with your own Name upon it which may advance and establish you in the like state of Glory For so it is ordained that all that are mine should improve their own stock of Life and so each one wear their own Crowns not coveting any thing out of themselves because I have enough to give to every one of my Children even a full Revenue so as there shall be no occasion of grudging one at another But their Growths Degrees and Gifts may be different according as in my own wise Counsel I shall see meet to dispence who will be Uncontroulable giving no account to any Creature but will confer my Favours upon such as I see and know to be most diligent For which they shall have no cause to repent who have their Minds wholly inclined and bent toward ME and who unto these my Laws do entirely cleave which Laws without a Mosaical Vail I now present that thou mayest behold the good Will that I do bear unto thee and unto such as love and know My Name so as in pure Nazariteness to separate for the Work which I have cut out for you to imitate exactly as approving your selves in all things willing to please Her who will be your Crowning Reward III. But I must not forget to caution thee concerning that Out-birth Neighbour lest thou shouldest covet that which is his Right in this Outward Principle Where he also hath a great Lordship and a Might-Soveraignty over all whatever the Visible Earth doth bring forth Here is in this World likewise a Temporal Kingdom consisting in Riches Honour and Majesty with Dominion over their Fellow Creatures where-from I set thee free CHAP. II. The Opposition which this Translated Spirit met with during the Delivery of these Laws AS I was strictly engaged to attend the giving out of Wisdom's Paradisical Laws that opened in me like a Flaming Shower which drowned the Old World that a New World might in the room of it spring up my whole New Man walking up and down therein and drinking of that pleasant River Pison which waters this new-entered Land into which no Earthly Stuff must be admitted I could not yet be free from molestation For tho' Sin that strange deformed Monster must look for no welcome here being for ever Banished this Holy Place yet after Death in several Shapes he threatens still to haunt me often saying he will be avenged of me for that I have exposed him to a violent Death for the making my way into Paradisical Freedom Therefore he transforms himself now into a Spirit and pursues me and would bring all my dead Works after me that so I might be restless even here where according to the Eternal Law of Liberty I should rest from all Fear and Care This occasioned somewhat of Complaint which I brought before my Mother Wisdom telling her That after Death I did hope I should have been freed and that all Wars should have ceased when I was once got in within this Gate But replied her Witness the Spirit of Prophesie in me I never said Death would acquit thee so as that no Temptation at all should molest thee through the subtilty of the Serpent who hath liberty to prove thee Here in like manner as he had liberty to prove thy dear JESUS who for this end suffered him that he might give proof of an unconquerable stedfastness during the appointed time that he was in Paradise to abide So must thou here expect that the Man of Sin may by the Angel of the Bottomless Pit be though dead again assumed and may make War against the Angel of the Covenant As it is said There was War in Heaven as of Old so Now again in thee Therefore to the Law and to the Testimony which within thy Heavens do open do thou give good heed that thou mayest prevail and come off a Conqueror by the keeping of the Commandments and the Faith of JESUS The last Battel which is to be fought is in this Paradisical Field Thou art now to engage in a single Combat Therefore to thee I bring my Flaming Armour which is Love and Faith by which thou wilt only an Overcomer be Remember that Charge of Honouring thy Father and Mother and do not thou them disgrace For now thou art upon the Publick Stage where the whole Hierarchy of Throne-Powers do thee view to behold how thy Michael in thee will Fight against the Dragon with his Fiery Might The Honour of thy God is much herein concerned that thou do over the Beast and the False Prophet prevail defying the Number and renouncing the Mark of his Name that nothing any more he may be ever able to claim in thee For through Victorious Faith holding out thou wilt see him Cowardly sneak out of Paradise Since he will not care to abide there if he see thee resolutely fixed in the Spirit of my Might who foreseeth all his cunning Slights by which he would pluck thee down out of Paradise Then saith he my Design would take place and I should have Wisdom in derision that hath no better provided for her Children but left them thus to be foiled by the Dragon See now how this Evil One will if thou shouldest fall reflect upon GOD thy Father and ME thy Mother Therefore dear Child for our Honour stand that so thy days may not be short in the Promised Land To which thou wilt surely come if thou canst hold out all the appointed time of Temptation Then another Remove thou shalt see where no more