be clouded through cold earthly Damps your way would soon be dark and at a loss ye would find your selves Therefore beware of darkening your Foundation-Light for withoâ—… great heedfulness ye may cast a Shadow upon 〈◊〉 then no certain discovery or resolve â—…an be given though ye make never so â—…rict an Enquiry This was the cause â—…nd ground of all Apostatizing in former â—…nd present Ages having stifled the â—…peaking Oracle by crouding earthly â—…uff into that which should be the seâ—…arated and consecrated place for the â—…iving Testimony thereout to open for â—…aily Instruction and Guidance Which â—…s of absolute expedience in such a danâ—…erous state where so many cross false â—…nd by-ways do offer themselves to the Eye But keep you to your own Breast-Plate of light sparkling Stones and they will give to you sound Judgment and Sion-Laws and as need is still Renew you till you in all things shall be perfected for Jehovah Shammah to fill up your Temple-Body with Glory December the 28th 1676. In the forepart of this Night I was much pondering and considering the weightiness of the Ghostly Formation how difficult a thing it was and hard to be by any brought forth though many have hard â—…ravelled for it yet there wanted both Strength and Perfection of Righteonsness which I saw we also were deficient in Therefore not sufficient to carry through such a wonderful Restorative Birth of Life But as I was complaining and owning our impotencies and unmeetness hereunto this Word came My Grace can make strong where sence of the greatest Weakness is therefore hope and believe down all Discouragements Which Word much comforted and quieted me and I fell asleep In which I saw a young Elephant that was to be bred up and it was presented to be my care and charge to feed it When I awaked it was said to me That as this Elephant for strength so we should grow to be And no burthen oâ—… weight what ever cast upon us should cause any shrinking or bowing under it For such a strong Elephant-Power should by degrees grow upon us if careful we would be here to feed up thiâ—… young Elephant which was by this Figure presented to us The Mystery hereof lying hid in us for its appointed time A Letter of Resolution in Answer to some Objections sent from a Learned Physician to the Publisher hereof upon occasion of the English Edition of The Letter to some Divines concerning the Question and may for the like reason refer to this present Work Whether God since Christ's Ascention doth any more Reveal himself to Mankind c Dear Sir I Do not at all wonder at the Difficulties that are made by the excellent â—…rson your Friend to credit those more Secret and Extraordinary Favours of God which some are Witnesses to in these Latter Days and â—…e might be were they but qualify'd to receive them For it was not but after much doubting and long Examining as I have said that I came my self to be satisfy'd in this matter and therefore I can with the less difficulty allow it in others I 'm indeed made truly sensible that Unbelief is that Sin which doth so easily Beset us and having found it to be so in my self I know how to pity it in any one else and can't but think the Warning of the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews against it to be as highly seasonable as it is little regarded It s plain enough that no other then this can be there understood as well from the Context and whole Design of the Apostle as from the entire History of the Old and New Testament For this very reason it is that we are encompassed about with such a Cloud of Witnesses who exercising the most Heroical Acts of Faith were admitted to a more immediate Conversation with the Divine Being during their Pilgrimage on the Earth and to a more illustrious Communication of his Light Love then the Presumptuous and Incredulous Spirit of Human Reasoâ—… can ever dive into that we seeking to tread in their Steps might
come to be in like manner Illuminated and Inspirited as they were laying aside This that besets us in the way to the ultimate Perfection of our Nature by the Union of it with the supream Good may run with Patience the Race of Faith that is set before us which they have already run And certainly this very Sin which so much hinders us in running this blessed Race and from obtaining the same glorious Privileges which they Here obtain'd is also a Sin that is easily to be avoided as some you know would have it translated if we can but reflect a little according to the direction here given us either upon Enoch or Noah or Abraham or Moses or David or any of those Worthies mention'd in the foregoing Chapter And still much more if we do as the Verse immediately following leads us to but look up to Jesus the Author and Finisher of this Faith who being the same Yesterday to Day and for ever will not be wanting to work it in us as he has wrought it in them but conditionally that we do look unto him with a constant and fixed Eye Upon which give me leave to say for your Encouragement as well as for my own that there is a certain Person well known to you and me whose Angel did lately appear in full Day in an upper Room where a few Names were met together to wait for the Promise of the Father in the