shalt thou to the Dragon's Fury be exposed but shalt the long and everlasting Day inherit and keep this Sabbath without end rejoicing according as thou shalt here Meritoriously vindicate that Name of Mine which to the World is an unknown Secret I was also further Encourag'd by Wisdom against the great Opposition which I felt when waiting for the Opening of the Sixth Commandment there appear'd to me all on a sudden while She was giving her Counsel and Charge a glorious Circle with all Flaming Colours Upon which I looked very stedfastly It continu'd a good space as well as I might guess near upon half a quarter of an hour before it vanish'd This Circle consisted of various and wonderful Colours the inmost part of it was all clear and bright as the Air without a Cloud Then spake Wisdom's Spirit in me What hast thou seen here but the Magical Eye which is an All-seeing Globe that includeth all Light Power and Might within its Circle so that there is no need to go out for any Supply for that all lyeth within the compass of this All-generating Eye And like as thou didst see it rise in a Moment so shall it give new Existencies from its own in the twinkling of an Eye This is the manner of Paradisical Living quite different from the Way of the Inhabitants of the Outward World who live upon the Mouldy Bread of Sense upon whose Breast they hang and cannot endure to be plucked from
Therefore take good heed thou dost it not mistrust or deny For herein was the Transgression of that Chosen Generation whom JEHOVAH by his Wonder-working Deeds would have convinced and made to understand that no other Fountain Blessing they should ever stand in need of having given so many proofs of his All-sufficiency bringing them even through the deep Red Sea that so they might have no cause to question but that the same Almightiness would still be their subsistence in all places by the means of which the barren Wilderness should have been as a fruitful Lebanon had they not revolted God intended no less than miraculously to feed and cloath them but the Inundation of Sense overwhelmed them with such Diffidence as turned that which would have been a Paradise into a waste howling Desart as the Reward of Unbelief This Instance I have set before thee that cautioned thou maist be to hold out the set time of Probation in the pure Faith of Dependance on the Almighty Power that then will be a perpetual springing Paradise be thou wherever thou wilt with fresh and new Ideas of Powers and Love-joys which will always thy pure Spirit greet Receive now this Charge from Me who say unto thee Live only by the Virtual Power of the Generating Word which reneweth Bread every Hour as being that true Multiplying Virtue which beware thou do never more quench or kill For in this lyeth the Precious Gem the All-acting Stone which only can give the Remove to Mount Paran The Seventh Commandment THou art not to break the Marriage-knot which is tied betwixt thee and the Lord thine Husband to whom thou art betrothed through the Eternal Spirit For it is an high Breach of the Covenant of Love which is established upon immutable Promises on God the Father's part and on thine Wherein there is a passing over to each other before Witnesses that bear Record in the high Court of Heaven of this Espousal betwixt Thee and my Beloved Son the Heir of all the Riches of Heavens Glory Now seeing this Royal Match is made and concluded on by consent of the Everlasting Father and of Wisdom thy Mother who could not propose a more Honourable Worthy Person to unite thy Spirit unto thou art required to abide most Constant and Loyal to Him and never more so much as to look upon or entertain any other Lover thereby to defile the Marriage-bed in committing of spiritual Adultery which doth consist in these following Particulars I. First in the Lust of the Eye after this or that Creaturely Object which soon betrays the Heart stealing it away insensibly before it is aware of it In great Temptation thou dost here stand having such variety of Objects still to court and captivate thy Mind from thy True and Royal Consort who watcheth every Motion and Affection thereof which way it worketh being a very Jealous Lover and one who is resolved to prove thy Constancy in this time of his absence He therefore permitteth this and that Dalilah to allure and subtilly to encroach into thee that he may know what is in thine Heart And according as in this time thou dost carry it so will the Decree come forth for a further proceeding as to the Consummating part II. The Second Caution I have to give thee is not only to make a Covenant with thine Eyes but also with thine Ears For all Enchantments come in through the Senses which though even in Paradise are yet obnoxious to be ensnared as Adam was with his Eve by their means Who taken with the sight of their Eye and entrapped with the hearing of their Ear were drawn on by one Sense after another even to the tasting of Eternal Death and the cutting asunder hereby the Golden Link which gave them the heavy Fall out of Paradise into This World This was the Effect of the Adulterous Eye and Ear. Stand then upon thy guard with fear see thou be not snared in by them hearken not to any other Voice but what thy JESUS through ME shall to thee speak by whom thou art prohibited to confer with any other well-knowing of what dangerous consequence such a Liberty would prove It would provoke thy Lord to Jealousie who cannot bear that thou shouldest be familiar to talk with any other Spirit For as much as the Serpent is most subtle and seeks many ways to make a Prize of thee watching to break the Royal Band of this intended Marriage-Union which hath been so long contrived by Me and which I would now see Finished Let therefore my Counsel take place with thee so as thou neither taste nor handle those inviting pleasant Fruits that seem to say Come eat of me try whether I do not excel all whatever is in Paradise who have all that is capable to suit the Palate of thy Sense Why shouldest thou deny thy self to taste hereof depending only upon what the Spirit of Faith must bring down to thee which also is not always present with thee to be commanded to run to and fro on thine Errand as occasions require But I will be sure never to fail thee who am thine old Lover and Friend Why then shouldest thou forsake me for one that is unseen and that cannot be handled sensibly After this manner O my Bride wilt thou be exercised if that so by any means thou canst be drawn away to break thy Faith with me who would fain knit thee wholly to my self so as thou maist not regard at all this Spirit of Reason that thus seeks to flatter and entice thee from me who have plighted my Troth unto thee never to forsake or cast thee off if thou thy Virginity do retain and suffer thy self by none of these fine twisted Cords from Me to be drawn down For thy JESUS cannot admit any other Lover to sit in thine Heart And if at any time a Stranger he shall find there know that from thee he will take the same most unkindly Although they may say perhaps they are the Friends not the Enemies of the Bridegroom being of a more Spiritual Train yea such as are perfumed with a Paradisiacal Scent against which thou must also stop that Sense For it is possible to commit Adultery with Seraphick Angels if thou awakenest any Lusting Desire to them more than to thy Iesus So beware then of running into any Spirit though never so sublime for there is more danger in this than in those Objects that are of a more visible gross and earthly Dress thinking with these who are Spiritual thou maist be more free and more bold True it is thou mayest but yet here it is good to be limited that thou be not circumvented and suffer thy Virgin Head to be deflowered Wherefore from all keep thy self an unspotted Mirrour and so shalt thou come to be the Chaste Bride of the Lamb and to enjoy the Nuptial Bed But after all this methinks I hear this Question in thee to arise How long shall it be before the Marriage shall
it though they suck in thence the Curse and Poyson of God's Anger which came in when the Paradisical Life ceased But to thee that art come out and separated from these my Counsel is that thou entirely rest and depend upon this Divine Magical Eye and never wander out from it so will it become to thee thy Basket and thy Store So will it be to thee thy Fountain-blessing and thou shalt need to know no more and to take care of no more than what this will give forth to thee For it is an endless Procreating Source that still puts forth New Births altogether Supernatural to which belongs a pure sublime organical Body having highly irradiated Senses with uncorrupted and divine Rationality such as is grounded upon what is Seen and Known by This Eye Hence may be demonstrated the Singularity of those Holy Beings which are generated from this Source and Origine Here also may be added the Perfect Animal and Vegetable Life with the Sensitive and Rational they all making up the New Creature or Paradisical Man but after a much different manner than that after which they are in the Degenerated or those that are departed from the Faith Which Faith is here again to be restored through a Magical Operative Life that maintains its own Being after a wonderful manner cutting off all occasions of contracting more with a sinful state For there is here no coveting any Mortal or Perishing Things which the Low Rational Life stood in need of But thou being Born into this Seraphical Nature which looks only in to God whose Eternal Stores stand open and free for thee to come and take of as thy proper Right hast no need to go to any other Fountain Now as Christ said All that the Father had was his so is it thine by virtue of the same Spirit of Christ in thee who never crouch'd to this World for any of its unrighteous Mammon and who would not disparage his Father's House-keeping to seek any Benevolences from Creatures that lived upon Self-propriety Him therefore herein I present to be thy Example who had a Body Terrestrial as thou hast but his Celestial Paradisical Man had Keys to open all the Treasures either in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath But I know thou wilt say This is too wonderful for me to aspire to or to expect Nay not so For whatever thy JESUS acted here and did thou mayest not fear