Latter Effusion of the Spirit and these very Words were spoken by an Internal Speaking which are the second Verse of this twelfth Chapter and which therefore I the more heartily press upon you Now as to that little Book in particular I freely confess there may be several things in iâ—… which may appear to be beneath the Majesty of God or against the Truth of the Holy Scriptures before they are rightly and truly understood and so may be apt to offend all those that are possessed with contrary Preventions But if we have not Care our Zeal will carry us much too far and we shall soon effectually overthrow as to us that very Foundation which we would establish This Excess of Anti-Enthusiasm is truly a most compendious method of Moving the Boundaries of that we acknowledge Immoveable For if we should be for throwing away our Bibles presently when we are not able to answer all the Objections that a Sceptical Wit is able to bring against them as unbecoming the Divine Majesty I am afraid but very few would be able to keep them long Though indeed there be nothing in them but what when apprehended through and according to the Spirit by which they were written iâ—… most highly worthy of it this yet matters not And if I should stay to receive any single Book either of the Old or of the New Testament till I were so well furnished as to reconcile every Passage with all the rest it might be perhaps very long before I must admit some Books that are recognized to be Divinely Inspir'd None can be more firmly perswaded then I am of the Truth of Saint Peter's Word that the Heaven must receive Christ till the Times of Restitution but then I am not able to see how this does in any wise contradict his Internal Appearance and Speech to such Virgin Souls as he has wash'd and sanctify'd in his Blood Nay I do not comphehend why he may not manifest himself in this manner to Thousands of Persons in as many distant Places at the same time and never all the while come down from the Throne of his Glory in the Heavens I dare not limit the Operations of his Spirit which pierces every where I had much rather adore them and wait in a Child-like Disposition to be Disciplin'd by Him And indeed when I consider the utter Impossibility to explain any thing of the Soul's Nature without admitting his immediate Causality and Influence I do not think it so very strange to conceive that he should by opening the Inmost Center of that Principle or Life which is his own Inbreathing reveal himself to it as Present and hold therewith a very familiar Communication And seeing it is undeniable that Christ since his Reception into Heaven has actually both appeared and spoken to some Persons by the Sacred Records themselves it is no more difficult to suppose that he may do so again whenever he pleases and it will be certain that this can never be the meaning of that Text which this Gentleman seems to understand He that has appear'd to Saint Paul and to Saint John since his Glorification and shown to them things which they knew not and who has expresly declar'd Behold I am with you to the end can hardly methinks be supposed to have bound up himself for ever not to manifest himself in the same or like manner by Vision Intellectual Revelation or Extasie to any others while they are in these Mortal Bodies for the sake of some Great and Glorious Good Now what there is in all that Book so far as it is said to come from him which doth not directly tend to this end and which is not highly becoming the Majesty of God I most profess I am not able to find after the most curious Research it is possible to make As for those special and tender Endearments which are us'd by Christ to his Church and more immediately addressed to this holy Virgin standing in the Figure of it They are sufficiently warranted by Scripture and were they not very much might be said to vindicate them What-ever particular Objections he or you may have I shall be ready to consider with all Meekness and Sobriety when-ever they are produc'd But I tell you before-hand that it will be very hard to bring any which were not brought against the antient Prophets in their time and which may not be as easily remov'd from one as from the other As for those common Imputations mention'd in yours they have always been urg'd and always been despis'd by Persons under the Leadings of the Holy Ghost And I leave you to judge as a Physician whether all that is related in that Book can be accounted for by Fancy Vapours or Cerebrosity more particularly what you read in these Sections 11 27 31 33. For Mr. Mede I have indeed a very great Deference and too much ever to believe that he could intend to contradict himself or do it in such a great Point as this and not know it All the World who have but look'd into him or even but heard of his Name must needs know what was his Sentiment as to the Glorious Reign of Christ and if that Great and Judicious Man ranges the Milluaries amongst Hereticks and Apostates of the Latter Times it is easily to be gather'd that he could mean no others then such who by their gross and unworthy Conceptions corrupted that very Truth which he so strenuously asserted For if this be not a Truth I know not any one you can make out from