to imitate That which is Formed in thee will certainly drive thee to this if thou dost not check it by Unbelief The Nature of that Holy Thing which is Coagulated within will contend for this its High Prerogative and not always as it were Ass-riden be subject to Bestial Properties and Earthly Spirits Who must all to that New Name written within Vail themselves and Bow And that so it may accordingly be I will not fail to aid thee with my Magical Eye Which shall give Skill in this for thee to try How good it is to live by Faith's supply CHAP. III. The Opposition which this Translated Spirit met with After the Delivery of these Laws UPon the giving down and opening these Paradisical Laws I was beset with a Seditious Party that would have stirred up a Mutiny in me to contradict this worthy and precious Covenant so as it might not take place or be of force with me Saying These were intolerable Impositions that none could or ever did reach to the requirings of them And what was I Or where was my Sufficiency more than others that I should hope or expect the Accomplishment of them in my self This was to go into a Legal Dispensation and turn the Covenant of Grace into Works again so to Yoak and Fetter my self within the Confines of these strict and severe Laws and then where was the Liberty that was to come in by JESUS to set me Free He having satisfied the Law for me that I might not be obligatory to it Come come cried the King-crowned Beast away with these Innovations and receive my Laws in the performance of which there will be Ease and Rest. Dost thou not see how peaceably all my Subjects live under me that bear my Mark and Name Who are like them great in Fame and mighty through Honour and Riches which they obtain by observing my Orders and Rules Which I will give to thee who would have thee Great in my Principle and not Despiseable as now thou art I. Whereas it is said thou must have no other God but One and that thou must own him as thy Creator and none other before him this I will permit and thou art not prohibited herefrom Nevertheless thou art not so strictly tyed up here but that thou mayest own Subordinate Powers under God and obey Nature's Laws for its Self-preservation This is but equal and therefore do not slight these Laws that are founded upon Reason's bottom but Sail thou with its Tide as thou desirest Blessing and Prosperity in this World Is it not great Folly in thee and in such as do join with thee to be Singular and to observe such Laws as none are able to agree with you in that wisely intend to maintain their Interest as to the Friendship and the Favours from the Kingdom of the World which as thou hast a Terrestrial Life and a Mortal Body thou dost stand in as much need of as any of the Natural Off-spring whatever Now hath God said indeed unto thee that thou must neither Eye nor have reference to any other either in the Heavens above or in the Earth beneath but must live upon him for all singly and undoubtingly by a Spirit of Faith alone This is a Law for Angelicks but not for Creatures that bear Mortal Shapes who are fallen under the Line and Dominion of the Starry Constellations It is unavoidable thou must bow and be subject subordinately unto the Starry Heavens which govern and constitute and give forth Right Laws being such as consist very well with refined Reason which you would exclude And then what will become of you when you shall forsake the Order of Sense and Reason which your New Laws call Low and Earthy Must you not hereby needs bring all into Desolation and Ruin upon your External Comely Station and be a By-word and a Derision to all your Fellow Creatures that you will before your Eyes see fair and flourishing Branches thriving through obedience to the Laws of this my present and visible Kingdom For I do not defer my Rewards but do give them as soon as their Work is done neither do I keep my Subjects and Children in such suspence and waiting for what they do not See so awing them in the mean time as they must not so much as look awry or be Company for any other but Seraphicks O who can such a Life as this bear while living in this Mortal Sphere Oh come out and regard not this self-destroying Covenant which will infallibly make a Breach and set all at
Encounter God's Agent the Spirit of Wisdom who will with me rest and so defeat all Plots and Counsels that are contrived by the whole Dark Hierarchy conspiring in your Earthly Sphere Therefore I will not fear you O great Leviathan though you have defied and made light of that unspotted Mirrour of God's Wisdom saying Tush let me see if she can secure you or deliver you out of my Hands who can command Legions of Spirits to torment and devour you Such like Threats as these I can hear and your Denunciations against Faith's Resoluteness bear knowing who is my Standard-bearer who will come in to my Relief bringing in that which will make me able to hold out even for a long Siege For which Wisdom hath taught me to provide expecting as little Favour from thee and thy Principle as from an open Proclaimed Enemy The Contest is come now to be so great that the Virgin Seed must yet again in Nature spring and rise till thy Head O Serpent be brought under foot and by the Lamb of God so crushed that no more Revenge or Plots may by that Head be contrived Which Head is the Seat of the Imaginary Mind that flows in like a mighty Torrent as I have seen sometimes witnessed in sorrow as also out of the same Source the flowings of strong Reasonings which are as the Artillery of War that thou hast against me to display By which indeed I grant thou hast overcome World after World so that all People Nations and Languages have bowed and submitted to thy Monarchy because it is agreeable to an Outward Natural Birth which is conceived and brought forth out of the Lapsed Womb of Rationality The Life's Food of which is only Sensibility united with these gross and low Elements in which the Universe of Creatures consisting do like Natural Children fall under thy Starry Dominion and to all thy Laws and Constitutions incline and voluntarily them obey Against such O King of the Bottomless Pit thou wilt never proclaim War Only these shall live peaceably within thy Gates But for such as are again conceived in Virgin Wisdom's Womb and brought forth from between her Everlasting Knees at whose Birth the Eternal Day-star breaketh out there is no Quarter to be given Therefore Consultations from thy dark Herodian Kingdom do begin immediately as that which is not able to bear or hear of another King that cometh to thwart or alter the whole Course of Things as they are established in thy Natural and Earthly Kingdom But why O great Prince of Darkness shouldest thou be offended at the Birth of Emmanuel from the Virgin Womb It will not so presently turn thee out of Dominion and Possession every where as to have no place in the Earth more Why art thou so Jealous Thy Dominion here is large enough and like so to be for the Earthly Inhabitants will still be thine even all such as are of the Unrighteous and Serpently Seed there is no danger but they will still bear thine Image and Likeness and so be on thy side to make War against the Lamb and his Bride who are agreed to live and to maintain against thee their Ancient Rights in their Paradisical Kingdom out of which they are resolved to throw thee with all thine accursed and insinuating Powers which like so many Caterpillars would eat holes in and so spoil and devour our Paradisical Flowers Do not think thou shalt for ever ingross all Spirits to thy self Thy Date is seen in Wisdom's Calendar and the Number of the Time of thy Ten-horned Beast almost accomplished when he must return to his own place and be no more suffered to tempt those that have received the most Holy and most Precious Name Whose Engraving Within and Without shall be that signal Token of Victory over thee and thy Seven-headed Nations whom thou hast called in to thine Aid if that possibly hereby thou mightest overturn the great Design of Wisdom Who now hath sounded her Trumpet that whosoever will fly to her Banner shall be securely hid from thy Eye and be made so Strong and Wise as to do such Exploits by the Weapons of Faith as shall thee Amaze and Terrifie Therefore know that to the Eternal Law and Testimony given forth in Paradise to that I say and say it again as an immutable Assertion from which I shall never depart I am resolved to cleave and by it to stand until it shall make me altogether Righteous and so Compleat that thou mayest be grieved to see that God hath perfected Holiness in so high a degree in that which was the Fallen Humanity and which under thy Dominion did once lye but is now recovered out of it by the Mighty Arm of the Lord of Hosts And he will guard me from thy Fury JEHOVAH will be my Safeguard yea the whole Blessed Trinity will consult my Security if I am found to confide therein Wherefore I shall not be further solicitous to Answer any of thy Upbraidings But to my Ark of Strength I will retire And I leave thee in thy Anguishing Fire From Wisdom's Off-spring this total and final Answer is given in with which let thy Mouth O roaring Lion be for ever stopped even so Amen ☞ Whoever would be further inform'd of the Leadings of the Divine Wisdom may consider what is said of Her Twelves Gates and of the Magical Eye in a Book call'd The Revelation of Revelations Printed 1683. Quarto THE CONCLUSION THere is a Mystical Paradise as well as a Local which opens from a pure Magical Centre and is a wonderful state to know and witness It chiefly stands in Divine Visions Revelations Idea's Presentations Manifestations in Sounds Trumpets Voices Inspeakings in Powers Raptures Joys and Sensible Feelings All which Golden Springs flow from out of the Bowels of the New Paradisical Earth according as Wisdom did some time afterward Declare who was then also pleas'd to Declare her Mind in this manner Ye that are resolv'd to Taste of these flowing Sweets take heed to the LAWS of PARADISE and be not in the DUALITY halting between Two Principles The Law FROM Thy Mouth is better unto me than Thousands of Gold and Silver Psal. 119. 72. Vncover thou mine Eyes by the taking away of the EARTHY Vail and the opening of the PARADISICAL Life and Sensation that I may behold Wondrous Things out of thy Law ver 18. FINIS